Rhythms That Make Your Jazz Solo Sound Amazing

[@JensLarsen]

What rhythms do you work with to make your lines more interesting? Pentatonic Tricks - Melodies that are great for triplet rhythms: kzbin.info/www/bejne/in6vlWV5gNiVgZI

[@Jamsville]

Yeah! Rhythm! Rhythms I’ve been working on to make my solos sound more interesting are: Using more syncopation in general, especially at up tempos. It’s much harder at up tempos to start phrases on upbeats, but it really helps to have less predictable phrasing. Playing triplets in groupings of 2,4 and 5. I really like that :) Practicing starting and ending all of my phrases on different parts of the measure. Starting on the + of 1, then beat 3, then the + of 4, etc. this really helps to sound less predictable.

[@JensLarsen]

Haha! Thanks Adam. I think these all sound like solid things to work on. I found playing towards a specific part of the bar really useful as a rhythmical target note :)

[@Jamsville]

@@JensLarsen That’s a good comparison! Instead of a target note, it’s a target rhythm. I noticed that so many new jazz players always start everything on beat 1, especially on uptempos. I can always tell when they’re going to start playing, so for these people just implementing that one thing would help them sound much, much better. The same thing applies as well to the ends of phrases. I was checking out a Kurt Rosenwinkel transcription a few months ago and I noticed that almost every phrase started on a different part of the measure and also ended on different beats and were different lengths. Really cool stuff.

[@yusefandersen]

WHAT A GREAT TEACHER YOU ARE! You are so deep without being dark. Many thanks!

[@quanghungpham269]

Have you ever considered making a video about Swing Feel Exercise? I would love to practice swing feel

[@JensLarsen]

I have in fact, considered it and I decided to make one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3WtkHSHiqt4rc0

[@RC32Smiths01]

Such an awesome lesson! Nothing wrong with learning more about the ins and outs of these phrasing!

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks RC! Phrasing is always something we can add to and improve :)

[@RC32Smiths01]

@@JensLarsen Indeed!

[@eternalrainbow-cj3iu]

Hi Jens nice lesson your rythm trick is almosr a 5tuplet over two beats...idea for next lesson?

[@MastanehNazarian]

Thanks Jens for the commitment.

[@andyguitar]

Your tone is wonderful!

[@steezykevo]

This has been very helpful

[@lbparker08]

This lesson is amazing. Thanks Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it 🙂

[@Mediocre_Jazz]

This is my favorite video you've made so far. I like the exercises in-between examples. Amazing content.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you 🙂

[@BedeLaplume]

Really well explained and to the point.. The are good licks to step in what seems to be a very technical world..

[@virginiamaes4th]

Awesome Lesson‼️ THANK YOU SOOO MUCH‼️

[@MrDotneck]

This is excellent - Thank you!

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome!

[@PerryD504]

Thanks, Jens you must've been reading my mind. Yesterday, I heard George Benson play a song and I heard all the "triplets" at the end of his phrases but couldn't figure it out. Then, your video popped up on my time-line.

[@frankvaleron]

Great lesson Jens even by your own high standards

[@eternalrainbow-cj3iu]

your hemiole was terrific played I am gonna incorporate that one one or should I say steal??

[@wildravez9963]

Hey Mr. Larsen, great video, as always!! What would you say is the best way to learn a jazz standard (or any jazz tune) on guitar? My practice routine is comping first, learning the melody, arpeggio exercise, arpeggios with scales, chromatic notes, soloing, and then memorizing the melody and chord progression. Do you have any suggestions for a better routine? Again, great video. Your videos are INCREDIBLY helpful! You're the only teacher I've found on KZbin that is actually effective, and if I am being completely honest, your videos have taught me more than my actual teacher!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! I do have a video on learning standards, I forgot what it is called. But it is pretty close to what you already say 🙂

[@solomann940]

Great lesson as always 😉😉😉

[@tonepoet]

Great way to add some simple chromaticism to your playing and create nice bebop scale runs.

[@Arthur_My_Dear]

Very, very cool 😎

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you 🙂

[@Bumeband]

Amazing...👍👍 from indonesia

[@rivaldoluizcamargo7820]

Muito bom (great) ! Obrigado (thank's)

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you :)

[@RossMcMorgan]

Hey Jens, you always have such great tone. Thanks for the video.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Ross!

[@RossMcMorgan]

@@JensLarsen I sent you a message on reddit, hope that's alright. Great new video!

[@colincotter6]

Those tied triplet rhythms come up a lot in Scandinavian folk music.

[@alvinsonngangzoyo315]

it's really great

[@pierredecourt]

Is it possible to get the summary written into a pdf ? Thanks

[@siemekkisiel8963]

Amazing!

[@ayay8060]

Can you make a video about which mediator do we have to use when we play jazz please ?

[@JensLarsen]

mediator?

[@ayay8060]

@@JensLarsen picks guitars

[@JensLarsen]

@@ayay8060 You can use all sorts, I use Chicken Picks these days :)

[@wildravez9963]

Love your videos, so helpful. I'm a bass player and is it acceptable for me to use open strings when soloing? I'm good with muting so I never leave it buzzing.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you 🙂 Yes, I would imagine it is fine to use open strings, but you probably want to check with a bass player?

[@wildravez9963]

@@JensLarsen I also play guitar and I use open strings quite a bit on guitar as well. I think im going to try doing other things because its not convenient for when I try to use the full range of the guitar. Your videos are very helpful! Just a couple months ago when i had first saw your video on how to practice with 2 5 1 and how to use chromatic notes changed my soloing forever!! You are awesome! Keep doing what you do 😀

[@kilterkaos1]

Im a little confused. As an example: Going from the 1 chord to the 4 , do you want your “phrase” to start on a chord tone of the 1chord and ending on a chord tone of the 4 and so on and so on? Is that how you lead your listener to hear the chord change? And the obvious of sliding into a chord tone to start your phrase/line.....??

[@pierredecourt]

It’ok for pdf

[@normalizedaudio2481]

Steve Gadd plays a lot of tri pi lets. tri pi let, tri pi let etc.

[@univuniveral9713]

At 0.40 minutes in the video - Is that an Dm7? I see that none of the notes is D. Please explain.

[@JensLarsen]

The first bar of the II V I? Playing the root is not necessary to sound like the chord, in fact it is not that strong a note in a solo line. How much of the rest of the chord is there and which notes are emphasized in the melody?

[@univuniveral9713]

@@JensLarsen Thanks a lot. I will try to answer after looking at it, sir.

[@univuniveral9713]

@@JensLarsen I got it now. For the Dm7 you asked, only the minor 3rd, 5th and 7th remain in the chord and I think that the 5th G is emphasised, especially as it has the complete Gm chord in its last phrase.

[@JensLarsen]

@@univuniveral9713 "Only" the 3rd,5th and 7th is 3 out of 4 notes, or not? :) I don't understand your Gm thing. But in this case the F (on beat 3 of that bar) is clearly emphasized by the enclosure before it.

[@univuniveral9713]

@@JensLarsen thanks

[@laureanoahmad7495]

One of my weaknest knowledge on my jazz musical education.