Lesson #3: Wes Montgomery's solo on Billie's Bounce

Wes Montgomery's solo on Billie's Bounce from the album Fingerpickin'. Go to my blog:
http://allegedartist.wordpress.com for a full analysis, article, and transcription of the solo.

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• Wes Montgomery
• Billie's Bounce
• Fingerpickin'
• Jazz guitar
• solo
• transcription.

[masnak1994]

I know this is a stupid question... but what is the benefit of copying solo's?

And do I have to know the chord progression when I copy that solo?

by the way thank you for your amazing video's:)

[allegedartistlessons]

@masnak1994 Copying a solo is like copying language; it's simply a way to aquire tools to help you communicate. It's helpful to know the chord progression, so you can relate to the harmony.-Tone

[RubyTuesday93]

what kind of strat is that?

[allegedartistlessons]

@RubyTuesday93

Just a regular no frills American from the 90's. Lace Sensor Pick-Ups though...

[KevsTheLowEnd]

nice work. I'm going to check the site and hopefully learn some of this. No idea how well it'll transfer onto a bass. Im considering lifting the bassline, so ill bounce that over to you once i got it written down.

[allegedartistlessons]

That would be awesome!

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@masnak1994: The greatest jazz musicians of the recent past all learned to play by copping licks from the greats before them. Charlie Parker stole stuff from Lester Young, before finding his own style. Wes Montgomery played Charlie Christian records note for note on the way to finding his own voice. In order to really understand a solo, you need to know the underlying chords (harmony) and the bassline, preferably both. Copping famous licks is also a way to give your playing depth.

[pasamelallave]

exellent!

[sysphus13]

@buddhistguitarist there's really only one scale...and then there are alterations..I reccomend you learn "the 5 shapes" of the major scale, which is really 5 shapes of every diatonic mode..making 7x5=35...learn it in 12 keys and you have 12x35=I'm bad at math. But you should think in terms of 1 scale..it makes it less complicated when thinking about chords and scales..At least in my experience :)

[RubyTuesday93]

@allegedartistlessons nice, it sounds and looks great!

[FabrizioVegliaguitar]

sounds great

[FilizzolaBMX]

awesome. Thanks for the trasncrption.