Autumn Leaves jazz guitar with scale explanations

[kvnlmn]

I really like your improvisation, the idea is really fresh

[agun1004]

F#m7b5 - B7b9 - Em :-

[HumblePie76]

Feel so good like woman making good fuck love to whore but nice girl ha! Autumn Leaves best favorite standard ever so good fuck! ha!

[kengo121894]

this makes me feel alright

[aaa567ify]

Nice playing and tone is great.

[taroabarbanel]

@aaa567ify *the lack of tone is great ;)

[aaa567ify]

@taroabarbanel hhuuuhhhh??

[worldofstrings]

great guitar jazz man!!! exactly what are inversions and thirds??? u mean the third note of Gmajor ... what is inversions?? thanks!!!!

[paulb7]

Excellent. You are a great player!

[soulimp]

thank you and beattifull 

[Camilo2378]

I CANT FIND THE FUCKING TAB!!! PLEASE HELP!!

[xaerox41]

@Camilo2378 learn playing with notes;), there are enough

[jpalberthoward9]

I've been trying to figure this one out by ear for a long time, but I keep getting lost. My ear is fairly decent, but this one just throws me. Now, thanks to you, I believe I have a fighting chance with it. This tune has always been a favorite, and I'm dying to get it under my fingers. Thanks for the help, friend, and god bless. PS...You play beautifully and your tone is spot on, dead on the money!

[RollsRoy3]

Is your tone darkened? Just trying to get a better tone. Can you tell me about your amp and guitar?

[JulianManzara]

@RollsRoy3 its a pretty warm tone. common in jazz. roll back your guitars tone knob and raise the bass of your amp if it has a bass knob

[EthanBackToLifeMETAL]

what guitar are you using? Its got a great tone!

[VibrationsInTheAir]

Your phrasing is awesome. That e harmonic was very Wes :)

[pujolsnumber1]

Wow haha wish i knew what any of those scales were you should do a vid on that

[AllBluesCat]

Beautiful playing, i hear strong Wes Montgomery style in your playing. Ace stuff, man, thank you for sharing the scale changes, you're a true musician.

[SCACCOMATTO100]

nice one, thank you,trying playing my bass line over your guitar sounds nice,

[VinnieSutra]

Very nice. Very nice indeed.

[silkstrings9420]

love this video, i needed some new chords to play over autumn leaves and that B7b9 tickled me in a sweet spot.

[deadvirtuoso]

should be #Fm7b5

[diminishingseventh]

really helpful vid bro!

[jonah956]

So I have to ask. Who do you listen to and get licks from?

[claragary]

Hey man thanks a lot!! You make it sound so simple and easy but the truth is that it's not easy being melodic. You did a very tasty improvisation. Keep the vids coming. The negative comments are made from superstars that don't dare post their own version to show us how it sould be played. Play for us who don't think they know it all.

[Camilo2378]

please tell me where are the fucking tabs!

[SirCdogg]

@Camilo2378 says exactly where in the uploaders comments box.......

[redwashre]

It is an F#. The typo note pops up but maybe this was done after your comment. This is the best lesson for autumn leaves ive found and there are a slew of them. Simple and to the point. Perfect framework for later embellishment if you even choose to do that. Whats here is perfectly great to play live somewhere even if you play it note for note. Great job. Thanks for explaining its in Emin. Been thinking it was in Amaj since i recognized it as a must know for any jazz player. Very cool.

[redwashre]

It is an F#. The typo note pops up but maybe this was done after your comment. This is the best lesson for autumn leaves ive found and there are a slew of them. Simple and to the point. Perfect framework for later embellishment if you even choose to do that. Whats here is perfectly great to play live somewhere even if you play it note for note. Great job.

[PhantomfoxN4]

Man Screw you and your freezing slow ass videos.

Everyone of them freezes every 10 seconds.It's as irritating as a crowd of paranoid proud black people having an debate about the colour of Jesus with a crowd of bible banging white republican seniors.

(Watching off a 4 day old toshiba,intel i7)

[paulb7]

@PhantomfoxN4 Maybe you should return you laptop dude? Every video I watch is top speed and I use a 3 year old Toshiba!! This was a great video if you ever see it..

[PhantomfoxN4]

@paulb7 Perhaps.I got rid of my old compaq because my friend insisted this expensive paper-weight was better for work and school.This thing crashed the first week I had it.

[paulb7]

's@PhantomfoxN4 Yeah man return it if you haven't already...maybe it's just a fluke - I've had great luck with Toshiba so maybe give'm another try?

[PhantomfoxN4]

@paulb7 What about the toshiba qosmio? Supposed to be amazing.

[paulb7]

@PhantomfoxN4 I haven't heard of it but maybe worth a shot

[carlos13190]

really great

[yimmiytube]

too good

[gsracer123]

I'd recognize that drum loop from anywhere - from no where other than GarageBand! I love using that program too to create jazz loops to practice improvising on the piano. i love the simplicity of the program and how user friendly it is.

[dylstarocker]

i really dig the solo man, thats great stuff. 

[mclaudtt]

Nice to see such a smart and clean understanding of a melody structure.

[1OSWALDO1]

The right hand!

[MartyEisenstein1]

Great, great playing and teaching format!!!! It always blows me away how a good soloist/teacher plus youtube can explain things visually and acoustically in real time the way we humans (guitarists-musicians) are wired to "get it". You've helped me as a player and a teacher...Thanks

[Rickyyy001]

so generally when you solo, it's good to put bits and pieces of the melody in there to know where your at??? then kind of emblish from there? i'm really new to jazz imporv and it's one of the hardest things i've tried to tackle guitar wise. thanks Rick

[bassmaster947]

That backing you made shold be its own lesson

[tiiipod]

fucking brilliant

[moebious3334]

is the tab for this solo availablre on your site?

[Oeso012]

I think it's a F#m7b5 !!!!

[pulseof]

what does ( Am7 - D7 ) means ? we can choose to play one of this too notes ?

[pettah93]

@pulseof its the chords :)

[marcys1999]

@pulseof it the chord progresion

[b0b1919]

@pulseof The Am7-D7 is basically a II-V change in G. You can either split and choose to play over each chord individually or just use your mixolydian or D arpeggios over both. Basically the bar is split first two beats on an A minor and second two on a D7

[Mryairey]

Who's gonna b 1st w/ the "Player's Eye View Cam"? This would be best.

[softbluejazz]

Wow!

'Just Wow!

I've been studying and playing daily for six years. But I dream of understanding the theory and having the touch you have.

This is what I want to learn to do!

'Almost forgot. Is that an Ibanez Artcore hollow-body? If so, which one?

[gullywoots]

nice and informative

[steveleach9999]

Thank you very much - I have had a great time with this one!

[ottimistaduart]

fantastic!!!

[bruce68]

hello which track back do you use?

[Lachy101]

how you get that sweet jazz tone?

[marcelofabbriguitar]

Very Good!!!

[masteroftheobvious86]

Great phrasing, hope to emulate some of this

[Jazz5054]

I think this video is a cool..' I like it

Guitar jazz,slowly but sure...'

[ralphe01]

James i think you are great man! I like the tone and how clean every note sounds! God bless you bro! Thanks for sharing this!

[ralphe01]

James i think you are great man! I like the tone and how clean every note sounds! God bless you bro! Thanks for sharing this!

[poodythang]

Simply lovely! :-)

[mgmityu]

Hm, great, but I can't understand Fm7b5: this chord is out of the harmony. Does not?

[Luisrox123]

Is this backing track for sale? I would do anything to have it.

[lespaul702]

how do yo get your tone?

[TheReverb1]

Hello, its ok, but the problem with jazz in cases like this, is the "lost" of some flavours; I mean, one of the high points here, that is missed on most jazz improv is the D7 GM7 in bar 22, also the F#m7b5 in bar 17. Notes for notes is not the way to mastering music. Plus, those scales are great, but you dont need such technical aspect when you should need feeling and simplicity; for ex, F#m7b5 is like an Am with F#, think about the possibilities (easy ways)

[imsocool2]

this is super nifty. i enjoyed this a lot.

[diknoi64]

Do you have tablature ?

[Kryystoff]

this is excelent!

[FilizzolaBMX]

Loved it. Kept it simple and it sound awesome

[bodhidarma1]

A lot of people talk about theory aren't great at showing how to apply it. Thank you soooooo much.

[melonsoda24]

thank you!

[HotPinkJellybeanCo]

i love 1:33 to 1:45

Simple, but very catchy

[kiboy8a]

i know this song to i like this song

[nowstick]

0:40 is F# ,not F-7b5,,right ???

[b0b1919]

yeah, that should be F#-7b5

[WaTToN93]

in a minor?

[denukio]

that was nice, what guitar are you playing, sounds amaizing.

[daffaras]

@denukio i think gibson!

[iforgot120]

@denukio Epiphone Les Paul Custom.

[fleckdaniel]

Thank you so much for your videos. I have a learned a lot and tried to apply as much as I can on my playing. Please keep the videos coming, it's 5 stars.

[Bmac22390]

when there are two chords displayed does that mean that they're interchangeable?

[Gregorypeckory]

No-those are part of the progression-all 2-5's or minor 2-5's (usually expressed with roman numerals-as in "II-V"), leading to the "1". The exception is the G-maj to C-maj7, where G is moving you toward C, as it would be the V chord in the key of C. If you want to learn jazz, the very first place to start is learning to recognize and play the II-V progression. Just about all jazz standards are full of them-get a Realbook, and learn to spot them. There are only 12 possible II-V root movements.

[MrGman332]

Does that mean you are just combining the arpeggios of those two chords, and playing any of the notes within those two chords over that II-V, meaning your not playing over each chord but rather each II-V sequence?

[vaulterman24]

This just goes to show you that you don't need to be a fast guitarist to be a great guitarist.

[ozanshred]

which was my mindset for a long time.... however, youre "better" than others if your fast :)... but speed is not everything

[TheBrownTies]

1:48 love that

[paulzarlengo]

Very cool. Is there a website with notation/tabulature to look at? Tanks for the great vid. PZ

[philippino900]

I really like that, thanks... espacially your shirt :D

[LordKabob]

@guitarpicka1 i don't think its a gibson cuz i thought that the gibson truss cover only had two screw holes.

[Slaptomaniac]

Super! Sehr hilfreich. Vielen Dank und Grüße aus Saarbrücken

[gimpy154]

that was beautiful

[attilatapolczai]

That's pretty cool man! It helps me a lot in improvising. Thanks!

[Rg1527]

You didnt go to lessons from ariel hernandez did you? these sequences are what im doing at the moment :P

[matthewcross]

nice tone, nice lesson!

[juliancro]

the best jazz guitar sound i ever heard...great

[lokir]

It's nice... very laid back and chilled.

[guitarpicka1]

@juliancro...ain`t that the truth....must be a Gibson..!!

[fazanajaha]

sorry i cant feel d swing..wheres d 2 n 4 accent

[vampiroangelico]

Jamessir100, great lesson, and I LOVE how smoothly you switch between the minor harmonic scale to the blues scale within the same chord progression, but while following that progression I noticed that the one you call an Fm7b5 is actually an F#m7b5, which I found on my own, while trying to play your chord and it just didn't sound right, considering that the piece is in the key of Emin, which does not include the F note. Maybe it was a typo, you did there? That F on bass just does not belong. :-)

[JeffersonDinedAlone]

@vampiroangelico Or you could just plug in and wail.

[jeppejeppenej]

wrong. youre not only playing one scale. you are playing different scales. they just happen to have the same notes in it. explanations are necessary

[jeppejeppenej]

you dont play a gmaj scale over ex. a am chord. you play a dorian, which has the same notes as a gmaj scale. well it doesnt make it a gmaj scale. all the different diatonic scale has their own unique sound due to the way it is built. so you might say that you play the gmaj scale over the entire tune, but if you listen, you can hear that each time the chord changes, you have to play the notes in another way, in order to make it fit to the music. thats because youre playing a different scale

[thecoolerkeg]

if they are the same notes what do you mean by playing them in another way? do you mean starting the "next" scale on the note of the chord where the scale changes?

[jeppejeppenej]

if you a this Chord progrssion:

Am7 - Gmaj7

They contain the same notes:

G-A-B-C-D-E-F#.

On the Am7 chord, you want to focus on the chord notes: A-C-E-G and use the others as approaching notes mainly. In the Gmaj7 chord you want to emphasis on the G-B-D-F# tones. Therefore guitarists dont think of scales in note names. They will more likely think of it as steps. In a scale the primary steps will be: 1-3-5-7. And the notes that these steps consist of are different from each scale.

[saturdayssonmusic]

Best modal explanation ive seen, kudos!

[PoGGiE06]

Thanks, people like you make youtube a fantastic learning resource! getting some time with the guitar on holiday this week :)

[SIRONEDRAGON]

great lesson !!

[SIRONEDRAGON]

You did a great on this lesson.. Thanks !!! : )

[treasuremen]

where did you get the backingtrack??

[jamessir100]

I recorded the backingtrack myself. It is always good to practise basslines and comping before you start improvising because it helps you to memorize chord progressions. One or two choruses are enough, then you can loop them.

[oregonskateok]

Any tips for starting jazz guitar? I'm confused as to what I should learn first, I am assuming you dont just dive into improvisation.

[blondiebabae]

You sure can. You might stumble a bit with it at first, but jazz is about having fun and creating a great vibe so start with what speaks to you. A lot of people tackle small aspects of it all at once because learning how to "comp" will help how you improvise and everything is truly interconnected.

While you work on leads and melodies, look into the 2-5-1 chord progression, and check out this guy's other video on Autumn Leaves. Look up Block Chords, Drop 2 voicings, chord melody, and have fun

[oregonskateok]

Thanks.

[blondiebabae]

No problem! It's like building a house... you don't focus on the bathrooms before you start on the bedrooms and the living areas... you build up the foundation and put up parts of the whole house at once. =D

One more thing to add to the above... make sure you are getting out there and playing with other people. bedroom jamming and backing tracks only go so far. We all know people who can burn up every scale, but can't make music with another human to save their life... Have fun!

[oregonskateok]

I'm starting with walking bass lines and comping. Im growing fond of fingerstyle as opposed to using a pick, it feels more comfortable, especially when strings are muted.

[tonyhater1]

Is there any way you could send me the back round music? I really want to practice improvising to this. :)

[mrmichael20]

@treasuremen hey, just go on youtube.com and type autumn leaves backing track or something like it and it'll give you lots of them, different ones

[bluejazzcat]

Thanks a lot for your help. This is really helpful for us jazz guitar beginners (I play drums actually). Take care. Keep up the good work (and good will). C

[baldheadedjohn]

really good idea! explaining how you look at improvising through this progession! This is going to open a shit load of doors in my playing through standard jazz chord changes. alot of minor pentatonic, sounds like pat metheny a little.

[liamjanin]

awesome cheers

[nyaradyszabolcs]

I think there is a typo on the changes: should be F#m7b5

[svidrigajlov]

true!

[localpm]

This is really really good-Lovely tone 2 just like Wes!

[Blues251]

Thank your putting that together. I'm sure it will be helpful for my future studies.