Tim Lerch -"Breaking Into The Boxes" The Secret to Sophisticated Blues Soloing.

[@TimLerchGuitar]

Much more on this subject in my new book Melodic Blues Guitar Soloing geni.us/melodicblues

[@TimLerchGuitar]

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[@aslazaimi5824]

I didn't know You before, now i know you, I'm happy

[@minigmac1]

Tim you've changed my life!

[@SONICBOOMERSOONER]

I sat here with my Tele unplugged and went along with you on this journey, sometimes slowing it down to catch the nuances (Man, your right handle puts the S in subtle) for well over an hour. Then I plugged into a 60W tube amp and tried mixing everything I stole with uptown style rhythm chord stabs for about 10 minutes and kept turning it up and forgot who I was for a bit. Thank you!

[@milesparrish]

How can anyone dislike that video? This is truly a materclass on how to play blues.

[@restlessmusemusic]

Could listen to Tim play and talk about jazz blues all day 🙏🙏🙏

[@TimLerchGuitar]

Please enjoy my other blues oriented videos here on YT.

[@18echosf]

I’ve been following Tim’s channel for many years now and my love of his playing and appreciation of his musical knowledge has only grown. Tim is a true master of his instrument. What a player! Thanks for the wonderful videos, Tim.

[@timh2994]

Learning how to hear the notes....building that capacity for the anticipatory ear. As you say, having those musical ideas of a melody and then having fingers follow them on the fretboard. As someone that grew up anchored to sheet music 30 years ago, it's hard. Anticipatory ear -to-finger connection is something I have to develop a mini learning routine for.

[@creativejamtracks677]

Thanks for a great lesson Tim. That’s the second video I’ve watched and I like the way you balance some theory with the need to play with feel and melody instead of getting bogged down in the numbers game. Thanks again.

[@swaffy101]

The Jeff Bridges of guitar. Great stuff!

[@dkwvt13]

I spend time every shed session "playing". No scales or theory just experimenting with the intervals hiding there in plain sight. I am constantly finding new relationships that are not in the grips and patterns. I love the theoretical but I find it complimentary to flipping the script a bit... Great Lesson, Thank You...! B-)

[@JamesHunterRoss]

Tim, (Mr. Lerch), Your caring for, (and love of), the music and the tradition and the MUSIC really come through in your ideas, so thanks! Theory and words, (and all), can at times get in the way of , or "dominate" the conversation. You do a great job with the balance. I get a lot out of what you describe, and really what you play. I think is is truly some of the best "sharing" or "articulation" of some guitar basics that I know of. (Your music is great too...)

[@Timothy-remembers]

Great source I’ve stumbled upon here. Thank you Mr. Lerch

[@glennmichaelthompson4112]

I've been going over a lot of your older videos for the past few months. There's a goldmine of lessons that go back for years! So thankful for all that you share. I've been sharing the videos with others... I think this one will get a lot of mileage. Best regards!

[@mononoaware1960]

Really really love your approach, you speak my mind man. Came here from your modes video and agree with every word. I feel like people focus too much on what notes to play, rather than how to play each note and or phrasing. I was one of these people years ago when i got into jazz, constantly analyzing everything. Then I realized, I’m not going to invent a new note so I might as well figure out a way to play them in my own unique way. I also copied certain things and stole lines that grabbed me from numerous different players. I think a lot of people are afraid to take ideas from other players and make them their own. I suppose after taking various things from players and meshing them all together into one style, I’ve found my voice with improvising. I find it vital to explore all different genres and listen to other instruments than guitar as well, it made me more well rounded and put a different perspective on my ideas. Being a professional musician for over 20 years this channel is a goldmine, especially during these strange times.

[@barrycooper1631]

Joe Pass always used to say,sing a phrase then play it and he knew nothing about modes.It worked for him!!

[@tempusfugit4545]

Ditto from Australia

[@jerryk3280]

Studying Coltrane or Bird will give you a whole new perspective of the blues. I would highly recommend the omnibooks if you are looking to up your game.

[@franciscocaramichos5161]

thank you Tim, I always had trouble understanding and adding different notes to the pentatonic box, and by your approach of getting inside the box rather than out I can see it much more clearly. i thank the internet and you for letting me learn from such a knowledgeable guitarist.

[@mikedenkinger9570]

Completely agree!

[@nickk8416]

Thank You so much Tim. I've never heard it explained that way and it really helped me. Of course I'm going to have to replay it several more times to get it all to sink in more fully but the approach really makes sense. Best Regards.

[@shadownet_nft]

Wonderful teaching style, I am just starting to appreciate how toggling just the 3/b3 gives so much context to whatever mode is in play at that moment. Thanks for this exploration!

[@richziehm7752]

Great information and well explained. I dig your blues playing. Very tasty. And by the way, your segment on scales modes and theory was also very good. That one really hit home for me.

[@shallyshal1]

Marvelous. Beautiful lyrical playing. Always the right note

[@TimLerchGuitar]

Thank you

[@robertquinn9490]

"make flowers" I like that..thanks!

[@TweedToneKing]

Hi Tim. Thank you for taking the time to put these great videos online. I have been playing guitar for 43 years and dig learning new moves. You are a truly accomplished and elegant player ! So glad I found your Channel. Cheers and stay well from Toronto.

[@MartinMelbye]

Thanks a bunch! Heading straight to Truefire!

[@LoveIsWhoWeAre]

All of your video lessons are outstanding! God bless!

[@TimLerchGuitar]

Thank you

[@JessicaSanchez-qm9mi]

If there is something that I learned from watching your lessons and Ted Greene's lessons is that a simple mindset is the key for sophisticated musical ideas

[@squirelova1815]

It's Phenomenal to watch you play sir Timothy, every time. I mean, you, like, OWN the guitar when you play it and there seems to be no barrier between it and your mind and soul. Reminds me of Robbie Blunt's and Doug Boyle's preternatural mastery of strings too. Superb, and Thank You!

[@hearpalhere]

Thanks Tim for this wonderful lesson! I really enjoy your approach to this topic (also loved your modes video message). I wish I had learned this a long time ago when first learning the pentatonic shapes but better late than never :-)

[@davidskinner8351]

Great insights, Tim. Thanks so much!

[@NagoyaHouseHead]

Dedication, devotion, oh yeah the boy can play ...

[@GByePorkPieHat]

This is a lesson that is RIGHT on time for me. Thanks, Tim!

[@johnmm777]

Thank you for being here Tim

[@JohnHorneGuitar]

Great way to think about it!

[@purimuadmuang2259]

Haha love the "chromatic scale with some notes taken away" bit.

[@taijazvidfish]

Great info with your usual wonderful teaching approach!

[@cameronmee7634]

Tim, your videos always make me smile and inspire me. I'd love to see one on your practice routine/ideas on the topic. Thanks for everything!

[@tislota_f]

I concur, I would love to see a practice routine tips video

[@mlite84]

Watching this gave me so much relief and made me so happy. The “names” of these techniques that you see all over KZbin messed me up for so long. Once I learned the fretboard, thought in intervals and burnt the locals of all the different triads and their inversions it all made sense. Thanks for all these great lessons Tim. Appreciate you brother!

[@elvis_chen]

Mr. Lerch is the best!

[@pauldoyne743]

This is gold dust Tim. Thanks!

[@emlyngriffith5846]

Good stuff as always....and Jazz Blues Pathways is excellent 👍

[@kennywally]

This is a great guitar lesson. He makes playing so much fun. Love the ornamental stuff he's teaching here. He makes it EASIER to learn . Just great!

[@Skinny_Karlos]

Always a win when one clicks onto one of Tim Lerche's posts. Thanks, Tim.

[@seanmarshallmusic]

Fantastic breakdown and example of how we can truly see the fretboard. And see it in relation to what's actually happening, rather than some impulsive muscle memory movements

[@donaldrose5530]

As a finger style blues barrel house piano player trying to do the same thing with finger style guitar your explanation in this video was great. And an older player at that. I love all your stuff and I will get some transcriptions like bouncing the blues and the lesson for Ron in A. I wish you played on the east side of the country so I could see and hear you. You are another great inspiring player. I'm happy to be on the guitar journey while not being delinquent with my bread and butter the piano.

[@charlievoornisgreat]

absolutely great resource. im coming back to this and endeavouring to unpick it regularly. Thanks a lot.

[@PatP1508]

This is pure gold. There's so much to learn here. Thanks so much for sharing your wisdom Tim!

[@ryanjacko1]

This content is genuinely priceless, thank you!

[@ZeroFretGuitar]

This is a great lesson! I’ve been trying to learn interesting lines to play over the 4 and the 5 chord

[@OriginalBinaryArtist]

As a TrueFire all access subscriber I can tell you first hand that Tim's courses are excellent. Tim's Melodic Triads course took my playing to a whole new level and I am sure when I get to Tim's "Solo Jazz Pathways: Chordal Improv" and "Solo Jazz Pathways: Harmonic Enhancement" courses I will level up again. I highly recommend any of Tim's courses.

[@Jimmybishops]

Great lesson Tim,thanks.

[@awkipintee]

Great lesson Tim. Probably the best explanation of applied theory I’ve ever heard. Thanks to you I’m beginning to understand not only how but why this works and why melody is so important.

[@DAB248]

Thanks Tim, Love this approach, Think I'll reset and start over.

[@DavidLarew]

Zen and the Art of Music... I like listening to your descriptions...I videotaped you in Snohomish about 5 years ago...your teaching is great, thanks!

[@RBZ3]

Thank you Tim, I love your approach.

[@marcruel1398]

Agreed, excellent. Thanks.

[@69telecasterplayer]

We are so blessed to have you on KZbin!

[@jeremyhickersonsalem]

The classic blues melodies you use really work - they jump right out from the setting of the 3rd's and chord notes, it's like the guitar is talking to you.

[@parlinden187]

This was one of the best instructional videos I have seen. Very clear and very nice.

[@steveogden5087]

This is excellent, Tim. Thanks for creating and sharing this.

[@TimLerchGuitar]

Thank you

[@ladjazzz]

I like your approach, I will try to follow your advice however not easy to break bad habits... I need to think melody or perhaps rythm... Thanks again.

[@barrysebastian9584]

Another excellent hang. I’m not sure what it is, but I so relate to these recent videos. Your style and personality make me smile - just spot on👏. And, yes - the TrueFire courses are wonderfully done👍😄.

[@TimLerchGuitar]

Thank you Barry. Keep on swingin

[@barrysebastian9584]

@@TimLerchGuitar doing my “aged” best🙏😄.

[@elilewis1170]

Thanks tim!

[@geraldabele3895]

Thanks for this reinforcement of my believes - always got intimidated by the brains that could put the theory behind everything - completely loosing the feel and expression of the music I am singing on my guitar or bass. Could not care less what the notes or procedures are called, although, yes, I have studied them. This is the difference of “felt” music or “sterile” music, the first is coming out of your inspiration, the later from your text book. Great music is felt and created from within, the instrument is actually playing what you are thinking of and singing, perhaps and most likely without thinking - it just comes out from the depth of your inner self. Thanks for reinforcing this in your video!

[@fordfanjpn]

Brilliant Tim! The guitar world is a much better place with you in it. TrueFire courses purchased. A million thanks for your generosity in sharing with those of us who dream of following in your giant footsteps. Please keep the inspiration coming.

[@nathansterrett3054]

I love the few times you've done this helium voice in your videos.lol makes me chuckle out loud. Love the humor. Thanks Tim

[@imannonymous7707]

I understand enough theory to really make a mess of a what is a basic idea. But i seem to understand your approach, as if it was my own . This is validating ! Thank you

[@Immortal_swine]

My goodness, I love your teaching style. I have grown so much with your help. Thanks for this!

[@anthonysilva5312]

Wonderfully insightful and friendly approach! Subscribed

[@NamnetHar]

Love this! The way I’ve have this kind of thing set up in my mind is just to superimpose the major and minor pentatonic scales on top of eachother. You explain this much more elegant but you get about all of the notes in both ways. Love your videos, keep them coming. Thanks!

[@jeffreyreid7036]

Thanks Tim this was great fun lesson I started using it right away in my playing.

[@petecarrollmusic]

Sir, you are a god send ! Many thanks Tim, I'll be developing from here on in now... Spent 36 yrs in Blues/Rock & Roll being sloppy, so time to refine and jazz up - best wishes from Scotland.

[@syn707]

Great video! Saw you on Five Watt World. I grew up in Sacramento. Even as a budding guitarist learning from surf music, I loved the locally produced country tv shows, in particular, ‘Country Corners’ led by Truitt Cunningham ( Bob Wills bassist]. But it was his guitarist that I became enthralled with. That was Jimmy Rivers. I was fortunate to meet and play with him almost two decades after first hearing him. I’ll definitely be checking out your other videos.

[@douglasholdenjr.45]

Just discovered your videos last night..... subscriber now. Really appreciate and enjoy your playing and teaching. Thank you, Sir!!!!😁😎👍🎸🎵🎶

[@mikebills9414]

Wonderful lesson, thank you,

[@Ken-jp1gr]

Love this approach, thanks Tim

[@christophervolas7523]

Tim I really dug your break down of how to get out of the patterns it really shed some light on the topic for me

[@Stringprodigy]

There's no magic trick to it. Just use your ears!

[@taijazvidfish]

More free gold! Thanks.

[@alunlloyd1201]

Oh my god Is this the coolest lesson ever o what? Thank you señor! Guitar maestro! Greetings from Argentina

[@NoahHornberger]

the third has a kind of 'soaring" through the moment feel that can elevate the emotion when done right. It moves while cutting through everything without being too far out of the expected notes. A really good idea shown here! Also the idea of little decorations like flowers is really good too, I think of them like little feathers or hooks on the edges of things that stick out for nuanced effects. The mood of a song is in those details, either dragging or excited, thrilling etc.

[@geraldtrik6826]

This information is very important for soloing over any type of tune, thanks Tim!!!!!

[@langfordsakarai6689]

Great lesson

[@matthewcasey892]

So much to digest in this, just what I am growing into, thanks.

[@renegade1283]

Lovely touch and expressive lines.

[@t0dd707]

Another great lesson!thanks!

[@stevenbeecheymusic]

Excellent lesson

[@mconra]

Tim you are an outstanding player AND teacher. Love the truefire course too!

[@TimLerchGuitar]

Thank you kindly!

[@donmilland7606]

It's something I'm just now putting my on . . . .you have actor quality talent! You're what they call a natural. and that flow of inflections and mannerisms. You have a trustworthy persona. Why dont you consider sending THIS video or your tubechannel link to say a production company that makes instructional videos of all kinds or infomercials. Honestly, I think you should be acting on tv. Get an agent.

[@TimLerchGuitar]

Thank you, I think I’ll stick to what I’m doing. I’m not crazy about TV commercials or TV for that matter. YT allows me to be myself and connect with folks like you who dig what I’m sharing.

[@joeblakeukeman]

Much appreciated, Tim; your approach to guitar and mine are in harmony! Hence I enjoy and learn, every video you put up on YT.

[@jimmymurphy7789]

I can see you in a Western - not as a Gun-Slinger but as a Guitar-Slinger who Out-Shoots the Bad-Guys with Killer Licks & Lines in the most Eloquent, Kind way 🤠 !

[@steveo44]

Really great lesson. I used to consider the blues scale as the 1 chords minor blues scale but thinking of it as a new scale for each chord makes things more melodic

[@BrianKlobyGuitar]

Thank You :)

[@beavertunes1]

So... if I understand (paraphrase) Tools for Blues in A 1. Am pentatonic 2 Think chords and chord tones 3 and 7 (C# G) for A; D (F# C) E (G# D). 3 Approach chords (Em7 - Ebm - D7/9) or D to D D#dim) 6 dom - 2m or 2 dom. Use all these (and others?) tools to build MELODIES (start and finish with what sounds good)!!

[@dakidd729]

Thank you!

[@terrykingen4142]

Excellent philosophy and explanations.

[@vincentgates5596]

great lesson. i will dig into this and use these ideas

[@InTonalHarmony]

Wow! My mind is blown!!!

[@DougNaarup]

Great Video Tim. I really like how your think about it! Thanks again dn

[@pendragone]

Thank you Tim, please keep them coming 1

[@dtmateo]

Thanks. Hopefully I can use this in my own playing

[@Schuschu1]

This was so so so helpful! Thank you for sharing this.

[@emlyngriffith5846]

There’s some seriously useful stuff here as always….thanks a lot 👍🍷