Jonathan Kreisberg - Playing in Odd Meters, Solo Guitar, and Young Guitarists' Biggest Weakness

Chase talks with Jonathan Kreisberg!
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[@Vashmata]

This is the future of education, interviews with professional musicians done by meme page admins... What a time to be alive

[@ChaseMaddox]

What did you think of the interview though?

[@Vashmata]

Pretty good! The part about keeping the melody above the harmony really hit for me cause I've been learning his arrangement of My Favorite Things and there are many times when I would be thinking "how the heck did he manage to keep the melody so clear" or "how did he get that note to keep ringing"

[@parijatmoumon]

Long live Jonathan 🔆

[@andrescontreras3632]

Thank you so much for sharing. I'm actually impressed by the amount of information he's able to provide in just 1 hour. Actually had to write several things down !!!

[@ChaseMaddox]

Our pleasure! Kreisberg is the man!

[@michaelbestermusic593]

Great interview. Jonathan is so generous whether in this format or one-on-one, he seems genuinely excited about sharing his insights and wealth of experience

[@ChaseMaddox]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@pallhe]

What an unbelievable musician, wow! Great guy too. Thanks for a fantastic interview, Chase.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for listening 🙏

[@lasse1106]

Jonathan Kreisberg is incredible.

[@ChaseMaddox]

He is!

[@JanLarsenFredriksen]

Wow, JK is great. He is an incredible guitarist for sure. Thank you for conducting the interview in such a way that he was able to speak out and follow his thoughts.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you for checking it out and for your comment, Jan!

[@seattlevkk]

21 at 21:00 - Nice touch :). Great interview - was a little lost on some of the rhythmic stuff but can observe what Jon is doing and dissect it. To add your interview was also great because you didn't interrupt Jon and let him speak at length unlike many other interviews out there. Thanks for posting

[@astahlemusic]

Jonathan is so relatable

[@ChaseMaddox]

Yessir

[@joerobson9988]

this is amazing. thank you very much for sharing. kreisberg is such a cool guy isnt he. incredible musician too

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks for checking it out Joe! Was great to chat with him and glad to share it with you 🤘

[@0xkudz4i]

Playing the Root and the fifth as the melody is really insightful, I'm going to try it out

[@danielbarry5547]

Like getting a personal lesson here, I can dig it!

[@ChaseMaddox]

Glad you dig! 🤘

[@ChuckSilva]

FANtastic! I’m inspired! Thanks.

[@ChaseMaddox]

You’re welcome! 🙏

[@iamdarragh]

Great interview! Keep up the great work

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you! Appreciate that 🙏

[@SanMaiero]

You are very good player much mood and feel

[@SantiagoSandoval]

That toy drum it's an actual drum used in traditional cumbia from Colombia's northern coast. I wonder how did he get it!

[@ChaseMaddox]

Us too!

[@jaredforthmusic]

Fantastic interview! It was great to hear Jonathan's thoughts on jazz and music in general

[@ChaseMaddox]

Appreciate it Jared! 🤘

[@ChuckSilva]

So I was not hip to Jonathan Kreisberg. Wow! What a great find. Track I’m listening to now I would think it was Pat Martino if I didn’t know….fantastic! ❤️

[@ChaseMaddox]

Ahhh he’s one of my favorites! Glad we introduced him to you 🤘

[@Wyrdo999]

If I would have had the teaching aids the kids today have, I'd have been Extremely advanced in 5 years, based on hindsight. I'm 58 yrs old. We didn't have anything back then, other then, at least for me anyway, any teaching methods like today. The books that changed my playing back then were, "Scales and modes in the beginning," Improvising jazz," "chords and progressions for jazz and popular guitar," and " Improvising jazz guitar." After I learned and memorized The major, minor, dominant scale, and I learned the melodic minor and Harmonic minor scales, from that, my soloing really opened up.. In fact when Yngwie Malmsteen came out, I could hear he was using the exact same fingerings from the Book Scales and modes for the Harmonic minor fingerings the book showed up and down the neck.But I still thought, that the concept was to play these scales while soloing, and the problem was, I started to play other notes, and they sounded in or good? So I started to get really confused? My thought process at the beginning was, how can these guys memorize all those scales? I was clueless and so was everyone else around me??? Then the Joe Pass instructional videos came out, along with other videos that came out in the late 80's, this REALLY opened me up to the way I could think and play, and that, along with the Howard Roberts guitar column got me open and hip to what was going on. The scales and modes book did add confusion, the reason being, at the beginning of the book it shows you 3 systems the players use to navigate the fret board. I didn't know which one to learn ? Especially when they through in the chromatic system. This was a great interview, thx for this. I love Jonathan's playing and compositions, and look forward to his future releases.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks for the comment Lorne! 🙌

[@ChuckSilva]

Ted Greene….Chord Chemistry….my bible back in the ‘day’. 😎

[@TiagoLageira]

Great stuff, subscribed!

[@ChaseMaddox]

Awesome, thank you!

[@epserps5055]

He’s a real master. Thanks.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Glad you enjoyed it! 🤘

[@nathanpflughoeft1126]

haha watching with subtitles on turned “pianist envy” to “penis envy”

[@nikolaihaukeland5985]

Huge fan. Wow

[@morkus26]

28:01 Important point.

[@christianprior1516]

Could someone remind me the name of the standard he’s playing when taking about solo guitar playing? I can sing the whole thing but can’t remember what it’s called 😩

[@jonrobertspiano]

Darn that dream

[@diegoandresneyrabarrios7048]

10:35

[@JoaquinRamirez]

I need that drum, now.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Right?!

[@timelwell7002]

My brain hurts! I love listening to JK, he's one of my heroes of the guitar, along with Pasquale Grasso, Ralph Towner and Joe Pass. But these rhythms are hard to 'break down' and whilst I could probably play them, being dyslexic, there's no way I can follow these complicated explanations of such complex rhythmical structures.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Man, me too on lot of this! 🤯

[@michaeladam5592]

Jaco The Jazz Dog

[@ChaseMaddox]

Haha lol

[@smorrow]

Subtitles at 9:10

[@ChaseMaddox]

Definitely

[@ekekelanapoleon2550]

Jesus loves you yo🖤

[@ChaseMaddox]

:)

[@stddisclaimer8020]

Great music, with distinctive style and innovation from this player, but far too many "you know"-s in conversation.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Maybe focus more on the musical elements Kreisberg is a clear master at than on the spoken style of “too many you knows” 😅

[@stddisclaimer8020]

@@ChaseMaddox I expected it. A more brassy member of the fan base, circling the wagons; and in micro-aggressive style, firing back against an imaginary attacker.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Well, you know 😉

[@aadityakiran_s]

Close your eyes and this guy sounds a little bit like the Greatest president of that the US of A ever had. Anyone else?