i am a former student of Ted's. i miss him ! and i love when he was sitting on the floor of his apartment he would improvise in the style of bach. he also gave me one of his guitars and signed and dated it

@erickkhanh6930

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing

He was a genius, wonderfull teacher and very spiritual. He charged $25/1hour lesson while others(famous guitarists inLA) charge $200/1 hour lesson. He did clinic in MI for many times in his life and every time he's in, all the teachers and students went to see how he played these chordsI had chance to talk to hime couple times. He's like a monk. than a musician. RIP mr Greene

@djnelsonchild7467

3 жыл бұрын

I paid 18 an hour

I was reading a psychology review that summarized the feelings of people towards specific combinations of personality type and ability. People with emotional warmth, humility and benevolent personalities who happen to ALSO be extremely competent and gifted inspire feelings of great affection, protectiveness and admiration in others...Ted epitomizes that combination. What a wonderful guy...he reminds me of my old classical guitar teacher, but more jazzy. I would pay my instructor for an hour and our lessons would run three hours because he was such a passionate teacher. We always remember those mentors that really made a mark on us with their spirit, generosity, and their gift of teaching...grateful to have found Ted, even now, twelve years into playing guitar. There's always more to learn, just around every corner.

Today I was staring at Chord Chemistry and the Modern Chord Progressions books on the floor of my teaching room. I've had the these books since they first came out in the seventies.. I must have looked at both of them thousands of times. After countless hours of studying I still feel I haven't begun I appoach Ted's level of understanding and ability. He was by far the most influential guitarist around. All the great/famous players went to him for lessons. He didn't want the limelight.

maybe the best chord melody player i ever heard, intensely wonderful

Genius underrated guitarist. Anybody out there, buy his beautiful album. It is a masterpiece. This man has greatly influenced my guitar playing since the early 70's when I heard him play at McCabes Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, Ca. A gentleman, a musician's musician and a great spirit. He will forever live in my heart. Thank you Ted for all the wonderful guitar skills you have shown us guitarist.

Dude, calling him a "giant cat" simply means affection and the utmost respect from one musician to another. Greene has studied Bach extensively, and considers him one of is mentors.

We need Ted back

Ted was by far a major influence on so many guitarists around the world. He showed us that we could take the guitar out of the norm by treating the instrument as an orchestra. His approach to playing rhythm, bass and melody all at once inspired so many of us to explore the unlimited possibilities on the guitar. His Chord Chemistry book is a must for any guitarist, intermediate or advanced. Also, all of his books are masterpieces in learning. My Chord Chemistry book is always at my side.

Ted was suprisingly accessible for being so legendary. And he had this amazing ability of being able turn his head and have you try to "stump" him by playing any chord (or random cluster of notes), then telling you exactly where and how you played it. He would even instantly identify the chord by every possible root and tell you which chord tones were missing and which tones you should let ring out more. All of this without looking!

Did he just call Bach a "giant cat"?

@TheStrataminor

5 жыл бұрын

hahaha...his personal highest compliment!!!

players are gonna be digging this 100 years from now

This is incredible. I can't believe the sound he's getting. It's so simple and pure, yet so nuanced. This is probably the most beautiful tone you can get out of an electric guitar.

a true genius dedicated to our love for the guitar.

He's so amazing... Greatest guitarist ever...

this guy was truly gifted. i bought a copy of "Chord Chemistry" 10 years ago and still haven't gone through the whole book thoroughly...

Love hearing jazz on a tele!

A true master.

Very Interesting, Mr. Greene deeply admired another chord melody genius:Lenny Breau, they both have given their arts great contributions.

I never use the word awesome - but that's what Ted Greene is ....

Simply the best chord + melody progressions I've ever heard!

Thank you for the clip, I`ve had his book Modern Chord Progressions since the 70`s so I searched his name here. I`m sorry to hear he passed, but glad I finally got to see him play guitar after all these years.

What a beautiful description of Ted and his legacy.

Ok, this is a demo video, but the late Ted Greene was one of the greatest guitarists ever. Just listen to his 'A Certain Smile' on his only CD. His phrasing,use of chords, movement in and out of keys, his tone, his feeling, his music. Truly beautiful. Inspirational. His medium of the electric guitar showed what can be achieved on this instrument. Not many are able to do so. An antidote to the truly raucous sounds commonly associated with the guitar.

I love to listen to this guy... what joy.

I am a former student of Ted Greene's. I can say without a doubt that he is one of the greatest musicians that ever lived.

Awesome talent! Thanks.

May the spirit of Lenny, and Ted, and "this idea" stay alive forever.

I've never heard anyone with Ted's tone before, if I could play like him I would never worry about practicing my picking or any other stuff his playing connects with me deeper than anyone else hands down

he has some STRANGE facial expressions going! i just got chord chemistry and man that book is tough!

Ted was 100 years ahead of his time. I took lessons from him a couple of years before I learned that he had passed. He only charged $20 per lesson, when he could have easily commanded $100! Very modest and humble, and a sweet man, despite the fact that he was one of the best in the world. I had studied all of his books for years, my favorite being Chord Chemistry (the original cover photo of which he described himself as a "wooly mammoth"). RIP, Ted! You are sorely missed!

Ted Greene was amazing and his baroque improv is also mind blowing

I can't believe I've never heard of him. I'm in love with this guy's approach. He is amazing!

i wish there was more live ted stuff- i have seen this full video and he is a musician simply on a different level....so pleased to see how he applied all the stuff from his books....his ear and understanding of harmony is an inspiration

I've been studying his book Chord Chemistry for about six months and I've grown so much as a music student. I've been mesmerized by his record for quite some time but this is the first time that I've ever seen him play. Big Ups to Ted Greene! Thank you for the post.

Such a humble way to teach making the music great made him great.

this is one of the most touching things i've seen on youtube. This is the first time i listen to him.. i think.

It seems it was an improvisation from a student request at 2:20 to contrast both Jazz style and the style of Bach over a chord progression. Stunning.

genius

This is incredible.

Amazing!

Devastating playing, sounds so beautiful.

Such humbly stellar quality of mind expressed....such musing on tones, overtones and the like of it...such an attempt to reconcile with an existence here. I supposed a definition of 'song'

that is so beautiful

I met Ted and had a buddy that took lessons from him. He was an odd sort of genius (obviously). He was this soft spoken all the time and seemed super shy. I don't know what kind of diagnosis he might have been given, but I wish I had just a bit of it! We miss him!

Im not a jazz player,but I've learned so much about chord voicings and intervals because of TG,

what a brilliant mind

It's great to see that Chord Chemistry and Modern Chord Progressions by Ted Greene are still available. CHeck them out if you're serious about your music. I never thought I'd get to see Ted play but what a fantastic clip and what a humble guy.

Wow... he was on a whole different level.

stumbled across ted accidently,devine serendipity! the word genius is often misused on the mediocre!but not here:a true genius!awsome harmonic ability of a kind rarely seen!just bought chord chemistry.can,t wait to get my teeth into it!

A Chord Chemistry Giant!!! I really wish I could grasp this.

Ted gave me this video. I think I have the whole seminar! It was sort of a going away present to me when I moved to Vegas.

this fellow was the teacher of my current jazz teacher

Here I'am lost on you tube and never even heard of Ted Greene and I'm blown away. But wait a minute Ted I play Buck Owens, Mearle Haggard and Waylon stuff on my Tele and you are doing heavenly stuff on yours. Just goes to show, a geneus can play any freegin thing and make it sound heavenly. I'm sure Danny Gatton is listening to you my friend.......

maybe the best chord melody player i ever heard, did you hear the major/minor stuff he threw in there?

i have chord chemistry is a great book -- blew my mind when i first got it

ted greene's still the baddest.

RIP, we miss you.

The guitar's lost magician. He had a musical conception of the guitar unlike anyone in the world.

Even if this was recorded in the early 90s, and even if Ted is isnt living with us anymore, his music is so much "now" then anything Ive ever heard. When I heard this the first time, I was working with it myself, obsessed with playing hip qauartal harmony stuff, both linear and horizontal, pushing speed boundries (think I got insprired from Keith Jarrett here on youtube) etc. And then I hear this, this cathedral of sounds and think that this, is one truth of this tune I never thought existed.

I recommend his book "Modern Chord Progressions "which I found great because he uses chord diagrams with a little twist. I also had the privilege of going through it with Howard Morgen my x's uncle.

@michaelbedward

7 жыл бұрын

Wow - Ted Greene and Howard Morgen is a pretty special combination

I have his only album. Greate album. a classic

I'm sorry to know he has passed. In the many years of lessons as a kid I spent years working through "Chord Chemistry" I'd never seen him "live" so to speak, but he seems to be such a great guy. That quote "It's just a problem, we deal with it" is so simple, yet so incredibly wise. He appears to have suffered from Parkinson's. am I wrong? I am extremely grateful for your having posted this. Thank you.

Don't worry, some of us chuckled.

Very smooth, Telecasters are so versatile hey? The harmonics mixed in at the end are very nice.

Amazing as ever. Teds playing really puts some perspective into what being a musician means. 🍻🍻

Lenny Breau and Ted. Definitive.

I think it's neck vibrato- he's pulling gently back on the neck while holding the guitar body with his left arm. Gives it that shimmery Ted sound.

@joycesanders4898

4 жыл бұрын

I thought at first he had a form of palsy, but no...he was jus ALWAYS in the groove. 🎶🎸🎓

For those who don’t know, Ted Greene is the genius behind the book called “Chord Chemistry”. It’s entirely about how he single handedly modified music theory in general. That’s why there was no one else on the planet who could play like him unless they actually took lessons from him.

Come on people, gotta get the likes over 1,000!

Oh my God.

Ted Greene, an amazing human ...I only just discovered his music ...Saw him during an interview a number of years back. The Genious of Lenny Breau, produced by his daughter.I now have new inspirations ....does anyone know where I could get any of his recordings? I particulaly love the 1977 recording he has posted on his My Space Tribute site. Cheers and Than you for posting this clip. Dave W Calgary

At 0:52 a nice voicing for E7#9#11, from bottom: E ( open ) Ab Bb G

I'm not sure that I understand your point. I had the honor of seeing Segovia play live shortly before he died. His wife had to lead him on stage, help him to his seat, then she placed the guitar in his shaking hands. Poor guy could barely move on his own, let alone see two feet in front of him. What transpired was the most amazing flawless performance ever (despite the "wobbling and shakin" hands), and this is the opinion of a "guitar snob" with over 30 years of experience on the instrument!

Not true. I consider Ted my mentor. It doesn't matter that he's dead, or that I never knew him, because the wealth of knowledge and beauty he left behind, his legacy, will never die. Look up his baroque improv and then tell me he has "no connection to any classical or baroque master." He is one of the masters without a doubt.

He plays through a fender twin reverb amp

Wow. What a great player...I've been working out of his books and listening to his album for years, but somehow I still don't sound like that! There must be something wrong with my Tele...I can't believe some of the posts on here criticizing his clothes and stage presence - God, aren't you LISTENING? And by the way, he doesn't have Parkinsons - he's doing a secret technique very few jazz guitarists know about called "vibrato". Look it up, kids. Anyway, RIP Ted - you are sadly missed.

ahhahahhahah! nothing like a fresh new key!! hahahaha.. love it.

THE chord chemist

@rayjr62 Ted played very nicely and tastefully. I realize that they normally perform(ed) in two totally different genres, although Allan CAN play in virtually any musical arena - standards, straight ahead jazz, etc. We have been long time friends (I played drums with him many years ago). I'm in the first picture on his website "Pix" page - unnamed. But I digress. One major difference between Ted and Allan, is that when Allan makes a mistake, only he knows it; not the listener.

Question for you guys lucky enough to have studied under Ted: Did he have jumbo frets on that Tele? And was the action high on that neck?

The whole video (50 minutes) can be found @ google video!

perhaps.

it seems that when you made a simple question , people get angry or attaked,

you can kinda hear where eric johnson is comin from in there

@TheStrataminor

5 жыл бұрын

I think that Ted was an inspiration for many guitarists.....

He had a really beautiful tone...especially for a solid-body. Did he use a rotational speaker or leslie for this vid?

This could very well be the explanation. He has nice melodies and knows his stuff.

yes, it matters for me , for you?

Any idea where I can get a video of this workshop in its entirety?

Just got his book Chord Chemistry and I am completely lost someone HELP!

@bramhallfan

4 жыл бұрын

The Dark Night do you have the workbook?

@prisonmike1658

4 жыл бұрын

Thomas Hayes Yea I do I haven’t read it for some time because I just can’t get through to what it’s saying

@Cairton1

4 жыл бұрын

@@bramhallfan there's a workbook?

@bramhallfan

4 жыл бұрын

@Cairton it’s called “the trail guide to chord chemistry”...

@Cairton1

4 жыл бұрын

@@bramhallfan Thanks a lot man. Much appreciated.

" Implying the chords " Habada, Habada .

Anyone know what the guy in the audience asks of Ted at 2:20 ? Not clear what Ted goes on to try... Thanks.

Totally irreplacable. I have been looking on his website for yrs now and i have yet to find a better instructor.

what alteration is he doing to that Fmaj7 chord at 47s (original Gmaj7 in key of E minor)??!!

that sounds great..is he using a very mild chorus effect?

Love how Bach is a "giant cat"

Is this tele one of Teds? Looks like a newer style bride in it.

One thing I've found to be consistent in life; the ignorant always seem compelled to show everyone just how ignorant they are!

i want him to be my teacher.

You are exactly right. Did you know that he was the first one to play in all keys? His harmonies are what blows my mind. Also, his point-counter point was genius. It seemed he never ran out of variations on a single theme, just like Ted mentioned. Btw, I had a friend who studied under Ted Greene for several years.