3/6/1923 - 6/15/1968

A series designed to make you proficient at playing octaves a la Wes Montgomery style. When Wes introduced octaves in his playing that sweet sound gained him immediate attention. These exercises can cut years off the time needed to become a competent octave player. Adding this style gives a new dimension to your playing and can give a pop tune a jazzy sound. Wes himself stuck with chords played mainly on adjacent strings and drop 2 chord shapes. In this lesson, you will learn Wes Montgomery inspired chord solo licks that you’ll apply over a blues in F and over the jazz standard Yesterdays. Wes Montgomery Chord Solo Over a Blues in F. Before playing the entire solo, let’s have a look at the.

Wes Montgomery was an American guitar jazz player, considered one of the greatest jazz guitarists of all time.

He has influenced and continues to influence many guitarists. His playing is characterized by the use of his thumb instead of a pick with incredible dexterity. He took the use of octaves and chords voicings to a greater level than any other guitarist. His guitar solos are gold mines for jazz guitar students, he used a lot arpeggios and superimposed triads. He often approached solos by following the same chords progression in three ways and in the same order:

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1- In single note lines using scales and modes.

2- By playing octaves, he was the master of octave playing and widely know about this.

3- By playing block chords.

Wes Montgomery played almost exclusively on a Gibson L-5 CES plugged most of the time into Fender amps ( super reverb, twin reverb, deluxe). He also played on Gibson L-7, Gibson L-4, Es-175, ES-125D.

He died of a heart attack in 1968 and leaves behind an impressive discography, a Bible , an encyclopedia for all jazz guitar players.

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This Wes Montgomery Guitar Lesson is breaking down parts of the solo on Four on Six. This version is from the album: “The Incredible Jazz Guitar”. What makes Wes a great improviser and jazz guitarist is not that he played octaves or chord solos. There are other aspects of his playing that are the reason that we consider him the most important jazz guitarist in modern jazz.This video goes over 5 aspects of his playing that you can easily work on in your own guitar solos. I think really defines what is great about his playing.If you want to check out another Wes Montgomery Lesson then have a look at this lesson. Content:Intro Wes Montgomery – Four On Six5 Simple Things in Wes’ StyleFour on Six and The Incredible Jazz Guitar of WM#1 Just use the arpeggios (and make great melodies)#2 Don’t be afraid to Use Repeated Notes (Groove and Melody)What are the things you love about Wes Montgomery?

Leave a comment#3 Motifs and Call-Response melodies#4 Dynamics within the Solo lines#5 Do You Have The Blues?Like the video? Check out my Patreon Page! Want to develop you Chord Solo Chops?One of the most interesting and impressive aspects of Wes Montgomery’s playing is his chord solos. If you want to develop your own skills with chord solos you can do this here. Get the PDF!The PDF with examples for this video is available through Patreon. You can check out my Patreon Page here: Jazz Guitar Insiders Facebook GroupJoin 600+ Other Jazz Guitarists 🎸Join us in the Facebook Jazz Guitar Group Community: you have any questions, comments or suggestions for topics then please let me know. Leave a comment on the video or send me an e-mail.

That is the best way for me to improve my lessons and make them fit what you are searching for.Please subscribe to my and feel free to connect with me via, or to keep up to date with new lessons, concerts and releases.This entry was posted in, and tagged, on. One aspect of the playing of Wes Montgomery that we never talk about is in my opinion the real reason he is the amazing jazz improviser that he is. The Wes Montgomery Jazz Guitar StyleMost of the time we are in impressed with Wes for playing everything with the thumb, using octaves and playing swinging lines.

Boot acer aspire from usb. But actually there is one aspect of his playing that maybe does not get the attention it deserves, and which in my opinion is also more important than the things I already talked about. Phrasing but also great lines and melodiesWhen I transcribed or learned this solo I was not really analyzing his playing and I didn’t write down the phrases I just played along with the record and tried to get close to his phrasing. That was very helpful for a lot of things with timing and phrasing and is probably what I would suggest you do when working on transcriptions.This video is really about something else: How to connect your solo and have a longer story or musical idea in your playing using Wes as an example because he was extremely good at this. Is a very simple way of using an easy to play motif and then still manage to make it an interesting development across 4 bars.The motif is repeated for each of the descending II V’s What to take away from this analysisThe way Wes Montgomery is always making longer musical statements and connects phrases across longer stretches is really what makes him a musical genius to me.

Keeping this in mind and working on this aspect of your playing can really improve your solos more than you can imagine. Get a free E-bookIf you want to download a Free E-book of 15 II Valt I licks then subscribe to my newsletter.