How to LEARN Jazz Language (with 5 examples)

[@TiagoLageira]

Sounding great Chase, thanks for the invite and I really hope it helps you guys! ❤️🙌🎸

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you for creating this awesome collection of jazz guitar vocabulary for people to learn from! 🤘🤘

[@audreygiamlayhoon]

Girl here , really appreciate your videos 👋🏻

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you! 🙏

[@michelleinwi6919]

Me too! We are here! I’m a bass player, but still interesting.

[@ChaseMaddox]

@@michelleinwi6919 haha thank you for watching! 🤘

[@mwpv11]

My goal is to be able to play a halfway descent jazz style guitar. Its on my bucket list. I figure at 72 it will keep my mind and fingers sharp and mobile. You’re never too old to try something new!

[@ChaseMaddox]

One of my private students is around your age and he’s made incredible improvement with daily practice. You can definitely do it 🤘

[@morrisgentry8624]

I’m right there with you, William. I’m 75, been playing off and on since high school. Since retiring a few years back, I’ve picked it back up, learning new things, including how to record, mix and master.

[@ChaseMaddox]

@@morrisgentry8624 that’s awesome! 🤘

[@QobelD]

The phrases and embellishments you're showing us strike a balance rare to find in a free video. So sophisticated, so usable. I have not found a guitar language tutorial I liked better. I can't wait to buy the book. Thank you, so much. Let me send you some money. I love it. I do want to transcribe more, but this is good stuff right here.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Really appreciate your comment Robert! More to come 🙏

[@anncordey6271]

Wrong, have been watching your videos too and really enjoying them- 👍 Ann

[@ChaseMaddox]

What’s wrong?

[@bozakarlin9034]

Great lesson, thanks.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks Boza!

[@mpdjr77]

Nice playing. Tastefully smooth. Grace and Peace

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you! 🙏

[@richardsorice4509]

Wow, so awesome, Chase! I am pretty convinced that learning licks is the short cut to sounding better, not that, that is necessarily easy in any way. Yes, transcribing is better, but so freaking time consuming. I think people are afraid that if they learn these licks, that they will sound exactly like the other people who view this video and I think that is so wrong. Every person will glean different articulation and style and make it their own. Plus, trying to insert a lick on a gig, almost never works out well, LOL! This morning, I viewed a video I did on a restaurant gig 11 years ago. Trust me, fairly cringe worthy. My time was somewhat suspect and a lot of my lines didn't resolve well, because I did not have the vocabulary then that I have now, but I did outline the harmonies pretty well and I feel that my playing has improved a lot since then and especially since I retired from my day job 5 years ago. Having said that, I think my improvement has come in memorizing licks, tunes, and working with my metronome. With those improvements happening, I still sound like me, hopefully somewhat improved. Thanks for your channel. You do a great job!

[@ChaseMaddox]

Awesome! Thanks for your comment and support! 🤘

[@hounddog1381]

Awesome! It must be such fun playing when you are this good 😊

[@ChaseMaddox]

It is definitely more fun the better you get!

[@johnpritchard9753]

Really enjoyed this and will look up Tiago's course. Thanks.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks John! 🤘

[@rob8482]

Awesome playing, sir! Another great video!

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you Robert! 🙏

[@JazzStrat781]

Fantastic content Chase 🎸👍 you know I love anytime that you throw in some Benson! Best to you brother, appreciate your videos very much!

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you as always! Benson forever! 🤘

[@richardsorice4509]

@@ChaseMaddox Amen!

[@ChachiImmensity]

Wow, thanks for this lesson and all the great content! Is there a possibility to see a preview of the videos of the course? Like snippets of some of the solos. I'm really interest but I'm not super sure it's for me.

[@ChaseMaddox]

You're welcome! At this time, I don't have any preview for the course. Might be something I can put together for the future, but I currently have a few other projects that are getting priority. Thank you for asking! 🤘

[@Malcolm.Y]

This type of book already exists in Jerry Coker's "Patterns for Jazz" (50 years old, and now, free on the internet). He shows dozens of idiomatic or cliche melodic patterns in different variations, excerpted from the recorded solos of the "greats."

[@ChaseMaddox]

Not based specifically on the patterns and idiomatic phrases of jazz GUITARISTS though. Quite different.

[@Malcolm.Y]

​@@ChaseMaddox QUITE different? Maybe a little different. Maybe better. When I was learning, one would have been concerned about getting boxed into playing "guitar licks." Guys like Joes Pass, Herb Ellis, and Barney Kessel - who didn't have a world of older guitar players to copy - received acclaim from "cats" regardless of instrument. But now, you only have have to sell guitar jazz to other guitarists. So, maybe you only need the Be or the Bop, but not both.

[@wilbertmurry6570]

Lots of good sounds, more jazz language is what I need, definitely interested in the course. Will give me the model of your guitar again? I wrote it down someplace and can’t find it.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks Wilbert! It’s an Ibanez Artcore AG85 model

[@alexd.alessandro5419]

Hi there, I really like your content, could you tell me please where to find those Thiago master Lines? Thanks

[@ChaseMaddox]

Here! www.jazzmemes.org/jazz-guitar-vocabulary-for-standards-level-1

[@linotom1887]

are you talking about Tiago Legeira? ...man he is an impecable pristine jazz player

[@ChaseMaddox]

Yes I am! He’s phenomenal, so glad to work with him on this project 🤘

[@dinosaurtaco5670]

Awesome! Love your videos.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you Dinosaur Taco! 🦕 🌮

[@Meenjedatnou]

What a beautiful Ibanez! What is it?

[@ChaseMaddox]

Ibanez Artcore AG85 👍

[@Meenjedatnou]

@@ChaseMaddox thanks!

[@quasimandias]

Great stuff.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you! 🙏

[@marc8vino]

On one of your videos you mention jiu jitsu injuries. How do you feel your hands are doing with all the grip fighting etc. It seems to make my hands stiff. I am 51 and have been doing MMA type stuff all my life. My hands just don't work as well after too much jiu jitsu with gui. Just wondering if you have any tips too keep the hands and fingers loose and not become a death grip claw. Thank You

[@ChaseMaddox]

Great question. I’d say the first thing is you have to think about which of those activities are a priority for you. Obviously for me, making sure my hands can comfortably play guitar is my priority since that’s how I make my living. This means I do less sparring or focus on no-gi sparring more often. I also make sure to wrap my fingers for every sparring session and work with partners that know I’m a musician and don’t grip fight aggressively. That’s all I’ve come up with so far, but keep in mind I don’t have tons of experience in jiu jitsu. I’ve been training less than a year.

[@marc8vino]

@@ChaseMaddox Thank You.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Last thing, a nice hot epsom salt soak will do wonders for your hands 👌

[@supmet2]

Maybe in the future you could analyze solos by Miles Okazaki, Marc Ducret, or Mary Halvorson playing over one of their original compositions.

[@ChaseMaddox]

I’m familiar with them but haven’t checked out their work. Any suggestions?

[@castengutitar]

Female guitarist here! (Lesbian tho… hahahaha)

[@ChaseMaddox]

Lol happy to have you here!

[@bassmonk2920]

You have to know the legacy.....

[@ChaseMaddox]

What does it mean to know the legacy?

[@SomethingImpromptu]

Lol I suspect that you aren’t doing much for attracting more female viewers if you decide to only start welcoming guys because so far that’s who trended towards watching your videos. x’D But good video as someone dipping their toes into jazz guitar, interesting stuff.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Lol I’m sure it’s also the fact that I’m teaching jazz guitar which is a predominantly male audience already. Thanks for checking out the video 🤘

[@richardhanney7950]

Listening to these jazz musicians is like trying to read alchemical texts from the 17th century , you recognize the words and it seems like English but the meaning is just out of reach.

[@ChaseMaddox]

What do you mean?

[@richardhanney7950]

@@ChaseMaddox nothing bad my friend, yours is a great channel, that was just my smart arse way of saying that most of it still goes right over my head! But thanks to channels like this I'll make sense of it eventually

[@ChaseMaddox]

@@richardhanney7950 all good! Anything specific I can maybe clear up for you in the jazz world?

[@jrodthompson7454]

I hate the way music people talk about music. It's like trying to tech u about "Star Wars" in "Wookie", instead of using English 🤯!!!!

[@ChaseMaddox]

So don’t watch KZbin videos talking about music?

[@jrodthompson7454]

@@ChaseMaddox sometimes they speak English. Doesn't happen often, but when it does I learn so much so it's worth the search.

[@joyfullmusicexploring-thom5093]

hey i am a rich young willing blonde lady :-)

[@ChaseMaddox]

Willing to learn jazz?! Amazing!