Oleo on my '63 Kessel - OK, I'm not getting rid of this guitar after all!

[jzucker]

Oleo - Rhythm Changes, demonstration of techniques gibson barney kessel


Rhythm Changes is one of the staples of jazz playing. There are a million ways to approach playing over rhythm changes and in this play-through, I use a number of techniques over it including:


1) traditional outlining of the changes (never forgetting the B natural and Ab of the 2nd chord - the 3rd and b9)
2) Blues licks
3) Side stepping using 4ths
4) Side stepping using pentatonics
5) Playing over it with 1/2 step displacement (playing over Bmaj7 instead of the real changes in Bb)
6) Altered dominant chords (min7 1/2 step up from the roots)
7) Chordal anticipation (emphasizing beat 4 of the cadence prior to the Bbmaj7 chord)


I will break this down in a future lesson so it's more apparent some of the techniques that are available.


Thanks again for listening and all your support. Love you guys.


Peace, out.


Jaz

[ccroft]

Devilishly delicious! Pat would be proud. Nice to hear someone play the top end. That thing is solid up there!

[rictroll]

And,

8) Very nice over the bar line rhythms and extended phrases...

Masterful

[MarkRhodes]

You got it going on, Jack.

[medblues]

Superb playing, more reverb than your usual which I like ! Thanks for the art and the inspiration !

[GuyBoden]

Superb playing, more reverb than your usual which I like ! Thanks for the art and the inspiration !

Very nice, but too much reverb for me, I'm using headphones at the moment.

Edit: Sounds great through quality speakers than headphones.

[jzucker]

Very nice, but too much reverb for me, I'm using headphones at the moment.

Edit: Sounds great through quality speakers than headphones.

i always struggle with that. If I don't have enough reverb it becomes very uninspiring for me to play. I was thinking about doing the metheny thing where about 10 years ago, he just started playing with no reverb and delay. Takes a while to get used to.

[Christian Miller]

i always struggle with that. If I don't have enough reverb it becomes very uninspiring for me to play. I was thinking about doing the metheny thing where about 10 years ago, he just started playing with no reverb and delay. Takes a while to get used to.

I reckon if you give it a go for a week or so you’ll get used to it if that’s what you want to do.

I tend to practice dry now and use a bit of reverb on gigs.

For recorded tones I quite like a bit of room IR.

[Greentone]

Well alright, JZ. You were cookin' on them changes there.

The BK sounds great...a keeper.

[jzucker]

Well alright, JZ. You were cookin' on them changes there.

The BK sounds great...a keeper.

Thanks, there's psychological thing going on - i'm finding. When I play the kessel, it has sort of a '60s guitar vibe to it and it makes me try to play differently. Still not sure if that's a good thing or not. But I do love the sound of the guitar, including it's acoustic tone.

[Greentone]

I know what you mean. When I play the ES-175 it's the same. The thunkiness tugs at you to lean bop...at least, that's what happens to me.