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  • Опубліковано 29 гру 2024
  • Julian Lage is absolutely tearing it up over this rendition of St.Thomas.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 112

  • @vincentregolo1686
    @vincentregolo1686 Рік тому +306

    This guy checks all the boxes.
    Great melodics idea
    Developement of an idea
    Playing the theme somethimes
    Out playing
    Harmonic complexity
    Using the specifity of your instrument
    Interplay
    Etc

    • @cncpackaginginc1503
      @cncpackaginginc1503 Рік тому +12

      You forgot, got guitar lessons from Jim Hall when he was 12.

    • @danwillis58
      @danwillis58 Рік тому +6

      and hes cute

    • @Tomica031
      @Tomica031 Рік тому +3

      unpopular opinion: I am not that impressed by him honestly xD. And please don't get me wrong, I'll try to explain what I mean by that, it is just subjective opinion and what I like in music. Also feel free to prove me wrong and give me some links if you think something I say is not true. And lastly, I honestly didn't listen to Julian that much, so I could be wrong just based on that. For me, yes, he checks all the boxes, but that is why I don't enjoy listening that much to him. Like he does everything good, I still think he is fenomenal player, I just think there are 2 types of players in high level: the ones that are not that gifted and get there by practice (to be clear, I put myself in this category also, and I am giving my best to go to second category xD), and the ones who are also gifted and probably didn't practice that much (still a lot more than your average Joe), but they just feel music, they can express themselves so freely and naturally with their instruments, like they naturally speak with it. The video that brought this to my attention is when he played "Someday my Prince will come" with Martin Taylor. Julian started, it sounded good, and then Martin Taylor came in and mad Julian sound like some very good student, bot nowhere near master. This is subjective, and I understand that Martin Taylor is beast, lot older and played with many great musicians in his life, but that is what I am talking about, I like players like Martin, it always sounds like you are listening to him speak, not just correct scales and interesting rhythms. For instance, even someone like Guthrie Govan I would put like in same category as Julian. But also, a lot of players go trough this phase in life and later become their real selves, listen to Art Tatum when he was young and old, when he was young he was impressive with his technique, but later he developed so much depth in his music, and it sounded like he didn't want to impress anymore, just play what he feels like playing

    • @cncpackaginginc1503
      @cncpackaginginc1503 Рік тому +6

      @@Tomica031 TLDR. some people like vanilla, mint, jalapeno jelly ice cream. amen.

    • @85481
      @85481 Рік тому +1

      ​@@Tomica031 Not really a counter argument but I had the opposite reaction to the duet with Martin Taylor. I found Julian's playing more aesthetically pleasing, I feel like he doesn't lose the sense of musicality and melody in his playing no matter how "complex" or technically difficult it is. I find that I connect very strongly with his ideas and he very rarely does things that feel like he's just blasting out notes that technically fit over the chords. It always feels like music, not just notes.

  • @Will-xo1xg
    @Will-xo1xg Рік тому +148

    Julian Lage is next level. His last couple records are amazing.

    • @nomnom112
      @nomnom112 Рік тому +1

      i make it a point to always watch him live whenever he's around.

    • @cliffirddelbridge2810
      @cliffirddelbridge2810 6 місяців тому

      Yes, his composing has been very enjoyable in the last year, Speak To Me was stellar.

  • @HeavyProfessor
    @HeavyProfessor Рік тому +47

    Those opening lines are unreal

  • @danielebazzani
    @danielebazzani Рік тому +17

    This is one of the most amazing solos I've heard in a long time. There's everything in it.

  • @tomschelfaut
    @tomschelfaut Рік тому +12

    Jesus this might be the best phrasing I've ever heard

  • @bigbabyjack
    @bigbabyjack Рік тому +16

    Julian Lage made me want to pick up my guitar again and for that I am very grateful

  • @nogoogleplus
    @nogoogleplus Рік тому +33

    Thanks for the stellar transcription! He’s definitely my favorite guitarist of his generation✨

  • @Prince_Sharming
    @Prince_Sharming Рік тому +18

    Crazy how this dude overcame focal dystonia by reteaching himself to play guitar and can still play with this level of technicality and finesse.

    • @brturner
      @brturner Рік тому +1

      Wait what that’s absolutely insane

    • @Prince_Sharming
      @Prince_Sharming Рік тому +9

      @@brturner In a 2016 interview promoting "Arclight" on NPR program "Fresh Air" Lage revealed that around the time of the release of "World's Fair" he struggled with a bout of focal dystonia, a neurological disorder resulting from the repeated performance of tasks, that caused spasming in his left arm and hand when trying to play the guitar. He believed that the condition was brought on through playing and gripping the neck of his guitar too hard because the guitar was bigger than he was while learning at age 5. At the time he believed that that was what he needed to do to "sound official... and [not] drop the guitar." Eventually he had to "re-learn how to play the guitar in a way that... addressed these tendencies that got [him] in trouble in the first place."[11]

  • @zachindes
    @zachindes Рік тому +5

    One of THE best live shows I’ve been to last December. Completely enthralled the entire time

  • @FlyGuy2000
    @FlyGuy2000 Рік тому +2

    This guy is the Buckethead of Jazz.

  • @gurumajuindonesia
    @gurumajuindonesia Рік тому +1

    His lines are never boring! awemazing

  • @cmacdhon
    @cmacdhon Рік тому +1

    Absolutely stunning. This guy was born to play guitar.

  • @WeirdHippie89
    @WeirdHippie89 Рік тому

    saw this solo live and heard him for the first time too.... too good!!!

  • @bupkaplan
    @bupkaplan Рік тому +3

    that was incredible. i want to listen to more of this guy

  • @HalethDagore
    @HalethDagore Рік тому +3

    Absolute monster

  • @andrewkholowa1740
    @andrewkholowa1740 Рік тому +1

    Love this solo

  • @MM-vs2et
    @MM-vs2et Рік тому +5

    Ahh yes, The Telecaster Man. Seriously, he makes the telly sound more like a Telecaster would than any telecaster could.

  • @lucastilou
    @lucastilou Рік тому

    I saw this performance in Puerto Rico. Amazing!

  • @EricTorreborre
    @EricTorreborre Рік тому +2

    Insane

  • @dreaejrns6281
    @dreaejrns6281 Рік тому

    that was sooo .. aaaah .... nice ... feels good:)

  • @SebastianSalinasOficial
    @SebastianSalinasOficial Рік тому +2

    Awesome 👏

  • @halfhorationelson
    @halfhorationelson Рік тому

    Wow so cool

  • @sasamarjanovic2242
    @sasamarjanovic2242 Рік тому

    Fantastic...

  • @paulguignard4263
    @paulguignard4263 Рік тому +2

    Thank you for your videos 👌

  • @444CASH
    @444CASH 8 місяців тому +1

    One of the solos of all time

  • @max_mittler
    @max_mittler Рік тому

    1:05 to 1:55 is so amazing

  • @rdctd8690
    @rdctd8690 Рік тому +8

    He's simply the best. Goddamn.

    • @axeman2638
      @axeman2638 Рік тому

      not seen Mateo Mancuso yet then?

    • @rdctd8690
      @rdctd8690 Рік тому

      @Axe Man Oh of course, he's a true phenom. Absolutely sublime fingerstyle technique. My saying I think Julian is simply the best doesn't slight Mancuso, or Mike Dawes, or Alan Mearns or any other virtuosos... they're all complete titans, but in very different worlds 👌

  • @YogsenForfoth
    @YogsenForfoth Рік тому +13

    I’ve been following Julian’s career since we were both around 16 (since we’re the same age), and I continue to be absolutely FLOORED by his sophisticated playing style and his effortless ability. He is the best younger guitarist in the world. Tim Henson is a child playing in the mud, when compared to Julian Lage.

    • @animangusz7505
      @animangusz7505 Рік тому +9

      Why the Tim henson hate? Child in the mud? Just bc you dont like his style doesn't mean he's a bad player. These two are both prodigies of their respective styles. They just do different things.

    • @ЧеловекУмный-ф8с
      @ЧеловекУмный-ф8с Рік тому +11

      @@animangusz7505don’t waste your time on this kind of people. It’s now a trend to hate Polyphia for its massive success. Not a big fan of Polyphia myself but seeing other people belittle Tim Henson’s accomplishments on the instrument is truly disappointing.

    • @lucasvarela9632
      @lucasvarela9632 Рік тому

      Disregarding your mention of Tim Henson. This guy has some good moments but a lot it sounds like someone who can play hitting random notes out of time

    • @hiroprotagonitis
      @hiroprotagonitis Рік тому +1

      lol mentioning tim henson out of nowhere, this is neither the time nor the space for that, just appreciate julian & co atm

    • @bronzewand
      @bronzewand Рік тому +2

      @@animangusz7505 Ask Henson to improvise a simple blues, or a melody that someone could sing... yeah, didn't think so. While I don't hate Tim, Julian is just lightyears ahead in terms of overall musicianship..

  • @tobiokanlawon1562
    @tobiokanlawon1562 5 місяців тому +1

    That melody sounds so African, so Nigerian. It reminds me of songs Ive heard so many times, yet it doesn't sound stolen.

  • @reinh
    @reinh Рік тому +2

    This man makes a Db sound tasteful on a C major chord and a G# sound tasteful on an A7 chord. A C# and an F# on a Dm7 chord. Sure! A Dmin7 arpeggio on an Em7b5 chord. Why not!

  • @feliperamedeiros
    @feliperamedeiros Рік тому

    o som do Brasil é inconfundível ❤ que belo solo

  • @kieranl5249
    @kieranl5249 Рік тому +1

    Not a lot of guitarists, where if you showed it to Wes he would dig it. This guy though, amazing, and super pleasurable to listen to

    • @beboptom8640
      @beboptom8640 Рік тому

      You have no idea if Wes would like this. I love Wes, and do not like this at all. Sorry.

  • @HeavyProfessor
    @HeavyProfessor Рік тому +2

    You should make a video of Robert Conti doing bluesette. There is a video on youtube. Hes incredible.

  • @MarkAnderson-iv1zt
    @MarkAnderson-iv1zt Рік тому

    I've got workout for tomorrow!

  • @Hydratz
    @Hydratz Рік тому +1

    You gotta look at Kazumi Watanabe's Spice of Life Live performance of City. He's at his prime on that concert.

  • @benwhitaker5802
    @benwhitaker5802 Рік тому

    Sonny would be proud

  • @joshhuders4751
    @joshhuders4751 Рік тому +4

    Yeahh man , sick! The groove is just disgusting maynnn. Ari Hoenigs done so many good videos with his quarter with , would defo recommend that to transcribe.

  • @llPipexll
    @llPipexll Рік тому +3

    0:27

  • @zakbarbezat
    @zakbarbezat Рік тому

    who are some blues guitarists who would play something like the phrase at measure 14 around 0:17

  • @SkwisgaarScampini
    @SkwisgaarScampini Рік тому +1

    Joe from You can seriously play

  • @BrunoGarciaMusic
    @BrunoGarciaMusic Рік тому

    I can hear st tomas by sonny rollins in some phrases.

  • @Gell1967
    @Gell1967 Рік тому

    I'd like to hear him with an electric bass, think his sound would be more suited to something like a Precision or Jazz

  • @L5player
    @L5player Рік тому +1

    A little like Danny Gatton. That's heady company.

  • @normalizedaudio2481
    @normalizedaudio2481 Рік тому

    Key of C.

  • @yoelcapoful
    @yoelcapoful Рік тому +1

    dynamics.

  • @mininowa
    @mininowa Рік тому

    Thank you ! How much time do you put into this ??

  • @rauljbarrios9280
    @rauljbarrios9280 3 місяці тому

    Hello, I posted the original video of this performance. Would you be so kind as to post a link to the source video? I would appreciate it.

    • @SharpElevenMusic
      @SharpElevenMusic  3 місяці тому

      My bad! Normally we do add the link to the original video, but I seem to have forgotten it on this one. It's added now!

  • @user-ov5nd1fb7s
    @user-ov5nd1fb7s Рік тому +9

    A lot of Scofield in there

    • @yoelcapoful
      @yoelcapoful Рік тому

      100%

    • @anneonym7346
      @anneonym7346 Рік тому +1

      @@MarcSt-Jean q-tips needed 🤣 !

    • @BebopHardRock
      @BebopHardRock Рік тому

      Not really... pure Jim Hallliana !

    • @anneonym7346
      @anneonym7346 Рік тому +1

      @@BebopHardRock Nope.

    • @BebopHardRock
      @BebopHardRock Рік тому

      @@anneonym7346 What??? He's on his knees worshipping The Almighty Bald One!! And it’s a good thing, 'cause most of his contemporaries are chasing Holdsworth!!

  • @PseudoIntellectual2.0
    @PseudoIntellectual2.0 Рік тому +1

    St Thomas?

  • @schnauzerofdoom8819
    @schnauzerofdoom8819 Рік тому +1

    This guy plays bad better than most people play good

  • @mike10240
    @mike10240 Рік тому

    Why is no one mentioning the Dr Mario song reference near the end of this clip?

  • @lutzgottschalk-musik2960
    @lutzgottschalk-musik2960 Рік тому

    I wish you could see my bright smile ;-))

  • @jazzbuckeye
    @jazzbuckeye Рік тому

    As someone who isn’t a jazz guitarist, can someone explain why you would be transcribing something like this and still using TAB?

    • @SharpElevenMusic
      @SharpElevenMusic  Рік тому +2

      Because not everybody can read standard notation that well regardless of their prefered style of playing and it's also easier to see in which position something is played or if any fingering patterns occur.

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 Рік тому +2

      Classical guitarist/lutenist Brandon Acker has videos on his channel explaining why reading from tablature can enhance performances. Tablature was the dominant format of notating music for fretted string instruments like guitars, lutes, mandolins, etc for most of their history. A lot of musicians and ensembles who focus on period accurate performance like the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment will use tablature from centuries ago because it contains information the composers included on articulations, ornamentations, and other things that just don't translate to standard notation.
      When I'm transcribing my own work I generally find it best to include both standard and tab, largely because I want the player to not just know which note to play but which version of that note. The B you play at the twelfth fret of the B string on a five string bass has a very different timbre from the B played at the second fret of the A string even though they are the same note being played on the same instrument and look identical when written in standard notation. I also tend to keep my guitars tuned in straight fourths (BEADGcf) rather than standard (BEADGbe) and write accordingly, so the tabs help people who are used to playing in standard get oriented: you'll see other guitarists who default to nonstandard or open tunings doing this a lot.

    • @Zooropa_Station
      @Zooropa_Station 6 місяців тому

      Plus, if you're a guitarist, you know what notes the numbers infer, without looking at the normal music notation. So tab simply provides more information - not just the music but also the details on how it was performed physically.

    • @jazzbuckeye
      @jazzbuckeye 6 місяців тому

      @@Zooropa_Station This makes a lot of sense and changed my mind, as long as it's not used as a crutch when the player doesn't know the fretboard.

  • @gtritany
    @gtritany Рік тому +10

    Parabéns, Julian pela musicalidade. Particularmente pela cuíca aos 2:26!

  • @girlinagale
    @girlinagale Рік тому

    Crikes!

  • @dominikkurowski3145
    @dominikkurowski3145 Рік тому

    Jesus fucking Christ, he is so god

  • @papasmamas1
    @papasmamas1 Рік тому +2

    Never enjoyed it, he sounds too soft and refined, his licks doesnt tell me anything.

  • @dutelatte2154
    @dutelatte2154 Рік тому

    Feels like he is playing an exercise with the metronome, needs to feel more like music I think. Very well played.

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 Рік тому +1

      It sounds plenty musical to me. Sometimes the absolute metronomic precision is necessary to create the sort of mood you're going for: many of King Crimson's standout numbers like "FraKCtured," "Sartori In Tangier," and "Frame By Frame" wouldn't work half as well of it wasn't for the pinpoint precision timing of the interweaving lines between Fripp, Belew, Levin, and Mastoletto.

  • @AndrewJanusson
    @AndrewJanusson Рік тому +2

    Not for me, but nice transcription!

  • @RicardoAldana1988
    @RicardoAldana1988 Рік тому

    Dude forget how to musician's and goes directly to saiyan's

  • @victorparedes4863
    @victorparedes4863 Рік тому +2

    No, no Julian. It's all too trite, you must know this, right? Sonny Rollins can make those kinds of ideas work because his rhythm is so strong! You're just floating your stuff. I get it, I hear it. You're doing your Jim Hall bag, light touch, sweet, cute, etcetera ... I know what you're doing! You've got to 'tighten it up', man !!!

    • @eddievh1
      @eddievh1 Рік тому +1

      I guess you're playing is way better, right?

    • @lucasvarela9632
      @lucasvarela9632 Рік тому

      Yea sounds like shit at times

    • @85481
      @85481 Рік тому +1

      And another commenter says the timing is too precise. Would be good if the critics could agree at least on the absolute basics of their piping hot takes. I'm not an expert so I get a lot out of criticism but rn it just seems like people throwing mud randomly.

  • @lesautomates2180
    @lesautomates2180 Рік тому

    not impress... if he can play that solo while signing shake it off by taylor swift and dancing on it... this is some basic shit. taylor has long been able to do 2 thing at once...

  • @alanblakeguitarist
    @alanblakeguitarist Рік тому

    Julian is laughing at Carlos Santana now because he’s like a trillion times better than Santana will ever be. Kind of sad the average person is exposed to this kind of creativity!!! Excellent playing!! 🔥🔥🔥

  • @en5490
    @en5490 Рік тому +1

    insanely overrated

  • @kodyarocho4618
    @kodyarocho4618 Рік тому

    Mid

  • @chiet97
    @chiet97 Рік тому

    Walter White on DB and Jesse rocking on Telecaster hell yeahhh

  • @samkirby3775
    @samkirby3775 Рік тому +2

    This guy is way overrated. People think he's the greatest new jazz Guitarist. He always does something that makes me turn it off. Like at 1:12. Poor Scott Colley goes from playing with Jim Hall to this guy. I get easily bored playing Julian Lage stuff

    • @lucasvarela9632
      @lucasvarela9632 Рік тому

      What didn’t you like about that? Overused corny line?

    • @samkirby3775
      @samkirby3775 Рік тому

      @@lucasvarela9632 Don't get me wrong i think Julian Lage is good but not great like people think. I've heard people say he's the greatest new Jazz Guitarist or even greatest ever which is a fucking laugh. Compared to Kurt Rosenwinkel he might as well not even exist. What didn't i like about it? I time stamped what i didn't like about it.