How to Play FAST Jazz Guitar Lines - Double-Time Improvisation - Exercises with Metronome 2&4 

Ive been playing for a lot a years and I find your lessons really helped me make a big breakthrough in my playing. Thank you!!

best teacher iv never seen , im on 2n grade from conservatory

You have some of the best lessons on RU-vid. Cheers !

I love this !! Helped me a lot. This is how I want to play. You gave me a goal of playing 16th note lines over a smooth Jazz backing track Thanks you

I just started practising sixteenth notes with the metronome. This good lesson to keep me on the right track. Without it very likely I would've run into the very appealing speeding up metronome trap.

You are awesome man! Thanks for the tip.

Good stuff, exactly what I was searching for, thanks, B

Thank you, awesome lesson

Wonderful lesson!!!!

that s really cool! I ll catch some of these 'phrases'. Tks!

thank u !! nice lesson

Great lesson

Geez Mark, you're really leaving us no option but to study with you on a deeper level. haha That's the plan, right? I just love how "real" your lessons are. You truly seem to have it all together. I'll have to take a serious look at my finances and start taking some skype interactions with you. Why can't you live down the street from me? I enjoy your scat stuff too...........great lines just seem to flow from you. You don't appear to rehearse it, you simply let it out. We all benefit from this.

Love it! Thank you.

Great guitarist

Your phrasing is SWEET!

Helpful. Thanks.

Great suggestion ❤!

Great! Thanks a lot! :)

Thanks for the excellent video!! This was a great help. I wish someone gave me this lesson 20 years ago.

holy shit you totally rig the deck this way, great lesson!

extra cool

Very helpful

I think he's just trying to make a joke. Nice playing man! Hope too play like this soon !

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Thank you

cool

good

You really have some of the best lessons on RU-vid, Mark! I just mad a note of the Diagonal scale video, which incidentally Kurt Rosenwinkel also shares in an L.A. Musicians's Institute video. This method is better than cranking the metronome (even for speed picking/ shred).

Love that root to 9th exercise. I'd say that the ultimate exercise is to make the click be the down beat of every 8 measures. You may need a drum machine for that, but only let it click on the down beat of every 8. Before that, practice the click on every 2 measures and then 4 measures. REALLY helped me understand phrasing and melodic construction. By the way, your 8th note compin sounds like HepCat or pre ska post reggae comping, Love it!

I believe Hal's approach is exactly the same thing. In the latter part of the video above, when I play at 224 and "feel" the metronome as 2&4 of the half-time tempo... then the metronone is in reality at 56 BPM and it clicks on "beat 3" of every bar. Exact same thing. (-:

yeah man...

Thanks for watching. (-:

Sorry about the incorrect spelling of your name, Marc. I didn't notice that I had done this until after I posted my comment. Still love your honesty and soulful interactions :)

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First things first. Did you intentially color coordinate your guitar with your shirt? Next, what a terrifc approach to a complex problem. Very well done Marc. (Mark S.)

How can i learn those jazz scales that are clearly not diatonic or pentatonic

5:23 .. that's how i work.... 180 2/4

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I love this lesson but I'm still having trouble understanding....

Could anyone please record some fast/uptempo jazz guitar tunes?

Nah. Been there, tried that. The manouche thing "didn't take" when I tried to hang onto it. Then I listened to Miles Davis.

Mark, Marc ... all the same! In realité my first name is Marc-André, not very common in the anglophone world. So Mark or Marc works. (-:

Anybody know of a good book I could get to start this type of playing?

In this case, the sixteenth notes have swing feel (dotted)?

When you improvise, what the solos what scale do you use?

...hello great jazzguitarplayer!...thank you very much for this great video!!!...question: do you tap your foot on the third of every bar when playing without metronome (in a Band, with playalong etc)?...thank for response...

what scales are you using over those changes?

Justin Bateman??

very elegant for being french, why don't you try manouche!

three , one, two, three, one, twoo ?

Actually, when at around 5 minutes in you say that no-one can count 2 and 4 @ 160... I was frankly bewildered that you couldn't until I remembered putting the effort in to tapping 2 and 4 with my left foot on an invisible hi-hat pedal, which was something I got (among many other cool practice tips) from a wonderful guy, superb tenor player and great MD* who briefly led the cruise ship "orchestra" I was working on. When he practiced, he'd drag the hi-hat out from behind the drums and do all his exercises blasting out a backbeat with one foot. I came back to it because I muck about with sticks sometimes and wanted some independence for those times I get to muck about with a kit. I would advise anyone interested in jazz to do this, because it changes the way you feel music. Cliched perhaps, but black folks do clap on the 2&4 as opposed to the leaden Euro 1&3: and certain phrases I found like a magic trick suddenly made total sense. And that root-9th thing: have you thought about using the various bebop scales? A bebop scale adds an extra note, usually the flat 6, so that if you start on a chord tone, all your strong notes will be chord tones. So, for example, if caps are strong beats, C d E f G a(b) A b C for C bebop major, same again but with an E flat for C bebop minor, and for C dominant, you instead need C d E f G a Bb b(natural) C to bring out the flat 7. Practice on all chord tones, not just the root. Then start linking them through chord progressions... whatever. Enjoy. Harmonised bebop scales are cool too, though it's tougher on guitar than piano, I think. * as in, musical director. Not a doctor.

Most struggle to play at very slow tempos, speed is very overrated.

Hey man your board really looks horrible BUt your playing is insane ...I really love your bebop phrasing - so bouncy

That’s not fast that’s medium.

I dont like the way u play... u seem to ignore the metronome... so i ignore u.. bye