Playing the head: 'All About My Girl' - Jimmy McGriff
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Joe GlossopJoe Glossop teaches the head to Jimmy McGriff's 'All About My Girl', a 12-bar blues with a walking bass line and right-hand punctuation.
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45 lessons (3h 0m) · 1 free
01. Performance: 'Green Onions' Booker T
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02. Tones: 'Green Onions' Booker T
3:08
03. Playing the tune: 'Green Onions' Booker T
8:21
04. Lead lines: 'Green Onions' Booker T
4:43
05. Bassline: 'Green Onions' Booker T
2:01
06. Performance: Jimmy McGriff - All About My Girl
3:43
07. Keyboard view performance: Jimmy McGriff - All About My Girl
3:43
08. Tones: 'All About My Girl' - Jimmy McGriff
4:01
09. Intro: 'All About My Girl' - Jimmy McGriff
2:10
10. Playing the head: 'All About My Girl' - Jimmy McGriff
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11. Bassline: 'All About My Girl' - Jimmy McGriff
1:52
12. Ending: 'All About My Girl' - Jimmy McGriff
1:51
13. Improvisation and comping: 'All About My Girl' - Jimmy McGriff
4:38
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Lesson transcript
Music Lesson
As for the head, it's basically a 12 bar, and you've got a 13 up there voiced like that.
Key Concepts
- With your thumb, you have to play the seven and the one at the same time.
- So that's what's going on: the right hand and the left hand creating a pretty simple bass line.
- Usual kind of bass setting there, and we're kind of swinging.
Emphasis and Movement
What's really important is getting that emphasis. That's what moves it along; it's coming off that F. Particularly when you're playing it on your own like that:
- There's no kit.
- There's no movement around what you're doing.
- You've got to create that movement.
Completeness in Sound
So, it sounds pretty good, but it's not really complete. You need something to answer that line. You need a bit of that punctuation we've talked about before.
Right Hand Punctuation
- What you do is add a bit of right hand punctuation on your bottom manual, which is your bass setting.
- This should happen in between the lead line.
And he does that throughout the tune.
Answering Your Soloing
What you can do to answer your soloing is to kind of answer it on the bass, but with an actual chord rather than just a single note.
For example:
- You might play something like that kind of thing.
This breaks it up, gives you a bit of spread face, and keeps it tasty. Remember to stay somewhat restrained; you don't want to give it all away.
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Joe Glossop is a keyboard player from Sheffield who has made his name on the Hammond organ. He currently holds the organ chair in Tom Jones's touring band, and has played with Van Morrison and James Hunter, as well as on piano and Rhodes. His courses get the real Hammond sound out of any keyboard - drawbar registration, the Leslie, the walking-bass left hand, and the comping and soloing vocabulary of the soul-jazz, blues and rock organ traditions, from Jimmy Smith to Booker T.
