The Bird Blues Diet: Essential Jazz Harmony in 12 Bars 

Blues are the gateway drug to standards.

You’re awesome, my friend.

A great lesson with very good explanation, I'm a jazz teacher myself and know the meaning of solid foundation and putting in your hours. What you said about dedication to jazz is true. I certainly dont believe in all those short lessons given with the idea that people have no time to study. Even George Benson a master bop guitarist still plays hours every day, either embrace jazz with your whole soul or forget about it. By the way you played some very solid phrases in this video, keep up your great work.

Your bebop guitar course is awesome. I’ve been playing guitar for 20 years but just got into jazz last year. The course is very logically laid out and I’ve learned a ton. I highly recommend it.

So glad i found this . Blues for Alice , with the scale choice over the chords Now it makes sense I see F7 as C Melodic Minor and Bb as Bb Melodic Major(Eb Melodic Minor ) Thank you for posting this great lesson , i'm so Hap..Pee Much better instruction than some of the others Rick Beato and Jens Larson they are great , but a little too detailed

Much words, but the essence is right and funny too. Ergo: Thumbs up

Thank you so much for sharing this great method! Your relaxed way of talking is also beautiful!! And on top of it, your comparing music with food ...smashing! exactly 'my cup of tea' :)

I like this Bird blues diet especially the no carb approach 😎

The food groups analogy is actually very apt. A good way to break it down.

Great playing

Richie, I like this very much. I love jazz blues. I don't think there is a better way to cut out the carbs.😎. I get perturbed with fellow musicians that don't want to play blues unless it's the last tune of the set. The 12 bar blues occurs in rock, pop, soul, country, bluegrass, jazz and blues. Even bossa nova.... check the A section of Jobim's Wave. What can be more familiar to the newer student. I will differ with you on the modes. It's just too tempting to play a scale and have it sound like a scale. I started playing modes 30 years ago and always felt lost in the form. I think everyone should start with arpeggios and then learn to fill in with other scale tones and chromatic approach notes. Anyway, I think this is awesome! I love your channel. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Nice demonstration solo at 7:35 ...very cool stuff, thanks for the suggestions.

You are a beast of a teacher. How often do you hear a teacher say that "all I can say" and admit to the student that he/she has miles to go before this lesson all makes sense? I am so impressed by your sense of perspective. I once played chess with a friend who was ranked as a master. One day he beat me badly and offhandedly. I ruefully said, "I used to be better at this." To which he replied in a matter fact way, "no you weren't." The best learning I have ever received was in perspective. It is not a fault to be bad at something, just to be bad and not know it. Thanks, for some great perspective.

I am digging deep on this lesson, very powerful information here, as you say "low carb"...! Thank You

Richie. This is your best lesson. Very succinct.

BTW, your 2-5, Gm-C7 phrase at 8:08 is wonderful. I enjoyed both choruses, but that lick is mind blowing!

I was preparing to improvise along with you, but I didn't even have time to hit a single note at that blistering pace, wow. Perhaps it's best for me to stick to pentatonic exercises for now...

Bravo!

que material incrível, me ajudou demais. muito obrigado.

astounding

i like this with the chords on the screen , as Rich does passes . I know the chords and Head to this already , and just want to know more about Improv over the changes , especially the Bb A Ab G C turn , chromatic part

great lesson

Hi Richie! Your videos are my favorite jazz guitar videos, they are very helpful! I’ve been having a bit of a block in my progress. When improvising over a blues (not a jazz-blues), I can easily use the diatonic scale of the key and target the chord tones, so in this example I can play Fmajor or Fmixolydian and taget the notes of the F7, Bb7, and C7 chords, and I can use chromatic and blues notes with no problem. The issue comes when I try to change scales with each chord, especially in the first couple bars and the turnaround when the chords change with each bar. I can “noodle” my way through each scale, but I find it near impossible to CONVINCINGLY play each scale in a FLUENT manner that sounds melodic. So I’m still stuck trying to master the first iteration of the diet! Do you (or anyone reading) have any tips or exercises that I could utilize to improve fluency and melodic development while switching to a different scale for each chord (even though it’s all the mixolydian scale, I still find it hard to switch from F mixolydian to Bb mixolydian for example)? I would be forever grateful for any help!

damn these bad jokes are pure joy!

I'm about to step in it again, but I cannot help commenting. First, Richie is a fine teacher and player deserving respect. Learning music theory is a good thing for playing jazz guitar, just as learning anatomy is necessary for learning medicine for a doctor. But in my opinion it does not replace learning to hear the melodies and harmonies with your ears. I understand modes, progressions, extensions and the rest. But in the end there are twelve tones in an octave, and as someone put it, seven tones are inside and five are outside. Yet I virtually never "think" as I improvise - I listen to the music in my mind and anticipate the direction of the melody and progression. . When you are improvising over a standard, you have to "be in the moment" or even "distracted" in terms of your consciousness. The minute you start "thinking about" scales or degrees - bham! Game over. One word of heretical thinking that will get you stoned by the jazz police, and I don't mean the fun way. I dislike much of Charlie Parker's music including this blues piece. Lord knows, I have tried to enjoy this "diet", but I still can't stomach it. Give me a little Body and Soul and wash it down with some You Don't Know What Love Is. That is blues. Or as Joe Pass said, "Learn songs!"

Richie, I think this is genius

3:13 exactly what I was thinking. :D

Thanks !!

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Nice one Richie.... thanks.... but who was that non-brearded man in the demos.....??

"diet" haha sweet ideia sir!

cool lick at 0:55. had to do a double take lol

very good

is it low in carbs😶

6 minutes and still waiting for the video to start...

Where do babies come from

great stuff, clear, concise and profound. Great production quality. Really rare to nail all these, cheers Richie! Check out my new tune on my channel, would love to get your thoughts! Jamie

Why don't you start your video with guitar playing instead of talking half an hour ?

this seems great and all, but what on earth, you think people are going to learn mixolydian and dorian and super locrian before they learn the basic major and minor scale? lol

A lot of famous players couldn't even read music and we're supposed to learn all these weird modes to get started.

Stop it with the I-terations man! Surprisingly he doesn’t say My-xol eye dian scale