Grant Green Plays this Lick 13 TIMES in One Solo!

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0:00 Grant Green's Favorite Lick
1:42 Variations #1-6
6:01 Bonus Lick and Variations

[peteandrews]

Great, clear & love that last lick Gm7 shape over Cm7 (the classic 5 away made minor sub!), really gives a good insight into some of the typical Grant Green sound (which is fantastic!), cheers

[CrispySonOfA]

Thank you for breaking this down. Nice lesson!

[robertgrippo]

What is it that makes Grants playing so hypnotic? As you illustrate here so beautifully he usually just plays very simple, often repetitive ideas. YET I enjoy LISTENEING to Grant I'd say more than any other guitarist? I can listen to Grant Green all day long? Any thoughts on this?

[JazzStrat]

Excellent video and lick 🎸👍 thanks so much, hope you have a great weekend!

[jazzflounder]

I like how you walk through each variation and then ultimately land on the chord tone, helps to give me a starting point and an ending. you had me at " Grant Green"....lol. when you wrote "13 times " I figured you were gonna talk about a lick on "Tracin Tracey" E

[richardsorice]

Thanks, Chase. Will keep me busy for a while.

[pepperwilliams]

GG is in my top ten pick of jazz guitarist (he’s #3). Of course, there’s “nothing new under the sun”. With that being said, Bach and Beethoven did this stuff hundreds of years ago! And BTW, I’m using that ‘lick’ on my next solo😊 Great work!

[joepalooka]

Is this the Phrygian dominant scale? Fifth mode of the harmonic minor scale, or Mixolydian b9 b13. According to the Wikipedia article, Barry Harris makes this an 8 note scale as "on C7, play down from the 7th of Eb7 to E the 3rd of C7”. Also says Charlie Parker plays the descending permutation several times on "What Is This Thing Called Love". Isn't that what you're doing in bar 2 as well?

[TheManchestercrew]

How’s your jazz blues course coming on?

[ColtraneTaylor]

Thanks for explaining why this kind of repetitiveness bores the hell of me, and makes Jazz guitar pure hype in my book.