Pat Martino - Improvisation on Rhythm Changes
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- Опубліковано 22 гру 2024
- Excerpt from In The Style Of Pat Martino Vol.3
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Pat Martino improvises a solo on the Rhythm Changes structure. Full transcription available on the website.
One of the most original of the jazz-based guitarists to emerge in the 1960s, Pat Martino made a remarkable comeback after brain surgery in 1980 to correct an aneurysm caused him to lose his memory and completely forget how to play. It took years, but he regained his ability, partly by listening to his older records. Martino began playing professionally when he was 15. He worked early on with groups led by Willis Jackson, Red Holloway, and a series of organists, including Don Patterson, Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, Richard "Groove" Holmes, and Jimmy McGriff. After playing with John Handy (1966), he started leading his own bands and heading sessions for Prestige, Muse, and Warner Bros. that found him welcoming the influences of avant-garde jazz, rock, pop, and world music into his advanced hard bop style. After the operation, Martino did not resume playing until 1984, making his recording comeback with 1987's The Return. Although not as active as earlier, Pat Martino has regained his earlier form, recording again for Muse and Evidence; he later signed with Blue Note, issuing All Sides Now in 1996, followed two years later by Stone Blue and in 1998 by Fire Dance. In 2001 Martino released a live album recorded at Yoshi's in California. Two years later he teamed with saxophonist Joe Lovano for Think Tank. Remember: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery appeared on Blue Note in 2006.
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I really like his first lick on the first time the bridge occurs. Sort of altered/outside type of playing. Sounds so smooth and connected...
What a life, and this proves it, lots of blessings on your journey, may it flow like your art.
I like the first B section/Bridge lick he plays - A minor primary triad 1, b3, 5 over D7 (which is also 5, b7, 9 of D7) then shift the minor primary triad down a half step for G7...
I wrote this lick out in Sibelius with a standard G7 and the primary triad of Ab, B, Eb produces too much dissonance/tension over the standard G7, so I substituted G7 for G7b9 - Bingo!!! Sounds great!!! Creating melody and harmony in jazz, is all about using your ears and experimenting...
That's the point
When Pat plays, each note has a purpose. Music should be mindful like that
Have you listened to Martino's amazing 12 choruses on a live version of Sunny? If you think each note has ... ahem... a 'purpose', you are simple as a boot. It's classic blowing, mostly pentatonic scale, and the overall feel and drive is great. I love it. But that 'each note has a purpose' (like a melody) is pretentious silliness.
@@rolanddoucet458 You are a loser. Id bet you sound like sh..!
Music neither "should" or "shouldn't" be anything. That's just imposing your own ego on it.
@@rolanddoucet458 That version of Sunny is one of my favorite guitar performances of all time. Just when you think he has blown you away, he comes up with an even more amazing solo. He does it TWELVE freaking times!
Something comparable is a video of Danny Gatton improvising on What’d I Say. He just keeps going! Changes feel, changes style, and seems like he could go on all day!
That was Sunny?
I was obviously absent on the day these musical gifts were handed out. Extraordinarily playing.
A lot of it is down to study and hard work, persistence and constant experimentation. Some people think that people like Pat Martino just play like this naturally - Not so. Pat knows his stuff inside/out and outside/in - nobody handed him that knowledge on a plate for free...
THis is an educational vid more so than a performance. He's keeping the lines on a basic level for people to learn from. It's also over a backing track, not live with other musicians, so it's not going to sound like "him" in concert or on a record date
Outstanding gentleman!
Really nice. It looked like he was actually visualizing each chord change and the solo seemed to take care of itself.
As a struggling fledgling student of improvisation, I find that I play better lines and transitions when I am not visualizing the chords, but instead, am hearing the next few notes in advance, in the mind. As Bill Evans said, "You can't think fast enough (about what to play next). It takes years and years and years of practice until it becomes unconscious."
@@gingervytis It's more important to 'hear' the harmony melodically instead. Melody and harmony can't really be seperated in a tune like Rhythm Changes: They're one and the same...
Somebody like Pat Martino will 'hear' harmony in a melodic way much like a pianist would since, so called 'chord scales' are vastly more easy to play on piano than guitar - The concept of chord scales is obvious to pianists from day one, whereas for guitarists, chord scales are something non-existent 'til they buy their first decent jazz guitar book...
@@kewlfonz >so called 'chord scales' are vastly more easy to play on piano than guitar - ...for guitarists, chord scales are something non-existent 'til they buy their first decent jazz guitar book..."
So, in other words, the difference in difficulty of playing chord scales on piano vs guitar is determined by having a jazz guitar book.
That is nonsense. Having made a living playing guitar while earning a college music degree in piano, I can attest that scales on guitar are much easier to learn because the patterns and fingering are more uniform across music keys than they are on piano.
@@gingervytis exactly. i play the piano & the guitar as well and what simon's going on about is absolute bullshit. i like how filled with bullshit internet is.
The pure genius and taste of the great one
STILL Amazing !!!!
lived on my street in Philly ... i had a news paper route and delivered to him... he had a memory loss at one point and then returend to his music after that
Which Kind of pick does he use? Dunlop Jazz III? Fender picks?
Give the man some credit and respect, He may not sound like it but inside he is the same lion that wannabe boppers bowed to for decades, his human body just cant do what it used to. All of us will wither and die soon enough. How one is impacted while going through the dying processis different for each person. I dread the day I can no longer play like me any longer. It is so very sad we live, learn, suffer, enjoy to end up in the same place. Dead. A true legend, and inspiration he will always be. He will likely be gone soon sadly, Ill see you at the great jam session in the cosmos Mr. Martino, with Joe, Django, and Charlie.
Beautifully said ... and so true. The pressure to play at such a high level is enormous.
He has not lost his ability though
He is demonstrating an approach to improvisation which is not his own and that's why it lags behind
It's not him - it's that horrible backing track - boomy bass & other issues make it rhythmically indistinct.
Every note weigh one ton!. That's why he is a legend...
Yea every note weighs a ton when you use 15 gauge strings
awesome
Muchisimas Gracias por la clase , maestro.
The guitar is of no great importance to me," he muses. "The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus." Biography courtesy of DL Media."Great reflection of Pat !"
Oddly, this really doesn't sound like Pat Martino! His look at the end seems to suggest that he might not disagree...
Yea, I agree. That's because this is a lesson. In this video he shows the traditional technique of arpeggiating the harmonies the way the old bebop-players did. Martino normally plays more "modern" - less arps, more scales (substitutional minor scales in his case) and these tasteful chromatic embellishments he is famous for. In this vid he definitely sounds different.
I simply think that this is a educational video so I can believe that he was confined to play only a certain way 🤷🏾♂️
I never noticed until now how ahead of the beat Pat Martino's playing is.
Ahead in which direction? He sounds like he's struggling to keep up, to me.
That nice!
LEGEND！
RIP SIR
this is just one reason why pat martino is a master and we are not...well, not yet anyway.
Great. Martini.
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Pat's just not used to having to play that slow...
Kind of unfair to have Pat play to that backing track. I don't know if it's the relative volume of the instruments in the mix but it ends up being rhythmically indistinct. You can see the look on Pat's face - that backing track was not happening.
trop top rip mister martino
If you think he is too old to solo check this out : ua-cam.com/video/OWzQS-elEwY/v-deo.html
Pretty good without those helpful dots on the frets
There are still fret markers on the neck binding.
It sounds mechanical. Needs more negative space in my opinion. Maybe more stressed held notes, fewer running 8ths. Cool skeletal setup tho.
I listened very hard. Couldn't hear any Rhythm change
I assume you are joking?
@@JohnDoe-gk7ok 😉
But I haven’t been educated enough on Jazz to not have to google it
Wow, I've heard Pat play so much better! He sounds like he does not really hear the rhythm track too well.
of course we have. he is an old man now. these guys slow down. this is still Pat
It’s an educational vidéos maybe he was confined to play certain items 🤷🏾♂️
I agree. He seems to be slightly behind the time. That could just be a technical thing though.
Considering he's 76 years old which is not far off 80, I think in the spirit of human generosity, we can all cut Pat some slack - He's certainly earned it...
massachjutects...
Horrible
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