We had so much FUN!! Strictly off the cuff... : )

10/10 would go to a 90 minute show with these guys playing in A and walk away happy.

Drummer is like a mum letting her kids have fun but keeping them in line too :)

3:46 Love how the drummer picked up on Nathan playing chords with that fill

The drummer did his job so perfectly

One thing that really stood out to me about this jam was how perfectly the drummer played. Excellent transitions, precise rhythm, tied really well together with Paul's and Nathan's playing, zero mistakes.

The drummer is brilliant he glues the two sounds together so well you don't even realise he joined in

When I die this is where I want to go. To the never ending jam in the sky. Preferably in A

underrated drummer... no one's talking about him..

The people who say Paul Gilbert is a mindless shredder who only plays patterns need to watch this video. Also, I don't know why, but Nathan East's playing puts a smile on my face.

Drummer did so much more than you’d think if you weren’t paying attention to it! This trio is actually *really* special

I absolutely love watching Nathan East play bass. He's so no frills, humble and tremendously talented. A true Gentleman of a musician

Just spent seven minutes smiling.

I could listen to that all day long! I Imagine This Would Be My Elevator Music On My Ride To Heaven.

The perfect example of how universal music is. Not a word spoken but they were able to communicate with each other and be completely in sync.

The chemistry between these 3 is musical perfection.

This was a sick jam to have playing in the background, I could listen to music like this all day.

I love how Paul Gilbert has continued growing as a musician over the years - okay, he might have become known for his 80s and 90s high octane shred, but he's clearly got some real love of the blues with his uncle and recently been trying to grow his vocabulary, it's great to see. You never stop learning.

Nathan East is an absolute killer. On top of all this he sings like a dove and delivers outstanding harmonies when called upon.

Any musicians watching this who have jammed with other musicians can likely relate to that lovely, delicious feeling when you and another musician(s) engage in communication that has nothing to do with words and yet can cause both of you to suddenly smile. That's the joy of music, I think.

Lol it sounds like the guitar is asking the bass questions. "Do dodo doo doodo dood odo DOoOOOoO?" "Yup. Do do dodo dodood diddly doo doo."

This bass player is top notch in harmonic choice, subtelty, legato and cool vibe.

Interesting how Nathan immediately spoke about dynamics before even talking about which notes he would use. Proper musician!

Paul’s guitar is the most perfect “signature” guitar ever made. It fits him like no other. I think it even looks like him.

When I was a snot nosed kid about 7 years ago, I was helping an older director friend of mine shoot a music video for Mr Big called "this time around". I mostly set up lighting and did playback, I met Paul and there and he was a really awesome guy, very professional and courteous. Then I forgot about him and after stumbling through youtube at 1 in the morning he's here and he looked familiar and then i realized how i recognized him. 1. this is awesome. 2. nostalgia 3. i'm sure no one cares. 4. goodbye

The algorithm did us right again

I love that "Drop the mic harmonic" at 5:28

The part that starts at 4:30 til 4:38 is absolute perfect symmetry..I listened to that one part at least 70 times last night...bout to hear it again when I'm done typing.

The drummer just perfectly play his rhythm! absolutely perfect dynamic well done!!!

One of the most not-boring things ive seen in a while.

I loved the drummer's performance as well as the improvisation in general, but what I've grown to love is the section beginning at 5:56, specially with the chorus added to the guitar. Man, that sounds lovely.

"Showbiz Kids" by Steely Dan. D minor the whole time, instruments leaping around and improvving off one another, individual dissonances making it sound briefly like the chord is going to change, but it never has to and never does. Great song.

All three of them are such amazing musicians!

This two guys jamming for 8 minutes in just one chord is better than 90% of the music in the last 10 years.

Jesus their musical chemistry is strong here. I sincerely hope this wasn't the only time these guys jammed together

This jam made me smile! This is what a true jam session should be about! Two or more musicians sharing ideas and having the time of their lives!

I had a smile on my face the whole time watching this!

I'm glad I clicked this video

There dynamics especially the drummer is unbelievable. It’s like a pre recorded sound. Damn masterpiece ❤️🇵🇭🙌🏻. Much love from Philippines

"Dad, why is my sister named Rose?" "Because your mother loves roses," says his father. "Thanks, dad." "No problem, Nathan East & Paul Gilbert: "One Chord Challenge" at ArtistWorks

paul gilbert's grin, the sheer joy of making groovy music, makes this whole thing so much better! two great players, one great chord

i would happily replace every video on the internet with this

Managed to do all the licks while using my air guitar, even the drum beats!

its been years since i saw this. watching this till this day because when i watch this, man i get lost.. all my problem goes away when i see them both. and damn that drummer can play! nice chops!!

Gotta give some love to that drummer, he held it steady while still adding some flavor.

Every time I watch this I end up sittin' here just smiling.

Everyone's talking about the drummer but is anyone else astonished at how well the Paul's crunch tone and Nathan's bass mix? Their tones complete each other!

What a great moment, I love the way all of them blend in together. I am a bass head and got impressed of what you can do with your bass 🎸

Very nice stuff. Didn't know Paul Gilbert could get that funky. Beautiful playing by everyone.

Its like they're having a conversation but with notes instead of words

Keep coming back to this jam. Love it, thanks.

Every time when I watch this, I smile on my face without exception. that much brilliant.

this guy just make me wanna get into bass playing :)

This is actually amazing.

AMAZING!! This looked so fun!

Nathan, you' re the Master!!! I've seen you on October 5th, 1990, whith Clapton, in Buenos Aires, Argentina... You've blown my head away!!!

3:59 , Crossroads riff...brilliant

Hey ArtistWorks, I don't know if you're reading this but I once had uploaded your videos on my channel when I was like 12, and I stopped using that channel. I didn't know anything about all this and was really into editing videos and made unnecessary edits, uploading any good video I could find to get views. I never got to apologize, so I'm deeply sorry, and thank you for providing such amazing content.

This is truly amazing. Enjoyed every second of that.

Paul Gilbert-Nathan East: BOTH you guys are AWESOME!! I had fun just watching it! And kudos to the drummer as well. Now that's what I call a JAM!! 👍🎼🥁🎸👍

Could listen to A all day! Props to Drummer sitin in the pocket.

I was paralyzed 7 minutes watching the awesomeness.

My heart melted with the sweetness of this jam

This was awesome ! I absolutely loved the conversation between the bass and guitar

Mr. East is pretty damn good. To improvise like that and hit all the right notes at the same time take some talent!

This is heaven on KZfaq.

I ve been smiling for the entire video - Nice to see them having fun, and awesome to listen

Year after year this video keeps popping and it is always as good as the first time!

I could listen to this for hours. The pocket drumming is perfect. Both Paul and Nathan took it easy for parts and then made it nice and spicy for others. Excellent.

Great attitudes, great spirit, great musicianship, great listening.

That was a beautiful jam. I love the direction it took. And... a live drummer!

Just great to see 3 artists having fun. Oh joy!

One of my favorite parts of the video is where Nathan goes "and then of course we would trade off.." and Paul is like "say no more!" immediately starts throwing out a lick

What kind of strong fingers must that guy have, to bend bass strings like that. Sheeeeesh.

So much fun watching you guys talk back and forth. Much fun and lots learned!

I love Nathan East's bass playing! So great. And I also like the drummer and the guitarist. I will take this idea and have an evening with our drummer and guitarist - just to jam around. Normally we're just rehearsing songs for the band - but I can remember decades ago, where I just "played for fun." And this reminds me to just do this again. Thanks to all guys involved in this video, great job!

Holy cow...did anyone even notice how good the drummer is? a lot of time it's atually the drummer leading the jam.. did anyone notice that the way the drummer plays his fill sounds like he knew what the bassist is gonna play...

i LOVE that "dear prudence" nod towards the end of this. that chord progression is so haunting.

I can listen to Nathan play all the time. Love his tone, dynamics, and creativity. He's one of the musicians I follow because I know I won't be disappointed by whatever track he is playing on, no matter the artist.

That was super cool! 2 masters of their craft. Thanks for sharing!

Those first few phrases by Gilbert at 2:11 ...... Mind Blowing

Love the that Gilbert CAN play unbelievably fast but chooses not to

Now THAT is a proper jam sesh. Good work gentlemen!

Why isn't something like this practiced when taking music lessons? Imagine how inspiring that would be to then learn the difficult stuff.

That lone harmonic cracked me up so bad, was all ready for some random staccato groove or something but nope too chill for that haha Gotta say some people new to this idea might think it's a bit silly/lame/limiting etc, but, as demonstrated here, staying on the one chord leaves the key relatively vague so it allows you to explore a lot of areas you may not get to by staying in a traditional key structure. Here we are building around an A major, this might think you are to play around A major, well let's stick with that for a little bit. If you are playing around on notes outside of the A triad you are giving the implication of different chords, which in turn can completely alter the vibe. If you are playing an F# above the root you are implying an Amaj6 sound, if you keep it constant enough, you could imply a sus4, a major7, whatever vibe you want to express. Any diatonic notes will sound perfectly fine used correctly, that's a given, this also applies to natural harmonics, tapped and variants of artificial harmonics. Since our chord is a strict A chord(for the most part), we aren't told what other notes are in that scales. The A major(Ionian) scale is A B C# D E F# G#, but all the rules we are being told are A C# E, these same notes occur in other natural scales named Lydian, and Mixolydian. Both of these are only a single note different from the normal major scale so even to the untrained ear it's a very small stray from the key, and still completely true to the tonal center. Because we have few rules we can venture even further through the musical spectrum, this is done simply by raising and lowering, sometimes even completely omitting, other notes in the scale. Try flattening the B and you will see what I mean. Techniques can be used to change how each note is being sounded too. Taps/hammers, slides, harmonics, vibrato, dive bombs etc. Effects units add even more variety to the notes, somewhat explored by PG here, phaser, flanger, wah, octave, distortion etc can all be used to make it sound different, and at varying degrees, and even at the same time. Then if you really want to get crazy you can play more than one note at once. A strum, double stop, or a note being held whilst fiddling with another, will all sound completely different both naturally, and with use of effects. Hell you could just switch pick ups and get a whole new beast. Sorry I had to keep it short but I hope the point gets across well enough, and I recommend not only that teachers use this(as I do), but students of all levels try this out and see what you get out of it, whether it be testing your chops, playing with modes, whatever. And now remember that there are dozens more chords out there, genres, time signatures, accents etc to explore still.

This is improv at its best, the call and response lol it literally feels like a conversation! PG one of the best ever and Nate East a great bass player in his own right. What a pleasure :)

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME... WHO WOULD OF THOUGHT THE GROOVE AND FEEL COULD BE SO GOOD LIMITED TO JUST ONE KEY .... THANKS GUYS FOR THE INSPIRATION ....

Still one of my favourite youtube videos ever. A goldmine of licks, interplay and inspiration

It's beautiful when two genuine musicians are just having fun

This was SO amazing! It's apparent that you understand your instruments as you can have a "conversation" back and forth with them and find the same flow. I really miss that kind of jam with my friends.. Thanks for the upload though, I loved this!

About 3 minutes in is amazing- both are feeling it and totally locked in 🤘🏻 Super rad, love watching Paul play bc he always has a great time

This is timeless. Come back in 20 years and the river is still gently flowing 🙂

The guitar had good points, but I guess I agree more to what the bass was saying... 🤔

Great video Nathan East! You can do a lot with one chord!

that jam make me happy, love both of them! what a crossover!

Amazing, great jam!

The chemistry is amazing in this session. Such awesome talent.

Love how the jam ended with a Dear Prudence vibe. So sweet.

How sweet you guys making this jam. Thank you so much for that. Special is a drummer. Very brilliant

First time watching, but couldn't stop smiling throughout... there's something organic about this that resonates with my being