Wow I was there for this performance. Great memories

YES! thanks a million

This is priceless information

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Such a fantastic group with a wonderful arrangement. Bravo Willie & RIP!

May your memory be a blessing Willie Thomas. Your generosity and sincerity knew no bounds.

Love his videos, and his music.

Thank you Willie, for all your help & playing.

Nice improv ability you have! Thanks for tip: amputating short Ornith licks to be played, in sequence, across different changes.

Wow! Love from Sierra Leone

Santa playing jazz in disguise like Ron Swanson in Park's n Rec.

Genius

RIP, Willie...

Thank you, Uncle Willie. You will not be forgotten, nor will your lessons. Rest Easy...

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!

Thank you, Willie. You were the best...

fantastic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1❤

I believe Willie must have been about 82 when he made this video. God bless his soul, was a great player and educator.

Big respect and Thanks Mr Thomas I'm wood shedding

(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.

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.

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...

What is a pentatonic pair ?

❤️🙏🏼🎶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.

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

The Big Goodbye

respect😍

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.!!!

RIP

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

Hi. How can I have a couple of classes with you in person? Where are you located? I'm very impressed with your system.

That backward circle messes me up! RIP Willie

I saw the link but ...No free lessons

Respect man

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 🙏🏿✝️❤️

This is the Most beautiful thing I have ever heard_ On my knees

Thank you for posting this!

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I realy like the diminished scale, i think that working with target notes and diminished scales its possible to get a real great vocabulary

Amazing guy! Great player too.

Hope you finds it .. did it ever return back to you ?

Qual esse método?

Thanks very much for the musical enlightenment . I got it.♫♪♫ ♫♫ Your playing and explanation is excellent.♦ (From: Brooklyn, New York.) ♫♪♫♫.♫

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.

THANKSSSSSS FOR SHARING ALL UR MUSIC AND KNOWLEDGE !!!! THIS IS GOLD

Amazing!

Peace and Love Hope!

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.

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.

Nice, thanx.