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The Art of Playing Jazz Guitar - A True Preparation Primer Part 2

In part 1; we discussed various metronome thinking about the spoken voice and how
techniques to advance our awareness, you would convey three words in a
concentration, feeling, and broaden our sentence. Think about how by changing the
minds while practicing. This article will phrasing and articulation of our three
go into what we should be practicing and, words, or notes, we can change the
more importantly, thinking when using meaning of them entirely. In fact pick an
those techniques.Music is made up of actual 3 word sentence and speak it with
three basic elements, Melody, Harmony and your guitar rather than using your voice.
Rhythm. All are interrelated and we This is where we truly start learning
should not try to isolate them because melody.If we were to find someone we
this will not take us where we want to don't know and say to them; "What is your
be. We instead want to understand each of name?" We would get a response. Don't
them in a unique way so when eventually forget that a non response is also a
combined they make a more poignant whole. response. We must realize the actual
Melody was first on my list so let's response we get is dependent on how we
start there.Our melodies will make or phrase and/or articulate our words and
break our playing - Period!When we realize that we can control this response
practice melodies we must remember that only if we understand its relationship to
for each tune we work on there are our actual question.I'll explain. If we
probably lyrics for it. If you do not were to say those exact words in a
know the lyrics, stop and get a copy. teasing, tormenting and antagonistic
Read them, speak them out loud, sing them manner we would get one response. If on
and learn them until they become part of the other hand we were to use an openly
you.Next, listen to the greatest friendly demeanor we get an entirely
vocalists sing these tunes. Listen to different response all together.By doing
their phrasing, their articulation, how this simple thought exercise we realize
they use their mouths, tongues, teeth, that using the exact same words spoken in
lips, lungs, body posture or whatever different ways produces vastly different
they do to produce the sounds. Think responses.By observing, understanding,
about the ways we can incorporate all of and practicing this behavior we can learn
those things into our guitar to exploit and utilize this technique to
playing.Unfortunately, the guitar is an our advantage to allow the full potential
instrument that has no air blowing in our guitar playing that invokes the
through it so we have to improvise. Also response were seeking, whatever that may
the patterns of scales and chord happen to be.The human voice is of
fingerings we were taught when we started particular concern to us because our
don't help our creativity. I'm not saying ultimate goal is to emulate what it does
that we shouldn't learn them but many with our instrument. We want to be able
times practicing only these will leave us to communicate with our guitars the way
stale and stiff.Case in point, did you people communicate when they speak to
ever transcribe a great jazz guitar solo each other - which is not unlike
only to realize that the fingerings melodies.As babies, we were only able to
needed to play it are no were near what make rudimentary noises to communicate.
we were taught about standard fingerings Years later, hopefully, we are able to
for guitar scales?So what do we do?Start form intelligent rational thoughts and
off basic and I mean so basic that we're convey them with our words using
probably way ahead of ourselves already. articulation and phrasing and word
Be aware of the endless possibilities of combinations to mean many things. We want
making each note and then break it down to apply this to our guitar
to the point where we are left with only playing.Remember, it took us years to be
the rudimentary elements of producing a able speak in this manner and we should
single tone on the guitar. The atomic approach practicing melody with the same
tone so to speak.For instance, if we play realization and not try to run before we
with only the thumb of our picking hand can walk.We should also remember that
as opposed to a plectrum we get one type even babies can communicate in a very
of sound. If we play only down strokes compelling manner without using words at
with our thumb we get a different sound all! So don't be afraid if this practice
again.Let's delve into this further as it routine seems too simple. It's not the
is important.If we play with our index notes you use, it's what they are
finger, middle finger, a plectrum on the actually communicating that is
pointy end, on the fat corner, on the fat important.What can we deduce from all of
end, upstrokes, down strokes, whatever, this? When you start finding yourself
we can make all kinds of sounds. In fact, practicing or playing those blazing fast
there are so many possibilities we may cool scalar riffs, stop and think about
never get to them all in our how many times you hear actual people
lifetime.Hopefully you see where I am speak like that.Now - ask yourself how
getting at and we haven't even discussed long you would stay and listen to them if
the fingering hand yet nor have we they did.That's it for now but look for
discussed any particular notes, pitches, new articles in the future and remember;
dynamics etc...Don't let that stop you. have fun, practice hard and always play
Start learning this now and you will be your heart out!John Belthoff is an avid
happy you did.Ok what's next?Select 3 web developer who plays and teaches Jazz
notes and work with only them while Guitar in his spare time. He owns an Asp.




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