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  • is it the lick 3 is not the same betwen u play first and u teach ? is it?

  • Beautiful. Nice amp your playing through along with the pick ups. Great lesson.

  • Beautiful guitar!

  • Great licks. Thanks for this!

  • nice lesson...

  • Thanks for the lesson 

  • thnx for ur lesson ..i have learned much...Godbless

  • so awesome :)

  • To hate blues but love jazz is retarded - Music snobbery me thinks

  • @masterofscotland the jazz came from blues.. its not very normal to hate what it gave the thing you love. just saying :D

  • @masterofscotland im assuming you are a fan of plain/gregorian chant then?

    

  • Thanks. enjoyed this one.

  • Dang I can solo for days now!

  • Good lesson.. ! And nice play you :)

    Im am polish , im play a guitar :) Look to my canal i have got film :)

  • @gibson1952 Super 400.

  • god i hate blues. Jazz is just awesome.

  • @TheBeatlesCom jmm men i love music and blues is awesome 2 u just need to apreciete i love jazz and blues than another ..

  • @chiniack Blues is to simple. 12 bars blues and pentatonic scale over and over..Boring. Jazz is Awesome forming licks to a jazz progression Cmaj7 Dm7 Am7 to G7 Using C Ionion then using D Dorian then Am pentatonic to G Mixolyidan and forming different aspects of the modes to form a bebop sound is just my style of music.

  • tnx, helped me a lot! :D 2 thubs up!

  • I don't want to have a big strange right hand like that !! Anyway thank you very much for the lesson.

  • Does anyone know if he has any bebop Jazz CD's? I would really like to hear him play a tune like Giant Steps in a jazz quartet/quintet format.

  • no.. not hard.. but honestly he is one of the better teachers I have seen. Break the licks into sections and work through it. Makes it easier for the student (doesnt have to rewind as much)

    The most fun I have had on the tube in a while

  • how is this guitar tuned?

  • Um,,..standard actually

  • ABCDEFG

  • best free licks i've got so far!!!

    haha thanks. and please people don't cry if there too hard just pratice!!! haha

  • this aint jazz. this is blues..

  • not really

  • @ Omerta011 do you know where jazz comes from?! lol!

  • that guitar is more bigger than hem xD

  • @manu3223 nice grammar

  • damn it. it really blows when you cant afford nice equipment. i need better tone!

  • main place tone comes from is strings. I use 12 guage rockers use 9s or 10s (12 g is hard to bend)

  • too hard

  • Nice Job, Thanks. :)

  • very useful, thanx!

  • very nice

    light n easy for uneducated guitarists like myself

  • Very good, thanx

  • Sounds like sweet sweet honey

    or butter

    A honey butter guitar

  • : )

  • Jesus christ! You could knock out a moose with that guitar! Nice playing by the way.

  • i like those tunes! 5/5!

  • Very nice guitar!!! that's the 1st thing that impressed me when I saw this vid.. I thought i't was a les paul.. coz' it surely is near to a les paul guitar.. I wish to have one.. :D i hope to have d classic one, 1960'-70's version.. :) -Im just a beginner-

  • I more like blues... :P ehehe.. ima BECK fan!!!

  • its a gibson... beautiful brand

  • what's that guitar????

  • @maisquisuije Gibson Super 400.

  • your lush

    thanks :)

  • muito bom este vídeo me ajudou muito na compreensão do jazz mas como faço para sofisficar minha música que mandei para voçe?

  • try this on a ES250

  • This is great!!! Thanks for the lesson and I have added this and your website to my favorites. I have been trying to teach myself some scales but it is great to hear it and watch how it's played to get a real feel for it. Thanks, Again

  • this is just great! Cant thank you enough! Best guide so far.

  • tallykat13 Great video where you dont just say the fret numbers but also the notes! good stuff =) =] well if someones goin to play jazz they can probably already tell what notes hes playing by ear..its like tuning ur guitar by ear...dont know if thats a special skill but i can do it so u can all probably too.....good point though lol

  • Nice video man ! I'm staring to get it !!

  • the guitar is bigger than him

  • BAD!!! BAD!!!

  • This point is not seriously important: there really is no "F shape." The first two licks here just move around the E-shape for G. A first fret F chord is just an E-shape moved up one fret. That's little point number one. Little point Number Two: lick #3 really outlines the C-shape much more than the D-shape, especially when it moves down to the 4th string. That's classic C-shape stuff.

    But this ultimately doesn't matter much. It ends up playing the same. So students, get back to work!

  • exactly, man. :) it's just for clarity sake. most guitarists associate those shapes with those first position/open chord forms. damn, guitarists like to nit-pick so much more than other instrumentalists. why IS that? hehehe. take care,

    g

  • I tnink I can safely say no other musician nit-picks the way a violinist in the classical world can. But you know, it occurs to me, it's students who want to nit-pick in the worst way and allow the least room. Like right and wrong ways to pick. That one drives me crazy. And then you look at all the wildly different ways people pick. And most work. Just play a lot, and keep your ears open.

  • actually, having worked with more than a few classical players (two of whom were violinists), i think i have to retract what i said and agree with you. I guess i have something resembling self-loathing for the way guitarists treat each other in comparison to all of the drummers i've been working with lately. i don't understand what it is about most drummers that makes them so ready to compliment and encourage each other; a stark difference from my experiences in the pro guitar world. :) - g

  • drummers just live to play, no matter who it is they are playing music with.

  • Your right guitarist should be more supportive to each other. I will always keep that idea with me!

  • Top class lesson. This is good medicine for anyone who wants to sound musical. You can shred but is it music? Add this sort of taste to your playing and maybe your shredding will have more meaning...Thanks for these lessons.....

  • Great video where you dont just say the fret numbers but also the notes! good stuff =)

  • excelente el video maestro me encanta el jazz y el blues y me gusta tu metodo creo ke parendere mucho de el gracias men saludos.

  • Nice. Good teacher.

  • do you absolutly have to have a bass/guitar like that??? cause i only have an ibanez electric guitar and all the vids about jazz guitar have guitars like that

  • its all what the guitar sounds like, not what it looks like or what brand it is

  • ya i saw a differant vid with a guitar not like that

  • jazz musicians prefer semi-hollow and hollow electrics because its got great sustain... but you can play jazz on any guitar...les pauls are pretty good with jazz and blues...

  • ya but les pauls are expinsive as hell llol

  • I got myself a les paul copy made by tokai for 1200 but Im not that good yet.

  • lol

  • haha, it's not the guitar bud. my first guitar was some no name brand thing. but it had a nice sound. just keep practicing

  • i can get excellent jazz tones with my les paul, but i want a semi hollow. the great thing with les pauls is the versatility.

  • Just bought the epiphone dot. Can't be beat (except perhaps by the Gibson ES335) for jazz tone.

  • hey i have an epiphone dot! and the sound is basically the same, the name is just different.

  • no you don't but that is a "typical" jazz guitar so thats why they use it... and plus they sound better for jazz

  • guitars like fender and ibanez are pretty versatile when it comes to guitars. You should have no trouble playing pretty much any style on them. As long as the guitar has a good, and well ballanced tone, you should be fine.

    Just stay away from those toneless, cheap ass ones that are made simply to look nice and be shreddable. No matter what style you play, be it metal, jazz, blues, classical, etc. tone is the most important thing when it comes to guitar.

  • ya thanks my ibanez RG120 has ok tone and sounds good in jazz and metal and all that but it just doesnt sound right at times(i think cause its more for beginners)im wanting to switch to a PRS that i saw at Guitar Center that i really liked i played it and he had great feel and everything so im thinkin bout switching

  • Yea, that's probably the best choice. The only way one can truly find the right guitar for themselves is by trying it. If it sounds like the right guitar for you, and feels and plays comfortably, I'd say go ahead and buy.

  • ya im definatly getting it when i can lol it wont be soon though its like 600 bucks i gotta save up

  • You can change certain things to make a "crap" guitar sound amazing though (i.e. pickups, setup,custom parts, etc.)

  • awesome video 5* and thx for tabs

  • Goddamn, big guitar, but hella nice sound. How much is that if anyone knows, and what is the name of it?

  • I think that's a Gibson Super 400, or an L5 (or something along those blood lines). And it's expensive as hell. New or used, it's EASILY in the 5 and 6k range, and will only go up from there. Hope that helps :-)

  • it's a Gibson Le Grande $6300.00 new

  • it´s a super 400

  • damn sweet guitar

  • Billy does great explanations, but he's way ahead of his time(ing). That's why metronome was invented.

  • Actually, it's imopossible to correlate "jazz swing" to a metronome as well as notate it in standard notation. His swing is right on time, as jazz is mostly an improvised music form.

    NO doubt, he is stressing a little more clearly than he usually plays, so that the jazz neophyte can "hear" note value in the genre.

  • genial mi hermano muy claro me encanto directo a favoritos

  • damn nice guitar

  • Billy Wilkie

  • i want to learn more about jazz guitar, can anyone suggest any artists that are worth studying to get a good feel for it?

  • charly parker

  • charly parker

  • Charlie Parker was a sax player, man. The Bird, you know? Played with Diz.

  • great stuff for anyone who wants to learn some jazz guitar

    i'll look for the cd

    thanks man

  • i just learned so much...omg....JAM TIME!!!

  • These vids are helping my playing so much.

    Thanks :D

  • don't have a printer.....

  • great teacher

  • Great Lesson Thanks for uploading it

  • thats such an awesome tone.

  • You are an excellent teacher. Super job!

    Had my toe tapping, and at 6:03 couldn't help but smile wide! Smok'in!

    Thanks!

  • bravo, grazie

  • huge guitar

  • Its not about the size my friend...its how you use it. :D

  • yeah? go on dreaming ;-)

  • thanx for the lesson itll help me very much

  • ok...the last last bit was the only part i wanna learn haha...

  • haha..duh..i didnt' notice the split screen til halfway through...i was thinking...wow..cool mandolin..!

  • I clicked this video for that same reason thinking I was going to see some strange instrument. Cool video nonetheless

  • lol me too

  • I would have been more interested in the man with different hands!

  • Get sure to smile like him! but play it tighter than him with the playalong

  • good good very good

  • muito bom!

    Sou do Brasil

  • Gracias por la gran lección.

  • ie muke lo funny !

  • Funny this bluesy sound reminds of of early Gene Autry stuff.

    THe real early Autry is pretty fine stuff...and his backup singers have a mexican lilt to their voices that is truly beautiful. Hmmm.... mexican soul......

  • Clear. and basic. Have you guys found Tom Waits Rockpalast videos on youtube yet? there's a few, and they are incredible.

  • Cool

  • heh, thanx for the tip!!

  • oh boy!

  • thannnnksss mann!!!

  • hey cool man !

    :-)

    how 2 improvise over bach music u can see on vid:

    "bach sarabande jazz guitar"

    regards

  • uff i needed that for my soul.. thanks

  • Exstremely good video! I love it, you opened a new door for me thank you

  • I am very surprised to hear The Nurse's comment considering your age. The Internet as a future forward media for instruction and communication is where everything is moving. And although there is no substitute for an "in the flesh" lesson- many of your peers find these on-line lessons to be very effective. None the less- thanks for watching- Billy

  • I have had a drink or two when I wrote that..not too sure what my point was.

    Now sober, I realise my message should have been something like "If it gets people playing, it can't be a bad thing".

    Sorry about that. Keep it up!

  • Guys all you have to do is listen. Then play slow until you have it and then faster till you have it in time. Easy stuff.

  • I don't want to disrespect Bill Wilkie on the screen there, but you cannot learn jazz from tuitional videos.

  • is just to give some ideas

  • Thank you.

  • realy great man!!!

  • sexy tone

    expensive guitar

  • Hi Billy I like the Clip on your Jazz Guitar Lesson's very interesting!,great clip!!keep the good work up!! You Play Great!!I Love JAZZ Music!!,also@You Tube,Marc Jones Vocalist sings Pop/Jazz Standards,he sings good!,check him out!

  • great tips!!! very good!! well explained...this is a true lesson!!

  • you guys need to shut up, this guy is giving free jazz lessons be respectful and quit trying to make it sound like u know what ur talking about, billy is amazing at guitar ive heard him live go give ur own lessons if u dont think these are good enough

  • Thanks for support.If you can't play the F#$%^ Blues you will never play Jazz and make it believable.AMEN

  • this are blues not jazz D:

    and would you people stop whining about what scales you need to use in a key. it depends on the changes for gods sake! you can't just expect to use a G mixo or a G dorian just because its Gmaj or Gmin, it depends entirely upon the changes.

  • yeah this video is bull shit. why is everyone commenting so cluless. i always thought what you just said above was a prerequisite you needed to have to even think about playing jazz.

  • how do I go about getting this music and cd. I would like to take these jazz guitar lessons.

  • good sound !

    :-)

    ..you wonna see/hear something realy innovative - ..how to improvise on bach musict ..?!

    look for video : "bach sarabande jazz guitar"

    or go to renatorozic dot com /audio/bach or audio/mozat..

    ..you ll astonish !

    :-)

  • yeah not super jazzy, but good. if you want a very jazzy sound try using dorian or a mixolydian scale

  • the video is split screen..hes not playing a big , short neck guitar..it looks like it, at first.

  • simple and useful,tnx mr.wilkie.

  • blues and jazz run hand in hand...for the dumbasses

  • does anybody recomend a particuar scale to improvise on for jazz?

  • check out bebop scales... also the Dorian scale is often used... as far as I know, but I don't pretend to be an expert

  • Hey all...if you've got nothing positive to say..especially when some is giving freely of themselves...then just keep it to yourselves . Thanks for the tips !

  • I dont like the way we can see both hand. First i thought u had a very strange guitar. lol

  • Hey Stupids that say its blues....duh,there's always going to be blues in your Jazz....and theres always going to be some Jazz in your blues....but it doesn't matter because there both expressing feeling....I think this is great...later.

  • Jazz does not always 'have blues in it.' Some jazz tunes are based off of minor pentatonic scales, or blues, scales. Other jazz tunes are based off of targeting chord voicings, using arpeggios and 7 note scales, and can be very major sounding, not minor. But as a rule of thumb, a big black Wes Montgomery thumb at that, blues is a good start to advancing to jazz.

  • So I guess playing blues licks on a jazz tone setting on a hollow body is considered a form of jazz ? This is a rip.

  • yeah man hes usin a blues scale, not a pentantic one for the first lick

  • The blues scale IS a pentatonic, sometimes with the blue note (flat 5) added. What hes using is a G MAJOR pentatonic. A blues scale would be a G MINOR pentatonic. However, a G MAJOR pentatonic has the exact notes found in a E MINOR, or 'blues', Pentatonic.

  • a great scale to use is G bebop.Gmajor scale with a b7.Perfect for G7.

  • woah what?

    relative minor corresponds to scales too?

    that is a HUGE piece of info for me

    i feel really stupid

  • a blues scale is hexatonic, it has six tones. And there is a major blues scale, just like there there is a major pentatonic.

  • is there really a hexatonic or is it mixolydian?

  • mixolydian is a seven tone scale. A hextonic scale has only 6 tones. The "blues scale" is really a pentatonic scale with one added tone, i guess the most common is a b5. 6 tones makes it a hexatonic.

  • Hexatonic is a very open term. Notice that people generally say "a hexatonic scale" rather than "the hexatonic scale". There are some truly awesome scale variants out there. For an instantly and easily emotive sound, chec out the hirojoshi hexatonic scale. It works on the opposite priciple to the pentatonic-all the boring, "safe" notes are gone.

  • Thanx . . . I'm trying to fuse jazz, blues and rock, using mostly pentatonic scales on my fender strat.

  • haha

  • the sex scale

  • thanks

  • yes.. it is so blues but also very jazzy...

  • thanks bro.....

  • far that double time splash out shit he did at the end was awesome! best part of the lesson haha

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  • come on!

  • Just say,I was to play these licks over Autumn Leaves backing track-----Blues or Jazz?The backing track is a Jazz/blues in G,Thus the licks sound bluesy.Over a standard ....Sound jazzy

  • hahahahahahaha billy wilkie

  • First you got the blues, then came Jazz. Yes this is blues, Pentatonic blues if you like. I never met a Jazz Guitar player yet who didn't like playing blues. Most audiences like to hear blues! Then you got Jazz... Thanks to the person who uploaded and the player.

  • speed it up and don't bend, you got jazz! slow down and bend, you got bb king! i learned a lot. this is a great lesson.