One Melodic Embelishment Every Jazz Guitarist Should Know

[@johne1599]

Going through your old emails, I found this. It works nice on piano, too. Thanks, Jamie!

[@emlyngriffith5846]

After over 50 years of playing (I started on Bert Weedons book!) I'm finally getting into Jazz....and you help me a lot. Thanks very much....a simple riff but so effective.

[@jamieholroydguitar]

Thanks, glad you found it useful!

[@neildavidvandenbergh5422]

Wow, that's beautiful! 🙏💯👏🙌

[@jamieholroydguitar]

Thank you!

[@niitsukid]

Lovely tone

[@jeremyacton4569]

Great lesson! Thanks, Jamie.

[@jamieholroydguitar]

No problem, glad you like the lesson!

[@shanetankey3340]

Sweet sounds dude, 👍

[@downhill240]

Excellent tips on this channel! Thanks for sharing.

[@jamieholroydguitar]

Thanks, glad you like them!

[@hothempire]

Thanks Jaime. Great perspective.

[@kdrake777]

Thanks! One of your best lessons.

[@jamieholroydguitar]

Thank you, glad you think so!

[@CharlesK441]

Thank you !!

[@jamieholroydguitar]

No problem!

[@louismalcolm4283]

great stuff jamie, very useful videos

[@1000eyes55]

Nice lesson!

[@jamieholroydguitar]

Thanks!

[@hallucinogeniciivv6916]

Thanks, love your lessons, a great source for new ideas

[@jamieholroydguitar]

Thanks for the kind words. Glad you like the lessons!

[@kindnick58]

Thanks!

[@jamieholroydguitar]

No problem!

[@avtobus1234]

thank you! great lesson

[@jamieholroydguitar]

No problem, glad you found it useful!

[@FatChihuahua]

Great stuff

[@jamieholroydguitar]

Cheers!

[@shjazz58]

Im loving all of your videos man. Great content

[@ben_manzanares]

Awesome! Thank you for the lesson, wonderful playing and videos! Subscribed!

[@jamieholroydguitar]

Thank you!

[@SKEPSISsean]

Great channel, great video, great website, keep it up man.

[@jamieholroydguitar]

Thank you very much!

[@CharlesK441]

I've loved Jazz from the age of 7 since picking up the guitar. I've never really took it up to really learn and study .... until now!

[@jamieholroydguitar]

No time like the present!

[@jeffreymacmillan7757]

great lesson or tip Jaime. Question or suggestion: wish there was a way to go thru yr videos via increasing difficulty . Trying to figure out a path that logically builds on the earlier ones.... when I look at the list on youtube or yr site I am often stymied. Often can't figure out level of difficulty beforehand. Maybe on yr site if you could label or sort according to level, Beginner, intermediate, etc. Big fan, please keep up the great work...

[@johnholt1027]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge

[@jonathanbarg7847]

Been a jazz fan forever, and now working on playing jazz guitar. On this lesson I actually knew every tune you were demo-ing on. Good work and I enjoy your patient instruction. But blimey, canna ye talk Yankee?! 8^) Thanks Jamie! - Old Texas Dude

[@jamieholroydguitar]

Hahahaha, thanks!

[@spartacusjonesmusic]

Nice lick. I like the way go do into "Day in the Life of a Fool." Have you written out your arrangement for that tune? I like the way you start it off.

[@jamieholroydguitar]

Thank you, glad you like the arrangement! I haven't written that arrangement out I am afraid.

[@spartacusjonesmusic]

Cool. I hope you will. I dig your stuff.

[@robertokochert5098]

Where did you study guitar?

[@jamieholroydguitar]

Leeds college of Music

[@TeddiTP]

do you have a PDF or some sort of print out?

[@jamieholroydguitar]

Sorry I don't

[@floflonan]

Hy maestro ! thank for your shares.. What is the model of your Yamaha and your amp'? thank Jamie ;)

[@jamieholroydguitar]

Thanks for the kind words. The Yamaha is an AE 1200 and the amp is a Music man 112 RD.

[@hrbeta]

Hi Jamie, that’s one great axe, hard to find too...

[@milowagon]

Thanks Jamie. I shall flog that one to death on Saturday night. That is beautiful Yamaha, AE2000 maybe? BCk in the eighties, my old guitar teacher played a Johnny Smith. I. had a contact that was selling an ex Gordon Giltrap ( demo tour) Yamaha, like yours. I got a loan of it for a couple of weeks and let my guru try it. He bought it on the same day and it became his main guitar. The Gibson was packed away as an investment.

[@jamieholroydguitar]

Thanks, it's actually a 1200, but pretty much the same guitar! Great story, would love to try a JS.

[@fogasfilm]

Hi Jamie! I love your teaching you! What strings on this recording using a Yamaha guitar? What brand and tension? Thanks for the reply!

[@jamieholroydguitar]

Thanks, I haven't restrung this guitar yet but I like to use d'addario 12-52 rounds on my archtops.

[@ronlevenberg2985]

Nice lesson, Jamie! Isn't the technique you're using an "enclosure"? Emily Remler uses a related technique in her solo "Blues in Bb", where she plays a note, then a half step up, then back to original, with the three played as an eighth-note triplet. It's more interesting than just playing the one original note, as you say. Her solo is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4PJgpl5aM1oZ9E.

[@ronlevenberg2985]

I should have added that your playing of Days of Wine and Roses and, especially, the Black Orpheus tune is really wonderful. (By the way, I've had the Black Orpheus sound track LP on vinyl since, probably, the 1960s.)

[@jamieholroydguitar]

Thanks for the kind words Ron, I am glad you enjoyed the tunes! Yes the technique certainly is an enclosure, like what Remler uses. Great observation!