Smooth Jazz Guitar Lesson, tune from 'Secret Combination'

[@stevengolfs]

It's a pleasure to watch and learn from you Matt. Thank you!

[@voldox55]

Wow!Can`t wait to see Part 2... Thank you very much for sharing! It`s a GIFT from a Jazz Guitar Master!

[@mattotten]

Right, although on wikipedia you can find this: "Both the true diminished and its partner mode (with a semitone rather than a tone beginning the pattern) are commonly used in Jazz improvisation. The true diminished is often called the whole-half diminished scale, while its partner is known as the half-whole diminished scale, so named for the first two intervals in their construction...the half-whole scale is used in dominant harmony".

[@MrAtlantajazz]

Love your mellow sound. All on the same page musically. Love it when it all comes together like this.

[@1SharpDressedMan]

Im a huge fan of your music mr otten. This video is fantastic! it helped me out quite alot

[@flamestillburn]

Just smooth jazz guitar... very passion e correct technique... ciao from Sicily

[@DAVEBLISS2007]

Now that is how a jazz guitar should sound, very sweet. Thanks

[@ledu88]

this video really is a wealth of knowledge thank you for your effort in making it

[@dscsasjs2007]

this one is in my favourites, thanks!

[@Scornfyr]

wow u send me to another world man.. i shall make use of ur teaching..

[@mattotten]

try adding &fmt=18 to the url. I don't know why KZbin plays it mono by default

[@bbbk1011]

This kind of explaining of chord/scale relationships helps alot, thanks!

[@tbsblis]

Thank you. Great lesson

[@JazzySaxE]

thank you for the lesson, I don't play guitar however, I can do these chords on my keyboard. Thanks again.

[@Giuseppetotonetw]

Thanks .good sweet guitars lesson !!

[@JustChiminin]

Great stuff . . thanks for sharing !

[@rcc3music]

nice tune, great tone, im gonna get me jazz box yet

[@rickdtrick]

great! love those licks!

[@JustAGuitarPlayer]

First of all, use the neck pickup, (the pickup closest to the fretboard), then you can turn the tone knob associated with that pickup down a bit. I also think his strings are either flat wound strings or half wound strings (they're fairly thick strings). You can buy those at most guitar shops. I would use a thicker guitar pick which will give you a deeper tone also. On the amp, don't crank the treble knob too high. A hollow body archtop style guitar like he's playing helps alot too!

[@leonardaxe]

If you can play bebop, where mastery means you are not only able to deliver 8th note lines in tempos around 300bpm, with 2 chord changes/bar, but actually SAY SOMETHING while doing that, then there is no challenge in playing over a tune with a tempo around 80-100 bpm where you´ve got 2 bars/chord. And for "harmonic sofistication" - check out Ellington, Bill Evans, Wayne Shorter or John Coltrane.

[@danielkirk1]

I will definately buy a cd from you, one of the best smooth jazzers i ever seen! Would be great to be friends with you. :)

[@Mohdritman]

thanks, it's marvellous

[@oylerck]

It's true, there are 2 different diminished scale, one being whole-half alternating, while the 2nd is half-whole. Perhaps this man uses the latter for his definition

[@MJCGuitar]

Very nice. Can you outline Sunny for us too?

[@mrbarber76]

beautiful man!

[@jessestrum]

hi thankyou for video, excellent, can you tell me what make the accompanying machine is thanks

[@mattotten]

leonardaxe: you're right. The problem with many bebop players is that they can perform the neat trick of playing at 300 bpm, but are NOT saying something. There are just not that many Charlie Parkers around. So, for anyone less than pure genius, I recommend to focus on sincerity and feeling, and not care about the number of chords per bar. I was a huge bebop fan (and still love it), but my wife, who is a singer, has a whole different intuitive approach to music, and I am sure it rubbed off

[@snarfergarfer]

Great, thanks!

[@Maverick274]

Wow, thanks guys!

[@NachoLibre621]

Wow, could you put in some tabs? That's amazing!

[@Maverick274]

Can anyone tell me how to get that deep guitar sound that he is using? I'm a beginner at guitar and would love to know =O.

[@andocrates]

I'm like that about shirts. I pay 85 bucks for a shirt I could get at TJ Maxx for 30 bucks. I played a Les Paul mostly, then moved to a strat, now have Ibanez AF75 notice a trend?

[@NAG3]

omg i love your jazz its the best type the old ones suck

[@js100serch]

some of the chords are the same that Buckethead uses for his songs O.o some of these chords are the used in "Electric tears" by buckerhead. This is just a comment, it's only something that I have noticed.

[@ledes022]

how is he recording the sound of his mic and guitar and including it in to a video? sorry to bother

[@renato-corte-real]

thanks a lot

[@ibanezrawker]

:O wow thats some advanced stuff.. if i had an interest in playing jazz i would love to play that, but i usually play what i have fun with... so of course i play metal and rock. the scales on this isnt the hard part, its those chords... and then adding in the scales in between it, wow, theres some great guitaring in this genre... never knew it.

[@MrJazzguitarfreak]

Why is there a conversation about them on a JAZZ video?

[@royrockerfella]

thx for the lesson! but how does the rythm work ? i mean the timing, the chords are easy but how is it played throughout the song? THX!

[@Canadianspunge]

@IronPriest82 That's just because they tend to use smooth jazz as muzac. It's really something you need to develop a liking for. I'm only fifteen so I can't fully appreciate it yet, but I can sure say it's a lot less annoying to me than it was a few years ago when I first heard it.

[@gotanesp]

sweet!!

[@mdluffy113]

nice

[@DoCWaSaBe]

jack bauer took up jazz! AWESOME!

[@mattotten]

see description on the right, thanks

[@leo959]

where could u find posting for tabs of these types of scales?

[@blue59la]

Please continue to unlock the doors for us!

[@TheDonBLYND]

dude he does look like bauer! if he was wispering loudly instead of talking, i'd be freaked out!! btw doesn't sutherland play the guitar? and have a custom colour after him by gibson?

[@mattotten]

Correction: Bbdim should be Bdim, sorry. Thanks to Jos Groot for noticing it.

[@doublearejazz]

hey cool man - u have good sound ! :-) wonna c how 2 improvise on bach music ? look 4 vid: "bach sarabande jazz guitar" regards

[@worwick]

Utilissimo

[@crescentzebra]

Awesome!!!! But am I supposed to know the chords by memory?!

[@Pan3405]

1000000000.00000000000 in a dozen music!!

[@ambientguitarsounds502]

Very Nice!!! :)

[@leonardaxe]

To me, expression lies less in the harmonic form, and more in the way of shaping the melodies (solos) played over it. I play both modal and harmonic jazz myself. I just find bopbased players more versatile in general. But I´m aware that it is a generalization.

[@oiciruam7]

XDDD si igualito. Hi man nice playing, that guitar sound beautiful, had u made some improvements to it? what amp u are using?

[@TangoCharlieAlpha]

Holy crap! It IS Jack Bauer!! "Damnit!!"

[@tedmdelacruz]

damn pretty chords. reminds me of eric johnson

[@MAnuciao79]

hey thanks man....but did you play the bassline as well? Or is it a real bass..

[@Baijensss]

Hey jack. Hows audrey?

[@Tooks77]

what guitar u playing? very nice tone

[@Volcanistry]

whops, ment neck , i sometimes get mixed up lol

[@mattotten]

secondly, I do not agree about the 'no challenge' bit: I know plenty of players that can improvise on Giant Steps, but have no idea how to play a convincing ballad.

[@tinian33]

I hear it too....

[@XarezX]

isnt that the guy from 24

[@vgfreddy21]

Sounds great. How is your guitar tuned? It doesn't sound standard.

[@ibanezrawker]

well im actually pretty good at improv.. but the chords is the harder part for me.. i cant go from even a regular G,C,D,E chord progression to any quick improv like that then go right back into the chords...

[@ThrashMetal]

Where are you from Matt?

[@NDOrehowsky]

its the sound of his guitar

[@TableEnMousse]

@Shogun777 Yeah, when i saw him i was like " Is he Jack Bauer ?! " ahaha

[@andocrates]

Well, son of a gun I had no idea. I've always liked him and his dad.

[@Koreanflow]

improv is much harder than the chords at times... Of course the amount of chord substitutes you can use in jazz is infinite but I guess that's what you're referring to. But to truly play good phrases is a tough feat in itself.

[@junmae808]

i dont get this lesson at all..but beautiful tone and sounding chords

[@Majaffa]

those chords are just mad xD

[@knobsworth]

@Shogun777 ... hahaha ..

[@Ornitoqueirus]

the low part og the neck is not for view mein.

[@theScytheofGod]

I hear the guitar, but his voice is deleted.

[@leonardaxe]

Haha. You´re missing the point. Bebop is first of all a RYTHMIC language. Masturbation is masturbation regardless of style. Also, did you miss for example Evans: very early, Shorter: Infant eyes or Coltrane: Giant steps??? Exactly what is it you find "harmonically sofisticated" with the tune here???

[@leonardaxe]

The point YOU are missing, is that Coltrane, Evans and Shorter all mastered the HARMONIC jazz and BOP before moving on to the modal field - something many young westcoast players today forget, which leaves them with a far more banal and less sofisticated tonal and rythmic language than the masters.

[@NijelBoswell]

I hear a trace of something... Dutch?

[@xScreamToRisex]

@Shogun777 lol

[@RegerAj]

its jack bauer

[@Volcanistry]

Turn down your master tone, turn down treble, and use your bridge pickup

[@leonardaxe]

The guitarist seems like a nice guy though, and I didn´t mean any offense to him or anybody else.

[@andocrates]

20 bucks a set? I use Earnie Ball "Not even slinky" .12's five or six bucks a set

[@tanselturna]

you look like jack bauer

[@SamprazDoodles]

am i the only one who cant hear what hes sayin

[@StuartMawdsley]

So he's recording his voice in mono on the right channel. The music is on both channels left and right. Unfortunately you must have the right channel off? Perhaps. Check your balance.

[@LesterMitchell]

Buckethead sucks. He has some okay songs, though he just gives me a headache after awhile. Great video

[@StatumQuoVideo]

so i guess this guy is ripping off buckethead, buz buckethead invented chords?

[@cugoman]

he looks like keifer sutherland

[@andocrates]

QUOTE he looks like keifer sutherland /QUOTE Yea, If keifer sutherland played guitar! (no it didn't make any sense)

[@GatesMcCrary]

LMAO!

[@keagankeagankeagan]

Pick up a hollow body. You're not going to sound like that with an lp.

[@leonardaxe]

It does sound like a background porn song. And he is NOT a great player. Don´t ever mistake this music for being jazz.

[@IronPriest82]

Sounds like the music a buisness plays while you wait on hold..."Please hold....Your call will be answered shortly...your call is very important to us please remain on the lin" Lol....sorry but a bit boring.