Learn this SUPER SIMPLE BLUES // Kenny Burrell MIDNIGHT BLUE // Part 1 + TAB

[@alanchen4100]

This entire series is just fantastic! A great combination of focusing on both technical skills and music theory. I never thought I could play this tune and now I can play a lot of it!

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

So pleased it’s helped you Alan!

[@markeggins890]

I'm only a 'strum and giggle' player but I think I can do at least a bit of that, like your humble attitude too mate.

[@philipmbirch]

Arrived here a little late. Sorry. Just great, thank you. Reached Lesson 4 and still going strong.

[@MorningCarnival]

This is great that, I’m learning this at the moment. playing the F in the first position.

[@waynehicks1969]

Thanks for the tips on the equipment. I am going to try with some reasonable substitutions (Mesa Cali Tweed for the Tweed Deluxe and Epiphone Broadway with Classic 57s for the L5.

[@emilioalonso6011]

" Moondance ", the Van Morrison`s song. Great lesson!

[@commoneuropeanstarling]

Absolutely love everything about this tutorial. Nice presentation and explanation. I'm no jazz purist but this is a great tune to learn. Thank you

[@ThomasGMorgan]

This is my favorite KB album. You are a solid teacher Stephen! Many thanks!

[@MrMistermoon]

thank you ,,,, i love it ,,,, don,t stop with lessons Huub you are the best ,,,,,,,,,

[@ofjazzmen6295]

your videos are just perfect probably the most interesting way of teaching jazz guitar I found on the internet mixing fingering, tabs, theory, history of jazz music. very, very helpful ! Thanks !

[@Ptpop]

Sounds like Moon Dance at the beginning.

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

It does! Do you think it might be a bit of plagiarism on Van Morrisons part? Or just a tribute?

[@Chilajuana]

Awesome rendition!!!!

[@annettesomers7463]

Coming back to your lesson after a while.😊 great lesson, and you play so good! ❤

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Welcome back!

[@davidrussan1946]

just found your cannel it's brilliant ,thanks so much.

[@toms1474]

Thanks for the reply. Keep it up and boogie.

[@arturomassari9214]

Thanks for your fantastic job?

[@jerryanderson9161]

You are fantastic.

[@rickspence979]

Excellent - thanks.

[@davidkelly1220]

Thanks for 📫

[@isra7311]

Wow. Amazng bro. Great sound and cool performanc.

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Thanks mate!

[@samueldavis8256]

Wonderfully insightful, you’re the man!. Can you teach Song For My Father? Please

[@pratibimba3911]

Thank you so much! I always thought blues/jazz was such a cool genre, never got much into it. After not learning anything new for almost a year, your tutorial and also the tips and extra scales notes/pointers you gave throughout this tutorial were very very helpful. Plus ngl this stuff groovy asf .

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Thanks for the kind words I’m so glad it’s helping you!

[@jool1202]

Great works !! The way you are dissecting the song is just perfect. One of the best channel i found on KZbin. Thank you very much

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Thanks mate!

[@maxmoves64]

great lesson and thanks for your time. I read some of the comments and dont think some people get the concept of the blues. It doesnt have to be set out to an exact structure and adhered to which is why it has the freedom to change. Howling wolf john lee hooker, Son House and many others quite often added extra bars and the band had to keep up. JJ Cale and others played blues shuffles in E and i mean just in E, no changes necessary and it was still the blues. If you enjoy a chord and a riff or lick then stick with it if it sounds good. Copying a song is different but when jamming alone or with friends then there are no rules, plus it keeps you on your toes waiting for that change lol :):):) Thats why they call it the blues :)

[@sisirider1963]

This is great!

[@PeterKertesz2013]

Really awesome material. Thank you very much!! 08:30 B Section

[@sambsialia]

I could listen to just the intro on loop for and hour! Great sound and killin’ that groove. You really like the sound on this recording? I would never have believed it. A musicians little smile never lies.

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Thanks Sam! Hope you find it helpful.

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

And yeah I love the blue note sound! It just sounds like New York to me.

[@JuanGabinoMusica]

Beautiful Guitar Tone !!! ❤️🎸

[@strat3]

Thank you ❤

[@patrickcasey5620]

Love the series. Love that you really get into the subtleties and dynamics of the tune. The exercises to show how to expand on a part (like expanding the riff to include the full dorian sequence) are great for really getting your head around the tune.

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

patrick casey thanks Patrick. Glad you enjoyed it and the approach worked for you. Take a look at the new series as it’s a similar approach.

[@miiiiiiiiiiiiiidas]

Man I've been searching a long time for videos like this! Kenny burrell man... Amazing! And so thanks for dissecting it all it's really super useful!!! Thanks a lot sir! ❤️😉

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Thanks mate!

[@insalinity5558]

Yeah. Honestly, the deep dive over the series of videos is fantastic. It’s an excellent format - He is a very good teacher.

[@LenProbert]

Lessons for any other songs off of this classic, great album would be greatly appreciated. There is not a bad tune on this album.

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Oh yes there’s loads of gold on there!

[@adamfarkas7069]

Awesome. Do you have a video about your gear? Sounds really dope.

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

I don’t but I should do one!

[@kid.dynamite4918]

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[@me1235]

"Simple". :D Great lesson!

[@daan5361]

“Super simple” :), he wrote. Well, once you reached a certain level, after many years of playing it might fall in that category. Still a very nice video, which really inspires me to practice on this lazy Sunday 👍. Thanks

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

@daan5361 yes in hindsight, not a helpful name 😂 however was one of my first videos and I gave in to the click bait. I’m a bit more realistic these days. Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for the feedback 😊

[@unkleian]

This is the best tuition on YT. Thank-you. Subs ribed and joined Patreon channel.

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Thanks Ian!!!

[@AG9048]

Thank you for this great lesson! How did you produce the backing track for this tune?

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

My good friends and musicians Joe Harris and Josiah Manning’s played on them. They were recorded remotely and I mixed them at home on logic.

[@rogermurphy280]

Thanks for this video Stephen. Regarding your query at 6:50, the 'Spectrogram' on the 'Capo app' appears to be showing just two (2) notes: Bb and Eb. This is what you are playing. By the way, the bassist, Major Holley jr, is playing an Ab note when Kenny Burrell is playing this double-stop. Perhaps the harmony at this point as Fmi11/Ab. Regards, Roger Murphy

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Thanks for this Roger! 😊

[@craigmcallister2387]

Great wee lesson and excellent explanation. Once mastered (!) I'll tackle the solos in part two. Thanks!

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Thanks Craig! Have fun with the solo!

[@donmiddlemost2118]

Really nice Steve.

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Thanks Don!

[@chrisr530]

Fantastic man! Just found your channel, I’m fairly new to Jazz and this is the first Jazz song I’m trying to learn. Being a blues guy, friends told me to start with Kenny because he uses the pentatonic so well. Anyway, great job and thank you for posting this - I’ll subscribe

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Thanks Chris! Let me know if there’s any others you’d love to see on here. Happy practicing!

[@chrisr530]

@@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons I've always wanted to learn "Please Baby" from Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, has a great guitar line and vibe :-)

[@danielperezcabezas109]

Thanks a lot Steve! it´s been a great lesson.Luckily I can understand English,otherwise I would have been "lost in translation" with the Spanish subtitles.I don´t kow where they come from but sometimes they´re a laugh: Charlie Christian pick ups appear like "christian pickups from China" (here I am translating from the Spanish subt.) and amp Fender tweed de luxe ends up being an "offender tweed de luxe"...Just for laughs.Thanks again Steve,it´s been a valuable lesson and now I´m gonna check part 2

[@JesseJon95]

Get in love this song! Sounds soo good!!

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Thanks Jesse! Kenny is the best!

[@toms1474]

nice playing

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Thanks buddy

[@Geissson]

Amazing lesson, very well explained

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Thanks! 😃

[@dangardiner2011]

i was playing the head, the wife walked past and said, "Billie Jean!"

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Hahaha or Moondance, that’s also similar 😂

[@A10011]

@@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessonsYes, I noticed :)

[@miked3317]

Can i ask which höfner model that is? Beautiful sound. Well Done!!!👍👍👍

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

It’s a Thin President custom build

[@patgaff2536]

I love that sound. I just found you. I am fairly new to guitar. I subscribed. Like your teaching style. Playing too. Thank you.

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Thanks mate

[@andrea14830]

Bravissimo!

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Thanks!

[@insalinity5558]

Great lesson - thank you! This is such a great piece, Burrell is way cool. I don't know why it's not a common piece to teach beginning chord melody with, maybe because of the unusual chord progression. Thanks for noting that it was in F Dorian - I was trying to work it out originally as regular F minor (Aeolian). If I could suggest, a brief harmonic analysis of the chord progression might be helpful in addition to the overall key - maybe you cover that in the next video.

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Good idea! It is quite a confusing sequence!

[@howardshaw4593]

Really enjoyed this lesson and the subsequent ones in the series. I would just mention one small thing (only because you drew attention to it yourself). At 5:35 the way you play the turn on the third beat of the first bar is different to the tab. You add in a 4th note, the A flat which is missing in the tab (but present in the second response phrase). I think the way you play it is better than the tab's version.

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Thanks so much for letting me know about this Howard! Glad you're enjoying the series!

[@patgaff2536]

Would you talk a bit about how to get that sound? Guitar, amp settings?

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

On this one I’m playing a Hofner Thin President through a Kemper with a 74 Champ profile.

[@mjazzguitar]

This is great. I was looking for something straightforward like this. The only thing I was confused about was calling the chord at 8:33 a G minor 7 b5 because of the Eb at the top of the chord. Db 6/9 maybe?

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

It certainly does have the Db flavour but with the bass line playing a G it does make it a Gm7b5. The Eb adds a 13 extension to the chord.

[@mjazzguitar]

@@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons Thanks- I wasn't thinking of the bass line.

[@stephencable1417]

what pickin style do you use on the pening chords is kenny hybrid pickin?

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

I use hybrid picking for the chords.

[@stephencable1417]

Many thanks great site

[@curtahnlund3758]

Absolutely loveley lesson. I am 71 and a Stone Bloomfield fan. Learned a lot from him. Now it’s Burells time to make an impact. Really learned a lot from these lessons (still am..) I wonder If you could do some lesson on ”His holy modal majesty” from Kooper Bloomfields ”Super Session” That would be Very interesting!

[@woodyl8416]

Hmm followed the links but I’m not looking for a monthly payment plan I just would like to purchase this lesson to learn this song. Can you point me in the right direction, thx.

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

I’m afraid they are only available on my Patreon.

[@ralex3697]

Billie Jean too

[@freddiebarnes1382]

Kenny Burrell is still alive.

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

I wish he was!

[@reinbald]

@@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons he still is as today

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

@@reinbald I stand corrected!

[@reinbald]

@@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons thnx for the lesson BTW - I played other voicings so it was nice to see yours!

[@charlesenglebert8226]

+1 subscriber

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Thanks!

[@christianbond1561]

I’d love to see a lesson on “Mule” I’ve searched KZbin- nothing your approach and method is fantasy

[@leroystenhuys4667]

👍🏾🔥

[@Emmetgriffin9]

❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@jwhmusic1]

Great tune - thanks for the lesson. Two points - that I believe every KZbin lesson on this tune get wrong: First, it is not a blues. It is a 32-bar composition (the 16-bar pattern repeats) and there is a written intro and outro. This song - though bluesy and has the word "Blue" in the title - is in fact not a blues form, and you can't really solo over it like one (ie: it never goes to the IV). Second, the intro/outro chords are not triads - they are from the 7th chords. Try playing Eb Ab C on the first fret, then F Bb D on third, then the Ab Maj7 form on fret 4. That is what Kenny is playing - no triads, all 7th chords.

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Hey Jeff, thanks for watching and for the feedback. Those are two grey areas with this tune that I spent quite a bit of time on deliberating over. I agree with you that it is not strictly a 12-bar blues. But it does somewhat resemble a minor blues. It's difficult to nail it down with terminology. Sandra Sherman's lesson on this is excellent and explains it far better than I do. In regards to the chord grabs when I transcribed it I did hear the triads rather than 7ths. However, I will go back and have another listen now you have pointed it out. Thanks again for your feedback!

[@insalinity5558]

@@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons honestly sounds better with the straight triads than shells for intro grabs. It's a low key entry into the piece.

[@mjazzguitar]

@@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons As John Mehegen says in Jazz Improvisation 1, Tonal and Rhythmic Principles, 'Many tunes using the term or title of blues are not "blues" in the sense referred to in this chapter; these tunes evoke a mood sometimes referred to as "blue" - this is a poetic reference, not a musicological one." (Your critic may not agree with John's changes, either)

[@ulisesuhf]

Stephen, un gusto encontrar esta pagina para ´poder seguir estudiando a este grande del jazz. Asi que seguire atentamente los videos para tener mas conocimientos de este gran guitarrista que es Kenny Burrell, un abrazo desde Argentina te paso el enlace de nuestro humilde homenaje a Kenny kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqnCn5aLdp59nas

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

¡Muchas gracias! ¡Estoy muy contento de que te haya sido útil! Acabo de escuchar tu video. ¡Ustedes suenan tan bien! Realmente has clavado el ritmo. ¡Sigue, hombre!

[@ulisesuhf]

@@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons muchas gracias

[@snowchild0]

sk8

[@winstonsmith8240]

Late to the party, but may I suggest that when you're showing us the tab it's unnecessary to spend time telling us what fret to use?Great video though, so it's a constructive criticism not a complaint. Cheers mate. Love this tune.

[@awreal]

you looks like Messi.....!!

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Hahaha really?

[@DrTWG]

Super simple ? I find that really quite demoralising . Good lesson series otherwise .

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

Ah man so sorry you found the title a bit demoralising. Not my intention. Will take that on board when titling next time. Did you manage get something out of the lesson though?

[@DrTWG]

@@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons The lesson is great - it's just that I've been playing for years & have got some decent enough chops but find some of this tune a challenge as I'm sure a lot of people will - it's way beyond beginner level . If you describe it as 'super simple' it diminishes the buzz of learning/playing it . Most of the people watching YT with a guitar in their hands are not going to find this a simple tune to learn. But the lesson is really good - very thorough as well & I look forward to getting the rest of the tune down .

[@SteveDownExeterGuitarLessons]

@@DrTWG I hear you man. Will take that on board! Always happy to have feedback. Hope you enjoy the rest of the tune and lessons!