Jim Hall once jokingly said “I once tried spent an entire evening in San Francisco trying to trap Wes’ thumb in a car door.” There’s probably not one jazz guitarist alive who hasn’t been influenced by Wes Pat Metheny and Peter Bernstein have stated him as an influence and even his contemporaries such as Jim Hall, Pat Martino and George Benson have acknowledged him. Today’s lesson aims to improve your jazz guitar improvisation techniques by look at some aspects of Wes’ distinctive guitar style. Hardly an obscure jazz guitarist, along with Charlie Christian and Django Wes is one of, or perhaps the greatest influence of jazz guitar.īesides the virtuosic use of the unusual thumb right hand technique and mastery of octaves, Wes was a master of block chord soloing, earthy blues lines, jazz rhythms and he played with an unmistakable swing feel. Wes Montgomery is to jazz is what Jimi Hendrix was to rock and this lesson explains a few key ways that will help you play like Wes Montgomery.
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