This style of playing is called playing chords using drop 2 voicings. Jan 17, 2019 one of the biggest hurdles many jazz guitarists face early in their development is being able to connect chords, scales and arpeggios in their playing without having to jump all over the fretboard between shapes. Presented here are nine guitar solos from various joe pass recordings. Joe passs most popular book is joe pass guitar chords.
As usual, joes instruction is full of wit and style. Including the great rhythm guitarist john pisano, jim hughart on bass, and colin bailey on drums. To help you get started with this system, here are a few examples of how to learn chords, scales, and arpeggios in one position on the guitar. In this joe pass lesson i am going to break down 4 lines from his solo on. The blue side of jazz is the followup to joe passs bestselling solo jazz guitar instructional video and explores the blues elements of jazz guitar. An important volume on both the harmonic and melodic aspects of the modern guitarist with an emphasis on improvisation. As usual, joe brings wit and style to his invaluable guitar lessons, taking you straight to the. Joe pass untold lessons learned from legendary solo jazz. Dont hesitate to drop me a line if you have any questions about our lessons. Some may think that joe pass ideas are cliched but remember that he came up with many of these cliches in the first place. Jazz ala joe pass series 1 one of the most wonderful things we can do with the guitar awesome. In this second tutorial series we are going to learn more about how to play in the style of jazz guitar virtuoso joe pass. Joe pass guitar style the one coauthored by bill thrasher.
We greatly appreciate your suggestions for new dvd lessons. Joe covers bebop blues, new chord substitutions, pedal tones, jazzblues improvisationand much more. Joe pass you are the sunshine of my life solo jazz. Subscribe for more free jazz guitar lessons and videos. Back in the 70s i had several of his solo and duet books and enjoyed learning and practicing from them.
In this joe pass lesson i will go over how he turns lil darlin into a chord solo masterpiece. Hes the owner of, which offers lessons and ebooks on how to master jazz guitar, with a focus on chord melody and solo guitar. Joe pass biography, birth date, birth place and pictures. Joe covers bebop blues, new chord substitutions, pedal tones, jazzblues improvisation, and much more. If you want to download a free ebook of 15 ii valt i licks then subscribe to my newsletter. Joe pass is an extraordinary guitarist, and watching him play and expound his approach to bluesbased jazz for an hour is a treat. I wonder if the op is thinking of another book which i also have, its called joe pass chord. One of the biggest hurdles many jazz guitarists face early in their development is being able to connect chords, scales and arpeggios in their playing without having to jump all over the fretboard between shapes. Subjects include chord construction, embellishment, substitution, connection, resolution and chromatic movement.
Then ill show you how to use voice leading with these concepts, and finish off by putting. I dont understand all the complaints about the lack of tab. Jan 12, 2017 so far, we had mostly saxophone solos apart from one chick corea piano solo but this time we feature a beautiful jazz solo guitar performance by joe pass on the jazz standard summertime. I learned a number of idioms and lines i could use.
If you are looking for a specific solo that you cant find here or in these other sites,please do not ask me if i know where you can find it,because i. Unlike stanley jordan, pass used conventional but superb technique, and his virtuoso series on pablo still sounds remarkable decades later. Rodrigo viana the very thought of you by joe pass duration. Joe pass, 65, a jazz guitarist who performed with the stars. He demonstrates legendary techniques that will be of value to rock guitarists as well as jazz purists. Joe pass the blue side of jazz music lessons download. Joe pass on guitar includes 50 musical examples and three complete transcriptions, all of which are contained on the included cd. This jazz guitar lesson is the result of a survey with the question what is the best jazz guitar solo ever played. This followup to joes bestselling solo jazz guitar explores the blues elements of jazz guitar. Unlike stanley jordan, pass used conventional but superb technique, and his virtuoso series on. Joe pass guitar instruction books jazz guitar online. Joe pass the blue side of jazz 1991 forgotten guitar.
Joe pass is undoubtedly one of the greatest jazz guitarists to ever play the instrument. The names that made it to the top 10 are wes montgomery, joe pass, pat metheny, george benson, charlie christian, pat martino, jim hall, django reinhardt, kenny burrell, and grant green. Play and compare the solos with the basic chord patterns so that you can see their relationship in improvising. Joe pass has 28 books on goodreads with 390 ratings.
Joe covers chord melody, chord substitutions, leading tones, chromatic chords, voice movements, and many more special excercises, all. Early childhood joe pass was born on january th 1929 in new brunswick, new jersey. May 24, 1994 joe pass, a jazz guitarist whose musical associations ranged from ella fitzgerald and duke ellington to herb ellis and oscar peterson, died today at the university of southern californianorris. He was able to play uptempo versions of bop tunes such as cherokee and how high the moon unaccompanied on the guitar. Joe pass aint misbehavin transcription solo jazz guitar duration. Joe pass improvises a jazz blues guitar chord melody solo from his instructional dvd. Joe pass was a trailblazer when it came to solo guitar playing, and defined the style that has been emulated by countless players since. Here, we will provide you with lead sheets, basic chord melodies, chords and single note solos that you can begin applying over some of the most popular standards right. He initially started exploring the guitar by taking lessons from joe sgro who was a local guitar virtuoso.
Joe pass guitar instruction, lessons, dvds, licks youtube. In this series of lessons were going to take a some of the elements of the style from the great joe pass, jazz guitar giant. I learned nearly all my jazz chords out of that one. In this book, joe explains his musical and guitaristic approach to the process of jazz improvisation. This book is intended for study use and should not merely be used to memorize solos. Joe pass, 65, a jazz guitarist who performed with the. It is ideal for the student who doesnt feel quite ready for the joe pass guitar style.
Bb jazz blues bassline a foggy day bassline bireli lagrene. Jazz guitarist robert conti was born november 21, 1945 in philadelphia, pennsylvania. Jan 30, 2019 joe pass was a master of every aspect of jazz guitar playing, including solo guitar, duo guitar with vocals, chord soloing, singleline playing, and of course chord melody. If you havent worked through the first tutorial, i encourage you to do so. If you want to check out the joe pass chord solo book i studied you. Joe pass guitar tab books, instructional dvds, chord melody solos, arrangements, improvisation, transcriptions, sheet music, tablature, video lessons.
Improve your playing via easy stepbystep video lessons. Continuing on with jazz guitar in the style of the great joe pass. In this episode i introduce many of joes solo guitar playing techniques. On guitar includes 50 musical examples and 3 complete transcriptions, all of which are contained on the included cd. Joe pass was a master of every aspect of jazz guitar playing, including solo guitar, duo guitar with vocals, chord soloing, singleline playing, and of course chord melody. We offer a wide variety of dvd and cd audio guitar lessons focusing on various aspects of fingerstyle and flatpicking guitar styles and techniques. Joe pass summertime 1992 solo jazz guitar transcription. The idea for this came up in the re dutchbopper thread. In my life the beatles played by joe murphy duration.
This page lists 476 guitar solo transcriptions that are available somewhere on the internet. This book could be used as a supplement to the joe pass guitar method which has more details joes use of the caged system, scales and fingerings. Joe covers chord melody, chord substitutions, leading tones, chromatic chords, voice movements, and many more special excercises, all with the unique joe pass. In part 2 of this story i will share with you a summary of joes approach to solo jazz guitar. Jazz theory explained in 20 minutes chords, scales, 9ths 11ths ths duration. Joe pass, a jazz guitarist whose musical associations ranged from ella fitzgerald and duke ellington to herb ellis and oscar peterson, died today at the university of southern californianorris. An article about joe pass, one of the most respected jazz guitarist ever. I believe carol kaye was the original publisher of this and she still recommends it to students who are ready for it. Joe pass improvising ideas has larger selection of jazz and blues lines. Once the group has decided which book to start with, the title of this thread will be edited accordingly.
He is considered one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century. Especially with a focus on how makes fills with chords and. Oct 17, 2015 in part 2 of this story i will share with you a summary of joes approach to solo jazz guitar. Joe pass the complete joe pass book this book is a collage of many of joes thoughts about the guitar as an accompanying and solo instrument and includes lessons on.
Joe pass tabs, chords, guitar, bass, ukulele chords, power tabs and guitar pro tabs including joy spring, pasta blues, autumn leaves, django, blue moon. He created possibilities for jazz guitar through his style of chordmelody, his knowledge of chord inversions and progressions, and his use of walking basslines and counterpoint during. January, 1929 may 23, 1994 was an american jazz guitarist of sicilian descent. When learning how to solo as a jazz guitarist, there are few players that you can study who have more command of the bebop vocabulary than joe pass. After playing all my life with a pick im trying to learn fingerstyle chord. Welcome to our archive of some of the most popular jazz standards for jazz guitar. Joe pass joe pass is one of the greatest guitarists in the history of jazz. Welcome to stefan grossmans guitar workshop and vestapol videos, offering the best in instructional guitar dvds, audio cds and books, and the vestapol series of historic and concert dvds.
Throughout nearly 50 years as a professional guitarist, joe pass managed to break through many barriers and obstacles in music as well as in his own life. He could play singleline solo, chord soloing phrases, perform in a trio, duo or solo setting with the best of them, and always be instantly recognizable by his tone and approach to the melodic and harmonic sides of. Joe pass you are the sunshine of my life solo jazz guitar. A genuine master of all the idioms of mainstream jazz guitar improvisation, he was. A genuine master of all the idioms of mainstream jazz guitar improvisation, he was equally at home with a burning bebop line, a down home blues groove, a sensitive rubato ballad, or a gentle chord melody solo. Jul 23, 2014 joe pass solo on the oscar peterson and friends bbc prog. When i was first learning how to play jazz, one of the best lessons i ever learned came from a comment i read from joe pass. Joe covers chord melody, chord substitutions, leading tones, chromatic chords, voice movements, and many more special excercises, all with the unique joe pass twist. The joe pass system of always having a scale and arpeggio under your fingers for every chord shape you use is a great way to learn the fretboard, providing you with soloing material at the same time. Pass was not satisfied with these lessons and soon came back home. Ever since starting to play jazz guitar about 40 years ago, ive been a fan of joe pass, particularly his solo playing. Joe pass solo on the oscar peterson and friends bbc prog. It will give you the knowledge and skills to better understand the lessons in this tutorial. This is because if you drop or avoid playing the second chord voice you can more clearly separate and hear the distance and distinguish.
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Joe pass great jazz guitarists free jazz guitar lessons. Greg orourke is an australian jazz guitarist and holds a bachelor of music hons from the australian national university. Here you can find more about the best web sites that offer free and paid solo transcriptions. The aim of this series is to provide the watcher with more that the basic. For two, blues in g, move, what are you doing the rest of your life, misty. Born joseph anthony jacobi passalaqua, the eldest of five brothers in new brunswick, new jersey, his parents moved. So far, we had mostly saxophone solos apart from one chick corea piano solo but this time we feature a beautiful jazz solo guitar performance by joe pass on the jazz standard summertime. First ill introduce the concepts to you, then show you how to play them. One of the most wonderful things we can do with the guitar awesome instrument that it is.
He could play singleline solo, chord soloing phrases, perform in a trio, duo or solo setting with the best of them, and always be instantly recognizable by his tone and approach to the melodic and harmonic sides of jazz guitar playing. Joe pass untold lessons learned from joe pass heres another video in the new untold series on jazz guitar legends. I give this video 4 rather than 5 stars mainly because i had watched the prior video, solo guitar, fairly recently and the lack of organization in the exposition was beginning to wear thin. Jazz standards for jazz guitar pdf sheet music, tabs, chords and soloing with audio examples. Nov 29, 2015 joe pass untold lessons learned from joe pass heres another video in the new untold series on jazz guitar legends. Robert conti jazz guitar tab books, instruction dvds.