Underrated lesson. What people don't understand is that jazz improvisation in the straight ahead/bebop tradition is pitch ascribed to rhythm. Barry Harris talks about being able to improvise rhythm and thinking like a drummer. Knowing this, rhythmic continuity is practically a musical cheat code and lets you get away with so much more pitch wise!
When one speaks one doesn't always "say what he hears in his head". Sometimes one does, like when thinking of a certain word or idea. We have the words and phrases already used, for years, ready to come out. Music improv is the same.
Hey Hey Jeff, I hang around the far fringes of jazz. I'm a rock and pop musician who has watched you for years. I rarely improvise and I'm happy working on and developing arrangements for my music and the music of others. I happened to see this lesson and I think it's a great tool for freeing the hands and mind. Thanks.
This is amazing!! Honestly Jeff your titles often sound clickbaity like too good to be true but you do deliver! And this one too, actually no music theory involved, just bringing the focus back on phrasing and it works so well! For a amateur like me you are the only voice teaching me that kind of stuff, it's pure gold. Thank you! ❤
I'm aiming for combining this with motives. What I've always loved about jazz is watching someone like Joe Pass and saying in my head, "ah, I see what he's doing... I'm so smart", until he does something totally unexpected. Busted. His strong rhythms really set this up.
Great lesson Jeff ! Thanx a lot for that one. I hope i wont forget everything of that. At least i'll remember a part of and it'll help me in the future. :>)))
@@willcarter1210 The guitar does have an odd placement of notes in standard tuning, whereas the piano lays out the notes in alphabetical order over and over, but with the guitar you can change the tuning in several different ways, yet you can't do that with the piano.
Chromatism has its place. Notes that sound bad = move up or down a 1/2 step and it will be better. But I think like Tony Winston that people that overuse chromatic scale , don’t know what they are doing. Rhythm is most important. I agree with that. But you have to spend years to learn to improvise l( for most people) start with playing chord tones, then tying them together with scale tones, then learn bebop. Learn know the modes. Hopefully you are young ? Not 79 like me. I’ve been working on this off and on for 54 years. Good luck.
This may make since to some people but first part way over my head. Ready to disconnect. Too long an intro, no wonder sales pitch. Good thing I hung on. I do have a problem. I have no idea how to count a lot of that music, beat. Accent notes? How to know what note to accent? 5 and 10 are probably hardest to count. Hum, I’ll have to try.
Definitely worth slowing right down and taking counting literally and learning how to count and play using a metronome, once you get metronome and scale practice mastered, the technical stuff comes a lot lot easier :)
Underrated lesson. What people don't understand is that jazz improvisation in the straight ahead/bebop tradition is pitch ascribed to rhythm. Barry Harris talks about being able to improvise rhythm and thinking like a drummer. Knowing this, rhythmic continuity is practically a musical cheat code and lets you get away with so much more pitch wise!
When one speaks one doesn't always "say what he hears in his head". Sometimes one does, like when thinking of a certain word or idea. We have the words and phrases already used, for years, ready to come out. Music improv is the same.
Hey Hey Jeff, I hang around the far fringes of jazz. I'm a rock and pop musician who has watched you for years. I rarely improvise and I'm happy working on and developing arrangements for my music and the music of others. I happened to see this lesson and I think it's a great tool for freeing the hands and mind. Thanks.
This is what I’ve been looking for: advice on rhythm. Thanks. Will incorporate this in my practice .
This is amazing!! Honestly Jeff your titles often sound clickbaity like too good to be true but you do deliver! And this one too, actually no music theory involved, just bringing the focus back on phrasing and it works so well! For a amateur like me you are the only voice teaching me that kind of stuff, it's pure gold. Thank you! ❤
I'm aiming for combining this with motives. What I've always loved about jazz is watching someone like Joe Pass and saying in my head, "ah, I see what he's doing... I'm so smart", until he does something totally unexpected. Busted. His strong rhythms really set this up.
Great content here👍 you can learn a scale in 2 minutes. phrasing, rhythm, accent , dynamics ,a lifetime.
Thanks
Great lesson Jeff ! Thanx a lot for that one. I hope i wont forget everything of that. At least i'll remember a part of and it'll help me in the future. :>)))
Great , Jeff. You have matured so much. Nice K
Cool exercise!
TLDR;
Learn rhythms as a bad line with great time feel sounds way better than a great line with terrible time 😂
(3:51 "There are going to be some notes that don't work. " ) > "There are no wrong notes on the piano." >Thelonious Monk
Man, I wish they had built the guitar the same way…
@@willcarter1210 The guitar does have an odd placement of notes in standard tuning, whereas the piano lays out the notes in alphabetical order over and over, but with the guitar you can change the tuning in several different ways, yet you can't do that with the piano.
"We don't make mistakes...only happy accidents" - Bob Ross
@@ChrisCadenhead Happy trees !
@@leefrank5332 precisely! Haha
Chromatism has its place. Notes that sound bad = move up or down a 1/2 step and it will be better. But I think like Tony Winston that people that overuse chromatic scale , don’t know what they are doing.
Rhythm is most important. I agree with that. But you have to spend years to learn to improvise l( for most people) start with playing chord tones, then tying them together with scale tones, then learn bebop. Learn know the modes. Hopefully you are young ? Not 79 like me. I’ve been working on this off and on for 54 years. Good luck.
Me too!
Why does everyone keep devaluing pitches? We still play them, means they're important
I don’t think it’s devaluing pitches so much giving rhythm it’s due.
@@maestrophilkell I mean have you ever heard someone say "Every note you play is extremely important, pay your best attention to it"
@@МаксимХайрун yes. I have also heard, “it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.”
This may make since to some people but first part way over my head. Ready to disconnect. Too long an intro, no wonder sales pitch. Good thing I hung on. I do have a problem. I have no idea how to count a lot of that music, beat. Accent notes? How to know what note to accent? 5 and 10 are probably hardest to count. Hum, I’ll have to try.
Commenting for respectful balance, intro spoke perfectly to something I think about, especially having done Jeff’s course on the soloing system
Definitely worth slowing right down and taking counting literally and learning how to count and play using a metronome, once you get metronome and scale practice mastered, the technical stuff comes a lot lot easier :)
Unrelated but you had kinda like a drill sergeant look in this video 😎
MY GRANNY RUNS SCALES FOCUSING ON THE PHRASES AND RHYTHM FASTER THAN YOU
Your lesson is too traditional. I think you are a musician without imagination.
Then your thinking is wrong
WITH zero music theory better better go to school ! my friend