Jazz Guitar Improvisation Beginner Guide to Blue Bossa 

Merci beaucoup Denis pour ce gros travail bien expliqué. ❤

I'm learning so much! THANK YOU

High quality instruction from Dennis Chang.

As always, thank you so much for sharing with us. Have a good day, Denis.

This the best jazz guitar lesson i ever saw on RU-vid, concept are clear and you go straitghforward without getting too complex, its really good thanks a lot for your work.

Hi Denis, I recently discovered your channel while learning to use SoundSlice. This must be the 4th time I’m watching this lesson, and will probably watch it a few more times. I like your teaching approach. I also your language approach to music. I started to learn to play the guitar in Jan 2022 at 70, trying out Blues and some Jazz. This year I want to focus on Jazz. I have learned the melody of Blue Bossa and now want to learn how to improvise. I will stay for a while and buy some of your courses at SoundSlice. Thank you for this lesson. There is quite a lot here. 👍👍👍

"Play a c minor scale and a D flat scale ...and hope for the best.".....my entire approach to playing the guitar in a nutshell.

Denis Chang! Nice!

Once again a very thoughtful and useful video.

1st 10 min are loooong. Yet... essential and so true for beginners. Thank you Denis. Im hungry for jazz...

Thank you!

This was the first one I learned when learning to play jazz. Very nice lines 👍!

Thanks for the vid! I really enjoyed hearing that spicy bebop licks

You have got to be my favorite educator on RU-vid for jazz. Thanks for all the content, keep it coming!

😍👏 Great! Beautiful guitar Denis

Good job Denis, so many jazz musicians struggle to explain the basic approaches, which makes it really hard when you start. Key centres are a great way to get going on songs with structures friendly to that approach (and most are). Triads also great, but can lead to listener fatigue very quickly if you don't give them some personality :)

Underrated channel

Thanks Denis!

Thanks for my first jazz song!!

Great stuff again. Thanks for doing this.

What a sound ❤️

thank a lots... denis

I did the same for traditional québécois and irish music, going out to sessions and learning from the expert players!!...

Keep up the good work

Just amazing!! i loved this song-focused approach. Lets pump di algorythm!

Brilliant clear teaching - and even better, builds on the version I know.

Excellent, and beautiful Godin !

Olé, maestro Chang!

Thank you for so many great tips and direction 👏👏👏

High quality lesson ! Thank you for sharing

Thank you Denis , great lessons .

great video Denis thank you for sharing.

sur D-75b jouer un arpège de F-M7 (AbM7#5) et sur G7 jouer un arpège de Ab-M7 (BM7#5) deux arpèges séparés d'une tierce mineure

Delightful! Great vibes here. 💓💓🙏🙏🎸🎸

Very inspiring and musical thank you for the lesson.

Great lesson, Denis. Thank you

Thank you DC!

you just made me go down a Blue Bossa rabbit hole with those recordings you mentioned. And I found some other good ones too! Thanks again!

Please come back to Pender Island and play another concert. cheers

very helpful, thanks!

Thanks Denis.

youve done it again! :) Amazing stuff

ce n'est pas de la vraie impro c'est appris par coeur

This is helpful for trombonists.

"Stay awhile and listen". There's another DC who likes to say that alot too.

Great lesson. Thanks

Excellent

nice denis 🎶🎸❤

thanks you're the best

So glad I found your channel man! WIll be buying some courses for sure.

I enjoyed this.

nice playing!

This might be a topic for another video but I particulary watched this one because this is a tune I've found difficult to negotiate on a solo, phrasing-wise, without ending up with all the lines sounding rhythmically the same. Probably because it's a groove tune. I'm always curious what different players will do with simple groove tunes like this, and say St. Thomas. And as I listen to some of the version, I see that even some of the great players end up with the same problem :) Others don't and handle it in a way that I think sounds great. Joe Henderson, for instance was great, and also the Pat Martino. and also a more straight Latin one I found (at least for the groove) Joscho Stephan and Peter Autschbach, and Joe Pass was great on the phrasing against the groove.

Thanks Denis!, new to Bossa style and I think this lesson is the best beginner lesson there is. Like what you said in the beginning I just want to help by commenting and subscribing. So here's some support for ya...commented and subscribed for more awesome lessons like this. Cheers mate! :)

yeah

Great lesson - than you!

Thnx Denis

Great video Denis! Another cool thing I like to do is instead of the Ab7 alt, I use a D#9 before the DbMaj 7, and I like playing the B nat over the G alt. in the head, although I get strange looks, it sounds cooler.

👌 super thanks for 📫

Hey ! Denis thankyou for another great lesson ! love what Rocky Gresset does great ability awesome player ! one of Selmer's 607

Great advice!!

Very good video. It's nice to simplify things... Do you think a great jazz guitar player needs to be to able to transcribe pro jazz solos, like many teachers say?

Whatever you paid for that guitar, it was worth it. NICE sound.

Nice .I will Work on it but Ain’t enough dough Feeling !

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nice!

love the video! please make more like it. I checked out DC music school and its the best thing I've found for learning Gypsy Jazz the authentic way not living in a community. I learned the basics of Sinti music from my family but sadly I'm cocoro. What artist lessons stand out to you as being full of great lines to learn from? I have yorgui, Tschavolo (i love watching him), stochelo and a few of Angelo Debarre.

You are the best of the best! Thanks, however, when you improvise, do you see lick patterns, chord tones, or just a ton of note choices when you solo?

Make the one soft and long.

Thank you for a great lesson. Could you perhaps give us more ideas on which songs would be in which tiers of learning to help guide practice?

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Good video Dennis. I notice you, like me, use your pinky finger as much as the others. I have found that a lot of the Gypsy jazz players, like the rock players, like Eric Clapton for instance, don't use the pinky that much. I'm wondering why?

Blues approach = Grant Green and Kenny Burrell!!...

Which amp and pedals you are using😊

Thanks 🙏. What guitar are you playing and what would you suggest for a jazz beginner ?

So Great Denis! Can I ask, How do you get the sound from of your guitar--any pedal etc. I can get my hands on? Sounds so suite! Ken, NY

We have this idea that those great players improvised all those cool lines, but I'm pretty certain they worked some of them out on piano, or composed them using notation and then practiced them to incorporate them in their playing!!...those guys practiced 10 hours a day minimum and jazz was the "hip" thing back in the days!!...

have you ever transcribed a drum solo?

Hello Denis, do you think gypsy picking and rest stroke is a trick now because alternate picking is more efficient. REGARDS.

I think this is like a múltiplos exercícies ,I can’t hear some music, just my opinion.

This guy just babbles about how much he knows and how good he is.

I like your approach but your intro is tooooooo long

Geez ,4 min + until you actually got to the content,👎to much talk, I'm out

You do talk a lot, you go round in circles repeating which is good for lectures but not everyone is up for a lecture hahaha.

U don’t even sound jazz 🤣

Thanks!

Thanks for doing these videos!