Such a fantastic group with a wonderful arrangement. Bravo Willie & RIP!
@ertatta7 ай бұрын
May your memory be a blessing Willie Thomas. Your generosity and sincerity knew no bounds.
@ricaard8 ай бұрын
Love his videos, and his music.
@ricaard8 ай бұрын
Thank you Willie, for all your help & playing.
@jamescampoccio11528 ай бұрын
Nice improv ability you have! Thanks for tip: amputating short Ornith licks to be played, in sequence, across different changes.
@doubleking70878 ай бұрын
Wow! Love from Sierra Leone
@travishanes84859 ай бұрын
Santa playing jazz in disguise like Ron Swanson in Park's n Rec.
@footrane10 ай бұрын
Genius
@ricaard11 ай бұрын
RIP, Willie...
@ricaard11 ай бұрын
Thank you, Uncle Willie. You will not be forgotten, nor will your lessons. Rest Easy...
@Eshyyt11 ай бұрын
I've heard a lot of approaches regarding scrapple and man this all just makes sense when you describe it!! Thank you so much for everything!
@ricaard11 ай бұрын
Thank you, Willie. You were the best...
@marceli155 Жыл бұрын
fantastic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1❤
@24acresofparadise Жыл бұрын
I believe Willie must have been about 82 when he made this video. God bless his soul, was a great player and educator.
@colinberry707 Жыл бұрын
Big respect and Thanks Mr Thomas I'm wood shedding
@michaeldean9338 Жыл бұрын
(smiling) Wow...Really enjoyed this trip down your memory lane, Willie. Recently hit 60 some months ago. Hadn't played in over 25 years, Simply put, after all those years, I couldn't leave behind that mistress of Music. Purposely started back up before hitting the 6-0 mark. This time I'll b sticking with it! This was very inspiring. Thank you, sir.
@redrooz Жыл бұрын
No shade on Willie but the guitarist (unknown to me) is also extremely good. He even quotes the famous Charlie Parker "Yardbirds" lick @ 2:54 and 4:35.
@matthew.j.mcpherson Жыл бұрын
Finally!! Someone who understands the method of diminished melodics! Thank you. I play jazz melodics on a guitar for old folk songs in my living room only; but, I could never find anybody who could play the diminished melodies I use on KZbin until today (10 years). I had actually given up until now... Thanks again...
@santifoster1741 Жыл бұрын
What is a pentatonic pair ?
@cesaramor Жыл бұрын
❤️🙏🏼🎶About 15 years ago I began to watch some of his videos, and I cannot describe what I felt, because after much searching, I found the fundamentals and a path transmitted like no one else, in a special charismatic way... With his lessons and listening to him I feel like time stops. And I felt and I am very grateful. I studied the piano and looked for videos to understand the music. Now 15 years later I'm playing the trumpet (I've been with the trumpet for three years) and I felt something special when I started to learn again with him. Eternally grateful and a big hug to his family and his loved ones.
@gregfagan38 Жыл бұрын
I hear the piano playing major seven and our "boy" playing the dominant 7 so ... Me? I use dim to create tension against tonic. I like the content of this video. Flat 7th (aka Dominant 7) - So, if I'm in C - I should take the Bb diminished? 2-5-1 in Cm. Personally, in Cm, I go for B diminished which creates a nice tension to go back and forth. You are playing a lot of 2-5-1 to minor one - I didn't get a chance to watch the whole thing, but there are only three diminished things so, if you just PICK ONE you have a 33% chance of being good to go. If you MESS UP and pick the wrong one, you can chromatically move up or down to sound either hip or a country music lovers nightmare. Best wishes and your explanation(s) are complicated. Again, it's not a flat 7th. It's a dominant 7th in the real world? The diminished latter sounds excellent. I like the minor 6th with the flat 9 myself. Third step of the diminished latter? Tri-tone sub on a "plain" dominant 7th chord. It sounds like flat 5 land to me. Playing the tonic minor third on the four chord is (what?) - playing minor against a major like (flat seven) on a major seven chord. THAT is either hip or playing the wrong chord chart? lol. Playing a lick up a half step and things. Perhaps too little about too much? To simplify, a five chord back to any tonic (minor or major) works GREAT a half step down and a diminished. What learn diminished? Because there is only three of them and you can be 33% right or a half step away on any FIVE CHORD!!! - facebook.com/peeweediamond
@oneiroagent Жыл бұрын
The Big Goodbye
@cel0331 Жыл бұрын
respect😍
@sirrjazz734 Жыл бұрын
UNCLE WILLIE, you are missed in many ways by many people. You will never be forgotten & by leaving behind so many demonstrations of what can be possible with the proper amount of time in the woodshed using YOUR demonstrations, you have ensured that you'll be missed & never forgotten. You were the best KZbin Instructor & with these demonstrations you will remain one of the BEST who ever dared to teach this music. Godspeed to you UNCLE WILLIE & R.I.P.!!!
@tradingonly7099 Жыл бұрын
RIP
@dr.brianjudedelimaphd743 Жыл бұрын
Interesting concept- but I think it pays greater dividends to follow in methodologies used by Bud, Barry, Bird, Dizzy Just transcribe, play along with recordings, analyze baroque counterpoint and most importantly, try to play at as many sessions as you can
@jeffersonnettooficial Жыл бұрын
Hi. How can I have a couple of classes with you in person? Where are you located? I'm very impressed with your system.
@shakydave Жыл бұрын
That backward circle messes me up! RIP Willie
@Peppe73it Жыл бұрын
I saw the link but ...No free lessons
@innocentnwaigwe5916 Жыл бұрын
Respect man
@didierlabossiere4726 Жыл бұрын
That alto solo was some of the sickest, nastiest, most BADASS work I've ever heard!!!! This is why I've been a fan of his for 32 years. RIP Sir 🙏🏿✝️❤️
@thulisilezulu60272 жыл бұрын
This is the Most beautiful thing I have ever heard_ On my knees
@peterbransche46742 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this!
@alefor54232 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIW0pHSFgLB6ibc MY VERSION OF I'LL REMEMBER APRIL
@3r1cratpool222 жыл бұрын
I realy like the diminished scale, i think that working with target notes and diminished scales its possible to get a real great vocabulary
@trumpetandflugel2 жыл бұрын
Amazing guy! Great player too.
@robertbranco11262 жыл бұрын
Hope you finds it .. did it ever return back to you ?
@Arthur-Trumpet2 жыл бұрын
Qual esse método?
@raulrichards4122 жыл бұрын
Thanks very much for the musical enlightenment . I got it.♫♪♫ ♫♫ Your playing and explanation is excellent.♦ (From: Brooklyn, New York.) ♫♪♫♫.♫
@waynewhite51412 жыл бұрын
I studied jazz with Willie at Northeast Missouri State back in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. He always made it seem so easy, but I could never keep up. RIP, Willie-you were an American treasure.
@aryamvarona54882 жыл бұрын
THANKSSSSSS FOR SHARING ALL UR MUSIC AND KNOWLEDGE !!!! THIS IS GOLD
@cristophegomes81222 жыл бұрын
Amazing!
@cristophegomes81222 жыл бұрын
Peace and Love Hope!
@hilarytoussaint33592 жыл бұрын
A LITTLE OF OLD SCHOOL BLENDED WITH THE NEW WAY TO RELEASE THE CREATIVE JUICES AS IN THE SKYPE SESSION WITH EMILY. BREAKING AWAY FROM SET PATTERNS.
@hilarytoussaint33592 жыл бұрын
Less is more. Create spaces of rest. Hence musical digestion. Call and response. As due in a musical conversation.Too many notes robs the beauty.This approach forces us to be more creative and listen to what we play in the mind before it is play on our instrument.SOOO COOOOL.