The Art of Playing Jazz Guitar - A True Preparation Primer Part 1

I am not going to the kid; Jazz Guitar playing is extremely difficult at best, and almost impossible at worst. However, there are things you can do to improve your skills and improvisation feeling and we will discuss them throughout this part series multi so look for more pieces in the next future.
Practice
What can say about the practice? Just do it and do it often! Do it every day. When you think you have done enough to do it again.
I am not just talking about picking up the guitar and play some songs that I am talking about genuine practicing for the environment it will eventually play in which it is, of course, in an Ensemble with other players who we hope will always be better than you.
Here are the basics ...
When practicing always use a metronome! I
If not part clear that perhaps this may help: ALWAYS USE A Metronome!
If What you feel you do not need a metronome stop reading this article, stop practicing and go get some ice cream because you get the same or even better results and you will certainly enjoy yourself much in the process if you do. If you are committed on.
Still read me?
When using your metronome trying to feel his timing in different clicks. For example of a swing feel to have his metronome click on beats 2 and 4, instead of 1 and 3. This will give you an instant swing feel and also take crutch so unpleasant that you are required to know where beat 1 really is.
We never, never, we have our drummer, which may be in the middle of a complex experimental improvisation Only when you need him the most, to tell us where 1 is win. How many times have you been in that situation?
Sound simple? It is!
Sound easy? Try it for a month and you want to know how it goes.
Let & 39; s at this a little deeper. When practicing using this technique to shift metronome beats clicks to try this: place a 3 / 4 tune using the metronome clicking once per measure, and only on winning 2. Then change to just about beats 3. See how the feeling changes. Practice that, whether, feel it and then you can begin to it.
If own fantasy, you want to put the metronome click to five beat while you play a tuned into 3. This will accents and sense of bar to bar and will also allow your brain to break free of it is learned behavior that is intended to make you not want think.
What did you mean?
That & 39; s right! More times than the human brain is not your greatest enemy. He always seeks comfort and practiced in fashion described above is not comfortable for your brain. In these cases, I recommend that your brain saying that my son often likes to say, " For most ... so sad! "
We as musicians need to experience and understand the natural tendencies of the brain behaviour normal, so we can learn the real challenge we to open our minds to the gargantuan creative possibilities that await us when we do. This does not happen by chance also does not happen by itself does not come easy. It takes an extreme effort on our parts.
Whether you have your instrument with you, or you can not practice your timing. If you receive a small battery operated metronome, which I recommend, you can take it with you when you are driving back and forth to work. Practice, the examples above in your car while singing. Do not worry if you can not sing you are trying to own these feelings and if you can not articulate these feelings with your voice you never really own them.
I have outlined several examples of displacement of beats. The idea is simple enough so that you can reach more departures from its own and you must keep changing them when you practice.
The point here is that the real understanding and its eventual ownership of several hits and feelings associated with them not reside strictly within these beats and feelings. By looking only at the interior of hits you are closing off all creative thinking that is really needed to exploit its full potential.
Real understanding resides outside, and you should know what that means. To really find it you must force yourself and be willing to look everywhere, but the hits themselves. This simple technique will metronome you start and tell you on your journey to achieve that goal. Not limited to applying this technique only to the timetable, but that statement is another part of this series.
Have fun, practical and always play your heart out!
About the Author: John Belthoff is an avid web developer who plays and teaches Jazz Guitar in his free time. He has an Asp Web Hosting Company, where you can contact him on his guitar hosting site / blog or just to learn more.



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