Martin Taylor Interview (Jazz Guitar Lesson MA-006) How to play

I met up with Martin Taylor at Guitar Nation 2010 and he greed to do a quick interview for you guys!!! He's the first serious player I have met who DOES NOT do the transcribing thing - but he takes the ear thing to a whole new level!
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[@pilgrimMj]

Excellent! What an honour! Martin Taylor is a fine guitarist (a Certified Guitar Player) and a great teacher. I have some old Guitar Techniques magazines with lessons on how to arrange for solo guitar. Your questions were excellent and certainly not run-of-the-mill. You were able to draw some very interesting information from your interview subject. Thanks for all that you do!

[@trigmachine]

Ive seen martin twice and hes truly awesome

[@tenacious645]

Exactly man. I'm pretty sure a great part of what he is talking about is the ability to hear something and then play it, and eventually turn that ability into hearing it in your head and then mentally translate that sound to the fret board. I can do that with simple stuff, but as far as Taylor and Emmanuel styles go I can only use my ears to figure out the strumming and picking, but like you said practice, practice, practice!

[@Calymos]

The best part, to me, is that the more you practice with your ears, the better you get; eventually, you can just listen to something and play it. That's what I think Martin Taylor is talking about. I remember when I started learning with my ears, I jammed out on some Zeppelin and was surprised when a bunch of licks from Zeppelin 1 popped out in my own playing. It was awesome, and from then on, I feel that learning by ear is the best way, it just takes some serious patience and concentration. :)

[@ArtistWorksInc]

Thanks for the great video. Love the passion you have for teaching. From all the team at Martin's Online Guitar School

[@seamothboy]

I think for most of us transcribing is a pretty good idea -we develop our sense of pitch and rhythm, find some technical challenges, immerse ourselves in the jazz language, improve our abilities with written music and find some licks all from the same activity. I think Martin is probably an exception amongst really top players on this issue. It's always possible to find someone great who hasn't learnt in the usual way, but it doesn't necessarily mean we can emulate them if we use their methods.

[@Andrea_Manconi]

not to understimate you Justin, but...congratulations for having Martin Taylor on your channel!!!

[@harryormemusic]

I've also read something in an interview with Metheny that's really close to what Matin's saying about transcribing around 6.25-6.35 - he said he never really bothered transcribing a whole solo, but he'd just listen to a record over and over as often as he could, he'd end up being able to sing the whole solo through by memory, and he'd have internalised it in that way. As a mere mortal, however, I guess I'm just gonna have to carry on slogging through those whole Wes solos.

[@taildragger53]

@harryormemusic What we forget is that there are only 12 notes in the chromatic scale. Every tune, in the Western World, comes from those 12 notes. Martin Taylor says "There's only ONE scale..the Chromatic."

[@wentbackward]

Great interview! There's a free book that talks about this internalisation too. It's called fundamentals of piano practice, heavy on the piano stuff, obviously. But I've found it very useful for music in general inc. guitar. Particularly the internalisation stuff as well as the speed at which we practice and how we absorb musical knowledge.

[@gtrglenn]

That dude is a genius on the order of Einstein and his thought experiments.

[@guitarwithjamesoffical]

5:44 to 6:14 was taught by Justin :) He must be a good teacher!

[@NightWinterSky]

Thank you Justin (and thank you to your guests) for the interviews (this one and the earlier one with Steve Vai). It was really good to listen to! Very inspiring.

[@fastlaneprofits]

martin taylor awesome jazz guitarist and colunmnist in guitar techniques

[@EpictheEpicest]

wow this guy reminds me a lot of me for some weird reason. I do that thing where I internalize the music too! Like when I am listening to a song on the train and working out how to play a lick or solo that I like and then going home and being able to play it without having touched the guitar. I also feel that I enjoy taking little bits and pieces from a solo or something that I really like and then imagining what I would improv around that. Cool interview, I didn't know this guy, but now I do :)

[@Calymos]

that's what practice is for. these aren't easy things, but if you break 'em up into single notes at a time, it's manageable. have fun!

[@tenacious645]

right right man. Practice will never make perfect but it will always get you closer :)

[@JL2996]

A new lesson! Thanks Justin!

[@wmc128]

I do the same thing learn to visualize playing it,then actual try to play a song,it works all the time

[@downhill240]

Great interview! Thanks for sharing this.

[@taildragger53]

@harryormemusic I have an interview with John McLaughlin where he says he transcribes everything in his mind. Amazingly, Wes Montgomery only played by ear. Couldn't even read chord boxes.(didn't have to anyway!) Never practised scales .Never knew the names of chords. I have an interview with Wes from 1965 done by my old friend Ike Isaacs. He says " I practise tunes but never scales."

[@harryormemusic]

@taildragger53 Yeah man! If I ever notice myself getting too caught up in technical practice, e.g. just playing scales, arps, permutations, etc. and not applying them to tunes, I think about the fact Wes didn't know any of that stuff; it reminds me that that kind of practice should only ever be means to an end, not an end in itself.

[@Azwel]

Hes right. Similarly, I learned to sing by just listening to other singers. How they hold out notes, how quick their attack is, how often they breathed, Just paying a lot of attention to the details of the performance.

[@gotcha000]

I have seen Martin Talor in show (sit just in front of him :o) He was Awesome

[@sbam89]

Really interesting... Thinking your music before playing... Yep !! thanks justin... but now we want more interview !... Maybe one day you can have a rest.. haha ...!

[@kingshearer2]

He's named after two top guitar brands.. no wonder he's good.

[@ch1215]

I write music in my head too! Cool. Now just to be able to play it right when I pick the guitar up... ha ha

[@RezaReza22]

@TheMercful he says "good to see you again mate"

[@SparkyGi]

Check out Justin's expression at 5:25 when he heard Martin say,he never transcribed!!! He went like : ''Oh man,don't tell me that...i spent my whole life doing this!!!''

[@xledzepplinx]

does he call you ray at 0:11? thnx for the upload

[@iamthe7thwalrus]

so i couldnt decide martin or taylor and then i thought, heck! BOTH!

[@ELIASsandberg]

@Cirytan91 would be awesome !

[@CODis4me]

Fourth baby!

[@Calymos]

Remember to have fun too, haha. :)

[@Lostsolider]

Justin: You must have done a lot of transcribing. Taylor: No. Never. LMAO :D

[@mandowarrior123]

@skint0n0minted time thing. would if they could

[@Shornetastic]

Most expensive name in the world of guitar.

[@ELIASsandberg]

FIRST!

[@tenacious645]

great interview but for some reason I always feel cheated when I watch an interview with a musician and he ISN'T even holding his instrument little less playing little bits while talking about them.

[@tenacious645]

fair enough, but this still doesn't change my opinion. I'm not as good at visualizing other peoples musical thoughts.

[@chrispalacios_18]

He never did that

[@Calymos]

you did listen to him, right? think about playin' your guitar along with him talkin, man.