Joe Pass' Secret to Create Jazz Lines (and Harmonize Them)

[@NathanBortonMusic]

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[@lutherhughes7091]

THIS IS FANTASTIC!!! Every guitar player needs to follow you and study everything you say! (ps, I'm just a bass player but I'm going to work on this!) Thanks and Keep up the GREAT work.

[@LarrySiden]

“Just” a bass player? Don’t sell yourself short. You and the drummer are the glue that holds it all together.

[@unclebaobabmusic]

Major Vertical Shapes 1:53 - 2:07 For anyone confused by the vertical patterns, as I was, here's what I'm picking up. I'm including the CAGED shape each vertical pattern is derived from. Keep in mind that A minor is the relative minor of C major. Any kind of Amin chord is going to be another way of saying some type of Cmaj6 chord, often with additional extensions. Essentially I think this says, play Cmaj7 in each of the most common CAGED shapes (E, A, D) and play the relative minor chord, Amin, in between getting to those shapes. At each one of the CAGED shapes, play the most comfortable extension available: 1. Cmaj7 (A shape) 2-3. Amin and Amin9 (E shape) 4-5. Amin7 and Amin11 (D shape) 6. Cmaj9 (E Shape) - *optional variation 7-8. Cmaj7 and Cmaj11 (D shape) 9. E Quartal voicing or Cmaj13 (rootless) (Easier to think of it from the C shape)

[@unclebaobabmusic]

Minor Vertical Shapes 4:12 - 4:34 Using Aeolian mode, not Dorian! In the minor world, the min4 chord and min5 chord are essentially just extended versions of the min1 chord. I mean they're that way in major world too, but since there's no clash between E and F in minor world (the major 3rd and perfect 4th), using the min4 and min5 chords are a lot more practical: 1. Cmin7 (A shape) 2-3. Fmin7 (min4 chord) and Gmin7 (min4 chord) -- (D shape) 4-5. Cmin7 and Cmin9 (E shape) 6-7. Cmin7 and Cmin11 (D shape) 8. Ebmaj7 (another way of saying rootless Cmaj9) (D shape)

[@unclebaobabmusic]

Dominant Vertical Shapes 5:57 - 6:07 There's a pattern. Build the basic chord, then build it again off of its 3rd or 5th. This is also getting into some Barry Harris concepts: 1-2. C9 and C13 (call it C or A shape, dealer's choice) 3. Gmin6 (rootless C9) (D shape) 4-5. C13 and C7(9, 13) (E shape) 6-7. C7 and C11 (D shape) 8. Ebmin7(b5) or Eb half-diminished (another way of saying rootless C9) (C shape)

[@Gminor7]

THIS is the gold I’ve been looking for since I first saw Joe play live in 1976 in my college freshman year. It’s a lot of work but it’s the sound I love. Masterful lesson!

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Thank you so much!!

[@vivito-]

Great video ! Everything you showed really sound great

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Thanks! It’s all Joe, he was so great!

[@chrissguitarshow206]

Killer lesson, I bought his jazz lines dvd when I was teaching at a guitar store way back in the day. Wished more people would do unique lessons like you did with this video.

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Thank you so much! Means alot

[@chrissguitarshow206]

@@NathanBortonMusic would like to see a breakdown of ced off sounds of synanon that was his most burning solo back when he used a pick exclusively.

[@rgth3167]

Thank you. Ive been struggling for a long time to get a new approach on the guitar.

[@NathanBortonMusic]

No problem! I hope Joe’s approach opens new paths for you

[@mambotime954]

Bro just dropped a masterclass between this one and the Barney kessel video.

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Hey appreciate that! Just happy people are finding the content useful!

[@ulugozkan9502]

Joe studied very much Carulli etudes from the repertory of classical guitar and thanks to that he created a great prototype hybrid guitar music in jazz.

[@NathanBortonMusic]

I'm using string joy broadway pure nickel 12 gauge!

[@guitar1067]

Superb tone!

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Thanks! The Benedetto makes it so easy to sound good!

[@andyshaughnessy1520]

I almost understand it now. Very cool!

[@125jsr]

this one video just elucidated what I've been trying to learn for 10 years lmao. if you made a jazz guitar 101 fundamentals course (similar to Jens Larsen's one) I would buy immediately haha

[@NathanBortonMusic]

There might be one coming up! ...keep a look out :)

[@jonathanfinkelman7419]

Thanks for this excellent lesson. I noticed that in the first measure of your first example you play a D as the second note of the triplet rather than the E indicated in the score. I was wondering how to play it until I figured that out.

[@restlessmusemusic]

So good 🙏

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Hey thanks so much!

[@StefanskiAndroos]

Really solid lesson.

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Thank you!

[@analogalien]

Great lesson!

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Thanks! 😃

[@georgepjevach9140]

Very nice instructional video

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@rogerrouyar4987]

Extra 'Extra ordinary' Sublissimo ' Masterclass pour tous les niveaux' '

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@campparsonssundayschool7844]

I thought that vertical referred to across the neck but horizontal referred to up and down the neck.

[@NathanBortonMusic]

It always made sense to me to call vertical as going up and down the neck and horizontal as going across the neck, but it honestly is what ever works best for you! :)

[@robertburgess2624]

So dam awsome

[@aurora3655]

What do u mean by drop three position?

[@TypingHazard]

It refers to taking the 3rd note from the top of the chord and moving it down an octave A lot of guitar voicings for chords do this out of necessity, unlike piano we can't just play chords in thirds from top to bottom As an example, a C6 chord is spelled C E G A. There's very few places on the neck that we can play those notes in order comfortably, if at all. However, a common voicing we do play is G C E A; we've taken the 2nd note from the top - G - and dropped it an octave. We can play it in tab form as 3322xx or xx5555, to give two common examples Drop 3 would be to take the 3rd from the top - E - and drop it an octave. That gives us E C G A. One possible form of this is x7x585. This applies to inversions of the chord as well, so if you have C6 in 2nd inversion it's G A C E. Drop the 2nd note from the top - C - it's C G A E, or x3525, a very common voicing for C6 on guitar.

[@aurora3655]

@@TypingHazard centred around middle c?

[@victorgioconda]

It would be interesting to have a video about the resources that Joe Pass used to accompany Ella Fitzgerald, I assure you that he would be the first to do so, there is no information on how to accompany singers.

[@AlbertoParmegiani]

alternate V7 chords while note on top keeps going up for a better jazzy sound

[@romienomie]

Cool

[@rogerpercival5486]

Combng chords with scales of is key

[@rogerpercival5486]

Nce

[@ThomasVariale]

Everybody wants to be a teacher. Music is a very definite signs and you have to talk in musical terms for people that really understand what the hell you're talking about. Talk Siri Mister not baloney

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Just curious, what specifically did you find not clear about this lesson in terms of musical terminology?

[@alexhedstrom582]

Sure sure sure, but how the fuck do you play jazz??? -blues guy

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Play all the wrong notes! -jazz guy

[@-Dominique]

It's called considered your hand

[@joeyserrapede]

Phew, going to have to come back to this one a few🤩🤩🤩