How to Play: 'Give Me The Night' George Benson Guitar Lesson

[@old97sdoreen]

Wow! Great song that I never would have thought to request. Very nice. I appreciate your diverse tastes and skill.

[@thejaseguitar]

Thanks :)

[@louisedonkey6639]

After looking at the multitracks I can now say that there actually was 4 guitar tracks. One that played the slide up the 13th fret, one guitar playing the riff with an octaver, one guitar playing the riff an octave under and one guitarsolo track.

[@billwood8708]

Cheers Jason, one of the best teachers on this site. Clear instructions and no waffle. Keep it up

[@thejaseguitar]

Thanks Bill! :)

[@kpuliatch]

Well Done ! Much gratitude

[@ollitrop46]

love the chimney tone of that blonde tele

[@fingersmagillicuddy4322]

Great tune........and lesson, Thanks !

[@abacadaniel04]

What a great song, rest in peace Rod Temperton. ✌️😇

[@leonardorossilazzari1276]

Thanks my friend. Helps me a lot.

[@Pollandland]

Superb!!! Great lesson much appreciated

[@thejaseguitar]

Cheers :)

[@jmsolis0225]

Any chance for Benson Turn your love around ..... thank you for sharing 👏👏👏

[@bossmarcel100]

Very usefull, helps a lot👍🎸 Thank you 🙏🙋🏻‍♂️🎸

[@standardshirley2480]

great lesson - donated

[@flaviosouza86]

Great lesson, makes it easy. Thanks a lot.

[@chaoukiabdelhadi2997]

Thank you so much

[@memyself4ever1]

Great lesson! Can you do Star of A Story by Heatwave? Thanks mate.

[@papagalule]

Super, thank you! At the end of the bridge I think it is C sharp 7, not C. Anyway, you play the C sharp 😀

[@thejaseguitar]

guta popandau it is, that was a slip of the tongue, sorry. Many thanks.

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[@downhill240]

Excellent lesson. I'll check your channel out next!

[@thejaseguitar]

Thanks :)

[@joshuabts8352]

Thank you !!!

[@massimoputzu1809]

Thanks

[@JDAfrica]

Very cool explanation... thanks dude

[@thejaseguitar]

You're welcome :)

[@histoiretraduite]

THANKS a lot fot this bass it helps me a lot

[@rodrigorochacoutinho6936]

You really helped me out! Thanks so much, but I can say that you should play with a semiaccoustic Jazz guitar!

[@thejaseguitar]

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[@radiogeno4141]

ah ah ah ah ! good job .... ^^

[@mikaellyssarides290]

I was thinking just about the same.

[@tomspallone1868]

Thanks for this. I'm creating backing tracks to play over. Just one thing though; in the bridge, it's a C#7. You actually play it correctly but said it was a C7. Minor detail. I got it. Thanks again!

[@thejaseguitar]

Tom Spallone thanks! Sorry about the C/C# - slip of the tongue:)

[@papagalule]

The C7 is sharp, right?

[@thejaseguitar]

Yes it is - slip of the tongue from me there. .

[@brianmi40]

I picked that signature riff off the CD when it came out (I started out picking off Benson and Ritenour riffs when I got into jazz guitar) and have to gently disagree with your interpretation of it. If you play the original at KZbin's helpful 1/2 speed setting: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n568e6OoZZ58nbM you can hear the notes as this below (as mentioned Lee is playing the riff, with George doing the run of notes down over the top with a matching vocal scat which masks some of the notes so listen for the instances he doesn't play over to fill in the blanks on Lee's repetitive riff...). The second and third time he plays it comes out clearest in the original recording to hear the notes of the riff. Anyway, after the double stop 13s, it's instead Eb, F (on 3rd string possibly played as a hammer on to the F), then C, Cb, B (on 4th string, two pull-offs is how I play them for the chromatic descent), Ab (on 5 string), then a repeated Cb, B (pull of on 4th string again), Ab (on 5th string), then finishing with Ab, F, Ab (on 5th string), B (on 4th string). Later on Lee seems to vary the opening a bit with F, Eb, F, instead of the simpler Eb, F first notes, but it's hard to pick out behind George's vocals. I remember learning to quickly jump the 3rd finger on the F hammer on the 3rd string 10th fret, to immediately jump to 4th string 10th fret C as something new for me, but definitely a Ritnenour style of his to change direction like that with upward movement of the hammer followed by the immediate chromatic movement down on the lower string... A great Captain Fingers riff! Cheers

[@brianmi40]

Of course, at the time we couldn't easily slow down music on CDs like we can today, but I'm leaning now to thinking I was right that his very first opening of the riff starts (after the double stop 13s) instead with a run up of F (5th string), B (4th string), Eb (3rd string) followed by the chromatic run down of C, Cb, B on the 4th string. These guys hated playing one simple riff over and over, so would change a note or two like that to make it more interesting and more fun to play. So it makes total sense Lee would run up to the Eb the first time, then use the Eb, F version...

[@thejaseguitar]

Thanks for the input, very helpful :)

[@jessecarrillo1883]

Jesus is King !

WHO the fuq died? ..maybe he knew you were gonna play his gay little song?

[@jaycos4905]

Sound is crappy, can't understand anything.