3 Mick Goodrick Concepts From 1987

[@LateNightLessons]

Hey gang - just a heads up, but I drifted back to Dorian during the Aeolian version of 'Happy Birthday' for some dumb reason. I started it correctly but then flipped the 'Ab' back to 'A natural' for no reason whatsoever. Whew, I thought it sounded extra "out." Ugh, way to go Brewster. I knew I should've added a sixth to those chords behind me to further define the tonality. Anywhey, just a head's up, but the mean ol' Mistake Bandit strikes again! 😕 Sorry!

[@docsketchy]

I was just coming to point that out after watching your video, but then I saw that you had already caught it. I thought maybe it was an intentional thing to see if we were really paying attention or not (I was).

[@tmitz73]

Mick was my Teacher and Friend in 95-96, and I never learned so much from one human being in such a short period of time. Rock in Peace Sensei!! Thanks for doing this Dave!!

[@ChasingSoundGuitar]

The Advancing Guitarist is without a doubt one of my favorite guitar books of all time. Mick was such a legend, and his concepts were so fun to learn from. I feel like you could spend years with just that one book and its ideas. Thanks for putting out this video!

[@IsothermeMusic]

Thanks, as always, for these insightful tips. One thing that occurred to me during your video is that I notice an alarming % of guitarists who don’t know their instruments. They know fingerings, they know patterns, but they don’t know the notes they’re playing nor how they relate to the notes all over the fretboard.

[@davidloseke16]

Love the picture of the Klein Electric at the beginning of the video!

[@tallpaul1020]

Great lesson Dave!!! What a fantastic way to look at the fretboard and practice Thx!!!!

[@Emlizardo]

Thanks so much for putting this video together to honor Mick Goodrick. I picked up his Advancing Guitarist book back in '89. It's a seemingly inexhaustible treasure trove, presented with clarity and also gentle humor, a bit Yoda-like. I interpreted his "Electric Ice Skating Rink" idea as taking the "long axis" - playing up and down a single string - and the short one - block patterns across the neck - and working toward combining them, so we are free at any moment to travel wherever we need to on the fretboard. A ideal to work toward, enough work for a lifetime for sure.

[@sicochoco]

Such a beatiful honoring of Mick´s memory and legacy, thank you

[@TwelveSticks]

I used to have that book somewhere. I remember the cover. "Play that for people you don't like very much"! You crease me up David... 😀

[@Kurtis-Schubert]

Thanks! Really well done and super helpful. I'm going to have fun opening ears with Happy Birthday at the last Birthday party I'll probably be invited to.

[@UnitedEffect]

Great way to remember an incredible musician and music educator. Thanks for sharing this. RIP Mick Goodrick🙏🎼🎶

[@jasoncrump1886]

Your a great teacher brother. I really enjoy your channel and all the info you share about all these great guitarist. Your a legend man. Appreciate ya. Love that guitar your playing too.

[@somechannelforcommenting2697]

So sad to hear about Mick's passing. I just got the book he did with Tim Miller about Generic Modal Compression. What an incredible musical mind. He was definitely one of the most criminally underrated musicians of all time. Truly an original player, never settling. RIP

[@oliviermalhomme9923]

Oh the unitar concept and how it makes you focus on note articulation

[@CRP2426]

Thank you for this content. His "Almanac of Voice Leading" is really Deep.

[@Shelscast]

Hey Dave, he went to Berklee in 1963. He referenced that period in a radio interview I heard given by him. Great video, by the way.

[@jimwinters3986]

Damn... Just learning of this. Mick's concepts were so integral to myself, as well as many favorite players.

[@STRAT62]

I bought this book when it first came out. It quickly became one of my go-to books for inspiration and challenge. You are so right when you say just read the book! There are many non playing suggestions that are great (go for a walk, sit in a park, and feed the pigeons...) This is a book that I pull out, and it never fails to create a spark! It's on the same level as my Joe Pass, Don Mock, Ted Green, Joe Diorio, Howard Roberts, and other legendary guitar educators. One concept can lead to hours of exploring! This book is a great example example for learning to read music. You don't have to be an expert in reading in order to get the benefits of written examples... I laughed out loud with your comment on playing "Happy Birthday " with the Locrian mode...

[@robhead22]

Ok! Great ideas! Im on it!!

[@binkywarren21]

Pretty sure I have that book laying around here somewhere. Guess I'll have to peak inside.

[@Shrimpilla]

Did you find it? 👀

[@binkywarren21]

​@@ShrimpillaNot yet and since it's in standard notation, that's probably why I put it away 😂

[@tbgtbg6311]

Didn't see this one coming from this channel! Big Kudos for this!!! RIP Mick Goodrick

[@jefv9339]

He was a very special friend, so very sorry to hear about his passing.

[@santibanks]

It is very easy to see where Pat got some of his techniques and ideas from

[@vicmorrison8128]

Luvin it..

[@MichaelAnderson1899]

Excellent lesson as always Improv made easy It’s always good to become friends with the key your in This means knowing all the idiosyncratic ways of looking at it

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love his work!

[@BungleJoogie68]

This might become the least viewed video on your channel, but the content is among the most important

[@grgwashnton23]

hoping for a part ii of this! ✌

[@xencage]

Mick’s book is one of the best theory/idea books I own. If you can still get it, do! No matter what instrument you play.

[@skipneumann1]

A tab version of the book would have put the book into the hands of today’s guitar players. The skating concept of scales is how I teach students who only know the 5 positions of minor pentatonic- then modes. Thanks for this video

[@supernothing77]

It should be revised as a tab version

[@StephenMarkTurner]

RIP. I still have a copy of 'Advancing Guitarist'.

[@Sonicsense]

I have the book but never been able to use it because i don’t know how to read notations, is there any tablature available for this anywhere?

[@5geezers]

Learn to read man. It ain't rocket science! Start with Bill Leavitt's Modern [? not so much in 2022] Method For Guitar....it was the set text for Berklee College for decades. Mick would've gone through it coz he was a student of Bills. I taught this to all my students for years, everyone got it...except slackers LOL [BTW no dumb old folk tunes etc, you will learn to read, you'll start to "hear" what's on the page.

[@jerrymcgeorge4117]

I was shocked to learn Mick has passed. I studied with him at Berklee ‘69. May he rest in peace.

[@automatics1im]

This is an unexpected topic. RIP Mick Goodrick.

[@claude12342345]

R.I.P. Mick Goodrick

[@kwichmann2777]

RIP, Mick 😞

[@TheCompleteGuitarist]

The guitar woke up with Mick, he showed how it could be explored like no one seemed to have done before. Mick is as an important an influential figure to jazz as Django Reinhardt was to European Gypsy Jazz.

[@halbertking2683]

I saw Gary Burton with Mick and Pat Metheny at the Stanley Theater in the 70s . I saw video recently of the line up . Mr Burton wasn't especially generous with the solo time for the other musicians . F.M.S. - Front Man Syndrome

[@ernestguerrero901]

Sorry 2 hear z sad news he was a great Guitar instructor will miss him 😔

[@Istenostor]

That "aeolian" is a dorian from 16:20

[@johnc.mitchelljr.2716]

👍

[@rambleon2011]

What’s AME?

[@jamesfarrington9030]

Had no idea he died. Damn.

[@jamesfarrington9030]

For me, the various positions make you play certain lines you wouldnt normally in another position. The minor pentatonic that we all know coughs up all the standard rock guitar licks we all know. But go to another position and it makes you think differently. The licks disappear and you are forced to play something different.

[@wanderingweederspapa7878]

And now Jeff Beck has passed.. R I P

[@jamesfarrington9030]

I explained to people who dont know guitar why its such a pain in the ass to learn. Unlike piano, there a gazillion ways to play the same thing. With all the keys and scales, its mind boggling. Eventually you wake up one day and go VOILA !! I think I got it. Then you get humbled when a band leader counts off Cherokee at 500 bpm !!

[@morrowcosom]

Mick removed the headstock from his guitar so he could play chords from the top of the neck.

[@jorgeovallemeneses9781]

Pura mimica

[@rillloudmother]

awe, got scared of locrian huh?

[@colinburroughs9871]

Scare tab reading guitarist away? Scared? Well... more like what's the point if you can't read the notes?

[@acousticsong-guitarco964]

You start to learn reading notes

[@zeus-bx9xw]

R.I.P

[@zeus-bx9xw]

Lesson = light bulb moment

[@svenrustempasic8332]

So much ugliness in making electric guitars!