Chords for George Benson Licks - Jazz Guitar Lesson by MortensLessons.com

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_ [B] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ _ _
And the [Gb] next one actually, _ it's the same basically, [B] _ _ [G] same thing, just one step [Bm] down because _ [C] [Gb] we
are on the next one, the 2-5 there.
[Bm] This was on, kind of on the 3-6, _ [F] B minor to [G] E7.
So what's happening?
We have first, as I said, B minor, [Bm] _ _ making kind of, you know, basically you're playing
G major 7, right?
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ So [Ab] that line _ [E] is _ [G] over, you could say it's over B minor to E7, or you could just think of
it as being over E7, [Ab] really.
_ _ _ [E] _
[F] And again, [Cm] there's, if you think of it as G7, I mean E7 is _ major _ 7 again, right? D sharp. _
_ [E] _ But I think, _ [Cm] you know, _ _ _ the simplest way of looking at this, _ _ _ without really, I mean, _ _ _ the
steps here are, you know, you have a flat 13, _ major 3rd, sharp 9, right?
_ [C] [Ab] Major 7.
And the same thing again.
_ Flat [F] 9 to the root.
You could think of it like that, but if you think of E altered, _ E altered scale is [Cm] the
same as F melodic minor, right?
So _ the chord for F melodic minor would be minor major 7.
And this is that, except from it's not a major _ _ _ 7 for F, it's regular F minor 7.
_ _ _ [Fm] _ _ [E] _
_ [Fm] _ _ _ _ And that's basically it.
So if you look at it from an F point of view, _ [F] it's a minor [Gb] 7, [Ab] 5th, 3rd, and 9.
_ Again.
_ _ [F] _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ But, you know, I mean, you don't really have to think about any of that, you could just
think, play that thing [C] here, one half step above E, [Ab] or whatever.
_ [C] _
_ Look at it like an E. _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ [E] _ [G] So the next [Am] thing is on A minor.
[Gb] _ _ [Eb] _ [C] _ [Cm] Continues just a little bit longer, [Gb] start with triplets. _ _ _
One two.
_ [Cm] _ [B] _ _ [G] About that, it's not, I mean, if you listen to the original, it's not clear to hear _ exactly
what rhythm, because it's so fast, and it's, you know, it's not played like, I mean,
Julius Benson is phenomenal, but he's not a machine.
So, you know, there are kind of, _ it's not strictly, _ _ this is kind of my interpretation
of it, it's _ _ _ _ not necessarily _ like dead on, you know.
But _ if you play it at a more normal tempo, that's a way to [C] play that [Gb] line.
[B] _ _
That [C] works.
[Gb] _ _ [B] _ [E] Also, [Ab] you'll see that, _ [B] _ one thing about George Benson is that he's just _ incredible when it
comes to move this way, right?
He's playing, one of the lines that I transcribed _ a long time ago [C] was, let's see [D] here if I can play it. _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] He's playing a minor 7 flat 5, _ [D] _ _ _ and, [G] _
see here, _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ [D] _
[Ab] _ _ [D] like that, you know. _ _ _
_ [F] _ [D] _ [Ab] _ [Fm] _ _ _ _
_ Just ridiculously fast, and he's doing it like [D] it was nothing.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
You know, I can't do that, even how much I try.
So for me, I would [Fm] do _ [G] something [D] like that, which _ also is moving diagonally, but _ [Fm] _ _ _
[Am] a bit more. _ _ _
Yeah, I'm digressing, but that, you know, there's something when _ _ transcribing stuff
like this, it's something about trying to figure out how did he play it?
You know, sometimes if you can't play it like that, like in my case, often with George Benson,
[G] you know, for example, the right hand, I need to do different stuff than he does, because
he's just an alternate picking monster, you know, and sweeping monster, you know, he can
just do anything like it was nothing.
But _ I need to kind of adapt a lot of it to be able to play it. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] But anyway, this _ [D] _ _ [Cm] I'm able to play, and I think this is the way he played it.
So he's basically moving, _ _ _ _ you know, it's common in jazz guitar, that you play something, _ and
just [B] move it diagonally so [Cm] you can play it, the same thing an octave down.
[Gb] _ _ [Cm] _
_ [Gm] _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Yeah, _ [Em] _ _ [Cm] _ _
_ [E] _ [C] _ _ _ [C] _ [Gb] _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ so I think that's _ _ it.
_ [N] Let me play it one more time.
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [F] _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ [Cm] _ _
_ [Gm] _ [D] _ [Ab] _ _ _ [E] _ [Gb] _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
That's it.
So, of course, learning to play this has value in itself, but _ trying to learn to use it on
[Gb] different places _ maybe, you know, [Ab] is equally important. _ _ _
_ _ This idea over the dominant chord, _ _ _ _ _ that's a pretty _ easy thing to kind of start to use
_ on other songs and on [Am] other stuff.
So, _ _ _ [G] _ standard lines like this.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ Yeah, so-so.
_ [Gm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Am] _ [Gb] _ _ [Cm] _ [B] _ [Fm] _ _ [G] _
_ _ [Am] _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [F] _ [Em] _ [F] _ [G] _ [Ab] _ _ _
[Eb] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [Cm] _ [E] _ [Ab] _ _ [A] _
_ [Gb] _ So, [Eb] _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [C] _ [B] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] yeah, [Dm] _ [G] pretty hard stuff this, but, you know, good luck with it and take it down in
tempo, you know, these lines are so cool that they're gonna work great over slow blues,
or slow, you know, [Ab] slow anything as well.
_ [F] _ [Db] _ _ [G] _ _
So, yeah, have a great day guys, see you soon, [N] bye bye. _