Emily Remler - Bebop and Swing Guitar Part 2

[dpapaioannow]

she dead

[OrangeCountyCarl]

See how far tabs get you in the real world of professional music. Better stay in your bedroom with your Blink 182 tabs.

[ledzeppelin4485]

@OrangeCountyCarl tabs have their place. can't show phrasing with a staff. can't show timing with tabs.can help ear training too. good to be able to read both. and that blink comment, come on man grow up. don't have to lash out like that.

[OrangeCountyCarl]

@ledzeppelin4485 1) You most DEFINITELY can show phrasing on a staff. And they are called PHRASING MARKS...also known as slurs. Steve Vai who transposed a TON of Frank Zappa's music wrote (in standard notation) every imaginable type of phrasing that was on the albums. There is NOTHING that can't be shown on a staff including open notes and string numbers. 2) Anybody that listens to Blink 182 is in junior high school and is the one needing to grow up musically.

[IamAsi94]

reading tabs is basically the same thing as reading music. its actually alot more convenient for any guitarist.

[LimboShrimp]

This is the first I've seen/heard her. She's hilarious; I like her attitude.

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@whiteej21: "IF you want to learn Jazz you BETTER learn to sight read, or people will hate you." Dependents on what style of jazz you want to play. There are many all-time greats who didn't read notation or read it poorly, such as Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Wes Montgomery, and Erroll Garner. Small group combos often rely eclusively on memorization of the tunes. Heck, I've been in combos where if you try to use written music, they'll throw you out! The top cats expect you to know the tunes.

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@whiteej21: "the ease of tab, can lead to gross undertraining of the ear." I am fortunate to know one of the best jazz guitarists in the world, Henry Johnson, and he in turn knows guys like George Benson, Lou Donaldson, etc. Henry says that all of the greats learned jazz by ear, not from fake books or audiovisual materials and tabs.

Many all-time greats didn't sight-read music or read it poorly, i.e Erroll Garner, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, and others.

[patrickwinslow]

Yep, she was high. I was around too many dopeheads in the 80's and could tell when they did stupid things like come into work "high" Some people just can't deal with the pressures life puts on them; or that they put upon themselves. A lot of them never seek help, but from their next "fix"

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@patrickwinslow: Suit yourself, but Emily shouldn't be remembered for her unfortunate substance abuse problems, but for the beauty her musical talent brought to the world. I only wish she'd gotten help, because she was a rare talent on jazz guitar. All the big names in the music said so, i.e., Herb Ellis, Joe Pass, etc.

[cdevers100]

Emily Remler is and was a legend. Her style and grace is interwoven with her being.....

[uninoculated]

great video

[teovenbar]

Yeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh EMILY YOU SWING GREAT, NOW I UNDERSTAND WHAT SWINGING IS....?????? metronome is the way

[fieldfullofthistles]

I havent seen a teacher emphasise this too much. Its usually about the notes, the harmonies the chords but without the swing nothing works. Great tutorial. Robben Ford has a great book on rhythm guitar which is well worth checking out.

[burnindownthehouse]

This is a very good lesson. You can tell she really had a talent for teaching music.

[BEARARMZ]

how did people do it before the metronome??

[TheGravygun]

@BEARARMZ Tap your foot?

[BEARARMZ]

@TheGravygun yeah thats what i do

[martinaxman]

What a heartbreak we lost her. I actually learned a lot form this tiny lesson. Always felt the swing, and finally I understand a LOT more about it.Timing has always puzzled me. Upbeats, downbeats, 1/4 4/4 all that stuff. Never got it. I think I have a handle on it now, and it's easy. I'm probably going to find a metronome now! Damn she's good.

[Joshfromrancho]

to know a woman with such knowledge would make me pitch a tent.

[vajranurse]

she is so high!

[DjangoVanGogh]

I told the guitarist in my band what Emily said. I said he should try moving a part of his body rhythmically and emphasise the downstrokes while beating off.

To cut along story short, I found out that he also has a serious left foot and he wasn't afraid to let it swing. I was lucky he didn't give me a full neck revolution.

[nickbright6]

@DjangoVanGogh appreciated bro haha

[igessthsisgrwnup]

@DjangoVanGogh

lol while beating off

[rodri55555]

that metronome is awesome

[DjangoVanGogh]

@rodri55555

Yeah, mine makes a nasty electronic beep. Would much prefer a musical sounding click.

[Guitarwizard]

Every time she plays something, it sounds like a classic jazz album that i have to have. Too good.

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@Guitarwizard: A guitar teacher of mine years ago knew Emily at Berklee, and hipped me to her playing. She was a giant of jazz guitar, and was highly-respected for her artistry. If you have not already done so, look up her anthologies and albums on the Concord Label. Her retrospective entitled "Standards" is extremely well-done, as are her early albums from the 1980s.

[Guitarwizard]

@GeorgiaBoy1961 Thanks Georgiaboy, i will look up her anthologies for sure!

[anfiorsceal]

To all young jazz guitarists, the advice given by Ms. Remler here is INCREDIBLY valuable to your musical development. It will take you years to realise these concepts otherwise. Her demise is a tragedy to contemporary Jazz.

[viniguitarjazz]

vey good ! thanks !5*****stars

[stewrules]

I normally get annoyed at women guitarists, but she was bloody hot and talented.

[zamplify]

metronome on 2 and 4!

[gabri3l367]

Gran bella lezione. Il ritmo nella testa. OK !!!!!

[dabigsimp]

obviously just had a big blast of smack

[GaryNull]

playing with metronome = bullshit

[Hitamaru]

@GaryNull Metronome is the greatest thing ever made...

[emixolydian]

@GaryNull whys that?

[fridrikur]

Thank you for letting me know about this wonderful teacher and guitarplayer that was unknown to me before watching this a while back. She was only 32 when she died. Life is cruel.

[mqblues]

She seems high in this video. Loved her soloing style and bluesy approach. her time was short.

[chooseyourblues]

@mqblues

God love her man. She is clearly on horse in this video. Too many Jazz greats lost their life to the brown shit. Gentle souls, often misguided.

[geetarust]

@chooseyourblues how did she die,from heroin?

[chooseyourblues]

@geetarust

I believe it was heart failure as a result of years of addition to heroin, yes.

[AirHoth]

@chooseyourblues

Yea, I thought I would die from years of addition also. But then I went to high school.

rofl

[AirHoth]

@geetarust

I wonder if she can play that with her shirt off. What do you think bro?

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@chooseyourblues: Man, what a shame she sucumbed to the needle. An old friend of mine knew her, and said she was despondant just before her suicide, about her family's disapproval of her career and her lifestyle, and also a failed love affair (some say with fellow jazz guitar great Larry Coryell)... In any case, I wish she'd gotten the help she needed.... she was such a wonderful and unique talent, and seemed like a sweet person. This world needs people like her; we can't afford to lose them.

[chooseyourblues]

@GeorgiaBoy1961

Man it's a shame all right. Any video footage I see of her she always looks like she's about to Nod off. Amazing player. The only cat I ever heard that could play like Wes.

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@chooseyourblues: Emily said in one of her videos or maybe an interview, that she looks like a nice Jewish girl from the suburbs, but underneath, she is really a black man with a big thumb; the Wes reference is obvious. She spent a period trying her utmost to cop Wes' style, which is very tough (I did the same woodshedding, and no one has ever really done it completely accurately), but eventually she found her own thing and went with it. I miss her.

[chooseyourblues]

@GeorgiaBoy1961

Yea there is a great quote in Adrian Ingram's book about Wes Montgomery (i highly recommend) were Emily said she wanted to be Wes so much at Berklee that she totally disregarded all other music and players. She said at times she actually felt she was channeling the spirit of Wes. Scary stuff. She seemed to be totally devoted to him and his style. I love Wes myself but his playing is so beyond me I have never tried to transcribe any of his licks other than the head of four on six

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@chooseyourblues: I have Adrian ingram's book, which is well-done. There's a book called "Thinking in Jazz," which quotes players at length talking about their development, and Emily is one of them. She discusses her Wes obsession and makes what I consider a very insightful remark when she comments that a few bars of Wes' playing was so hip and musical, you could work on it for months, and still not exhaust all its possibilities. If you transcribe his stuff, as I have, you know this is true.

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@chooseyourblues: I urge you to study Wes' music if you want to learn more about how to play jazz the way the masters did it. And I don't just mean note for note, but how he developed his ideas thematically, how he varied songs, feels, tempo, and the musical devices he used, such as octaves, chords, and single-note riffs. Wes could play the most complex stuff in jazz, and make it sound so effortless and appealing than anyone could do it. That man was a genius, without question.

[zebopper]

love love love Emily

[gregoryusa1]

Fabulous lesson. It works for any instrument. Wished I'd have had this when I began. Thx Emily!

[local802blues]

She was a great guitarist & teacher

[mjazzguitar]

That method of counting 2 & 4 first and then adding 1 & 3 is pretty cool.

[confoozled3737]

@shizbie93 Addiction results from a lack of self-control. One has to consume a drug regularly to develop an addiction. Allowing oneself to become addicted to a drug is a lapse in judgement caused by the desire for pleasure overcoming reason.

[thejazzman8]

@confoozled3737 drugs must be used to dissolve pain, not create pleasure...those circumstances create precedence to legalize medical drugs....like weed

[confoozled3737]

@thejazzman8 You're exactly right.

[SIRONEDRAGON]

cool

[TheBrownTies]

i'm getting into jazz. i play jazz guitar. how i got my feel was being a fan of bob marleys music for years.. great feel in that music.

[confoozled3737]

@Dancer4640 Drugs only destroy your life if you let them. We have a hard time blaming the early deaths of our role models on them themselves, but when it comes to drugs, it's all judgment and self-control. Look at Miles Davis's life as an example of someone who was able to keep himself under control. It's sad that some great others, including Emily, succumbed to damage from their addictions. It's a terrible tragedy, but you can't blame the gun for the consequence of using it.

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@confoozled3737: Confoozled, just my opinion, but it isn't very kind to speak ill of the deceased. Emily undpubtedly used poor judgment, but she is far from the only person who has done so. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, etc. etc. I have experience as a clinician and researcher into psychological illnesses, including drug use, and it is a terrible struggle overcoming addiction. Unfortunately, not everyone comes out the other side alive. BTW, Miles was also addicted to heroin.

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

"It's sad that some great others, including Emily, succumbed to damage from their addictions. It's a terrible tragedy, but you can't blame the gun for the consequence of using it." Why talk about blame at all? Can't we appreciate the life and work of this talented artist without recriminations about drugs? It is a medical fact that certain people are genetically predisposed to become addicted to narcotics, and perhaps Emily fell within this group. She isn't the only one, sadly.

[zappr5]

Metronome on two and four = Genius. You can vastly improve your sense of time as you apply this and listen to Emily's words every day.

[CarlaGreenMusic]

ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyymmmmmmmmmmm­mmmmeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn­

[LordGothmog]

I like the little thing she does at 2:25.

[G7flat5]

Great musician.

[joycemitchell4me1]

INVALUABLE! THAT'S IT!

[jdef11]

NIce Job all of us cannot read music and would like tabs. Are they available for summertime?

[guitarcolossus]

@jdef11 There are some great books on learning how to read. It's not as hard as you think and it's a great return on your time investment. Go for it!

[jovior67]

Does anyone knows which kind of guitar is she using? thank for an answer! joe

[jovior67]

Does anyone known which guitar is she playing whith? thanks joe

[edudzzaj]

Borys B120 according to wikipedia

[jovior67]

Thank you edudzzaj...that is very kind of you...

[guitarmagnus]

I think thats a Boris guitar...

[jovior67]

Thank you guitarmagnus...very much...

[Krakmann7]

Use your ears, for Vince's sake.

[andrewr62]

Very very cool. Tabs are not clear. Are they available?

[Hoopermazing]

Fuck tabs. Learn how to read music.

[victor038]

tablaturas o partituras

[JHAKEJHERA]

she starts on the space? cool...

[loren1283]

Most important lesson in all jazz guitar.

[caneloni34]

where I can find a woman like she?

[RebornGuitarLearner]

Get into a music college my man. ;)

[ricdeed]

@caneloni34 - in Heaven

[thejazzman8]

@caneloni34 talk to grant krener about that, st louis jazz guitarist, married a st louis jazz guitarist....lucky bastard...

[wangdasan]

@caneloni34

Where? . . . in heaven.

[kakakio]

@caneloni34 Sheryl Bailey. I had a private lesson from her at Berklee. She's amazing like Emily.

[MetalicBluz]

i love emily remler!!!!

[Tezman82]

Thanx for the post. I found this almost by accident, and in two days have learned so much.

[buddyblues82]

Thanks so much much posting this..This has really helped..

[djangoramsey]

hi !! damn you play amazing!!

never eeen before! bravissimo!

[Modes9]

It feels so "black"! You have to love it when the time is really locked in. I'd rather hear her play quarter notes and eighth notes than hear Yngwie play sextuplets and thirty seconds.

[smoovegittar]

She started on one

[JHAKEJHERA]

from wat beat did she start???

1 or 2???

[fryBASS]

She starts on the 1.

[seventhson]

EVERYONE. I am lame. Subscribe to lzapped's videos. He's got both Emily Remler's Hot Licks videos uploaded in their entirety.

[bmc31190]

@seventhson new york

[ladiezroom]

R.I.P., Emily

[jose044]

she explained very well

[Nonemoreone]

What a Cool chick ! Really like her laid back approach.

[yacx24]

Emily was a great guitarist and a great teacher... I saw her live in 1985. Her life was to short... keep swingin' in heaven, Emily!

[theboyhaines1974]

I never heard anyone explain swing groove so well. The girls got soul. Thanks for sharing her!

[SydToKKKTTT]

what chords does she use?

[theriffer]

gotta be the single most important advice a gutiar teacher can give.

[coolboylulu]

very nice guitar lesson for blues feeling!

thank you!

and, she's really beautiful!!!

[willfranks2003]

I didn't know getty lee played guitar.

[ahchouch]

i have never heard of her but i find that she is a great guitarist player, Fantastic guitar lesson videos! how can i find it ? Thanx dude to upload it (;

[nickdrake1984]

Than you so much for uploading this, i have never heard of her before. After seeing this i ordered her to DVD´s(re-issued 08´) "Bebop and Swing guitar" and "Advanced jazz and Latin improvisation" Fantastic instruction videos! Thanx seventhson:-)