Learn 12 Bars of a Joe Pass Solo in 20 Minutes

When you are researching jazz guitarists, you'll soon encounter Joe Pass.

Joe Pass is most famously known for his solo jazz guitar recordings.

But Joes early recoded output showcased some exemplary bebop guitar playing.

Chief among them is C.E.D from one of Joe's early come back albums.

You are going to learn how to outline the challenging bebop progression by studying 12 bars of Joe's solo.

0:00 Introduction
2:27 Solo Breakdown
17:25 Solo example at 140bpm

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[siemekkisiel]

More lesson like this! You are amazing!

[Billy-homs]

You have unique focus areas in your lessons. Keep up the great work!

[bluestrain]

You made it seem so easy and simple to do

[sandybuckley]

Great vid thanks :) got the solo - cant' hear the chords though.. what happens after the C# underneath?

[TheRealSandleford]

sweet guitar. Thats a diminished maj 6 scale that you called Joe Pass bebop scale. Barry Harris thinks that the note should not have been left out of the major scale! Interesting if you think of the G major outlining the Bm then its a m6/7? I guess its a 2/5 The Bm6 is pretty much the same chord as the E7

[SUPERno-friendo]

I havent watched the vid yet, i want to put a guess in. Is the b, e, a, a 251 and the d, g, c, a 147? Not sure what the random c to start is... im prolly way off. Hehehe

[wastrel]

'CED' also refers to the initials of Charles E. Dederich, the disgraced founder of Synanon. This is where Joe was in rehab when he recorded CED.

[erikbrooks]

I wish you'd mic your voice so i can hear it better the guitar is loud and clear make your voice just as loud,

[bluestrain]

You made it seem so simple and easy.. Lol

[rossechols]

The AUdio is too low in the majority of this video. Bummer!!!!