Joe Pass on Rhythm Changes - 3 Solid Bebop Strategies

[@JensLarsen]

How do you like the idea of analyzing solos from a great player and a common form or song like Blues, Rhythm Changes or All The Things? Maybe there is a whole series in that?

[@johankjolbro9064]

Love the idea, definitely a lot of great stuff to go through.

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks Johan! :)

[@PB_Chill]

Joe Pass’ chord solos and chord Melody’s are my favourite Jazz. My favourite Modern jazz changes every month.

[@JensLarsen]

I am sure more Joe Pass will come along if I do a series on Blues :)

[@seandaniel23]

My FAVORITE jazz guitarist....talking about Joe Pass

[@JensLarsen]

Hahaha! Flattery will get you everywhere! 😁😁

[@RC32Smiths01]

Ahh I remember hearing Ain't Misbehaving for the first time! Just pure magic to hear! He's a profound influence on me indeed! Great video!

[@JensLarsen]

Ain't Misbehavin! 🙂 What version did you hear?

[@RC32Smiths01]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppDOhn2XZrWom68 This version! Perfection!

[@JensLarsen]

Yeah! That is indeed a great version!

[@RC32Smiths01]

Ahh thank you my man! Exactly!

[@JensLarsen]

Did you check out the concert I am linking to in the description? That's in duo with NHØP

[@saxwhisper6083]

Awesome lesson. I get a lot of inspiration from your lines and thought process. It even motivated me to make my own lesson this week. Thanks for keeping jazz alive.

[@JensLarsen]

That's great! Go for it! 🙂

[@saxwhisper6083]

Jens Larsen wow! Thanks for the support. Yea. I don’t play guitar, but a lot of the info you give is applicable to other instruments

[@fredfredmchugh7910]

With bebop, all instruments should be checking this out.

[@saxwhisper6083]

Fred Fred Mchugh I try to check out and transcribe solos other than my instrument(sax). A lot of piano solos are great to check out. And even hearing Jens’ play@ 7:36 I hear a lot of guitar players do, but on sax it sounds a little different

[@billmccannon3267]

Simplify reharmonize more choices. works for evrye one

[@dougnickerson]

Thank you , I learned some new information - which I will now rob & use ate the jam session. The book by Micky Baker ( the only 'modern' guitar book available in 1973 ) talked about 'jump' lines - similar to what a sax section might improvise behind the soloist in a blues solo - a repetitive figure . This is what reminds with the playing of G Bb and Db on the first four bars .

[@rtkeane9384]

2nd phrase sounds like it comes from the melody for Lester Leaps In! Great video

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you 🙂

[@Shuzies]

Nice....some hot stuff here....Thanks Jens

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you dig it Ron! 🙂

[@mr.fabian8471]

Thanks for the video master!!!

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome Fabian!

[@ericgc01]

great video!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@DESIENASHOES]

Yeaaaah finally I have found the time to make this lesson :-) i m a bit on delay with the lessons :-)

[@JensLarsen]

Don't worry about it! They are not going away 🙂

[@LarrySiden]

That's an E-natural over the F7 at the end of bar 8 around 7:45 of the video. That's going to clash with the Eb in F7. Was Joe going for an edgy sound, or did he just get a little sloppy? Hey, it happens to the best of us. Aimee Nolte, the fantastic and charming piano teacher with her own channel talks about he she made exactly that mistake in a gig (she played a B maj triad in her right hand over a G7) and liked the way it sounded so much when it resolved to CMaj that she did it again. That's what makes jazz great.

[@JensLarsen]

In this case it is not really a mistake, he is choosing to think Bb7 over the whole turnaround and using the blues scale. That's by the way a fairly common thing to do 🙂

[@LarrySiden]

@@JensLarsen blue note. Got it.

[@manplay212]

i want to learn jazz guitar from scratch.what should I do.?i want to accompany jazz style song by myself.

[@JensLarsen]

Maybe start here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6S6qpVnlM2EiKc

[@dansoundpromo7829]

Hi i congretulate you for your lessons can you explain it a lettle more slowly please

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Daniel. You can slow down the video on KZbin as well 🙂

[@Pinden81]

Hej Jens, tak for nogle rigtig rigtig lækre jazz lektioner. Er det muligt, at du kan lave en optakt, når du spiller eksemplerne i det rigtig tempo? Det vil gøre det så meget lettere, at spille med og få dem ind i fingrene. Uanset - så tak for nogle lækre lektioner herinde. Mvh Morten

[@JensLarsen]

Tusind tak Morten! Det har jeg faktisk aldrig tænkt over, men det vil jeg da lige gøre! Det var aldrig meningen at I skulle spille med, men hvorfor ikke egenlig :)

[@Pinden81]

Selv tak, Jens - det er en fornøjelse.

[@blackberrywhite7581]

This is easier to understand than the lesson you just gave. What about teaching how to play jazz, this is why it is a dyeing art form because those that know don’t know to teach. All their interested in is making money from those of us that still have our dreams alive. When I finally get to grips with this genre I will make videos students can understand. Old Buddhist proverb “ don’t blame the student just change the the teacher.” Hmm 🤔

[@JensLarsen]

@@blackberrywhite7581 I am sure you can find a KZbin teacher that is a better fit for you than me 😁 Try Rick Beato or Learn Jazz Standards?

[@blackberrywhite7581]

Jens Larsen Rick Beato talks too much, I feel like I am his pychologist when I watch his videos will try Jazz standards.

[@GBgames946]

Is there anything you dont know about music theory? Man thats ridicilous and this is ment as a compliment..

[@JensLarsen]

Haha Thanks! There certainly is a lot I don't know about! But I keep on learning 🙂

[@juliendrouot128]

What's not to like?

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks Julien! 🙂

[@anthonydemitre9392]

Joe Pass didn't use the G7th in the 2nd half of the 1st bar of the form, is this common or is the G7th not really used at faster tempos? and yes it would be a good idea to analyze these common forms because I believe these forms are what a lot of newer ideas were based on to weave in and out of tonality

[@JensLarsen]

He does use ihat G7, but only once or twice, bar 3 in the beginning? But yes I think it is also about the tempo! I wasn't really planning to analyze the form as much as giving examples of how great artists play over the form. I guess the Scofield on a blues is an example, but that won't go up until in a few weeks 🙂

[@4578a]

Now we know where Pat metheny got that from

[@guidemeChrist]

Ok sorry but why would you say "use harmonic minor from iii on #IVdim" when 1) it's rhythm changes, not a modal tune, you don't "use scales" 2) it's not #IVdim (or VIdim or bIIIdim or I dim for that matter), it's called a common tone diminshed and 3) even if you were to play changes in terms of scales (which is not what jazz musicians do unless they're playing modal) the scale that the common tone diminshed comes from would be the diminished chord + a neighbor tone from half step below each chord tone, aka half whole diminished i'm sorry if this comes off ranty and rude, it probably does, but you just see so many weird ahistorical perversions of analysis in jazz pedagogy and saying "iii harmonic minor over #IV diminished" combines like 4 of them in one sentence

[@JensLarsen]

No problem. In my opinion, Common tone diminished is not a very good functional description of what that chord is. #IVdim is since it describes the function of the chord and how it resolves back to the tonic (in this case). The reason why I just give that recipe for the scale is that going over how I arrive at it in detail takes too long and is not what this video is about. I have that in other videos on diminished chords. I think it is ironic that you complain about the perversions of analysis and then site common tone dim. I really think that is a perfect example of somebody trying to assign a meaningless name to a functional chord and focus on all the wrong aspects of it :D

[@JensLarsen]

I would imagine that there are books on tonal harmony that you can read if you want to learn how to analyze music so you don't mix atonal and symmetrical scales with tonal chord progressions like rhythm changes.

[@DaddySantaClaus]

why does everyone always play the same lick on bars 5 and 6?? hahahah

[@jeromeengelberts7078]

you're not Jo Pass on rhtythm changes - you're Jens larsen on Joe Pass on Rhythm changes. I like your video, but the title is misleading. Just saying.

[@JensLarsen]

So what should it be? It is a solo of Joe Pass on Rhythm Changes right?

[@jeromeengelberts7078]

@@JensLarsen no, but you gave me the impression that it was a video of Joe Pass talking bout rhythm changes. No disrespect intended. Incidentally, I once jammed with Joe in Frankfurt and he scared the bejeeezus out of me. I am, to this day, a huge Joe Pass fan

[@JensLarsen]

Ok. That's at least the first time I hear that. You may also find Scofield on the Blues and Benson on the blues a bit disappointing in that case 🙂

[@blackberrywhite7581]

Waste of time sending this to me it’s all double Dutch, when you have learnt how to teach let me know!

[@JensLarsen]

Did I send this to you? 😁

[@sinsagoodmansbrother]

You make the same mistake that everyone does... You take some great theory and jazz riffs but take forever to play it... That's great for the beginners and intermediates but I wish you would just play all the damn bars right up front for the advance guys that just want to pick up the riffs and move on... I could copy you in 5 minutes but don't have the patience for the long drawn our lesson so my friend I must move on to someone else who plays the whole solo up front and then circles back for the beginners...

[@JensLarsen]

Just learn it off the recording then

[@sinsagoodmansbrother]

@@JensLarsen Of course... I can also read the music that you display on the video... It's a great video but I've seen so many great videos that I wish the poster would just play it completely through first... The visual of what position you're on the neck and how you're fingering the lines is extremely helpful... All I'm saying is I just want to see it all real quick up front without the bar by bar or chord to chord analysis... I can always circle back for that... Of course that method is great for the younger guitarists... Good day...

[@JensLarsen]

@@sinsagoodmansbrother what you don't seem to get is that, I need to make a video that most people want to watch, and your suggestion would completely kill the video and make it a waste of time. If all you are looking for is a transcription, then just use Google to find a PDF....

[@jeffbrown9039]

I haxe been following this guy for a while. He is a good player but a poor teacher.

[@JensLarsen]

Joe Pass? I thought he was a fairly decent teacher?