Here is the PDF download link! patreon.com/NathanBortonMusicPatreon EDIT: lick 4 is from “Born To Be Blue” NOT “Grant’s First Stand.”

@samtotheg

9 ай бұрын

I love love grant green also thanks for the barry harris hack moving up the minor 3rd thing ! you got any more of those lol!

i've never seen such an elegant fret layout. i usually think "hmmm, nice... birds" or "sweet opal inlay". but this offset, minimalist, mistletoe or whatever, is dope.

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! The Benedetto's are such great guitars!

Fabulous video Nathan. Great format. There is so much to grab from Grant Green playing .

@NathanBortonMusic

9 ай бұрын

Absolutely! Glad you enjoyed it!

Great job, thanks. Grant Green's playing turned me onto Jazz - love his phrasing and now I have an idea how he did it!

I ve only watched 2 minutes of this and i instinctively know this is for me. My compliments to you and i look forward to completing my viewing of this video and future indulgences in more of your material.

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Hi Alex, glad to hear it! Hope this lesson helps you out!

Great video Nathan! Grant's the man. I would encourage your viewers to make sure to really check out this material in the context of his recorded work. I'm sure most of it is on YT. It's important to really check out his time-feel - he has some serious swagger. Thanks again!

Thanks Nathan, very illuminating lesson 🎉

@NathanBortonMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Great lesson. Can’t wait to hear you play more like you do on the outro

Great stuff Nathan, played like a true Gryffindor! Went back and listened to all those tunes to hear the licks in context, I'd forgotten how good he was. Really enjoyed the lesson, keep up the good work.

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you! :)

Nice video. Thank you!

Great Job, Love the Grant Green licks and breakdown most important. You bring a new level to teaching on You tube that's why I became a patron., last month.....Keep up the great work...

@NathanBortonMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Jimi! Really appreciate the kind words! I'm just glad my lessons are helping you out! Also thanks so much for the Patreon sub, more content to come!

Harpejjist hear been studying jazz for the past year and this platform is perfect for me. Thanks for the content!!!!

@NathanBortonMusic

7 ай бұрын

So glad it’s helping you!

great lesson

Another great lesson, very well put together

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much frank, appreciate it!

Excellent !!! Clear and useful thanks

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Really great stuff! Thank you.

@NathanBortonMusic

3 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

This is gold thanks Nathan.

@NathanBortonMusic

9 ай бұрын

No problem :) Thanks for watching and your support!

Wes was always my no1, but the older I get the more grant green climbs up. So many nuggets of goodness in his playing. Nice job highlighting that man. Also, so cool how you can squeeze so much from the same piece of language if you change its harmonic context. E.g. that last piece of language for Dm7 from grant stand, my ear actually heard it as some great stuff for G7. Or u can use some of that line for the Dm7 and then repeat the same stuff a minor 3rd up to imply some cool altered stuff on the G7. The possibilites are endless

@NathanBortonMusic

9 ай бұрын

YES! Grant was the master at using a limited amount of material in the most useful ways!

very creative idea for a lesson. Great job!

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

The fundamental lessons are good for any jazz instrumentalist, let alone the guitar. Thanks for this insight! Will be playing some Grant Green language on a trombone! lol

@NathanBortonMusic

Ай бұрын

Thanks! I love trombone, such a great sounding instrument

Outstanding video-both in content and production quality 💪👏👏👏

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Much appreciated! Thank you!

Beautiful video, very insightful

@NathanBortonMusic

7 ай бұрын

Thanks! Appreciate you watching!

Wow ! That’s great info . Thanks a lot !

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Wow! 🤯 This is awesome! 🤘🏽🔥 Thank you

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Of course! I appreciate you watching and thanks for your support :)

Thanks for the great lesson on the amazing Grant Green!

@NathanBortonMusic

5 ай бұрын

Appreciate you watching!

wow great use of enclosures clean flowing lines out standing work Dr. Borton

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Thanks James! Not Dr. yet, but in the next couple of years hopefully (if I can survive DA school haha)

great!!! thx

Keep doing your thing bro. That was value.

@NathanBortonMusic

5 ай бұрын

Appreciate that :)

What a great lesson, thank you!

@NathanBortonMusic

7 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Beautiful!

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Great video, thanks! I've learned a bunch of Grant Green's solos, but I've been looking for ways to add his licks to my vocabulary.

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Awesome! Grant is the man, I love pretty much everything he does. Hope this video helps you out with vocabulary!

Incredible vid. Will revisit this and more grant green !

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it, Grant is the man! Let me know if you have any questions!

Great video!!!

@NathanBortonMusic

7 ай бұрын

Hi Denis, thanks so much for your comment! I've seen your channel before and really love it! I also saw you had Jocelyn on a while back, we went to school together at MSU. Glad you two could meet!

Wonderful lesson

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Appreciate you watching!

Thank you for making great content bro.

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

Very cool, indeed!

@NathanBortonMusic

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Really cool lesson ❤

@NathanBortonMusic

5 ай бұрын

Appreciate that! Hope the lesson helped you out!

Thanks for sharing. Good info and playing 🇬🇧👍🎸🎶🎶🎶

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Fabulous video ! Very clear ! Thanks a lot. Pat Martino lines would be great.

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Great suggestion! Pat would be Killin! I the mean time I did do a video on him in the past if you want to check it out! kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZqOMyKmxZMrFkdo.htmlsi=0xg0DohNkMvbkk_6

Excellent lesson

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!

Thanks for all this Grant Green - Big John Payton’s fave guitarist. So good that you share!

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Grant is the man! Thanks for watching :)

Another great, informative video! Yeah man

@NathanBortonMusic

9 ай бұрын

THANKS MAN! Appreciate you watching these videos

Thanks a lot Nathan . It's Awesome . I love your courses on Grant Green , Wes ect . continue like that . I went to your Patreon . A french guy

@NathanBortonMusic

9 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you! Really appreciate your support :)

Thank you!

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Thank YOU! Appreciate you watching!

This was a great lesson. I have memorised many licks over the years but always found it very hard to bring them into my playing, this lesson really shows how to do that.

@NathanBortonMusic

4 ай бұрын

Glad to help!

You’re the best!!!

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

YOU'RE THE BEST!

This is a such a cool explanation

@NathanBortonMusic

7 ай бұрын

Appreciate that! Hope it helped you out!

This is a ton of information that is easy to grasp and has many practical applications. Well done, sir, I am impressed.

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! Appreciate you watching and hope this information helps you!

Amazing lesson, very good :-)

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it! Thanks!

Great material...! 👍🎸🎶🎶

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much Antonio! Appreciate you watching!

Thanks!

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Steve, always appreciate your support!

nicely done, really useful.

@NathanBortonMusic

9 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@jeffkross1770

8 ай бұрын

Hey, Danny! Funny seeing you here! I've been taking Zoom lessons with Nathan for the past year-plus. He's a terrific teacher, and I'm finally beginning to get my brain around jazz guitar!

Great job Nathan! This is so beneficial to anyone wanting to learn jazz guitar. And….Grant Green is the best and so overlooked. Chuck Wayne, who played with George Shearing’s original quintet is also great and overlooked.

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Hi Sam! Thanks so much for your comment! Yes, I have heard to Chuck but to be honestly I haven't really looked into his stuff. I will make a point to do that this week, thanks! :)

You know I'll admit I've been watching your videos on TV from the couch and have gotten a lot out of them but I finally sat down with this one with guitar in hand and worked through it and wow what a lazy fool I've been. I got so much more out of it I'm looking forward to doing the others right. Keep it up! And yeah love Grant Green but other favorites aside from Wes obviously include Jimmy Bruno, Doug and Jimmy Raney, and Joe Cohn. But I think Grant is the best for those of us transitioning from rock. There's something so classic and yet somehow contemporary sounding about his style.

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Mike! That’s cool you’re watching them on the TV, I feel like a star! Haha. 😂 but, very happy you got a lot out of the lesson with the guitar in hand!

Wonderful lesson, thanks. There's a lot more to Grant's playing than people realise and you can hear his influence on all kinds of players. Glenn Tilbrook from Squeeze for example seems very influenced by him.

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Yes! Grant is such a huge figure! Thanks for your comment :)

Becoming a member of your patreon right now!

Nice. Subscribed

@NathanBortonMusic

7 ай бұрын

Appreciate that!

Nice. Something to gnaw on for a while.

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Hope it helps you! Thanks for watching!

This is great information! Grant Green is a great one to learn from. I would love to see you pick apart some Joe Pass lines, too.

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Great suggestion, thanks!

I’m gonna dig into this one for the month or more

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Glad to hear! Hope you get a lot out of this one!

For anyone interested, I tracked down when the first example is played on "The Things We Did Last Summer" off of Nigeria. So glad to have been introduced to this tune. Ok so its actually in F, not C (which is great to learn these licks in different keys) It starts at 1:52, and its in double time! whooo! So, C7 resolving to F major. (top of the chorus) - or in the example here G7 resolving to C major

hey , new to your channel ....good stuff -- ...........dang , im playing stuff that sounds even more jazzy and melodic now ...... thanks for sharing

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Hey thanks for checking out the channel! Glad this video helped you out!

I found both Martino and Grant Green useful thnks you very much. I love your playing and a clean tone and sound. Might I suggest a Benson lines or Metheny mght be good also ! Great work Sibbs

@NathanBortonMusic

6 ай бұрын

Great suggestion!

Another excellent video making the most from the work of this great musician 👏. I've been re-listening to the great Tal Farlow's recordings from the early 1950s - I don't think anyone has got to his level, except maybe Joe Pass, and so many bop and post bob musicians have clearly studied him. Maybe worth a video some time - just a suggestion.

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Great suggestion! Tal's stuff honestly always scares me.... I tried transcribing some of his material before but sometimes my hands can't make his jumps hahaha

@rickjensen2717

8 ай бұрын

​@@NathanBortonMusicI know what you mean 😅 - he had very large hands, played very fast using large intervals, so it sounded 'correct' but very ethereal - very much a 'one off' I guess.

Thanks a lot for the high quality lessons !! Would love to hear you analyse RENE THOMAS style playing :)

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Wow Rene Thomas, that's a deep cut! Defiantly something to look into... Thanks for your comment!

Man, I know you from Wichita lol and I am genuinely surprised I have never came across your channel until now!

Great lesson 👍🍻🍻🇦🇺

@NathanBortonMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

you have a beautiful guitar

@NathanBortonMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks! It’s a Benedetto bravo deluxe, check em out if you haven’t! Great guitars 🎸

Thanks for posting this vid. I have read that Charlie Christian took a similar approach to his solos. It would be helpful if you could maybe look at some of the CC solos and do a simar analysis.

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Great suggestion!

Hi Nathan, nice work on these videos. I'd love to hear your thoughts on right hand technique. I've been playing for decades (professionally up until I was 35 years old) and find myself in need of a restructuring of my right hand technique. I'm struggling to improve my accuracy, speed, time, and agility the past few years. Any and all thoughts are welcome, thanks.

More Grant Green and Wes Montgomery! Especially licks containing arpeggios which would be easier to digest for beginners 🙏

@NathanBortonMusic

2 ай бұрын

Noted!

@ 4:17 when beginning to form new lines, the term: "just minor language" is used. I noticed the example is from D-7b5.... The original language from example #3 starts on the 7th degree of the D-7b5 chord and sounds great. Your example of building a new line here over a straight D-7 uses the exact language transposed (superimposed ?) starting on the third of a straight D-7 chord. It also sounds great... but you hadn't mentioned playing it across different chord tones, so I tried it starting on the 1, 3,5 and 7th of a D minor 7 and it was quite interesting on all of them. I wouldn't think all these language ideas would translate if superimposed over all chord tones though... so whats your take? was it just random to start the same lick from the third, or are there some specific guidelines we can use? The next example (adding line closer) uses language un-transposed, but subsequent example of adding line closer @5:56 is cool because you move the opening figure over D-7b5 from #3 to the beginning of the bar, and again transpose the figure to start from the third of D-7....sensing a theme here... For the minor third Barry Harris technique, things seem to be gelling... When you take the first pass you've transposed the send bar of example #3 down a minor third to start on the 5th chord tone, and used it to open the phrase, so when you transpose it up a minor third for the next bar, you are actually just playing the phrase from our original example. this is too cool...

Your the most important teacher that I’ve whatched,much appreciated,maybe you could play (while we’re young) Wes Montgomery?? Even though we’re concentrating on Grant,Thank u Nathan, Your a breath of fresh air. Vincent Parrela.❤

@NathanBortonMusic

7 ай бұрын

Hi Vincent, thanks so much for your comment! I recently did a Wes video about his chord shapes/arpeggios (kzread.info/dash/bejne/maZm17CvYcLSito.html) and this Friday I'm releasing one about his block chord soloing :)

Fabulous content and excellent clear presentation, proving youtube videos can be effective without all the ridiculous hand waving gestures. Thank you Nathan.

@NathanBortonMusic

7 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! :)

It looks like you're wearing a LAB COAT = Dr. Smooth Jazz!!! 😮 HAHAHA jk 😂 Super Cool Licks!!! And, thank you for including the TABs!!! I recently found your YT channel, I love your videos, and thank you for the content!!! Please keep up the good work!!! Bless you, my friend

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Hi Jeff, thanks so much for your kind words! Appreciate your support and thanks for watching :)

Very pretty playing, man, and very eloquently explained music theory, which I reckon, if it isn't already (and I'm pretty sure it is to some extent) earning you a decent income, is going to play an important role in helping you retain the energy our modern vampire clown society seems always to be after and surely has already succeeded in stealing of from us all. Wow, I wish PCs and the internet had become household fixtures a decade earlier. My dad was one of those dudes who said, "Pfft. Home Computers? Expensive calculators. They'll never catch on." Those guitar magazines were sick, but dang, if my generation had had access to this stuff? Jeez. It's possible that nearly all the embarrassing stuff about the '90s might never have happened. Lives might've been saved! Awesome stuff. Subscribed. Keep narrowly avoiding tendinitis and pleasing Euterpe with your devotion to her.

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the sub Mark! I hope to keep avoiding tendinitis!

Great lesson, as always. Nathan, what gauge and brand of strings do you use?

@NathanBortonMusic

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I use string joy broadway's 12 gauge

@analogalien

5 ай бұрын

@@NathanBortonMusic Thank you!

He had perfect pitch!

@NathanBortonMusic

5 ай бұрын

Didn’t know that! Thanks for the info

A similar lesson with Kenny Burrell would be awesome

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

YES! Great Suggestion!

Yet playing through the 5 licks it's the first time for me associating Grant Green with Charlie Parker - they all sound very familiar within the bebop idiom.

@NathanBortonMusic

7 ай бұрын

Yes, that's true, though I think that's from people basing the bebop language of Bird and Diz. I'm getting that information from his biography written by Sharony Andrews Green, were she talks about Grant listening to Charlie Parker and Charlie Christian, distilling his own lines from them. Thanks for you comment!

@DizzyKrissi

7 ай бұрын

@@NathanBortonMusic : thanx for this insight. Just checked my library and there are 5 CD's from Grant Green - I always favoured Joe Pass but I will relisten to Grant Green due to your video.

Thanks for the video. Very good, and I admire your knowlegde. Im now learning the licks in the video, but I find it much harder to learn the phrasing without any rhytmical context. If you would play the licks to a click on 2 and 4, that would make it 10 times easier to learn, at least for me. So please consider that in the future (: Again really appreciate your work!

@NathanBortonMusic

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for your feedback! I’ll try to incorporate that for future videos!

@jurthefresh8855

6 ай бұрын

@@NathanBortonMusic I really appreciate your reply!

You should do the same with some wes licks!

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

My man! Wes is the best! I recently did a video on him cover his colorful guitar shapes if you want to check it out: kzread.info/dash/bejne/maZm17CvYcLSito.html

Good stuff. Now check out and break down for us the slammin’ arrangement of “It Ain’t Necessarily So” on Green’s Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark. Art Blakey sits in on this legendary Blue Note ‘61 recording. That will bring you some serious followers

Please do Rene Thomas. Thanks heapfuls.

@NathanBortonMusic

9 ай бұрын

Great suggestion!

Shifting the minor 2 chord lick up a minor 3rd and playing it over the 5 chord is great but shifting it up another minor 3rd to a tritone above the original sounds even better.

@NathanBortonMusic

5 ай бұрын

That's a great sound! If you would like more info on that topic check out this lesson video I did perviously on that topic: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eainp6ell6y2pdI.html

Great lesson, Nathan. Could you do this using Joe Pass licks that can be used in the same way? - John B.

@NathanBortonMusic

7 ай бұрын

Great suggestion! I'll put it on the list of future videos

do a breakdown on george benson licks

@NathanBortonMusic

2 ай бұрын

Here ya go! : George Benson Blues Licks Every Serious Guitarist Should Know! kzread.info/dash/bejne/p5qgsNmxnZO_lpM.html

For the You Stepped Out of a Dream example, I've always played this tune with changes at C section (your example area) like: | D-7b5 | G7 | Cmaj7 F9 | E-7 A7 | Maybe its just an example of how you can use the same language in many places but can anyone chime in on this, or ...Nathan? Either way, its ear opening and thanks. (upright bassist here) update: Grant plays almost exactly the same lick in the same place on his second chorus! Yay, even the masters weren't always reinventing the wheel for each phrase and it means there is hope for us students yet!

@NathanBortonMusic

7 ай бұрын

Hey! Thanks for your question. Yes, that part of the tune can be played differently. The changes differ depending on where you learn them. I've seen it played like that or how it is in the video with the walk down from f-6 (which is a sub for D-7b5). I've seen people do Ab7 to G7 to Cmaj7. Nat king Cole does a cool thing where at the end turn around it goes E-7-Eb7-Abmaj7-Db7-Cmaj to end the tune. So it all depends on who you're playing with!

@RealJazz11

7 ай бұрын

@@NathanBortonMusic thanks very cool...I see it now. nice walkdown i would do that normally on the bass over Dhalfdim / G7... but the cool thing youve got is the F-6 walkdown suspends the entrance of the Dhalfdim, so the harmonic motion becomes 2 chords per bar. Builds interest. I like it. and thanks for the NKC changes too, nd the alternate one starting Ab7..i wonder if you could do a backdoor dom instead of the Ab7, So F7 - G7 -Cmaj? (but I just tried it and it sounds better on the next 4 bars to bring it back to the top - if at all and if not too "corny")

Nice. Billy Taylor turned me on to Grant Green. (He was a visiting professor and I got to talk to him in the hall. :-) I need to master this lesson though . Do you every feel like you don't 'ear' this stuff but know how to play it? I guess there s jestation period while it soaks into your bones but i have imposter syndrome with legit ajzz licks. I whip out my Charlie Christian adn bluesier side of Kenny Burrell licks and even sort of alter them but this sounds more from the bebop school and I like it but can't hear it yet.

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Agreed, when your first starting studying language it can feel like you're just using licks. However, using methods, like the one in this video, you can start to "speak" with the lines and even hear what you want to play before you play it. I would suggest transcribing a grant green solo (cool blues is a great first one) and learning it by ear! This will help with hearing the language. Best of luck!

I have only 1 recommendation... PLEASE MARK THE TIME STAMPS FOR ALL OF THE LICKS!!! This would make it so much more convenient for revisiting the Licks to practice!!! Please... I know that I would truly appreciate it and I am certain other aspiring guitarists would, too!!! Thank you!!!

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the suggestion! I will make some time stamps for people

This is basically what all jazz guitarists do theorically, this is jazz harmonic soloing rules over II V I. I would have seen what Grant do with it, personnaly (enclosures, chromatismes, arpeggios, bebop scales, blanks, placement, sound, picking attack... how and when) 😉 Anyways, great job!

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Yes, definitely! Also as far as Grant specific topics I have a couple of other videos that get into more detail about grants lines that you might enjoy? (apologizes in advance for awkwardness in earlier videos haha) kzread.info/dash/bejne/hIB2j6SLg7exaKQ.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z3mDvJqKZrWod9Y.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/mI1slJqwpcuwoJs.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/mnqX2JdvZKjcoaQ.html

@m.vonhollen6673

8 ай бұрын

@@NathanBortonMusicWhen you wrote “defiantly”, were you making fun of him saying “theorically”?

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

@@m.vonhollen6673 no! I would never make fun of someone commenting on my video. That was a typo on my part… I edited my comment to now say definitely. I was agreeing with him when he said, “this is jazz harmonic soloing rules over a ii-V-I”

Great stuff! Sco next 😅 Kinda out of place maybe but who cares eheh

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Man I love Scofield, but his style is so hard! I would need to shed that!

@tiago2336

8 ай бұрын

@@NathanBortonMusic nah man! I love playing Sco stuff. Go for it! I think it gets easier. It's one of those styles that seems like magic when you first hear it, but with time and a couple analysis and stuff, it comes I think. It's all about the out playing and the dynamics. But what do I know! It's not like I'm a Sco's disciple nor am I that great of an improviser, not even close to Sco's feet lol Just my humble 2 cents and a bit of a push, You're a great player and a nice guy and good at passing knowledge. And I love Scofield, so, why not? Cheers man.

do you have an album or sum material?

@NathanBortonMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for asking! Yes I have an album as a leader called "Each Step." You can find it on band camp or any streaming services. Most recently I'm on a collaborative record called "Technocats: The Music of Gregg Hill" which of course features the music of Gregg Hill.

How about Jimmy rainey? Cheers

@NathanBortonMusic

9 ай бұрын

That would be great! Thanks for the suggestion!

Estados unidos gran jazz Master v❤

@NathanBortonMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so very much!

There must be a previous video that explains minor and dominant language. I presume he's referring to 2 of the seven modes

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Hi William, thanks for your comment! When I'm referring to dominant or minor language I'm simply referring to lines that outline the minor sound (notes around the min7 arpeggio) or the dominant sound (notes around the dom7 arpeggio). I've done some videos in the past on these topics which I've linked below, hopefully they help! Minor: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iKlo0JqxYLyrhbA.html Dominant: kzread.info/dash/bejne/mmuupq2ffJnAmbA.html

Why does Barry Harris´idea of playing D-7 then F-7 (a minor third above) then resolving to tonic C work from a theory standpoint?

@NathanBortonMusic

7 ай бұрын

Hi Robert! Thanks for your questions. You could think about it multiple ways. 1) the F-7 shares a lot of the same tones as a G7alt chord 2) the F-7 is related to Bb7 which also shares the 3rd and the 7th of G7 3) the minor 3rd interval links the two chords together. Hope one of those helps you understand the process :)

@robertblake3909

7 ай бұрын

@@NathanBortonMusic many thanks, nathan. :-)

I want to develop my own language

@NathanBortonMusic

8 ай бұрын

Interesting, I hear people say this phrase a lot. But jazz is a language and has a deep tradition. My of the greats started by “copying” other peoples language. Grant, for example, copied Parker (his lines make that clear). However, after years of working with language you can speak it in your own way and develop your own ideas. If you just play theory that of course isn’t jazz… and even if you dont like straight ahead, modern players have their own language as well. I would argue it’s impossible to have your own voice without first having a pool of influences to pull from.

or as Joe Pass says. "just play the V7.. I don't (can''t?) even (thinkfast enough to) think of the ii at these fast tempos" (sic)....

@NathanBortonMusic

7 ай бұрын

Yeah defiantly! All are useable and valid ways. The thought process behind this lesson was to show the various "parts" of a jazz line and the different paths one could take to play over chord changes. I defiantly think either just ii or V when playing fast :)

That’s Big John Patton. Sorry - auto correct doing it’s thing.