I will be forever amazed by internet even if i'm born with it, because i can peacefully watch some pat martino lessons from my bedroom, what an amazing time
Met him 25 years ago. Equal parts master musician and gentleman. He sat down with the band I was with to eat and chat. Amazingly easy going, engaging and encouraging and at the same time at ease with acknowledging his contributions without being self important. He possesses an inspiring confident humility. I hope I get to meet him again one day.
Before the video played, a Carlos Santana "master class" ad appeared. Not to riff on Santana, but the class began right after that ad stopped. I love Pat's colorful use of vocabulary to describe these concepts ... it bewildered me for most of my early playing career. Now that I have a better understanding of things, I enjoy it immensely.
This is amazing. I think this is the first time I've heard him open up about his style of playing. No geometry or philosophy. Just connecting short minor Bebop phrases with chromaticism. Of course done in his own special style. I think this video is awesome!!!
One of the most mind blowing, complex and yet logical guitar lesson videos ever. The stairway and chromaticism concepts... bring me some peace in my life.
Pat's "stairways" can also be viewed as descending chromatic lines to connect chord "target notes" or "goal tones" as used in bebop phrasing. Fantastic player.
This is gold! I think back to my young brain, 20 years before ever picking up a guitar, I always tried to form melodies to land on a target note along with familiar songs on the radio. I’m talking 5, 6, 7 years old. Little did I know I was preparing to struggle with playing jazz guitar! Lol. This is really great to see all these great players on you tube. What a gift. I now know my first Pat Martino lick! 🙏
This is gold. You can make your own chromatic lines and hear the different accents they give but still just be shifting to each goal motif. I always wondered how he made his beautiful runs
One of the best lessons on chromaticism I've seen so far. Beautiful and intuitive approach. Thanks Pat Martino for everything you brought us through your music. R.I.P Great Master.
It is! People dont understand it, but I completely do because I've been straight studying his and only his work for months, and this just revealed one of the key points I never got until I watched this
Brooooooo, people dont realize how good this lesson is, just this one tiny excerpt, he reveals his secret to improvisation, i have to practice this when I have time, if I could implenent it it would be life changing
Very grateful, it was one of the most important ways that I saw to know this fantastic and magical instrument called guitar, Pat, you are the greatest guitarist I have ever seen and heard play, for its articulation and its history, the planet is grateful for you exist !!
Bebop technique and musicality at its finest! The great Pat Martino showing us the way he hears and thinks about music. Pat Martino is to Jazz Guitar, what Nikola Tesla is to electricity.
I noticed at around like 3:45, he's fretting the nut on the open string, leaving it open but still putting his finger on the nut for reference. That's crazy, I've never seen that before but that makes sense
guitarvideos777 Well EXCUUUUSE me princess, regardless of what it's called, back to my original point, I've never seen anyone do that. Was just wondering if anyone else does that because I've never seen it done before.
guitarvideos777 Well, I've just never seen it before. Have you seen others do that before? I'm not saying it hasn't been done, I'm just saying I've never seen it, otherwise I would have noticed. You seen anyone?
Finally a good explanation from Pat Martino who is one of my heroes but his explanations are extremely tangential and hard to follow at times. I don’t think if this is pretentiousness but I just think he’s been insulated in his thought process that it is hard to explain with words. So maybe he should just show his technique and not even say anything about it.
Am I correct in thinking that beside knowing a general figure up and down the neck, also knowing the basic melody of a song anywhere on the neck can help you transition up or down to any position and not stay locked into just one? Regardless, this is my take away. Thank you Pat!
Yeah. I noticed that. Check out the transcription of his solo of Days And Wine And Roses. He does it at 1:47 of that video over a Gminor chord. I did comment there.😎
What is Pat trying to demonstrate? How to solo over Dm by taking a simple motif and moving it down chromatically until he "finds" it again on a different string set? I wish he could have put this in a musical context for this.
Jazzmasterer's comment is right.. he's encouraging you not to stick to certain positions. I have that exact trouble, I see or hear a chord and have my favourite place to play over it on the fret board, which will sometimes cause me to make huge leaps to get there ruining the fluency of what I'm playing. Pat is demonstrating just one way to avoid this and keep your lines fluent and have the whole fret board at your disposal. I've been working on it lately. :-)
Lawrence Siden, yeh maybe try creating a scenario in which to apply this stairway technique. I tried it and it's kinda good like I think I was already doing it but more urgently than deliberately.
The context seems to be the melody....not the mode. Know the melody in any position up the neck and anything goes as long as it's resolved....resolve to the melody and you always end resolved. (resolve to dissidence if you want to tense your audience) As you move back and forth up and down the neck you'll always fall to the melody or a piece of it. It's geometric...not modal. you can use any shape...chromatic is easy to resolve....notice how he slides his first finger back down each fret....looks like he's finding the resolution. He explains it with a small melody line...than he moves all over and back to the melody...at a another floor of the house (neck position). I think he always knows where the melody is even if he's improvising for 10 minutes. Anything goes over anything as long as it's resolved. Chromatic never has a note sitting very long over a chord until it's resolved. Some shapes will create a lot of tension....chromatic creates less. It's all about the melody.
Very occasionally I run into a musician who completely shatters my drive to write music and reminds me that I will never bring something original or worthwhile to the table. This is the most recent instance.
You can tell someone is a "kid" by reducing knowledge to "philosophical meandering". It's more than "cutting to the chase",---it's more than the notes, it's the why and the how. If you cannot understand that, keep playing your licks and have fun.......
HOW CAN THAT CRIMINAL BE FREE TO RUN. HOW CAN WE BE A DEMOCRACY WHEN TREASON IS ALLOWED. WHY SHOULD I SUPPORT YOU WHEN YOU CAN'T ADDRESS THIS ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM?
Like Alan Watts or Noam Chomsky talking about the guitar. The more I learn, the less I appreciate this kind of philosophical meandering. Maybe this is how all single men become in old age....... A chance to rant. Sorry Pat..... Your a great player, but just cut to the chase.
+southtxguitarist , Yeah I know. He has always expelled this hyper-intellectual attitude. It is not really needed. The best players forgo that shit. Good call o the married thing
+guitarvideos777 Well, this is how music works, you can learn about it and use it creatively or don't and keep inside your own limits, because you are so arrogant that don't understand knowledge open your mind
