Quick Win: Using Rhythm for AMAZING Jazz Solos
Learn Jazz Standards Podcast
Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by the Learned Jazz Standards Inner Circle. |
| 0:03.8 | If your goal is to level up your jazz playing this year and feel confident improvising over |
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| 0:17.3 | of like-minded musicians, you're guaranteed to improve your playing every |
| 0:21.7 | single month. Podcast listeners can get 50% off their first month when you go to LJSinterCircle.com. |
| 0:29.5 | That's LJSinnerCircle.com or find the link in the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. |
| 0:36.3 | A huge mistake that many jazz players are making is not |
| 0:39.6 | utilizing rhythm. So today I'm going to show you three common jazz rhythms and how you can use |
| 0:45.2 | them in your jazz solos coming up. What's up, Brent here from Learned Jazz Standards, |
| 0:51.6 | real-up musicians, just like you, learn how to play jazz all while shortening the learning |
| 0:55.6 | curve, no matter what instrument you play. |
| 0:57.2 | Welcome to another quick win episode of the podcast where we do episodes on jazz theory, jazz |
| 1:03.2 | improv, practicing tutorials, or even rhythm, deep dives like in today's episode. |
| 1:07.9 | So make sure you subscribe wherever you listen to podcast so you don't miss |
| 1:11.1 | out on a single episode. As guitar, piano, sax, trumpet, bass players, we like to really focus |
| 1:17.3 | on the melodic aspect of playing jazz, the cool licks, the cool lines. But oftentimes, we're |
| 1:22.4 | forgetting about the most important component that makes those lines actually musical. And that's |
| 1:27.3 | rhythm. So I'm |
| 1:28.3 | going to be showing you three common rhythms and a special little trick that you can do to actually |
| 1:33.1 | use that as the center point to start creating your own jazz lines. But make sure you do stick |
| 1:37.9 | around to the very end of the video. I'm going to show you a really cool exercise as well that |
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