Critic my Jazz Improvisation Solo practice

[Aid7321]

Hi to all! Newbie here I need help and advice to learn more about jazz guitar playing. I want to know your thoughts on my jazz guitar improvisation practice (to help me improve my jazz guitar learning journey - See Video Below). I’ve been playing guitar for more than 10 years (played classical guitar pieces and rock music). My basic approach in improvisation is to play a jazz chord (i.e.CM7) and then improvise over that chord. And this is what I did in the video below. What other methods can you recommend for improvisation? Thank you so much for your time!

https://youtube.com/shorts/3zKM96PIpiU?feature=shared

[ragman1]

Honestly? Nice classical style but it's not jazz.

Tip: Play tunes. You'll have to improvise over tunes if you want to play jazz.

[ragman1]

But if you'd like to try something similar to what you were doing, only jazz, try this. It has 'jazz' chords in it and swings. Yours had no swing and was basically classical guitar. Well played, but not jazz.

[Aid7321]

But if you'd like to try something similar to what you were doing, only jazz, try this. It has 'jazz' chords in it and swings. Yours had no swing and was basically classical guitar. Well played, but not jazz.

Thank you for your insights
So the timing/rhythm style of jazz is what is essential. I probably should be more familiar playing jazz standard tunes to adapt to jazz types of rhythm. And practice to improvise over those tunes as well.

[pamosmusic]

Thank you for your insights
So the timing/rhythm style of jazz is what is essential. I probably should be more familiar playing jazz standard tunes to adapt to jazz types of rhythm. And practice to improvise over those tunes as well.

Yeah. If you’re interest is in jazz then you’ll need to know tunes and idiomatic jazz vocabulary.

but any improvising at all will use the changes without being hemmed in by them, so the chord/play/chord/play approach is going to have some limitations

[ragman1]

Thank you for your insights
So the timing/rhythm style of jazz is what is essential. I probably should be more familiar playing jazz standard tunes to adapt to jazz types of rhythm. And practice to improvise over those tunes as well.

Yes, but you've got to start simply. What you were playing was advanced classical, so you can obviously do that well, but if something's new to you then it means going more or less from the beginning.

[pamosmusic]

Yes, but you've got to start simply. What you were playing was advanced classical, so you can obviously do that well, but if something's new to you then it means going more or less from the beginning.

again I’m assuming we’re talking about jazz jazz — but agree with this and recommend blues tunes and Autumn Leaves as the essential “from the beginning” tunes.

[ragman1]

Aid7321 -

What I could do is recommend that you use the lessons on this forum. They're pretty good. They start with the simplest thing and get into jazz as it's really played. There's also a theory section.

I expect you'll be daunted. And it is rather daunting even if you already play to a good level. Actually, it may be especially daunting if a person already plays because one's already achieved a level of confidence. But it's like anything new, nothing ventured, etc.

Good luck with it. It's not easy but it gets easier. And you can ask things here as well.

https://www.jazzguitar.be/blog/jazz-guitar-lessons/

[wolflen]

Hi to all! Newbie here I need help and advice to learn more about jazz guitar playing. I want to know your thoughts on my jazz guitar improvisation practice (to help me improve my jazz guitar learning journey - See Video Below). I’ve been playing guitar for more than 10 years (played classical guitar pieces and rock music). My basic approach in improvisation is to play a jazz chord (i.e.CM7) and then improvise over that chord. And this is what I did in the video below. What other methods can you recommend for improvisation? Thank you so much for your time!

https://youtube.com/shorts/3zKM96PIpiU?feature=shared

OK you have good technique..you need to adjust your "style" listen to alot of jazz guitarists from the 50's through today.

You might like Joe Pass..do a search and explore some of his work.

Here is a good tune to work on that is a classic and many players have recorded it in many ways.

On Green Dolphin Street..Learn it in several keys..record it if you can and/or make a backing track and solo over it.

hope this helps

[Mick-7]

Thank you for your insights
So the timing/rhythm style of jazz is what is essential. I probably should be more familiar playing jazz standard tunes to adapt to jazz types of rhythm. And practice to improvise over those tunes as well.

After harmony, yes, but you're not dealing with jazz harmony, just improvising over a single tonal center. That's a good place a start but it's only step one, to play jazz you'll need to be able to improvise over chord changes/harmonic modulations.