Improve Your Jazz Solos 7: Thou Shall Swing!

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This is the 7th in a series of 10 lessons to improve your jazz guitar solos. Here we explore in depth the use of swing 8th notes, syncopation, what makes a solo "groove", and we analyze Duke Ellington's "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing".
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  • @jumemowery9434
    @jumemowery94345 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Richie. I love the lesson. I especially enjoyed watching you improvise

  • @RichieZellon

    @RichieZellon

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Jume!

  • @diego2246
    @diego22465 жыл бұрын

    There are so many things to keep in mind! This series is helping me focus on the different topics when I work on improvisation. Thanks for the lesson.

  • @RichieZellon

    @RichieZellon

    5 жыл бұрын

    Glad to be of help...thx Diego!

  • @AleStolt
    @AleStolt5 жыл бұрын

    This is a nice tune, inspiration...

  • @johnwriterpoet1783
    @johnwriterpoet17835 жыл бұрын

    I loved it! Your improvising is fantastic.

  • @RichieZellon

    @RichieZellon

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks John...much appreciated!

  • @rickymolina7390
    @rickymolina73905 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video, and love the improvisation - sweet. Although I'm a math teacher/ composer, I have difficulty counting the numbers of the beat. What works for some like me is to just feel the groove and just get into it and let it sweep you away. No need to count. Just feel it. I remember some member of Yes say that when he plays odd time signatures like The Fish (in 7/8 time). After a while you just become a part of it!

  • @RichieZellon

    @RichieZellon

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the feedback Ricky! The counting is just to initially understand the rhythm. In order to improvise we all have to eventually feel the groove like you point out.

  • @rickymolina7390

    @rickymolina7390

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes I guess it has to do with left and right parts of the brain or something. Something non-Zen about counting while playing music.

  • @rickymolina7390

    @rickymolina7390

    5 жыл бұрын

    By the way, your videos often inspire me (and others I'm sure) to practice the guitar from different angles. Thanks so much.

  • @crazydiamondj
    @crazydiamondj5 жыл бұрын

    5:49 haha, thanks!

  • @DaddySantaClaus
    @DaddySantaClaus5 жыл бұрын

    As a blues player I always think in 12/8 😂