Jazz Guitar - Chromatic Lick Lesson

[1990BobSilent]

Sounds like Top Gear main theme! =)

[josueatthebb]

What's the fart fret?

[SMart7751]

What time is that in? It seems like 6/8??

[PsychosisGnome]

@SMart7751 It's typically 4/4, but the lick includes a triplet and you would swing the notes, making it sound much more 6/8-like. Such is Jazz.

[dzxcqwe]

What scale is it in?

[trZack]

"Switch back to the G string, PFURT, 9th fret..."

hahah! Great lesson though!

[manzananegra100]

is similar than the first part of "billies bounce " solo

[ijkoool69]

Sounds like Clint Eastwood towards the end ?

[MetalRockMusicRecord]

0:01 <------------ start button

[burger1113]

dat's in teh beginning of one of parker's solos on Now's the Time, to be precise. man, I remember hating that tune in highschool 'cause our little combo's tenor guy brought it one day and we played it so badly... it was unbearable. well that changed when I copied parker's version a few years back.

[robin17171]

I'm using this on my sax. :D

[mirnmoy1]

very old style

[19tgpkirk68]

how it happened?

[TNTMan93]

Pause and press 5; you can hear him fart.

[stratcatavarious]

cool jazz tele

tasty

[malcocreative]

I like this guy! He goes real slow and you can hear that he's a compassionate person. I've been playing for 40 years, and the thing I liked most was the way he explained things. Even things I knew he had nice explanations for them. jrs

[drathok]

I return a year later and laugh hysterically at the response my fart comment has generated lol I'm gonna have to charge commission on that one I think ;)

[Bluesguitar247]

@drathok Dude, that comment was fucking gay, and I hope you feel ashamed of how small your dick is

[AbGretsch]

hahahahaha @ tha fart

[snelfingers]

Could you do BTOs Blue Collar as a lesson?

[Telepothead]

jew

[coolskaterlikeice]

thanks for the nice feel..

[MrMtm11]

mrmtm11 great lesson. Also, check out Robert Dean's teaching vids on youtube

[fuckoff691]

Ssshhhhh.

[MrTrigun1]

Thanks for the upload man, really good instruction and great sounding lick. I'm still a bit of a learner but it was very easy to understand.

[fitulus]

leave him alone the fart thing is a part of a chromatic tone heheheh

[gema368roses]

DOLPHINS SONG

[N30C0RT3XXX]

Nice chromatic fart

[Luisshamansblues]

@N30C0RT3XXX stupid gringo mothafucka

[abbaabb]

very good lick

thanks, man

[kbroo2008]

Love it

[kbroo2008]

Great stuff, love the voicing, keep it up

[earfulaudio]

Wow ... thanks for sharing this info brotha ... drathoc is a dork ... I went to his site ... and ... well ... it's just not going on. Maybe he should spend more time just checkin' your lines out ... and diggin' your influences ... I love music ... thanks man

[ElusiveHermit]

I've been rocking your licks... fuck you... thats a charlie parker lick

[MrSvjoe]

What guitar is that?

[1996Prashant]

is that a fender american special telecaster in 3 tone sunburst with texas special pick up,neck pick up and a greasebucket???

[theworldofguitars]

Want to come to my channel and learn some guitar

I'll meet you in my world

TheWorldofGuitars

Mike

[benjiboy576]

This is one of my favorite jazz licks of all time, as the first solo to one of the first Parker songs I listened to Billies Bounce. Thanks so much!

[pamirs94]

thanks very much for the lesson. great lick!!! and its the first lick on NOWS the TIME!!!!

[ProgrammingGeek]

that has nothing to do with charlie parker. :(

[axiluss]

maan, that like almost exactly the first phrase he plays on billie's bounce at savoy sessions (like the most famous take on that tune). don't wanna be a smartass though, it's really good you do that stuff - i'm aware not everybody may know it. for those who didn't know - check Charlie Parker omnibook (PLENTY OF STUFF) or just realbook vol.2 - you have the first chorus already transcribed there (unusual for realbooks).

[Siriusblck3]

Sounds like the hymn of my country, really

[BloodySultan]

is G-strings is what women wear?joking.I am sorry for not learning to play the guitar.

[icarsmith]

thanks!, very clear and useful!

[asikbaba]

very useful.

[Bobbish2]

thanks man, had fun learning this.

[declan215]

very nice

[echo680]

nice line man, thank u for posting

[RonVermillion]

I was going to guess that you weren't old enough to have learned that from Charlie Parker in person. Glad you clarified that - LOL!

Great lick and good lesson

Ron

[coshstudio]

excellent lesson.

I kept on hearing "They tried to make me go to rehab but I said no, no, no." when you played it slow. :-)

[raccoonlord]

Woah. I know how to play this and didn't know I did. This is jazz, right? Does this mean I know some jazz? Fuckyes.

Excuse my excitement, it's just... I play left handed, on a flipped right hander, and mostly play minor scale stuff that isn't really... taught. To judge my progression or skill I sort of need something to judge it to.

And now I can! Sort of...

[Mel0dymaker]

good lesson. 5*

[siliconbronze]

thanks for a great and very clear demonstration.

[cosiogalko]

Very good lesson for all guitar players.

[freshcat987]

wow thanks could you do a tut on the bit you played at 4:42 ? that sounded sweet !

[zuvarian]

cool..thanks..

[matthewcross]

nice lick! gave me good inspiration for a little blues jam just now!

[lagatuda]

Nice lesson - thanks!

[Gigsixstring]

great,.

[fenderisa]

gracias, master!

[zymoon]

good lesson, good camera angle!

[fellipebarnabe]

great lick!!

thanks!!

[metalbyku]

this guy i great. so much knowledge about music

[cryss21]

i'd say thats more than just inspired.... billies bounce...

[xXPredraGXx]

Your guitar sounds really good man ;)

[donottawaguitar]

thanks

[Brennon757]

ahaha he has a bubble fart .

[Dvareckas]

veri nice

[MCgoogles1000]

LMAO! farthead!

[ElCigaroCubano]

its the brown NOISE not note... god.. watch more south park

[DiegoGimbernat]

yeah he definetely farted hahahaha brown note

the emotion of playing loosens the sphyncter haha omg

[thomjz]

Sometime you have to put your whole body into your playing. hehehahehe

[Bluntwrap4]

the brown note..hahaha xD

[enzoangiolini]

LMAO!!! bahahaha

[zachguy]

ahahahaha, nice

[Burns0060]

indeed he does :D :D :D

[LinkGrayX2]

that just made my day lol

[jbeaver181]

lol

[Hawkon33]

hahaha :D

[pudicio]

And it was a perfect A note :)

[carlitojonesius]

@drathok hahaha I think he does

[jfunkfinger69]

@drathok i cant belive you got 24 likes for that comment, just shows that people would rather listen out for the fart than learn the licks !

[TheFridayDrive]

@drathok Man, good ear bro.

[JazzyZenBrotha]

@drathok - LOL you're right bro. I heard it. ha ha

[OneThumbDown]

@drathok omg lmao. you ruined this poor guys day :/ XD

[BeatBay]

@drathok ROFL "The brown note" you made my day homie!!! keep up those comments :D

[ddjsd03]

@drathok : true !

[flowerdrop1]

@drathok yeah, you can hear him chuckle a little too

[qwertybampass]

@drathok keep laughing at it

[tjmacjee]

@drathok Maybe you were checking out his ass too closely

[BuddLightbrain]

@drathok Tears of laughter! arf! arf!

[NICK000DICK]

@drathok If you noticed, he farted musically. It was an E! ))))

[MaghoxFr]

@drathok LMAO...brown note, I agree

[OnlyOneesWhoKnow]

@drathok You are my God to have noticed this fart. I think you possess a kind of perfect pitch.

[turtlevillage]

nice riff

[nhe00]

well, what I have to say is it doesn't matter what you play note for note, it only becomes music when it's saying something, that's what Bird's done and that's why it doesn't sound a bit like him. nevermind 'what', but 'how'.

[Sulakul666]

Thank you for saying something so banal and nauseatingly obvious, you really made my day.

[samansun]

One good comment about guitar playing, out of millions of nonsense we see on youtube.

It is music when it says something in one's personal way.

[PodgeDreadz]

Cheers, nice line to work with.

[guitarD92]

A book which really helped me in terms of Modulations and simple jazz licks and transcriptions is the book: "Joe pass on guitar" of course written by the master himself. You can pick it up for around 18 dollars + CD. Really great book.

[michaeljamsmith]

This book has been invaluable to me:

All Blues for Jazz Guitar by Jim Ferguson

[jtfles]

could anyone here link me to a good jazz e-book for the guitar?? ALL I WANNA DO IS PLAY WALKING JAZZ GUITAR!!

[michaeljamsmith]

Parker was the greatest improvisor in history. Everyone should own a copy of the Charlie Parker Omnibook.

[kleinball]

i have mine

[guitarman63mm]

Or perhaps, instead of wasting money on a book, you should buy his recordings, and figure out the devices he used by ear?

This lick doesn't sound a bit like Bird either. Maybe Charlie Christian in his early days with Benny.

[michaeljamsmith]

Uh, it may not "sound" like Bird. But this lick is note for note exactly what he play in the the first 3 bars of his solo on Billies Bounce. And there is not such thing as wasting money on a book. I learn by ear as well as anyone you know, but I still love a book that allows to see and analyze in a different manner than learning by ear. If you reject either approach, you are only half what you could be.

[guitarman63mm]

I have many books on theory, but I learn and analyze musical devices better by picking them out by ear. To each his own I suppose.

[Superdry1302]

it isnt! the first bit is right but the end is different

[Superdry1302]

your ears cant be that great dude coz its not note for note, he pussy out on the ending

[michaeljamsmith]

Good grief. Look up word obtuse.

[thefatha]

its also the combined notes from a tonic blues scale blues its relative minor blues scale...

[rasenganpimp]

wait he just said that

oops

[rasenganpimp]

this a charlie parker lick...

[PeterVadim]

I think he stated it was a charlie parker lick

[BattyCuss]

close enough for Jazz eh man! Yeah!

[jimmyjoemusic]

good lick, thanks.

[soad222]

Now's the Time ;D

transcribed and played it on Bass...

Very nice lick

[joseawesomo]

by any chance could you give me the bass version?

[juliouus]

Hi friends... so ¿its a bebop pattern or melodoc minor pattern? somebody tell me please :D

[DanSlime]

its e major with chromatics (bebop phrasing)

basically this:

5 1 9 b3 3 4 b5 5

and then this:

4 5 4 3 1 6 5 1

some of the notes are passing tones so they don't affect the e major tonality

Listen to the end of his vid again - he talks about what I just described

[laurentius88]

should be prohibited to teach licks like this. what about ears? With this kind of videos, tone deaf people can learn to play! LISTEN if you want to learn. Download a Charlie Parker song and play what you hear. If its hard, then try again. If you cannot at all and dont have the slightest idea - then give up music or create your own wierd songs.

[uniblob]

laurentius88 - Easy fella! Settle down. Different strokes for different folks. People learn in many different ways; myself, I am a very visual learner - watching someone take the time to carefully show a riff or technique is a huge benefit for me. It's ALL good. If it's not your bag, so be it. But, have you never seen a live performer and carefully WATCHED them perform, and learned something from it? Of course you have. I would never suggest ANYONE give up on music; never; it's ALL good.

[laurentius88]

Hmm yes I sounded too harsh. As long as we play music, its fine - of course we should play what and how we want!

You are also right about the visual learning thing, specially when it comes to chords that can be hard to pick out only by listening. Keep on boppin' folks! :-)

[theScytheofGod]

nice lick, & easy to learn.

[JimmyDeLocke]

great video. good camera work and sound.

Thanks for the lick. Love those Charlie Parker things. Every one of them is a lesson in itself.

Thanks.

[gotatele]

thank you for a very concise and clear way of showing this cool lick as a non jazz player it is easy to incorporate into country or blues or rockabilly easy to use anywhere on the fretboard, but i also find it easier to just use top 3 strings for the 4 chord instead of moving everything up 5 frets i do like that you name the strings and frets clearly and thoroughly and that makes it a snap thanks again

[dccnyc]

This particular lick also falls nicely on the fretboard if you play it on the top three strings in the "D chord" shape (on the 4th fret for E) instead of at the 9th fret. That way you avoid the barre fingering (one finger fretting two notes on two different strings), which I find can make for sloppy picking.

Cool lick, though.

[SAMCWSuPerMAN]

wow,man u rock... i love jazz a lot... it really calm.... thx 4 d vid....=D

[kissmypunkass332]

is it just me or does the neck of that

look longer than a usual tele?

[ochee08]

this lick is at the beginning of the birds solo on billies bounce right? Or at least it sounds really familiar.

[jaikwillis]

Sounds also like the brige from "Twisted", the famous Wardell Grey thing. Annie Ross put a lyric to this lick that says "they say as a child i apppeared a little bit wild (with all my crazy ideas)" for her vocalese

[rotren]

Thanks everyone for the feedback, I appreciate it.

[theflyingglove]

Thank you very much for the lesson, I'm hoping to pick up ways of getting chromatic licks into my playing.

How's your tele set up, are you using extra thick strings?

Very nice tone.

[rotren]

Thank you. I am using 09-42 strings and the action is medium. I like the tone too from this cheap Squier.

[trking8]

robert has consistently excellent lessons - - check out his homepage.

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[playlist3403]

love the lesson i really can only understand the slower type lesson... A+++++

[poland1230]

Hahaha 0:39

[martifingers]

Great lesson. You obviously have good ears and a real feel for the music as well as the technicalities.

[ghaws]

nice vid -- it's a bit like an overengineered japanese car, but excellent ideas nonetheless. Cheers!

[milesmanglos]

the part where you slide in the first chromatic note is called legato. is that the term you were looking for?

[Uazikoff5]

nerd.

[marioisabela]

envy.

[Uazikoff5]

sadness

[brown1983]

so jealous.

[pacisablo]

the way you teach is good for me. nice and slow and vesible to c what you are doing. keep it up. teachme something cool and jazzy. thanks pal. pacisablo

[lzapped]

good lesson! if you want check out my homepage for some free jazz guitar and theory lessons

[jasond115]

passing notes not a chromatic phrase. took me 30 minutes to make it sound like you though. excellent work.

[redscarf]

Im getting into jazz and this lesson was really good. Well explained and you took enough time to show every single step. Thanks!

[zalman595]

Thank you. An excellent, coherent lesson. Maybe the best I've seen on my travels here on Utube. Well done.

[stankylittleangus]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Pianobarragan]

Thanks! You are an excellent teacher!

[pezraro]

the "p" string...

[memojuez]

Thanks for the Jazz application of chromatic notes. I like to use chromatic notes as passing notes when improvising in the Pentatonic Scale to create an aural interest. It even interjects a hint of a little Blues flavouring.

[nightwatchman70]

well, the best blues playing is heavily rooted in jazz in the first place. Unless you're playing gutbucket style or vamping on a chord like John Lee Hooker or Muddy Waters, which is more about the aesthetic than the phrasing possibilities. The biggest difference is Jazz plays every note in the phrase, whereas Blues bends notes up and down to achieve a certain pitch. All in good fun either way.

[memojuez]

Thanks! That's some good info.

[emixolydian]

*The best jazz playing is heavily rooted in blues.

[rmw5991]

nope jazz was first.

the blues then rock now crappy metal with no feeling whatsever

[emixolydian]

Uhm....are you kidding?

Jazz is a mixture of blues and european harmony. The blues is based on African field hollers that slaves sung on. They then adapted that music to western instruments.

Go read some music history.

[rmw5991]

yes sir i'll get right on that!! i dont want to miss out on any of this excited information!!!

[bradley1107]

so you post misinformed information and then get sarcastic when someone tells you you're wrong? You're a moron dude

[marcus38447226]

your right... african slaves used the musical skills taught to them by the army during the american civil war and applied their own harmonies and concepts to classical instruments after the war ended. thats how jazz was "created", but no one really knows how or when blues was definitavley "created" so we cant really argue over which came first but who cares we all love blues and jazz so lets just enjoy the lick :)

[emixolydian]

No...

That is very incorrect.

[marcus38447226]

says who? your probably one of those jesus freaks who think god crapped it out of his ass along with everything else...

[emixolydian]

I'm actually not religious at all, but what does that have to do with anything?

[marcus38447226]

if i am so wrong about my origins of jazz, where do you suppose it came from?

i made the religious comment due to the fact that the only other people in this world who try and disprove other peoples statments without showing their own evidence are religious fanatics ("jesus freaks")

[emixolydian]

It's the fact that jazz didn't arguably start until the ~1920's, and blues is based on African music brought here by African slaves. That was during the mid to late 1800's. That, and that jazz is based on blues and classical harmony. How can Jazz be based on blues if it was the predecessor? It can't, and it isn't.

It's hard to officially document WHEN the blues originated, as there was no recording medium, but it's pretty much known it dates back to at least the 1870's.

[lycanthropydm]

well wrong again- jazz harmony is quartal ----classical harmony is diatonic. Thats a well known fact. anyone whos read about jazz harmony knows that. one of the first things you lean is the circle of fifths and fourths why? think about it....duhhhrrrrrrr

[emixolydian]

Uhm, you have no idea what you're talking about.

Quartal means stacked in 4ths, diatonic means contained within the scale. Neither of these have to do with harmony, aside from quartal implying specific chord types.

Circle of fifths is a tool to learn what keys are closely related, and how chords like to move. In both classical and jazz, chords like to move in 4ths, this is fact.

Jazz and classical harmony is tertian- stacked in thirds.

[lycanthropydm]

my comment about harmony was directed to emixolydian - great video none the less - this guys got some good stuff.

[robertYTB]

really nice - thank you for posting

[fr44ed]

This is great! The camera is positioned much better than most lesson videos where all you can see is the back of the players left hand.

I really appreciated the note by note instructions.Thank you.

On what to call the little slide up 1/2 tone.

The piano and sax players call it sluring a note. So I guess you could say slur the note.

A good example of piano slurring is Floyd Kramers "last date".

[Bryanz0077]

ty very much , awesome lesson , plz post more , your great.

[JazzGuitarist2007]

i could hear your firewood crackling away :)