Gorgeous man! I guess it's because I don't play sax but seeing/hearing it on guitar made it a lot more transparent. I could really see the approach notes and stuff that really make it a truly musical solo and not just playing scales over the changes.
@11jupitercowboy8 I totally agree, I envy that about sax players though, transparency isn't always a good thing... For example, you guys and girls can do the sheets of sound thing and it'll sound awesome, whereas it's so much harder on guitar to make it sound cool because you can hear every note so clearly :-/ Quite often I wish I was a horn player!
@lukeliang1989 I guess you can try to master the sweep-picking thing but that is an undertaking. I've never done much of it myself, though I find that I do downward sweeps from string to string naturally while playing scalar patterns. For some reason I can't do it very well while moving up a string.
That's some nice playing! You play well in time with Trane, and it was refreshing to hear the chord melody variation on the theme. I'd like to inquire about how you learned the solo. Did you learn it by ear, or from a transcription?
@AmundLauritzen Hey thanks for listening! I learnt it both from a transcription and by ear, if that makes sense... It started out as a transposition exercise because I had a Bb transcription of it, and I listened to the track at the same time to correct any errors in the transcription (there were a few) and to listen to and emulate his phrasing.
@guitalfredo Hey thanks for listening! I got it from the 'John Coltrane - Giant Steps' book in the Hal Leonard Artist Transcriptions series. It's in Bb and has a few mistakes but most of it's pretty accurate :)
Of course it makes sense to study players solos. I know I always listen to musicians I admire on any instrument and think "Wow, I want to play that!" And how do you do this? By learning their solos of course, and then you can play similar phrases in your own improvising. It doesn't feel like your imitating, it feels good when you can play the way you've always wanted to.
Nice work dude! I transcribed the Moments Notice solo a couple years ago and it's definetely helped my bebop chops. You're doing exactly what a great improviser does which is figuring out how other people are improvising. Improvisation is actually dependent on patterns. Melodies are even dependent on patterns too. Not sure what that one d-bag is talking about.
I transcribed the same solo on Alto, I don't get the hate going on. this song is a rush to play along with. Beautiful tone, incidentally, could listen to those chords all day
@harbor0913 I'm working on some of his other stuff now! This one's actually from a transcription book from Hal Leonard but for me it's a lot more enjoyable and educational to transcribe it myself rather than reading it...
The people who have negatively commented on your work are obviously not musicians. Even as you pointed out, the great ones also transcribed their work. I enjoyed listening to you play, good job and keep on keepin' on!
i love the 'notorious' in description ;D at first i thought it's weird to describe a tune like that, but... well... you're absolutely right about that :)
@AMK361Fanatiker Hey! The guitar in the video is an Eastman T185MX, I can't remember what strings I was using but right now I use Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Bebop strings (13s) on this particular guitar. I record using Ableton Live and for this video I just plugged straight in to an M-Audio Box, but nowadays I plug into an amp and mic the amp up close with a dynamic mic and a bit further away with a condenser mic to get a nice sound, check out my cover of 'Human Nature' to see what I mean.
@VashPlayer77 Show me one great jazz player who never practiced any patterns, or transcribed and learnt a solo, and I'll stop playing music... Especially on a tune like this, only through studying other players' approach have I (and many others) gained the facility to improvise even half-decent solos over these changes up tempo.
@lukeliang1989 Mr Liang, seeing your passion and skill I really see no need for you to response to such a negative and negating comment. You appearance as a musician stands by far above. You are inspiring for me!
@lukeliang1989 --...I totally agree! Learning from the masters or a musician who is well versed with their instrument is a useful tool. These 'boodlebags' wanna hate on you. *BLANK* them!! Let's see them come out and try what you've done.Playing this song(the sax solo) has always been one of the barometers for graduating to the expert level.
Well, I'm not sure, so if I'm mistaken, please don't hate, but I think Wes Montgomery didn't have any musical education of any kind. Some say he couldn't read music, so I doubt he transcribed it. Then again, he could've transcribed it onto tabs or something, but what I'm trying to say is, that Wes was one of the jazz greats, and he didn't have all the music theory knowledge other musicians have
@richiman007 I totally agree, I've also heard that he had very little theoretical knowledge. But though he may not have transcribed in the literal sense of 'writing it down', he often quoted other great players' phrases, so he must have listened to and learnt those phrases along the way rather than by pure coincidence. For me, I normally figure out a solo by ear, then figure out how to play it on guitar, then as a last step write it down just in case I forget it! To each their own, I say :)
@VashPlayer77 That's the dumbest thing I've read in a long time. I suppose it's true if you want your improvisation to be a disjointed, directionless, mess. Every great musician learned by copying. Every single one. Nobody operates in a vacuum, they copy & assimilate the copied phrases/patterns into new ideas. If you think that people improvise by simply pulling music out of their asses then you just don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
..... wtf.... why are these pple so stubborn.. this is the most painfully obvious sarcasm i've ever read and had this been read by other sane people they all would have laughed with you =/ no but srsly wtf....
@VashPlayer77 well stfu? obviously you are not talented at any instrument otherwise you would realize that it is necessary to listen to other players and learn from what they do. and the video clearly states that its a transcription so you must be some fucking retard
@VashPlayer77 You obviously don't or never have played at all. Yet you consider yourself some sort of critic. Get a life LOSER! It's been said before, but there isn't a jazz, rock or blues player alive who hasn't learned by copying from a master. Musicians are like sponges, they absorb everything they've ever heard during their lifetime. You ought to know at least something about music before you make a stupid remark, therefore letting everyone know how truly ignorant you are.
damn. transcribing shit like that must help your soloing a ton. too bad we didn't get to hear any of your own improv on this, cuz you could probably tear it up
when you repeat the head using chords are you using drop 2 voicings? they sound beautiful. could you give me a few tips on how to learn that part real quick? thanks man this is lovely!
@metalhead326 Thanks! There were probably a few Drop-2 voicings, but I basically chose voicings which outlined the melody in the top voice. For example, the first few chords using almost all Drop-2 voicings could be played: Bmaj7 [x-x-13-15-12-14] D7 [x-x-10-11-10-10] Gmaj7 [x-10-12-11-12-x] Bb13 [x-11-12-12-x-x] Ebmaj7 [x-10-12-8-11-x] Am9(Cmaj7) [x-10-10-9-12-x] D9(F#m7b5) [x-9-10-9-10-x]. So learn the melody and find corresponding chords with the melody note as the top voice! Does that help?
I actually bought one of these guitars partially because of this video. Except mine came with different pickups, chrome hardware, and really really nice flame maple binding on everything. I ended up putting Seymour Duncan Seth Lovers in mine and it gets a great tone. Anything from Joe Pass to Adam Rogers. If you're thinkin about swapin yours try them out. The stock pickups in mine were too hot for jazz. I'm savin them for an SG though.
That is awesome playing. So fast and smooth. really nice. Is that an Eastman 185 ? Do you like it? I'm considering one and they are hard to find locally. What do you think of the neck profile? Weight of the guitar? including any extra neck weighting? Thanks you much. Great playing!
@dwmcmill I sight transposed the solo from a Bb transcription, so it's neither in tab nor in concert key... If you still want it let me know, otherwise there's probably a C version floating around on the net!
@dwmcmill There's a transcription of it in the Jan 2001 issue of Guitar One magazine. It has a nice article in the beginning giving a good breakdown of the song too.
Hi sound really good im trying to learn the song to but i have a problem with the chords . can you tell me which chords you play at 0:19 Bmaj7- D7 - Gmaj7 - Bb7 Ebmaj7 ??? but you play them different would be nice i you explained hat your doing.
@JixxJixx I'm playing each chord in a way that has the melody note as the highest note! These are vaguely the voicings I played (I don't remember exactly what I did but it'll give you an idea)... Bmaj7: x-x-13-13-14-14 (B6/9) | D7: x-x-10-11-12-10 (D13) | Gmaj7: x-x-5-7-7-7 (Gmaj7) | Bb7: 6-x-6-7-8-x (Bb13) | Ebmaj7: x-6-8-7-8-6 (Ebmaj7) | etc. So what I would do is learn the melody, then find a voicing for each chord underneath each melody note.
@upT3mpo Thanks a lot! It definitely helps your own improvising... In the easier part of the tune, you get a lot of good ii-V-I lines you can use over any ii-V-I. It's also very helpful when you're improvising this tune itself. What's most interesting is using these harmonic ideas as substitutions. E.g. Over Dm7 | G7 | Cmaj7 | Cmaj7, try outling Dm7 Eb7 | Abmaj7 B7 | Emaj7 G7 | Cmaj7. For a good example, check out his tune 'Countdown' which is a reharmonisation of 'How High the Moon' I think...
@diederikeggenkamp Ah of course! I was thinking of his other tune 'Satellite', based on 'How High the Moon'... Thanks for telling me, I would've kept telling people otherwise :-p
And I never even thought about the link between the names until now!
@lukeliang1989 No problem man! I thought you would've haha! Yeah they often use those plays of words when rewriting a tune. You are an epic player man! Do you have a video of you improvising over these changes?.. Just a little remark though, I think it would be awesome to incorporate string bends in those quick glissando like "gracenote-thingies" he uses! Ya know, to put emphasis on the target note ;-)! It seems to've been banned form the jazzguitar vocabulary :-( ! "thanks" to bebop strangely..
@uberlaxer21210 I've got a book of transcriptions of Coltrane's solos from the Giant Steps album in Bb, and I use it to practice sight-transposing into C, as well as trying to find good ways to transfer sax lines onto the guitar. I'm really into transcribing in general, so I've got a manuscript book full of my illegible scribblings of other solos, but having the book is a good time-saver!
That's exactly right, one can play the 1235 of a particular chord as it passes. E.g. over Bmaj7 D7 Gmaj7, one might play: B-C#-D#-F# D-E-F#-A G-A-B-D. However, playing a pattern consecutively like that could sound contrived.
Instead he mixes different patterns up; take the first two bars of his solo for example. Over Bmaj7 D7 Gmaj7 Bb7 he plays F#-D#-B (531), D-E-F#-A (1235), G-D-B-G (8531), C-Ab-G-F (9765). Here, the 1235 (over D7) is thrown in amongst other patterns.
impressive! as another gtr plyr who loves coltrane and tries to play more like a sax, i love it! working on this tune myself endlessly. very inspiring, great stuff! back to the woodshed for me :-)
Gorgeous man! I guess it's because I don't play sax but seeing/hearing it on guitar made it a lot more transparent. I could really see the approach notes and stuff that really make it a truly musical solo and not just playing scales over the changes.
11jupitercowboy8 1 month ago
@11jupitercowboy8 I totally agree, I envy that about sax players though, transparency isn't always a good thing... For example, you guys and girls can do the sheets of sound thing and it'll sound awesome, whereas it's so much harder on guitar to make it sound cool because you can hear every note so clearly :-/ Quite often I wish I was a horn player!
lukeliang1989 1 month ago
@lukeliang1989 I guess you can try to master the sweep-picking thing but that is an undertaking. I've never done much of it myself, though I find that I do downward sweeps from string to string naturally while playing scalar patterns. For some reason I can't do it very well while moving up a string.
11jupitercowboy8 1 month ago
lol this vid is why i subscribed but you haven't made anything like it since.....
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@benbmusic88 don't worry there's another coming very soon... hooray for uni holidays!
lukeliang1989 1 month ago
@lukeliang1989 Sweet!! That is extremely exciting news, can't wait!!!
benbmusic88 1 month ago
impressive man, I hope I could play like that someday
kvnlmn 1 month ago
That was good.
Telephoneinstyrofoam 1 month ago
That's some nice playing! You play well in time with Trane, and it was refreshing to hear the chord melody variation on the theme. I'd like to inquire about how you learned the solo. Did you learn it by ear, or from a transcription?
AmundLauritzen 2 months ago
@AmundLauritzen Hey thanks for listening! I learnt it both from a transcription and by ear, if that makes sense... It started out as a transposition exercise because I had a Bb transcription of it, and I listened to the track at the same time to correct any errors in the transcription (there were a few) and to listen to and emulate his phrasing.
lukeliang1989 1 month ago
Wow that is crazy.
BlikeNave 2 months ago
cara essa musica e muito legal gosto muito desse jazz
tiago85416 3 months ago
Great!!
where did you get the transcription or tab??
guitalfredo 3 months ago
@guitalfredo Hey thanks for listening! I got it from the 'John Coltrane - Giant Steps' book in the Hal Leonard Artist Transcriptions series. It's in Bb and has a few mistakes but most of it's pretty accurate :)
lukeliang1989 1 month ago
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HermerTV 3 months ago
That was epic. Keep it up!
Panufo 4 months ago
You rock
EB0322 4 months ago
nice tone
sonicshori 4 months ago
man nooo man...
DELIONCUB 4 months ago
nice technique man !
murdechoc 5 months ago
wow wow wow !!!it's incredible!!!amazing,bravo!!!!
nordine98 5 months ago
That was Sexy
Lifesblood1 5 months ago
Of course it makes sense to study players solos. I know I always listen to musicians I admire on any instrument and think "Wow, I want to play that!" And how do you do this? By learning their solos of course, and then you can play similar phrases in your own improvising. It doesn't feel like your imitating, it feels good when you can play the way you've always wanted to.
EmphaticItalic 5 months ago 3
Holy shit man, incredible.
ComfortablyNumbed 5 months ago
Absolutely incredible!!! Do you do a lot of jazz gigs? if not you should!!
benbmusic88 5 months ago
speechless.
JazzBluesClassical42 6 months ago
Nice work dude! I transcribed the Moments Notice solo a couple years ago and it's definetely helped my bebop chops. You're doing exactly what a great improviser does which is figuring out how other people are improvising. Improvisation is actually dependent on patterns. Melodies are even dependent on patterns too. Not sure what that one d-bag is talking about.
OnSugarHill 6 months ago
cool
McIntiz 6 months ago
GOod job man keep practicing
wakanabeotai 6 months ago
That's some hard work!!
It sounds nice on guitar!
Good job man!!
1952TeleDude 7 months ago
I transcribed the same solo on Alto, I don't get the hate going on. this song is a rush to play along with. Beautiful tone, incidentally, could listen to those chords all day
gregtron111 7 months ago
Bad ass! Good going, man!
rillloudmother 7 months ago
Way to go man! To be on the other side of Giant Steps is huge. Don't worry about what anybody says-just stay down in it.
2skyland 7 months ago
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harbor0913 9 months ago
WOW!!! Awesome transcription :D have you transcribed some of coltranes other works? anyways, this is awesome!!
harbor0913 9 months ago
@harbor0913 would love to get a copy of the transcription. could you send me a link? Thnx!
MrJlabonte 8 months ago
@MrJlabonte Hey mate, I don't have an electronic copy of the transcription but I'm sure you'd be able to find it somewhere on the net
lukeliang1989 1 month ago
@harbor0913 I'm working on some of his other stuff now! This one's actually from a transcription book from Hal Leonard but for me it's a lot more enjoyable and educational to transcribe it myself rather than reading it...
lukeliang1989 1 month ago
damnnn......nice!
8goong 9 months ago
GREAT job getting this down!
AmundLauritzen 9 months ago
The people who have negatively commented on your work are obviously not musicians. Even as you pointed out, the great ones also transcribed their work. I enjoyed listening to you play, good job and keep on keepin' on!
dedwardsfusion 9 months ago
i love the 'notorious' in description ;D at first i thought it's weird to describe a tune like that, but... well... you're absolutely right about that :)
aleksandersucharski 10 months ago
yes
alonsivanmusic 10 months ago
AWESOME!
SoulFoYoAzz 10 months ago
awesome:)
thegenius92 11 months ago
BOLO???? I thought Bruce Lee killed you. jk man, dont listen to these guys, it takes effort to learn sax licks on guitar.
francisco444 11 months ago
nice!
can you tell me which equiqument (guitar, strings, amp...) you used and how you recorded your playing?
AMK361Fanatiker 11 months ago
@AMK361Fanatiker Hey! The guitar in the video is an Eastman T185MX, I can't remember what strings I was using but right now I use Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Bebop strings (13s) on this particular guitar. I record using Ableton Live and for this video I just plugged straight in to an M-Audio Box, but nowadays I plug into an amp and mic the amp up close with a dynamic mic and a bit further away with a condenser mic to get a nice sound, check out my cover of 'Human Nature' to see what I mean.
lukeliang1989 1 month ago
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VashPlayer77 11 months ago
@VashPlayer77 Show me one great jazz player who never practiced any patterns, or transcribed and learnt a solo, and I'll stop playing music... Especially on a tune like this, only through studying other players' approach have I (and many others) gained the facility to improvise even half-decent solos over these changes up tempo.
lukeliang1989 11 months ago 39
@lukeliang1989 Mr Liang, seeing your passion and skill I really see no need for you to response to such a negative and negating comment. You appearance as a musician stands by far above. You are inspiring for me!
ConstantinRupf 10 months ago 2
@lukeliang1989 even coltrane transcribed his solo
reykjavikc 10 months ago
@lukeliang1989 --...I totally agree! Learning from the masters or a musician who is well versed with their instrument is a useful tool. These 'boodlebags' wanna hate on you. *BLANK* them!! Let's see them come out and try what you've done.Playing this song(the sax solo) has always been one of the barometers for graduating to the expert level.
63weezer 6 months ago
@lukeliang1989
ha ha, john scofield had transcribed only 2 or 3 solos in his life :P but he isn't human at all :)
quorthon66 4 months ago
@lukeliang1989
Well, I'm not sure, so if I'm mistaken, please don't hate, but I think Wes Montgomery didn't have any musical education of any kind. Some say he couldn't read music, so I doubt he transcribed it. Then again, he could've transcribed it onto tabs or something, but what I'm trying to say is, that Wes was one of the jazz greats, and he didn't have all the music theory knowledge other musicians have
richiman007 2 months ago
@richiman007 I totally agree, I've also heard that he had very little theoretical knowledge. But though he may not have transcribed in the literal sense of 'writing it down', he often quoted other great players' phrases, so he must have listened to and learnt those phrases along the way rather than by pure coincidence. For me, I normally figure out a solo by ear, then figure out how to play it on guitar, then as a last step write it down just in case I forget it! To each their own, I say :)
lukeliang1989 1 month ago
@VashPlayer77 sigh, you must not be a musician.
janaloh 11 months ago
@VashPlayer77 its still good to learn you idiot. fuccin picking up shit from better plays aint a crime. you're fucking stupid
djbot 10 months ago
@VashPlayer77 That's the dumbest thing I've read in a long time. I suppose it's true if you want your improvisation to be a disjointed, directionless, mess. Every great musician learned by copying. Every single one. Nobody operates in a vacuum, they copy & assimilate the copied phrases/patterns into new ideas. If you think that people improvise by simply pulling music out of their asses then you just don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
MrIkesimba 8 months ago
@VashPlayer77
..... wtf.... why are these pple so stubborn.. this is the most painfully obvious sarcasm i've ever read and had this been read by other sane people they all would have laughed with you =/ no but srsly wtf....
ragglefraggle09 8 months ago
@VashPlayer77 well stfu? obviously you are not talented at any instrument otherwise you would realize that it is necessary to listen to other players and learn from what they do. and the video clearly states that its a transcription so you must be some fucking retard
djbot 6 months ago
@VashPlayer77 You obviously don't or never have played at all. Yet you consider yourself some sort of critic. Get a life LOSER! It's been said before, but there isn't a jazz, rock or blues player alive who hasn't learned by copying from a master. Musicians are like sponges, they absorb everything they've ever heard during their lifetime. You ought to know at least something about music before you make a stupid remark, therefore letting everyone know how truly ignorant you are.
jimmied01 6 months ago
yeh love it
ooglebydoogleby 1 year ago
great!!!
ddeeennniiisss 1 year ago
Excellence~! Nice guitar too looks like candy apple red finish.
GameLevelEditor 1 year ago
wow
genanigaurav 1 year ago
Wow. That's all I have to say.
ZeppelinRules 1 year ago
very impressive. would love to see you play the entire solo if you get to that point.
skiadikt 1 year ago
great tones great playin great talent... hope for me to play like u one day ;)
honored to meet you
thanks for share
francesco
FrancescoBonfanti77 1 year ago
awesome job im learning this one right now
thenamesfrancisco 1 year ago
damn. transcribing shit like that must help your soloing a ton. too bad we didn't get to hear any of your own improv on this, cuz you could probably tear it up
denali637 1 year ago
Incredible!!! Love it....
jakubsimkovsky 1 year ago
when you repeat the head using chords are you using drop 2 voicings? they sound beautiful. could you give me a few tips on how to learn that part real quick? thanks man this is lovely!
metalhead326 1 year ago 5
@metalhead326 Thanks! There were probably a few Drop-2 voicings, but I basically chose voicings which outlined the melody in the top voice. For example, the first few chords using almost all Drop-2 voicings could be played: Bmaj7 [x-x-13-15-12-14] D7 [x-x-10-11-10-10] Gmaj7 [x-10-12-11-12-x] Bb13 [x-11-12-12-x-x] Ebmaj7 [x-10-12-8-11-x] Am9(Cmaj7) [x-10-10-9-12-x] D9(F#m7b5) [x-9-10-9-10-x]. So learn the melody and find corresponding chords with the melody note as the top voice! Does that help?
lukeliang1989 1 year ago 8
@lukeliang1989 quite! thank you do much!
metalhead326 1 year ago
Very few guitarists can play this solo along with John's! Great Job!
jazz1bro 1 year ago
very very nice
SIRONEDRAGON 1 year ago
I actually bought one of these guitars partially because of this video. Except mine came with different pickups, chrome hardware, and really really nice flame maple binding on everything. I ended up putting Seymour Duncan Seth Lovers in mine and it gets a great tone. Anything from Joe Pass to Adam Rogers. If you're thinkin about swapin yours try them out. The stock pickups in mine were too hot for jazz. I'm savin them for an SG though.
Nice playing btw.
peterjmelton 1 year ago
Yeah, man! Great chops.
JazzJams251 1 year ago
Dude, great tone and awesome skills... I'd like to see you improvise tho ;-)
lauriedepaurie 1 year ago
I never noticed that this was descending major thirds. It makes more sense now why he chose the chords that he did.
PrivateBuckwheat 1 year ago
upload the rest of it :)
penialol 1 year ago
Do you know where i can get that magazine from with the transcribtion in it? Is it in tab form?
dwmcmill 1 year ago
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dude, bend.
johnnybgood12345 1 year ago
@johnnybgood12345 why
emixolydian 1 year ago 10
@johnnybgood12345 Are you retarded
kuni45 1 year ago
that's insane! ....nice
lhurien 1 year ago
cookin! good tone!
skunkin53 1 year ago
ur freakkin great :D i play jazz too
musickk810 1 year ago
Most Excellent Luke!
AllknowingGuitarGuru 1 year ago
niceeee
Kaitano94 1 year ago
Where did you pick up that Eastman? I've been looking everywhere for the T185MX model but to no avail.
potatoXmosher 1 year ago
You...flippin'....rock. My jaw is on the floor as I type. Keep it up man!
greg2588 1 year ago
That
is a beautiful guitar.
Wow, who made that for you?
Also, great playing... transcribing Trane is never easy!
HendrixcommaMartin 1 year ago
This is absolutely incredible. Wow!!
hylas99 1 year ago
That is awesome playing. So fast and smooth. really nice. Is that an Eastman 185 ? Do you like it? I'm considering one and they are hard to find locally. What do you think of the neck profile? Weight of the guitar? including any extra neck weighting? Thanks you much. Great playing!
maybeck 1 year ago
Can you send me the transcribtion? Is it in tab?
dwmcmill 1 year ago
@dwmcmill I sight transposed the solo from a Bb transcription, so it's neither in tab nor in concert key... If you still want it let me know, otherwise there's probably a C version floating around on the net!
lukeliang1989 1 year ago
@dwmcmill There's a transcription of it in the Jan 2001 issue of Guitar One magazine. It has a nice article in the beginning giving a good breakdown of the song too.
guitarczar15 1 year ago
@dwmcmill just write coltrane giant steps transcription on google and its the first thing that appears. In C version
JACSjazz 1 year ago
cool.
evanfrmheaven 1 year ago
yeah man you own. Very well done.
christophergradwohl 1 year ago
is this a example for coltranes 135 variations?
tanvo93 1 year ago
insane.
thapatient 1 year ago
Great work Luke! Look forward to the rest of this Coltrane classic :)
Pedjazz 1 year ago
Really great playing!!! Why did you cut it off at that point? I would have liked to have heard the rest of it!
schoolavechy 1 year ago
@schoolavechy Thanks a lot! I hadn't properly learn the rest of it, I'll get to it one day...
lukeliang1989 1 year ago
Great sound & playing! lovely:)
merelvh 1 year ago
very good !!!!!! perfect !!!!!
Lipegrelo 1 year ago
That was awesome I'm getting my eastman like that in a couple of weeks can't wait :)
mrrperson 1 year ago
Hi Luke, great playing. Your guitar tone is very nice too. The translucent wine finish is beautiful .. What guitar and amp were you using?
AfonsoGuitar 1 year ago
@AfonsoGuitar Thanks a lot, it's an Eastman T185MX and I just plugged the guitar straight into my computer using Ableton...
lukeliang1989 1 year ago
Hi sound really good im trying to learn the song to but i have a problem with the chords . can you tell me which chords you play at 0:19 Bmaj7- D7 - Gmaj7 - Bb7 Ebmaj7 ??? but you play them different would be nice i you explained hat your doing.
JixxJixx 1 year ago
@JixxJixx I'm playing each chord in a way that has the melody note as the highest note! These are vaguely the voicings I played (I don't remember exactly what I did but it'll give you an idea)... Bmaj7: x-x-13-13-14-14 (B6/9) | D7: x-x-10-11-12-10 (D13) | Gmaj7: x-x-5-7-7-7 (Gmaj7) | Bb7: 6-x-6-7-8-x (Bb13) | Ebmaj7: x-6-8-7-8-6 (Ebmaj7) | etc. So what I would do is learn the melody, then find a voicing for each chord underneath each melody note.
lukeliang1989 1 year ago
good job dude! sounds great!
mattycron 1 year ago
Holy Fuckin Shit!!! Damn Booooooyyyyyy .... that's a monster.
Tweekerhead 1 year ago
Damn! Thats impressive dude! And beautiful guitar too.
Do you find that learning these lines helps your own improvising or is it just mainly a recall test for songs like this? Cheers!
upT3mpo 1 year ago
@upT3mpo Thanks a lot! It definitely helps your own improvising... In the easier part of the tune, you get a lot of good ii-V-I lines you can use over any ii-V-I. It's also very helpful when you're improvising this tune itself. What's most interesting is using these harmonic ideas as substitutions. E.g. Over Dm7 | G7 | Cmaj7 | Cmaj7, try outling Dm7 Eb7 | Abmaj7 B7 | Emaj7 G7 | Cmaj7. For a good example, check out his tune 'Countdown' which is a reharmonisation of 'How High the Moon' I think...
lukeliang1989 1 year ago
@lukeliang1989 it's actually a reharm. of tune up! Hence the name :p
diederikeggenkamp 1 year ago
@diederikeggenkamp Ah of course! I was thinking of his other tune 'Satellite', based on 'How High the Moon'... Thanks for telling me, I would've kept telling people otherwise :-p
And I never even thought about the link between the names until now!
lukeliang1989 1 year ago
@lukeliang1989 No problem man! I thought you would've haha! Yeah they often use those plays of words when rewriting a tune. You are an epic player man! Do you have a video of you improvising over these changes?.. Just a little remark though, I think it would be awesome to incorporate string bends in those quick glissando like "gracenote-thingies" he uses! Ya know, to put emphasis on the target note ;-)! It seems to've been banned form the jazzguitar vocabulary :-( ! "thanks" to bebop strangely..
diederikeggenkamp 1 year ago
where did you get the music for the solo? or did you do it by ear? if so bravo
uberlaxer21210 1 year ago
@uberlaxer21210 I've got a book of transcriptions of Coltrane's solos from the Giant Steps album in Bb, and I use it to practice sight-transposing into C, as well as trying to find good ways to transfer sax lines onto the guitar. I'm really into transcribing in general, so I've got a manuscript book full of my illegible scribblings of other solos, but having the book is a good time-saver!
lukeliang1989 1 year ago
this is amazing man!!! there sure is a lot of work there. can you explain the 1-2-3-5 pattern? does he do that according to each chord?
pamirs94 1 year ago
@pamirs94 Thanks a lot!
That's exactly right, one can play the 1235 of a particular chord as it passes. E.g. over Bmaj7 D7 Gmaj7, one might play: B-C#-D#-F# D-E-F#-A G-A-B-D. However, playing a pattern consecutively like that could sound contrived.
Instead he mixes different patterns up; take the first two bars of his solo for example. Over Bmaj7 D7 Gmaj7 Bb7 he plays F#-D#-B (531), D-E-F#-A (1235), G-D-B-G (8531), C-Ab-G-F (9765). Here, the 1235 (over D7) is thrown in amongst other patterns.
lukeliang1989 1 year ago 2
@lukeliang1989 thanks for your info and time man! i'm waiting for some more videos from you. youre very inspiring!!!
pamirs94 1 year ago
Excellent!!
TailsKuros 2 years ago
you just inspired me to learn the solo! wow you are awesome!
nickkellie 2 years ago
Fantastic playing.
mraggrovator 2 years ago
Holy Shit! That makes me want to kill myself and never play another note!
Wamz1978 2 years ago
YYYEEEEEAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!
DashKirb 2 years ago
that is just brilliant!
JazzLOCO 2 years ago
sick dude, we should jam soon
aleex123 2 years ago
Just amazing!!
UttaraMimamsa 2 years ago
impressive! as another gtr plyr who loves coltrane and tries to play more like a sax, i love it! working on this tune myself endlessly. very inspiring, great stuff! back to the woodshed for me :-)
kirkrapport 2 years ago
Very nice playing!
pudicio 2 years ago
wow, I play tenorsax, but this looks more difficult to me hehe
Maaarten84 2 years ago