I Learned Jazz Guitar in 7 Days
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Refreshing to see someone with a large following be vulnerable enough to share their weaknesses as a player. Keep it up dude. You’re moving up in skill. This is how it’s done.
Very true.
strongly agree
Agreed. The struggle equals respect.
Hey Mike! So I'm studying jazz guitar in college right now and I was mainly a rock and blues player before that so here are a few pointers.
- Lose the vibrato for now, it's not a big part of jazz vocab. Some very light vibrato can work for ballads or slow swing.
- Learning where the degrees of II-V-I inside the major scale was the thing that helped me the most with improv.
- Chromatic approaches are a big part of jazz vocab so try to work that in your playing
- A great way to absorb vocabulary is to transcribe and learn solos, I recommend Wes Montgomery solos because they're accessible while remaining challenging (appart from being so good!). Spot licks that you like in these solos, figure out what progressions they're being played over and try to work them in your improv.
- Chords are also important! Learn new voicings and comping rhythms.
- Learn jazz standards! The more standards you know, the better you'll be prepared for a jam session, and you'll learn new progressions.
With all that you'll be able to survive a jam! I hope you'll continue jazz cause it's hard to get started but once you "get it", it's the most fun I've ever had playing music!
Yes, I agree on all that you’ve said. I just posted a comment that despite his great successes with Donna Lee, there are easier tunes on which to start. One of my favorites is Wes Montgomery’s Sundown.
New voicings is the hardest part for me for sure
What exactly do you mean by learning the degress of 251 in major scale? Are u talking about knowing what the specific chords you need to play a 251 per major scale?
@@SamandRie I meant the chord tones my bad, english isn’t my first language. Like basically knowing by heart where the root third fifth and seventh of each chord are within your scale
Agreed. I want to add just one more thing to the end of your comment after your
"With all that you'll be able to survive a jam! I hope you'll continue jazz cause it's hard to get started but once you "get it", it's the most fun I've ever had playing music"!
statement.
I wanna add "with all that, you will be having the most fun while you make the least amount of money". lol
May the Schwartz be with you 🙏
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Praise Be Marty 🙏🏾
@@robertbosfield8027 he has blessed us all
Nice
“They never had Marty Schwartz” made me spit out my tea in laughter
Two words for you brother.. Barry Harris. The only man who lived through every era of jazz, played with the greats and dedicated his entire life to educating fellow musicians.
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Never a truer word said! RIP Barry Harris LOVE LOVE
THE Jazz educator, you could study Barry Harris improv single line technique AND his amazing harmony theory and keep yourself learning and engaged for years. Most importantly you will be making great music all along the journey.
I think the real joy of studying these "jazz arpeggios" is when you begin to fully appreciate the sound of major/minor 7th, dominant and diminished arpeggios, because then the real fun begins when you plug them into your bluesy pentatonic stuff, or even pepper in some fusiony bits like tetratonic Lydian and Dorian arpeggios. All of a sudden you're actually _playing_ the instrument instead of just playing songs from memory.
as someone who only picked up the guitar about 2 years ago, and basically only plays rhythm parts, its seriously impressive as shit that you managed to pick all of that up in 7 days. mad respect
i mean imagine you had 4 times the amount of time on guitar
That scream lick at 10:15 is sick
As in intermediate blues player, I found the Jazz Pathway with Pickupmusic to be super helpful. I think it's a 7-week course. lessons are usually only 20 or 30 minutes. They do a nice job of integrating theory/playing/improvising. The Neo-soul pathway with Melanie Faye is also really good, and blends many of the same principles from the jazz course.
how to get good at jazz: listen, listen, listen. listening is EASILY half if not more of how to get good at jazz. listening to tunes, famous records, and records you enjoy, but also how to hear certain common sounds in jazz. such as 2-5s, minor 2-5s, how to identify a normal jazz blues vs say a bird blues, backdoor 2-5s, etc. Developing your ear, as well as obviously practicing, is how to make serious progress. learning standards are super important too. also, something to keep in mind is learning a tune is not just knowing the melody. It means knowing the changes, the head (the main melody), and how to solo. there are some great comments in here about guitar-specific things regarding tone, vibrato, etc. but as a bass player, the cats I play with roll the tone off, and usually have a darker sound, and are very relaxed when they play. just watch the tension in your left hand. Hope this was helpful!
Love your playing Mike and how you actively engage in exploring new styles.
I love how candid and genuine this is. Very refreshing. Plus I love Jazz, so there’s that! Great job, keep up the playing!
Good for you! I'm proud of you, young man.
Hey Mike, I think you made great progress in a week. As somebody who has spent probably 10 years trying to learn jazz guitar I gotta tell you the big breakthrough for me was when I discovered a few of my favorite records and really did a lot of deep listening. I think it’s hard to play jazz convincingly as an athletic exercise if you don’t actually enjoy the music. I didn’t hear you mention any specific jazz players who really inspire you, so I guess I’d recommend going on a listening journey because I think once you connect to your favorite players the ideas will start to come together for you more inside your own head. Personally I love Wes Montgomery, and I can appreciate Pat Metheny but it’s not as much to my preference in terms of personal style. Discovering that and focusing on a couple players instead of trying to learn the whole entire world of jazz made it easier for me, cause there’s just so much. Happy practicing!
So true! Ear training.
So true! I didn't start getting good at jazz or understood it until I fell in love with the music. Listening is so important, and why do something you don't love?
100% Agree. You can’t learn jazz just playing arpeggios and scales, you have to listen to the music and understand the syntax of the music, the grammar of jazz. If you don’t listen to and appreciate jazz you won’t ever understand how to play it!
Buddy, you don't start with Donna Lee, that's RIDICULOUS. Learn Autumn leaves, Blue Bossa etc to start.
Haha I love this! Props for getting so far with Donna Lee, it's a struggle on guitar and even Jaco Pastorius would talk about how hard it is.
One other thing I have found helpful in my own jazz journey is making an effort every day to really learn the names of all notes on the fretboard - start with a scale, play slow and call each note name out as you play, work up to doing the same with scales harmonized in triads and arpeggios, build speed.
When you progress it will be really helpful to just see the names of all notes on the fretboard without even thinking and I think this gets overlooked. when you start trying to flow appregios and triads into each other over chord progressions this is a HUGE help.
I've been at it for a few years, teaching myself for the most part.
being a music teacher at a local music store, I've been around it a lot more in the past five years.
hearing the cats in the other rooms ripping some of the most beautiful stuff pushed me to go further.
I hit plateaus every now and then since I mainly play more rock driven stuff; and I only have one guitar student advanced enough to care about jazz, so it's been fun to finally share some of what I've dug into!
don't ever stop!
Definitely gonna share with my students. Thanks for keeping this video so deeply focused on the topic.
Awesome video Mike. Enjoyed watching you progress.
Not bad for 7 days! 👍😁
WOW!! That means a lot
larsen you are my hero
Literally cheered out loud for you during this! Made me want to practice harder, this was great! ✌️😌🎸
Really enjoy your channel Mike. You and Tyler Larson are 2 of the most entertaining and enthusiastic storytelling YT players out there. Subbed.
dude - i'm watching this while trying to learn my way through Continuum for the first time - currently on the Belief solo and it's just cool to see that no matter where you are, you're always striving to get better. Thanks for being so real
Improv over JM albums hs been incredibly helpful to me. I realized the way he plays is very much like singing, so i started to try to follow along just his vocal melodies with my guitar, and that has just done wonders for my playing.
You made me wanna keep up playing my guitar. Thanks so much for passion.
Congrats Mike! I'm in a similar spot in my guitar journey. This is really motivating! Thanks.
Awesome video man! I've been avoiding tackling Jazz for ages and think i may look into the basics soon! :P
I would like to see this continued I really enjoy the pace of the video.
bro, I genuinely relate to EVERYTHING you have said and experienced in this video. I just finished my first year intensely studying jazz. I love to play Donna Lee. I've noticed that it's hard for me to play a pentatonic solo now after plating harmonic and melodic minors for so long. This is an Awesome Video, thanks.
Mike, this was an awesome video because I too have been struggling with guitar since I am nowhere near where I want to be, and if someone as awesome as you can feel the same way, then I’m reassured, thanks for this type of genuine content!! :)
Mike, you’ve genuinely inspired me to finally do the same thing. It sounded like a clickbait challenge, but the way that you approached it was great. Thanks
I thought you read my journal at the start. I've been in a rainstorm for a couple years and getting that spark has been somewhat non-existent. The stagnant-quo has been my companion for a while now. I loved the journey and the fact that you chose to step quite out of your comfort zone--aka rut. I can only hope it nudges me toward that learning place from which I've procrastinated for some time. It was an obsession for years and it needs revisited. Thanks for sharing and Stay Well Groovy One!
Awesome stuff .Mike!! And I feel your pain!!
Greetings from Pittsburgh!!
Good luck and enjoy the journey
Nice man, been playing guitar for about a year and I kinda feel you, but ima look into jazz
Nah fr this is my favorite video you earned my respect. You should make more videos like this sort of a journey to virtuosity where you study a ton of genres of guitar. Next one could be Gypsy Jazz on acoustic! I have heard a lot of players talk about how Gypsy Jazz allows them to become even greater guitarists.
Just love the whole attitude and ethos of this video
Jazz guitar players are very talented. They know every chord there is to know, and their technique is so smooth and refined. They get the most out of every note and are very nuanced. Their guitar tone is so clean. Jazz guitar music will never be my thing but I do respect their talent.
Dude it's wild how we are EXACTLY in the same position, like I even had my 9 year anniversary in january as well. Always relied on scale shapes to get me through improv, never really caring about the chords underneath as long as I was in key. My ear is also good so never learned why chords work the way they do. Felt like I hit a plateau and would just not improve (because I also wouldn't really practice anything above my skill level)
I finally managed to tackle music theory in a way that didn't overwhelm me (found a method to learn the notes on the neck which works for me, and practicing my triads and inversions), and I also found that "spark" again. Also I finally got a good guitar after playing on a shitty squier lol, and playing it feels amazing which helps.
I'm even learning to read sheet music because there's some jazz books I wanna study, and I'm so excited to get better at it, just as excited when I started playing. So yeah, nice to hear that you found that spark too. It's very liberating.
I totally get it! Since really learning the 5 major & minor pentatonic scale forms and jumping around on them plus the E form major scale which all took a lot as I was much older in age, and yes arpeggios and using 2 string harmonic 6ths and 3rds while trying to recall faster where the roots 3rd 5th and 7th intervals are in each of those scales for the 1-4-5 progressions in all keys.
We got another one...
Good stuff. Keep going!
I loved watching this! Well done man! I've been studying jazz improv every day for 6 years and I'm still like a toddler learning to walk compared to the masters.
I love playing improv jazz using a looper pedal. I use this format to experiment with time signatures, new chords and just groove.
Seriously, that's a really impressive improvement in seven days! Respect!
Love your story telling, man. And I can totally relate to lacking jazz chops, haha. I also love the comment about needing to turn the tone knob down if you’re a jazz guy, LOL
I’ve only been playing guitar for about a year and a half to 2 years and decided to join my schools jazz band. To someone like me who had barely known how to play guitar parts like that, it was very eye opening and actually helped me get much better at the instrument, even though I didn’t even understand the chord shapes when I had started.
Thanks Mike for sharing this! I've recently felt exactly the same, and also went to learning jazz as a solution... Yeah it's hard😅
Best of luck as you continue that journey!
Started 🎸 in 1984. I have solid gear. Your guitar/music (re)views are good, but your video editing and presentation are off the charts greatness. Fr! You are a very effective communicator Mr. Cole! 🏆
I was a metal/rock singer for decades and am now a tourism singer songwriter doing pirate band shows.... That being said, I developed a crazy assed passion for jazz and it snuck up on me! I love it and stop to listen everytime. Wild. Music is awesome and amazing. Great job! Over my head, granbted, but great to watch ya figure it out, Mike. Youre great buddy. Cheers! Dm9.... LOL
Great job! Very enjoyable video. I’ve been trying to learn jazz for over 50 years. I actually do get gigs. Did 5 this week, from Mother’s Day brunch at a country club, to a brewery, to a restaurant, to an art gallery opening to cocktail and dinner music for a 60 year high school class reunion. You are on the right track. Donna Lee is harder that steel, but you did pretty well. It’s a contrafact based on the song, Back Home In Indiana. If possible, learn Indiana, also. I’m doing that right now with the standard, It Could Happen To You and its related contrafact, Dexter Gordon’s Fried Bananas. If you continue to pursue jazz, I think you should try something easier than Donna Lee. It’s insanely difficult. Your work ethic on that was insanely beautiful. Check out Satin Doll, Autumn Leaves, Birks Works and Wes Montgomery’s The Thumb. Do what you did with Donna Lee, starting slowly. Maybe learn some of Wes’s lines, just a short passage over a 2-5-1 and learn to apply it to other 2-5-1 chord progressions in different keys. Concerning pentatonic scales…. still very useable on your 2-5-1 in C, try Am pentatonic over the Dm7, then use Bbm pentatonic over the G7(will sound a little dissonant, but the tension is beautiful). Finally use Bm pentatonic over C Maj7. Yes, I said that. It doesn’t contain the root at all, but has the 9th, major 7th, 6th, #4, and major 3rd. After you get used to the sound you will love it. Sorry for the long post. Just felt inspired to type😎
What you described in the beginning is exactly a place I've been. However, my goal was to lean jazz in 15 years, not 7 days! Awesome video. Thanks!
You’re a legend for this 🙏 Haha and starting with Donna Lee! So great man
I remember learning to play the head to Donna Lee in high school - brutal chart, and I was a full two years into jazz study.... But so satisfying!
Eyyyy Mr. Cole, thanks forbsharing your journey with us. Much love from the Philippines. 💯✊🇵🇭
I did the same a few yrs ago dude…and it paid off big time…fun playing jazz solos with heavy distortion etc
Props to you for highlighting your own weaknesses and showing how you work on them! More people should focus on that rather than trying to always prove how good they are.
Great video. If you really want to sound like jazz on a 2 5 1 play the upper part of the Dm7 FACEG, then add b9 and #9 on the G7 GBDFBbAbGF resolve to E on the Cmaj7. Main thing is add altered notes on the G7. Try this lick for G7 start on D string - FAbBEbBbAbGF resolve to E on string 2
Mike, I’m really enjoying your videos and taking part in your journey to be a better player. Jazz is not as mystical as so many players make it out to be. It’s all about creating melodies. I’ve seen too many students take the approach you have by starting with a tune like Donna Lee. It’s a flashy head and sounds great. Really, a true classic of the genre but honestly, you’re just going to set yourself back by starting with something like that because unless you understand why those lines work, you will not be able to apply them to your own improvisations. It’s better to start with something simple (2-5-1) and work more on the rhythm than any scales. And the best advice is to just listen to a LOT of jazz in order to internalize the clichés. Good luck and enjoy the journey.
That’s exactly what Grant his teacher did is a 2-5-1 in c and targeting chord tones
@@kane6529 you’re right but then he fell into the temptation of learning Donna Lee instead of focusing on the 2-5-1 first. We’ve all been there. It’s a great bebop head but takes years to get absorbed into your playing.
I agree with you, especially concerning Donna Lee. I just commented earlier today. He did a great job with it, but I think Autumn Leaves and Satin Doll are going to set you up for earlier success and then move on to the more daunting Donna Lee and eventually Giant Steps or whatever he chooses.
well said, I just started to learn jazz guitar a couple month's ago. Chords are the coolest thing about it because I never had to play chords like them ever. In some ways some of the chords are easier than rock chords and in other ways way harder, but something really natural about it.
That made me happy. Well done..
i too am learning jazz in my lessons. I'd like to give you something to think about thats helped me so far:
first, instead of thinking in pentatonics, think in chord tone arpeggios. and practice those a lot. break it down to do 7's alone, 11's alone 9's alone and then do melodic patterns.
then target lead tones and enclosures to vary your solos.
This was super interesting!
Very cool to see you venture so far outside of the blues comfort zone. The technique is there, it just needs a ton more practice to become more instinctive.
I'm nowhere near able to pull that stuff off and I've played on & off for 35 years.
Huge tip, Listen to Grant Green. Highly underrated jazz guitarist and he plays relatively simply compared to others like Barney Kessel and Kenny Burrell. “Idle Moments” might be one of his best albums.
Im teaching myself voicing and impro. The approach Im going to use is to lv up my tone changes. Many good impros happens around that. A single note can be different tone/interval depending on that, even chords. Thats the use of a pedal note. What an experience jazz musician do is doing it on real time, changing his tone but going to the same point. Some musicians are not doing chromatics, they asume what sounds chromatic as the note under the chord of a changed key.
Great job!
Hey, I found your channel when Christian Van Hemert made a video. I Loved his video. I think you'er a guitar player who can REALLY become a GREAT jazz player, especially under the Tutelage of Christian Van Hemert. I've been a guitar player for over 45 yrs, I just became a gypsy Jazz player 3 yrs ago, I actually went back to guitar during Covid, and Gypsy Jazz is ALL I play now.
I believe christians audience would LOVE to see you and him do a a compilation video. All the best Cheers!!!
That's a fine start, what you've accomplished in a week would take me months. Good luck going forward, I'm sure you'll get there and enjoy the journey.
I know nothing about jazz, but everything I’ve played in a jazz context, I’ve always just had the mindset that no notes are wrong notes. Just don’t stop till you hit a right note, then let your ear reacquaint with where you are. Half step slides are also a really easy way to blend pentatonics into a more jazzy sound.
Wow! You really sound great after working on that piece for 7 days.
Hats off to you for tackling Donna Lee for your first jazz standard 😮
Thank you sir , I loved this
Great video. I have no doubt your playing will get to the point of satisfaction.
Remember, music is a journey, not a race!!!
damm, I am at this exact point in my life too (on bass), I've been playing for 7 years as a hobby, but today I got my first bass lesson after a while. It's amazing
Sounds very good!
Just in these days i'm learning Donna Lee on bass, and i'm empatizing with you on this video.
Welcome to Jazz 😎 It’s challenging and rewarding! Sounds great for 7 days 👍👍 well done!
Hi Mike. When I first saw the name of this video I was really concerned. As a music teacher and professional musician mostly playing jazz I can attest that it’s impossible to learn anything let alone jazz in 7 days. It turns out the video is excellent. It’s a perfect example of how to practice difficult material. I like that you reached out to other players for insight and inspiration. The only thing I find sad is the fact that we need to use click bait titles to get the views.
Not blaming you man. It worked and the video proved informative. So….rock or should I say Jazz On! Thanks for sharing.
Jazz up sir- I congratulate you!
Hey Mike! Glad to hear you got that spark back! You've really inspired me to start my own journey to try to get that spark back into my own playing! Could you please share what apps you used to practice those Jazz solo riffs? I don't know anyone that can teach me Jazz guitar but I would love to maybe start on my own with apps and then move on to getting lessons.. Thank you!
Bro I was yelling "DO DONNA LEE" and then you did Donna Lee. Yayyyyy!! And it turned your guitar pink!! Yayyyyy!!!!
For a moment you kind of scatted/sang what you were playing and dude, just keep doing that, idk how but it just locks you in and helps so much to do that when learning a new piece or even when improvising.
love the fact we have the same D'Angelico!
Joe Pass! Kenny Burrell is one of my favourite guitarists. His album with John Coltrane is fantastic. Good job discussing and demonstrating the challenging jump to jazz. Inspiring.
Putting off dealing with your guitar playing issues (or any issue for that matter) will inevitably lead to a compounding amount of pain later on. After 10 years of playing i finally started learning theory and understanding the fretboard and it has been one of the most stressful things i've ever done. Forcing myself to finally embrace that feeling of inadequacy was incredibly difficult.
That was cool! Thanks! Inspiring discipline! I'm going to go and practice! :)
Slowly becoming my favorite guitar channel
Transcribing just the rhythm of a lick (using any notes you want) will help broaden creativity in sounding jazzy.
The thing about Jazz is, it's all encompassing.
People hear the word "Jazz" and have an immediate charicature in their head.
But Jazz is basically all modern music.. Do they mean Blues-Jazz, Swing-Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Free-Jazz, Jazz-Rock - basically take any genre or style of music, and it can be encompassed by Jazz.
Grant is a great teacher!
Nothing is hard of you know the solution.
When studying a new style of music in this case jazz.
What I genuinely do is always play g mixolydian on top 3 strings.
All notes as you can see are placed on the dots 357
This makes it really easy to know where home is when moving off the dots.
This is also c major scale for those that don't know the names in order.
This scale is a must for anybody who wants to learn anything new and a good skeleton than working on the scale from where we do 233 notes on strings than 332 which makes it difficult to understand as the semi tone notes are placed next to a note than on the upper and lower string.
Hope this helps for future projects
Solid progress, Mike! looking forward to seeing how you get over certain practicing challenges. By the way, were you at the Plini/Jakub Zytecki/ Sungazer concert on the 20th?
I love this! As a professional artist it can be hard to keep that passion to push my boundaries and practice my craft and new spaces in my craft. I love your approach and your new found zeal. It is contagious. Thank you for posting this video!
Awesome video! Funny timing, about two weeks ago I decided to start journeying down the road of jazz, and have become completely obsessed. I’ve never felt my guitar playing improve at such a rapid pace as it is right now 😃 completely lost and confused while learning so much interesting ideas at the same time
Thats some good progress for a week man. I still have a hard time picking my instruments up thinking there are people who don't deserve to see/hear me get better. weird huh? working though it ;)
Bebop/Hard bop, and everything that follows, are the musical peak of electric guitar. However, imo, Grant Green is the man. It's the blues, always the blues. Miles Davis never said he played jazz, he said he played the blues.
Grant Green is one of the best…
Always good to try another genre,I randomly became interested in classical. I suppose its because I play alot of metal and we all know metal is just classical with electricity
it took me 4 years to be able to solo,over chord changes, i just got frustrated but now i can kinda find my way in a solo
Well done
Relate to this so much. Im a pentatonic junkie with a few tricks. And i know to change i need to learn - and ive been on that journey and cba 😂
You could document your one year jazz progress. Would be interesting imo. Have fun playing :)
You did great, especially for only 7 days. You'll be teaching in 6 months.👍👍👍👍