I know the OP was a while ago, but I feel like he plays better than me for sure but we end up with some of the same issues. I noticed a couple of spots with triplets, dotted quarters, and some of the offbeat stuff where he came out of them a bit off...no biggie. And if I'm strictly counting a few of the changes are at teh wrong spot...no biggie either. My brain gets stuck in an eighth note pattern and as can't switch to a triplet feel that fast. I'm hoping more practice makes it better?
One thing I like to do is keep it real simple. We mostly come from some other genre that we can play well and fast. Jazz will knock you on your butt! So I start with just a nice bass line, then add simple eighth note arpeggios, then try adding extensions, then triplets, then do it all faster. I usually fall apart half way through that process but the more I do the simple things the more it drills the bass line into my head, the swing, the feel, the changes. So when I go to solo or improve the simpler stuff is not even on my mind. I like to play very simply and focus on tasty notes here and there and add complexity once the simpler step is basically musical muscle memory.
I'm not a great Jazz player so I try to take the Miles Davis approach of choosing each note very well and leaving space for the music to breath. But maybe I would choose to be more adventurous if I were better
Elias Prinz -- young talent from Munich
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