Play '40s and '50s Jump Style Guitar Blues

[dirtydonki]

If only I had enough time.

[mondocain]

One of my favorite guitar instructors on You Tube....Low key teaching style with high key results!

[IamAlastair]

@mondocain check out Marty Schwartz....my fave youtube teacher, he's really great

[xirextorcious]

The guitar is a Beautiful instrument!

[kinoboy94]

@xirextorcious Yes it is

[psycho4334]

i want lessons from him!

[manifestgtr]

I took a lab with this guy while I was there and he was great...amazing player and a class act

[superiff12]

Surely thats a casino, or the gibson equivelent? It has a trapeze tailpiece which indicates to me that its fully hollow bodied rather than having the semi solid construction of a 335, or am i missing something?

[clintmiller23]

@superiff12  Surely the name of the guitar is clearly written on the headstock...

[meathookmayhem]

Go Cat Go!!!

[Fatshead]

I'd say a it's a '58 or 9 es-335 with pafs. Looks dead mint, probably worth 25k. Mike is an awesome player, has the jump swing style down cold with great feel. If you're ever in Boston or the area, check him out with pianist Davis Maxwell or the Toni Lynn Washington band.

[luvkountry]

@Fatshead

I think the rectangular fret markers on the ES-335's came out around 1962..

[Emilhiggsmass9]

It is fun to play on my harmonica and hear this guitar at same time.

[staind420]

i wish it would show the cords on screen when he says them

[streetcornerjames]

this man is easy to understand & addresses things i'm interested in

[tsmith01220]

MIKE WILLIAMS!!!! My old Berklee instructor from my first semester.

Great player!

[Mr604bourne123]

how many times have you had a flat tire/never even thought about it/live and learn

[thomachan22]

which Gibson guitar is being played?

[BluesZep]

ES-335

[auburniscrucial10]

Muddy Waters and harpman Little Walter were king.

[thailow117]

to end the whole ska/upstroke discussion:

ska, for the largest part is binary in terms of rhythm, whereas jump blues is based on a ternary feel, upon which the shuffle fell is created.

the techniques utilized are similar if not same, ye the groove, the backbone, is entlirely different.

[dovermoreno]

Cool, man. Cool.

I'm hip ! I'm hip !

[Herefortheguitar]

sweet lesson

[zappr5]

Good, basic stuff. One other thing you forgot to mention is that about 90% of jump blues songs used a two/five progression instead of five/four.

[Rafo28579]

Excelent!, thank you!

[bassiehd]

When jump blues waned in the late 50s, Jamaican musicians developed their own version of the rhythm with a Caribbean lilt and British & Latin influences, that became known worldwide as ska. The British skinheads adopted later ska and rocksteady in the latter half of the 60s; The skinhead movement had a revival with the punk movement of the mid-to-late 70s when there was a bond between punk rock and reggae. The Specials didn't come around until the British 2-tone ska revival of the late 70s.

[ragingstorm33]

wow thats an awesome debate, i dont think they have it pinpoint i was reading in a guitar mag i don't remb what one, that is started for the most part at the same time and a bit i know it got big with the specials and such of the 60s, to be honest i just got the article and it keeps saying who cares if it came from British or Jamaica, its prob like the blues in that sense on it maby started in two places being very close to each other in sound. (because of this kind of playing of blues) skinhead

[icicular]

You all have it backwards. Reggae came from SKA. In the early 60s, Ska was first, influenced by Florida radio the Jamaicans heard, and put to their island rhythms. Then came Bluebeat, Rocksteady, and Reggae. Then came the dub and dancehall stuff. Listen to the Skatalites. Youll thank me later!

[DoctorNumber46]

didn't ska come in the 50s?

[UltraManX10017]

70's i beleieve

[EFXPedais]

ska started in Jamaica back in 50´s by influence of this style of jump blues

[billgretsch]

@DoctorNumber46

theres recordings of fats domino in the 40s using rythms we know as ska today theres on from the late 50s i found here on youtube called WHEN ITS RAINING blues,jazz,rock n roll etc they are all connected someway or another ,

i guess im lucky i happen to like all those styles

[snakeweirdo]

@icicular No, raggae did come before ska, just in other forms... Ska developed from raggae, then raggae changed through time to become what it is today.

[wesmatron]

@icicular Wow...well I never knew that. I assumed that Reggae would have been a modern adaptation of a folk music...I thought Ska is what white folks did to reggae. I learn something new every day.

[franklmac]

Here in Texas a lot of good guitar players use a turn around that involve three chords prior to ending up on the four to close the phrase. These chords are normally used on shuffle-type tunes.Randy Garibay from San Antonio passed away a few years ago. He had so many variations of this three chord progression that it was mind-boggling. It would fit in well with T-Bone tune you are doing. Boz Scaggs (from Texas) does it alot on "Running Blue". Can you show us how to do some of those?

[sativa333]

reggae definitely came from ska. not the other way around

[johanthepirate]

Whoa, ska did not originate from this style. It came from reggae, they just use similar technique.

[CaptainHowdy222]

Hold on thar, ska was around long before reggae. It's almost same as this, the off-beat chop, except in ska, it's not usually exactly halfway between beats, but just before each beat. Creates a kind of 'running' feeli to it. Blues, Soul, Jazz and Salsa were all influences.

[andrewt248]

Ska definitely cam from raggae. The major difference being that this style uses the swing feel and the blues chord progression.

[Inzo42]

Huh? so jump-style blues is where SKA came from!?!

[3rdShaman]

what gibson is that?

[Deadfreeeak]

ES 335

[zewbag]

I'm going to have to disagree with your detective work. I do believe it is an ES 335.

[YT28666]

70's ES-335TD. Block inlays on fingerboard and trapeze tailpiece.

[williestratton]

very helpful nice guitar too. This sorta playing almost reminds me of reggae or ska playing

[bigsby1972]

this guy is a great teacher . Most guys are soooo up themselves . he comes across so laid back and it makes you concentrate more on what you are doing .

[pliskinn0089]

man i would love so much to have you as my profesor

[babakazam2]

hi ,,,this is really cool...I need your help in something....I love to learn how to play on the giutar...and am trying for a quite long time...but the problim that I can't go to have some lessons for a family reasons....sand i can't learn how to play even from a book or online...coz I can't undrestan how to put my hands...so could you please give me an advice so I can learn fast...another thing..I don't know the name of the key too...sorry but I really want to learn

[listenhose]

If you listen to some of the old blues recordings, many of the players or singers would not always follow chord changes to a tee within the band, But it would work out as a whole really cool. I kind of like that as a listener. No perfection but still sounds great. For example guitar or singer on the V while the bass is on the IV at the same time. I have recordings of T-Bone playing the V and bass playing the IV at the same time.

[MyLittleRat]

dont missunderstand me here... I do respect all music styles, but i dont wanna call this music... The guitar is almost the same...

But like i said... i respect all music styles, cuz every musicstyle aint easy to make... even if it's blues or heavy metal.. good work and keep it up =)

[jassbo]

This guy knows how teach jump blues in an easy way. Congratulations and keep teaching jump blues.

[paulefty]

nice lesson, real bluesy!

this man really does have a "guitar guru" aura. maybe it's just me

[silkee59]

More common than the long 5 would be the 2/5

[sleepyeddiejames]

As far as I know, not common in the T-Bone Walker style, but definielty in the jump blues styles.

[sleepyeddiejames]

T-Bone would rarely do a V-IV turnaround. Quite often music from this genre of blues would play a long V.

[bluesdoor]

Yes he would hold the V this allows for more melodic choices in your leads to weave greatness. Chuck Berry also did this on most of his hits.

[davemcintyremusic]

awesome lesson

keep it going in all you do

Cheers

dave

[jipes]

Great lesson would be great to hear more about "palm muting" and ghost notes ;o) Thanks for all thoses nice tricks