Joe Pass🎸10 Things I Learned From The Bebop Maestro🎓

Joe Pass is the granddaddy of Jazz guitar. Fortunately we have a wealth of educational resources made by the man himself. Let's discuss!

Having rewatched Joe Pass's 'Blues Side of Jazz' and 'Jazz Lines' DVDs many times, I find myself blown away by the legendary Bebop guitarist's wisdom. Here are just ten of the simple but effective tips I find myself coming back to time and time again. I hope you find these as enlightening as I do.

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[pranavphx]

You are awesome ! You are my go to person for "concepts for life" as i like to call them:)

[Callumiller_]

Brilliant Video! I am quite new to Jazz, but I instantly latched onto Joe's playing and songs. I'm a massive fan of Guthrie Govan, he is my favourite guitarist, who can play numerous different styles so am I trying to learn one of his main influences (Jazz) and the basics of Jazz like melodic and harmonic modes and the corresponding chords. So this video is a great help for Jazz 'newbies' like myself, finally breaking out of the hard rock and metal zone, Ha!

[musterionsurly]

thanks for that, such helpful gleanings. I always used to get frustrated when i didn't know anything and the greats would say "you have to learn everything then forget it" but now 45 years later i get it, better late than never haha a good student means a teacher isn't wasting time. but then a good teacher is always a great student.

[OTIStheREALcarlos]

Hello Charles. Joe Pass portrait of duke Ellington album & Barney Kessel On A Clear Day album are my beginnings. I listened everyday and i didn't know most of the songs. Just heard guitar bass n drums. All the spaces of guitar trio. I relate to all those Pass n kessel things you said.
Kessel toured South Africa in the mid 70s. The bassist for the tour was a local guy who years after i met became a good friend and gave me recordings of the shows i still have. The pianist was the person who brought him out. Years later I was in this pianist's band for 10 years. There's a TV recording we did on my YouTube channel.
Incidently i wrote u on email about 4 weeks ago with 3 links of Peter Bernstein. Let me know if you've received. Is your email still the same as a year ago?
And yes Joe Pass was an authentic old school natural players he was shy answering theoretical questions and got pretty sarcastic. Barney was guitar theoretically advanced for his time and used 'modern' vocab for the time like the quartal harmony but still focused on swing and melody. His rythmic phrasing came from touring with the Artie Shaw big band in the 30s.
Personally i have a few pet hates in some things these players do that i find not attractive. Like Barney's cat scratch when doing single notes. But he's a great stylist easily recognizable.
I find Joe DiOrio perfect and interesting. I'd love to get into his books. Advanced person. He's still alive but had a stroke a long time ago. So did Barney.

[frankvaleron]

Joe in fairness appears to know a good bit of theory in the book I have that he wrote with Bill Thrasher. Lots of good stuff in that one if you don't have it

[tris]

Lots of interesting points but I don't think JP would have ever used major 7th for chords one and four in a blues.

[jimsneider]

I love how all these interviews with the greats are just amazing. I am looking forward to sampling these legendatry "ahh"s from thelonious monk:
Btw I am not yet finished with looking at your videos so maybe I just havent come to it yet but have you done stuff on "freejazz"(cecil taylor, mccoy, coltrane, eric dolphy..) or coming up with free modal compositions like infant eyes, time rememberd or a love supreme? So I have seen a lot Outside and Superimposition Videos of you which are super helpful and already compltely what i have searched for but do you have (maybe also a philosophical) opinion or advice on spontaneously creating Music in the Moment? I feel like melody is the only way to go in addition with patterns and clear/intersting scales but I would be interested in your point of view!

[hudsongrant]

Love the video! Joe Pass is such a big influence on me.
One thing I struggled with in this video was hearing you speak while you're playing. It sounds to me like you probably have some side chain compression on the voice to make the guitar louder but generally I found this made it really hard to hear your voice while you were calling chords and playing. It also sounds like the release time on the compressor is quite long. I totally appreciate that the video needs to be loud but personally I'm perfectly happy turning the audio up at my end, especially seeing as I'm watching your video for a good amount of time and not just scrolling through a million other videos that all have super loud audio. Maybe you could just limit the whole vid rather than side chain?
Totally just trying to be constructive as I love your content and want to hear what you're saying while you play! Thanks a mil for the content