Fantastic Lesson Bro ❤❤👌👌 . I am actually following you since long years . Learned lots of fingerstyle playing from you. 🙏🙏🙏

Awesome!..

Thanks & groove on! 😊

Man, wanna know something crazy - through Mike, Hal Galper got in touch with me back in the early 2000's and I built his entire forward motion website, and his first e-commerce platform (I am a web geek as a hobby!). Mike was my mentor - here's a great interview : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7NjhreQtLeomX0.html THANK YOU!!!!

Thanks @@adamrafferty, I've been there and bought HG's book this summer. Since seeing this I've been posting it all across the Jazz guitar communty I belong to for my fellow students to see. What I particularly like is how easy it is to put "Ba oo ba do ba do" into practice (years to master I'm sure). I came across the interview with Mike this morning. It's this evening's TV material ;) I now own both your Stevie Wonder books and foresee a great deal of time spent on improving my groove through those along with my regular studies. Consider me inspired!

My pleasure!

oops, hammer-on, not slide.

Thank you!

Thank you Serge!

Hope you are doing extremely well Rick ✊🏻

Rick- thank you so much 😊

Thank you Reinhold! 😊

David - thank you so much 😊

Tom - thank you so much 😊

Thank you and keep that groove alive!!!!!

Excellent Ralph and I’m glad to be your coach on SWA. Looking forward to getting to know you and your music a little better!

Thanks & groove on! 😊

Thanks & groove on! :-)

Yes Paolo! And phrasing helps the groove...

Robbison - thank you so much 😊

More to come!

Thank you Colin! 😊

y\Yes, he was. I was his apprentice for 20+ years and am so fortunate. he was like a father to me and others.

@@adamrafferty Wow, didn't know you were that close. So now I understand how you became such a groove monster. Makes me want more Mike Longo rhythm inspired lessons!

@@AJGreen-cn8kk He and I were very close. My entire concept is based on what he taught me :-)

Awesome! Thank you!

Me too! Thanks for the comment.

Best of luck!

Thank you Irish! 😊

Thank you - if you & others want, I'll dive deep!

Thanks a lot! Great lesson!

Thank you Jim!

My pleasure!

Jon thanks. This was heavy info from Longo and the video does not do it justice. Most guitarists are focused on speed an picking (I was!) but this flow is an entirely different "frequency" so to speak and was the measuring stick that Dizzy & his peers would gauge the "hipness" of musicians.

Thanks!

Thank you Benny! 😊

Thank you!

The slur might be easy - but the groove is trickier than you think!

Oh gosh George, thanks!

Thanks & groove on! 😊

Thank you!

Add this up over a tune, and a night of music....the difference in where the music sits is everything....and this is the difference if Dizzy hired or fired you - my info is coming from the source!

EXACTLY Bob! Thank you!

Thank you Martin.

Thanks Randy!

Thank you Gary!

Thanks & groove on! 😊

Thanks & groove on! 😊

Ralf - thank you so much 😊

Thank you Emilio!

Normally I play my ZUCALI guitar, but it's in the shop at the moment. Thank you!

I used to alternate pick all the time. Yes, if you are playing fast lines that's a great solution. Benson plays lots more downstrokes than upstrokes and plays like a beast with just his thumb (I played with him!!!! so alternate picking is a "tool" but not the only tool.

Thank you!

Thank you! And I cut all the mistakes out in Logic & Final Cut :-)

You’re very close! The basis of Jazz articulation is a 12/8 rhythm and eighth notes are like the first and third of those triplets. However it’s not just triplets it’s a special African triplet with a certain articulation. Classical music for example had triplets as well. It’s the mix of all the accents that makes African drumming triplets different from let’s say Beethoven’s triplets. Then as bebop evolved and tempo sped up , the triplets can’t necessarily be played as triplets… I’m talking about much faster temples…but the articulation remains. The way Dizzy Gillespie would teach his bandmates was with these simple Scott syllables so that they could get the proper accents. Groove on!

There you go!!!! Groove on!

Adam Rafferty thanks adam. Br Christian (yes its me)😉

Thank you. I usually play a fine ZUCALI classical (see my Black Orpheus video) guitars.zucali.com/ but the one you see here is GK Studio Negra Iberia series - about $700 :-) - It's a flamenco axe, more bite for high notes, and a very interesting, comfortable but uncommon neck. Chek one out!

Yes - but starting on an upstroke on the downbeat will make your head explode. Try it! You'll see. I tried that in my 20's. Plus, when you really need a downbeat, you HAVE to pick down. I suggest learning a bebop tune rather than thinking about picking. Achieve the sound you want on a real life song.

@@adamrafferty All good points. I believe you, and dare not take the risk--my head is too precious to me 0.O

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Final Cut Pro X!

Adam Rafferty Thank you 😊 🙏🏻

If you get into jazz, we can talk further about this!

Thanks!

Tomi - thank you so much 😊

Thank you John! 😊

Thank you!!

I am commenting on the phrasing and what to do with the pick here. What I have here in the video is a nugget of knowledge the result iof studying 10 years + what a pianist who played with Dizzy Gillespie taught me...but youtube cannot convey depth of 10 years apprenticeship, so to the worlkd it looks like an 8 min video of info-tainment, and then the viewer is off to the next video.

@@adamrafferty You're an excellent player and teacher by the way. I did watch a few of your videos and found it very beneficial. I just thought the pick thing was a bit exaggerated. I may be wrong. Obviously I am.

You are not wrong. Conventional typical wisdom says alternate picking works. However, when I sat with Mike Longo as his student for 10 years, and he would give me small jazz phrases to play, he'd say "no those accents aren't right. How are you picking that? Down? Up?" He didn't kjnow anything about guitar. What emerged as a result was having to pick a different way that flies in the face of logic. Mike would say that the "Dah BE Dah BE Dah BE" phrasings was NOT what Dizzy Gillespie did, but rather a "Ba OO Ba OO Ba OO" - the way I describe in the video. So - if you were transported to the univers where you are playing with the ACTUAL old legends of bebop and had to make your playing fit to what they decsribe, you'd also hang on every word of advice the way I did. Like I said, youtube is a terrible vehicle for this because it was profound life changing study - my universe with my beloved mentor....all his experience, everything bearing down on the issue - how can Imake jazz sound right on guitar. An 8 nminute video cannot convey the experience of what I am trying to say, and it's easy to say "yeah whatever" and go to the next video. Hope this helps. @@barflytom3273

One more thing - the legendary guitar players you mentioned didn't know DIzzy's concept. Charlie Christian was hip but came way before Diz. Jim hall , Metheney don;'t know Dizzy's concept. The only guy who really could do this on guitar was Wes Montgomery.@@barflytom3273

@@adamrafferty I guess, since Wes is the only one who played with his thumb. Obviously you are talking about something subtle. I should have kept my mouth shout. sorry. keep up the good work.

Yes. It's centered in the materials and then falls flat with rhythm. They usually just say "put a metronome on and feel it" - yet they make endless courses about harmony and modes. Dizzy said "rhthm is everything."

@@adamrafferty Excellent lesson on the most neglected topic!

Ok, here watch this video - all playing, no talking. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l9FgdtGdx8DDgmg.html