I've seen and heard guitarists play mind boggling music with the guitar but WHAT?, you are a maestro bro! Playing "Yaa Amponsah" with all the scales, riffs, runs and all that! Bro you really have to come all out for our beautiful Ghanaian HIGH LIFE music with respect to the GUITAR. I have been searching for high life tutorials for sometime now but never got any good one. The ones here are just charf. Please let's see more of you with basis tutorials here. Hope you'll not disappoint us. Thanks a lot and may the LORD JESUS CHRIST bless you.
I tried learning to play this but I lost inspiration... Right now, I just watch and admire and trust me I stay all night watching your videos ... I'm happy seeing this
I like the way you "Yaa Amponsah" the way you employ major scale, pentatonic, chromatic, arpeggios blues feels etc. I never seen someone play like you do and I am learning a lot from you. G. Spratz in Town
I am a 70 plus jazz and highlife enthusiast. I also did some jazz classes in the States back in the nineties. I have had this dream of incorporating classic jazz scales and phrases into Ghana highlife music in order to make it more internationally appealing just as Fella Kuti did for Nigeria music. I strongly believe that this rendition could be employed as a good reference to achieve this noble goal. I will contact you in due time to offer few suggestions. Again, keep up the terrific work.
great one the Rev. what you are doing is clearly showing how music all music is one regardless of the genre. a big pleasure to learn from you boss. pls kindly share more information on the DVD
I have been listening to this a few times every day, trying to memorise the whole solo melody, before I attempt to learn how to play it one bar at a time. Every time I listen, it just puts a smile on my face, and it is fast becoming one of my favourite pieces ever among all genres from church anthems and classical music to hiphop and juju music. This piece should become a Highlife/Jazz classic standard. My question to you pastor is who composed it? I am sure there is not much improvisation there. It is definitely a very well crafted composition.
I arranged these improvisation lines but not the Yaa Amponsah rhythm... it was first recorded by the Kumasi trio in 1928 in London..., it's a traditional air and the true original composer is not known...
@@georgespratz Thanks for your prompt reply. It was those lines I was referring to which you confusingly call your arrangement of improvisation lines. I lived in Kumasi from 1973 to 1975, so I am familiar with your folk music, and I was born in Sierra Leone in 1953, so I am very familiar with palm wine music. However, saying that you "arranged" "improvisation" seems contradictory to me, unless you arranged it simultaneously as you were playing on that tape which is hard to believe given how each bar seems to flow smoothly into the next, and given the complexity of it all. I thought it might be 95% careful pre-arrangement and 5% spontaneous improvisation. By the way, very fine clothing. Great styling.
I perfectly understand you Mr Richard... may be I shouldn't have used the word "arranged" ....but many of those lines are lines I have deliberately put together for the purpose of teaching and I tend to flow on them anytime I feel like using them..., I am going to try to drop another video today on the breakdown of some of those lines; I am very sure it will be of help too....I may not tackle many though
@@georgespratz I have no problem with the word "arrange". The piece was beautifully arranged, put together, composed etc. My problem is with the word "improvise", which I take to mean that you just made it up as you were bring recorded, without pre-arranging or preparing anything.
Sir I greet u in the name of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Pls can u be my tutor on improvisation bc u hv displayed Gorge Benson and Earl Klugh. Bravo Sir. Pls link me up
aww hmmm. when I first saw your videos I went to search for you everywhere and I got you on Instagram thinking I will get some tutorials but oops. please teach us too some way... I beg
@@georgespratz this is my issue with Ghanaian and Africans in general. It's so difficult to get tutorials of our music because you guys don't present it well enough. I get that it's business for you but if you don't use the tools you have to put your content out there, it will not reach its full potential. I suggest you take a peak at guys like Andy Guitar, Let'sPlayGuitar, Marty Schwartz and co. See how they make their content and the categories; free lessons (which are enough to whet your appetite and give u an idea of what you're gonna get) and detailed lessons where you pay for it. it's an all-round great business model I wish all of the great African guitar teachers would employ.
