When You Practice different styles you learn skills that you can take use it to strengthen the way you play jazz. This video gives some examples of that! Of course this works if jazz is not your main genre as well. A lot of musicians check out jazz to learn more about playing over harmony.
Learn Jazz Guitar skills by studying other Styles
For me using other genres as a way of developing skills has been extremely useful. So I want to talk about what I have learned from playing other styles and hopefully you guys can also share some good ideas as well if there are skills you have picked up from other genres.
Table of Contents
0:00 Intro
0:36 Skills I have trained using other Styles of Music
1:14 Funk/Soul Strumming – What you Learn
2:33 Grooves, Sounds and Dynamics from Rock and Pop
3:55 Arpeggiating, incomplete chords and Using Effects
4:44 Samba and Bossanova – 2 Important lessons
4:51 Locking in with a groove
5:06 Example of a groove
5:29 Relating your solo to a Specific Rhythmical Pattern
6:05 Example of soloing
6:39 What Did you learn from other styles? Share some good tips!
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