The Guitar: Comping Coordination with the Piano in Jazz Band

[@dwaynejohnson5593]

I feel you green shirt person 😂Very helpful vid tho

[@etherjazz]

Excellent demonstration! Really shows how different instruments can collide with each other.

[@minna-maaritjaskari7793]

What a video! Not only the content but the beautiful interaction in the group. This also shows how much a competent teacher can add on top of the "main content that could be read" as so many of my students ask for now. This video really shows the meaning of face to face learning.

[@JillandKevin]

As you said, he's using only downstrokes for the Swing rhythm. Another thing you should point out is that the chords should be played stuccato, by relaxing the hold on the chord (of the left hand) just after strumming it, and killing the notes. A chord should almost NEVER be held (sustained) after strum. This is well known by dedicated old school Swing guitarists (big band players), but hard to learn to strum straight fours and relax the chord for people who are used to playing other genres, or even other jazz styles,

[@dmitriytampei1953]

Great video, quarter notes guitar comping is the easy way, I always end up using it, mostly in Big Band situations

[@kaldengirard]

Thank you I will try to apply this to my guitar playing

[@MorningCarnival]

Thanks, I’ve just joined a big band guitar seat and this is very handy.

[@erikxs]

Excellent!

[@kormosjano64]

Very nice guy!

[@genec8393]

Piano players believe they should be the 'active comper' 99.9% of the time.

[@jimnugent6202]

Sounds like a plan!😊

[@Heckspawn]

Facts

[@genec8393]

@@Heckspawn Curious as to what you meant.

[@adnjazz]

usually it sounds the best so i can kind of get behind that

[@genec8393]

@@adnjazz Most of my groups were guitar, bass, and drum trios sans the keyboard. Very enjoyable, full and liberating. It was different for sessions, club dates.

[@lucatodeschi1297]

Great vid!!

[@4cidj4y]

Thank you, that is a wonderful resource!

[@guitariste47]

Very interesting and usefull

[@Ángel-b1v5z]

'Kojonudo, Ray! Saludos desde Madrid.

[@eduardotoledo2744]

stifler on the bass?

[@Thebandkid06]

Just started the video but I’m dying over the guitarist getting told to turn up his volume it’s true we never get told we’re too quite unless ur me and get stuck on comping volume because I forgot to turn it up for the solo section😭

[@sarahagbelusi4439]

Of course the guitar player struggles reading music 😂 I’m not alone 😂

[@minna-maaritjaskari7793]

This saying goes in our big bsnd as well 😂

[@markahearn1]

That reminds me of an old joke; How do you make a guitar player shut up... Put a sheet of music in front of him.

[@markjohnson9485]

In my experience, comping with the piano player is to lay back. See what he's doing. Find a pocket to fit into and follow it.

[@MrKappa0815]

too funny - did you notice the woman on the right? She's falling asleep over her laptop :-)

[@johnpandolfino8663]

Trainwreck

[@Chemical1Objectivity]

He should know better and provide the guitarist with a tabs arrangement. Most young guitarists don’t learn to read music well.

[@minna-maaritjaskari7793]

we'll maybe we should. Though the tabs would make it so much easier...

[@Chemical1Objectivity]

Absolutely! It’s quite shameful on the instructor/program for such a bull-headed approach. At his age, he knows how the guitar industry dominated many kids bedroom with rock and roll and popular music for the past 5 decades. Most guitar players don’t read music nor do they even know the notes on their instrument akin to others. While they ought to learn, it’s not practical for putting the guitarist in this spot for the ensemble, especially a kid, and it’s very clearly wasting everyone’s time, and it’s not the guitarists fault- he was bred in a culture that doesn’t emphasize notation reading on his instrument. And with the availability of software and even AI tools, there is no excuse for not being able to provide tabular notation for the guitarist. It takes more work on the instructor/program, but that’s THEIR job.

[@adnjazz]

@@Chemical1Objectivity bad take, no offense to this guitar player in particular but if you are in this kind of environment at that age you should absolutely at least have the fundamentals of reading music down. also not to mention the fact that most non-guitarist instructors do not have the knowledge to write out tablature for the best possible position to play in. giving a kid tablature only worsens the notion that guitar players are poor readers as it just delays the inevitable. this kid did absolutely fine for the situation he was in.

[@TonyfromBham]

In term of rhythm, time, harmony, hipness, and attitude, his mess is depressingly non-jazz.

[@charlesrsmith7]

@@TonyfromBham Hey Man, don’t forget these are young students. We get the best we can out of them. This student was not my best guitarist, but was a member of the class when we did this class demonstration. So maybe you can consider the principles we were trying to teach, without being over critical! Dig?

[@charlesrsmith7]

@@TonyfromBham You might as well know also, that he is blind…