Oz Noy Interview 1

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Intro

Oz opens with several blues and fusion improvisations as the Magnet setup is introduced.

 

Improv Intro Fusion Tk1

 

Improv Intro Blues

 

Improv Intro Fusion Tk2

 

Improv Intro Fusion Tk3

 

Improv Magnet Blues

 

Improv Magnet Blues Long

 

Core Picking Technique

A close look at Oz’s picking-hand setup, including arm position, thumb-heel anchoring, movement across the strings, muting, and changes in hand position for different phrases.

 

Improv Magnet Fusion Tk1

 

Improv Magnet Fusion Tk2

 

Improv Magnet Improv Shuffle

 

Thumb Heel Anchor Tk1

 

Thumb Heel Anchor Tk2

 

Thumb Heel Anchor Tk3

 

Improv Only An Octave

 

Pronated Pentatonic

 

Arpeggio Min Three-Octave

 

Arpeggio Min Stair Step Tk1

 

Arpeggio Min Stair Step Tk2

 

Pentatonic Legato Sweep

 

Smooth Shifts Tk1

 

Symmetrical Scale Picking

Oz demonstrates his two-, three-, and four-note-per-string scale systems, including slow, moderate, and fast examples that reveal how the picking changes with speed.

 

Smooth Shifts Tk2

 

Scale Major 3nps Fast Tk1

 

Scale Major 3nps Fast Tk2

 

Scale Major 4nps Asc Desc

 

Scale Major 2nps Asc Desc

 

Scale Major 2nps Asc Desc Fast Tk1

 

Scale Major 2nps Asc Desc Slow

 

Scale Major 2nps Asc Desc Moderate

 

Scale Major 2nps Asc Desc Fast Tk2

 

Scale Major 3nps Moderate Tk1

 

Scale Major 3nps Descending

 

Scale Major 3nps Slow

 

Scale Major 3nps Moderate Tk2

 

Scale Major 3nps Fast Tk3

 

Learning Technique

Oz discusses practice, formal instruction, eighties instructional videos, alternate picking, sweeping, and how different techniques blend together in service of the music.

 

Improvisation And Vocabulary

How Oz improvises from an internal vocabulary of scales, arpeggios, bebop, blues, and melodic ideas rather than assembling predetermined licks.

 

Jimi Blues Tk1

 

Jimi Blues Tk2

 

Bop Phrase Tk1

 

Arpeggio Patterns

Oz searches for arpeggio and add-two patterns that feel fluid, then applies successful shapes to different chord qualities and areas of the neck.

 

Arpeggio Dom7 Tk1

 

Arpeggio Dom7 Tk2

 

Arpeggio Dom7 Flow

 

Arpeggio Dom7 Flow Repeats

 

Arpeggio Dom7 Flow Slow

 

Arpeggio Min7b5

 

Arpeggio Min7

 

Arpeggio Dom7 Smooth

 

Arpeggio Min7 Variation

 

Arpeggio Dom7 Pickstrokes

 

Arpeggio Add2 Major Slow

 

Arpeggio Add2 Major Tk1

 

Arpeggio Add2 Major Tk2

 

Arpeggio Add2 Minor

 

Arpeggio Add2 Min7b5

 

From Patterns To Improvisation

How rhythm, vocabulary, ear training, and methodical exercises gradually transform mechanical patterns into natural musical ideas.

 

Mixolydian Stair Step Ascending

 

Mixolydian Stair Step Descending

 

Mixolydian Stair Step Bop

 

Autumn Leaves

Oz performs “Autumn Leaves,” deliberately incorporating intervallic and string-skipping ideas that make his picking hand visible.

 

Autumn Leaves

 

Octave Displacement

Oz demonstrates Pat Martino’s octave-displacement concept, applies it to chromatic and diatonic scales, and uses it while improvising over “Autumn Leaves.”

 

Octave Displacement Chromatic Slow

 

Scale Chromatic

 

Octave Displacement Chromatic Tk1

 

Octave Displacement Chromatic Fast

 

Octave Displacement Chromatic Hybrid

 

Octave Displacement Chromatic Ascending Descending

 

Octave Displacement Major

 

Octave Displacement Dorian

 

Octave Displacement Phrygian

 

Octave Displacement Major Ascending

 

Autumn Leaves Displacement

 

Fretboard Mapping

How Oz visualizes scales across the entire neck, connects changing harmonies to available shapes, and continues looking for gaps in his melodic vocabulary.

 

Scale Diminished Descending

 

Scale Altered Ascending

 

Scale Altered Descending

 

Scale Altered Ascending Descending

 

Outro

Oz closes the session with the “Ice Man” groove.

 

Ice Man Groove