How to Develop Good Rhythm on Jazz Guitar
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- Playing consistent, even quarter notes is a difficult task in rhythm guitar, but a crucial one. James Chirillo shows you a practice routine that helps you get your quarter notes clear and even.
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James Chirillo - Guitar
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Recorded April 15, 2013
Love love love his style of teaching...
I recall reading a while back about a trumpet player and band leader in Australia who stated every band practice with an exercise. He would count the band in, they would all clap once on the one of the first bar, sit silently and all clap on the one of the 32nd bar. Imagine how tight they were on stage.
That sounds like a real great exercise. Simple but requiring CONCENTRATION. Thanks for sharing.
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@@mathewrobb3638 probably vince jones
This exercise is not as easy as it might seem...but worth doing...it should develop timing when playing any instrument or any style of music.
I dont even know how to play a guitar, still I’m here because i love jazz😂🔥❤️
Thanks so much for this
He is a good teacher, but the way he showed to us is quite a traditional road. I suggest using some kind of metronome with the function called rhythm training, try the app call PRO Metronome by EUMlab. it has those function. I am also searching that kind of function in guitar pedals. If somebody knows, tell me pls...
the most advanced I go with a metronome is finding one that can click slow enough that I can set it to mark (click) every two measures (8 beats) at 60bpm. Although drum machines are pretty cool, anything that subdivides for you is only weakening your sense of internal time. I studied with JC in person, he's more than a good teacher, he was a great teacher in my book. 1 hour of musicianship, and if I got through that successfully and up to JC's standards--then we got to pick up our guitars. Sometimes simple is best, especially if the method puts you in the driver's seat instead of a piece of technology.
This is madness!! I've been practicing wrong for sooo long :(
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This is just about the best and most useful TH-cam jazz guitar tutorial I’ve come across. I do it every day. My time has improved tremendously. Now I play rhythm guitar in a big band, and every time I do this I think of James Chirillo and thank him from the bottom of my heart. If you wanna develop flashy licks, look elsewhere. If you want to develop good time, look on :D
This guy was at the Essentially Ellington festival at The University of Cincinnati and our band got to hear some of his wise words. He showed us the power of quarter notes and it was dope
Take a shot everytime he says quarter note!
Great lesson. I love the little sigh at 2:53 after "unrelenting concentration".
I'm just starting jazz guitar at 60 (after having played pop, rock, blues, etc. for most of my life) and this kind of lesson is exactly what I need. Many thanks.
I'm in the same boat and struggling with time for sure.
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Listen carefully to this post and you will understand why James sounds so good! 🎸 Thanks James!
nice. thanks for that painstaking approach to good rhythm.
james brown said its all about that one
Very good. This is some of the best practice advice for performers of pretty much any level I've run across so far on TH-cam. Professional musicians have that pocket down tight and It shows.
He doesn't start playing until half way through the video.
Nobody ever went to a gig and said "that guy's rhythm is too good!"
Cool guy!...........how I wish he had been my teacher!
Thanks for posting this - good time can be deceptive because we think we are playing great until we listen back or try to play over the top of what we just recorded! Also, the concept of practicing our mistakes over and over seems lost on everybody - I have found starting as slowly and cleanly as possible sets a great foundation of clean playing and much easier practicing.
Valuable exercise for me. Recording myself in cubase using the metronome function and and both listening as well as looking at the diagram is even worse for my ego.
Slow is hard. I heard you
James, thanks for all the great info. Just curious as to what you use for an amp in a big band setting. Or do you use an amp? ray
I found lil late and more decay, sustain sounds lovely. I never thougt this way. Half of quarter, that just comes naturally
you have gorgeous guitar there sir
This is sorta like a boxer spending time at the speed bag...no big ducks and weaves or fancy footwork, just steady and clean hits to find the inner rhythm and give it breath
Thanks, James for your time to share your short masterclasses. I remember how Buddy Rich was a stickler for tight rhythm. I heard he fired a few bass players whose sound was dragging the beat. They plucked at the right time, but the sound came late.
This makes perfect sense to establish good rhythm, and I have come short by not using my metronome. Now, how practical is it if the others in the band don’t use this, plus the reality of key changes, volume dynamics and melody pitch ranges come into the music being played and the whole band is susceptible to speeding up or dragging.
Amazing. Thank you very much James Sir,Jazz at Lincoln Center's Jazz Academy. Can anyone tell which metronome Sir is using ?.
Thanks Craig, I finally remembered why my looper pedal shouldn't collect dust.
Great demonstration I can use that on my saxophone on practicing even tones better
+MrDdods Definitely! Another good practice routine for saxophone can be found here: th-cam.com/video/LNK0-GvH--g/w-d-xo.html
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MrDdods, please let me know if you upload a video doing this exercise with the sax. I want to try it in my daughter practice.
Wow semplicità is the killer.
Capusotto????
I can't use this, we don't get to hear the metronome
ASU....!
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Hello James. Sandy from Scotland here. in 1977 I was a junior manager in The Colston Hall in Bristol, England. Andres Segovia the classical guitarist, was playing a concert there on a night when I was working. He was in his eighties then. I was told by my boss to warm his dressing room up b4 the concert. When I went to do this I was stopped dead in my tracks at the door cos I could hear the Maestro, who was already there, playing a slow major scale, like you are doing here in your video. It's hard to impress on students how important slow playing like this is. He'd been playing for over 70 years and was still doing it b4 his gig. Best wishes.
This secret is well written in "the principles of correct practise foe guitar" by Jamie Andeas. I don't want to make some publicity but it is one of the rare book on how to practise which help me tremendously. Anyway this is what art is all about.
"Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.” - Michael Jordan
Im not religious but this is great. Like the bob ross of guitar ♥️🤘
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V good idea for practicing--I like the idea of listening back right away--but it takes 3 min (edited) to actually get to the example! Too much yakking.