What's the Difference Between Jazz and Blues?
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- Опубліковано 19 кві 2021
- What's the Difference Between Jazz and Blues? Let's get into some dinner conversation and see if we agree. I'll give you an example. See if you could hear it. By the end of this, I'd love you to add comments and give your feedback.
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Paul Tobey
00:55 Why do jazz musicians play blues, but blues musicians rarely play jazz?
00:19 Blues is a 12 bar progression of chords
01:43 Example of a blues pdf
02:38 Same song in jazz & blues ...See if you can hear the difference!
04:02 Shuffle vs. walking bass line ...see if you can hear it!
05:23 What is the most prominent instrument in blues?
06:07 Let's talk about key signatures
08:23 Sharp keys for blues, flat keys for jazz
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I love the blues! My wife and I hunt down the blues clubs when we travel. Nothing better than soaking in a great tune from a live band. Do you know of any good jazz or blues clubs? Comment below!
Hi! Thanks for the video🙃 I have a music test in school and couldn't differentiate jazz and blues and rnb
@@arvidlambourne Hey Arvid, glad I could help.
You like delta blues?😅
If you’re ever in London, Ronnie Scotts is a great venue
@@matthewbloomfield9372 Yes. I've been! Would love to perform there some time. 😊
I feel like blues is just, blues. Straight straightforward genre. Jazz on the other hand I think of more as a collage of incorporations of different music going on at once. Just think of all the instruments used in jazz. It has so much room for variety and progression, thus can easily incorporate blues while still being jazz altogether.
Music is like fine wine. Everyone will taste different elements in the wine and experience it differently. There is no right or wrong in the way you experience jazz or blues. I do love the thought you put into your comment Bloodshot Red!
The two most underrated genres. We have to give a big salute to the people that still appreciate it like him. In a world filled with toxic tpoics even in music, a little jazz is the way to go.
I'm with you! It's been a few rough days on the international powers front. A complex chessboard and sadly...so many casualties. People just want to live peacefully, love and protect their kids, & nurture them so they can live their passion/purpose. It's such a simple ask, yet such a hot mess to deliver! Music is a nice escape - a privilege we should not take for granted - ever 🙂
The two are the roots for most of genre today. Even rock, metal, hiphop/rap and pop put jazz/blues element in thier music.
comparison 2:39 and 3:16
Thanks for saving our time (the video is unnecessarily long)
Thanks a lot for this wonderful video, very educational and easy to understand even for people like me who doesn't know much about musical theories!
You are most welcome, glad to be of service!
V interesting , thank you.🎉
Recently I've been wondering how blues developed into jazz (and other forms of popular music). THX for this short introduction!
Of course! Happy New Year Tero 🎶
Great stuff in this video. I think it's fair to mention that to really understand the differences in any genre of music you have to immerse yourself in their culture!
I think you should make this video! You have a deep understanding of this. I can't wait to what you channel will look like! Go for it!
The main thing I find the difference between jazz and blues is the elements of the sounds; blues has more of a striking pose to it than jazz would, and jazz has more of a smooth flow instead of the striking pose blues give. That’s what I personally notice between most.
It's a solid way to describe how you hear and feel it. I like your reference.
It all sounded like Blues to me lol
Haha. That's fair 😁
In my teens I wanted to learn drums but I picked the bass guitar, the electric one, in my teens I was a grudge and alternative rocker,
My father is a musician himself, but he is more of a native country genre musician (Greek music)
But when it comes to foreign music,
He always loves Jazz and Blues music.
So I started listening to it and it's awesome.
Those are good memories. The best kind 🙂
Best lesson on differentiating jazz and blues I've seen.Thanks.
I appreciate your feedback YaoGuang 🙂
Watching this to dive more into jazz and blues. I wasn't really into jazz or blues but it has definitely enriched my life. My bandmate teaches us jazz and blues while performing in a club and there isn't always enough time to explain about theory, so this video is very interesting, thank you!
Right on! Stretching into different styles is good musicianship. Sounds like you have a solid bandmate 🙂
You've got some amazing examples of blues and jazz, love them!!
Thanks Hannah! Glad you enjoyed 🙂
Oooweee, I was trying to figure out if blues was the sound I was looking for and came to your video... Listening through the example, I was like the blues hmmm, I recognize the this style and then with the jazz I was like oooooweeeee, really activates the almonds 😂 jazz is the one! Sounded delicious. Thanks for the comparison.
Thank you for the information big respect from Tunisia 🌹🇹🇳
Thank you 🙂
Thank you for this video!
excellent illustration
Amazing...put some lessons in Jazz for novice like me. Myself an architect with enthusiasm on music. Took some classes of Rockschool for guitar some 12 years back for 2 years. Switchimg into Piano...loving jazz these days with much more elements on improvisation. Cheers...stay blessed.
Love your passion 🧡!
Hoy desperté con esa pregunta, gracias señor muy buen vídeo
Con gusto
Very helpful! Thank you!❤️
Hey Favour Okonkwo, glad you enjoyed!
Thanks a lot 😁
My pleasure Joel. Circle back anytime. - Paul
Blues is the gateway to jazz simply put!
Wow so smooth.
Glad you enjoyed 😊
Thanks :D
An Amazing video thank you sir
From Algeria 🇩🇿
That's great! Thank you Dhoha from Algeria :-)
blues is a frog ang jazz is a mouse
lol
Can u explain?
@@arthur04ification blues has more of a "round" sound/feel to it.
Jazz has more of a "pointey" vibe.
This is beautiful croak croak
I would’ve thought the opposite because jazz has more of a lazy energy to me, like floating on a lily pad in the lake…maybe i’ve got it wrong
great video! 🇧🇷
Thanks! 😃
Nice one, thanks!
I appreciate you taking the time to watch a couple of videos on this channel...and taking the time to comment!
Wonderful! Thank you so much & greets from Moscow, Russia 🖖🌼🦋
Very cool Dmitri. Thanks for tuning in form Moscow!
perfect video
Thanks Diego.
I love jazz! I picked up piano 2 years ago with the goal to be able to improvise in jazz. It’s quite hard but I see myself as a fast learner. I learned quite a lot of music theories by watching UA-cam. Now I can do some improvisations in C major G major and A minor. As well as comping pop songs in these keys… If you were to give a piece of advice to me, what would you say the next steps are, given my current ability and skills?
Hi! I don't want to assume anything so let me ask a couple of questions. Is piano your second instrument? Do you read music? Are you classically trained? It's really hard to give advice without knowing more about your specific situation. However, huge congrats on your deep committment to learn.
This is making a lot of sense
Cool 🙂
Agree on most things, but I DON'T understand how you can say blues is more straight 8, while jazz is more swingy. Slow blues is 6/8 which is triplet-based (Mannish Boy, The Sky is Cryin). Fast blues is shuffle (Before You Accuse Me, Sweet Home Chicago). Listen to the great blues recordings, there are only a few straight 8s.
As a new content creator, I was making decisions as to how to edit down a 40 minute video into 10 or 12 minutes. And one has to pick and choose the material that goes into a video. At that time I was not sure who my audience was going to be. And I eventually chose that I wanted intermediate to advanced pianists and not be limited to music fans. So if I had to redo this video for intermediate and advanced players it would certainly be done differently. But at the time I did it for the general public. I took into consideration that perhaps the general public didn't know as much about music theory. I tried to keep it as simple as possible. There is nothing more complicated to it. Really just editing down content that may be consumed by the general public. So that's why all the comments matter. Hopefully people read them and learn more. Because my viewers certainly bring business and musical intelligence to the conversation. Hope that helps you understand.
Nice informative video. Thanks. What is your advice for a beginner musician please?
Come from a place of service. Not from a place of ego. If you come from a place of ego, then fear, doubt and competition will keep you away from the joy of performing. When you come from a place of service, you play from the heart and will experience more joy in your life. And in the moments you do experience grief, pain or loss, music will be there to comfort you and others around you.
A big request & suggestion: make the same such easy & understandable video about "Jazz-scale VS Blues-scale" (or "Jazz-blue-notes VS Blues-blue-notes"). This video will be very desirable & popular as there are a lot of confusions about it. And also there are just a few videos on this 🐼❤
That video could be as a PART 2 for this particular video 🙂🤠
Yes, I could do that. I will put it on the production schedule for next week.
@@Jazzmentl Oh, that would be fantastic! 🥳
@@dmitriveremeenko9028 I appreciate the suggestion. I'll drop a note here when it goes live.
Your channel is so underrated😅
Glad you think so! It's only 1 year old now. We are working hard getting it up there in UA-cam rankings.
Great i Can get the difference in the sounds and rythms... For me Blues is more like exciting and dancing but Jazz is more like it carries your soul its soothing ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Music is like wine. How the brains interprets the senses is very personal. A fruity wine may taste very "bitter" to one and the other may detect citrus in the flavour. Based on our experiences and memorries, our brain interprets smells, sounds and images in different ways. Think of music tthe same way. What may sound soothing to one may sound "confusing" to another. There is no right or wrong. Our love of music is a personal thing, and that is the power of music. It moves people in different ways. 🧡🧡🧡
Legenda my brother, you Word
Thank you Victor.
What about bossa nova vs jazz ?
Nice intro
Thanks 🙏
What's the difference between wine and beer?
Coming from a rock & metal perspective, blues was a lot easier to get into (metal has it's roots in rock, which has it's roots in blues, so it makes sense). Blues has that same melancholic feel that metal has, jazz is more upbeat and "happy-sounding", at least the songs I've heard. I don't think I mind the more complex or technical melodies, since metal music has those, too, but then again, I don't know... I doubt a jazz music fan could just pick up Slayer or Children of Bodom and just get it the first time they hear it. It takes time to ease into a new genre, starting off with more approachable bands first...
There should be a way to describe the difference without an instrument. For instance, blues has few chords. Or the structural format. I can only listen to blues for 20 mins because it all starts to sound the same. Whereas in jazz one sound can take 20 mins. Can anyone expand on that. Thank you respectfully.
As a blues musician who’s played clubs in and out of LA and the SD area, I wanna say the snobbery from the jazz community is ridiculous. I adore jazz, my favorites are bill evans, Brubeck, Coltrane and so on. I find the musicianship in jazz to be AMAZING something me and my guitar couldn’t replicate as well without proper training. I see blues as the predecessor to jazz, but that doesn’t mean it’s worse (which is not what you’re saying I’m just pointing that out). Bb king, Steven ray, Elmore James, Ray Charles (though he loved jazz too), Albert king, Etc.. amazing musicians who have touch no one could replicate! Same goes for the jazz side in terms of musical brilliance as well. Just two sides of the same coin
You are not wrong in that sentiment, there is snubbery in jazz. I experienced it myself this past weekend when I visited Palm Springs! But that's another story. Blues is GREAT music, and my wife and I are fans. If we can find a blues club when we visit a new town, we're there. Your words ring much truth to me.
@@Jazzmentl that’s awesome! And yeah dude I adore jazz it’s my first love ever since I was a kid and heard big band swing from my grandfather. It’s so beautiful how eclectic the genre is and how many great musicians have graced it from that like cubic early 60s era to the swing to the crooners it’s all just amazing! Adore it for sure just yeah there does tend to be that arrogant side of it, but hey it’s a trade off for all the greatness that comes from it! Amazing video btw
"Jazz musicians play blues" hehe not that this is about guitar specifically, but I think all guitarists of any genre play blues or have played it at some point as it's the go-to for all teachers for basics and jamming, it just works because of the pentatonic scales etc.
Does f7 for example mean that he is playing harmonic scales?
You could, depending on the context. However, blues scales and dominant bebop scales would be better
blues always feels like if rock music was jazz to me. also they tend to like flickering their keys (like between 2 keys) giving it that gliding pitch flickering sound (for pianos), whereas guitars can naturally glide between pitches. Blues also seem to like accidentals too much, giving it kind of a "lazy-to-stay-on-key" vibe. Just a casual listener of both though
Brother I get where you are comming from but my ears only hears blues. It’s just that the jazz version is a beefier blues
This is my opinion on the matter.
Jazz has so many genres, there is no one defining genre of jazz. Contrary to what so many people say, Jazz ≠ swing. Jazz is an umbrella term used to define Big Band, Swing, BigBandSwing, Bepop, Dixieland, Electro Swing, Bop, Pop, and even forms of rap to name a few. Jazz is also not exclusive to New Orleans, examples include: Kansas City Jazz, Mambo, Bossa Nova, European Free Jazz, etc. Effectively, there’s no reason to say that just because Blues is from Chicago and it depends on different instruments/keys, it’s a different genre. I’ve always looked at Blues as one of the many genres of jazz.
TL;DR, Swing came from NYC, Dixieland came from New Orleans, Blues came from Chicago, and all of these are different kinds of jazz.
All opinions are welcome 🤗. There is plenty to say on the subject. What a boring world we would live in if we all programmed to think, believe and share the same things. And you bring new perspective on the subject. As a content creator, I only have a few minutes to share and hit the high notes of what may be of value to the listener on a subject that would require hours. That's why these comments are often valuable. Contributers like yourself continue to add food for thought. I appreciate you taking the time 🙂
I’d say Jazz is mostly free form, while blues adheres to a set form like 12 bar, or 8 bar blues. Plus Blues is more tonal than Jazz
I have a question what does f7 means?
Add a b7 to an F triad = an F7 chord. Make sense?
One thing: complexity does not equal "more learned".
True.
Well, don't you explore this think : Blues is essentially expression where Jazz is more a compétition ? (Jam session VS Gig session)
The blues expresses fatigue, pain, the march of time is reversed, getting up is difficult, the note falls on time, while jazz is westernized, optimistic..
In addition : Nothink explained by guitar, explore 60' blues, Fat Domino by exemple...
Putting it simply, in my humble opinion, the blues is just a more laid back version of jazz with an electric guitar.
A blues musician plays 3 chords to 3000 people, when I jazz musician plays 3000 chords to 3 only people 😂
😁😎😅 That is so true 🤔... unfortunately.
there is blues pre electric .
Well the Jazz play basketball in Salt Lake city and the Blues play hockey in Saint Louis. Those are the biggest difference.
😁Yep, this works too!
Please increase your volume speech.. I can't hear anything.
In my mind I always thought that the blues is all about the heart, you play what you feel. While Jazz is more about what is correct, it's analytical.
Not saying both cant be the other way around, but you don't see Jazz musicians wailing their hearts as they sing, they lul you and tell you why they miss their lover so much
Why do most jazz singers hate or just don't appreciate singers?
Do you mean why do most jazz players hate or just don't appreciate singers? If that is the question then for sure I have an answer.
@@Jazzmentl yeah, sorry. I wrote singers when i wanted to put muscicians hahaha
@@Ignasimp I thought so, so here's what I think based on my experience. The reason why most musicians hate singers is because most singers, not all, have little to no knowledge of the intricacies of jazz harmony, rhythm, soloing, and they generally do not understand musician etiquette. Couple this with the fact that singers are generally fronting the band. So not only are they calling all the shots, and the tunes, to the audience it seems like they're the star and many musicians resent this fact. Now of course I'm speaking in generalities. I've worked with a few singers over the years who seem to know their stuff but the vast majority show up unprepared and unwilling to learn and understand what most seasoned musicians go through when honing their craft over many years. Singers tend to rely on Raw talent, talent is only a small fraction of the equation when you're talking about real musicians. When many people say that I'm very talented, they often think that it's natural ability, when in actual fact it's many many years of study, practice and generally hard work. The fact that most singers are not willing to go through this process creates a divide between those that are serious about their craft and those that are just dabbling. The exceptions to this rule are rare musician singers such as Diana Krall and Nina Simone. I personally have spent many hours over the years creating charts for singers, coaching them on pitch and style etc. I do not mind doing this if the singer is open to it. And when that happens it makes it a much more enjoyable experience. Does that answer your question?
@@Jazzmentl yes, thank you. As a singer I find many barriers. I'm always discouraged to study jazz as a singer. And many jazz singers I've heard not only are terrible in the musical sense they have zero voice development.
Every time I tried to find someone that teaches me how to learn about jazz harmony they always try to make me read classical songs. It's like singing is always directed to classical. I love some classical music. But I am mostly a contemporary singer (though I'm developing an old school type of singing.)
They always tell me with natural talent I wouldn't go anywere and that jazz harmonies are too difficult for me. Which I find riddiculous. I already I'm able to imrpovise in gospel, blues and arabic styles, learning on my own, whithout having that much theoretical training.
It took me 10 years to find an actually great singing teacher. Now I'm trying to find a great theory teacher.
I guess I'll have to study an istrument so I can actually learn the theory, and then apply it to the voice.
Jazz is hard to learn, blues is very easy.
The blues is not the twelve-bar frame. There can be blues in frames of 4, 6, 7, 8, or many bars as they are. It can even have time signature changes or simply dont have time signature or frame. I think what you are talking about is the most frequent way of playing electric blues of second half of XX century, which even that itself is not conditioned to all those conventions.
Yep, however it's one way of explaining that which can't really be explained in a 10 min video.
Jazz musicians play blues, but blues musicians rarely play jazz. It's not quite true in sense that, from my experience, when jazz guitarists try to play blues, they tend to play jazzy blues instead of... well blues. These are very different things for those ones who know what blues is.
Right on! There is no right or wrong here. This a reminder that folks play with different caliber musicians and we all live different experiences. And fans will experience the music in different ways. It's all good! 🙂
Blues is not a turnaround, just play through a blues scale on quartal chords, you get Jazz
try playing this on a guitar with bends. You'll notice there is way more difference and nuance than jazz. jazz guitar doesnt have bending notes. vocals might. but not guitar. and that my friends, is why rock has allowed for new musicality for the last 70's years!
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Thanks for dropping by Wesley. 🙂
Most of the blues piano players I work with play jazz too, just sayin
Is it fair to say blues musicians become jazz musicians, but not vice versa. It's a progression of ability....
My late father lived breathed 1930s big band jazz.... I never understood his life's following
Sounds like your dad was a cool guy. I have known great players that could play jazz, but made successful careers in the blues genre. And many blues musicians who are incredibly talented who love jazz, and will jam with jazzers, but are not interested in the jazz scene. It's a personal choice. A very good friend -bass player- does both very well and lives in both worlds and is deeply satisfied by both types of gigs and audiences. However his blues audiences are way more fun.
I see literally none of the notes you played on the sheet music... so what was the point of showing it..?
You are correct. They are just chord symbols. I'm improvising over chord symbols. It's the chord changes that matter when explaining the difference between jazz and blues. If you want a "blues" tutorial, maybe this one will work for you? ua-cam.com/video/wFWAbyPd85w/v-deo.html
Blues is 2 pegs down and Jazz is more than 4 pegs down.
personally, i cant take blues for more than a few minutes, as it sounds really cheezy and limited. very static, no dynamic harmonics. jazz is just so much better than blues, blues is just barebones jazz, a pixelated image of jazz. personal opinion
I like more blues, jazz is too edgy for me as music.
I get that. Have you listened to some Ray Charles? If you like blues, you would likely find some jazz you'd enjoy.
@@Jazzmentl thank you, I will
@@ukaszbakaj9706 listen to this... it's fantastic and one of my favorites ua-cam.com/video/B3FLW0YJ4RY/v-deo.html
you need to talk a lot louder
I like this video, but you talk to much, with all respect. Could you be more effective?
Okay. 450 videos produced, hundreds of thousands of views, thousands of comments and you are the first to suggest I talk too much. 🤷♂️ Can't please everyone 😁
@@Jazzmentl Master, the next videos are very good, congratulation! In this first video you talk about jazz vs blues, like in a pub. But a saw other videos and there you are very effective: I can make notice, I understand everything, etc. Thanks, I learned a lot from you. Hugs from Hungary, Barna.
blues seems like country music, compared to jazz
Interesting observation.
please stop with the keys. play in all keys
I still cant understand Western music.
Blues is cool. Jazz is not cool.
Blues >>> jazz