Is This A Horrible Jazz Guitar Method?
Is this book as great as everyone says or is it a waste of your time? Here’s what you can learn from this Joe Pass method.
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Content:
00:00 Intro
00:38 The Method
03:16 The Building Blocks
04:35 Is Building Blocks Cheating?
05:49 The Blocks Help You Learn The Solo
06:26 The Problem
08:21 There is Rhythm, You Just Don’t Recognize It
08:49 Learn Bebop!
08:57 The 5 Bebop Facts That Will Help You Learn Faster
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Do you use this book? What is your experience?
✅ The Most Important Bebop Licks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iFZdLf7a1o&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcFzDL9mT2eUF54IkjFdYsy6&index=1
✅The 5 Bebop Facts That Will Help You Learn Faster ????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5g9ewommIA&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcFzDL9mT2eUF54IkjFdYsy6&index=1
This is a Great Book .Thanks for this Jens Great Video Again.????
lmao yeah that jack sparrow tabs meme hits home.
Another book I’d throw into this idea is by David Baker -Learning the Bebop Language Vol 2. I find it laid out very well and in smaller ‘bit size’ chunks. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific set of standard chord changes (ii-V’s etc) and he presents 60 to 100+ 2 or 4 bar lines seemingly taken from every player, which he calls “public domain lines”. It’s all presented in C and up to the learner to transpose into all keys, which in itself is a great exercise.
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1:56 This concept is interesting and reminds me of Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 (constant 16th notes — truly one of the greatest pieces of all time).
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The first half of the book is confusing as hell
I had the book as a teen… and didn't like it. I still can't read well other than first position and it's all written out solo's that are examples with no explanation. He was one of the best players though. Tal Farlow did a book that was good, and he played as well as Joe too.
I always pushed reading ahead of me, “do it later”. Until I just bit the bullet two weeks ago (indeed for this book ????) and learned it with an app in a few days time. I can now read solos. Not any chords yet, as that’s a lot more involved it seems. But reading melody is actually pretty simple as long as you keep the current root and scale in mind.
funny story. when i was 18 and auditioning for school, i transcribed night and day off jp's virtuoso album. note for note by ear. it probably wasn't exactly the way he played it but my own interpretation. all the peoples face dropped at each audition and i was accepted into every school lol, i also played bouree by bach along with it. and i think something from joe diorio
This is the BEST jazz guitar book I have ever used —–bought it 20 years ago.
Is there someone explaining Joe's harmonic concepts with roman numerals? That's one issue with the first half of the book
Jens, any chance of a similar video with pat martino's book?
Wow! A "Jazz phrasebook". Learning how to interpret is a big part of learning a language, right?
Great now I have to go listen to Albert King. I’m trying to study jazz but you can’t say his name without me having to get some . It’s like talking about your favorite pizza or cheese burger. Great now I’m hungry ????.
There’s a Joe Pass hot licks that not on YouTube anymore that’s the best jazz video I’ve ever seen. It’s not the blues one. I used to watch it every day.
I had one of his books, it was basic stuff leading into stuff that I never mastered because it gets really advanced. I was into Metallica the book helped get me started.
After watching your video, I bought the "Joe Pass Guitar Style" book. It has been a great help with my reading music getting the notes under my fingers. I really enjoy your music both instructions and performances.
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Jens, I like what you have to say about eighth notes. I'm old and I adore JP. The real benefit for me of studying in eighths has been the that ON beat and OFF beat notes play different roles in a passage with the ONE beat being the most dominant. Therefore when a guitar note study is all mixed up with shorter and longer notes, one really must concentrate mentally about what's going on, and feeling takes a back seat for too long. But once you're feeling the groove of a passage in eighths, mixing up the note duration is much easier as you strive to adjust tonality per beat type. Thanks for identifying the playful be-bob beats. That helps a lot.
The Cantina Band and Joe Pass’s secret Danish heritage, great video!! I do have the Joe Pass chord book which I found underwhelming, but now I’m intrigued about this book, thanks!
I’ve always learnt solos by ear from the recordings. Most tablature I’ve come across bares little relation to the solo itself! At best they’re usually off by a note or two, or the phrasing is wrong, at worst they seem like a different tune entirely!!
I’ve always tried to avoid the practice of playing memorised leaks! ????
Hi, i bought the book because everybody is recommending it but i have a hard time finding any music.
This is just noises and random notes playing.. i dont understand anything about it
Every note is sacred, every note is great, and if one note it wasted… 🙂
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I love the idea of no tabs. I've been looking for old(er) books to force myself to learn to read more fluidly. If there are tabs, it's hard for me to defer to the "harder" form of notation. I've been using the Sal Salvador method and scale system for that at the moment. Super excited to pick up the Joe Pass book(s)
Funny because I just finally started trying to learn how to read music due to a different Joe Pass lesson which isn't in tab.
It is not going well, its going to dramatically slow down my learning. It takes me days as it is to learn these complex short passages even when there is tab.
Thank you for this video . Im not a jazz guitarist, but I'm always keen to learn more because i love music ! Joe Pass got me much more interested in jazz . At first, I only enjoyed jazz fusion, but Joe Pass and Johnny Smith got me really excited for jazz
I've spent most of my life studying Bach – the cello suites and violin partitatas. And just imagine – there are well paid classical musicians who have the same ignorance to Bach as they do Joe Pass! Listen to just about any classical guitarist play the first Back cello suite – they all do! Each any every one is just terrible! Why! Because they don't hear or see the phrasing that is throughout. They see, and play, a string of eighth notes. They play it like it's a finger picking exercise! And this it totally wrong by every measure of Baropque performance practice. Listen to Casals play it on the cello. He cuts up the phrases into digestible pieces and feeds them to you by hand. You then have to learn how this is done – and it's done through hardcore music theory. to be fair, a lot of cellists play these pieces list crap, as well.
I say practice what you preach: it may require more takes, but I think your spoken commentary would feel more natural if you would take a leap of faith: jot down the points you want to make, lose the script, and improvise. ????
I've never used tabs much, and never will. We need to get back to reading music and interpretation!!
I got this book last y3ar when I watched this video. I recommend it. It helped a lot
I’m a classical violinist learning jazz. There’s a lot more material out there for guitar than violin, but most of it translates very well to my instrument. This is definitely one of the best channels. Thanks, Jens!
I bought this book recently. The absence of tabs is obviously not a problem for me, and I have the technique to play the notes without much problem. However, I’m not used to swinging eighth notes notes, and phrasing these solos is different for me. In other words, the mechanics are easy, but turning this into music is difficult.
I wasn’t sure how to take full advantage of this book, nor was I even sure if I should use it at all, so this video is a great help.
As for unvarying rhythm (“motor rhythms” in classical terminology), look to the Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin by J.S. Bach. Many of them are in motor rhythms, but bury some very tricky “hidden rhythms” similar to what we see here.
I much prefer guitar books that have no tabs. They take up space and I read well enough to not need them.
Joe was one of the true electric guitar gods"….. the top rock guitarist aren't even close"…..
I read that Joe Pass recommended playing through a chord progression using just eighth notes and it helped my playing a lot ; it really gets you to find a next note that will be logical and to get to some 'good ' notes in the strong beats . Your playing goes from licks on individual chords to starting to be able to recognize the chords in your lines. I saw a video of Pass playing these types of lines and a commenter had written , " yo dude , while I couldn't play as well as you are playing , take a breath once in a while – listen to some saxophone players and notice how they take a pause in their phrases," the next comment was , "hey , dude , that's Joe Pass "
Joe looks equally badass with halo and horns. Thanks for video Jens – I always found Joe's book dense – it took me days to get through one page. So I never made it to the Solos section.
Howard Roberts also recommended practicing 8th notes over chord changes.
As a rock guy, I have to rewire my dopamine around jazz. It’s beautiful but I have to adjust my carrot and stick to see how these lines payoff. I can’t read music but I’m tempted.