Sorry I was signed in as another user! My comment was about being inspired by GVE's Jump sessions but not exactly like his style. He did use a pick for the Jump sides in the mid-40's.
Hey Steve, have you ever gone through Van Eps' first book, George Van Eps Guitar Method. I really have gotten a lot of millage of that book, but I think there are some mistakes. Whenever people talk about Van Eps, they always talk about his Harmonic Mechanisms book, but Guitar Method is where it all started. Plus, the book is full of the traid-concept that you explain here. Maybe you could edit it one of these days, and finally bring this old book into the forefront? Love your playing too!
I would think perfect pitch would be quite useful for improvising but most of us are not blessed with it (or our parents didn't work on it with us when we were very young.)
Working on good (or great!) relative pitch is something we can all do to improve our ears.
@SteveHerberman considering how you will often play gig where the piano is horribly out of tune (or study in colleges where they don't service their pianos often), perfect pitch can be a curse. For a guitarist, perfect pitch maybe elusive, but that doesn't mean that they are not great musicians. The best guitarists in my program were also the ones who possessed impeccable relative pitch. Was Jump the record GVE played with a pick? Rosenwinkel actually uses these concepts in his playing, it's hip
once I get my guitar in shape, I'd love to show how these concepts also work for the plectrum-inclined. It will be nowhere as great as Steve's, I'm still learning Van Eps material as well. But you can really let you musical imagination fly with these triads, they aren't exclusive to folk music for sure. Best part about triads is that since you're only paying attention to three-voices, keeping track of voice leading is much easier. Thanks again for posting these clips, mgellar!
Steve, you sound fantastic! Great ideas here - wow!
kungfuaxe 1 year ago
Sorry I was signed in as another user! My comment was about being inspired by GVE's Jump sessions but not exactly like his style. He did use a pick for the Jump sides in the mid-40's.
SteveHerberman 1 year ago
Hey Steve, have you ever gone through Van Eps' first book, George Van Eps Guitar Method. I really have gotten a lot of millage of that book, but I think there are some mistakes. Whenever people talk about Van Eps, they always talk about his Harmonic Mechanisms book, but Guitar Method is where it all started. Plus, the book is full of the traid-concept that you explain here. Maybe you could edit it one of these days, and finally bring this old book into the forefront? Love your playing too!
splanky87 1 year ago
I would think perfect pitch would be quite useful for improvising but most of us are not blessed with it (or our parents didn't work on it with us when we were very young.)
Working on good (or great!) relative pitch is something we can all do to improve our ears.
SteveHerberman 1 year ago
@SteveHerberman considering how you will often play gig where the piano is horribly out of tune (or study in colleges where they don't service their pianos often), perfect pitch can be a curse. For a guitarist, perfect pitch maybe elusive, but that doesn't mean that they are not great musicians. The best guitarists in my program were also the ones who possessed impeccable relative pitch. Was Jump the record GVE played with a pick? Rosenwinkel actually uses these concepts in his playing, it's hip
splanky87 1 year ago
once I get my guitar in shape, I'd love to show how these concepts also work for the plectrum-inclined. It will be nowhere as great as Steve's, I'm still learning Van Eps material as well. But you can really let you musical imagination fly with these triads, they aren't exclusive to folk music for sure. Best part about triads is that since you're only paying attention to three-voices, keeping track of voice leading is much easier. Thanks again for posting these clips, mgellar!
splanky87 1 year ago
Hi steve... great tone...
can i ask you a question?
How do you think that perfect pitch is usefull for Jazz improvisation?
Thank You!
jose044 1 year ago
@jose044 See my reply above! Thanks.
SteveHerberman 1 year ago