I Wish I Had Checked Out This Guy! His Solos Are Jazz 101 On Guitar

This is one of the best people to check out if you want to develop pretty much everything you need to learn when starting out with Jazz Guitar: Phrasing, Vocabulary, Rhythm and most importantly these solos are pretty easy to figure out and play.

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Content:
00:00 Intro
00:40 Grant Green - 3 Periods
01:19 Bebop On Guitar Done Right
03:30 The Perfect II V I
05:38 Two Great Examples of Chromatic Notes
07:16 The Tone And All That Reverb
08:13 No Chords, Just Fills
09:16 Pivot Arpeggio 2.0
09:51 Learning From Great Jazz Guitarists
10:10 Like the video? Check out my Patreon page!

My name is Jens Larsen, Danish Jazz Guitarist, and Educator. The videos on this channel will help you explore and enjoy Jazz. Some of it is how to play jazz guitar, but other videos are more on Music Theory like Jazz Chords or advice on how to practice and learn Jazz, on guitar or any other instrument.

The videos are mostly jazz guitar lessons, but also music theory, analysis of songs and videos on jazz guitars.

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[bobjohnson]

Always loved Grant's playing. Idle Moments is my favorite and, btw, I love his tone on that. lol

[wolfchapz]

Grant got me into jazz guitar and is my main cat man. And it’s coming out on my birthday. Insane

[songsketcherstudio]

“Idle Moments” as a composition and record was very special!

[delpanos]

Grant is the man, my personal favourite along with Kenny and Wes ! Grant played everything from bebop to to blues to funk... a player with feel and groove !

[timkoelln]

Love Grant Green! I love his tone too…very unique.

[MegalonJonesSlattery]

I'm a predominantly Rock guitar guy but have had a 1/4 century obsession with GG. Easily one of the more under rated guitarists of any genre. Listening to him and Jerry Garcia taught me the importance of chord tones. Love how you highlight the wide interval jumps and those trills that break up things and make them more interesting. His funk albums from the late 1960's are straight N A S T Y. GG has developed a bit of a following in the underground Hip Hop community amongst the crate diggers. Love your channel. Keep it up.

[kevindonnelly]

At 6:33 - 'No Scales, just TRIADS and ENCLOSURES.' This knowledge is 'The Holy Grail' to me ! I should say 'ANOTHER Holy Grail' to me. How many Holy Grails do you have ? I wish I learnt this years ago. Thanks Jens. ☯

[creatorofallthings]

I have his entire collection on vinyl ❤️❤️❤️ amazing player

[benkatof]

Great Jens! I love Grant Greene's tone. It's like a bell.

[ZyrixDeinhardt]

I'm starting to learn Jazz guitar with your books and videos, Jens. I heard Grant Green's Cease the Bombing on the radio today and thought this very thing: that I could take inspiration from it and learn his solo on my own. Then two hours later I land on your video about him! What synchronicity!

[Milobolo]

Grant Green was the first jazz guitarist who really inspired me to further my knowledge in jazz phrasing and technique in general; his rendition of “It Ain’t Necessarily So” still remains one of my all time favorite jazz guitar tracks

[rsuverk]

not long after I started learning Jazz Guitar, I was over in San Francisco, walking down Grant street, then came to the corner of Grant and Green. The Street sign is the cover of his Street of Dreams album. I went over to Amoeba in the Haight and bought that record. Simple yet melodic and this is what I wanted to play. So I bought more Grant Green albums. Idle Moments is amazing - learning to play Jean De Fluer - lots of Youtubes on the solo, but none on the whole front end melody. having to learn to sight read to learn that - Then I saw Kurt Rosenwinkel over in Berkeley - most amazing concert I ever saw - Learning Grant Green is key - all from a street sign in North Beach San Francisco - Now I'm going back to Grant's early period to learn that before going back to Jean De Fluer - gotta get the prerequesites down

[fzzyslpprs]

Hell yeah. Grant Green is "my guy". I've been listening to his albums in the car like every day for the past month. Love his playing. Love his tone. Love P90s. Love the funky stuff.

[Baci]

I love Grant Green too! His tone and phrasing just connects with me ... and lots of others lol. Idle Moments is one of my favorite songs.

[dasiccseason]

This is great! Grant Green's style is so accessible and yet also so pure at the same time. A couple of great solos to check out are "It Ain't Necessarily So" from The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark and his solo on "Latona" from Big John Patton's album Let 'Em Roll.

[augustusbetucius]

I recall coming across Grant Green by pure happenstance in a CD in the mid 90s. I had been through a Jazz program for a few years not too long before this, and *no* *one* had *EVER* mentioned his name to me, not once. Same again for two private teachers who were both monster jazz players. The guy who owned the CD store in question had a deep knowledge of jazz, orchestral, avant garde, experiemental music, and music in general. So he stocked music by important artists that are over looked. My first GG CD was the one with all the gospel/religious tunes. It was/is a great introduction. I collected most of his CDs after that. I never got into his funky material, but I recommend Grant Green and Kenny Burrell to *all* guitar players and jazz fans.

[bob]

I got so obsessed with Grant Green I bought a 330. Awesome guitar and love his tone as well as his musicality.

[bobblues]

LOL Jens-It seems like some guitar player friends of mine either hate his tone or love it! As a sax player, I love it. But what he is putting down is for real!

[misterknightowlandco]

Idle Moments is one of my favorite albums ever. Idk why it’s so hard to find jazz guitarists teaching green like you did here. Thanks for sharing!

[iamJROD]

Johnny Smith was a great jazz guitarist. Charlie parker was a big fan of his and sat at his performances at bird land during the bebop era.