This standard is such a great song to work on developing ideas/phrases over. Don't forget to get the resources at my website:://www.jazzguitarwithandy.com/blog/so-what-lesson-1-amp-2-resources

This is gold for me! Very excited to dive into the modal practice with the🥶 freeze🥶

what an awesome lesson! Many thanks!

Very well presented!

Good ideas. I met Miles once and my friend was neighbors with him and had many stories... i saw him once. My dad saw him 3 times..

Thank you!!! it's the first time that everything seems clear, also by singing the peculiarity of the mode ...it's the first time it sounds so musical

Thank you for explaining the technical bits in a way that's easy to understand the base idea so you can take ideas around to other keys! Great vid 👍

Great lessons Andy, you have a way of explaining jazz guitar that makes sense! (Finally 😊) thanks so much 🙏

I've just been thinking about how you're my favourite (aka practically musical and useful) jazz guitar educators on YT AND I've been figuring out Miles' solo on So What by ear! The theory behind it is one thing, but his articulation is so awesome you can play the right notes in the right place along with the tune and still sound wrong, lol! Thanks for your work Andy!

Thank you for all you do for us Andy, much appreciated.

Fantastic!!! It’s the sound that I’ve been searching for. Thank you!!!

Thanks for 📫

Great tutorial thanks, really helping me understand how modes work. Love this song

Great lesson as usual! Love how you put up diagrams. Thanks!

This a brilliant lesson. I got a lot of it... thanks 👏

Hi mate, that was really cool and I was able to follow what you were sharing easily. Piano player, trying to figure out So What for my first ever jam on Sunday with a fellow jazz beginner. Appreciate you! I'll keep an eye on your videos!

Absolute best teacher,!!

Thank you very much for this lesson.

Great Andy….well put together lesson ……☮️🎶🔛🌎

Great lesson, Man. Thanks! So that's how easy it is to create and comp with those 11th chords. Awesome.

Andy, thanks so much for this tutorial of this fantastic Jazz classic. Question: Does your Tele have the 7.25" (184.1 mm), or 9.5 (241 mm) radius neck? Thanks...

This was a nice lesson, thanks!

Thank you 👍

I am rediscovering this great song, Thank You !

Thank you for this! I've been waiting for a modal video for awhile and this is a perfect place to start. I think Impressions by Coltrane has a similar chord pattern, and alternates on a half-step as well if my memory is accurate. Could you do more? I'd love to go deeper down the modal rabbit hole, but I love all of your content regardless.

Fantastic lesson! Question: why a b5 in the f chord when you harmonize d Dorian in fourth? It sounds great, definitely, but if in 4th, shouldn’t it be a b flat rather than a b in this f chord?

Awesome thank you

Really enjoyed this. Thanks

Hi Andy, could the same approach be used with Cantelope Island which is in Fm?

4th chords are the easiest way to play jazz sounds-everything seems to work

I’d like to offer a different take on this tune (and of modal jazz more generally). Although Kind of Blue was THE big seller in its day, I think of So What as “the tune that killed jazz”. Why? Because this was the moment that jazz became intellectual. And once an artform (any artform) becomes intellectual, the audience for it evaporates. Jazz is now a minority artform. It’s a pity, but this is what happens when intellectuals (like Bill Evans) take over - it’s really satisfying for guys like him and for those of us that can accommodate such a cerebral approach, but it turns off most everyone else. As a general comment, modal music - especially modal jazz - can get boring very quickly. It starts off as something fresh and new-sounding, but then it all starts to sound the same. You can get sick of it in a way that doesn’t apply to harmonic music (with all its chord changes). While we’re here, let’s talk about Giant Steps. Giant Steps is a tune loved by teachers and students because it’s theory-rich (and I get that). But does anyone really listen to Giant Steps any more? It’s just become an intellectual exercise with little to no non-specialist audience.