How to Play Basic Rhythm Jazz Guitar: Five Key Jazz Rhythms, Improve your timing! Jazz Guitar Lesson

[@marcrothman]

Really good lesson. Excellent presentation. Another rhythm I learned, which you may like is: On the 1, the "and" of 3, the "and" of 4 (push), and the 3 of the next measure. Thanks again for the lesson.

[@bluejazzcat]

Thank you very much for your lessons. Please do a lesson on the relationship of scales and chords, to associate them on a improvisation basis. A good start point is to get a standard jazz piece and improvise over it, then explain which scales you used to improvise over each chord. Thank you a lot, cheers from Brazil.

[@willy1986tralara]

Thats one super useful lesson! Thanks for sharing these Marc

[@victordiazcaballero]

Good lesson. With this I have material for a few weeks of practice!

[@basshappens]

Outstanding explanation. Many of these I play naturally, but your explanation fills in some holes. Thank you!

[@jazzguitar]

Pick one rhythm at a time. Play that one rhythm to the whole "Fly me to the moon" form. Repeat with each individual 10 rhythms... then, if you're courageous, start mixing and matching 2-3 rhythms at a time! (-:

[@Mr604bourne123]

sounds polished and correct

[@kellymi1495]

Awesome! This really helped me a great deal. Thanks!

[@quinn4626]

Great lesson! I'll be applying this to my saxophone practice.

[@jazzguitar]

Great, Quinn! Happy to help!

[@DMsalak]

thank you very much for this splendid lesson !!

[@superagnitio]

great stuff, you're a cool guy! Also some damn good knowledge you put upon us. Cheers!

[@Toeknee994L]

This was extremely helpful. Thanks.

[@jazzguitar]

@bluejazzcat That is a good idea. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@jazzguitar]

Thank you for that!

[@sweeperz27]

Thank you, this tutorial helped me so much!

[@jazzguitar]

@DMsalak My pleasure. I'm glad you liked it! M-A

[@jazzguitar]

Thanks for you message. Yes, you are right, I didm't write the "tie" in, because I wanted this to fit on 4 bars. (-:

[@chitsevermag301]

Thanks for the lesson

[@jazzguitar]

I thank you for watching! I am glad this lesson helped you and I will be seeing you soon!

[@markparee99]

thank you so much! Very helpful...I've been playing what you identify as the Charleston figure for years - now I have a name for it!

[@jmsbk12345]

Thanks for the great lesson. I must admit though that when I try to count it out when I play I seem to lose it. I seem to be able to feel it out much better. LOL!

[@downhill240]

Great lesson!

[@avialbersbenchamo8258]

great, thank you!

[@bitrastornado]

Excellent!

[@jazzguitar]

Thanks for the feedback! Glad you like this stuff..

[@harwindho]

Very helpful sir

[@jeffersonperea5129]

super, gracias por compartir.

[@swingmanu]

Although i'm way beyond this level when it comes to playing rhythm, this is quite interesting, and fairly intelligent.I'll insist on the fact I'm fed up of playing with guitarists who just cannot comp, take the lead and have me playing rhythm all the time... Once my turn comes, the groove is so sloppy that I can't even phrase...Learn how to play rhythm, you guys

[@Guillaumejazz]

merci!

[@Simuzephyr]

Lovely tone! I'm curious as to the setup you're using?

[@jazzguitar]

@marcrothman Thanks! That is, indeed, another good one to practice.

[@jazzguitar]

@bluejazzcat I used your suggestion : it's called "Jazz Chord Progressions" a series of 5 videos ... enjoy!

[@jazzguitar]

@Guillaumejazz bienvenu!

[@maximiliano1761]

Great lesson! What's a good tempo to practice these rhythms on? I'm very new to jazz. Jazz Chords are finger breakers for me.

[@jazzguitar]

+Maximiliano Try to use about 100 bpm for starting.

[@maximiliano1761]

+jazz guitar lessons thanks a lot

[@joethrelfall6370]

+Jazz Guitar Lessons could cover rag time an what position you should play those types of pieces in?

[@joethrelfall6370]

+Jazz Guitar Lessons could cover rag time an what position you should play those types of pieces in?

[@Mrbandmonkey]

Great lesson, just saying though that it took me longer to figure out the chords that you were playing than to play these rhythms but its all good. for future reference its easier to focus on the topic of the lesson if i dont have to focus on figuring out the chordal tones (not that it matters what chords you or i am playing, but in terms of playing along with you i would need to know them) Much love and thanks for the lesson

[@Mrbandmonkey]

+Road Waves seriously.. It immensely takes away from the lesson that i cant keep up with what youre playing. i understand that its only the rhythm that matters, but i cant properly execute even an example without a shred of what to play

[@jazzguitar]

+Road Waves Good point Road. As you can see, this is an "old" lesson. :-) For some jazz blues stuff (for guitar) see this page of resources: www.jazzguitarlessons.net/jazz-guitar-blues-0.html

[@Mrbandmonkey]

+jazz guitar lessons right on, thanks again :)

[@jazzguitar]

@vernonbigsby It's a possibility. Certainly not mandatory, but if it helps you "feel" it, then by all a means use the triplet! (-:

[@rhythmjoe1]

Thank you for the 10 rhythms. How do I apply these to jazz tunes other than blues? I need to improve my rhythm on tunes like "fly me to the moon"

[@vernonbigsby]

hi, this is good! i think you should have counted a triplet feel on the 3rd rhythm?

[@jazzguitar]

Thanks for the nice compliment! What you are looking for "comping wise" is made of several variables : many little "things" you'll need to work on. I don't promise I can shoot and upload a video about it because the subject is in fact ... too broad! You know ... learn the guitar, learn harmony (in general), learn the tunes, listen a lot and... play!

[@yaucheukchung]

Can you tech us how to apply these to single line playing

[@kewlfonz]

In example 4 of the two bar patterns-Although the 'An 4' is tied, you're singing the fourth quarter as though it's tied, which is different from what is written. Other than that small mistake, this is a very good lesson and this is a topic that needs to be much more broadly addressed and studies by jazz guitarists-After all, what it the number one function of a guitar??? To provide chordal backing!!!

[@astrano]

Hi Marc great lesson, I cannot download the pdf transcription though. I get an error message. Can you help? Angelo

[@jazzguitar]

Hi Angelo! Thanks for letting us know. We're in the process of sorting these things out. Here's your link :) www.jazzguitarlessons.net/hubfs/five-key-jazz-rhythms.pdf

[@astrano]

Hi @@jazzguitar thank you . Much appreciated. This lesson is very valuable!

[@jazzguitar]

Hmmm... at that point it was Gibson ES137, Fender Blues Junior, and Holy Grail Plus reverb pedal.

[@jazzguitar]

@Axemaniac Hey thanks!

[@UploaderJ]

Do I have to make eight notes as swing??@@ Thanks For Answering>

[@williammiller3174]

Would this work on praticing scales and modes ?.

[@donottawaguitar]

cool

[@bfud77]

Gem.

[@jazzguitar]

@jmsbk12345 Haha! I understand what you mean. Thanks for watching! (-:

[@michaelvogt-gitarre9096]

Do you have good ideas for 3/4 time comping?

[@jazzguitar]

Play in 3/4 a lot :-)

[@lekinguitarrista8445]

Can you send me the chord shapes? And how many bpm did you use in this video?

[@jazzguitar]

My metronome is running at about 120 bpm. The chord shapes are almost entirely based off of "shell" shapes (including only the root, 3rd, and 7th, or the root, 7th, and 3rd of each chord). So, you get chords like 6x67xx for Bb7, and x656xx for Eb7. You can add extensions to both of these shell shapes on the 2nd string: 6x677x for Bb7(b13), and x6566x for Eb9, for example.

[@jazzguitar]

Learn chords!

[@jazzguitar]

@Toeknee994L Thanks for watching!

[@johnhimura1000]

i wanna play jazz// i dont know any shit about guitar please tell me where and what to start

[@kellenmills6622]

Jon Snow it really depends what not knowing shit means... sorry for replying 4 years later I'm sure you've figured it out by now

[@Goodluck-boy]

This guitar is what the model？

[@jazzguitar]

Gaozhen Ruan GIBSON ES-137

[@Goodluck-boy]

jazzguitarlessonsnet Thank you for your reply; really good!

[@roman14032]

sounds like your from east montreal

[@jazzguitar]

I am actually from the Outaouais region, but I did live in Montreal for a while ;-)

[@roman14032]

nice, i often travel thru there, im from montreal myself but i live in the states now

[@DDLAN]

Beside the quality of your lessons, I thank you much for it, the french flavor of your English accent makes your explanations so much more understable for a french learning guitarist. Thx again. At least you give a hope for personnal potential progress.

[@lekinguitarrista8445]

Do you give skype lessons?

[@jazzguitar]

Yes, although my teaching schedule is filled up. Check out the Jazz Guitar Coaching sessions page here: store.jazzguitarlessons.net/p/jazz-guitar-coaching

[@jazzguitar]

See the Jazz guitar lessons . net website and go to the "start here!" page.

[@TheNirvan999]

Is that finger picking you are doing ???????

[@jazzguitar]

+nirvan jasrotia Pick + fingers. :-)

[@bluehand09]

I can not figure out the chords you are using on progression #1 at all.....felling lame :(

[@cmfaot]

it's Bb 13 then Eb9, then maybe G13 followed by Cm7 and F9 and all their variants

[@jazzguitar]

"unfortunately, in the PDF you don't have any type of rhythm. You just have the chord grids and the fingers."

[@anjasyudismita]

00:55 - 01:00 unfortunately what??

[@Pepsicolandia]

you should teach one rithem at a time ,,,,,all together is confusing

[@jazzguitar]

Hi John! Thanks for your input. I think this is the great thing about KZbin and being able to pause clips as needed! :)