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Guitar Tablature - Joe Pass Licks
Joe Pass started playing guitar when he was 9 and he was already playing at weddings when he was 14. In his 20's he moved to New York, where he could listen to some of the best jazz musicians of that time. Joe Pass got captured by the sound of bebop, but unfortunately he also picked up a habit well known to jazz musicians of that time : heroin. The next decade was wasted for Joe Pass, spending time in jails, until he entered Synanon, a drug rehabilitation center. In the center he formed a band with other patients and recorded the album 'Sounds of Synanon', which was very well received by the jazz critics.
After 3 years in the center he was cured of his addiction and he could move on with his musical career. He started playing in Los Angeles and got involved in the studio scene.
In 1973 he recorded 'Virtuoso', an album that made him famous for solo jazz guitar playing.
He recorded a duo album with Ella Fitzgerald and played with a lot of famous jazz musicians like Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and Oscar Peterson.
Joe Pass died from cancer in 1994.
Recommended listening :
V I Lick
1) Joe Pass plays a Db diminished scale over the C7 chord here.
This is another way to create tension on the dominant chord : play a diminished scale that is a half step higher then the root of the dominant chord. It gives us the following functions on C7 : b9, #9, 3, b5, 5, 13, b7 and 1.
Notes of the Db diminished scale : Db D# E F# G A Bb C (to create a diminished scale, alternate between whole steps and half steps).
The diminished scale is a symmetrical scale, what means that it comes back every minor third : Db diminished is the same as E diminished is the same as G diminished is the same as Bb diminished.
You can hear this lick on the standard 'Joy Spring' on Joe Pass's CD 'Joy Spring', a must have CD for every jazz guitarist. The lick is the pick up for the first solo chorus.
Joe Pass Tab : Lick 1
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II V I Minor Lick
1) Joe Pass plays a D minor triad arpeggio with an added 9 on the Bm7b5 chord, what gives us the following functions : b3, 4, b5, b7.
On the E7 he plays an A harmonic minor scale.
Joe Pass Tab : Lick 2
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II V I Lick
1) This lick is transcribed from the Joe Pass composition 'Joy Spring' from the album Joy Spring. Check it out if this CD is not part of your collection yet, it's a must have album for jazz players. The lick starts just before the first B part of the solo.
Joe Pass Tab : Lick 3
Joe Pass started playing guitar when he was 9 and he was already playing at weddings when he was 14. In his 20's he moved to New York, where he could listen to some of the best jazz musicians of that time. Joe Pass got captured by the sound of bebop, but unfortunately he also picked up a habit well known to jazz musicians of that time : heroin. The next decade was wasted for Joe Pass, spending time in jails, until he entered Synanon, a drug rehabilitation center. In the center he formed a band with other patients and recorded the album 'Sounds of Synanon', which was very well received by the jazz critics.
After 3 years in the center he was cured of his addiction and he could move on with his musical career. He started playing in Los Angeles and got involved in the studio scene.
In 1973 he recorded 'Virtuoso', an album that made him famous for solo jazz guitar playing.
He recorded a duo album with Ella Fitzgerald and played with a lot of famous jazz musicians like Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and Oscar Peterson.
Joe Pass died from cancer in 1994.
Recommended listening :
V I Lick
1) Joe Pass plays a Db diminished scale over the C7 chord here.
This is another way to create tension on the dominant chord : play a diminished scale that is a half step higher then the root of the dominant chord. It gives us the following functions on C7 : b9, #9, 3, b5, 5, 13, b7 and 1.
Notes of the Db diminished scale : Db D# E F# G A Bb C (to create a diminished scale, alternate between whole steps and half steps).
The diminished scale is a symmetrical scale, what means that it comes back every minor third : Db diminished is the same as E diminished is the same as G diminished is the same as Bb diminished.
You can hear this lick on the standard 'Joy Spring' on Joe Pass's CD 'Joy Spring', a must have CD for every jazz guitarist. The lick is the pick up for the first solo chorus.
Joe Pass Tab : Lick 1
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II V I Minor Lick
1) Joe Pass plays a D minor triad arpeggio with an added 9 on the Bm7b5 chord, what gives us the following functions : b3, 4, b5, b7.
On the E7 he plays an A harmonic minor scale.
Joe Pass Tab : Lick 2
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II V I Lick
1) This lick is transcribed from the Joe Pass composition 'Joy Spring' from the album Joy Spring. Check it out if this CD is not part of your collection yet, it's a must have album for jazz players. The lick starts just before the first B part of the solo.
Joe Pass Tab : Lick 3