Slightly shorter video this week but some important things to check out! How do you work with rhythm, any of these approaches? 🙂 Content: 0:00 Intro - Jazz Rhythm - Hearing Phrases with great rhythms 0:30 #1 Themes and Melodies 0:45 Internalizing melodies = internalizing rhythms 1:34 Using Theme Rhythms in Solos - Tenor Madness 2:04 The other elusive skill for Jazz Playing 2:18 Rhythmical Target Notes 2:33 The Different Kinds of Target Notes 2:53 Example: 4& as Rhythmical Target on a Turnaround 3:40 #3 Rhythmical Displacement 4:13 Example Motif from Bernie's Tune 5:20 More than just the notes 5:40 Like the video? Check out my Patreon Page
Very nice lesson, Jens. I'd like to hear any other ideas about good tunes to 'borrow' for jazz phrase study. One more thing -- I'm very happy to hear you spend a few extra minutes noodling before & after the actual lesson. I've actually saved several of those short extras just to follow the way you naturally play things -- when you're NOT actually working on a lesson, but just playing. If you want to drop in a few informal 'just noodlin' sessions, I'd be sure to watch for them.
Hi Jens. Nice video. Thank you. Yes, I’d love a discussion about rhythmic phrasing and how rhythmic devices can be incorporated into tasteful phrasing.
Happy to see "Straight, No Chaser" as an example here. Monk (for me) is one of the most rhythmically interesting composers and players, period. No chaser.
Right now I'm trying to learn more on rhythmic placement. Playing behind the beat is something I try to work on, and exaggerate it to really drive the point home. Practicing this helped me realize how rushed and ahead of the beat my playing actually was, and I can really recommend it. Lennie Tristano and Warne Marsh are two players I listen to often, and they play behind the beat, and are always swinging really hard.
I transcribe interesting rhythms and use them as sort of a "vessel" for notes. I'm also really into using rap flows as the rhythmic framework since a lot of rappers really develop their flows in interesting ways. Groovy Tony by Schoolboy Q is a track that comes to mind. Very interesting accents and very loose. Transcribing Miles Okazaki is also very worthwhile, that man is a rhythm wizard. Check out Kudzu or Dozens. Completely insane stuff.
It's hairband that I use as a mute for open strings, but it does not really do anything when it is behind the nut- I sometimes use it while recording or practicing legato. I don’t you necessarily need one 🙂
Slightly shorter video this week but some important things to check out! How do you work with rhythm, any of these approaches? 🙂
Content:
0:00 Intro - Jazz Rhythm - Hearing Phrases with great rhythms
0:30 #1 Themes and Melodies
0:45 Internalizing melodies = internalizing rhythms
1:34 Using Theme Rhythms in Solos - Tenor Madness
2:04 The other elusive skill for Jazz Playing
2:18 Rhythmical Target Notes
2:33 The Different Kinds of Target Notes
2:53 Example: 4& as Rhythmical Target on a Turnaround
3:40 #3 Rhythmical Displacement
4:13 Example Motif from Bernie's Tune
5:20 More than just the notes
5:40 Like the video? Check out my Patreon Page
Very nice lesson, Jens. I'd like to hear any other ideas about good tunes to 'borrow' for jazz phrase study. One more thing -- I'm very happy to hear you spend a few extra minutes noodling before & after the actual lesson. I've actually saved several of those short extras just to follow the way you naturally play things -- when you're NOT actually working on a lesson, but just playing. If you want to drop in a few informal 'just noodlin' sessions, I'd be sure to watch for them.
Hi Jens. Nice video. Thank you.
Yes, I’d love a discussion about rhythmic phrasing and how rhythmic devices can be incorporated into tasteful phrasing.
Rhythms are definitely fundamental to not only Jazz, but music and life in general. You need consistency and order indeed. Awesome work!
Thanks RC!
@@JensLarsenAhh you are very welcome!
Video on rhytmical target notes? Oh! Big fat yes!
Thanks! I will keep that in mind :)
Happy to see "Straight, No Chaser" as an example here. Monk (for me) is one of the most rhythmically interesting composers and players, period. No chaser.
Thanks! I actually have a whole video on that theme and what you can/should learn from it :)
@@JensLarsen Many thanks for the heads up, I had no idea you'd done this! th-cam.com/video/-JYXr-jX8MA/w-d-xo.html
Right now I'm trying to learn more on rhythmic placement. Playing behind the beat is something I try to work on, and exaggerate it to really drive the point home. Practicing this helped me realize how rushed and ahead of the beat my playing actually was, and I can really recommend it. Lennie Tristano and Warne Marsh are two players I listen to often, and they play behind the beat, and are always swinging really hard.
I’m gonna try the rhythmical target note today! 5 minutes of working with an idea you’re sharing is better than an hour of un-aimed practice!
Thank you!
You’re very welcome!
Muchas gracias por el video Jens me ayuda muchisimo un saludo desde Ciudad De Mexico
You're very welcome :)
Jens you are d best.
I wish I didn't need to go to work, so I could spend all day on these lessons ahhh not enough hours in the day!
I know what you mean, there is never enough time :) (though I don't really spend it watching my own videos of course)
I transcribe interesting rhythms and use them as sort of a "vessel" for notes. I'm also really into using rap flows as the rhythmic framework since a lot of rappers really develop their flows in interesting ways. Groovy Tony by Schoolboy Q is a track that comes to mind. Very interesting accents and very loose.
Transcribing Miles Okazaki is also very worthwhile, that man is a rhythm wizard. Check out Kudzu or Dozens. Completely insane stuff.
What I need right now, thanks!
Glad you like it!
Ciao,sei fortissimo.Un saluto dall'Italia
Super !!!!
Great lesson.
Thank you very much James!
Use the Tenor Madness rhythms in Summertime and call it “Summer Madness”
The timing of that joke is a bit off here in November :)
Is the blue wristband looking thing some kind of sound damper? And do I need one for my guitar?
It's hairband that I use as a mute for open strings, but it does not really do anything when it is behind the nut- I sometimes use it while recording or practicing legato. I don’t you necessarily need one 🙂