"All of Me": 3 JAZZ Guitar IMPROV Strategies

[@MichaelBartlettGuitar]

“close the Realbook, put your guitar down and get to know the song”. The best advice for improving.

[@kalania14]

You have the most generous and giving spirit which makes learning anything special. Mahalo for being you

[@BrianDeer]

This was such an incredibly helpful lesson and I would love to see more of these, Adam. Thank you so much!

[@AdamLevyGuitarTips]

Thanks Brian. I'm planning another lesson like this right now, on a very familiar standard.

[@rwasp]

I love your approach and its also what i think is most musical from the beginning. what i also like about your drop 2 system approcach is using it in drop 3 and to play enclosures around their triads which i think i also got from you.

[@joehenry9787]

That was a beautiful communication Adam - thank you so much for that. Just pure nuggets of gold.

[@johncrbayley]

Great lesson. More of these please!

[@AdamLevyGuitarTips]

Thanks. It has been on my mind to do more like this. Thanks for the nudge.

[@MikeMillerPhD]

Just learning tune with Matt Warnock group. My biggest takeaway may be 5th position. Would enjoy more tune breakdowns.

[@toreilly100]

Fantastic stuff Adam..thank you!!

[@AndrewWolf-pf7bx]

This is such an incredible lesson.. I’m admittedly one of those coming from rock but thanks to players like you and Frizz - SOMETIMES I think I’m “getting” jazz haha.. Thanks!

[@JeffreyHaupt]

Very helpful, many thanks!!!

[@AdamLevyGuitarTips]

Right on - I'm glad to hear!

[@orvillejohnson7235]

That was a really well put together lesson, thanks.Your 3 strategies, as you noted, can work separately or together. In my own playing I'm much more into using rhythmic phrasing and playing around the melody and chord tones rather than any kind of scalic thinking. Probably because I'm self taught and never had to pass any quizzes in music school about memorized scale names. My way of thinking about scales is basing everything on the major scale and just noticing which notes are not in that scale as I move from chord to chord. Much like you pointed out early on, just thinking of adding the G# to the C major scale for the E chord. I love your stuff and sorry I'll miss you this summer at PSGW. I'm teaching the last week.

[@AdamLevyGuitarTips]

Thanks for chiming in here, Orville. Aw, shucks - sorry we'll be out of synch at PSGW. I hope our paths will cross somewhere soon.

[@martoneill]

Great stuff. Would love some more videos on standards and your approach. Thank you!

[@karensegal6691]

Great video, Adam. Really creative and musical ideas!

[@AdamLevyGuitarTips]

Thanks so much, Karen.

[@karensegal6691]

@@AdamLevyGuitarTips Love "See what you can pull from the song" and also noticing the descending line inside the melody/chord infrastructure - great hot tip!

[@GuitarJawn]

Dani Rabin from the band Marbin did a funny KZbin short where he went through All of Me in 60 seconds

[@AdamLevyGuitarTips]

I've got to see that!

[@Uuur10]

Fantastic lesson 👍

[@romanrios7440]

Thanks for a GREAT lesson!

[@musicmensynth2846]

thanks, Master. !!!

[@jroobz]

buble version is nice actually