Wes Montgomery Secrets That Will Transform Your Playing...
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2023
- In todays lesson I'm going to talk about the Wes Montgomery concepts that transformed my playing and will do the same for you! We will cover his colorful guitar shapes and how to apply them over various chords, as well as ways to integrate them into your jazz vocabulary.
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I love the lick in Four On Six from Smokin' At the Half Note where the basically plays a Gm7 but winds up in like a Bb simple triad shape by starting on the 5th fret G on the D string and going to the 8th fret Bb on the D string and then just playing a simple looking 1-3-5 triad from there. I use that a lot over minor chords as a fun shape with a colorful sound that is actually a really simple but effective movement. Wes was just the best. There was so much range in his playing. He was almost like a jazz shredder on Cottontail but then like a jazz funk player on Full House. Unreal what he accomplished in such a short time. I'm not truly a "jazz player" but I love incorporating little bits of Wes into my blues and rock playing and I could listen to him every day for the rest of my life and never get sick of him.
I'm gonna need a timestamp lol
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@@maxwellbarnhart1375 It's basically the second bar of the solo. It's a super quick move and if you blink you'll miss it but man it's super sweet.
Doesn't matter who's playing Wes's lines. It ALWAYS sounds good!!
Wes is the man!
Fantastic lesson, Nathan! I always appreciate your clear explanation of what you're doing and why. Yes! More Wes, please.
Thanks so much Ron! Will do!
Sounds great. I love arpeggios and this a great lesson plus I need lots of help.
Super amazing playing and explanations west Montgomery is a amazing artist thanks a lot 🎵🎵🎶🎶
Great lesson Nathan, thank you
My pleasure!
Great lesson, very clear and helpfull, merci beaucoup!
Thank you! 😃
Well thank you ! Wise fingering, simple and logical in a intervallic manner 🎉
Great stuff, more lessons on Wes would be great! Thanks for all your hard work
More to come! Thanks for watching!
Just watched one of your earlier lessons and then this one, you've come a long way! I really enjoyed this lesson. And yes, more Wes!
Thanks so much! I'm always working on improving and appreciate you noticing!
Good lesson....Nathan. Smooth examples
Thanks so much! Hope it helped you out!
Superb uploads lately Nathan, thank you and may your channel success continue.
appreciate that! Thanks for watching :)
This is one of the best lessons on i have watched !!! Good stuff
Wow that means a lot! Thanks so much and I hope you can find more information on the channel that is as helpful to you!
Amazing lesson, Nathan! Thank you for all that you do for the jazz guitar community and jazz community at large!
Thanks Christine!!! :)
Thank you so much ! So clear and interesting !!!
You're very welcome!
Great lesson. This idea inspires so many possibilities. Thank you!
You are so welcome! Hope helps shape your playing!
An excellent analysis. Clear, concise and most importantly ties back to the theory of what separates the sound of jazz guitar from all other styles. Keep these lessons coming!
Hi Paul, thanks for your comment! Really appreciate it!
Great lesson! Yes, more Wes, please.
Thanks so much! More Wes to come!
Really great lesson 👍🎸 glad to have found your channel, best to you!!
Thank you kindly!
Very informative vide and nice playing!
Thank you kindly!
Been having jazz lessons for a few months and it is baking my brain. Thankfully a few of your videos are helping me out.
Sorry about the brain baking, but glad to hear my lessons are helping that!
Great lesson!
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
This is very informative Nathan and certainly does facilitate a more melodic approach. Thank you for a well presented tutorial.
Appreciate you watching!
Thank you so much for your brilliant insights…and that beautiful tone 👌🏽
You are so welcome! And can you believe that's DI? I'm using a golden age mkiii as a pre-amp!
Excellent lesson. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Another gem. Thank you, Nathan.
Thanks for watching Larry!
This was great. Thank you man!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank You Nathan for Posting. Glad I Follow you:)
Thanks 🙏 great to see you again!
this is a great Wes lesson, keep it up!
More to come!
Great one, Nathan! Thanks
Thanks so much! Always appreciate your support :)
Great lesson and amazing playing!
Thanks a lot! Really appreciate it :)
Some great ideas! Much appreciated 👍
No problem 👍 Hope they are helpful to you!
Great! Thanks for that
Appreciate your watching! Hope it was helpful :)
hello, thank you for your course always well done, with the end study which includes the example licks. Your lessons are so rich that 10 minutes is enough. A new contributor
Thanks for your kind words! There will be more Wes lessons in the future! I was thinking about doing one on his block chord soloing/comping!
This was helpful! Thanks!
So glad! Thanks for watching!
Thanks! Great job!🙏🤘
Appreciate that :)
nice lesson.thanks.
You are welcome! Thanks for watching!
Wow this is amazingly helpful
Glad this video helped you! Thank for watching!
Great stuff! Thanks😊
Thanks for watching!!
Beautiful video 🔥
Aw shucks man. Thanks so much for checking it out :)
Great lesson on Wes' approach.
Glad you enjoyed it and I hope it helped you!
wow Your lession are realy great and helpfull. They are one of the best among the best 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻And…..please keep on going because its nice to hear you playing. thank you very much for your work…..😉
Wow! Thanks so much Oliver! I’m glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the compliment about my playing, means a lot! I have a couple records out if your interested? Ones called “Each Step”
Thank you. Nice playing.
Thanks for watching! Hope it helped you!
Good lesson, very focused and I will be coming back. *****
Appreciate that! Hope you find more lessons that help you out!
Great sound man!
Appreciate it! I’m going DI into a golden age mkiii pre-amp
More Wes lessons please. Good stuff.
More to come! Thanks for watching!
Fantastic explanation. Very inspiring. Thank you!! ...... Subscribed. ; )
Awesome, thank you! Hope you find some more content you like on the channel :)
I’m stumbling upon your channel at, perhaps just the right moment in my musical maturation. Wonderful lesson many thanks. And yes, more Wes Montgomery please.
So Glad to hear it helped you out!
If you're sorta new to Wes I would HIGHLY recommend Smokin' At The Half Note and The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery. Holy crap dude they're amazing!
@@SimpleManGuitars1973 YES!
Really great lesson, what a beautiful sound you can get, Wes is magic, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, I already subscribed to your channel, keep on doing lessons maestro!!! Thanks :)
Many thanks! 🙏
Kudos !!
Thanks for the sub :)
Some great information!
Thanks! Hope it’s useful to you!
vERY NICE PLAYING AND INSTRUCTION!!
Glad it was helpful! And thanks for your kind words!
Sounds great
Appreciate that :)
INTERESTING APPROACH and we should add that the liminar secret was WES 's musical ear , absolute
pitch of the neck that allows to play instantely his musical ideas anticipating several bars into a linear
melodic flow . That can explain his incredible touch , balanced and subtle chromatisms , high tension
and release through perfect timing , absolute control of interaction with his peers .THANKS for your
precious work .
Thanks for the tips🎉🎉
No problem! Thanks for watching!
More of this!
Definitely! Thanks for watching!
Great tutorial 👍
Thanks so much! Appreciate you!
Thank You
Thanks for watching!
Great content brother 🔥🔥❤️
Thanks 🔥Glad you enjoyed it and hope it was helpful!
Hearing you play Makes me appreciate Jazz More
That really means a lot, thanks Carlos :)
Mind bending! 😀
Glad it was helpful!!
This is great information..
Glad it was helpful!
I found your video while searching for a Miles Davis video. This is amazing because I somehow discovered using the Minor shapes over 30 years ago. It has helped me to develop my own style. Because of your video I now understand why it works, Thank you so much for sharing your talent and knowledge. You made my day. Thanks again.
Awesome! Thank you!
Zappa was right. If you want to hear great guitar, listen to Wes.
good job 👏
Thanks 🙏
You Gotta Love Wes.. Period.
Wes is the man!
Thx Marvelous
Thanks for watching! Appreciate it!
Bravo! Just subscribed.
Awesome, thank you!🙏
Nice lesson man
Thanks for watching!
Ace lesson.
Thanks so much Bill! Appreciate your support!
It's great! Thanks a lot!! From BRAZIL!!!
Welcome!!
So many choices with the harmonies.
Yes! Find the options that work for you!
Hi Man more of Wes please! Some blues stuff or minor 2-5-1! Thanks for share this pure GOLD!
Hey thanks so much! Really glad you liked the lesson! I have one videos on these topics in the past, here are a couple of you want to check them out!
Grant Green's Guide To The Blues | Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Improvisation
ua-cam.com/video/5EOZ8Q6RBGs/v-deo.html
Grant Green's Guide to the MINOR Blues!
ua-cam.com/video/RLB-BRSTK8A/v-deo.html
The Secret To Soloing Over Minor Tunes (and Chords)
ua-cam.com/video/Vu4n8x0YEUM/v-deo.html
Every Jazz Musician Should Know This
ua-cam.com/video/Uz1KSPz5S2k/v-deo.html
I'm not a guitarist, (just learning bass) but what you are teaching is music to my ears sorry I mean beautiful. I'm sure if I put all that in my head it will in some way improve my bass playing.
For sure! Using these colors in bass lines and in your soloing could be cool!
Oh Yeah Bro... Great Stuff.. I've Been Listening to Wes Since I Can Remember My Dad was a Jazz Guitarist and Wes was One of His Favorite Guitarist... Dead On Wes Theory.. Thanx for The Instructional ☺☺😎👊💯
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it and heck yes for Wes! Did you see they released new Wes albums?! Unreleased bootlegs I think?
@@NathanBortonMusic Yessir.... Oh Wow Really...Oh Gotta Look into That for Sure and Thanx for The Heads Up Bro 😀😀😎👊💯
Wess Montgomery ❤ one of the greatest guitarist of our time. Beautiful playing
Yes indeed! And thanks for the kind words 🙏
@NathanBorton your very welcome you are a great guitarist 🎸
Got nothing to add that others haven't already said, but I know it's good for your algorithms to comment 🙂👍🙏
It really does... thank you! Hope you enjoyed the lesson :)
The first time I heard about the D-7 over G7 was with Joe Pass vhs video saying when he sees a G7 he thinks on D-7... something like that I don't remember exactly. But excellent video! Wes guitar sound is very sweet you nailed and explained clearly. A lot of people will learn something or even start to listen Wes Montgomery. Congrats!
Thank you for the kind words! Yes, I hope I can help spread jazz music and make more people interested in this amazing genre!
Yea really good, tanks for sharing,big up from Reunion island Indian ocean.
Appreciate that! Thanks! 🙏
dorian and its extensions or minor modal usage.over major and minor chords. i like it ,fantastic..................thanks
Glad you like it! Thanks for watching :)
Awesome. Natalie Merchant, in a subtle way , reminds me of Joan Baez. Absolutely stated as high praise. They are both unbelievably talented as well as truly authentic .
The epiphany you had is basically "Dorian is a scale that sounds hip"
I would say this lesson is focused on uses Wes's guitar shapes rather than focusing on the scale it comes from. Yes, dorian is the sound (for some of these) but using Wes's shapes gives you some language and context on how to apply it. Thanks for your comment and for watching!
Darrell was the Man in Indy when he got back from WW II. Monk often called him for gigs when Wes wasn't around.
Thinking of it in Dorian is kind of surface level thinking. My takeaway is that it’s really more about arpeggios and adding specific chord tones. Moreover, the context is included which is a huge bonus. This is amazing free content.
@@Mattcallaway86 it's a very specific arepgio. The one that implies a Dorian sound.
Gr8 vid, more Wesmo secrets plz
More Wesmo on the way!
Great
Thanks for watching!
Love these concepts Pat Martino does the same
I have been finding this out for myself on piano, as it happens. I really love if I have say a C major in the bass, I will play a B minor pentatonic over that getting the major 7, 9, sharp 11, and 6 (or 13) it's pretty liberating
Great to hear! Thanks for watching!
We all can admit that Wes Montgomery is the coolest name ever.
Killin’!!
Thanks mannn!!
One of my pops' (Jan Akkerman) and my heroes! what a legend
That's great! Will be cool to have more. The way I think about it is diatonically - when the harmony is diatonic to a key, you can play all the seven chords over it, and it sounds good. Not just major/minor, but add the modal color tones so it becomes Dorian, phrygian, lydian etc. Makes it easy to follow the harmony because key centers don't change as often.
Yes definitely! You have to find the ways to that work for you. You might be interested in this video, where I talk about something similar via Barry Harris’s major 6th Diminished scale: The Barry Harris Concept That Will Change Your Playing Forever
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@@NathanBortonMusic great, thanks for sharing!
Great lesson! Earned a sub from me!
Appreciate it! Hope the lesson helped you out!
Thank You Nathan! Appreciate this info. I’m curious, what guitar where you playing here?
No problem! I'm playing a Benedetto Bravo Deluxe. Very much love this guitar! I'm just recording DI into a golden age mkiii pre-amp.
Just ran across your channel today (and I learn a lot from many channels). But I will say this is one of the largest effects a concept has had on my playing for the first visit! So easy to understand. I pulled up some 2-5-1 tracks and was playing some lines that had me saying "who they heck is playing this!"
Also a former Benedetto owner, but I sold them (☹). I subscribed and I am sure you are heading past 10k subscribers very soon. Thank you!
Thanks so much! Really appreciate it and hope your can find more videos on the channel that help you! And yes for the Benedettos!
Nathan when are you going to write a book? Great stuff as usual.
I don’t know if I know that much! Thanks for watching really appreciate it :)
Hmmmmm. Interesting concept. I see the theory using the related notes to particular chord. Like using a harmonic minor scale(Dm7) over the i(Bbmaj7)
Yeah defiantly!
Man, great stuff as usual. I wonder if you ever came across Garrison Fewell's book and his approach to minor triads?
I haven’t! But I’d love to check it out, thanks for the tip!
I have this book and it is great. Garrison is a really good, practical teacher. The book is titled, "Jazz Improvisation for Guitar: A Melodic Approach"
@@rondorko Yep, that's the one
Hey Nathan, Thank you for the video. I just signed up to be a Patreon. I have a question. Is it that these minor licks of Wes' are special and they can be applied the way you explained, or can other minor licks be used in the same way?
Hi Rich, thanks for your Patreon support!! To answer your question, yes you could use language instead of the Wes Shapes/arpeggios. Plays more D-7 language over G7 is a fantastic way to solo, or reverse! If you haven't watched my video on grant green's language I would highly encourage you too, as that video cover these types of language concepts subs: ua-cam.com/video/Vp6DqGcDbuw/v-deo.html
Great video again Nathan. Thank you! I have a question if I may - I notice when you demonstrate these arpeggios, you play extensions like the 9th added often at only one place so at the lower octave for example you may skip the 9th and just play the fundamental notes. This sounds good to my ears and more melodic and interesting as the extensions pops out vs playing the same notes in a different octave. Is that part of the overall sound of bebop would you say and would you recommend practicing arpeggios that way in general?
Great question! These shapes are stolen from Wes so this is something he often does. That’s a point about the extensions popping out! I think, personally, it’s a shape things as playing these shapes (to me) seems to lay better on the guitar this way than if you added the lower extensions
@@NathanBortonMusic Thanks Nathan - there’s always so much to take away from how the greats approach things (and of course from your lessons too)!
Well, I always suspected it should be as smart as that, but never figured it out myself, thanks 🙏)
Glad I could help! Wes was a genius!
Pat Martino owns the minor 5 sub concept over the 1 chord.