I am very happy to have found your lessons... pretty good to fill in some gaps I feel trying to build on stuff by Joe Pass, Joe Beck, John Stowell, and some Belgian jazz guys.
Hey jazz guitarist living in singapore here. Yeah u r right to put emphasis on chromaticism, since it has to be played with confidence by the guitarist who masters already scales and arpeggios ( which takes a LOT of time already ). Good luck in your you tube teaching and keep up w the good work.
Yo if you have students who are learning death metal improv, you should DEFINITELY go over the augmented+diminished scales and any other scales with that ominous feeling. i had to find out about them on the internet but they became central to all my music. a lot of jazz scales are perfect for death metal, really
Geoff, thanks, really useful stuff here! I'll have to watch it couple times though before I get all the details. By the way, your 'umms' give me some time to digest what you are saying and your Japanese guitar is just like mine, you are one of us and not those snobs! Keep posting!
Wait, you're a guitarist in Kalamazoo and your playing a Japanese guitar and not a Gibson? O.K. maybe you're angry Gibson moved to Nashville, that I respect. But you should be playing a Heritage!!
Hey Geoff - thanks for posting these lessons I have seen a few and will work through them all - really good. I appreciate your time and effort in doing this!
Hi Geoff - great lessons - I just registered on youtube and subscribed to you page after watching a couple of your lessons.
I've been trying to get some chromaticism into my blues and jazz blues lines and now I see a way forward for practicing with those enclosures. More please......specially any tips on jazzing up my blues lines and for injecting jazz feel into my 12bars.
Thanks for making these lessons - they are so helpful
Hey Jeff, don't let all the haters and (know-it-all-but-done-nothing-people) out there get you down.. yer an astounding player and exceptionally knowledgable teacher ( NOW GET YOUR DAMN BOOK PUBLISHED ) send folks to the johnny walker jam band site to see you in action, you've got some great live stuff in the recordings we did. :) yer friend Chris H... PS what if our playing had no umms and pauses in our phrasing.. Hmmmm...
was recommended your stuff by my mate jamie - good taste as always on his part ! have only had a quick look at a couple of your vids - I think I will find them VERY useful, and thank you very much for posting all this stuff. great playing man.
@MoveOnDotOrgg I appreciate your advise but I'm not gonna take it! Jazz isn't scripted. So why script a video about jazz? Why script period. Ums and pauses come with the territory of real life speech and interaction. It lets you know some one's truly thinking about what they're saying and how they're saying it. I know I'm guilty of a LOT of ums and pauses but it doesn't make me want to phony the whole thing up. I live by the jazz philosophy, I guess. Thanks, though.
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@geoffstockton; well, a person who can't take constructive criticism is destined to fail - waste your own time, not your students...ummm, ah, er, ummmmmmmmm, oh yeah, where....(burp), ummm.
@MoveOnDotOrgg My lessons all have five stars. I have hundreds of subscribers with zero promotional effort and I have comment boards on every video filled with people telling me how helpful these videos have been, for them. It's hard for me to see that as failure. I actually take constructive criticism pretty well...when it's not bullshit. Scripted lessons are fake lessons.
@geoffstockton I like your style...I agree 100% on the real life speach aproach. It takes absolutely nothing away from your lessons which I find very helpful.
@geoffstockton awesome video and instantly makes one sound jazzier. as for the scripting point - scripting takes time, time is money, we only have so much time to make free youtube videos. keep the info coming
@MoveOnDotOrgg your a douche. plain and simple. that isnt constructive criticism, its an internet lackey who hides behind his keyboard, watches youtube, googles every term used by a musician, and thinks hes high and mighty enough to critique someones attempt to spread his knowledge and experience with others. something im sure your not capable of doing.
@4glasstears: "douche" is spelled "douche". As for hiding behind my keyboard? How is what I'm doing different from what you are doing, hmmm? And yes, I can critique - are you afraid of getting your feelings hurt? Boo hoo.
I really appreciate people like you who are able to share their knowledge and take the time to do it like you.
What I can't understand is the moronic comments from some people makes you want to slap them on the side of the head but you know their hairnet might fall into the deep frier (you know what I mean)
Oh yes--Actually if we go over and view some of Joe Pass' videos on ytube we notice his method of explaining is very unpolished..he pauses alot ,even forgets the names of chords etc and yet i dare anyone on here to call JP a waste of time! (LOL)..i , personally, think it adds to the authenticity & sincerity of the instructor.
A highly polished teacher would make me feel tense..as it did when i learnt classical guitar.
i just wanted to say this has to be the best explanation of jazz material i have ever seen. i've watched all your lessons.i have a jazz combo class right now and looking over all the material and practicing based on the extra knowledge you have told us it is so much more clearer now. i have a mind in this topic already, but still what you say really couldn't be said any better. i didn't know you lived in kalamazoo too,i lived for a year back in 09. keep posting, & fyi your a great teacher
Thank you for that kind words. I haven't posted in months but I've been planning on it recently. I had to go off on another learning binge. I'm learning a bunch of Charlie Parker tunes and solos, which is something I should have done, long ago. It's great to see people really getting something out of the lessons. Thanks again!
This is a great lesson! practicing simple diatonic and chromatic patterns like that on any chord/scale has to be the best way to start practicing jazz guitar in my opinion.
Great tips. Thanks!
Recycled 3 weeks ago
Gold.... Many thanks for this.
stratfanatic 3 weeks ago
writing a book?? - i wanna write a book !!!
PuckettFamily 2 months ago
Geoff--you are a great teacher--please keep posting.
rbcampbell 2 months ago
thres only 1 dislike propably from that faggot @MoveOnDotOrg.
skaterocker666 5 months ago
I am very happy to have found your lessons... pretty good to fill in some gaps I feel trying to build on stuff by Joe Pass, Joe Beck, John Stowell, and some Belgian jazz guys.
z1reticuli 5 months ago
Hey jazz guitarist living in singapore here. Yeah u r right to put emphasis on chromaticism, since it has to be played with confidence by the guitarist who masters already scales and arpeggios ( which takes a LOT of time already ). Good luck in your you tube teaching and keep up w the good work.
JMOLIVES 10 months ago
Yo if you have students who are learning death metal improv, you should DEFINITELY go over the augmented+diminished scales and any other scales with that ominous feeling. i had to find out about them on the internet but they became central to all my music. a lot of jazz scales are perfect for death metal, really
TheVampireSteve 11 months ago
Sh*t! -he's letting out all the secrets.
Great lesson. I had to learn all this the hard way. Wish I came across this video a few years ago.
iloverumi 1 year ago
thanks
the lesson I needed at that very moment
karpopper 1 year ago
Geoff, thanks, really useful stuff here! I'll have to watch it couple times though before I get all the details. By the way, your 'umms' give me some time to digest what you are saying and your Japanese guitar is just like mine, you are one of us and not those snobs! Keep posting!
VinniePaah 1 year ago
Wait, you're a guitarist in Kalamazoo and your playing a Japanese guitar and not a Gibson? O.K. maybe you're angry Gibson moved to Nashville, that I respect. But you should be playing a Heritage!!
If I had it my way, you'd be hung for treason!!!
tomthefunky 1 year ago
your guitar has brilliant tone
Kaitano94 1 year ago
Joe Pass does that sequence all the time.
lhurien 1 year ago
@lhurien well not any more actually. but he did
lhurien 1 year ago
Hey Geoff - thanks for posting these lessons I have seen a few and will work through them all - really good. I appreciate your time and effort in doing this!
all the best
John
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consumer3 1 year ago
Hi Geoff - great lessons - I just registered on youtube and subscribed to you page after watching a couple of your lessons.
I've been trying to get some chromaticism into my blues and jazz blues lines and now I see a way forward for practicing with those enclosures. More please......specially any tips on jazzing up my blues lines and for injecting jazz feel into my 12bars.
Thanks for making these lessons - they are so helpful
Cheers, Pete
Picolydian 1 year ago
Hey Jeff, don't let all the haters and (know-it-all-but-done-nothing-people) out there get you down.. yer an astounding player and exceptionally knowledgable teacher ( NOW GET YOUR DAMN BOOK PUBLISHED ) send folks to the johnny walker jam band site to see you in action, you've got some great live stuff in the recordings we did. :) yer friend Chris H... PS what if our playing had no umms and pauses in our phrasing.. Hmmmm...
cwhanna 1 year ago
your lessons are great man, GREAT! 5 stars thanks a lot
TheBrownTies 1 year ago 3
@TheBrownTies And thank you! The encouragement truly means a lot. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
geoffstockton 1 year ago
was recommended your stuff by my mate jamie - good taste as always on his part ! have only had a quick look at a couple of your vids - I think I will find them VERY useful, and thank you very much for posting all this stuff. great playing man.
echo680 1 year ago
@echo680 Thank you, I'm glad this helps.
geoffstockton 1 year ago
Lol, i knew you were gonna say "that sounds like *Turkish March*"
Sarchiopode 1 year ago
@Sarchiopode hahaha yeah! exactly :D
mLiebzeit 1 year ago
Really good lesson, just started getting into jazz and this is really helpful on phrasing and how to add that jazz style to it. :) *subscription*
cheeseaxeman 1 year ago
This was really helpful! Very clear instruction. Thanks so much for sharing what you know.
123jesse123 1 year ago
Love your approach. Looking forward to supporting your book.
Rricdiculos 1 year ago
This video is great!!!
davtones 1 year ago
Great videos Geoff. Im located in Dearborn, Michigan. Know of any good Jazz Guitar Teachers in the Metro Detroit area??
R33v3 2 years ago
Geoff, try scripting your video shoots - that way less ummm's and pauses...good stuff!
MoveOnDotOrgg 2 years ago
@MoveOnDotOrgg I appreciate your advise but I'm not gonna take it! Jazz isn't scripted. So why script a video about jazz? Why script period. Ums and pauses come with the territory of real life speech and interaction. It lets you know some one's truly thinking about what they're saying and how they're saying it. I know I'm guilty of a LOT of ums and pauses but it doesn't make me want to phony the whole thing up. I live by the jazz philosophy, I guess. Thanks, though.
geoffstockton 1 year ago 13
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@geoffstockton; well, a person who can't take constructive criticism is destined to fail - waste your own time, not your students...ummm, ah, er, ummmmmmmmm, oh yeah, where....(burp), ummm.
MoveOnDotOrgg 1 year ago
@MoveOnDotOrgg My lessons all have five stars. I have hundreds of subscribers with zero promotional effort and I have comment boards on every video filled with people telling me how helpful these videos have been, for them. It's hard for me to see that as failure. I actually take constructive criticism pretty well...when it's not bullshit. Scripted lessons are fake lessons.
geoffstockton 1 year ago 12
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Man, the lessons are just great! Cheers for the effort in creating and putting them up Geoff..
mrchuntsbread 1 year ago
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Man, the lessons are just great! Cheers for the effort in creating and putting them up Geoff..
mrchuntsbread 1 year ago
@geoffstockton I like your style...I agree 100% on the real life speach aproach. It takes absolutely nothing away from your lessons which I find very helpful.
sparkyjoeslim 1 year ago
@geoffstockton awesome video and instantly makes one sound jazzier. as for the scripting point - scripting takes time, time is money, we only have so much time to make free youtube videos. keep the info coming
scraggo 11 months ago
@MoveOnDotOrgg your a douche. plain and simple. that isnt constructive criticism, its an internet lackey who hides behind his keyboard, watches youtube, googles every term used by a musician, and thinks hes high and mighty enough to critique someones attempt to spread his knowledge and experience with others. something im sure your not capable of doing.
4glasstears 1 year ago
@4glasstears: "douche" is spelled "douche". As for hiding behind my keyboard? How is what I'm doing different from what you are doing, hmmm? And yes, I can critique - are you afraid of getting your feelings hurt? Boo hoo.
MoveOnDotOrgg 1 year ago
@geoffstockton well said dude. this makes me smile. i love jazz
mLiebzeit 1 year ago
@geoffstockton
Man, the lessons are just great! Cheers for the effort in creating and putting them up Geoff..
mrchuntsbread 1 year ago
@geoffstockton
I really appreciate people like you who are able to share their knowledge and take the time to do it like you.
What I can't understand is the moronic comments from some people makes you want to slap them on the side of the head but you know their hairnet might fall into the deep frier (you know what I mean)
Keep up the great work
2010Jorg 1 year ago
@geoffstockton
Oh yes--Actually if we go over and view some of Joe Pass' videos on ytube we notice his method of explaining is very unpolished..he pauses alot ,even forgets the names of chords etc and yet i dare anyone on here to call JP a waste of time! (LOL)..i , personally, think it adds to the authenticity & sincerity of the instructor.
A highly polished teacher would make me feel tense..as it did when i learnt classical guitar.
taildragger53 1 week ago
Great lesson very valuable information keep em comming all the best
jazzboxpete58 2 years ago
wow, nice lesson!
TheJPfanboy 2 years ago
geoff,
i just wanted to say this has to be the best explanation of jazz material i have ever seen. i've watched all your lessons.i have a jazz combo class right now and looking over all the material and practicing based on the extra knowledge you have told us it is so much more clearer now. i have a mind in this topic already, but still what you say really couldn't be said any better. i didn't know you lived in kalamazoo too,i lived for a year back in 09. keep posting, & fyi your a great teacher
itsrosshurst 2 years ago
Thank you for that kind words. I haven't posted in months but I've been planning on it recently. I had to go off on another learning binge. I'm learning a bunch of Charlie Parker tunes and solos, which is something I should have done, long ago. It's great to see people really getting something out of the lessons. Thanks again!
geoffstockton 2 years ago
a very valuable lesson! thanx!
mifski 2 years ago
You've earned a subscription!
BlikeNave 2 years ago 7
yeah, I immediately thought of Rondo alla turca as well, heh. Very useful patterns
junka22 2 years ago 2
This is a great lesson! practicing simple diatonic and chromatic patterns like that on any chord/scale has to be the best way to start practicing jazz guitar in my opinion.
petebulles 2 years ago 4
Thanks for the kind words. I know that these kinds of patterns really helped me to instill some good musical instincts when I was getting into it.
geoffstockton 2 years ago