Do we really need jazz guitar licks?

[citizenk74]

Speaking of Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener" is one of my favorite things.

[mrcee]

Speaking of Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener" is one of my favorite things.

I have heard that from those in the know. I'll have to check it out.

[Jonah]

Speaking of Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener" is one of my favorite things.

Oh yes!

[jzucker]

don't waste time learning "licks" off web sites. Copy the masters yourself. 99% of the greats learned to play this way including martino, benson, wes

[MarkRhodes]

Speaking of Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener" is one of my favorite things.

I re-read that one this past year. That and "Billy Budd." I'm pleased to find so many Melville fans here!

[MarkRhodes]

don't waste time learning "licks" off web sites. Copy the masters yourself. 99% of the greats learned to play this way including martino, benson, wes

Sage advice.

[Sti Eci Tephor]

I like learning Grant Green licks, they seem to be very versatile,
probably due to his very bluesy nature.

really wana learn Parker's lines but they're so hard on guitar!
Not sure what album it's off of, but his solo on Groovin' High is my favorite of all time.

[wolflen]

one of the reasons I love this forum is because of threads like this..seeing music from many different directions..

my take..I have read (and re-read) many of Elmore Leonard's crime novels..he is/was a master at this stuff..yes he makes it look so simple and easy you may think.."I could THAT!"..well..no you can't.


He will us a basic plotline and twist the hell out of it and use ever thing in the toolbox and then some..and each book has flavors of all the others..but they all are unique..does he use clichés ..you bet!..do they work..to the point you wish you said them first..does this mean he isn't a real writer..come on really..

when the term "fusion" was first being used-late 60's- I saw larry Coryell in a small club..up to this point in my playing jazz was still much of a mystery as to how to play it..so I sat in the first row near center stage and watched every move Coryell made..at this point in time "speed" was not the obsession for guitarists it seems to be now with younger players..so I was transfixed-watching Coryell play chords that looked impossible and sounded so cool and then play lines at super speeds and make it look easy...so he played for an hour plus..and most of the audience was young/male/guitarists-my self included..on one piece Coryell burned for several minutes..the kind of tension that you wanted to scream for a resolution..and from out of nowhere he played a lick that Eric Clapton used on the willy dixon song "spoonful" .. now in relation to what the body of the tune Coryell was playing..this lick was fairly simple..but you know what..myself and I bet over half of that audience practiced that Clapton lick and tried like hell to use it in every song they played and hoped like hell it sounded as cool as the way Coryell played it..

[JensL]

on one piece Coryell burned for several minutes..the kind of tension that you wanted to scream for a resolution..and from out of nowhere he played a lick that Eric Clapton used on the willy dixon song "spoonful" .. now in relation to what the body of the tune Coryell was playing..this lick was fairly simple..but you know what..myself and I bet over half of that audience practiced that Clapton lick and tried like hell to use it in every song they played and hoped like hell it sounded as cool as the way Coryell played it..

Well now, you have to give us a transcription of it....

Jens