Robben Ford 'Help The Poor' V-I licks lesson (part 1) - How to Play it, Why it Works

[@PeteCallard]

Hope you’ve enjoyed this - you can find part two here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXKUhWmAZ954nNE and the breakdown of another brilliant Robben Ford lick here kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYqWgomnZdebq68

[@fsback1965]

Can't thank you enough for putting this up here - it's a big help to tonal challenged people like me!!

[@PeteCallard]

Thanks man, much appreciated!

[@aljustal7577]

Great stuff Pete, detailed analysis and perfect tone as always 👍 I remember learning this line back in the day and not really knowing what was going on, but now I do 😄 Robben is the perfect crossover from blues to jazz, looking forward to part two 😃

[@PeteCallard]

Thanks Al Just Al! It’s such a classic, perfect line, & so beautifully played. Robben Ford is a sublime player

[@PeteCalandra]

Really good stuff Pete. Also like the rearranged studio set up and lighting.

[@PeteCallard]

Thanks very much Pete - it's actually a new studio, took a bit of setting up but it's getting there

[@JazzStrat781]

Thanks Pete, always excellent 👍🎸 hope you are well brother!

[@PeteCallard]

Thanks JazzStrat, all good thanks. Hope you’re ok

[@keithmitchellguitarlessons585]

That tone - oooh my....

[@PeteCallard]

Ha! thanks Keith

[@theviciousheadsociety4923]

Love this! Great explanation as always.

[@PeteCallard]

Thanks Graham! Much appreciated

[@j.r.goldman3279]

Great lick

[@ChrisGeden]

Another great vid, Pete. Loving the background lighting, too.

[@PeteCallard]

Thanks very much Chris! Glad you like the background lighting - I need to get some tips from you

[@ChrisGeden]

@@PeteCallard please give me a call or email anytime if you want some tips.

[@PeteCallard]

Thanks Chris, I’ll be in touch…

[@GuitarSmartsPodcast]

Hey Pete, really enjoyed this, downloaded your tab and spent some time getting it under my fingers. Really great stuff!

[@PeteCallard]

Thanks Matt, and thanks for the coffees! They’re such great lines aren’t they

[@GuitarSmartsPodcast]

@@PeteCallard Amazing lines, I've always loved his playing, walks that line between Jazz and Blues really well. Some of my fav lines of his come from his solo on Imperial Strut on the Yellow Jackets album, and I bet you know the lines that I mean too! Would be great to hear your breakdown of some of those lines.

[@PeteCallard]

@@GuitarSmartsPodcastThanks Matt, I'll bear that in mind... He's amazing isn't he - I did a video a few months back on a great line of his from a live version of Tee Time For Eric with the Yellowjackets at Montreux

[@scotttucker9346]

Pete, your demonstration and analysis of this great Robben Ford lick is excellent! I have one comment: I think that "ghost note" may be a Db (from the A7b5 chord) rather than an Eb. And I think the reason that it is very faint could be that rather than using his 2nd finger for that note, he is switching to his 1st finger to get ready for the next lick. That's because the pull-off from the F would be easier. At least the lick is much easier for me to play that way.

[@PeteCallard]

Thanks very much Scott! I must admit I’d always thought that the ghost note was a Db/C#, but on re-transcribing it for this video it really sounded like an Eb, despite my best efforts to convince myself otherwise! That’s not to say I’m correct, just that that’s what it sounded like to me

[@scotttucker9346]

Pete, I think either the Db or Eb sound fine in that spot. I want to add that the way you employ hammer-ons and pull-offs sound identical to way Robben uses them, as best I can tell. I'm looking forward to checking out more of your videos.

[@PeteCallard]

Thanks man, I tried to channel Robben as best I could. You’re right, both notes are from the same scale & work over the A7 chord so either is good

[@giacomocastellano-official]

Great channel!

[@PeteCallard]

Thanks man!

[@wilberramirez8051]

great tone what profile do you use on your Kemper?

[@PeteCallard]

Thanks man, I think it was a Matchless profile

[@Rocker72]

That tone is sublime. Check out Allen Hinds if you don’t already know him. Should be right up your alley. Great lesson! 🙏

[@PeteCallard]

Thanks very much! Allen Hinds is a very classy player, he taught at the music college I went to

[@Rocker72]

@@PeteCallard Nice. I had him as a private instructor on one occasion when I went to MI back in ’95.

[@PeteCallard]

We went to the same college

[@edcrow58]

Great lesson! Do you also have a copy of the chords chart too? Love to have a copy.

[@PeteCallard]

Thanks very much Eddie! I don’t have a copy of the chord chart, but off the top of my head the verse/solo chords are something like Dm7 A13sus A7#5 Dm7 G7 Bb7 Dm7 A7#5 Dm7, & the middle 8 is Gm7 Dm7 Bb7 A7#5. There’s a transcription of this and the other Help The Poor video lick on my buymeacoffee.com/petecallard page in ‘Extras’

[@edcrow58]

@@PeteCallard Cool! Thank you very much.

[@PeteCallard]

You’re welcome, have fun with it

[@j.r.goldman3279]

robbin thought about that lick

[@PeteCallard]

It’s beautifully constructed

[@asarcadyn2414]

@@PeteCallardSo it wasn't improvised? I'm beginning to realise my guitar heroes actually put in a lot of work planning set pieces. I need to do the same.

[@PeteCallard]

@@asarcadyn2414 it could have been improvised, but it feels like something preconceived, or at least played around patterns and shapes that he’s practiced. It’s like language - we all use phrases and variations on phrases that we’ve used before, but they’re so much part of our vocabulary that we don’t necessarily pre-plan them, and they don’t have any less meaning or relevance because we’ve used them before

[@alfonsocrisostomo1366]

Frank Gambale: "Improvisation Made Easy". All problems solved with this book

[@PeteCallard]

Frank Gambale’s a brilliant teacher