(Jazz guitar solo in 5/4)
- Hi everybody, my name is Jens Larsen.
In this video, I wanna talk about
how you get started soloing over an odd meter,
so we're gonna take a look at a 5/4 groove.
First, just how to feel the groove, how to play it,
how to find some rhythms that you can improvise
over sort of a modal F7,
and then we're gonna take that to a blues in F.
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The most common way to play in 5/4
is to split up the bar in two parts:
one that's three beats long, and one that's two beats long.
So that would be something like this:
one, two, three,
four, five,
two, two, three,
four, five,
one, two, three, (plays guitar)
four, five, (plays guitar)
one, two, three, (plays guitar)
four, five. (plays guitar)
And the main accents within that groove
is also usually gonna be these:
one, two, three, (plays guitar)
four, five, (plays guitar)
one, two, three, (plays guitar)
four, five, (plays guitar)
one, two, three, (plays guitar)
four, five. (plays guitar)
If you wanna turn that into a groove,
we can sort of split the two different bars
into two segments: one that's the beginning,
where we play the bass note;
and then the chord on the second one.
And then we get this:
one, two, three,
four, five,
one, two, three, (plays guitar)
four, five, (plays guitar)
one, two, three, (plays guitar)
four, five, (plays guitar)
one, two, three, (plays guitar)
four, five. (plays guitar)
And of course you can turn those into a real groove.
That would be something like this:
(odd meter jazz guitar groove)
When I'm playing this groove,
I of course try to feel where the one is.
It could be a good idea just to count along
or do something else where you kind of get an idea about,
okay, here's where the beat is,
so you have an exercise like:
one, two, three, (plays guitar)
four, five, (plays guitar)
one, two, three, (plays guitar)
four, five, (plays guitar)
one, two, three, (plays guitar)
four, five. (plays guitar)
Another thing that's important to be aware of
is that I feel the subdivision,
and I kind of feel the subdivision,
and then the accents of the groove going at the same time,
so even though I'm not playing all those notes,
that grid is still something that I'm trying to log into,
and that sounds like this:
one, two, three,
four, five,
(picks muted string)
So in that way, I still have something to hang onto.
You should probably be aware
that the subdivisions that I'm playing here are even,
so that means I'm not playing in swing,
because the most famous song in five is probably Take Five,
and that one is actually in swing,
but the groove that I made here
is actually using even eight-notes.
Once you start to feel comfortable playing the groove,
you can expand on it
by trying to take it through the blues in F,
so that sounds like this:
(playing Odd Meter 5/4 Blues)
Once you feel comfortable playing this groove
on a static F7 chord,
and you can take it through the blues
without too much trouble,
then you can start thinking about
how to solo on top of the groove.
So usually, when we start working on a groove
that we're not familiar with,
like in this case if you're not familiar with a 5/4 groove,
then once you start soloing,
you're gonna be playing the lines that you hear,
and that you have in your fingers,
and they are all in another meter,
and that means that you're playing a line,
and you're hearing that melody,
but you're hearing the wrong meter,
and it's gonna come out in a place where you're thinking,
this is the one,
and then, because of the melody, you hear that as the one,
because that's probably what you feel normally,
but it's not gonna be the one
if you play the exact same line in 5/4,
and that means that you're giving yourself
some wrong information,
and that's why we get lost.
So the way you wanna do this
is that you're gonna start with the groove,
and then you're gonna build line,
and build a vocabulary of rhythms from that.
The easiest way to do that
is just to start with a simple clave, or accent pattern,
that's really connected with this 5/4,
so that's just playing this:
(playing)
So that might sound really, really simple,
and it might feel, really, like an exercise,
and it's not what you're hoping to end up with,
but in the essence,
if you're playing on top of a groove that has these accents,
then once you can really play those,
and that feels really easy,
then it's also gonna be easier to choose not to play them.
So later, once you feel this really strongly,
you can open it up a lot easier,
and you're not gonna get lost.
The idea is that we're gonna start improvising
on a static F7 chord, just using the basic clave like this,
and once that starts to feel really comfortable,
and you can easily improvise some simple lines
just using that rhythm,
then since there are a lot of gaps in it,
you can start filling it up with some more eighth-notes.
(Guitar Odd Meter solo) (foot tapping)
In this example,
I'm of course going over five different rhythms
quite quickly, and you wanna try and work on this.
You wanna take the rhythms one by one,
but besides just playing,
because I also just stick pretty rigidly to the rhythms,
you also wanna start mixing them up quite fast,
because you wanna develop a vocabulary,
you wanna develop some freedom
without losing sense of where the groove is.
You always wanna know where the groove is,
where you're at in the bar, and where the one is.
You also wanna develop your ability
to come up with some new rhythms, so it's important also
just to take a few chances once in a while,
and see if you can come up with sort of a mix
of the different patterns that you're working with,
and of course you can make a lot of your own patterns,
just filling in different things,
and trying out things, and see what works,
and that way add that to your vocabulary.
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