Now, this is teaching. I'm 66 and finally there's a teacher, who caught my attention. Thank you so much.....and please continue your awesome style teaching. Greets from Denmark 🎸 👌

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Allan! I will be posting lots more lesson videos in the future

@frankferguson9899

3 жыл бұрын

I'm 71, and my attention is also on notice, thanks.

Jack as a teacher I can say that you are a GREAT teacher, you are very clear. I do have a problem the volume levels between your speaking voice and your guitar demos are so vast, I am constantly having to turn my volume up to hear you and then turn the volume down to not blow my speakers out when the video has music. Balance.

I feel like I've discovered the musical equivalent of the holy grail. I will be going through each and every video with a fine tooth comb. You're doing something amazing here Jack. Keep it up!

Thanks Jack! This was very helpful, I really like the way you broke it down with the theory and the tabs. Please keep this type of content coming!

I found this very useful. I’ve watched a lot of these and frequently get lost , usually because the tutors approach assumes we’re all Jazz based musicians. This is far more understandable, just what I needed. Ace.

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to hear that. Thank you Gerry!

Amazing stuff. Really helps me connect the jazz stuff I learned to a ye'old blues and make it refreshing. 😁

I am also an older guitar who finds the content that you are teaching and your method of teaching quite helpful. A serious lesson by an adult who knows what he is doing. I hope you continue!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you John!

Very nice! More of these contents would be appreciated for sure!

Beautiful clearly explained, plus tabs - great teaching! Love your playing and tone!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Cal!

Love your playing feel, Jack, and that makes it easier to follow your tutorials.Please keep this up because it helps to hear the same theory ideas demonstrated by someone with whose playing you resonate.

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Thanks Chris

Jack, you are unbelievably good. Love your videos man.

Keep these videos coming please. Much appreciated.🙏

Great stuff Jack. Love your laid back but clear teaching style.

@JackRuch

2 жыл бұрын

Cool, thanks!

Really rate this - I’ve admired your playing for some time so it’s great to see some of the concepts within it.

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

I finally found my guitar hero. I love Josh, Kirk and Marcus, but I want to play like Jack.

Beautiful playing. Thank you for the thorough lesson.

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

sublime tone and touch

Yessss my man!! More of these videos please. Great player and a great teacher!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

The teacher will appear when you are ready. Saw you talking with Guthrie. Right On! Jack, your topics and approach are going to help fine tune all the stuff I learned from him. I'm a 64 yr. old semi-pro basement jammer, who loves playing and writing, and learning. New Subscriber. Thanks for all you do.

@JackRuch

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that! Thank you

You are a big breath of fresh air Jack. So glad to hear someone actually play tasteful guitar.

@JackRuch

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Al!

Excellent lesson Jack! Thank you for taking the time in putting it together for us. I just subscribed!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Steve!!

Brilliant lesson and super smooth melodic playing- more lessons please Jack!!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

I'm putting together more. I'm going to try to do one every week.

Just found your channel yesterday. These videos are incredibly well done and helpful.

@JackRuch

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

Great tone and "speak easy " on teaching a subject that many teachers fail on objectivity. Debunking made easy. Thank you JR.

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome! Thank you

This is gold, thank you for taking the time to share.

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Andrew!

Thanks for the lesson Jack. Really great.

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Happy to do it! Thank you

I found you and your channel through Corey Congilio. I have to say your laid back mannerism and playing is so soothing. You are the real "slow hand". Brilliant lessons. New sub and fan. On a separate note, I'm guessing you are single like me. No man in a relationship can be this laid back and focused. 😂

I was attracted by the I7/V7 transitions but stayed to memorize phrases of your elegant blues vocabulary.

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks John!

Extremely helpful thanks for sharing your knowledge! Allows one to break out of the same boring I V IV rut!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

So awesome. I’m so captivated by the smoothness and unexpectedness of your sound that I’ve been experimenting with different arpeggios substitutions.. (if that’s what it’s called) for the last few months and this is definitely helping me put some of the puzzle pieces together. .... and helped make me decide to become a patron. Thanks for inspiring. 🙏🎸

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you Calvin! I'll make more lessons about arpeggio/chord substitutions. I love that stuff

@monarkoz74

3 жыл бұрын

@@JackRuch That's great. I'm an Aussie 🇦🇺who got lost in Stockholm 🇸🇪 and funnily enough had a lesson with Mr David Henriksson touching on this subject yesterday. A long but fun road ahead.

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

@@monarkoz74 David is the man!

This is awesome. Thank you! Especially for the tabs.

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Thanks for watching

So smooth and the tone!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Very helpful! Keep these lessons coming. This is far the most useable lesson of II-V-Is I’ve ever had. Thanks for sharing it!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to hear it! Thank you

@jankafka7330

3 жыл бұрын

This lesson is so basic that if someone considers it "the most useable (sic) lesson of II-V-Is (they've) ever had" they must have started playing yesterday. He starts out explaining how to build chords from a scale, for fuck's sake. That's as basic as you can get. The licks he offers are about as textbook, white bread, and pedestrian as you can get. Yes, these are building blocks toward something better but this shit is hardly mind-expanding rocket science.

@zsoltdubravcsik2750

3 жыл бұрын

@@jankafka7330 you don’t have to agree. I’m happy to hear that you’re very advanced on guitar but you don’t have to comment on something you have no connection with. The world is sick nowadays because very unhelpful and malicious people like you exist. I’m happy if something, even very basic is helpful for anybody. Sorry.

Thanks Jack! I've been in a rut and I'm inspired again.

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear! Thanks Jason

Really nice work! Easy to follow your explanaitions. Cheers!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Amazing tone!

@johnnydeeme

3 жыл бұрын

you too! I watch your channel all the time too...

@Steinbock1967

2 жыл бұрын

Eric, you are a star as well. Love your channel too

Awesome lesson Jack 🥰 ! Kind regards from France 🇫🇷

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thank You!

Love it! Keep the lessons up!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Morgan!

So cool. Thanks for sharing the knowledge, much appreciated!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks John!

Amazing video! Great teaching style; very clear, with easy examples and explanation. Loved it and looking forward to more! You’ve got a fan here for sure- Let us know when you’re playing in south Florida!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Will do! Thank you Morgan

Really great stuff here Jack.......Wish I did this back in the 70's....

@JackRuch

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve!

Beautifully explained. Superb player Thank you

@JackRuch

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Great lesson Jack.

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ed!

Love the playing and tone .

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

Great approach to building up tension over the Dom.7th chord. Thanks.👍

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thank man!!

You have a awesome sound !

Jack Ruch, and that Josh Williams. Iconic

Love the straight forward and practical approach in these lessons

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Charlie!

Helpful indeed, stay safe !

very helpful video. Thank you Jack

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it! Thanks for watching

Top lesson a lot of work ahead 👍

thanks Jack, I turned a corner with that lesson

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

Really useful Jack, you explain a complex subject clearly. Subbed & liked. Came here from your appearance on Brett Papa's channel.

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you John. Glad you enjoyed it!

Nice work, Jack!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Beautiful lesson! Thank you!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Very helpful, thank you.

This is great....subscribed and hoping for more like this. Thanks!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Lot's more to come! Thank you

THANK YOU! No greasy kid stuff here. Great lesson and playing! Wow! I had to learn the entire solo, great stuff!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! Thanks!

very helpful Jack! thx

Sweet tones thanks

Loved this and not of the standard youtube marketing wank at the start. Don't ever change :)

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Frank!

Awesome lesson!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ron!

thanks for the lesson...very helpful

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

If you start putting these kinds of videos out, your channel will blow up. We all LOVE your style. BTW... I'm starting to suspect that little zip up the neck you do at 0:15 and 0:57 is your signature move. 👍🏼

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks John! Glad you dig it!

@jankafka7330

3 жыл бұрын

I don't understand all the ass-kissing this guy's getting. If this is a representative example of his lessons, they're pretty basic and lame. The solo at the beginning was listenable though.

Great tone indeed.

You got me! I’ll be back! Great Work!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks David

Thank you for explaining this so clearly. It's always been confusing to me because in the key of G, the Dm7 and G7 are treated as the II and V as they resolve to C, rather than as the V and I of the key of G.

Delicious! Thanks!

Love the Freddie King Lick 0.35 Perfect example to the IV

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Right on Matthew! Thanks

Man I just have to work out, like all the other shit you put up. Thank you, you are really generous.

Ciao Jack apprezzo moltissimo le tue lezioni ti faccio i mei complimenti perche' innanzitutto dal modo in cui parli e da come ti poni si capisce che sei una persona speciale,poi sei molto preparato e spieghi le cose con estrema semplicita' con i tempi giusti senza correre come purtroppo fanno in molti,devo dire che sono stato molto fortunato ad imbattermi sul tuo canale,nonostante suono da molti anni ho imparato cose molto belle e interessanti,Dio ti benedica

Great stuff! Thank you

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jose!

great lesson many thanks

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Very helpful!!!

How in the hell you don’t have a million subs is crazy to me sir, thanks

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

I'm working on it! Thank you

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

@@electrofrying1685 Thank you!!

Very good!!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Fabio!

I was here before this legend blew up.

Just found you thru Brett Papa. I like your style and am looking forward to more vids like this. Would be interesting to explore a jazzman’s approach to mixing major and minor pentatonics. Ie over which chords to do it and off which intervals to make the switch. Cheers Jack.

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jonathan! I'm planning on making a video on that topic

sweet n nice! Thats a purdy geeter too!

Buen canal, felicidades!!

Yes! Finally lessons !!! Its so great to see your approach for the improv. Youre killer player. Please keep it up! 🔥🔥🔥

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Yes there will be more to come!

Awesome video! I'm still working on the content from our Skype lesson. I'll be back to you as soon as I get it under my fingers. Hope you're doing well!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! thank you Martin!

good stuff man..thanks

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

Subscribed. Found you through Michael Palmisano !

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks Michael

Tension and release all the wrong notes you play sound great which makes the right notes sound even better

@cfree5119

3 жыл бұрын

This is one of the pots at the end if the rainbow if not THE pot. For the learning pedestrian, I'd be curious on what the focus of practice should be. But sounds like know where all the chords sit within 1-2 frets of one another and then be able to play all the arpeggios necessary to get the tones? Your sound is awesome as always.

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

@@cfree5119 A good place to start is by learning the arpeggios to each chord and practice cycling between them in each of the 5 positions. Then start tying them together to make lines. Just start with straight 8th notes to keep it simple.

Very helpful. I like your approach and presentation very much. Any tips on your tone would be much appreciated as well. Thank you

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

So Good

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I just now happened upon this channel and watched this video. Very cool lesson and just the type of stuff I’m working on. How about the 6-2-5 in the blues? I’d like to see your take on it too.

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

The new video I just posted on Grant Green has lots of 6-2-5-1 ideas

Very helpful thanks for the lesson! Question: if the rest of the bad doesn’t play the 251 on the 4th bar, can the guitar player still drop those jazzy lines in without sound out of place?

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Thats one of my favorite things about this concept

That's a JW Mockingbird? Very, very nice. Way, way out of my price range but really lovely.

❤

Interesting that you are fitting a ii-V-I of C major in a G major based progression - sounded good. I fitted a ii-V-I of the same key as the turn around (half bar of ii and half bar of V for 11th bar and I for 12th bar) and as 9th bar of ii, 9th bar of V, 11 and 12th bars of I - both sounded a good change - something different.

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

It's a great sound and very versatile. 2-5-1's can fit lots of places

20 other teachers will tell you the same thing... but you won't get it. Then Jack tells you one time.... The guy Allan Fibecker knows what he's talking about!

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Johnny!

Idea for a video lesson part 2 - I saw you on Michael Palmisano's guitar gate, discussing a Guthrie Trappism, where if he is say playing on an Amaj triad or A7th chord, he sometimes uses the Gmaj7 arpeggio to play over that and resolve back to A7. Or the Bm7 arpeggio back to the A7. He goes a full step below and plays a major 7th or a full step above to a minor 7th and resolves back to the major triad or dominant 7th. What would be the theory behind that?

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

I will definitely do a lesson on that! That is something I use all the time.

@yakovest

3 жыл бұрын

Gmaj7 contains all the altered tones of A7

@jakeweston6973

3 жыл бұрын

It’s also just related to the implied key with A7 being the V7 chord in Dmaj So Gmaj=IV, Bmin=vi If you’re looking for resources on how to superimpose these triads or sounds over other chords take a look at what’s called “upper structure triads/melodies”

@crosbycofod5052

3 жыл бұрын

@@yakovest wouldn't G7 over an A7 just be playing standard A mixolydian colors?

@yakovest

3 жыл бұрын

@@crosbycofod5052 of course it would, but it wouldn’t have the altered extension tones, which makes this phrase jazzy

Great stuff. I assume that the idea is that the Dm7 functions as a 5 of 1 and resolves back to G7. For whatever reason I had a hard time aligning the changes in the backing track with the chord chart. Maybe you could include playing through the progression on the next one.

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

I will be sure to do that. The '2-5-1' is just a chord movement but it doesn't really relate to the key of G. It's the 2 (Dmin) 5 (G7) and 1(C) of C because that is the chord we are heading to. You can add 2-5-1's to all kinds of progressions as a way to transition between chords.

@RedLion88

3 жыл бұрын

@@JackRuch Thanks. Yes for some reason I was thinking we were going back to G at that point but the path to C makes sense.

I don't want to know why I have to stop playing guitar solos using scales, I know that its hip and its not a joke , but I just want to see Jack's video

So amazing!!! Love the 2-5-1 connections in blues. Yes pls make more of these!!! I started learning these from Josh Smith who uses this alot and he said he was inspired by Robben Ford in using these. Can you also use 2-5-1s to get to the IV and V? For example, to get to IV - Fmaj7, would it be Gm7, Cmaj7, Fmaj7? This happens to work bc Gm7 is the ii of Fmaj7, and Cmaj7 is the V of Fmaj7, correct? However, where I trip over is in this case Gmaj7 is in the diatonic progression of Cmaj7 and not Gm7, so how does one account for that? Maybe a lesson on that?

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Allen! In this video I am doing a '2-5-1' to the 4 chord. We are playing a blues in G and we're going to the C chord. So I play Dmin7 (the 2 chord of C) G7 (5 chord of C) and then C7. That Dmin chord is not diatonic to G but that doesn't matter because we're just using it to transition to the C chord. You can add 2-5-1's in other places too, like Emin-A7-D7 would be a 2-5-1 to the V chord.

@allenchief6351

3 жыл бұрын

@@JackRuch thanks so much Jack. You responded to me on IG abt your private lessons and I have yet to book one with you, but there is absolutely no doubt that I will be hitting you up to do one. Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I messed up thinking you were in C as the I and not in G with C being the IV. Thank you for clarifying, your response helps immensely!

Is the best '☝👍☝

What is the name of that guitar please

@JackRuch

3 жыл бұрын

This is a JoshWilliams Mockingbird

So does 2 5 1 mean that if you were going from G to C you would play G Dm7 G C ?