Joe Pass Style Blues Turnarounds - 10 Killer Finger Style Licks!

[@dawoudkringle7423]

Thank you for this! I met Joe Pass sometime around 1980. He was doing a solo show in my home town. He walked on stage, and realized he'd forgotten his picks. I'd read that he used Jim Dunlap picks; and I had a few in my pocket. He was back by the coat check, rummaging through his pockets. I walked up to him and said Excuse me, Mr. Pass,,," He gave me a look like I was some weird kind of insect and said "Yes?". I held out the picks in my hand and said "Here; I have some picks. You can use mine." He found his picks, thanked me, and said he was good. I said "Here, take them anyway." He looked at me like asparagus was sprouting out of the top of my head, took the picks, and said "thanks." Then he went on stage, and played some of the most amazing solo jazz guitar that's humanly possible.

[@slangpdx]

Saw him at a college ballroom concert in Boise in 1981 or 1982. $10. At the end of the concert he broke into a four string chord version of Holiday for Strings that was the theme for the Red Skelton Show. Crowd was sold out and mesmerized the whole night. Saw him at a work shop earlier that day and asked if he planned another album with Stephan Grapelli, he said depended on whether they were both in NYC at same time, etc. He said "if it sounds like C, it's C".. Pretty simple approach overall. Had friend who took lessons from him for 2 years in LA. He branched into a jazz rock lead style all his own. I played him some Joe Pass style jazz things I had worked out myself, and he said "I can't do that" - he had pursued a different style needing to make a living playing in dance bands. Said he and Joe would drive around SoCal smoking weed.

[@DominicAirola]

Love his way of teaching. Can’t stand it when people teach saying every note like “3rd string 5th fret” and then shorten that to just saying “on the third” or “on the 5th”. Hearing the chord’s intervals and the actually notes saves so much headache.

[@mathias5618]

I've been playing the same boring blues turnarounds over and over, these 10 licks will be super refreshing I really like the speed of your lessons by the way, neither overcomplicating nor oversimplifying things thanks a lot!

[@jacobh5150]

this is GOLD! I don't know how there's only 56k views on this. Learning this completely changed my blues playing.

[@sblack48]

First one us from blues for alican off virtuoso. Love that.

[@mediastarguest]

Very competent and professional demo. I'm not a jazzman but nicely explained tutorial, excellently executed and patiently done. Another thing that stands out is that lovely deep tone complemented with NO string buzz whatsoever.

[@freecitizen2760]

Rick Beato ... the Renaissance Man.

[@RickBeato]

What guitar videos do you all want to see me make? Maybe players, styles or gear?

[@zacflasch2960]

Rick Beato all 3!

[@robert22618]

Django. George Benson. The three Kings: Albert, BB, and Freddie. Albert Collins. That said, your videos on Wes and Joe could keep me busy for the rest of my life.

[@trashbirdie]

Ted Greene please

[@lucazolk862]

Ed Bickert please! Or Lenny Breau!

[@TheCardApprentice]

Hank Garland was a great jazz player with roots in Nashville's country of the 40s. I'd love to have some videos on his style.

[@fredfloyd34]

Ahhhhh good ol memories...Beato your the best...

[@romanslegion7771]

I’ve been waiting for this. My favorite part of an improv ,is many times, the turnaround!, Give us MORE of this. There are secrets to be revealed in understanding what’s exactly going on there. Thank you ,Rick. Someday , maybe your book will become understood by me !!??

[@rickwine9821]

I've been watching a lot of Greg Koch lately. I'm awed by his techniqe, speed and style. In the few teaching videos I've seen, he blasts through so fast, I can't keep up (and I've been playing for over 50 years!) Maybe you could have a shot at his style. Great vids, rick. Keep them coming!

[@sumoblues]

Greg Koch is an alien freak of nature. Best to just enjoy watching him wield his effortless sorcery. LOL!

[@prolixsicklicks]

Hi Rick. Just wanna say that you, along with Aimee's channels, have the most helpful jazz/blues tutorials on KZbin. Very inspiring, keep it up! :D

[@srdjanjapanmusic5817]

yeah, man !!Fantastic !

[@3158030Michael]

Excellent videos! I new Joe personally and I think he would be appreciated that he's music still a live.

[@crimfan]

Those are fantastic. The great Joe Pass!

[@juliendrouot128]

your videos are really great and always inspires me to get back to my guitar. thank you Rick

[@guitareimprovisation]

Thanks a lot Rick, great video ! Giving precise references of Joe Pass tunes would have been awesome, but I know this is (great) free content. Also, to my point of vue, analysing these turnarounds is more relevant with dimished chords (C#° before the D7) or "voice leading" as Joe called them, than tritone substitutes. Keep on !

[@strahinjaristic6544]

Awesome to see you here mon ami ! I'm going to find the Joe pass songs/recordings with these trunaronunds. Any suggestions are welcome, I love and use your work every day just like my friends.

[@janders3205]

Man, thank you! This was/is really helpful. Was working up walking blues solos in a few keys and was struggling with intros and endings.

[@TheCandoheavy]

Thank You Rick, you are the best!!!

[@picksalot1]

The difficult chord fingerings mentioned at 13:33 can be made a lot simpler by barring the Am7 on the first 4 string with 1122, instead of 1111. By keeping the first two strings barred with the 2nd finger, the next 3 chord shapes are much easier to slide into.

[@letmeinwillu]

Superbly explained and demonstrated. Thank you so much, Rick

[@norbertogustavoblanco1700]

That solid body sounds like holow!

[@JazzGuitarForum]

Thanks for sharing some love for jazz guitar!

[@gokayozvardar7577]

Great lesson thank you.

[@naturligfunktion4232]

This is an amazing lesson!

[@dracumelenios]

What a great lesson thank you Rick!

[@ScottTK]

I know the point of the videos is to share your knowledge, but I can't be alone in wanting a video of simply you playing some tunes. I love the explanations, but part of me just wants you to keep on playing.

[@valeriobuccolieri8443]

Great, Thank for the lesson!

[@babilonex]

Beautiful!

[@romainbertrand253]

I miss your videos about jazz.

[@janders3205]

So good!

[@TheRealHucasys]

Love that guitar.

[@mackymccarthy]

Amazing Video the chord progression at 12 Mins is absolute genius, I would love to see a Video on Some Charlie Parker lines

[@augustosantos708]

joe pass lives

[@vhollund]

Great stuff ! More of that Your channel is high quality

[@dronechoons]

Beautiful, love joe pass, downloaded a few albums on the back of one of your other videos. I guess he is very relevant to a question I just asked on another of your videos, need to look into him more I think! This is a great start for me.

[@ivanalejandroguzmanleyva9982]

Beato counterpoint: Tips and tricks(for guitar).It would be great to watch a video of you about that topic. Your channel is awesome,I don´t need Netflix if I have your youtube channel jajaja !!

[@boytjiejoolz]

Excellent lesson. So wish there were tabs for slow dedicated ones.

[@guitarforfree]

Joe pass was a genius

[@PauliReinert]

Class act! I kept hearing “country motion”, thinking what kind of a motion is that?! :D

[@brandonessick775]

Awesome.

[@rajkoschlee]

Thanks a Mountain of a Lot for Sharing your Knowledge and work! This is inspiring and my Feet tip....:-)

[@tonyhume100]

some great stuff here

[@overtonesnteatime198]

Joe pass joe pass and more how pass. A lifetime of how pass couldn't get me down cheers Rick

[@davemckay4359]

Really nice

[@vhollund]

Cool stuff Thank you

[@vecernicek2]

That Chuck Berry lick lead me to an idea for you - how about doing a video on Chuck Berry style? Would be fun and a great way to commemorate him.

[@anthonysilva5312]

This shit is lit! You gave me a few nights of work!

[@jeffreyburton7284]

These are really great turnarounds. Very sophisticated. Is there any chance of getting TAB on them? Thanks!

[@robert22618]

Rick you must have ESP. How else could you have known I want to play like Joe and Wes? ha!

[@DxGrumpzz]

No, thats a gibson

[@RickBeato]

Haha!

[@donwiley4081]

+Josef Linz lol

[@MrMewsique]

I would like to see some Wes Montgomery vids. This Joe Pass turnaround vid is great. Thanks

[@guitarforfree]

awesome stuff

[@timbradley135]

On the second example, you could keep the bass line going to Eb for the chord...

[@joaquincalastrettipereyra8959]

Hey Rick! first of all thanks a lot for your videos, i like to see one of your videos talking about Luis Alberto Spinetta a great musician from Argentina.. ! bye!

[@tweedguitar9103]

Anything to do with "Steely Dan's", harmony, guitar solos, songs. ta..cheers

[@MyJ2B]

Thanks Rick ! Did anyone transcribe these great riffs to paper (Staff or TAB)?

[@ivanarapov5495]

Hey Rick! Can you make a Jerry Reed guitar style video?

[@lanpakia]

Hi Rick! Really love your lessons! Anyway can you please help to explain in Eric Clapton's tears in heaven, the chorus part where the chords harmony go's from F#m-Db/F-A7/E-F#7...etc. How does he actually make up the chords? Is it a Jazz Progression? Thanks!

[@jaggercontreras9270]

cool.

[@MarcoNeriMusic]

Can someone tell in wich album/piece or live Joe is playing these kind of turnarounds?! Thanks

[@hdeline]

IMO Joe was the greatest

[@sydneysitwala]

Lol. This guy is annoyingly good

[@remley8877]

I really appreciate the insight into Joe Pass's thought process. I just noticed that you play exclusively solid body electric guitars and flat top acoustics. Both seem like unusual choices for a jazz guitarist. I'm just curious, why do you prefer these to hollowbody electrics and archtop acoustics?

[@RickBeato]

Because I didn’t own one until yesterday :)

[@keiferreefer1]

Thank you Rick, actually I've really been looking for some turnarounds like this. I play W this guy, he's kind of a novelty , from Paris, anyhow, he plays the drums, harmonica, guitar and sings , and I just chime in w guitar,it's all blues, we work on kitchens so the " Blues Kitchen' concept followed , and we jam, old stuff, Robert Johnson , Elmore James , muddy...etc., all old time, well, jack Youngblood ? I think is a newer guy we do, anyways, I love the open tunings and slide etc., so much I want to get a lap steel to tune to C6 tunings and such, but, I wanted to do jazzier blues to, these are such great sophisticated Joe pass blues stuff I'm gonna incorporate this stuff into the basics somehow, we play on all kinds of keys, knowing where to and how to use ruses substitututions, I think I've got a pretty good feel for it now, love the contrary motion. Joe Pass was my portal to jazz, the album "Guitar Interludes" , I just loved, so clean, I could here the tones and ' get it' sometimes , magic. Yeah, Joe Pass, and then that led me to Ted Greenes chord chemistry, trying to grasp the jazz, so challenging. I played in a band back then, Rich Mauro Revue, well, we,played at the old Carlton house in Pittsburgh like in 1989 or 1981, and I became immersed in Joe Pass, I was intent on learning jazz, some years later ( the band split up) , I joined the Navy to escape Youngstown ( mills closed etc., Black Friday , a real life Billy Joel Allentown happening, so I wind up in California and who do I see in El Cajon on the boardwalk w a bunch of cameras around his neck , think he had a girlfriend w him, is fricking Joe Pass , right?. How crazy is that, again thanks for the lesson, yes ,this ads perfect sophistication to the old blues, use sparingly, maybe

[@vecernicek2]

Lick #5 - I learned this from Ted Greene's video - don't remember which one, but Ted shows this with some mods.

[@peterland2824]

Hey Rick, may I ask what specific guitar model are you using here? Many thanks! P

[@user-rp5oz5wn1b]

2:25

[@micsayre]

Flatwounds on that guitar?

[@richardsrensen4219]

a lot of rag sound