tanks bro.this is d best tutorial i ve ever come across u are more than a tutuor.men u ve got teaching skills. i tink u shud open a music school.keep it up bro

Thank you for a very thorough and unselfish way of tutoring. More power to you.

simone u or probably one of the most unselfish guitarist ive seen on youtube,most players wants to show off their skills and not share as much.you have have truly openened some of the visual and technical mastery of george benson u have an incredible and honest way of teaching and u r a maestro ive started picking up my guitar again when i looked at ure tutorial it felt like i was in the room with you.you inspire me pls dont stop putting on more tutorial of benson theres not much to go on.ill check everytime if theres more of you.thanku from the bottom of my heart im from Cape Town south africa

I am 70 years old and been playing 50 years, You are teaching me some of the coolest shit I ever learned. Thanks I love your accent. You must get chicks like crazy.

@simonefalc

4 жыл бұрын

Hey James, this video is quite old and I did without any expectation, but a lot of people found it useful so I keep it. I have to say that today I would do it in a different way, I would go deeper into the concepts and the thoughts behind the lines, maybe I'll do a new one but anyway if you're interested you can follow my facebook or instagram page where I upload more guitar tips. Thank you James! It's an Italian accent by the way:)

@JamesWilliams-hb5lz

4 жыл бұрын

@@simonefalc I was just lookin for the chords. You blew my mind.

@JamesWilliams-hb5lz

4 жыл бұрын

I thought it was Italian. The last name nailed it down. I love what you are doing.

genius because u simplify the complex well. Benson is no joke and the world knows it.

Thank you for your tutorial. It's the most comprehensive and accurate that I've found.

Please keep teaching on KZread, no one does it like you do You’re a beast of a player too

Simone....I have to commend you not only for your skills as a player, but as an instructor, this is one of THE BEST tutorials I've found on the internet....Period. I've been playing for years and your video has awoken my interest in playing....again. Looking forward to more.....Hoping you like and teach some Tommy Emmanuel :)

Those sweeps are spot on

This tutorial video is fantastic. Thanks you so much for sharing and inspiring us all!

Always great to see a talented guitarist to share his knowledge of a jazz master with others. Very generous Simone. Thank you. Cheers from Melbourne, Australia.

@simonefalc

10 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm going do more stuff like this, saluti dall'Italia:

AWESOME STUFF! You are a beast of a player

Man!!!.. Note for note!!.. That's is by far THE best tutorial, I have ever run across.... Much props to ya, Simone!!!..

Thank you! i would lose so much time learning it by ear from George Benson. You helped me so much. God bless you!

Thank you Simone for your generosity, you're an amazing player!!!

Fantastic, thank you so much for taking the time to post this lesson. Excellent playing and tutorial.

Thanks man this solves the puzzle of this beautiful tune for me 👍🎸🎼🎵🎶

This is what I’ve been looking for. You have done a masterful job of picking apart this beautiful piece of guitar craftsmanship!

Excellent!

uno tra i miei assoli preferiti in generale. Grande George! e grande Simone, ancora complimenti! ...io ci sto provando grazie al tuo tutorial...

Hey man keep it up YOU ARE FANTASTIC I LOVE EVERY BIT OF IT

You are phenomenal my brother ,you inspire me

GREAT lesson Simone.. Thank you

I just became your fan. I am a new subscriber . Thank you for this post. watching from Okinawa, Japan

@simonefalc

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Greetings from Italy!

Thanks very much for this lesson, Simone. I find it very well done and played beautifully. Thanks again and Aloha from Hawaii....

The world is learning from the greatest guitar player on earth, George Benson, I hope the United States recognizes its greatest guitar player on his land.

Simone, sei un grande! Grazie, appena posso mi metto a studiare la parte della seconda solista. Grazie ancora, sei bravissimo (e generoso...)

Grazie Simone. Bravo!

VERY VERY JOB NICE THANKS

this man is awesome

A LABOR OF LOVE, SO IT SEEMS... EXCEPTIONAL INSTRUCTION FORMAT... POSSIBLY A NEW 'THE MOST ULTIMATE Tuition Free ULTIMATE MOST ULTIMATE....AND A GENUINE PLAYER WHO KNOWS HE WALKS AMONG THE EARTH, LIKE SO MANY GREAT JAZZ PLAYERS...HUMBLE, FANTASTICO ! GRAZIE !!!

Excellent!!!

This is great! Thank you for making this video

My friend you are amazing!

great amazing playing n also your lesson dude keep going from El Salvador Centro america

Bravo!

Thank you brother God bless you

@simonefalc

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Gran sonido Simone, felicitaciones.

GREAT JOB! MAN!

Great lesson!

Hey this is great You are good ! Man

Suave Simone, I'm certain it was a lot of hard work to grasp that solo as well as you did. Thank you.

Sweet!

great job man - well done -

great lesson thank you !!

Super! This is very good.

wow, you're incredible good ;-)))) grazie for showing !

Grazie Roberto!

Merci beaucoup

Simone, thank you for this. I commented on another of the same video. I LOVE this song so much. You are so talented and handsome. Thank you for sharing with us. I don't know music, but I STILL enjoyed watching this and thought others might also :)

Cool, God Bless

Awesome

Hi Hugo, try to learn it by ear ,than it will be indelible in your mind and you'll have your "Dictionary" enriched. In my opinion tabs are the worst mean to do that, notes are fine but ear is better! Thanks for asking

Bravo Simone

wow awesome

Thank you so much for this man!!! Very good tutorial! One request for the future if possible. Can you play the difficult part, quick pull-offs etc over a click? Can't tell if it's a fast triplet or 16th? Sounds like a bunch of random notes when I play that part (The most difficult part) ...lol I got all the notes and am working it out at different tempos by slowing the video down, but it is still extremely difficult for a noobe like me to get how it fits over the rhythm. That would be very helpful! If you don't have time I will pay you to make a video or Skype. Thank you! Brian.

Very good.

complimenti !!!

Damn, you're smooth.

Ty🎯♥️

very nice great

Thank you!

Thank you bro:)

THANKS!

Great

Thank you! This has been extremely helpful. I hope to see you in action one day.:)

Thanks BRO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks alt sir And plllllz do more George benson songs

@simonefalc

3 жыл бұрын

I should, I know, I'm uploading some more instructional material, I will do some more Benson I promise

ok, beautiful, grazie per rispondere al mio messaggio, yeah the thinker is a very groovy song, i don't know exactly what part of the song i would like to play, but definitly could be the part where play super quickly. thank you my brother.

Great work,man!! Thank you very much. Saluti dall'Argentina. (Shame on me, I'm of italian descent but can't speak italian)

How did you ever figure out that lick at 3:20? Amazing. I had no idea how Benson came up with that. Never heard anyone else play anything like it.

@simonefalc

10 жыл бұрын

I really don't know how he came up with that lick, I was working on that with a student and we were both astonished, he must come from another planet:)

@gordonlawson

8 жыл бұрын

It comes from the heart...Benson sings as well...or better than he plays...Think Masquerade... Comes from the same place:)

@Truthguy

6 жыл бұрын

Gordon Lawson - He plays just as well as he sings. This mind-boggling lick is just one example of that.

Nice

Good!

Merci bq pour ce cour

Bortolami is the best lesson you can get on this George Benson version. Oppose to the other tutorials of educated guitar players just jamming the solo and less concern teaching it. That said, I like this guys personality but wish he would return emphasizing the fast part and forget the the right hand.

Cia Simone, come stai? I discovered this song by Benson about a year ago and really looked for several tutorials ... your tutorial is simply inspiring. you are very talented and didactic. today I will try to play the rithim guitar, and maybe in the future I will be able to do the solo. One question ... what kind of equipment is necessary to get this timbre on the semi-acoustic guitar? What amplifier do you use, any effect pedal? Thank you if you can comment. Saluti dal Brasile

@simonefalc

3 жыл бұрын

Ciao Levi! Thank you, I have to say that video is quite old and now I have much more knowledge, I suggest you to follow my recent videos and my facebook page for more instructional material. Now I have an Ibanez Gb 10, with 0.12 round wound strings wich sounds closer to the original sound and I plug it into a Fender Hotrod deluxe. In this video I was playing a Sheraton with 0.11 strings. If you are interested in something in between the thick jazz string and a regular string in terms of briliance I really suggest you to try thomastik bebop, they have a plain G so you can still bend if you want, but they give you a fatter tone.

@simonefalc

3 жыл бұрын

And of course neck pickup

can I do this with fingerstyle

Che preamp hai usato per registrare la chitarra? non hai microfonato nessun ampli giusto?

Can someone tall me in what key is written this song? Thnx

Ahahha ti giuro assomigli moltissimo a Daniele Gottardo, hai anche la stessa chitarra! ( parlo di somiglianza fisica ovviamente, e anche il tuo inglese è simile al suo) e comunque complimenti bella lezione!

could you add the tabs in a link?

heyyy, io ho visto che sei da l'italia, io prendo l'areo ogni anno e vado a Termoli (C.B.) ma de dove sei, chi parte di italia?

BUENA CATEDRA. Simone me podrias decir cuales son tus setings (modulaciones) de trebble, middles, bass, etc. para tener ese sonido de jazz???? can you tell me your settings of your sound please?? SALUDOS DESDE SONORA MEXICO

@simonefalc

10 жыл бұрын

Hi my friend!! I think many different things can influence your sound, the kind of strings, wich for a jazzy tone gotta be flat wound, (even if in this video I'm not using them), the kind of guitar a pickups, and how you set your amp. In general a jazz guitar sound is clean but a little bit dark, so an example of EQ could be Bass 4, Middle 6, and treble 1, but again it variates from amp to amp, then you can adjust your tone even from your guitar. In this video Simone Bortolami - Take Five - MCR ® we used a Jcm 900 wich is not the tipical jazz guitar amp, but we found a very good tone, on a Marshall always keep the trebles at 0, hahahah, have fun!!

@franarmando

10 жыл бұрын

Simone Bortolami MOLTO GRAZIE SIMONE

e possibile avere gli accordi

Good teaching my friend, i'm from Guatemala City, i would like to play like george benson, could you show us how to play the thinker? thank you my dear friend, by the way where are you?

@angelomartinez3063

7 жыл бұрын

Hey Simone, piacere, grazie grazie per rispondere il mio messaggio, yeah the thinker is a very good song, but i don't what kind of part of the song i would like to learn, maybe the most quick part, where he use a rare scale with super speed. Thank you my brother.

@angelomartinez3063

7 жыл бұрын

Sorry mi ha mancato il ''know'' on the phrase che ti ho scrito.

PDF! Please!

what strings do you use?

@richardyoo6756

8 жыл бұрын

thanks for kind reply

NICE WORK !!! AND NOT ALL THAT EGO BS.....

Tabs or notes, please? :)

Incidentally, you look like Daniele Gottardo's brother🙄

@simonefalc

Жыл бұрын

But He's the genius brother, I know him, took some lessons from him too😃