West coast blues comping pt. 2 Tiny Grimes chording 

Thanks soooo much. I'm obsessed with old-school comping. This has been a real eye and ear opener!

One of the best focused lessons I've seen..It shows, we hear and you explain the "why and how". Phenomenal video that really is gateway to a ton of options in my playing and continued learning of jump blues/swing.....Nice!

Man there is some cool things in the IV and V voicings you do in the video. It really opens a lot of options up. Especially with hip Arpeggio lines and even pedal point lines. i used it alot over the weekend. People thought I was cool. LOL

Thanks for the lesson!

Thank you!

It sure is. I'm under the belief that most of our guitar heroes back then utilized a chord structuring system. My challenge right now is learning the structures and utilizing them in a substitute capacity. Example- I can use a Cmin 7 arp over the V in Bb, but I can also use the relative major Eb as well. I'll have a lesson come out real soon on that.

You are right I have to give credit where credit is due. My buddy bryan and I were lookin at something other than tiny grimes and he voiced this 6th chord. After we got done I ran to my tiny grimes records and used it. I have ownership over the 7th an maj 9th for the iV. LOL

Hi Tommy, loads of good stuff in this lesson and all the others. It's weird that I've been searching youtube for this kind of stuff and have only just come across you now, where you been hiding?

Is the difference between the 6 chord and a 13 chord have to do with the flat 7? 13 chord has the flat 7 and the 6 chord does not. Is this correct?

OH NO! I am very happy you like it. Just check it backi in when you are done with it

You are the fucking man dude. Wow. Super dig your stuff. You introduced me to kid Ramos too. I would love to get some mentoring from someone like you.

This is a great and very useful lesson. I instantly became a member from your channel here. Do you have recommendations for records to listen to for this style playing and soloing? Thanks.

Rockin the blues away is so fkn greasy

Súper nice lesson

Tommy, I love what you are teaching here. It's taking me exactly where I want to go.Thank you!

You can also play a C dim arp over the V in Bb as well. You can also play it over the the Bb as well for tension and release purposes going into the IV. This is not an all cases sub, but you can go C# dim over the Bb and V. It is one you have to learn to work with, especially target notes to start on, becaue it is a create tension and resolution kind of trick. Phrasing has a lot to do with making it work as well.

It's called the george barnes electric guitar method. Barney Kessel wrote a book called "The Guitar". It has the same structure lesson almost word for word. send me an email and I'll send you a few pages that I scanned.

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Another great lesson , its interesting how the caged chord shapes fit together to give up smaller jump triads like the G6.cheers Vin U.K.

That's awesome. If I played guitar this would be the thing to get down. Maybe you could talk Fred Kaplin into letting go some of his piano tricks. :)

Thank you.

Thanks, keep up the good work.

Tasty lesson, Tommy...

At the end when you play the example on the last 12 bars ( around 5 min ) you play a C6 and then flatten the 5. From what i can hear anyway but wouldn't this be where the 5 chord is in the progression? I got the freddy king chord on the first time which functions as the 5 but the 2nd time I hear a normal c6? any help? Thanks , lessons are great just purchased the jump blues off your site.

I'll try to keep em coming.

Thank you for that.

Must elevated my playing! Ty....

Note: The tenor guitar like Tiny Grimes' was created as a device by the guitar making industry during the 1920's to entice jazz banjo players to pick up on the new style of arch top guitars. They were tuned the same as the banjos, in 5ths. The chording would be the same and didn't have to be relearned. Thus, the complex chordal comping of the dixie land style followed without the obstacle of a learning curve. Kind of like training wheels on a kid's bicycle. By the 1940 that was all pretty much obsolete. I would be curious to know why Mr. Grimes continued with that instrument and not a more versatile six string in 4ths. standard guitar.

Nice Stuff, Tommy! Are you playing a L-7? @3:53 during your discussion of a hip voicing for a D9 chord you change the F# to a G, which also can be used as a D9 sus chord - you can hear the back and forth movement of that one note on some Tower of Power rhythm guitar parts, like the intro to Soul With a Capital "S". Your stuff has got me thinking - Thanks!

Great tips man, thanks! I'm trying to work out "Romance without Finance" and it's doing my head in (very low-fi recording). It's probably really simple, hopefully these sweet 4 note voicings you're talkin about should open my ears up.. Cheers!

In all seriousness, Tommy is a excellent teacher. If you are interested in learning this style of music, and roots music in general, you should hit him up. He can teach you no matter what your talent level, or experience is.

Is it a lot like the Herb Ellis Method books where he shows CAGED shapes and builds riffs and melodies from them? I like your videos by the way. Thanks.

Man you stole my chord. I want some royalties or someting. LOL. Nice video.

Great stuff! Thanks!!!!

its on my channel, titled jump blues comping

thankyou. hopefully more to come

Thanks Tommy! I will be practicing.....lawd.

Great lesson

where's pt. 1?

should start the video with the recap you do at 4:45 to show what you are going to teach