8 SIMPLE Wes Montgomery Arpeggio Ideas

[@zornhut1161]

Great ideas. Even as a sax player, there’s so much to learn from Wes. I delight in listening to him!

[@andrefludd]

Awesome lesson. Always helpful to address the full spectrum of difficulty when learning an idea. Wes has an amazing ability to make complex arpeggio ideas sound like they belong. Nothing sounds forced.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you Andre! Totally agree. I especially love how Wes uses arpeggios in embellishing a melody, but maybe I'll get to that in another video 🤘

[@davidpetebluepowell]

Love your lessons. I'm primarily a blues player but these lessons, depending on the landing note (s) can really add a lot to a blues player's repertoire. Thanks so much for your hard work and for explaining these in simple, theoretical terms. ✌❤🎸

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks so much for your comment, David! As a blues player, I think you’ll really dig the lesson this Saturday on pentatonics 🤘

[@davidpetebluepowell]

@@ChaseMaddox .. AWESOME!!! Looking forward to it. Thanks again. ✌❤🎸

[@JazzStrat781]

Absolutely awesome Chase 👍🎸 one of your best lessons! Would love to see a lesson in how Wes used arpeggios to embellish the melody, keep up the great work! You are knocking it out out of the park with your content! Best to you brother 😁

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you! 🙏 Trying to improve each time I make a video so I appreciate that! Will definitely add that idea to my list. Have a great weekend 🤘

[@philmansfield8825]

Been watching your videos for a while ( and subscribed) - yesterday I bought a guitar and just realized it's the same as you are playing

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks Phil! 🤘 It's a great guitar. I don't think you'll be disappointed!

[@JamieFindlayGuitar]

hey Chase or Kevin, when you're writing music in notation form, it's customary to use #'s when ascending and b's when descending. it helps to keep the number of accidentals being read to a minimum; hence if you replace the Bb notes with A#s sliding into the B natural, the need for the natural sign in front of both B's disappears, making it much easier to read. We guitar players need all the help we can get when it comes to reading. Best Jamie

[@ChaseMaddox]

Hey Jamie, thanks for your comment. I understand the customary way the notation would be written. In most cases I never think of the note A# as A#, but as Bb since that’s way more common. So I find it easier to read as Bb’s not as A#s regardless of the custom. There are some exceptions, but overall I’d rather read the notes as I actually think of them on the fretboard.

[@scottbaekeland9750]

Agreed.

[@iainmarc7942]

Great video, Wes was a true genius, innovator and inspiring musician. I wouldn't describe this as simple but creative.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks! I think most of these are simple, but definitely not basic. Wes always had depth with his playing 🤘

[@ChrisKopelakisfingerstyleg]

bravo for all wes is the unique great jazz guitarist of all seasons give us more thank you.***

[@EduardoPerez-cn3hu]

como siempre agradecido por compartir, WES es mi guitarrista favorito, el que me cambio la vida, abrazos desde caracas Venezuela

[@ChaseMaddox]

Gracias Eduardo! 🙏

[@alans3845]

Great breakdown Chase. Keep ‘em comin’. Luv to hear you breakdown Jeanine or Unit 7.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Will do Alan! Thank you for the support 🙏 Unit 7 has always been a personal favorite so I can definitely get to that in the future.

[@sturdychinfilms]

I only just started going through your channel but this is my favorite video so far. Nice way to get some language under my fingers. You really do some phenomenal work and I'm pumped that I have so much more material to go through. Thanks! Also, it would be awesome if you made a video about how to use transcribed lines when you don't know what chords they were originally played over. I've not seen anyone on youtube address this. Thanks again!

[@ChaseMaddox]

Awesome! Thank you! I’m not sure if I’d have enough to say about that question. Essentially you would just need to know what chords those notes you transcribed would fit over. Or, look up some lead sheets for the song you transcribed.

[@sturdychinfilms]

@ChaseMaddox That makes alot of sense. Thanks so much!

[@ChaseMaddox]

You’re welcome 🤘

[@JazzGitarDersiSamiGundogdu]

Superb examples, thanks a lot

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you! 🤘

[@swoopdog54]

Excellent. Great execution.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you! 🙏

[@davidfioccola3834]

Great work! Thanks for doing these!!!

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks for watching them, David! 🤘

[@trevortimoko7512]

Thanks for this lesson man it has really opened my ears to a lot of possibilities over the use of appegios u got a new subscriber here

[@ChaseMaddox]

Awesome, thank you Trevor! Anything specific you'd like me to cover in a video? Could be something you're curious about or struggling with.

[@trevortimoko7512]

@@ChaseMaddox where im at at the moment is combining the major and minor scales in all positions melodic minor, altered and diminished so i guess learning the appegios and intervals of these scales would be a good start to jazz improvisation? Any little clue you could give me to point me in the right direction would be much appreciated

[@ChaseMaddox]

I'd encourage you to think about this like learning a foreign language. The best things you can do to learn a foreign language are the same for music, namely you need to listen to the language a lot, practice speaking it, and keep learning new vocabulary and how to put them together into ideas and phrases. Focusing too much on the theory and scales will slow your progress down. What you want to do is learn a new piece of jazz "vocabulary" and then try to use it over and over in many situations and over different harmony. For example, you could take the first arpeggio example here and try to apply it over each chord of a jazz standard. You would have to change the starting point for it to work, but doing that will really make you able to hear the phrase and play it when improvising. Hope that helps! 🤘

[@guitarist2752]

Top Wes Montgomery 👌

[@ChaseMaddox]

🤘🤘🤘

[@RockYourTeeth]

Thanks. Exactly what I needed in my practice right now.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Glad it was helpful, Nick! Thanks for watching 🤘

[@nikigba]

This is great

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you, Nikita 🙏

[@juacopsch]

How Wes did the 8th idea using his thumb 🤯🤯🤯

[@ChaseMaddox]

Lots to talk about there! And his octave approach too...

[@davedorsett4894]

Good question, he did VERY VERY occasionally use an upstroke with his thumb, but since those are incredibly rare (on footage of him playing), more likely he did it lengthwise with pull-offs/slurs between perhaps pairs of notes. Look at arpeggiated figures which he of course does frequently, he's usually moving laterally (not in a given position) across the neck. He clearly dragged his thumb when the phrase is ascending, but descending? Tough to figure out.

[@extramile734]

Great lesson, thank you

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you for watching! 🤘

[@jazzajour]

Thanks, great job!👌🤘🙏

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you! 🙏

[@chrisr530]

Wes lesson??? Instant thumbs up! (Btw - did you try that Jim Dunlop Americana Pick?) 😊

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you! I haven’t yet but they’re ordered! 👍

[@alfredromero4784]

Will you ever be in one video the whole Chords progression then part2 The solos played over those chords??? That would be a great progressive project to immerse us into the jazz selection's instead of tidbits???

[@ChaseMaddox]

I don’t think that would make for a good KZbin video. If you want to hear the whole solo, I would suggest listening to the original track. My point in these videos is to quickly analyze some of the best “tidbits” from the entire solo for my audience.

[@robertgrippo5312]

I've been playing these using 1-2-3 left hand fingering sans the pinky to get more of that Wes feel (& MOSTLY because that's how I learned to play on the streets). Hope I'm not screwing up the point of the lesson. Great review of some great lines-you're an amazing teacher! Why is it that most of my favorite guitarists usually avoid using their pinky when playing single notes (Wes, Grant, Peter B, Ed C, often George but not always)? Do you think I should try to change to play these sort of lines more "in position"? It does lay much nicer when you use your pinky. Any thoughts on this?

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks for watching! I’d play the lines however is most comfortable for you. Usually there’s a reason these masters play lines the way they do.

[@rogerball6265]

Hi, where in the tune Misty is Idea 4 found. I have that recording and would like to know where to find it in context. Thanks

[@victormusic01x]

..nice and useful ideas Chase!..i see what you mean about Idea 7..very interesting triadic movement and proving that hanging on a Cmaj7, besides the usual suspects Amin 7 or D7 for 4 or more measures doesn’t have to sound too exercise like..harder than it seems for sure at first..thanks man..stay safe and stay strong..New York..June 12, 2022..

[@ChaseMaddox]

Glad you liked it! 🤘 Definitely is harder than it would seem, which is why I'm always interested in those small conceptual changes that give us more ideas to work with as improvisers.

[@thisisme4858]

thanks

[@ChaseMaddox]

You’re welcome 🙏

[@defkind]

Fantastic lesson!

[@ChaseMaddox]

gecd 😉

[@jonathanhathaway7796]

I'm curious why you call the first arpeggio a Cmaj9. I understand that those are the notes of Cmaj9, but as it's played over Am7, shouldn't it be described as an Am11 arpeggio starting on the 3rd? Good stuff though, and thank you.

[@ChaseMaddox]

I like thinking of it like that, but feel free to do what ever makes the most sense to you 👍

[@jacksonwhite8628]

What string gauge do you have on your guitar? I have the same one in brown

[@ChaseMaddox]

Usually .11s, sometimes .10s 👍

[@dry509]

Nice sound. What’s the chain? Strings, guitar, amp, processing? Thanks.

[@ChaseMaddox]

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[@ChaseMaddox]

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[@dry509]

@@ChaseMaddox Thanks.

[@kevinmaddox]

🔥🔥🔥

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks bro! 😎

[@hounddog1381]

Great stuff, thank you!! Love your tone too! What model guitar is that please?

[@ChaseMaddox]

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[@dry509]

Have you ever learned any Flamenco lines?

[@ChaseMaddox]

I have not! Any songs you’d suggest I check out?

[@lascellehewitt3542]

That needs to find a good teacher

[@ChaseMaddox]

Not sure I understand what you mean

[@pascaljeanne8002]

yes but do YOUR stuff man ! take ideas but you got to have talent ! of your own ! or make videos on you tube ! and 10 gigs a year !

[@ChaseMaddox]

I have a bunch of lessons doing my stuff. Check some of the other lessons in my “Guitar Lessons” playlist.

[@pascaljeanne8002]

@@ChaseMaddox yes i saw you play good man ! im older and i play in this style too ! i mean im a benson fan since 40 years ! norman brown too !

[@nomandad2000]

@@pascaljeanne8002!!!!!!!!!!!! That!!!! Is!!!!!!exclamatory!!!!!!