Pat Martino - How to Play Powerful Bop Lines

[@JensLarsen]

The Collar of my shirt is playing Free Jazz in this video, but I didn't notice until I was about to render the video, Sorry about that (and my shirt is just laughing at me....) 😄 For the rest I am really enjoying my birthday! Content: 0:00 Intro 0:24 Building Blocks for lines 0:43 Example #1 - Amazing Pickups 0:54 The Form and the double-time feel 1:40 Analysis of Example #1 2:16 Arpeggio Motifs and Build Up 4:00 Example #1 - Slow 4:23 Example #2 - 4:28 Analysis - Using Motifs to play changes 6:45 Example #2 Slow 6:55 Example #3 - Continuous 8th note melodies 7:04 Mixing Melodic minor and Dorian 8:58 A quote from Parker (or George Benson) 9:49 Re-using the same line? 10:17 Example #3 Slow 10:36 Example #4 - Cross Rhythms 10:43 Cross-rhythms and Polyrhythms with 8th notes 11:02 The Martino Honeysuckle Rose Variation 11:42 The Polyrhythms 12:47 Example #4 SLow 13:02 Like the video? Check out my Patreon Page

[@idnemgk]

Belated Happy Birthday, Jens! These are great videos for experienced players as well as being a goldmine for intermediate and novice players. I enjoy the chance to hang out with you and revisit (or sometimes visit for the first time) so many great guitar players in the Jazz tradition. Re Pat: He has always been one of my favorites. Now I love taking these lines and twisting them around in different directions, maybe adding space in different ways. etc., trying to my best to go for the intensity of groove as when he plays it. Thanks for sharing your knowledge of so many great guitarist's work and what you like about the solos you choose to share!

[@JensLarsen]

@@idnemgk Thank you! I think that is exactly what is the point of these lines: take them and make your own music or your own version of them! :)

[@smartweapon99]

Hey Jens, love your videos man! They’ve helped jazz make a lot more sense! I was wondering if you could do a video on some soloing ideas for Spain? That melody is killer

[@JensLarsen]

@@smartweapon99 Thanks Henry! I will keep that in mind :)

[@jonahferguson4462]

Coffee and a Jens Larsen video to start a saturday. Can't beat that

[@JensLarsen]

Haha! I think it could be a nightmare for some :)

[@captainkoo]

When I watch these videos of the greatest jazz guitarists, I don’t know whether to be encouraged or discouraged !

[@JensLarsen]

I would imagine they are more inspiring, otherwise there is no real reason to watch them, is there? 🙂

[@captainkoo]

@@JensLarsen yes. That’s logical, spoken like a true mathematician !

[@theshredguitarist25]

Pat Martino is my favorite jazz guitarist!

[@JensLarsen]

Well, he is a monster :)

[@frankvaleron]

This is a great video. I just watched that clip where he spoke about seeing everything in minor, like thinking Dm over unaltered G7 and Bm7b5, and thinking Abm over altered G7s

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! Personally I think it makes more sense to try to hear what is actually being played and not have an extra layer of translation going, but that is just me :)

[@frankvaleron]

@@JensLarsen yes I agree. I think using frameworks that you know can be a good gateway into playing over "difficult" chords, and from there you can really get into progressing to understand what you are playing

[@3r1cratpool22]

Always happy to find Jens's video that i never watched. As a big Pat Martino fan, i will make myself a coffe.

[@JensLarsen]

Hope you enjoyed the video 🙂

[@josephtravers777]

Martino's story is a great inspiration! It gives me hope. Thank you for covering him.

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂 His story is indeed amazing!

[@dodo5999888]

That's my favorite Pat solo ever and your explanations are very welcomed, thx

[@JensLarsen]

You are very welcome 🙂

[@conradgittins4476]

I just watched a video of the Pat Martino Trio playing Sunny. It's amazing. In my opinion, few people can play bebop. Pat certainly can and is absolutely outstanding.

[@jazzfusionfan260]

Really liking your lessons Jens... thank you! Pat was the first guitarist I really got into when I started listening to jazz... his awesome long double time lines definitely got my attention. He's a legend, and to think... he had to relearn the guitar after suffering a brain aneurysm.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! Pat is indeed amazing 🙂

[@homerjmay2043]

Happy birthday Jens and congratulations on reaching 100k subscribers.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much! :)

[@livingoutsidethebubble]

Happy birthday for yesterday!

[@anthonydemitre9392]

Happy Birthday! and Thanks for all your great lessons! Jens.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you, Anthony!

[@ChuloDavidcito]

Nice analysis! It's amazing that he recovered from a brain aneurysm that left him unable to play. I listnened to him a lot when I was first learning to play jazz. I stole a few licks, like his Flight Of The Bumblebee-ish thing on a minor chord, and his backwards Z-shaped m11th arpeggio on the 4 highest strings.

[@JensLarsen]

Yes, that is pretty amazing! He was also one of the first jazz guitar players I really got into. I really loved the drive in his lines!

[@eaglelight108]

gleaning what I can and enjoying the learning process...🎉

[@JensLarsen]

That's great! Keep at it :)

[@ukulelechriswilson]

Thank You. Merci beaucoup.

[@cjgreen4331]

Jens started out with Along Came Betty, Jens is cultured. Pat also have a rarer alternate take in case anyone didn't know.

[@85gdawid]

Awesome lesson

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Dawid!

[@DESIENASHOES]

Love the lesson Pat Martino is always a great inspiration,, but playing phrases at his speed it is another topic :-) would be great to have a lesson on the "sunny" song solo live of him and John Scofield together -great groove

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks Francisco. I don't think I am going to check out that solo, because I really don't like the song. Sorry..

[@CJBlake-rf7mv]

Happy Birthday! 🎉 Thank you for another great lesson

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you, CJ!

[@MeikelFernweh]

A very happy birthday and again THXXL for another great lesson! :)

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much Meikel!

[@jazzerson7087]

Thanks for the consistently high quality content Jens and congrats on 100,000 subscribers, that's some achievement for jazz guitar!

[@jazzerson7087]

Do you have a PayPal account I can send a donation to?

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much! It is indeed incredible that it can gather so many jazz guitarists :) I have a PayPal donate button on my website: www.jenslarsen.nl It's on the right near the bottom of the sidebar

[@jazzerson7087]

@@JensLarsen I just sent you a donation. Happy to help out occasionally, the material you're putting out is valuable and you deserve to be rewarded as I know making a career out of jazz guitar in 2019 is tough and every thing counts towards making this work!

[@bubba4001]

Thank you for this piece of work Jens. Regards, David D.

[@JensLarsen]

My pleasure!

[@rillloudmother]

My best lick comes straight out of Martino linear expressions.

[@JensLarsen]

One of my favourites is actually also from the Just Friends solo :D

[@Shuzies]

This is Fantastic....Great Lesson....Thank You Jens

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much, Ron!

[@livingoutsidethebubble]

He is so inspiring. I love his musical mind deeply. He is having a hard time at present and there is a fundraiser up to assist him fyi.

[@JensLarsen]

Yes, I already donated twice :)

[@dkwvt13]

Great lesson, I own some Pat Martino instructional material and as incredible as it is I actually find your breakdowns a little easier to follow. Maybe I'll send them to you for an "interpretation"... 😎. Thank You!

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks Donald! I do get the idea that I don't think about music the same way as Pat, but I never really got into his teaching. I just like the music

[@jedmarsillo]

Happy birthday Jens🎂

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you, Jed! :)

[@grobertabidbol4005]

Congrats for your 100000 Subscribers !

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much! :)

[@roathripper]

congrats on 100k subs Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much!

[@mr.fabian8471]

excellent!!!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it, Fabian!

[@brandonstorms3186]

Hey Jens, Happy Birthday! You're doing us all a great service by making these videos! I have a question for you, at around the 5:10 mark you mention "kinda like a Coton pattern". I'm not sure what you said and assuming you mean "Coltrane" pattern, but just looking for clarification as I'm not familiar with the term you used

[@dakotacheung]

does he play the f#min triad over bm7 because f3minor is the dominant key?

[@JensLarsen]

No, because it is a nice way to target the 3rd of the Bm7 chord and because the notes all sound good against Bm: F#, A, C# is 5,7 and 9 against Bm. All nice extensions.

[@davidseriff711]

Another great video,Pat is one of my idols. Have you ever thought about doing a video on robben ford? There are some solos you might like. The ones I am thinking of are all from his time with the yellow jackets. The tunes are "RUSH HOUR "EMPERIAL STRUT "and PASS IT ON " I would be interested in your take on his lines and how he makes the changes.

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks David! Robben Ford is not really my thing, I like some of his blues playing but not so much the rest :)

[@davidseriff711]

@@JensLarsen no problem. Just thought I would ask.

[@JensLarsen]

No, worries :)

[@davidseriff711]

@@JensLarsen what do you think of PASQUALE GRASSO?

[@JensLarsen]

Great guitar player 👍

[@TheRmoroni]

Happy Birthday !

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Richard 🙂

[@carlosmolina4836]

Happy birthday!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you!

[@jansen_music]

So great on your birthday you chose my favorite guitarist.Thank you! Are you familiar with Pats book "Linear Expressions" It's really under the radar.Tons of ideas and the lines fit over many chord qualities. I would love to hear your opinion on it and happy to pay for the book if you don't have it.Happy Birthday and thanks again for your insights. Don

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much, Don! I don't really know that book, but in general, he seems to think mostly in minor chords? I don't think that system really fits with me. I like to have a way of playing that really just reflects the harmony that is there 🙂

[@jansen_music]

Jens Larsen Fair enough .When I analyze the lines with the harmony of the moment, I'm finding arpeggios,enclosures and passing notes (with a few minor* exceptions) all fit within the chords. his idea to convert to minor is a simpler approach But he does say in the forward of the book : "Ideally one should try to treat every chord change of the progression with the proper device" ... for me it's truly a great path to a strong type of jazz melodicism. Love your work thanks again.

[@JensLarsen]

Sure. I actually think you can tell that he emphasizes minor chords and arpeggios above dom7th chords in this solo, but it is a detail and certainly an interpretation of what is going on :) I like his melodies too, and his strong driving phrasing.

[@petersehested5662]

Tillykke med 100k

[@JensLarsen]

Tusind tak, Peter!

[@jcjazz4433]

Happy birthday

[@JensLarsen]

Thank You! :)

[@ronamundson9151]

welcome back to the Ibanez.

[@JensLarsen]

Indeed :) It's like it never left 🙂

[@melchisedeccarrasquillo4760]

how to play 2 5 1 minor

[@JensLarsen]

Maybe one of these: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3KnZWltmtSSmMU

[@michaelsembello2557]

Excellent ! Great lesson I'm was a student of Martino my name is Michael sembello look me up

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you, Michael. Glad you like it 🙂 he comes across as a very kind person in interviews

[@hubertvancalenbergh9022]

Not my favourite player. I actually prefer his old 70ies (pre-accident) recordings where he sounds more like a fusion guitarist. When you hear too many of those fast bebop lines he is renowned for today, the up and down movement becomes predictable, the melodies strangely interchangeable.

[@JensLarsen]

Then this should fit perfectly, it's a recording from '75 :)

[@hubertvancalenbergh9022]

@@JensLarsen Damn! I suppose I stand corrected. Still, there's something I miss in his playing.

[@JensLarsen]

nobody has to love everything :) I just thought it was funny