Jazz Beginner and newbie

Herb · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:14 pm Post subject:

I think Johnny Smith said it best, "Know where you start, and where you end, everything in between is just jazz....." Laughing

Steve · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:04 am Post subject:

quackzed · Not So Newbie Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 9

there are some things you can do that will give anything you play a jazzier feel,like swinging the rythem
basically when your playing a basic rythem strum over some chords or improvising a little solo over a scale
instead of keeping the beats evenly spaced apart...
ta......ta......ta......ta......ta......ta......ta......
you 'swing' every other note over a bit...
ta.........ta...ta.........ta...ta.........ta...ta.......
another great and easy to use jazzy sounding technique
is to play a solo using the chord notes your playing over
and to slide up to each note from the fret below,so over C major(C E G)
you'd play Bb C ........Eb..E.........Gb..G.......... in a swung rythem
you can use this idea with anything, basically your using some 'out' notes and slding them up to the chord (or scale)notes which are 'in' and it gives you a jazzy sound:)
-try it for a little jazz flavor. theres more tho to jazz than that, but every journey begins with just one fret.. i mean,step! oops! twang!