Tim Lerch - Ted Greene's Blues in G

My humble attempt to demonstrate some of Ted's incredible chord passages. From a sheet he wrote in 1978 that can be found at www.TedGreene.com in the lesson section under Blues/Jazz its about half way down the page and is called "Blues in G and Bb".
I hope this is helpful and if you like it please consider donating to the TedGreene.com site to help keep it up and healthy Thanks

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• Blues walking chords
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[johnnymurray100]

hi tim.

did you take out the CC bridge pup?

[telebasher]

@johnnymurray100

nope it's still there. it's a smaller size and they call it the BS but it's the same as the CC.

[dziepiejazz]

Great stuff, thank you. Is it possible to play the blues in Bb also?

[telebasher]

@dziepiejazz Yep, I'm going to do the Bb one next. should be up in a week or so.

[gromit64]

Is this a comedy bit? The laying out of the chords was a vomiting of music theory.

It's really nice playing, and a funny exposition of how complicated the theory can be in a lovely piece of music.

I'm not ragging on you, though. I'm on your side. Nice work.

[telebasher]

Not intentionally a comedy bit but when my girlfriend watched it she ran screaming from the room with her hands over her ears as soon as I started naming the chords and functions. oh well guitar geeks like me are into this stuff. I might consider this as a funny thing maybe a jazzy blues with the lyrics just the names of the chords and their functions!

thanks for watching

[MyCrazyDogs32]

Thank you for doing these videos. This is exactly the kind of chord passages I have been wanting to learn to apply to my blues playing. Thanks again!

[Kaaru]

Great stuff!

[Joebrookslimburg]

Ah men this is beautifull! :-) Thanks a lot m8.

[ViolentVibrato]

Thanks for this Tim, the harmonic breakdown is exactly what I was looking for. It helps understand the mechanics of this style. Thanks again!

[Joebrookslimburg]

I really like watching you and hearing you play the guitar!

It's a real pleasure to see your face while playing, so much joy and so much expression, it's nice to see.

And then the playing... AWESOME!!

Keep up the good balls.

[bills48321]

Great tone and an inspiration to dig into that Ted Greene chart and learn this thing.

[dimlocator44]

Excellent! Thanks for posting - the sheets are so advanced as to be a bit opaque, so it's good to hear what it sounds like, & have it explained.