The Charlie Christian Guitar Style | Jazz Guitar Lesson

A detailed look at the style of jazz legend Charlie Christian. Music and tab on my site - link below. The guitar is a Vox Virage, in case you're wondering...
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[@robertkmcbride]

This is one of the most informative, musical, and technically slick guitar instruction videos I’ve seen on YT. Thanks for providing so much well analyzed content while making it about Charlie and the music rather than about you.

[@drothberg3]

I love Charlie Christian; I listened to him and picked up a bunch of his licks early my playing. He's ideal for adding some jazz vocabulary to your playing. Nice lesson.

[@jamesbennett8771]

Adrian, I’ve been watching and learning several of your videos over the last few weeks, everything from Texas blues, chicken’ pickin’, and now a few new jazz licks. Your videos have lifted me out of a ten year rut, and inspired me to expand my playing capacity, and in two weeks I’ve cleaned up my solos immensely, and added tons of flavor to my playing. It’s been many years since all I’ve felt like doing was playing music. A gentleman’s thank you, Sir! Please continue your efforts to help inspire & teach others the gift of music. Cheers!

[@acpg]

So pleased to hear you've found my videos inspiring! All the best with your playing.

[@adamkiebasa6151]

Major chords #1 - 5:00 #2 - 5:44 #3 - 7:58 Dom7 chords #1 - 10:44 #2 - 14:00 #3 - 16:30 Minor chords #1 - 19:18 #2 - 21:28 Blues #1 - 22:38

[@JazzgutsVGvanKampen]

Very good study you made of Charlie Christian, particulary interesting I found the musical use of the Db mi arpeggio over the Eb7.chord getting the 7, 9- and sus , great sound. I noticed he used many dim arpeggios as well. I think he must have influenced nearly every jazzcat in that Era and even up to now. His style is so musical, logical and creative, thanks for your thorough work and post, greetings Vic.

[@fjcara]

I do KZbin guitar lessons almost daily. This guy is one of the best!

[@trevorhyett9188]

Thanks

[@russstanziale3375]

This is so good. Love your videos. It makes a real difference in peoples lives to help them move forward with an instrument they love. You do this extraordinarily well.

[@johnpandolfino8663]

Thoroughly enjoy your lessons.... Charlie was the one.....number one electric guitar player all players need to listen to .......👏👌👍☃️🎸😎

[@ggus8512]

Another awesome and inspiring lesson for us guitarists out here! Not only are you showing the great contributions of many guitarists of all styles, but making a great contribution of your own! Your lessons and discussions are just plain fun! Thanks again Adrian!

[@autumn-works]

Great lesson! and great licks!

[@Producelikeapro]

Fantastic lesson! Thanks ever so much for doing this! So well explained

[@orentikkanen4738]

Absolutely great lesson! Thanks, Adrian

[@Zonydeep]

Glad you appreciate him. He rocks.

[@somuchmusic5628]

Hey Adrian, Thanks for featuring Charlie Christian. What a guitar icon! And thanks for continuing to share your knowledge and great playing in these tutorial videos! I love your channel. And, glad to see a little different camera angle in this one for the intro, allowing some light from a window to enter the frame; it allowed me to breathe easier, and stop worrying that you lived in a dark basement with the Phantom character always behind you. ;-) Although always love the red panels and the lights in the background - always cheerful! Thanks again for all your work!

[@acpg]

Haha yes, this room actually has quite nice natural light. The old one was basically a cupboard! Pleased you've been enjoying my videos!

[@dcrossification]

First time I heard Solo Flight... wow, blown away. Such swing.

[@acpg]

Yes, likewise. Was thinking about doing a Solo Flight lesson, but I'm not quite ready for that yet!

[@macjam9090]

terrific lesson. Easy to follow and understand. I picked it all up an learned so much. Thank you.

[@JavierSanchez-eo8rg]

Just what I was looking for 👌🏻 thanks for your lesson Adrian. You are a master.

[@thelonious-dx9vi]

Nicely done. Chollie (in addition to his other manifest virtues) definitely provides great bridge material from natural blues vocab to playing on changes. And it all comes full circle too. Even for hardcore bebop folk, having gained full command of all their book learning (which is awesome, beautiful and totally NOT dry or cold or boring), it (i.e. sounding good) still comes down to landing chord tones on strong beats, and knowing that *chords and scales are really the same thing*.

[@johnpandolfino8663]

I must say that I thoroughly enjoy your channel and choice of music and topic's...... Bravo 👏

[@vincentchen5341]

I love it I follow the video and I understand what he did for soloing now I feel my soloing has improved

[@ntcarvalhal]

Amazing lesson! Thank you for your work!

[@binface9]

Beautiful tone

[@georgelange5272]

You are very good at teaching and you explain things very well

[@mishiknezevic5102]

Thank you so much

[@raywoods2071]

Nice clear instruction, and very useful to learning this style, thanks!

[@jasonkesser]

Wow this lesson was sensational

[@williamwalsh6282]

Great lesson…and explanation

[@daviddouglas7950]

Hey Adrian, good to hear from you amigo! Great lesson! Something to shoot for. Now if I can just get my pinky to go where it's supposed to quickly on these chords I'll be doing all right. I checked out some of Charlie's videos. Zowie, absolutely smooth, precise & totally scary, in a good way! MONSTER! Thanks for bringing him to my attention. Hope all is well, by4now, Dave in the Adirondacks Oh yeah, I regularly use your Robert Johnson inspired lesson as part of my warm up now that I've got it down pretty well. Get's the old hands and little grey cells working. Thanks again man! D

[@annettesomers7463]

Lovely thanks! I can apply these licks to so b flat blues I'm learning 💙 sonnymoon for two and mack the knife

[@cheeseheadfiddle]

Around 19:00 when you’re talking about mi6 arpeggios, they always sound “diminished” to me because they basically are, just without the b5. The mi3 and b6 are like the 3 and 7 of a diminished chord and that tritone is half of the diminished tension.

[@williamure6840]

Thanks for the lesson. Very very cool!!!

[@guyluca7361]

Excellent Lesson.

[@PatriceSerapiglia]

Yep he is certainly the original guitar hero that rose to the top with Benny Goodman who was at time as popular as the Beatles. Upon joining Benny Goodman at the age of 21-22 Within weeks, he was heard on the radio waves all over America, made the electric guitar popular, created a unique modern style of guitar and died at the age of 24 years old. So yes he is the first guitar hero.

[@Fitzliputzli23]

Folks, if you want to start with jazz guitar I highly recommend doing it in historical order. Don't start this genre by analysing Pat Metheny, go with Charlie Christian first! You won't understand Wes Montgomery or George Benson without Charlie Christian, you won't understand Pat Metheny without Wes Montgomery. And they all go back to Charlie. Charlie Christian ist the best starting point, even when you plan to go more "modern" later.

[@joelwilson1344]

Having a hard time learning jazz guitar, trying this.

[@thomasfarmer1730]

That’s it!!...if ya gonna copy your guitar hero learn their influences.Its the thought that counts.

[@miguelrebolledo6291]

I can across a good compilation of videos that will help on Worship Fixer Formula

[@metrakos]

great advice I wish I knew when I was 15

[@ernestoescobar1967]

What bout Lonnie Johnson?

[@gtflyer]

This is most welcome, being I'm trying to learn some jazz, so thanks Adrain

[@glenngoldsmith5645]

Great lesson you are an excellent teacher

[@stufromoz8164]

Ahaha I knew you were different, i knew it the first time I saw one of your vids, Charlie is the coolest cat and considering he had such a short recording carerr he influence is immense.

[@poraradi1919]

great lesson clear finger demonstration. looking forward to more videos.

[@iansutherlandcraig]

You are a very talented man!

[@tubeguy8888]

Great Lesson! Thanks.

[@isolateddemon9438]

GREAT JOB....

[@nmonye01]

I like you videos. Great work

[@nicholaspetergagg7769]

Adrian you are a a star,this is essential- watching absolutely wonderful ,I absolutely love this for many reasons; for jazz guitar history ,harmonic understanding and practicality in guitar technique.Love Charlie Christian ,Solo Flight which is fab (did you know Charlie learned Django Rienhardt Solos when he was learning his craft note for note by ear,astounding!) any way this is really good for all guitar players

[@williamwalsh6282]

Great lesson… could you add how these licks fit in against the chords… backing track type thing

[@agustinpadilla7385]

Dope..thank you

[@temp289]

Great stuff. Thank you.

[@tonympirrotta]

Thank you! :)

[@billrand4138]

Nice to see the Virage back :) , thought you had got rid of it

[@acpg]

Still got it, just been neglecting it a bit lately. Lovely guitar!

[@toppertruthio]

Adrian i know i,and many others have made joe 90 jokes,but its all in jest.....your a good teacher....and thank you for taking your time to bother.

[@metrakos]

outstanding lesson ...thanks

[@kwik2hear915]

Great lesson, you are a player!!!!!

[@mackvismusic8622]

Excellence!

[@Acoustic_Illusionists]

Learning a lot of stuffs from you..You are awesome...God bless you

[@lurkkartman3xy338]

wow great and informative video. much love

[@AsafElbaz]

Cool video! At 16:32 the lick can be just as well be interchanged with the tonic and still sound great. In such case it would substitute the I7 with a temporary Imin6 which adds some tension

[@acpg]

Thanks! Yes good idea, definitely try some other applications for these licks. Also a lot of the dominant material will work over the related II chord, and the minor licks can be used over the related V chord.

[@harigeorgeson5885]

A splendid lesson on a really influential player. And I loved the tone on that jazzbox! I’ve been looking for a semi-hollowbody so I’ll look for one of these as well as an ES-335.

[@acpg]

Yes, it works well for jazz. It's not a true semi, but gets close enough to some of those classic jazz tones. At some point I'd love to get an ES 335 or maybe 175 too!

[@lamper2]

great lesson! would you consider teaching some of zal yanovski's playing in the lovin' spoonful e.g. let the boy rock n' roll,day blues,sporting life blues, on the road again,bald headed lena etc the hits i didn't mention because there are millions of videos for those but i think he did riffs and techniques in these songs you don't see lessons of and i think he was doing unique things.

[@copperaudio9664]

Adrian - Love you man! CC lesson - Thank You. BUT... You should always introduce the guitar you're using. I'm wondering what it is because it sounds great for CC.

[@donccarlos9794]

Nice, .. thank you

[@imannonymous7707]

Love ur channel....and yea he is all dat....he had a vision of what the electric guitar could be.....had benny Goodman give him room to stretch....who knows what he could have done.....sadly life was cut short for C.C Well never know

[@clintjamie11]

Thanks for another quality video. I am always excited to see a new post from you. You are full of surprises. Never know what genre it will be, but always informative and well thought out.

[@johndoe-ep7qk]

good stuff!

[@jaythizzle1969]

Always better to start the video with music than words. Thanks for a cool channel.

[@acpg]

I will usually do that if I'm looking at a specific song or solo. This is more of a talky, analysis kind of lesson though and I wanted to explain what it was about right at the outset.

[@redrock1963]

Adrian - Do what you do so well.

[@fabiopunk1661]

There are a lot of people who love what Adrian does, and how he does it. What Adrian puts on YT is gold - for free.

[@vkl47]

Who are you to say what’s “always better”? Lots of people will be familiar with Charlie Christian’s music and might be happy to hear what Adrian has to say in his introduction to the lesson before he starts to play. Myself included.

[@kinochdotcom]

There was nothing like him, although Duane Allman is my favorite, Charlie was the best there ever was in Jazz to me

[@christianolins2520]

You recorded your video intro with that telecaster, do you?

[@jefferylord3068]

the red background makes me think of christmas

[@acpg]

It's Christmas all year round at my house!

[@karlh108]

Nice job Adrian! There really are people out here trying to figure out the magic of MrCC! Even 77 years after his last recording. Thank you for this excellent lesson! BTW, just a month ago I isolated ALL of his recorded solos, and I listen repeatedly on my smartphone (for inspiration). It's a lot more enjoyable when you don't have to listen to Lionel's corny vibes or Benny's dated clarinet.

[@LowWinterSun01]

Great video. Very interesting and useful.

[@acpg]

Thanks. Glad you liked it!

[@WhenHariMetKari]

Pardon me but what keyboard is that in the corner? Thanks for this video.

[@frankymarino6420]

And after ?

[@oldgrannywheels]

Wish I knew theory. I hoped I would pick something up by constantly watching these kinds of videos, but there really is too much and nobody knows where to start. I always get excited to try something until I hear endless theory and know I have to give this up too and do something simple. Why is music just so abstract and not like anything related to real life? Its more like science than art really, I guess that what separates a musical person, I was always awful at math and science... Going on youtube just makes you feel like everyone is better than you in every way.

[@oldgrannywheels]

@@Ayo.Ajisafe Thank you for the kind words, but it turns out my "ear" is even worse. I can't tell chords or what notes are where, but I can recognize movements like slides, things like that. I can play to an extenet but don't know where to go next, I know I don't sound musical. Not to mention I've barly ever seen anyone ever play a guitar, I live in the middle of nowhere and was isoilated most of my life from people. There's no teachers around here, but I dream of a day I can afford to leave this place. I dream of being around groups of musciaians just showing eachother things plainly, with their hands so you plainly see and understand. But a dream it shall remain it seems.

[@oldgrannywheels]

@@Ayo.Ajisafe Thank you for the encouragement at least :) I'm always thankful for those who know these things to share their knowledge. If you take the time to make it I would certainly watch if you send me the link. Thank you again, a little hope goes a long way.

[@raycorrigan1]

picking direction of lick # 3?

[@acpg]

Think I probably sweep the opening triplet with all downstrokes. Then alternate pick the rest. No right or wrong really so experiment and see what works for you. I've read Charlie Christian used mainly downstrokes.

[@potaylo]

what kind of guitar is he playing?

[@addradz]

Vox Hdc77 fat chewy delicious tones hey?😋

[@eduardocampos4808]

😀👍🏻

[@zerocray8686]

You are adorable. Oh yeah, you play guitar well too.

[@richardgillette5759]

I hope you don't always keep that poor Telecaster by the door to let the temperature changes mess with it.

[@GradyElla]

Keith Richards clubbed an unruly fan over the shoulders with his Tele during a gig when the guy jumped on stage and was running toward Mick. He says after he smacked the guy, he strapped the Tele back on, found it was not even out of tune and went on with the show! Believe me, (I own a couple) that thing could care less where it's sitting. There's just nothing that beats a Telecaster. Most perfect guitar ever made!

[@Rynaylorguitar]

Jazzbo 😂

[@acpg]

Haha yes, it just came out, not sure I've ever used the word before, but I like it!

[@Rynaylorguitar]

Me too! Definitely a keeper ;o)

[@DaveTaste]

Jazz is just mistakes.

[@deathmaybeyoursantaclaus]

I need to start using the term "Jazzbo" more often