8 Different Ways To Add Rhythmic Variety To Improve Your Improvisation

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Most of the time I hear beginner and intermediate players stop at using quarter notes and eighth notes. This greatly hurts the sound of your improvisation. Remember, jazz was and is a dance music! Rhythm is like the oxygen to jazz. Without it, your solo is going to die. Here's how to start adding rhythmic variety to your improv.

[@Fenouil2020]

Thank you so much for this video ! Feel like rythmic variety is the first thing a beginer improviser should be worried about

[@jazzpianoschool]

Thanks for your comments, Paul.

[@PIANOSTYLE100]

Brendan love your videos. I was making a video and accidentally did something new. I've been doing a lot lot of three finger motifs. This was a right handed lick. So I played a four finger arpegio.. c bb g e.. just a c7. Simple but I kid you not, my 3rd finger hit the ab , index finger followed through with f and thumb on d. I thought it was just a ab diminnished fragment.. I just finished it out with some f blues.. Then I analyzed it further and realized .. that I had done a 5 4 1 progression.. c7 bb f. Key being f. . It has a very chromatic feel to it. In fact working more with I noodled triplets on f g ab. Then played c d c f.. ending in a major pentatonic.. I like the idea of going away from a wall of notes .. less is more.. one of the greatest movie theme ever, just my opinion the the theme song for the firm, has just a few repeating motifs.. one of them is an a minor to g minor, over a unbelievably simple bass line of a an octave g with a stacato on the the d note.. there is also a repeating (fg) which is one of the most recognizable patterns in the main theme. There were a lot of open spaces in this song. I did this on guitar and it takes on a model feel..

[@jazzpianoschool]

Awesome, keep experimenting! Thank you for your support!

[@PIANOSTYLE100]

JazzPianoSchool.com - Learning Freedom (Online Jazz Piano Courses) I only have a handful of of subscribers but occasionally I mention others as just courtesy. I am going to go over it again and see if I missed anything. Best.

[@scluptistpianist461]

Thx you

[@jazzpianoschool]

Thanks for watching, @tossaporn danpare!

[@kewlfonz]

Great tutorial. This is about the ONLY video on the whole of youtube that covers this topic. This information could be used by ANY instrument - Piano, sax & guitar etc, etc,

[@jazzpianoschool]

Thanks for the comment, Simon! You're right, this information is applicable to any instrument.

[@caplo3364]

thank a lot! this is not for only piano player, I'm a bass player.

[@jazzpianoschool]

Definitely, these concepts are applicable to all instruments! Thanks for your comment, Kai!

[@Fenouil2020]

Do you think rythm variety is the first thing do work on, before modes, subs etc... ? I feel like if I play simple harmonic vocabulary with a strong rythmic sens it will sound great. Strong harmonic content but played with a weak sens of rythm would sound like shit. Do you agree ?

[@jazzpianoschool]

Hi Paul, you could certainly say that - being able to create interest with what knowledge you already have is important, in addition to continuing to learn more and more new information.

[@fullViewJay]

Awesome video! The material for podcast isn’t loading up however

[@kaivrock]

That “tch “-ing thing is just so awful