(jazz guitar music)
- Hi, everybody, my name is Jens Larsen.
One of the questions that I get most of
in YouTube comments is, "Can you make a video
"on stand-up comping rhythms?"
in this video, I'm going to go over an exercise
that's going to help you get some new ideas
and develop some rhythms yourself
so that you can start working on your comping.
The reason why I'm not making, really,
a video on just different rhythms
is because when you're comping,
you're actually supposed to be listening
to the one that you're comping behind,
and you also have to be aware of
what they're doing and react to that.
If you're just practicing rhythms,
then you're not really improvising,
and you don't really have that aspect in there,
and that means that you're not really
doing a good job as a comper.
The exercise is gonna be about improvising from the get-go,
and I think that's really important when it comes to comping
because you could have the fanciest rhythm
and the hippest stuff happening,
but you might still not be comping very well
if you're not able to use it in the right way.
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When you're working on your comping rhythms,
then probably you'll want to keep your voicings
as simple as possible because you're focusing the rhythms,
not the voicings.
What I'm gonna do here is I'm going to use a blues in F
as an example progression and I'm gonna go over
some two-note chords for the entire progression.
You probably already know these chords,
but then just play along with me.
(jazz guitar music)
So now we have a set of voicings for the blues in F,
and actually, we also already covered
the first rhythm that I want to use
because that's just playing on the beat.
I'm using two variations in this,
so I'm playing just on the one.
(plays guitar)
And then on the one and the three,
so one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four.
Just keeping it really simple,
that's a good place to start.
Then we can take the next rhythm,
and the next rhythm is going to be using two eighth notes,
so that's this rhythm.
(plays guitar)
It's just the eighth note rhythm,
and I just have the two variations,
so I'm playing it on the one,
and I'm also playing it on the one and the three
on the second bar, as you can hear.
If I start mixing that together with
the first rhythm where I'm just playing on the beat,
then we could get a chorus like this.
(jazz guitar music)
This is already getting us somewhere
and starting to sound like a lot of decent comping rhythms,
but it's a little bit heavy because
all the rhythms are starting on the beat.
The next rhythm I want to introduce is going to be off-beat,
and that's just gonna be using the two-and.
We'll play first the two-and, and then combine it with
the other two rhythms, then we get this.
One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four,
one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four.
As you can hear, having a note that's not on the beat
really adds a lot of energy and makes it a lot lighter.
If we start combining the three rhythms
together in a chorus, then we get this.
(jazz guitar music)
For me, working on comping is probably something
that I've mostly done jamming with other people
or really just also performing,
but at the same time, it is an important thing.
It is something that we do really a lot,
and is also something that a lot of people are asking about,
so if you have a great exercise
or a great way of working on comping,
then leave a comment on this video
because I know I'm interested,
and I know a lot of other people are interested as well,
so those comments will be very welcome.
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That's about it for this week.
Thank you for watching, and until next week.
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