The Bill Evans Guitar Book (Jazz Guitar Lesson 88)

[personanongrata]

I bought the book from Sid himself many years ago, brilliant player and equally great articulate and generous teacher. I'll dig the book out and it's just the time to have a look again.

[eternalrainbow-cjiu]

Hi Mikko, because of players like Bill Evans, I decided to play piano like 10 years ago, to understand more about those things to change my guitar playing...by piano playing for a longer time, I try when playing guitar what I did for 35 years now, I try to immedeately plAT STANDARDS THAT i DIN'T STUDY ON GUITAR SO MUCH, BUT DIRECTLY ON GUITAR, because if guitar is 2nd part of your body I found that that is possible without having to make or write arrengements just by playing for a longer time(real serious) piano brings also a thing that is difficult to describe but i found the advantages of that...

[TheCompleteGuitarist]

Thanks for sharing this. Love Bill Evans and playing his music on the guitar always challenging.

[joeenck]

Thanks for that fantastic video. Simply wonderful in all regards. Can't wait for the next one and please more of that guitar with that sound. It sound phenomenal. I've just ordered it.:-)

[teddypantelas]

As I came upon this site and saw the book, heard you start to play I knew it had to be a Sid Jacob’s arrangement. Sid Jacobs is a genius and I got some of his arrangements some years ago thru one of his students and can’t believe how he truly gets the Bll Evans sound out of the guitar. Watching him play them is amazing and he’s all around a great jazz guitarist! More people should know who he is because he’s one of a kind. . So glad you made this video.

[robertbulger]

Great stuff Mikko
What you are doing is fantastic !!!

[TheJofrica]

Lovely. Not too many do this song or even any of Mr. Evans' work

[Lmbar]

Hi Mikko, thanks for this it’s a great insight. I have ordered my copy of the book and looking forward to stuck in.

[Jamestele]

I could listen to that skillful, emotional jazz guitar all afternoon. I'm sure the book is amazing, but your execution is superb.

[jimkangas]

Excellent. I have this book and I have only looked at a few arrangements. At 16:12 or so, you mention playing the melody note and then the chord. This is a pretty big deal with Sid - often guitarists will play that melody note twice, and Sid would say that they disrespect the melody by doing so. Just making that change will really help your sound. Although it's not easy when you (as I do as well) use hybrid picking - using a pick on the melody and the fingers for the chord.

[MichaelGrecoGuitar]

This is so awesome. I always loved Bill Evans voicings. Lenny Breau really captured his voicings on the guitar. It’s really awesome there is an actual Bill Evans guitar book out!

[vmcelvis]

Shout out and thanks for the head up on Sid Jacobs- his short vignettes are a gold mine of- how would you do that-- nice take on Song For Debby

[robinmarwick]

Great video Mikko thanks looks like a good book for the coming long winter evenings thanks again.

[drsentell]

Very good...I am impressed with how close it is to B. .E original...thanks a bunch...this is V cool

[tripp]

You are a great teacher - thanks so much

[uberjam-sam]

Oh wow I had no idea this book existing. Thank you. It sounds amazing though not sure how many decades of practice I need to log to sound like you do haha. Reminds me of John McGlaughlins brilliant album in which he covers Bill Evans. Cheers!

[GlennMichaelThompson]

This book is great. Sid Jacob's is great. There are some great videos by Sid Jacob's. His other instructional material, books & DVD's etc. Under rated as a player....ABSOLUTELY! You have that right Mikko. Super video review of this book. I love your book choices. I have most of them myself. Thanks!!!

[kentcrawley]

You can also do the Lenny Breau technique . Play your drop 2 voicings then bring the dropped note back up an octave by playing the harmonic up 12 frets at the same time you pluck the other chord tones. You get the closed position chords.

[rdpatterson]

Great stuff. Thank you so much for sharing. You really help us out here in the guitar community.

[eternalrainbow-cjiu]

Over a dominant C7 bar 8(fisrt A) we could when we substitute it by the Bbm7b5 as You did Mikko in the right hand piano play a Ab Eb Db C-Lick so the rythm section substitutes a IV step, than the right hand plays bIII sounds great, all situations where the chords(or left hand, of course for guitarist we want to get rid of pianoplayers)than if your bass player plays Ivm7b5 instead of V7 a bIII lick with sus4 sounds tremendously fine because the Triad of the improv will be sound so nice because the accomp plays the b5 the E of Bbm7b5 will clash friednly and mysteriously with the Eb, (of course taken from alterd scale as you yourself demonstrated Mikko..Thanks to you I relooked this and found this nice alteration