How to Solo Over "Autumn Leaves" With the Blues (and Pentatonic) Scale | Adam Rafferty Guitar Lesson

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[@MrDavidFitzgerald]

Very useful for a beginner!

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I'm so glad you found it helpful! Keep practicing and enjoying the process-every step forward counts. 🎸🎶😊

[@paulhicks3595]

This is just great! I’ve been playing Autumn Leaves for literally 50 years and just messing with the original melody and introducing bits of other tunes with similar progressions. However, now the penny’s finally dropped!! Thanks so much.

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Have fun!

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Thanks Adam! As a banjoist, I am always looking for new angles to approach tunes and found your explanations really helpful. Much gratitude to you.

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Awesome, thank you!

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Thanks master saw the hope!

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Excelllent lesson. Love that bleus approach.

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What a sublime instrument

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Every time I watch one of your videos, I miss Mike. I'll tell you though, wherever he's hanging out, he's proud of you Adam! Good lesson.

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Thank Reed!s

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Heya - I hope you enjoyed this lesson! Have any questions? Leave a comment below - and don't forget to grab the FREE PDF and play along tracks! ❤ 😎

[@jacoblanchett2796]

Very cool and interesting lesson. Thank you Adam.

[@dipakchoudhuri4629]

EXCELLENT

[@danielebagni1804]

Very nice and intersting lecture. Thanks a lot. I play sax, but I have found it really useful

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Daniele - thank you so much 😊

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Hi! I've just found your channel and I'm loving it. Great lesson! Thanks for sharing! I've already become your fan! Thanks again! (I'm gonna devour all your videos!!)

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Thank you!

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I learned a lot from you. Thank you very much!💕

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Thank you so much! I'm really glad to hear that you've found my work helpful. 🎸💕

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Once again, Excellent bro. Forwarding on to my students.

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Thanks Randy!

[@grestyman]

Hi Adam, good lesson, well explained and clear Thank you and I'm well impressed that you could sing Bb over that chord. Steve from NE of the UK

[@adamrafferty]

LOL! Thanks. I practiced stuff like that in college - sing 12 steps away. Crazy.

[@WoodyGamesUK]

This is what you can do for any non-jazz song, playing the minor pentatonic if it's in a minor key (or from the relative minor if it's in a major key), but you're right it's often overlooked for jazz songs, at least for a blues or pop treatment it's a valid option (provided that the key doesn't change all the time, which is common in jazz).

[@amypolonsky]

This has been part of an ongoing discussion I’ve been having with my teacher. He’s a lefty and has never met a thumb pick he likes. They are just not made for lefties. He is encouraging me to not use a thumb pick-but hasn’t yet backed up his guidance with actual reasons beyond that-and that his favorite musicians were pick-less folks.

[@adamrafferty]

Amy if the pick speaks to you then use it. It's a personal matter. Ive used flatpicks, thumbpicks , fingersnails and now none of that. at all. Any tool can be used well. The main thing is - are you getting a good sound, and are you playing in good rhythm>. If so, then thumbpick away.

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GREAT WORK!!! so cool 😎

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Edson - thank you so much 😊

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Great lesson Thanks 🎸

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Thanks Michael!

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Nice lesson. Easy to understand. Awesome thank you.

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Great video! Thanks, Adam!

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Love the unvarnished approach. Like someone just showed me how to colour-in a maths book! Many thanks.

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Simon - thank you so much 😊

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[@andyquelch662]

Good lesson man, thanks .... how would you treat the iv7 chord and the run down at the end? 👍🙏

[@adamrafferty]

I’d have to go into greater detail with you and I am not sure what you mean by “run down” 😀

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Adam, you are such a great musician/guitar player. 😊

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Thank you!

[@alessandrotesser6841]

Hi Adam I'm a fan of yours since ten years. I'm trying to study jazz together with fingerstyle songs. I attended jazz lessons for one year on the 2018 than now I want to start again. Can you suggest me a method o some books that can be useful and simple to study alone please? Thanks a lot and keep doing your wonderful music.

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What do you want to learn exactly?

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Cheers, top video.

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Great stuff Adam! As Always! Guitar Pro files are where it's at, PDF is great but GPX will appeal to even more! Both is best! Thanks for making these tutorials!

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I will check it out!

[@guitarjr]

Brilliant!! Thanks so much

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You're very welcome!

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That’s great, thanks!

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Thank you so much 😊

[@SecularSpinach]

Holy Sh_@tz! I get that! Mind blowing b/c I just 'get it'. Like I just learned in 12 minutes more than what I'd learn in 2 years of listening to stuffy shirt guitar teacher rambling on and on... Beautiful !

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Todd- thank you so much 😊

[@mbmillermo]

A friend who studied with Benny Golson told me that Golson told him a trick to soloing over the changes to "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat": you could always play F-minor blues over any of those chords. The melody is in F-minor blues, so that makes sense, but there are some notes that won't work over some chords. I wonder if Jeff Beck used this tactic in his recording of it.

[@adamrafferty]

I got to play with Benny once great dude! To your comment - YES, and no :-) There are many chord sequences, for examle F- Ab7 Db7 C7 - you can play "horizontally" meaning one scale or mode (or blues) will work just fine. Think of that as a horizontal wipe across several chords. I'm sure Jeff Beck used this (and I would too on "Porkpie" ) - so that it sounds bluesy and soulful. "Vertical" playing is where you relate to each chord or play directly on the changes as you solo. That will sound more like the typical bebop stuff (assuming the rhythm is good!) John Coltranes "Giant Steps" is an example of a tune where you play vertically (pretty much) - you can either hit each chords change or hit each key area. Interestingly, to get "outside" of the key sounds, one of many techniques is to play as if one is soling over Giant Steps - but on a static chord. I have heard Coltrane and Michael Brecker do this type of thing. Tunes like "Autumn Leaves" can go both ways, and it's great for a blues / rock based beginning jazz player to get started with...you can play the blues on this, yet hear chord changes go by. Time by time, one can then creep more colorful notes in, such as the D# on the B7, etc. Thanks for the comment!

[@mbmillermo]

@@adamrafferty -- I mostly have a vertical orientation, so your video was a helpful reminder that there are other ways of thinking about these tunes. Ultimately, I would like to be improvising melodies invented on the spot without having to think about what the chord is. I'm going to focus on blues for a year or two to see how well I can develop my ear. Thanks for all the great videos!

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great adam...

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Vito- thank you so much 😊

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Great lesson! Thank you, Adam! 👍

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Guitar sounds amazing!

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Thank you! :-) I'll tell the builder Daniel Zucali!

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@@adamrafferty and tell Daniel, greetings from Christian 😉

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good tips bro thank you

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Glad you found the tips helpful. Keep rocking! 🎸👍

[@thatlovejones]

I'm just starting to study jazz guitar and found on my own that Autumn Leaves is very bluesy. The lyrics are bluesy too, very touching, and lend themselves well to a jazz/blues vocal. I like your take on this. Jazz guys don't usually bend notes like I do, but one can do it on this tune and sound good if it is kept tasty.

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so interesting~😍👍 Thank you!!

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Thank you!

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My pleasure!

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Merci Adam !

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My pleasure!

[@cothedo]

Hi Adam, I very much enjoyed this guitar lesson. I'm a classically trained guitarist who switched over to fingerstyle a long time ago. This is a nice introduction to coming to grips with jazz improvisation. I noticed on the sheet with chord changes that goes with this lesson, that the last chord for the final two measures is B7b9, but shouldn't that be Em or Em6 or something like that?

[@adamrafferty]

Thanks - yes the song ends in E minor. The lead sheet is a rough guide, don't worry too much on the detail of the chord quality - should simply be a variant of B7 to E -. :-)

[@cothedo]

@@adamrafferty Yes, I understand. Thank you. In the last line of the lead sheet provided with this video, in the third to last measure it lists B7b9, and the next measure, the second to last measure, it lists B7b9 again, which I think should be Em instead--that's what's being played in the sound samples you provided. :-)

[@ruiplas]

Also some Lee Ritenour, Larry Carlton’s playing has this technique

[@danilojoaquino]

What is 251 beat or chord number

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Thanks for sharing this

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Thank you! :-)

[@wchphoto]

"What if I told you that sounds great." Too funny! But, isn't that jazz? ;o) Great lesson AR!

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Thanks Bill!

[@DavidTrevors]

Cool...Sounds tasty like George Benson!

[@adamrafferty]

Hey David! Yes, GB does this - that's where I learned it I think!

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Oh gosh, I thought they were the same thing. :-)

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[@donnadesimone1164]

Nice playing; however, where is the melody? It lacks the Autumn Leaves melody. Sorry.

[@adamrafferty]

It’s a lesson on how to solo over the chord changes.😀

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Thanks for your teaching because it’s not every one can teach, I’ll make sure all my friends know about YOU. really love your teaching God bless you Bro one Love.

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Leeherd- thank you so much 😊