How to Tie Together a Big Band Rhythm Section 

This is pure gold, effortlessly and professionally taught.

"i call it *real* time" agree. as the bassist to me it feels like i'm constantly playing an ostinato at quarter note speed where beats 1 and 3 are really strong

what is that noise that i keep hearing right after the down beat? it sounds like one of the band members is mumbling along with the beat?

Every time I catch James on RU-vid, I get better on guitar.

I gotta be perfectly honest. I watch these purely to see the weird expressions and mannerisms of James Chirillo, haha. He’s the best

Alvin, I'm using these videos in my classes. I miss playing with you, man.

The attitude of the guys is just pure Gold!

Great! It´s like hearing the Basie rhythm section with the one and only Freddie Green in the center!

love it, I'm starting to play big band guitar, and this definitely helps a lot.

Excellent. I'm just learning Big Band style rhythm guitar using Charlton Johnson's book and its brilliant. Called "Swing and Big Band Guitar".

This video is beyond awesome. Thanks.

Instructional and inspirational as always, Thanks a lot, proffesors! Greetings from Argentina.

Excellent content and very nice and concise and to the point

Super valuable and super personable!

I love this video, its help me a lot

Right On fellows !!

Well explained. Thank you gentlemen.

i love how always people are so kind in a jazz videos, gret video , great lerning, keep practice evereybody

Total perfection.

So clean.

Esto es acojonante! gracias!

Great lesson

these guys are beyond genius..................

Great!!!

I've seen some big bands using electric guitar rather than acoustic. Even the great Charlie Christian used an electric guitar when he was in Benny Goodman's big band.

Nice one guys, it s also working nicely when the acoustic guitar is taking the lead. I should try to play sme trio stuff with the acoustic only

Great video. Thanks for making it and sharing it. :-)

cool stuff!!

i cant help but hear the humming the whole time

je joue en big band , vive le swing , et la rhythm section ! ..

He is visual, which is restricted to a narrow front view. Whether on cajon or vocal, I face the audience and use my hearing to connect 360 degrees with my vision on the director.

MASTERS

Hi Jim!

Nice~

What's that upbeat noise??😁

Why was someone humming?

They make it look easy man

yo the last video i watched on playing guitar for big band was taught by james chirillo

I'm learning electric guitar. One hour or more per day, everyday since January. Shamefully, I don't know chords yet. I've gotten addicted to playing along with the multitudes of jam tracks that can be found on RU-vid as the lead. Some jam tracks have a good rythm guitar going where it's great for the jam track and the newbie lead guitarists. But others have rythm guitar that the lead should probably listen to closely. When I hear a track. The first thing I connect to is the bass. Then the drums. From there I seem to know what feels right and therefore what to do. But if the rythm guitar is fairly busy, I find it very difficult to just jump in and do my thing. Instead, whatever I play must coordinate with the rythm guitar. I suppose that sounds like a a "no kidding" kind of thing to say. But I don't know. I guess it's just one of those, "you'll no it's right when you feel it" kind of things. I'm playing with this one track where I'm pretty much bouncing off the bass as if the rythm guitar isn't there. Playing it back it sounds awful BECAUSE I'm playing as if there is no conversation between me and the rythm guitar. I'm not sure where I'm going with this. I guess I was hoping for an impossible solution.

Lovely…thanks for that ;)

Nice

0:28 WoW, the suit on the guy to the left.

Traduzcanlo por favor

Hi, I'm the hard rocker guy that will try to do it the loudest I can and dirtiest I can. - talking seriously, I love how the African element of the "melodical rythim", speaking drums (and also the bass at this case). It takes everything to a upper level, in my opinion.

Wow, intelligent. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Rhythm section killin it tho

Freddie Green changes!!

What is that ride cymbal? I love the way it sounds!

This is most controlled thing I've seen all day...

not always watching mostly listening...to add to it...trapping that flow to lead it or compliment it, if that makes any sense.

4:35 James sounds like a piano!!!

where can i get a guitar like that for less than a grand?

thats solo chords on guitar are WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!! please tab for me - n4p... :))

who can tell me chords 4:45 guitar.. please!

Incredible. But ,whats up with upright sound ?.maybe its these silly phone speakers.

Close the door with a button!

1:33 the loose string on the side of his overcoat is r/mildlyinfuriating

In other words: Have some feeling for music and you're good to go.

maybe its cos im not in the room but i can barely hear the bass

Very basic question: Do they know which chord progression they gonna play before or is this just playing with what they hear?

can bass players talk? or are they inherently mute?

Then here in Uganda it's not music but entertainment

No piano?

How to learn to burn

Thats a heavy ass ride cymbal, but somehow still kind of works

Where's the piano :v

🙄🌾💛🌱

Why is there someone humming while theyre playing?

And the bass player remained silent

The humming is very irritating, it kinda fucks up the hole sound and vibe

i hear a frog or something in upbeat

Lol the bass player says nothing

I appreciate this but,if you TRY to do this, you will fail, you can only FEEL THIS, its something you can try to explain but you need to be playing to understand and have your balls tingle

COMPARE TO CONTEMPORARY JAZZ , ONE SOLOIST, NO CONNECTION WITH OTHER PLAYERS, NO SWING, NO MESSAGE AND BORING MUSIC.