This will change the way you improvise (jazz) Forever

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Scales vs Chord tones. In this jazz guitar lesson I teach you the right way to improvise with chord tones with just a little bit of music theory. There can be a bit of controversy here. Some say SCALES are best for how to improvise jazz. Others say focusing in on CHORD TONES the best method to improvise jazz. The truth is all the jazz masters that came before us didn't think scales very often. It was a strategic way of placing chord tones within the measure and linking them together with approach notes, enclosures and chromaticism, to add color, spice, and excitement to their jazz lines. In other words, it's learning how to use the "wrong notes" correctly.
I like to think of it as 80-85% notes of the chords and the rest scales.
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@JazzRockswithAdam 6 месяцев назад

Download the PDF Here: jazz-rocks-shop.myshopify.com/products/this-will-change-the-way-you-improvise-jazz

@soulman3711 2 месяца назад

Thank you very much for your video! The most important thing for me is that chord tones are not starting points but ending points or target notes. This is also very helpful for me as a saxophonist.

@JazzRockswithAdam 2 месяца назад

Hey there, I’m so glad you understand and got something from it. I’ve spent the last 20+ years studying jazz lines and learning how to create and play strong, good sounding lines that will stand on their own even if no one is comping changes. Chord tones is how you do it. Even if you hit 80-90 % of this approach, your lines will sound so much less “hit and miss.” So glad I could help you out!

@soulman3711 2 месяца назад

@@JazzRockswithAdam I've been asking myself for years why my jazz lines sound rather trivial, even though I use the right scales. Putting chord tones on the heavy beats is now the right way for me. But at the moment it still requires a lot of concentration. It will probably take a while before I find it easier.

@JazzRockswithAdam 2 месяца назад

@@soulman3711 it takes awhile, but like anything else, you do it without hardly thinking about it.

@Earthstein 3 месяца назад

So glad I found you. Seriously.

@JazzRockswithAdam 3 месяца назад

I’m glad you found me! Let me know if I can help you out in anyway. Feedback and suggestions are also welcomed.

@Earthstein 3 месяца назад

@@JazzRockswithAdamYour teaching is helping me finally understand that there is some work required to learn chords. I'm doing that now, because of you, and it is paying off quickly. You are a generous and humble man. -- LJ Walton.

@JazzRockswithAdam 3 месяца назад

@@Earthstein Thanks LJ!

@uberjam-sam8512 6 месяцев назад

Very helpful overview of how to use chord tones.

@JazzRockswithAdam 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching! The PDF lesson goes into greater detail and is designed to get you working on this concept and into your playing. Thanks for your comment.

@HitmanMcGruph 5 месяцев назад

This has been the most helpful guitar improv video so far (as I can remember)! Thank you

@JazzRockswithAdam 5 месяцев назад

Hey there, Josh. Thanks for the comment. More to come!

@pangeaproxima3681 3 месяца назад

Excellent lesson, articulation/phrasing is indeed the key.

@JazzRockswithAdam 3 месяца назад

Thanks for your comment. This one goes even deeper on phrasing and articulation: This is why you won't get good at jazz ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8x3gNE3GD50.html

@GuitarQuackery 6 месяцев назад

I gotta admit, I've gotten a lot of very valuable information from your videos.

@JazzRockswithAdam 6 месяцев назад

Thanks, @GuitarQuackery!

@lr1313 2 месяца назад

it should be written on the stone " It was a strategic way of placing chord tones within the measure and linking them together with approach notes, enclosures and chromaticism, to add color, spice, and excitement to their jazz lines. In other words, it's learning how to use the "wrong notes" correctly. "

@JazzRockswithAdam 2 месяца назад

Thanks for watching, Luca!

@retrogamerdave362 6 месяцев назад

Mind blown, I needed to hear this explained this way

@JazzRockswithAdam 6 месяцев назад

Awesome! I’m glad I could be of service. Hope see you around my channel again. Thanks for your comment.

@oldunclemick 5 месяцев назад

That 1 and 3 tip is great. One of those "obvious in retrospect" things I wonder why I never figured it out for myself 🤔. Definitely going to do some practicing of that.

@JazzRockswithAdam 5 месяцев назад

That’s awesome! Let me know how it goes.

@sebastianwei7721 3 месяца назад

I effing studied jazz guitar, in Europe, but still, finally 15 years later I find the missing link. Thank you.

@JazzRockswithAdam 3 месяца назад

@@sebastianwei7721 Sebastian, I didn’t learn this in university either. But I’m so glad you got something from the video. Cheers my friend! I think you will like this video too: This is why you won't get good at jazz ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8x3gNE3GD50.html

@congamike1 5 месяцев назад

That was interesting! Thanks.

@JazzRockswithAdam 5 месяцев назад

I hope it helps!

@lee95757 6 месяцев назад

Also check out "connecting chords with linear harmony" by Burt Ligon

@JazzRockswithAdam 6 месяцев назад

Sounds right up my alley! Thanks for sharing.

@vonriggs1 6 месяцев назад

Great advice! 🎶

@JazzRockswithAdam 6 месяцев назад

Hey Randal baby! How you doing’? Thanks for checking it out.

@vonriggs1 6 месяцев назад

@@JazzRockswithAdam I’m Grrrrrrrrreat, but my playing seems to have Plateaued. This is helpful though! See you in The New Year! ✌🏿

@JazzRockswithAdam 6 месяцев назад

@@vonriggs1 Cheers, brother!

@stevenrussi5973 3 месяца назад

glad to have found you--great player--a big wow on that custom guitar--gorgeous--as is your playing--yes, scales alone are nothing without creating a good melody, and in this case, the phrasing of jazz--keep it up Adam, we are listening and learning. Who made your guitar?

@JazzRockswithAdam 3 месяца назад

Thanks Steven! I designed the guitar and someone in Toronto built for me when I lived there, Brian Mascarin. The guitar is now about 21 years old already! Wow, I feel old now.

@fredfloyd34 3 месяца назад

Oh i see you are Joe Pass son...and Django...the uncle...marvelous stuff.

@JazzRockswithAdam 3 месяца назад

I try my best.

@indirajayaraman4758 6 месяцев назад

Can't wait to listen to this tomorrow. It's late here in India.

@JazzRockswithAdam 6 месяцев назад

Very cool. Let me know what you think of it.

@WilRockQ 3 месяца назад

Hi Adam. This is excellent information. To make sure I understand this, are you saying to use the cord tones as 1) your guide and 2) as the notes you land on for the downbeat, and then add notes either above or below the chord tones as passing notes - and then resolve on the downbeat with the chord tones?

@JazzRockswithAdam 3 месяца назад

Essentially you got it. But it doesn’t always have to be a downbeat. Upbeats are great.

@paulmullen2620 2 месяца назад

I've played jazz for over 20 years, and my solos still sound clumsy. I understand scales and chords, and I understand enclosures. The latter has helped, but it still feels like there's way too much thinking as I process what chord I'm on and what notes I can use. I'm not sure how to get past that to get everything sounding as natural as speech.

@JazzRockswithAdam 2 месяца назад

For me I find it’s less thinking than scales. I only have to think one or two notes to target at any given time and allows me to freely improvise anything in between. I find it freeing. That way I can listen in a way to play phrases, ideas, instead of passages that nearly all sound the same. It does take work in the beginning to get used to thinking this way. It probably won’t happen in a day. Thanks for your comment and for watching!

@paulmullen2620 2 месяца назад

@@JazzRockswithAdam I've started approaching it this way and I think it's helping.

@JazzRockswithAdam 2 месяца назад

@@paulmullen2620 That’s awesome Paul! Keep at it!! Trust me it’ll smooth itself out after awhile.

@joseimiranda 6 месяцев назад

Hello there. Congrats for the lessons. Just signed to your channel. I'm an amateur musician. And old guy! Learn for fun. But you play fast. An advice: play slower while *teaching*. As a musician, you can play at speed of light. It does not impress the amateur. The effect is reverse. It inhibits him. We, amateurs, want to learn basics, not speed. I do not have figures, but I bet most of the people that subscribes are not pro musicians. While pros look for "what this guy is doing?", amateurs look for "what can I learn from him?" Sorry for the comment, but I had to say it. Keep on and many thanks for the lessons. Have o good new 2024.

@JazzRockswithAdam 6 месяцев назад

Sorry, I thought I was playing slowly. I’ll keep that in mind for future reference. Thanks for your comment. Welcome aboard!

@micheldindaine8403 4 месяца назад

you can also activate the "parameter button" to slow down the video.

@dsrecords22 5 месяцев назад

I got me a 7 string ibby cuz JAZZ! and now I wish I gotten a hollowbody instead of a p-bass. Any tips for the 7 stringers.

@JazzRockswithAdam 5 месяцев назад

I’m not sure if I can give you any advice. Is your 7-string a low A or B? Or is it a high A like mine?

@dsrecords22 5 месяцев назад

B for standard and then sometimes Droped A and Droped G@@JazzRockswithAdam

@JazzRockswithAdam 5 месяцев назад

@@dsrecords22 Yeah, can’t really help you there. I’ve never played a 7 -string with a low string. My 7th string is a high A, above the 1st string E.

@dsrecords22 5 месяцев назад

wow@@JazzRockswithAdam

@JazzRockswithAdam 3 месяца назад

Yeah, I’m crazy like that! Ha!!

@langfordsakarai6689 3 месяца назад

So you only used 135 Major 1 flat 3 and 5. What about the Flat 7 and 7 also chord tones ?

@JazzRockswithAdam 3 месяца назад

All of those are valid. Absolutely. I, like Barry Harris, use the 6th instead of a ma7 on chords.

@JazzRockswithAdam 3 месяца назад

I definitely used 7ths in there.

@Meh-dp8el 3 месяца назад

Would be useful to know that you need to be able to read music for the lesson.

@JazzRockswithAdam 3 месяца назад

Sorry about that. I do usually have tabs along with regular notation. There wasn’t room to fit it all in the video that time. It might be a good idea to learn to read music so you don’t feel limited.

@pickinstone 6 месяцев назад

I'm trying to narrow down what part of NYC you reside... I'm an expat living in the Pacific Northwest these days. I miss the food (P-I-Z-Z-A as well as being able to eat the best from all over the world, without living the city and its boroughs)... but not the rising rent prices. For those of you wondering, but what about Barry Harris--his method was WAY MORE than scales. He loved talking about triads as well. Unfortunately, there's a lot of misinformation and superficial knowledge spread on RU-vid about Barry Harris. Many latch on to "the Barry chromatic scale" or "half steps" and stop there. Barry Harris found a cohesive way to teach melody, harmony, rhythm--you'll find it, if you look deep enough. Or... find a teacher who studied and/or played with Barry Harris. One piece of blasphemy to ponder. If the strong beats in Western music are 1 and 3, then why do we tap our feet on 2 and 4? The common response is "because you have to feel 1 and 3 in your body." That never worked for me. Dancers feel 1 and 3 with their lower body and 2 and 4 with the upper body. Barry Harris used to teach tapping your foot on 1 and 3 on one foot and 4 on the other. The most important beat is the downbeat, and I could never feel that downbeat confidently with 2 and 4. Different strokes for different folks, but I think that the "2 and 4" as godsend was more damaging to my musical development than helpful--options are key.

@JazzRockswithAdam 6 месяцев назад

Ah, the eternal struggle of finding the best pizza outside of NYC! I feel you on that one. I live in Kensington, Brooklyn. Why we tap/clap on 2 & 4 is because they are the weak beats. It propels everything forward. Kind of like syncopation with emphasis on the up beats. The weak beats. I agree with Barry. Tapping your foot at least on beat 1, helps keep you grounded. Put the 2 and 4 in the notes. The video didn't have anything to do with Barry's method. And I agree, there's more to it than scales or the chromatic approach. This is just a taste of how I look at it. A sort of starter. Thanks for sharing.

@pickinstone 6 месяцев назад

@@JazzRockswithAdam You speaking about resolving to chord tones on 1 and 3 of the measure reminded me of Barry Harris, and you used his photo in a previous video--so my connection wasn't random ;) Just starting a dialogue--not a criticism. I already subscribe to your channel. I have to channel my inner English teacher and write sentences instead of essays for my comments--that is definitely true. When you are passionate about music and literature, sometimes those modalities blend together in messy convoluted ways... Apologies if my comment came off as standoffish. My dad still works in Brooklyn.

@JazzRockswithAdam 6 месяцев назад

@@pickinstone No offense taken. All good.

@arlo2203 6 месяцев назад

good god, that is a very depressing neighborhood. it's why sesame street always creeped me out.

@JazzRockswithAdam 6 месяцев назад

If you think THAT’S creepy, don’t visit NYC! 😉

@arlo2203 6 месяцев назад

@@JazzRockswithAdam way ahead of you.

@JazzRockswithAdam 6 месяцев назад

@@arlo2203 Ha!!

@JazzRockswithAdam 6 месяцев назад

@@arlo2203 Where do you live? I grew up in a town of 500 people in rural Northern Ontario.

@arlo2203 6 месяцев назад

@JazzRockswithAdam surely you miss it. i've been to nyc several times for business and pleasure... and the sheer crush of people is overwhelmingly angst producing. i live on the beach in texas.