Here is the PDF download link! patreon.com/NathanBortonMusicPatreon EDIT: lick 4 is from “Born To Be Blue” NOT “Grant’s First Stand.”

i've never seen such an elegant fret layout. i usually think "hmmm, nice... birds" or "sweet opal inlay". but this offset, minimalist, mistletoe or whatever, is dope.

Fabulous video Nathan. Great format. There is so much to grab from Grant Green playing .

Great job, thanks. Grant Green's playing turned me onto Jazz - love his phrasing and now I have an idea how he did it!

I ve only watched 2 minutes of this and i instinctively know this is for me. My compliments to you and i look forward to completing my viewing of this video and future indulgences in more of your material.

Great video Nathan! Grant's the man. I would encourage your viewers to make sure to really check out this material in the context of his recorded work. I'm sure most of it is on YT. It's important to really check out his time-feel - he has some serious swagger. Thanks again!

Thanks Nathan, very illuminating lesson 🎉

Great stuff Nathan, played like a true Gryffindor! Went back and listened to all those tunes to hear the licks in context, I'd forgotten how good he was. Really enjoyed the lesson, keep up the good work.

Great lesson. Can’t wait to hear you play more like you do on the outro

Nice video. Thank you!

Great Job, Love the Grant Green licks and breakdown most important. You bring a new level to teaching on You tube that's why I became a patron., last month.....Keep up the great work...

Harpejjist hear been studying jazz for the past year and this platform is perfect for me. Thanks for the content!!!!

great lesson

Another great lesson, very well put together

Excellent !!! Clear and useful thanks

Really great stuff! Thank you.

This is gold thanks Nathan.

Wes was always my no1, but the older I get the more grant green climbs up. So many nuggets of goodness in his playing. Nice job highlighting that man. Also, so cool how you can squeeze so much from the same piece of language if you change its harmonic context. E.g. that last piece of language for Dm7 from grant stand, my ear actually heard it as some great stuff for G7. Or u can use some of that line for the Dm7 and then repeat the same stuff a minor 3rd up to imply some cool altered stuff on the G7. The possibilites are endless

very creative idea for a lesson. Great job!

Outstanding video-both in content and production quality 💪👏👏👏

Beautiful video, very insightful

Wow ! That’s great info . Thanks a lot !

Wow! 🤯 This is awesome! 🤘🏽🔥 Thank you

The fundamental lessons are good for any jazz instrumentalist, let alone the guitar. Thanks for this insight! Will be playing some Grant Green language on a trombone! lol

Thanks for the great lesson on the amazing Grant Green!

wow great use of enclosures clean flowing lines out standing work Dr. Borton

great!!! thx

Keep doing your thing bro. That was value.

What a great lesson, thank you!

Beautiful!

Great video, thanks! I've learned a bunch of Grant Green's solos, but I've been looking for ways to add his licks to my vocabulary.

Incredible vid. Will revisit this and more grant green !

Great video!!!

Wonderful lesson

Very cool, indeed!

Thank you for making great content bro.

Really cool lesson ❤

Thanks for sharing. Good info and playing 🇬🇧👍🎸🎶🎶🎶

Fabulous video ! Very clear ! Thanks a lot. Pat Martino lines would be great.

Excellent lesson

Thanks for all this Grant Green - Big John Payton’s fave guitarist. So good that you share!

Another great, informative video! Yeah man

Thanks a lot Nathan . It's Awesome . I love your courses on Grant Green , Wes ect . continue like that . I went to your Patreon . A french guy

Thank you!

This was a great lesson. I have memorised many licks over the years but always found it very hard to bring them into my playing, this lesson really shows how to do that.

You’re the best!!!

This is a such a cool explanation

This is a ton of information that is easy to grasp and has many practical applications. Well done, sir, I am impressed.

Amazing lesson, very good :-)

Great material...! 👍🎸🎶🎶

Thanks!

nicely done, really useful.

Great job Nathan! This is so beneficial to anyone wanting to learn jazz guitar. And….Grant Green is the best and so overlooked. Chuck Wayne, who played with George Shearing’s original quintet is also great and overlooked.

You know I'll admit I've been watching your videos on TV from the couch and have gotten a lot out of them but I finally sat down with this one with guitar in hand and worked through it and wow what a lazy fool I've been. I got so much more out of it I'm looking forward to doing the others right. Keep it up! And yeah love Grant Green but other favorites aside from Wes obviously include Jimmy Bruno, Doug and Jimmy Raney, and Joe Cohn. But I think Grant is the best for those of us transitioning from rock. There's something so classic and yet somehow contemporary sounding about his style.

Wonderful lesson, thanks. There's a lot more to Grant's playing than people realise and you can hear his influence on all kinds of players. Glenn Tilbrook from Squeeze for example seems very influenced by him.

Becoming a member of your patreon right now!

Nice. Subscribed

Nice. Something to gnaw on for a while.

This is great information! Grant Green is a great one to learn from. I would love to see you pick apart some Joe Pass lines, too.

I’m gonna dig into this one for the month or more

For anyone interested, I tracked down when the first example is played on "The Things We Did Last Summer" off of Nigeria. So glad to have been introduced to this tune. Ok so its actually in F, not C (which is great to learn these licks in different keys) It starts at 1:52, and its in double time! whooo! So, C7 resolving to F major. (top of the chorus) - or in the example here G7 resolving to C major

hey , new to your channel ....good stuff -- ...........dang , im playing stuff that sounds even more jazzy and melodic now ...... thanks for sharing

I found both Martino and Grant Green useful thnks you very much. I love your playing and a clean tone and sound. Might I suggest a Benson lines or Metheny mght be good also ! Great work Sibbs

Another excellent video making the most from the work of this great musician 👏. I've been re-listening to the great Tal Farlow's recordings from the early 1950s - I don't think anyone has got to his level, except maybe Joe Pass, and so many bop and post bob musicians have clearly studied him. Maybe worth a video some time - just a suggestion.

Thanks a lot for the high quality lessons !! Would love to hear you analyse RENE THOMAS style playing :)

Man, I know you from Wichita lol and I am genuinely surprised I have never came across your channel until now!

Great lesson 👍🍻🍻🇦🇺

you have a beautiful guitar

Thanks for posting this vid. I have read that Charlie Christian took a similar approach to his solos. It would be helpful if you could maybe look at some of the CC solos and do a simar analysis.

Hi Nathan, nice work on these videos. I'd love to hear your thoughts on right hand technique. I've been playing for decades (professionally up until I was 35 years old) and find myself in need of a restructuring of my right hand technique. I'm struggling to improve my accuracy, speed, time, and agility the past few years. Any and all thoughts are welcome, thanks.

More Grant Green and Wes Montgomery! Especially licks containing arpeggios which would be easier to digest for beginners 🙏

@ 4:17 when beginning to form new lines, the term: "just minor language" is used. I noticed the example is from D-7b5.... The original language from example #3 starts on the 7th degree of the D-7b5 chord and sounds great. Your example of building a new line here over a straight D-7 uses the exact language transposed (superimposed ?) starting on the third of a straight D-7 chord. It also sounds great... but you hadn't mentioned playing it across different chord tones, so I tried it starting on the 1, 3,5 and 7th of a D minor 7 and it was quite interesting on all of them. I wouldn't think all these language ideas would translate if superimposed over all chord tones though... so whats your take? was it just random to start the same lick from the third, or are there some specific guidelines we can use? The next example (adding line closer) uses language un-transposed, but subsequent example of adding line closer @5:56 is cool because you move the opening figure over D-7b5 from #3 to the beginning of the bar, and again transpose the figure to start from the third of D-7....sensing a theme here... For the minor third Barry Harris technique, things seem to be gelling... When you take the first pass you've transposed the send bar of example #3 down a minor third to start on the 5th chord tone, and used it to open the phrase, so when you transpose it up a minor third for the next bar, you are actually just playing the phrase from our original example. this is too cool...

Your the most important teacher that I’ve whatched,much appreciated,maybe you could play (while we’re young) Wes Montgomery?? Even though we’re concentrating on Grant,Thank u Nathan, Your a breath of fresh air. Vincent Parrela.❤

Fabulous content and excellent clear presentation, proving youtube videos can be effective without all the ridiculous hand waving gestures. Thank you Nathan.

It looks like you're wearing a LAB COAT = Dr. Smooth Jazz!!! 😮 HAHAHA jk 😂 Super Cool Licks!!! And, thank you for including the TABs!!! I recently found your YT channel, I love your videos, and thank you for the content!!! Please keep up the good work!!! Bless you, my friend

Very pretty playing, man, and very eloquently explained music theory, which I reckon, if it isn't already (and I'm pretty sure it is to some extent) earning you a decent income, is going to play an important role in helping you retain the energy our modern vampire clown society seems always to be after and surely has already succeeded in stealing of from us all. Wow, I wish PCs and the internet had become household fixtures a decade earlier. My dad was one of those dudes who said, "Pfft. Home Computers? Expensive calculators. They'll never catch on." Those guitar magazines were sick, but dang, if my generation had had access to this stuff? Jeez. It's possible that nearly all the embarrassing stuff about the '90s might never have happened. Lives might've been saved! Awesome stuff. Subscribed. Keep narrowly avoiding tendinitis and pleasing Euterpe with your devotion to her.

Great lesson, as always. Nathan, what gauge and brand of strings do you use?

He had perfect pitch!

A similar lesson with Kenny Burrell would be awesome

Yet playing through the 5 licks it's the first time for me associating Grant Green with Charlie Parker - they all sound very familiar within the bebop idiom.

Thanks for the video. Very good, and I admire your knowlegde. Im now learning the licks in the video, but I find it much harder to learn the phrasing without any rhytmical context. If you would play the licks to a click on 2 and 4, that would make it 10 times easier to learn, at least for me. So please consider that in the future (: Again really appreciate your work!

You should do the same with some wes licks!

Good stuff. Now check out and break down for us the slammin’ arrangement of “It Ain’t Necessarily So” on Green’s Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark. Art Blakey sits in on this legendary Blue Note ‘61 recording. That will bring you some serious followers

Please do Rene Thomas. Thanks heapfuls.

Shifting the minor 2 chord lick up a minor 3rd and playing it over the 5 chord is great but shifting it up another minor 3rd to a tritone above the original sounds even better.

Great lesson, Nathan. Could you do this using Joe Pass licks that can be used in the same way? - John B.

do a breakdown on george benson licks

For the You Stepped Out of a Dream example, I've always played this tune with changes at C section (your example area) like: | D-7b5 | G7 | Cmaj7 F9 | E-7 A7 | Maybe its just an example of how you can use the same language in many places but can anyone chime in on this, or ...Nathan? Either way, its ear opening and thanks. (upright bassist here) update: Grant plays almost exactly the same lick in the same place on his second chorus! Yay, even the masters weren't always reinventing the wheel for each phrase and it means there is hope for us students yet!

Nice. Billy Taylor turned me on to Grant Green. (He was a visiting professor and I got to talk to him in the hall. :-) I need to master this lesson though . Do you every feel like you don't 'ear' this stuff but know how to play it? I guess there s jestation period while it soaks into your bones but i have imposter syndrome with legit ajzz licks. I whip out my Charlie Christian adn bluesier side of Kenny Burrell licks and even sort of alter them but this sounds more from the bebop school and I like it but can't hear it yet.

This is basically what all jazz guitarists do theorically, this is jazz harmonic soloing rules over II V I. I would have seen what Grant do with it, personnaly (enclosures, chromatismes, arpeggios, bebop scales, blanks, placement, sound, picking attack... how and when) 😉 Anyways, great job!

I have only 1 recommendation... PLEASE MARK THE TIME STAMPS FOR ALL OF THE LICKS!!! This would make it so much more convenient for revisiting the Licks to practice!!! Please... I know that I would truly appreciate it and I am certain other aspiring guitarists would, too!!! Thank you!!!

Great stuff! Sco next 😅 Kinda out of place maybe but who cares eheh

do you have an album or sum material?

How about Jimmy rainey? Cheers

Estados unidos gran jazz Master v❤

There must be a previous video that explains minor and dominant language. I presume he's referring to 2 of the seven modes

Why does Barry Harris´idea of playing D-7 then F-7 (a minor third above) then resolving to tonic C work from a theory standpoint?

I want to develop my own language

or as Joe Pass says. "just play the V7.. I don't (can''t?) even (thinkfast enough to) think of the ii at these fast tempos" (sic)....

That’s Big John Patton. Sorry - auto correct doing it’s thing.