Hi Callum, thanks for the comment and I'm pleased you found some value in this video. Make sure you subscribe as I'm launching a completely free course in the next few weeks which covers all of the mistakes I made trying to learn jazz and how to streamline the process by focusing only on what's 'actually' important vs what the guitar magazines and music colleges tell us!! I hope it will really make an impact on jazz guitarists of all levels. Cheers

Hi Callum hope you're well. If you like you can sign up for the upcoming free two week course which I'll be launching around the end of May. It'll be focused on all the things which I believe to be important but are often overlooked in flashy guitar magazines and websites. I hope to see you there. Cheers! My FREE 'Rethinking Jazz Guitar' course: bit.ly/RethinkingJazzGuitar

Yes, isn't that the case! I still struggle to 'forget everything' over all but a handful of very well rehearsed changes which have finally become 'internalised' and 'free' whatever that means! Thank you for taking the time to comment

Thank you for taking the time to say so, Henry! Cheers

That's very kind of you Pranav, I try my best, give me a shout if there's anything I can try to help you with either musically or otherwise! Charles

I am very familiar with that album. My favourite Joe Pass contribution is actually the Lester Young/Oscar Peterson Trio collaboration. Very tasteful band playing. I very much enjoyed your TV performance and found the percussion player particularly fascinating! I would love to know more about that 'Les Paul?' She's stunning whatever she is and superb tone. I haven't heard from you over on GMail since my last reply, perhaps worth looking into- you are still in my contacts list so I think possibly an issue at your end there? Joe DiOrio is another player who eluded me in my earlier years and I am now just about at the level where I can really appreciate the power beneath the surface of his playing. The legs paddling beneath the surface! Cheers as always

Just to answer about the guitar. Issued in the 70s before they stopped It's an Ibanez copy of a les paul using the paf pickup of Seymour Duncan. It's good n fat. I rolled the tone knob down. The other pickup i have on the guitar i wasn't using is a super distortion DiMargio. I use gauge 10 on this les paul Ibanez. The amp was great, a Lab, a tube amp American. I bought it 2nd hand after it was used for 20 years already by a big name rock band with big hits in South Africa. Unfortunately it's one of the big losses of my life. It went for repair at a time when I was moving cities and I had hardships in life n I never got a chance to pick it up. Big loss. Both the guitars I use are scalloped. The other one I use is also an Ibanez the signature guitar for the guitarist of the band Toto...i forget his name. I use gauge 11 there . The fat pickup came with the guitar. Ibanez used to put Seymour Duncan on their better guitars. I don't know if it is. But the thin pick up is a mighty mite. Rock players used in the 80s. The company went out of business then resurged in the 2000s so I got a pick up to go in there. It's very cutting with distortion etc or just very clean. This Ibanez has a deep scallop whereas the Ibanez les paul has a shallow scallop. I'll post link of a recording I'm messing around playing on top of a CD using the mighty mite pickup with the Toto signature Ibanez. The recording is very distorted so just bear with it. kzfaq.info/sun/PLPXXY81bN1Wr_bzRBuR9v6r4STZe9keo9

Very interesting collection! I believe you are referring to Steve Lukather. Not a player I know a lot about but I know he is now an Ernie Ball artist. I was also unaware that Ibanez had dabbled in the LP design, although I have seen their early Scofield Telecaster which is a design they have only just revisited with the Josh Smith & co. axes. so perhaps they'll come back to the LP too... A great tone in spite of the distortion on those clips. Did the scalloping take you a while to adjust to intonation wise? Sorry to hear about the amp!

@@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition No there's really nothing uncomfortable about scalloped. Some people feel strange about it when they the "strange" looking neck. But a normal neck feels flat to me like I'm hitting the wood. With scallop it's like ur finger hit something alive n sensitive to ur touch. Easier to bend n more sustain. I don't like easy gauge so shallow scallop 0.10 n deep scallop 0.11. No prob w intonation i adjust it good. Unfortunately these 2 guitars hvnt had attention for a long time I'm not in a financial position for anything. So this les paul Ibanez needs refretting n to get the neck reenstalled properly. When i came here from south Africa the necks n bodies got separated. My brother put them back on but adjusting the truss rod on the les paul doesn't seem to work as on the steve Lucke toto guitar i got the action right 4 months ago. 1rst time i done that. Inder the guidance of a genius my friend Tim Sacke from Australia. With the weather here the strings got too far from fhe neck and i hurt my hand ( another story quite bad i should tell u about... as a warning ...things are much better thank goodness) I used play the sitar for a while n practice. Had an indian tutor. It's really deep scallop. You bend down like 4 whole tones. Johnnie Fourie n Steve Elliovson use to play gibson acoustic deep scallop without sympathetic strings like mclaughlin had w shakti. They played Shakti repertoire n Steve's compositions. Because of the 0.11s i practice on the Steve Lukether . The frets are slightly wider than the les paul. I had a genuine les paul late 50s scalloped that i had to let go 5 years before i left South Africa to keep body n soul together. I didn't use it much. Always used the Ibanez les paul. I'll some photos of these guitars. You'll see the dust and scratches etc. Just realized best way to look at these guitars is, go to my Facebook... Otis Therealcarlos... and click on photos then albums. Click on "ibanez Les Paul" and "Ibanez roadstar". You can actually see the deep scallop in the roadstar. facebook.com/otis.therealcarlos

Thanks for that. I'd be interested to hear what leads you to that conclusion? It is not uncommon in a jazz blues progression to make the I chord and IV chord major 6 or major 7 chords and in fact that example is taken from his own VHS masterclass. If we were talking a 12 bar blues I'd have to agree with you, but jazz blues is a different beast to me. Love to hear your thoughts, cheers!

Major 6th chords are fine because they can imply the mixolydian by virtue of not having the maj 7th. Major 7th chords would imply the Major scale on the 1 chord and Lydian on the 4. I have never heard that in straight ahead jazz blues like JP. Of course it is possible but highly unusual.

That is a tome I have been meaning to add to the shopping cart. I appreciate the recommendation! All the old boys have the theory mastered, the academic language we use today is often lost on them as it comes (I believe) from the jazz schools of the 70s onwards. They were already cooking well before that! Cheers

Cheers for the comment, Hudson. I use sidechaining is to reduce the phasing when the microphone and D.I. audio play simultaneously as well as to reduce background noise. I try to remember not to talk when I'm playing but I sometimes catch myself out! The volume you mention is simply a limiter on the output but there is rarely any gain reduction taking place, it's just there to catch any rogue peaks once or twice per video usually. I will try to dial them both in a bit better and to quit yapping whilst playing 😂 Cheers!

Brilliant video, thanks for that! I haven't done a huge amount of completely free stuff, but again it is something in the pipeline as I dive more into that myself. In short, I feel the 'secret' is to spend as much time playing 'outside' and free as we have previously spent following the rules. Rather than looking for secrets or tricks we just need to get on with it and explore! It goes without saying this should be accompanied by almost as much listening. Cheers

@@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition Hey Charles, thanks for the answers on all my posts! I am now done with your last 3 years of content and I can allready feel the impact on my practicing as well as my playing! I'm looking forward to your future videos!

Thanks for this Jim. No problem at all, I'm delighted that you're finding something useful in all these videos! Cheers