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Tim Lerch - How To Get Some Bebop Into Your Blues - Lesson

Tim Lerch

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Infuse your Blues with lines you can use! This entire lesson on Bebop influenced lines is now transcribed in notation and tab. It's available if you become a member of
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20 Comments

@TimLerchGuitar Creator 1 year ago Pinned

News!! All of the playing on this video has now been transcribed in Notation and Tab at https://timsguitarworkshop.com

@joepalooka2145 3 years ago (edited)

It took me a long time to figure this out: if you really want to play jazz blues/bebop etc on a guitar ---- don't study guitar players. Study sax players. Sax players don't rely on boring fingerboard patterns like most guitar players. They really know their chords and scales, and especially things like guide tones, patterns, harmony, turns/grace notes/rhythmic devices/phrasing etc. You can't play sax well unless you learn that stuff, whereas on guitar a lot of players fake it by running their fingers up and down. I wish I'd known this a long time ago.

@Ashishsinhaofficial 2 years ago

A jazz blues enthusiast, watching from Kathmandu, Nepal! Thank you very much for this lesson!

@SimpleManGuitars1973 3 years ago

When I see videos like this it still blows my mind how much impact Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian had on jazz and bebop playing. There are VERY few players with such distinct note choices that just remind you of "them" every time you hear qualities of their playing. Awesome, awesome, video.

@augustusbetucius2931 3 years ago

Interesting. This reveals how stodgy and uptight a jazz education can be. My first semester as a performance major, my private instructor told me in one of our first lessons that I shouldn't bend strings, that wasn't idiomatic to jazz. Here we see Tim Lerch bend strings as he's playing bop influenced lines. Cool. Thank you for letting me out of that prison Mr Lerch. While we're at it, as much as I have loved Robben Ford, this guy is a whole other level. Any doubt? Watch some live videos of him playing and see what I mean.

@stevenblakeborough4706 3 years ago

I think there is enough material here to keep me busy for over a year - ha ha. Many, many thanks Tim. 🙏

@gufra9835 3 years ago

one of the greatest secrets: chromatic >>> landing! So easy said! Thank you Mr. Lerch!

@stevejones3956 3 years ago

One of the best YouTube lessons ever.Your feel for phrasing is beautiful and vocal-like. You even take a breath before a phrase as a singer would. You're awesome!

@GigaBrowser 2 years ago

This reminds me so much of the old Joe Pass instructional videos on youtube. Equally as valuable but more wholesome

@svidrigajlov 1 year ago

This is the equivalent of a diamond in guitar lessons❤

@dpcam1243 6 months ago

Love the swing in your playing Tim, very inspirational.

@Bflatest 3 years ago

I learned something.

@slackandsteel 3 years ago

Beautiful lesson. One other thing that’s so important to really get that vibe that I don’t think you mentioned is the liberal use of enclosures. For me those are a key element of the bebop sound.

@jeffroberts_tunes 9 months ago

"All you have to do is land it, really" That's a huge insight into adding chromatic phrasing. Thanks so much!!

@baranyiproduction 2 years ago

Tim, you are a great teacher! One of the best blues lesson! A wonderful English dialect for everyone on the planet! Thank you!!

@petersmichaeld59 3 years ago

Mr. Lerch......very good....straight forward analytical detail....thank God your explanations are concise...as opposed to those you can't stop talking!
most appreciative for that.....very generous of you to share.

@tgbedini 3 years ago

Well, that will give me several weeks of exploration. Thanks.

@slowjammerukdog 7 months ago

Fantastic lesson! Just what I need right now - you must be psychic, Tim. Thanks so much.

@billbones1000 3 years ago

Nice one! I think listening to Kenny Burrell and Grant Green regularly really helped me greatly with having tasteful bebop licks in a blues context firmly in my ear.