Grant Green's Bebop Blues With Chris McQueen

[@premierguitar]

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[@brianb8985]

Awesome video. When you go into the "jazzy" version of the solo, your pull-offs are very grant green. Your tone is excellent as well. Thank you.

[@edwardmorris3852]

Thanks!

[@robertthurman3743]

totally waiting for someone to transcribe It Ain't Necessarily So. It's the song that played in my head until I figured out what my brain was swingin' to. That was over 20 years ago and I still love Grant Green. Suddenly there's a lot more Grant Green content on KZbin that I have never seen in all the years I was looking.

[@teiltje]

Great explanation of the stuff, not to technical and a very encouraging teacher too. Your tone nails the Green tone. Thank you for posting this tutorial.

[@michaeldemento3480]

This is a brilliant, understandable lesson. You are a wonderful teacher.

[@j.p.7708]

Grants son is also a fantastic musician 🎸👍

[@japhney]

Well done!! I've just transcribed Green's Greenery so this is absolutely in the style of Grant Green and well described and should be easy to add-in. Some tasty blues licks also. Looks like I'll have to add Snarky Puppy to my listening list for Christmas......

[@falschnehmung]

thanks SO MUCH .... so mind-opening - and EASY to understand - and thanks for remembering us all of the genius of Grant Green !!!

[@jacko717]

Grant Green wow! Very few lessons on him around! One of George Benson's favourite players iirc.

[@maxbeau5062]

I have never played jazz but this seems accessible and fun. Great lesson!

[@hearpalhere]

Really great lesson and explanation of what changes are happening to the 12 bar version and why. Thanks a lot! The playing was top notch and the guitar is beautiful too!

[@neildavidvandenbergh5422]

This guy's really good, and took an awful lot of words right outta my mouth! 🙏✌️ Thanks Chris, fantastic job. You made my day man!

[@joshuacrime]

I heard a "Blues for Alice" run in there, very hip. Good stuff, Chris.

[@boomerdell]

Great lesson! Love Grant Greene.

[@midnightblues717]

Nicely done! More of this Chris, PLEASE! Cheers, MB

[@Henni63]

Great stuff, well explained.

[@frankvaleron]

Very underrated vidéo

[@jroc2201]

Excellent, impressive

[@robsthedon]

Thanks

[@pjokivuo]

Many thanks Chris, this a really awesome video!

[@robhead22]

Awesome! Im on it! Thank you!

[@JJDoole]

The good thing about ignoring the changes (at least some of the time!) is that the underlying chords give the blues phrasing a different flavour.

[@stilllifewithguitar184]

This is great! Love Grant Green.

[@ericschwartz9982]

Great lesson. Thank you.

[@Mr.ABartley]

Great explanation!

[@jazzmanasbell9487]

Good Job!

[@DorothyOzmaLover]

Wonderful melodic playing! As a guitar composer for book trailers about comics seeking inspiration, I like the pretty tone for that alluring swing sound and advice to add in some Jazz ideas to one's own playing.

[@pieramussardo2449]

Great lesson! Thank you very much!

[@GuitarJawn]

Great video

[@LelandIsley]

Great Lesson!

[@Andreastikanwmetinzwhmou]

Greeeaaat tutorial respect 🥰

[@wasteyelo1]

Good lesson. Grant Green is definitely the gateway drug.

[@kingstumble]

Superb.

[@cloud041089]

Dang, Stevie T grew up and started playing jazz!

[@bobryan8793]

Cool stuff appreciate it....

[@zummo61]

Great! Now I have something fun to do on this 10 degree Saturday morning.

[@jazzguitar2916]

love.

[@papss1950]

Guitar is Moollon.

[@jazzguitarneophyte-christo7988]

Great playimng man! Did Grant Green use flat wounds or round wounds? Does anybody know? Love the tone he produces!

[@kurikokaleidoscope]

kurikokaleidoscope is your new subscriber.

[@MELONenSURPRISE]

Great , what is the jazzy way to play these chords ?

[@hafizimranYT]

Bb?! You taught this in Bb?! That’s too jazz for me already. Heh.

[@falschnehmung]

... just go 3 frets down and you end u with a blues in G. G G G G / C7 C7 G E7 / Amin D7/9 G G ... and start adding more 9th ... ,-)

[@iloverumi]

nice

[@dericdomino]

what kind of pretty guitar is that

[@robertscorpio8432]

I really like the sound of that Guitar ..warm enough for Jazz without roll off and has a nice flutey sound.

[@JimStandley]

What kind of guitar is that?

[@ashooby]

08:37 ...me trying to jazz up the Tetris theme □ □ □ □ □□□ □□□□□□□□□□

[@JacksonvilleNirvaLit]

From which songs were these licks taken?

[@josephkoubek7352]

What make is that axe?

[@ianarras3226]

Moollon instruments

[@imannonymous7707]

anybody know who made his guitar?

[@simonchidgey3215]

It's a Moollon, but one of their rarer models.

[@tenbroeck1958]

"lithe, loose, slightly bluesy and righteously groovy".

[@bluespreacher77]

Great lesson! Just wondering as a non-jazz guy why you didn't refer to the G7 in bar No.8 as VI in Bb? Then the whole progression at the end would be a familiar I VI II V.

[@marciamakesmusic]

Because it's not VI, its V7/ii. It's fundamentally the same progression, a variation on a standard jazz turnaround

[@drakejdf]

I’m no pro and I can’t read music and I’ve played for 36 years and it’s funny I’ve never really known that I’ve been playing this way mixed with blues.unfortunately 8 years ago I had a severe hand injury so major chords are not an option but I work around it and still love playing.

[@kurikokaleidoscope]

Wonderful 💋

[@cburns3256]

Start with Charlie Christian ...then go to Grant Green.

[@imannonymous7707]

i get what ya mean about the blues in jazz being more aproachable ...i guess ? lol i really dont get jazz its complicated for nothing...the people that play it seem to be showing off and it lacks real emotion.......but then ...i wish i was talented enough to get it...maybe its cuz im dumb......but i do like this...thanks for posting it

[@marciamakesmusic]

You're obviously not watching masters of the music. Also complicated for nothing? The only people that make it complicated are people who think it's that way. Jazz at it's core is just syncopated rhythms and clever use of dissonamce

[@lgoler]

to quote Charles McPherson, you play melody, not changes. the melody should always dictate.

[@davisworth5114]

Why is listening to jazz intimidating????

[@tMint0891]

Pete Davidson plays jazz ladies and gentlemen.

[@Twobarpsi]

Someone buy this dude a burger.

[@pageluvva]

Anything to guide people away from that dreaded and over-played 1st position blues box.

[@marciamakesmusic]

This video presenter is kind of bad at articulating the ideas he's presenting. Green did not "ignore the changes", I dont know where this idea comes from. He did a lot more than waffle around a pentatonic scale that's for sure

[@ChrisMcQueenMusic]

I don't claim to be a great teacher, but my goal was to demystify playing jazz changes for blues guitarists. I've listened to A LOT of beginner jazz musicians (including myself) get so caught up on hitting every change at the expense of their phrasing. When you listen to jazz greats (particularly blues-heavy players like Grant Green) you find that they don't always hit chord tones on every change. Maybe you don't like the word "ignore", call it whatever you want, the point is the same: Focus on phrasing, start with your ears, gradually introduce jazz ideas into your playing.

[@TheGNCShow]

@@ChrisMcQueenMusicThis video was/is amazingly helpful to me. Thank you so much! And those little runs starting at 7:19 are great. So simple, but so clean.

[@erikstorm4536]

am i huge fan of grant green , and this dosent sound like grant at all, im sorry bro. you have to have more focus on grants amazing phrasing. still a good video :)

[@ChrisMcQueenMusic]

Well that wasn't really the focus of this lesson. The goal was to introduce blues guitarists to the world of jazz blues with a few Grant Green-inspired bebop licks. Certainly wish I could master his phrasing, but then again only Grant Green can truly sound like Grant Green (true for all of us I think)

[@donkkong5551]

Excellent Lesson!