YAA AMPONSAH

THE BEST GUITAR IMPROVISATION (DVD) EVER On yaa Amponsah: licks, chords, arpeggios,etc

[@ouvertn]

You are one of Ghana's iconic guitarists. Glad to see you're back. Not that you ever left but you have been missed!

[@georgespratz]

ITS VERY TRUE BRO.., I HAVE EVEN MISSED MYSELF...LOL

[@kofiahenkorah9553]

A true highlife guitar genius! At long last I have come closer to hearing a jazzified "Yaa Amponsah" rendition. Keep up the great job.

[@richardcaulker1017]

Amazing! Africa's answer to George Benson

[@betaman2009]

Saw you at my sisters wedding with Agya Koo Nimo and i just kept social distance observing the legend even though there was no pandemic

[@dorxtrurp2852]

Sincèrement t'es un bon j'imagine pas combien d'années tu as passé pour être le guitariste que tu es !!!

[@georgespratz]

Merci bouq.... 😆

[@ndayisabajonas8452]

could you plsease explain this tutorial in solow motion

[@mosesezekiel4949]

I wish I can come over there😂 and rehearse wit u sir Not easy😂 mehn

[@edwardyeboah22]

I tried learning to play this but I lost inspiration... Right now, I just watch and admire and trust me I stay all night watching your videos ... I'm happy seeing this

[@augustusatideglah7494]

I've seen and heard guitarists play mind boggling music with the guitar but WHAT?, you are a maestro bro! Playing "Yaa Amponsah" with all the scales, riffs, runs and all that! Bro you really have to come all out for our beautiful Ghanaian HIGH LIFE music with respect to the GUITAR. I have been searching for high life tutorials for sometime now but never got any good one. The ones here are just charf. Please let's see more of you with basis tutorials here. Hope you'll not disappoint us. Thanks a lot and may the LORD JESUS CHRIST bless you.

[@calebcadainoo]

Eeeeiiihh ma broda u dey play the tin waaa eeiihh 🌋🌋🔥🔥🔥

[@kofiahenkorah9553]

I am a 70 plus jazz and highlife enthusiast. I also did some jazz classes in the States back in the nineties. I have had this dream of incorporating classic jazz scales and phrases into Ghana highlife music in order to make it more internationally appealing just as Fella Kuti did for Nigeria music. I strongly believe that this rendition could be employed as a good reference to achieve this noble goal. I will contact you in due time to offer few suggestions. Again, keep up the terrific work.

[@stephenappiah10]

Master piece

[@sallatau6387]

I like the way you "Yaa Amponsah" the way you employ major scale, pentatonic, chromatic, arpeggios blues feels etc. I never seen someone play like you do and I am learning a lot from you. G. Spratz in Town

[@davisgalero6054]

Hey! You are not joking here. I love this. This is artistry at its best. I can listen to you all day long.

[@kofiahenkorah9553]

...reminds me of what the legendary and award winning George Benson did to American jazz music. By sweet coincidence, you share same first name!

[@ebenezeryeboah8043]

Pls make a video on how to play worships for me. U are my no1 fan and follower. Keep up the good work.

[@benjaminnyatepe7703]

Goosebumps all over

[@rasrooq2000]

Nice runs. Great solos. Well done. I like the jazzy feels and fills. More Blessings more Vim!

[@adenijiheavywind4788]

Genius. ❤

[@georgespratz]

🙌

[@yankeewithnobrim2299]

Wow you are very good pastor keep on doing it may God bless you and your family members amen kwaku from the USA thank you very much

[@ahadziwisdom7877]

Please my friend needs the Yaa Amponsah Bass Tutorial

[@ahadziwisdom7877]

Wow great sound I love this

[@nforngala2465]

Did you get a bass tutorial please?

[@kingoimkenya]

Great soloing and limitless variety. Thanks for the lesson.

[@ndayisabajonas8452]

it's really amazing

[@piuskioko5879]

From Kenya 🇰🇪 here, am simply speechless..Could you kindly consider doing tutorials so that we learn alittle from you please?

[@georgespratz]

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[@georgespratz]

Please click on the link, there are a lot of good tutorials

[@piuskioko5879]

@@georgespratz oh! thank you so much will keep following am your new student

[@puyelini]

This is so moving!

[@georgespratz]

Thanks a lot 🙏

[@kelvingweh1095]

Very nice Jazzy!

[@GodblessOsei]

G. Spratz is in town. Always the best. I salute u boss

[@fredappiah7377]

Mr. George you are the best

[@j1udu522]

Beautiful

[@osifoedegbe3001]

Sir I greet u in the name of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Pls can u be my tutor on improvisation bc u hv displayed Gorge Benson and Earl Klugh. Bravo Sir. Pls link me up

[@musicislifenetwork2071]

what a wow. please we need lessons for this please.

[@Wiloptic]

Keep it coming bro Iv been waiting for you to make videos such as these

[@georgespratz]

oh ok,

[@michaeltetteh4808]

osofo God bless you . can u pls make a detailed chord break down of traditional highlife like king Oyina

[@michaeltetteh4808]

great one the Rev. what you are doing is clearly showing how music all music is one regardless of the genre. a big pleasure to learn from you boss. pls kindly share more information on the DVD

[@shadrachsiayor6293]

OH WHAT A SHOCK???? SEEING U FOR THE FIRST TIME AND I'M WOWED. WHAT IS THISSSS??? WHERE WERE U HIDING ALL THESE WHILE. MORE GRACE TO YOUR FINGERS

[@countrygirlgh5795]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaattt.

[@LaudTV]

Good

[@leinadetoo7863]

aww hmmm. when I first saw your videos I went to search for you everywhere and I got you on Instagram thinking I will get some tutorials but oops. please teach us too some way... I beg

[@georgespratz]

there are tutorials, just contact this line 0244483495

[@RandiRandy]

@@georgespratz this is my issue with Ghanaian and Africans in general. It's so difficult to get tutorials of our music because you guys don't present it well enough. I get that it's business for you but if you don't use the tools you have to put your content out there, it will not reach its full potential. I suggest you take a peak at guys like Andy Guitar, Let'sPlayGuitar, Marty Schwartz and co. See how they make their content and the categories; free lessons (which are enough to whet your appetite and give u an idea of what you're gonna get) and detailed lessons where you pay for it. it's an all-round great business model I wish all of the great African guitar teachers would employ.

[@MsDollarboy]

@@georgespratz i can help u with that bro..link up

[@georgespratz]

@@MsDollarboy ok

[@giovanniadinyira8347]

Maestro!!!!

[@Dave_FX594]

Good day sir Please how can I join ur class

[@richardcaulker1017]

I have been listening to this a few times every day, trying to memorise the whole solo melody, before I attempt to learn how to play it one bar at a time. Every time I listen, it just puts a smile on my face, and it is fast becoming one of my favourite pieces ever among all genres from church anthems and classical music to hiphop and juju music. This piece should become a Highlife/Jazz classic standard. My question to you pastor is who composed it? I am sure there is not much improvisation there. It is definitely a very well crafted composition.

[@georgespratz]

I arranged these improvisation lines but not the Yaa Amponsah rhythm... it was first recorded by the Kumasi trio in 1928 in London..., it's a traditional air and the true original composer is not known...

[@richardcaulker1017]

@@georgespratz Thanks for your prompt reply. It was those lines I was referring to which you confusingly call your arrangement of improvisation lines. I lived in Kumasi from 1973 to 1975, so I am familiar with your folk music, and I was born in Sierra Leone in 1953, so I am very familiar with palm wine music. However, saying that you "arranged" "improvisation" seems contradictory to me, unless you arranged it simultaneously as you were playing on that tape which is hard to believe given how each bar seems to flow smoothly into the next, and given the complexity of it all. I thought it might be 95% careful pre-arrangement and 5% spontaneous improvisation. By the way, very fine clothing. Great styling.

[@georgespratz]

I perfectly understand you Mr Richard... may be I shouldn't have used the word "arranged" ....but many of those lines are lines I have deliberately put together for the purpose of teaching and I tend to flow on them anytime I feel like using them..., I am going to try to drop another video today on the breakdown of some of those lines; I am very sure it will be of help too....I may not tackle many though

[@richardcaulker1017]

@@georgespratz I have no problem with the word "arrange". The piece was beautifully arranged, put together, composed etc. My problem is with the word "improvise", which I take to mean that you just made it up as you were bring recorded, without pre-arranging or preparing anything.

[@komelome3736]

Merci Georges tu m'as fais decouvrir le Ghana, un délice. Merci pour la vibration tu es entiers..,!

[@samuelsaka2727]

the technique........man when will DVD's be out please?

[@samuelkivinjo6303]

wow!!!! that is sweet! How can I do it George? Am in Kenya. Is there a way to receive illustrated instruction?

[@georgespratz]

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[@fredappiah7377]

We would be glad if you could break it down to us Rev. It looks more like for those in a master class

[@georgespratz]

this is part of the dvd, (a teaser), the breakdown is also on....

[@georgespratz]

the breakdown is in the dvd,

[@fredappiah7377]

Ok Rev. Pls how much is it?

[@georgespratz]

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[@georgespratz]

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[@serwaahboahene6192]

Please can you teach me

[@georgespratz]

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[@serwaahboahene6192]

@@georgespratz thanks

[@obedosei-tutu5858]

Very wonderful. But please where can I get the backing track to practice along with it? Would be very happy if you could help me out.

[@georgespratz]

contact me on 0244483495, and I WILL LET YOU HAVE IT

[@metrixsoundsentertainment504]

thanks for this sir... plz can u brake it down

[@georgespratz]

Please search for super licks of yaa Amponsah

[@georgespratz]

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[@georgespratz]

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[@nanag-k6409]

🔥🔥

[@DanielBoakye]

where do we get the dvd?

[@Franck77487]

Dear George, do you have DVDs for beginners? Where can we purchase them? Thank you

[@opokuagyemangministries]

George,I really need your number Sir

[@georgespratz]

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[@georgespratz]

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[@groovedave190]

@@georgespratz God Bless you