15 Tools to really play Jazz on guitar (Solar) - How to play jazz? 

Which tool do you find the most helpful?

I have been called a tool on many occasions, but never a Jazz tool 🤔 Great video, Rotem 👍

I like these lessons where technically You don't learn any particular song (not directly) but get new ideas and approach to practicing. True gold. Brilliant to do after learning new song to the same chord progression.

Hey Rotem. I loved the last one, the 3rds and 6ths. So cool. Can’t wait to work on that. I have one of my own I’d like to share. It’s basic, but it’s my own invention, and it has kind of become my secret sauce! Try limiting yourself to one position, chord tones only, on the string set of strings 2, 3 & 4 only. What you will find is that it makes you visualize your arpeggio patterns deconstructed into little fragments that don’t allow you to play them sequentially in the usual way, and you get a TON of lucky little half-step voice leadings out this exercise, almost without trying. So you learn to see important places where chords connect. But there are even more benefits. You stay away from the sonic extremes, the boomy lower strings and the shrill or thin-sounding highest string, and so you find yourself creating sweet little lines with economic voice leading built into them, right in the warmest, most meaty and comfortable-sounding part of the fretboard. I invented this idea as a practice technique when I was trying to approach around Midnight, tired of hearing myself do sweeping arpeggios across the fretboard (and up and down the neck). At first I just wanted a way to get through the changes without sounding like I was literally outlining them. But gradually this exercise became my preferred way to really dig in to every new tune I learn. And lately I find myself using it in performance. It’s a solid platform to approach the first chorus of a solo you know is going to go on for two or three choruses because it sounds inside and a little understated, but interesting, while giving you plenty of room to open up and take off later. Give it a try. Hope you like it!

Your WELCOME you all.. :) 1.- Melody 2.- Functions 3.- 2 bar melody / 2 bars solo 4.- Triads 5.- Scale Centers 6.- Solo only with 1-3-5 7.- Half notes 1-3-5 8.- One are scales 9.- 1-3-5 with a chromatic 10.- 8th notes 11.- Pentatonics 12.- Triplets 13.- Chord Melody 14.- Colors 15.- Voice Leading

Great lesson! We can see how important it is to connect every exercise to a song!

This is one of the greatest videos I've found in a while. Thanks for sharing

I just found this channel, and it's probably the best guitar content I know. You're doing an awesome job.

Thank you for explaining of your process. I really liked the clarity and order in your thinking and playing, and just subscribed to your channel after finding this on RU-vid. As a middle-aged man I no longer fool myself in thinking that understanding is enough. It's as you say, a life long engagement with playing music in real time. Loved most your first point.

Amazing! Thanks so much

Thanks again Rotem. All of this is invaluable. I’m trying to learn a bit of jazz guitar or just just Jazz in general and this VT is a great road map. The 1-3-5 was really helpful and sounded great too.

This video is a game changer. Thanks Rotem!

This was an amazingly clear approach to the often mystifying aspects of jazz guitar. Well done.

Golden hints there !!

What lovely-sounding guitars.

great teacher ever. Thanks for this beautiful lesson, it's beeing very helpful for me. Many thanks

A lot to digest in this one of course but great insights on how to approach a song from different angles as a way to internalize it. Between you and Jens, if there's anyone out there better at breaking down and simply explaining Jazz concepts, I haven't come across them yet. Thx guys!

Amazing video, I love all the tips!

Sincere and generous. Thank you.

good information!!! Great video

Thank you both for your help you’ve given me some great ideas and tool to apply to my guitar playing thanks again

So cool, man! Thank you a lot!

excellent and helpful, thank you. your solfege is so cool, would love to learn more, it's intimidating to me but i can see/hear it's so worthwhile as you demonstrate!

Very Gooood Job!!!

Great lesson.

very helpful. thanks

Thanks a lot Rotem!!!

Very useful for exploring ideas. A great guide because i am studying this tune now. I really liked the ideas for chord melody. Thanks Rotem.

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Hey Rotem, I love your videos and have to force myself to not watch too much of them, without practicing them enough 😂 I have a request: Can you do a video on how you write your sheets for trios? I do this a lot, but struggle a little with the drum sheets.

Truly Challeged👏🏾

These videos are really amazing. I love Rotem's style - very calm but insightful and funny. I think you will become famous on RU-vid. Remember us when you are! (My jazz guitar skills are improving).

23:50 is absolutly bonkers! Thats some fantastic chord playing going on.

i like the idea of two bars of melody and two bars of solo, haven't heard that suggestion before

Hello from Kansas City, Missouri. Rotem, all of your videos have great content but this one is outstanding. Truly one of the best jazz guitar RU-vid channels, and this video in particular is essential. It's not only what you teach, its how you teach.I've been a multiinstrumentalist for years, but theirs always something new to learn. I tell my students, learn everything you can from everyone you can and never stop learning. Thank you.

Rotem's beautiful guitar strap is from Native Sons Goods. Not cheap but beautifully made.

Maneiro 👏👏 massa

Super useful advice! I wonder if you have a specific video on how to get really good at triads? Some exercises and most importantly how to progressively apply it to songs?

Great👏👏👏👏

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Quick story which may or may not be helpful. As a kid there were gifts I was given that seem to come naturally. So, I believed this was the way all Arts should be approached. As a result, I never learned all the things you are talking about. I thought that all great musicians just "had it." Hind site being 20/20, I would have studied, learned. So I am a 65 year old guitar player who doesn't have any idea what I'm playing. Pride, ugly ugly character defect. Thanks for your help and teaching. Greetings from Colorado Springs Colorado Christopher.

Hi Rotem! I first saw you at the 2019 Panama Jazz Festival, good times! My best tool at the moment is the metronome, trying to break free from 'straight 8ths' which I have internalized a bit too much

Impressive thee way you play and the knowledge beautiful, ah what kind is a pedal are using Excellent sound

Man you’re knowledge of the instrument is amazing! Where do you get your reverb? Never heard you talking about your gear but I’m pretty new here thanks to Mr. Davids.

Its obvious how important triads are in Methenys playing. Basics are hip!

Which note is highlighted in each scale for example maybe Aeolian is the flat six so if I were to do Ionian Dorian Phrygian Lydian mixolydian Aeolian and of course Locrian which notice highlighted in each one of the scale modes

Hi i saw that you have a d'angelico bedford deluxe p90. I hesitate between this one and the bob weir signature. There is tests on youtube but they didn't make me a choice. Could you say if you could find jazzy neck tone with the bob weir signature ? Thanks and congratulations.

Very good but I can’t see. The lead sheet print out on my tablet. It’s too small

Rotem is the king of guitar tone

Sounds really complicated and challenging. I would like to work on a more fundamental version of your conceptual playing.

chuck wayne

What looper do you have? I can’t make a single note ring out like that on mine and I want to

This was as convoluted as every jazz book I've bought 🤣🤣🤣

Are you not breathing when you play? It feels like your are singing and breathing in between! Like at around 20:00 minutes for example

What do you think about REAL playing? I mean I know everything you say. BUT. In real life you need to be playing ultra hyper outside and fancy phrasing if you want to be heard and people consider you as a GOOD guitar player. When I play not super fancy people say it's boring and musicians say "It's not cool, it's to simple". I see nowdays you gotta be ultra unusual or people don't want to hear your ideas...

Start writing own songs! You have to!

the amount of free information you provide is ridiciulous, I feel like I'm owing you money lol.

Great tools, man. Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷