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You may have already seen this - it’s our latest YouTube feature about young Joe Pass and his ridiculous USX technique. As great as older Joe was, young Joe was great in a different way with his furious yet tasty bebop shredding.
We did this lesson with the amazing Levi Clay, who transcribed the whole thing - bless his soul. He then recorded some expert historical and musicological commentary to go along with our mechanical teaching. Great stuff!
The whole thing is 40 minutes long, which was a workout to edit. But there’s a lot of good stuff in here. And it’s getting some good traction, and it’s always nice when that pays off.
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Saw this pop on on IG, i think, and Ive been meanign to come back and watch. Thanks in advance!
This video is great! I’ve started transcribing this solo a few times, to get inside his fingering patters. This makes me realize I need to get back to it. Great work on this one. There are a few strange things he does that I found when slowed down to 1/4 speed, like strange double upstroke string crossing, descending, if I remember correctly. It doesn’t seem to make sense until you do the lick at speed and then you feel the bounce of the rh rhythm and it works… Transcription only at Levi’s?
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Hi
Where is the transcription ?
Thanks
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Levi is so amazing…this is a wonderful collaboration and I hope it is the first of many! Great work all!
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Tab is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa-WLSbXOS8
Unfortunately, there are mistakes in the tablature. No wonder—Levi even writes in the comments that Joe Pass doesn’t play with system described by Troy😳
Sorry for the delay! Pedro posted the correct link to Levi’s transcription.
In general I didn’t notice anything that looks like two sequential upstrokes in the section I learned. But there is one moment where you have upstroke-pulloff on a higher string followed by a single upstroke on the next lower string, which only has one note on it.
If that’s what you are referring to, this is also how the Yngwie arpeggios work: upstroke-pulloff on the top string, then just upstroke on the middle string. It’s a common sequence in USX playing:
In the Joe solo, m. 117-118 has this. The G string goes down-up-pulloff. Then the D string is just an upstroke.
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