(jazz guitar playing)
- When we're practicing to improve our skills
as jazz guitar players.
We're probably spending most of our time on arpeggios
and hitting right notes at right time
and what scales go over what chords,
but really the most defining character of jazz is rhythm.
In this video, I'm going to go over an exercise
that's going to help you develop your rhythmic vocabulary.
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The idea behind this exercise
is to limit the amount of notes that we can play
over each of the chords.
Because if we only have a few notes available
then that's actually already forcing us to be
a little more interesting with the rhythm that we're playing
and it's also going to help
because if you only have a few notes
and you make sure that they are easy to play,
then it's easier to execute
whatever rhythm you can come up with.
The progression that I'm using in this video is a blues in G
and the three notes that I'm using on the G7
are B, D, and E.
And I'm taking these notes,
I don't wanna take an arpeggio
because really I want to have three notes,
I wanna have it so that it's easy to make melodies with them
and also it's really gonna be three notes so
I'm not gonna use other octaves either.
I'm just really gonna stick with the three notes
and try to see what you can come up with that
and then move those through the changes
so that I have material that I can use
and I can easily keep the rhythm idea going
even if the chord is changing.
So I'm starting with B, D, and E
here in the 9th and 7th fret.
And then I'm just gonna sort of voice lead that motif
through the changes
and try to come up with something that's really close
and really easy to play
and really in the neighborhood of what I'm already doing.
So that means that I'm using this for the G7,
for the C7, the only thing I need to change
is really just the B to a Bb so
and then back
and then I can go to G7 altered in bar 4
by using an Eb and an F
instead of the D and E.
Then we have C7 again
C sharp diminished
then back to G
For the E7,
a B, D, and then the b9, the F
For A minor, C, D, and E
and for D7 altered, C, Eb, and F
and then back to G
and then D7 altered at the end.
If I take those notes
and then play them through the progression
just as quarter notes, then I have this.
(Jazz Guitar Solo)
Of course you wanna check out this material
so that you can easily play it over the blues
and then start using it as a small three note scale
that you can improvise with.
You can also just get used to it by having
a static G7 vamp
and then just try out with the first three notes
and see if you...
(Jazz guitar playing)
And then just see what you come up with
and in that way try to improvise a little bit
and then try and take it
into the blues form with the other notes
and all the other possibilities that I just went over.
If you think about this way of playing
if you listen to some of the early Jim Hall
and also Barney Kessel
you will find that they do things like this really a lot.
It's kind of coming out of more sort of swing era phrasing.
So that can also be a place to start looking
if you check out some Lester Young, for instance.
But for me especially,
the Barney Kessel and the early Jim Hall
is really where I'm getting these kind of ideas from.
And it's crucial really for your phrasing
that you have more rhythmical ideas
than just playing eight notes all the time.
And it's also gonna help your eight note lines
because it's gonna help you play with some more
interesting accents within the eight note lines.
If you can hear and feel these rhythms when you're playing
even if you're playing it with four or eight notes.
Once you're a little bit more familiar
with the three note patterns,
which I don't think is gonna take you too long,
then you can try and improvise over the form.
And that could sound something like this.
(Rhythmic Jazz Guitar playing)
While that might sound a little simplistic to your ears,
you can still take that way of thinking over into
your lines when you're playing with a more normal vocabulary
and that could sound something like this.
(Jazz Guitar playing)
Another useful way to take this concept
and then learn some new rhythms
is to just take one rhythm
then find a melody that you can play with those three notes
that sounds kinda okay
and try and take that through the changes
so you can really hear how it sounds through the entire form
so if we take just a simple rhythm like...
And then if I move that already if I have
this rhythm, then I can move it to C7 like...
So if I do that through the form, it sounds like this.
(Rhythmic guitar playing)
And while you're taking out the rhythm like this
and just taking it through the form,
you can also easily transition into just using it
as a source of inspiration for
whatever other ideas that you get.
And if we take another rhythm,
so if I work with...
This, I'm just gonna start working with that one
through the blues and then along the way
I'm just gonna leave it more open
and try to see what other rhythms are here,
and that sounds like this...
(Jazz guitar rhythm solo playing)
Working with this really limits the amount of notes
and also making sure that you choose them
so that they're extremely easy to play
and that you can easily move through the changes.
This giving you a lot more time to focus on the rhythm
and to come up with some more interesting rhythmical ideas.
And I think that's a really nice concept
and also a nice exercise to work with because
we really do want to have interesting rhythms in our solo.
If we're just going to be playing from the one of one bar
to the one on the next bar with only eight notes
making sure to hit the chord tones
then the solos going to get really boring to listen to.
So you do want to have some rhythmical interest in there
and really you want to have them as accents or
as sort of more chopped up rhythms like we're playing here.
That's of course up to your taste.
Of course I'm also interested to hear
if you have an exercise that you use
when you want to develop some new interesting
rhythmical ideas or if there's a way
that you try to introduce this into your playing.
So if you have a good exercise for this,
then please leave a comment.
I think it's something that we all want to check out.
I know that I do at least.
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