Saturday, October 24, 2009

Learning Jazz Guitar: Tips And Tricks

By Enrique Ortiz

If you know the basics of playing a guitar, you can easily learn to play various genres of music.

There are artists, who start with one genre, learn it and then move to other one. One of them is Bach, who began with composing the classical music the traditional way but soon improvised it. By doing this, he gained many accolades from the audience.

Playing guitar is somewhat similar to it. It can easily be improvised or combined with other genres of music. By listening to the notes and a bit of practice, the audience will simply love it.

When playing the guitar, similar thing can happen. In the initial phases of learning, one can play a song the way it is commonly played; however, once he understands the rhythm of the song and make out the changes he can make, he can refine the song and convert it into a jazz version.

Jazz music is made of 4 beats to a measure. It is called Syncopation and is quite different from classical music, which is made of half beats. You need to learn notes and practice a lot in order to understand the rhythm well.

Absolutely different from traditional guitars, Jazz Guitars have lighter wood in them. Moreover, the strings are also set much lower as compared to traditional guitars allowing the artist to play it faster. For any artist, who plays like other guitarists, buying the right guitar for the part is vital.

Another interesting way of learning guitar is to listen to some of great Jazz musicians like David Benoit, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong. By listening to these greats carefully, you will easily be able to understand the rhythm. Once you understand the rhythm, you will start playing the guitar like experts.

Since Jazz is quite different from other music genres, understanding the different notes is crucial. You can begin with C note and can do it repeatedly while the left hand is moving on the chromatic scale. To make it better, you can also add E note until you reach the blue scale.

It will take you some time to learn how to play jazz music. The most important thing is to listen every part of the song. If you want to switch genres then you should put some serious efforts to get it right.

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