Oscar Peterson - How To Play Piano Blues Licks on the Guitar

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  • Опубліковано 10 лис 2024

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  • @JensLarsen
    @JensLarsen  5 років тому +12

    Oscar is in the house! I think Oscar Peterson is one of the most swinging musicians I know! Who is your goto guy/girl with groove and swing? 🙂
    Content:
    0:00 Intro - Why Oscar Peterson is great
    0:22 C Jam Blues Solo - What Guitar Players Can learn from him
    0:43 Example #1 - Stop Chorus!
    0:47 Analysis of the Form
    1:16 Typical "Piano" Ideas in licks (Herbie does this as well...)
    1:38 Major Pentatonic like Charlie Parker!
    2:18 Hear Parker Play it!
    2:24 Example #1 Slow
    2:31 A few thoughts on Swing Phrasing and Tempo
    3:25 Example #2 - Intervals
    3:28 Guitar Players: Use more notes in Blues!
    3:53 Breaking down the idea!
    4:10 The Rhythm: Anticipation
    4:34 Example #2 Slow
    4:36 Example #3 - Amazing Turnaround idea
    4:39 Chromaticism in Blues
    5:52 Example #3 Slow
    5:58 Example #4 Another type of Anticipation
    6:03 Another type of Anticipation
    6:32 Using Octaves to accent notes
    7:11 Example #4 Slow
    7:29 Example #5 - Blues Double Stops Supreme!
    7:34 Using Chromaticism in a Blues Phrase
    8:45 Example #5 Slow
    8:51 Like the video? Check out my Patreon Page

    • @willyevans
      @willyevans 5 років тому +2

      Peterson was known mainly for his incredible technique, but he also swung his butt off! I completely agree with you Jens.

    • @rillloudmother
      @rillloudmother 5 років тому +2

      Peterson's touch is up there with Bill Evans' in my book. I can't even think of a guitarist who has a touch like that... For me the swingingest will probably always be Wynton Kelly.

    • @Cooltorpedo
      @Cooltorpedo 5 років тому +2

      Besides Oscar and his sidemen like Ray Brown, I like the groove of Harry "Sweets" Edison, Bobby Timmons (and Wynton Kelly too, of course), Art Blakey, Count Basie's Orchestra... However I can't recall another musician with Oscar's blend of technique and swing. He knew how to make the complex fun.

    • @Trombonology
      @Trombonology 5 років тому +1

      Basie's band. ... or just Basie in any setting.

  • @gingataff
    @gingataff 5 років тому +2

    Hey Jens, so happy you made this video.
    When I as growing up my dad, who never played an instrument, listened a lot to Errol Garner, Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa. Then at some point he found Oscar Peterson and we listened to his recordings at home and in the car. Years later I took my dad to see Oscar at the Royal Albert Hall on probably his last tour.
    Both my dad and Oscar are gone now but they are inextricably linked together in my mind. Cheers.

    • @JensLarsen
      @JensLarsen  5 років тому +1

      Thank you! That is a nice story and a great association to have to music 🙂

  • @paulatB2B
    @paulatB2B Рік тому +1

    Excellent video. Great choice of material and explanation.

  • @tinajackel
    @tinajackel 5 років тому

    Thank you for another really nice video! I love the lines you picked from Oscar Peterson such delicate licks

  • @warrenwilson7836
    @warrenwilson7836 5 років тому +1

    Thanks again, Jens. I really enjoy your insights and analysis. As a piano player I tend to hear Oscar’s sparkling clarity of touch at those velocities and sometimes overlook the melodic and harmonic principles he employs. I have always been put off by Miles Davis’ facile criticism of Peterson - particularly when listening to the wonderful big richness of, say, *The Land of the Misty Giants* from the Canadiana Suite. Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge of jazz.

    • @JensLarsen
      @JensLarsen  5 років тому

      Thank you,Warren. I never heard about Miles criticism, but I never take stuff like that too seriously. I really enjoy his swinging playing, he does that better than anybody 🙂

    • @warrenwilson7836
      @warrenwilson7836 5 років тому +1

      Miles said. ”Oscar makes me sick because he copies everybody. He even had to learn how to play the blues. Everybody knows that if you flat a third, you’re going to get that blues sound. He learned that and runs it into the ground worse than Billy Taylor. You don’t have to do that”

    • @JensLarsen
      @JensLarsen  5 років тому +1

      @@warrenwilson7836 He probably said that while he was writing out copies of his sidemens compositions and claiming the royalties 🤣

  • @johnjacquard2182
    @johnjacquard2182 5 років тому +1

    I adore mr peterson what a giant with a kind heart and childlike imagination

    • @JensLarsen
      @JensLarsen  5 років тому

      He is indeed a great player!

  • @garylarocca6901
    @garylarocca6901 5 років тому +1

    Thanks for giving an Oscar lesson. Canadian jazz treasure.

  • @zygotegarden
    @zygotegarden 5 років тому +1

    Oscar Peterson is one of my favorite musicians. I think this is an excellent analysis with great ideas - thank you! I especially liked your demo of double-stops and I was surprised how much I could understand (as I am just starting to learn about jazz guitar).

    • @JensLarsen
      @JensLarsen  5 років тому +1

      Thank you very much! I am glad you found it useful! Good luck with the Jazz Guitar Journey! 👍🙂

  • @RC32Smiths01
    @RC32Smiths01 5 років тому +3

    Oscar Peterson is one of the best indeed! Probably would not be as engaged with the Piano if not for him! Great work man!

    • @JensLarsen
      @JensLarsen  5 років тому

      Thanks! Yes he is truly amazing!

    • @RC32Smiths01
      @RC32Smiths01 5 років тому

      @@JensLarsen He is indeed my man!

  • @jazzman7165
    @jazzman7165 5 років тому +2

    For really intense swing I like: Oscar, wynton marsalis, count Basie, Charlie Parker and Martin Taylor

  • @Wildepicureism
    @Wildepicureism 5 років тому +3

    Great video, Jens, thanks again.
    could you one video specially dedicated to double stop ideas???
    I think George Benson is the master of this technic on jazz guitar....
    Cheers

    • @JensLarsen
      @JensLarsen  5 років тому

      Thank you! Benson is indeed great at doublestops! :)

  • @Ronno4691
    @Ronno4691 5 років тому +1

    Am I a bad person for studying Jazz guitar and piano in order to become a more sophisticated Rock & Pop musician? The Oscar Peterson Dick Cavett TV special is truly wonderful.

    • @JensLarsen
      @JensLarsen  5 років тому

      No, how can that make you a bad person? 😁

  • @andrewm3934
    @andrewm3934 5 років тому +1

    Hi jens. I'm still a patreon and enjoy all the work you do putting these videos together
    Thanks 🙏

    • @JensLarsen
      @JensLarsen  5 років тому

      Thank you, Andrew! That is great to hear! :)

  • @ragingchimera8021
    @ragingchimera8021 5 років тому +1

    First Ed Bickert and now Oscar Peterson?!?! Jens showing some love for the Canadian jazz legends!

    • @JensLarsen
      @JensLarsen  5 років тому +2

      I don’t really think about where people come from, just about the music 🙂

    • @ragingchimera8021
      @ragingchimera8021 5 років тому +1

      @@JensLarsen that is a good attitude to have!

  • @luisrodriguezf5755
    @luisrodriguezf5755 5 років тому +1

    admito que casi no entiendo el ingles, pero musicalmente me ayudas mucho, saludos desde México crack.

    • @JensLarsen
      @JensLarsen  5 років тому +1

      No worries Luis! I am glad you like the videos! Gracias! :) Did you see this list: ua-cam.com/play/PLWYuNvZPqqcEuDRNUmMFc5hqrxk6tP3fO.html

    • @luisrodriguezf5755
      @luisrodriguezf5755 5 років тому

      Jens Larsen eres todo un Maestro, gracias por esos videos y ser parte de mi formación en el jazz.

  • @jaybavis5896
    @jaybavis5896 5 років тому +1

    Nice bro

  • @wimdenherder
    @wimdenherder 3 роки тому

    Jens, you know i love this shit!

  • @grobertabidbol4005
    @grobertabidbol4005 5 років тому +1

    YEEEES !

  • @eternalrainbow-cj3iu
    @eternalrainbow-cj3iu 5 років тому

    The Studie's of Oscar Peterson, the G-Major one = far out indeed please check thatn one Out!!!!
    little miniatre's on piano doable on gitar as well!!!(no Joke...)

  • @Cooltorpedo
    @Cooltorpedo 5 років тому +1

    Thank you for this enlightening free lesson, Jens. The part of Oscar being swinging or playing even notes is not only hard to master, it's just difficult to hear. I wonder how much of it is just feeling it or being able to measure what you're hearing.

    • @JensLarsen
      @JensLarsen  5 років тому +1

      Like most things it is something you must hear or just feel to do right, but it is something you can train. In fact, most people don't get this right naturally 🙂

    • @Cooltorpedo
      @Cooltorpedo 5 років тому +1

      @@JensLarsen I'd love a lesson on how to train it :D

    • @JensLarsen
      @JensLarsen  5 років тому +1

      I think I talked about it in a Q&A a few years ago 🙂

    • @Cooltorpedo
      @Cooltorpedo 5 років тому +1

      @@JensLarsen I missed that one, sorry. Time to look for it.

    • @JensLarsen
      @JensLarsen  5 років тому +1

      No worries! I have an insane amount of videos :D

  • @Ebenezerkvasthval
    @Ebenezerkvasthval 5 років тому +1

    Isn't that Charlie Parker lick from Now's the time ?

    • @JensLarsen
      @JensLarsen  5 років тому

      He uses it in both :)

    • @Ebenezerkvasthval
      @Ebenezerkvasthval 5 років тому

      Really? Well it's a good lick..:) @@JensLarsen

    • @JensLarsen
      @JensLarsen  5 років тому

      Here you go: 0:40 in this video: ua-cam.com/video/HvFrARSTMFw/v-deo.html

  • @kimlam99hk
    @kimlam99hk 5 років тому +1

    Like first!

  • @rodneycampbell3825
    @rodneycampbell3825 5 років тому +1

    Man I'll never catch up you got a lot of videos 😂

    • @JensLarsen
      @JensLarsen  5 років тому

      You certainly don't need to check out all of them 😁

    • @rodneycampbell3825
      @rodneycampbell3825 5 років тому +1

      @@JensLarsen dude how can I not all of them are so beneficial and informative at first I didnt understand anything about jazz until I found your channel