Jazz Rhythm - The Most Important Aspect of Jazz

Learning jazz is often mostly about playing 8th note lines, but if you listen to amazing musicians like Charlie Parker then you can hear that he doesn’t only play dense 8th note lines. He also plays very interesting rhythms. So we need to learn to hear rhythms like that. In this video, I am going to go over an exercise that you can apply to the songs that you play and help develop your ability to play much more interesting solos with more inspired rhythmical ideas. Content: 0:00 Intro 0:15 Parker wasn’t all 8th notes 0:52 The Exercise and it’s goal 1:21 The Song: Take The A train 2:03 Example 1 2:23 Analysis and how to work on the first rhythm 2:51 Start with one chord 3:42 Who inspires you when it comes to rhythm? Leave a comment! 3:58 Example 2 4:12 Analysis and Rhythm #2 4:38 Breaking down Example 2 5:09 How to practice this exercise 5:53 Example 3 6:06 Analysis 6:55 A few technical suggestions 7:15 Like the video? Check out My