How do you work on rhythm in your solos? Content: 0:00 Intro - Adding New Rhythms To Your Solos 0:14 Getting Inspirations from Kenny Burrell Jim Hall and Chet Baker 0:32 Example #1 0:39 Kenny Burrell - Mastering Medium Swing 1:06 How To Use Simple (but great 8th Note Rhythms) 1:24 Example #1 Slow 1:34 How To Use The Material 1:57 Example Lick #1 2:14 Example Lick #2 2:22 Ideas with more of a concept 2:40 Example #2 2:46 Chet Baker - Strong Rhythm and Simple Notes 3:02 Analyzing the line 3:58 Example Lick #3 4:26 Example Lick #4 4:52 Example #3 4:59 Jim Hall - Rhythmical Diversity and Strong Melodies 5.36 Motif and a Scale Sequence 5:59 Example #3 Slow 6:07 Getting More Out of the Pattern and understanding why it is great! 6:30 Example Lick #5 6:40 Like the video? Check out my Patreon Page!
Note grouping, arsis-thesis, i.e. starting a melody on the off-beat and finishing on a strong beat produces much more interesting musical results. The jim hall example at the end was a great demo of that! For anybody else interested in this topic, i highly recommend the book Note Grouping by James Morgan Thurmond. Cheers!
Thanks Jens, I’m just back from a Jazz summer school where we were working on this idea. I’m going to be working on Chet Baker and Jim Hall rhythms for the next couple of weeks!
I enjoy taking flows and phrases from great rappers and using those as a rhythmical base for melodies. tunes like groovy tony by schoolboy Q and golddust by Danny Brown has some absolute killer phrasing in them. I also like applying drum rudiments to the guitar which is an idea I got from Miles Okazaki. It's really nice for accents and stuff.
Hey Jens,Thank you very much for your lessons,I have about one year following your videos,and I have really improved my playing,thanks for all the "Secrets" that very few musicians dare to post,keep up the good work,you are a great player and musician overall
i think a great way to improve rhythm, even syncopation rhythm is scatting. i am solid on this. the voice is the core of your instrument. anyway great video, and also really good licks
This is so great, lessons on rhythm yeah! I wrote the rhythms down and put a name on each to remember them in the context on wich I learned them. So far for lead I have three sheets: substitution preferences, licks preferences and rhythm preferences, all with names useful for me. More and more cathegories to solo... Thanks!
This is a brilliant lesson not only about rhythmic ideas but also about composing melodies on the fly. I guess the same basic concepts apply when building up inside-outside phrases, any advice on that subject? :-) On a personal experience, my first teacher told me what I played didn't sound as melodies, until the day I started improvising with octaves and right hand thumb: that way my solos where slower and I HAD to think melodies and a lot of times I started with a fragment that I kept on reproposing, e.g. a 2-4 notes cell or a rythm pattern.
Trying to improve my playing I'm learning complete solos of other musicians. The most solos I like have a lot of rhythm changes, it's a big challenge to master this changes. At last for me.
the trick is to see the lesson in the 2 different keys and modulate back and forth between them....C Major/Amin.....C# min/E Maj The G#/Ab augmented or C augmented...both possible Loc b4 (reference) Leading TONE to A melodic min or C# melodic min... The F min..could be lydian #2 or Lydian b3...or lydian #2, b7 ( you alter this to whatever) ( A harmonic min b5 or F Hungarian Major) They over lap in many ways.... Because I could modulate from C MAJOR to C melodic min..too Hence the Eb Maj to C min or Bb7 to Eb MAJOR The Bb can also be the N6 of A min... I could easily play Bb7 C7 into F melodic min...if i wanted too. I see the D as dorian b2.....Then D dorian b2. #4....as well. which will over lap..if I modulate or simply play into the D min/F MAJOR... not so much change keys... I''ll also see the Eb as a possible (N6)..if I want to play from D min Tonic to C min Tonic. But I can also play F Major into F min7..too .lol E into F..whatever... You 'll get used to it...it's easier than you think.
