Simplify Your Thinking When Soloing

[@allanwilson8878]

"It becomes less elitist the more you know" is an absolutely fantastic quote. I'm going to steal it.

[@tonymirabal8832]

A renaissance man, balancing Family, Art, Business, thank you for being a role model you nailed it.

[@ericprincen3345]

About 45 minutes in. You are creating a good space for people to think about their phrasing from an experiential point of view. I felt right there that you were inviting me to compare different interval choices with you. "Find those notes." Yes. Perfect. And then the "point it to the guitar"... visual. Thanks for the "find the half steps." Brought it back to listening... Nice.

[@dcxplant]

I'm not a musician. I'm not sure how I got down this particular rabbit hole, but damn! 23 minutes of rambling until the subject of the vid came up, LoL. I only watched up until that point because I was curious how long you would ramble. Yes, I have a lot of free time ;-) Best of luck, and your anti-Apple vid cracked me up too. Your friggin hilarious!

[@ericprincen3345]

I LOVE that people are giving you patches to go to. Gottta play with YOUR tone.

[@Hell_Raven666]

learning so many things from you! you are an amazing teacher sir! love from India!

[@TomGoldsmithguitar]

Stevie Ray Vaughn said "When I pay too much attention to the neck, thats when I'm in trouble.''It's so true. Playing by instinct is what improv is all about.

[@brandoncrutchfield5201]

Just started back playing just wanted to say this channel is a GOLD MINE!! Thank you so much

[@RickBeato]

You’re welcome Brandon!

[@hipnoise_studio]

Like Zappa said: "Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny"

[@BrandochGarage]

haha

[@bercik1964]

I remember that! Which performance was that? "Roxy.."? Hmm, later... "Humour.."?

[@coachkesey]

You are a good sport, love your videos. Amazing to see the love with your children. I have three boys. All started with piano and moved on to guitar and bass. I love to watch the surpass me in skill level. My youngest is 7

[@trabrex7697]

Michelle is priceless the interaction is so much better.

[@MartinMillerGuitar]

Love your work, Rick. Greets, Martin.

[@6stringks]

Came across your channel only yesterday but I am very happy I did. Huge knowledge!!

[@mal2ksc]

All respect to Pat Martino. Other artists can pivot, but he had to completely rebuild himself. He didn't have a choice.

[@bradjaggard1836]

Fractal Audio Axe FX2 XL+!! i bought one because of you Rick! you definitely planted the seed at least that lead to my purchase. you were going on about the latest modelers in one of your vids and it motivated me to look them up, and now i've got my own. one of the best pieces of gear i own!

[@ericprincen3345]

So excited about what you, Adam, and Aimee are thinking wrt the UMG thing

[@sandnermusic1597]

Interesting and fun to follow the "new jazz" mental gymnastics. Simplifying to me means playing an expressive whole note and making it mean something.

[@pcatful]

Even rambling, great video. I forgot what this was supposed to be about.

[@QuinnGuitar]

Cleanser Man. Stanley Bourroughs. Love you, Rick! You are so real and so rockin.

[@sayu122]

so admire such fret board freedom

[@ajcatman]

intense sounds and poly chords.. awesome.. learning a lot from you. thankyou

[@Hightreewalker]

Loved your short guitarsolo Dude, play that way over your piano improvisations on your next upcoming album! i'll buy it

[@35milesoflead]

Nice to hear the mention of breath dynamics in relation to soloing. I was literally talking about it yesterday. Shame I missed the live stream.

[@crimfan]

Breath makes a huge difference to getting a phrase that sounds logical.

[@35milesoflead]

crimfan as someone who sings and plays guitar, it's all about the breath all the time.

[@crimfan]

I do too but taking singing really seriously really makes it a lot more relevant than it is to people who haven''t.

[@coajrmusic]

The repetition-rut is a problem for sax-guys too. Patterns develop and also you can only properly play what you know..... Thanks to your (and a few others) teaching I'm playing stuff off chord changes I only hoped for two years ago.

[@mark-ze4en]

working those modes every day Rick. Thanx

[@andresilvasophisma]

You have great taste in music. The background music in the begining sounds really good.

[@starttherebellion9146]

Please make a video of the social media lecture, and make it available for a fee.

[@jamesfarrington9030]

I studied with a great bass player in 1983. We were working on jazz tunes. The changes were flying by and I thought you should try to play over every chord. I kept messing up. He told me to let the chords do the work. Abercrombie said the same thing in 1994. "heres a chord. How do I put all these scales in? You cant. It pointless." Made my life easier as far as improvising. Im better today at it because I dont care. I use my ear.

[@brendanfranzone2901]

Yes indeed Rick, the music you refer to I have been checking out. I bought Wes Montgomery Boss Guitar after you discussed the solo and I love it. Probably bumped Joe Pass For Django as my favourite now.

[@freddylopez7536]

Love you awesome teacher of so many things in a musical life bravo

[@ajadrew]

Missed the live stream but I would, if I could drive from Essex here in England to meet you, Adam & listen to Aydin!!

[@michaellnbnj]

Another most informative lesson! Thanks, Rick! Appreciate what you bring to KZbin. By far, the best music education channel on the net!

[@wernermarcus6430]

Love your channel. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@joehernandez5600]

Rick, I have the axe-fx XL. It's my main gig rig now. I can give you a lot of practical tips on using the rig and tweaking patches, etc.

[@lucasbretels]

Very interesting lesson!

[@everettwayman]

You look so happy in the thumbnail :)

[@YMESYDT]

Could you bring those talks to Chicago? :))

[@gamby16a]

FF'ed to the actual lesson and was baffled. Not your fault--mine. That is such advanced theory, it's like an entirely different language. Completely lost, but still interesting. The only thing I have in common with this is owning a '93 LP Special. LOL

[@88KeysMan]

I wish I could go to your gig!!!!

[@alexd.alessandro5419]

Please do more "simplify your soloing ".

[@JazzGuitarForum]

Yes!

[@guitardudeguy3139]

I really wish I could go , but I am doing sessions all week..I wish could meet some of you guys.

[@frankpratte8358]

I like to think simple. A7 alt... I just play my "A7 alt stuff" and/or my "A7 stuff". Not really thinking scales, just looking at chord grip shapes and relying on my vocabulary. I can't tell you what scale I'm playing unless I stop and analyse what I just played and figure it out. Very simple thinking; grips and vocabulary.

[@JacobGarcia]

Ayyyyy an Axe Fx!!!

[@VideoEconomist]

As Bonzo Dog Band said, Jazz: Great hot; Disgusting cold.

[@nicobeck42069]

neat guitar!

[@deangoritz9625]

Hey Rick, good example of jazz and rock is umphreys mcgee

[@THEItchybruddah]

That Jr. sounds like a fantastic tele.... (Like the best Les Paul's do!)

[@josephezell2817]

Hey Rick Much love sir. Was putting in a friendly request for hard copy of the Beato book ? Will be buying either way. Keep doing what you do man, whole lots of respect and love peace.

[@RobertPearson777]

Hi Rick, great shows. You should analyze some of Steve Howe's most famous playing.

[@stephengregory7838]

Rick, I think you've got one of the best music education channels on KZbin, but some of your videos, like this one, can be a bit frustrating. We had to wait 25 minutes before you even talked about soloing, and then it was basically two tips. One is “two-ing the five” as you called it (E Dorian over A7), which is jazz 101 (and I should know, because jazz 101 is about the level I'm at, LOL). The other tip was to play Dorian a half-step above the root note when soloing over an alt chord (Bb Dorian over A7alt). But you then conceded that the Ab note in Bb Dorian is problematic over A7, so you might be better served using a major seventh there. That just gives you Bb melodic minor. So you're essentially playing the seventh mode of Bb melodic minor: the good old altered scale. I'm not sure how this simplifies anything, and either way this material could have been covered in more like 10 minutes.

[@RickBeato]

+Stephen Gregory that's why they have a slider button on the video. Click it until you get to the part that you want to see. Do I really have to say that? Don't be a taker bro. You know what that is? The person that complains when someone makes 355 free videos and has never contributed anything like buying my book to my channel. I rarely say anything about this stuff but comments like yours make you sound like a whiny baby. I'd much rather have someone be an a-hole than some crybaby that can't use a mouse to fast forward a video. How do you like that?

[@HTSITYS]

Rick you are right. Stephen you are right aswell. Firstly, I absolutely appreciate every bit of your knowledge you are sharing Rick. Its amazing, and your community loves you for doing it. The KZbin culture can seem quite unthankful sometimes, especially considering when people like you do it for free and dont ask for anything in return. But I also believe that every criticism can help one improve. So, the take away of Stephens comment, I think, is that you could improve the enjoyment and the learning process of your viewers by: a) shortening the intro and/or b) put on some time stamps, telling people where to find what, below your video You know, people on KZbin (including myself unfortunaly;) are not used to having information presentend in videos of 30+mins anymore. So thats why they might find themselves easily lost or even "frustrated". That might be millenium curse. ;) I think modifiying you videos a bit, like written above, would definitely help improve your channel getting more views and attention on KZbin aswell as your community Best, Dave

[@waterboy51]

I respectfully disagree. I enjoy most of Rick's videos, but it is easily understandable to see why a person would be frustrated when they thought they'd be watching an hour long video on a topic, when it takes a half hour to get to the topic indicated in the title

[@MitchellGershten]

Great stuff. Really would love to see you do a video on various eqpt and their uses. For example, what are you using to generate the fill chords that you play the line over ? Looks like you're using a Mac but I don't recognize the interface.

[@davemassie3726]

Thanks Rick

[@mark-ze4en]

consciously thinking up lines before you play? internalize the scales, modes, progressions prior to playing. No escape

[@bronzewand]

i don't think people that just upload a song can gain in any way from it, they would target you and adam because they see you guys as successful

[@bsorryrthatsit7055]

On your C aug 9 chord lesson you got the 'lydian dominant " chord wrong. It's not a major 7th, it's a flat 7 off the F#. Comment's were turned off.

[@gabrielmorton7030]

I think one of the new directions of jazz is "neo soul"

[@lagunjera2079]

Hey, Rick! How do you think what is a better way to start improvising: just trying to think of some melody and find the notes on the instrument OR training yourself in strict arpeggios of the chords included in the progression? What should be the very first thing to do for beginners?

[@michaelshannon9169]

Could ou do a vid on comparisons of guitar and piano? I have been playing guitar for about 20 years and have been learning some piano. I have discovered that with the piano there are so many more options in terms of chords that I had no idea about. With the guitar it seems more restricted in the array of chords one can play. Thanks

[@remley8877]

Hi. Wondering if you know Sam McPherson? A fellow guitarist in the ATL area.

[@camdemobile]

Maestro, have you done a lesson on Coltrane's tone circle?

[@johannherveux1490]

Aydin smells a lot like Debussy, the way note blend and breath to create harmony. There’s much more to say but in a short sentence yup sounds insanely close to Debussy.

[@trabrex7697]

As a child I grew up listening to a cross between Miles Davis and the Beatles and could never figure out why I could never play the Chicago blues. It's all about the age of 5 to 13 years old.

[@professorchill7392]

Simplify your video when editing

[@Abc-qs8ir]

I know when improvising melody fill ins to backup up a singer who is singing modern music, when on the beat generally play a note from the chord and when off the beat any note from the key can be played, generally, while generally avoiding the 4th and seventh melody note of a chord, Is there any comment you would have on that? Or anything you would add to that? :)

[@spencerjohn6194]

So I know your son is really good at knowing notes on the piano. I’ve been looking for notes for this song innocence by svkdo but haven’t been able to. I was wondering if you take personal request? If you could help me out that would amazing!!!

[@sergeyb6071]

Rick looks a bit like Anthony Bourdain - not sure which one of the two is most handsome !

[@grahamlyons8522]

And in my opinion, light years. Rick, was Dylan named after the poet or the songster?

[@mark-ze4en]

great air guitar

[@SeedsOfMusicAcademy]

I noticed you're p90's making a lot of noise. I have noise trouble not only with single coils, but with humbuckers as well. Noise gates don't tend to cut it because, obviously, they don't do anything while notes are being played. Plus they easily sound unnatural. Any advice?

[@Wachnin13]

Hi Rick - I'm over 20 minutes into the video and still no mention of the subject in the title! I like and respect you, but this title feels like click-bait. I think it's mostly an issue with your live streams when they are posted. Could you please use more care when naming these videos? Thanks.

[@bergsofcanada2757]

not liking the sound of the Axefx. no matter how often I hear a fully digital modeled guitar sound it is just not right to my ears. and I really want that to work - an "everything box" for electric guitar sounds. I really think that would be great! but no matter what they come up with, Kempers, Helix etc, it just doesn't sound right. I suspect it's something to do with the actual analog preamp part of those things. before the signal is worked on by the digital modelling, and before it is converted, there must be a short analog signal path where the guitar signal is of course pre amplified to a line level. I use a string of digital pedals in the fx loop of my Maz38, but the guitar gets preamplified by the front end of the Maz first.

[@FrankPersico]

dude you mention its in new york but where? didn't see that on your site either.. somewhere in chelsea where?

[@RickBeato]

+Frank Persico The National Opera Center 330 Seventh Ave, NY, NY 10001

[@FrankPersico]

you rock.. thanks man. hopefully i will see you there!

[@madhatter1662]

I don't claim to have a wide jazz pallet, but is it just me, or does modern djent progressions sound like heavy metal jazz?

[@ubda1]

Man, i was getting into your rant, and learning stuff that you cant from mainstream media. lol

[@zaphodrahja]

Hey Rick isn't there an app for the computer to make editing easier on the Axe FX, love your channel.

[@zaphodrahja]

I just checked the website download "Axe-Edit 3" and edit on your computer screen.

[@randysookyumkim]

Ha ha...I like this woman Michelle~~

[@liquidvideotube]

Rick I have watched a lot of your videos you spend too much time trying to please every comment that people make. Screw them just play and teach.

[@trabrex7697]

The great American revolutionist Thomas Paine did not believe the copyright. 🇺🇸

[@matthewforsee5092]

Hi Rick!

[@jamesc86808]

Lesson starts at 24:00 haha -- The first 24 minutes is fun though.

[@TheMightyDd]

rick what would you recommend for a theory&ear training beginner/im a guitarist (im 21 years old so i missed out on toddler ap training :D) great channel btw even tho most concepts are overwhelming for me

[@TheMightyDd]

beginner = i only know major minor scales and their chords (dont know how&why to use modes)

[@markconn3781]

At 62 is there still hope to become a good guitarist

[@DaMonster]

Mark Conn If at 62 there was... at 63 there is no way to be sure...

[@mrdragoon3344]

24:25 your welcome

[@waynemiller6070]

Funny to watch you start sentence after sentence only to stop as you get distracted by what you're playing.... Who doesn't? Lol Please don't take offence Rick. I'm loving your channel. I only just found it. Feel like I know you as you and I are are so much alike.

[@BlindEyeJones]

A mixolydian is NOT G major. But you should give a lesson on Schenker foreground, background and middle ground analysis of structure. And I`m not talking about Michael Schenker.

[@RickBeato]

+Walter Peretiatko Haha! I misspoke:) love the Michael Schenker reference!

[@ziccuj]

Actually the Schenkerian analysis refers to exploring the correlation between musical proficiency and facial hair: try to find a picture of Rudolf Schenker in the 80's and you'll immediately notice that the tone is in the moustache.

[@BlindEyeJones]

I thought it was mostly about relating the foreground to the background in Hendrix, where a purple haze can be seen as obscuring the whole idea of a structured tonality.

[@mattroggenkamp6717]

I am confused why he said A mixo is Gmaj as well...

[@murphfromearth]

interested to know what you charge for recording. my brother and I have an album on you tube of instrumental music called "rubies " . Ready to record new material. this album is guitar based. with some mandolin and m andocello. Thanks

[@murphfromearth]

chords are easier to hear wirh0ut effects

[@grayforester]

Reminds me of people who need to hear reverb in their cans when they track a vocal. Can I get more awesome in my monitor?

[@myname1469]

Although I am a fan of your videos this one makes me think, "Shut up and say something!"

[@wulfenii64]

I've tried listening to jazz for years and years and just find no inspiration in it. Don't get me wrong, some I do but the majority I don't. I think most people(musicians) are moving towards progressive music. Progressive music gives us all elements of music plus cool effects.

[@DevelopingNL]

What is the name of that guitar?

[@graphicartdude]

I'd like to know as well. It's a Les Paul Special I believe. He mentions it in another video but doesn't say what model or year. He said it cost him $600 10 years ago, if that helps.

[@PaddieFunk]

Can we have a signing off Bob Reynolds?

[@camdemobile]

are those 9's on the guitar?

[@JariSatta]

Random: Researchers claim the best way to stopping the phenomenon, sometimes known as earworms - where snippets of a catchy song inexplicably play like a broken record in your brain - is to solve some tricky anagrams.

[@picksalot1]

Jari Satta - Recalling the first few bars of Beethoven's 5th Symphony stops all earworms for me. It's like fighting fire with fire.

[@x1134x]

Picksalot: Sanitarium By Metallica, E! eliminates all earworms.

[@axe2grind911a]

Better cure is take CONTROL of it. It's a natural ability, this 'ear worms' thing. Challenge yourself to "change the channel". Start by trying to hear another song that you know well. With practice, you can mentally play songs in your head any time you want. The fact that it's already happening is the proof you can do it with intention. Just requires lots of focus.

[@troublingleaf]

Researchers need to start running tests once they've found a "cure", best way out of it is to listen to the song start to end, they usually get stuck in your head because you can't finish it, if that's not it then aknowledge what it is about the song you like, you might not like the song as a whole but if it's stuck in your head you probably like something about the loop it's stuck on!

[@Joesfosterdogs]

"Hi Rick - I'm over 20 minutes into the video and still no mention of the subject in the title! I like and respect you, but this title feels like click-bait. I think it's mostly an issue with your live streams when they are posted. Could you please use more care when naming these videos? Thanks." ---yeah...i feel the same...categorize videos where you get very tangential...rule of KZbin is 3-5 mins or people bounce...this is too old school like we are all buddies hanging out. Very few will hang in here--they are all retired!

[@camdemobile]

what's the device behind you on the desk. i think your guitar is plugged into it, it had some buttons and a single knob?

[@camdemobile]

it's to our left, your right, behind you. not the Fractal Audio unit.

[@watsonvisuals5261]

Looks like a presonus central station plus remote controller for his monitors

[@camdemobile]

UA Apollo Twin? Apogee Quartet?

[@somusica5699]

dam, i would like to meet you, but sadly, i can't, you are to far,, in the other side of Atlantique, good concert, cheers, nice videos thumbs up. ;) ;)

[@SteveTheBassGuy]

Minor conversion

[@trabrex7697]

I see the Beatles as not a blues band but a rhythm and blues band.

[@ShadyRealRap96]

germany is great in deleting stuff for copyright reasons lol... were used to it

[@fernforwood3989]

The revolution will not be streamed-lol