Guitar World: Jimmy Herring - Mar 09

[markablanton]

HaHa Jimmy lowered his voice for the interview. He has a really high voice when i have heard him speak on stage.

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[markablanton]

HaHa Jimmy lowered his voice for the interview. He has a really high voice when i have heard him speak on stage.

[foxybrown2]

G13b9

[rshull07]

Just had a private clinic with Jimmy at Atlanta Institute of music, and he went over this song then played it. Such a talented musician.

[djeshoes]

ah, got it!

[eyeheartchrist]

It's called a Reversed Diminished! I thought I had the only teacher in the world that taught me that! :-D

[GLeD101]

@eyeheartchrist Half-whole diminished, which is often used by jazz players, especially over dominant chords.

[eyeheartchrist]

@GLeD101 oh ok....my teacher called it a Reversed Dim, but ya know, it's a great variation that fits with certain 7th chord progressions. :-)

[eyeheartchrist]

@GLeD101 nevermind what I said in the last part of the other comment....I was saying the exact same thing about dominant chords... :-P ha

[blackjackcannibal]

BAD.ASS.

[EthnHayabusa]

@murdzsuckit Some people don't do that well. Relax.

[smattermonnat]

Even Jimmy Herring can't teach how to play like Jimmy Herring- you have to be born w/ it...and he was.

[elkeism]

Great player but his analysis of the chords is faulty: the chord following Bb7+9 is a G7+9(with no root-like a 3rd inversion) the G# chord is C#7+9(5 in the bass) the next chord is both a E713th flat 9 AND a Bb7+9 (tritone substitution)so all are plus 9 chords.just my two cents.

[GLeD101]

@elkeism I agree that the second could be G7#9, it could also be Bdim maj7, just as the third chord is more likely to be seen as the E13#9 rather than the Bb because the E is in the bass. He's actually smart in calling it Bb/B because there are a number of possible interpretations and if he were to write G7#9/B or Bdim maj7 on a leadsheet, he may not get the sound he's looking for. If you write Bb/B you'll always get that sound regardless of how the player chooses to voice the chord.

[GLeD101]

@elkeism It's also useful to look at sounds as triads over bass because it opens new voicing possibilities. If you know that for a dominant sound in the key of C, you can play a Bb major triad assuming the bass player is playing something around G7, then you can use a lot of stuff around Bb that you may not otherwise consider playing over G7. There are tons of cool triad over bass sounds that you hear players use all the time.

[cinimod8791]

I LOVE Jimmy Herring!! I graduated from A.I.M. where he used to teach. As he grows older, and he grows older gracefully.....isn't starting to look a bit like Santa Clause??  Giving us the gift of his genious on the guitar!!! Yeah I think so... Love you Jimmy!!

[ibanezbloke]

That chord progresssion he plays is pretty similar to a Holdsworth tune called Funnels.... check it out!

[jkvasn]

is there a tab for this?

[spooner1957]

@jkvasn yes it's called guitar world march 09 issue

[SpreadheadSpearhead]

I like what i'm Herring.

[mpm1985]

@SpreadheadSpearhead lol

[lamboga89]

also sounds like what he plays with "love tractor." what a genius

[cm0220ster]

This guy's great. This scale and , say, the melodic minor are the next steps I think after learning your basic diatonic scales and pentatonic scales. Thirty years after I've started playing I'm just now seriously adding this stuff to my "toolbox". That scale works well over a minor or dominant seventh also, which is where I'f working on fitting it in, say over a seventh chord vamp or 12 bar blues. For those of you for whom this is new news , you're welcome.

[Toris93]

yeh man, ive been playing for 2,5 years and have always been a pentatonic and major scale freak, buying Jimmys album has got me learning diminshed and melodic minor scales...lovin it!

[Bluesguy92]

i saw him on monday when i saw widespread panic, and the allman brothers!!!!!

[nooneimportant12]

I'm seeing this guy at National Guitar Workshop, it's gonna be intense.

[turnagegp]

where is it at, this guy is amazing

[nooneimportant12]

Its in Purchase NY

[NJlo]

Dude. I'm writing a partly octatonic song as we speak! This will help for the solo though :)

[chasemashburn91]

This guy is awesome

[Moplu]

Theres an exact video of Holdsworth doing this:P

Kinda funny..

[PH688]

Sounds like the intro to "The Moor"

[peanutbuddha]

Those chords are ugh, so rad.

[johnnyjolijt]

You know....?

[chick158]

I love when he explains himself.

[henryparsons10]

If I could only figure out how to get from where I am, to where he is. Or at least get pointed in the right direction. Thats the goal!

[JacksonBradwell]

what song was that again, that "head" riff at the end is very familiar to me.

[jedepah]

"scapegoat blues" from his album lifeboat

[mcgunn4]

Nice work trigger hippy

[jedepah]

thank god because that progression was never gonna happen by ear lol

[unclejunglebass]

haha amen

[jeffsolis]

hahaha...maybe in Holdsworth's world?

[OrkisMusic]

THANKS MAN!