How to Play Jazz Guitar : How to Get the Jazz Sound From Your Guitar

[coolmega33]

when i play jazz i usually try to make it as bassy and warm as possible without being muddy at all

[7thvenom]

I see alot of you commenting are knocking this video....And that is because you already know your shit... but for someone who has never picked up a guitar and does not know what a tone knob or a neck pick-up are....then this could be helpful.I take it everyone on here loves guitar and jazz and real music.... we should stick together.....anyone giving free advice on jazz guitar is doing the right thing.....lets stay family and keep jazz alive peace

[kennyispoor]

Dude 6you just make a video of you just jammin on all your different styles :D

causei i could totally listen to you all day

[TreyPayneMusic]

are you hiding the headstock so we wont see the SE stamped on it?

[TheManteaser]

@TreyPayneMusic Carved top in the video, none of the SE series have a carved top, bud.

[Thegibsons335show]

Scrapple from the apple :D:D::D::D:D

[STICKWARROCKS]

out of tune...

[ArkRed1]

You might try tuning the guitar first.

[cripplicious]

expert village sucks at all their lessons... seriously, they are all like B grade

[fishqwer]

rolling off too much tone is such a rookie mistake... Try rolling off the VOLUME about 10% (the last 10% of a volume knob lets a lot of highs bleed through) and roll off the tone a very little bit (if necessary). Let the amp define your tone, so you get full potential out of your pickups rather that rolling off the tone too much and sounding like mud.

[y2zgt]

The best way to get better at jazz is to listen to more of it!!!

So many people that are interested in jazz and want to play it just can't because the simply don't listen to it enough.

Turn off the rock, metal, hip hop or whatever for a week and simply listen to jazz! You'll be amazed at how much better you get.

So the best answer for playing jazz, its listen to jazz!!! (alot of it)

[webrokeyourbed]

@y2zgt do you have any suggestions to listen to? Because i am interested in expanding my collection.

[y2zgt]

@webrokeyourbed "chops" by joe pass. "waka/jawaka" by frank zappa. "the incredible guitar of " by wes montgomery. just search them on youtube and find who you like. There are many styles of Jazz.

[humanrights4all]

C'mon people, stop the side talks.. the guy cant baby walk everyone towards their ultimate tone, he is just giving out the basics and is doing a good job !

[Quincy0047]

Oh, this is how to get a jazz tone. Bah, I could have figured that out by myself. I thought this was going to be on jazzy sounding licks and chords -.-

[BattyCuss]

I been playin' a long time and I always wondered why there were tone adjusters and a choice of pick-ups on Electrified guitars. Thanks for enlightening me.. After all these years, I finally realise why my guitar sounds Jazzy! (Well it would. It's a Gibson ES 175 with flat-wound strings!) Now tell me something I don't know. There's plenty to choose from, cos I sure don't know everything! :)

I hope some rockers glean summat from this though! Thanks.

[7thvenom]

@BattyCuss What about me..i just bought my first guitar a 1962 Telecaster reissue,I know only 3 chords and this video helped me Get a little more jazzy sound out of it. Also by reading what you just wrote i googled what flat-wound strings are and now i know a little more, you have a Gibson ES 175.I read alot about that as well and i now know i need to practice practice practice before i invest in a BEAUTY like that.These simple videos realy help beginners.just like ur simple reply helped me

[riseboy]

@ 9gibsonlespaul. with the combo of that amp and guitar it will be difficult to get a rich jazz tone. if you find the tone is being squahed use a little bit of overdrive(or clean boost) to thicken the sound.

[9gibsonlespaul]

I have a 1957 les paul standard and a Vox VT 30 amp. I am having troable getting a good jazz tone, i use the neck pick up but can't seem to tame the treble without squashing the rest of the tone. please help me. I am in jazz band at school and need to get the right tone

[9gibsonlespaul]

I have a 1957 les paul and a Vox VT30 amp, what should i do to get a jazz sound, no matter what i do it sounds too bright, or completely undefined

[piccinini02]

your poor or what?? just buy an semi hollow used guitar and get that "sound" of jazz

[ChrisBuckethead]

@piccinini02 hey few people afford to buy another guitar so if your rich shut up

[TrueMetalLoverVK]

Anyone tell me a good jazz song to learn? I'm new to jazz but im kinda ok in Metal.

[JosephIbrahim88]

equinox by coltrane. I've got a seymour duncan jazz pickup in the neck of my epiphone les paul. Sounds great for jazz, blues, and rock especially rock with a wah pedal

[KClock3r]

try autum leaves its pretty simple but it has all the basics with the chord progressions.

[BattyCuss]

'Stella by Starlight'. in Bb.. You want to play jazz, you HAVE to know this one.

An easier one, but also essential is 'Autumn Leaves'. That's Minor based, usually Em. Just google the tilte and 'chord changes'

Good stuff, good luck!

BC

[liamzuid]

its a bit out of tune...

[johnwattdotca]

DustyPeople1... just turn the tone control further. During the sixties and early seventies with '67-68 Les Pauls, switching to the neck pickup with the bass on full was always a nice technique.

I've got a DiMarzio humbucker by my short scale neck and that's all it takes for me to be L5 jazzy with it.

And if you need to hit bass bottom, turn the bass on your amp all the way up too. With the right feedback effects you could be getting into the Humpback whales tone zone, echoing around the oceans.

[DustyPeople1]

He makes it seem like there's no way to get Jazz tones out of a bridge pickup, so what am I supposed to do with my guitar that only has one pickup in the bridge position?

[JakeSk8sINC]

just roll the tone off is about all, u could add a neck pickup if ur into building

[KClock3r]

u can i have done it on my prs se semi hollow. just roll off the tone almost all the way and turn ur amps treble settings down really low with some bass boost. mess around enough and youll find it.

[HermerTV]

omg

[kotekotekitty]

p90 pickup in the neck of an LP will get the best warm jazz tone imo

[MeatyMushroom]

Gain wants to be low, or turned completely down/off.

I dig that lick he does at the end :P

[skint0n0minted]

i've never seen a 'expert' village video with 5 stars in music vids.

you don't need a special kind of guitar to play jazz. just listen to jazz music and pick up some of the shit going on in the song.

i play jazz on classical guitar, electric, acoustic, they all sound great.

[eggymoo]

I've never seen an 'Expert Village' video with an expert in it...

[gdrugg2006]

@skint0n0minted

Yeah, because a lot of "expert" village videos suck.

[woshushe]

@skint0n0minted geez it's a basic explanation for wannabes...if you play jazz you don't need it, that's obvious! really jazz players are like those "malmsteen does it better" people? i don't think.

[7thvenom]

@skint0n0minted YOUR SAYING THE SAME THING HE IS SAYING SIR !!

[rockyanez1284]

cool

[twotheiternet]

I have a fender strat. How would i get a good jazz tone out of it?

[bloodyfrets]

Sell it and with the money buy a jazz box! And you will get a jazz tone "out of it". : ) Just kidding. Strats can do a lot but jazz? Doubt it.

[Syllerud]

Sorry man it came out wrong and i can't delete messeage, plz dont bother it.

[NapoleanXV]

neck+middle , tone off all the way

the guitarist in the jazz band I play bass in does this and it sounds good, of course alot is left to the amp as well

[JederLacht1]

String your strat with fairly heavy flatwounds, set the p/u selector to the neck pickup and turn your tone knob off or to one or two at most. Strum near the neck or use your fingers if you want.

[pandacommanda]

Medium-low tone settings, neck pickup.

[aektzis91]

sure can, back off the tone a bit and it will sound great!

[Roboctopus]

You're going to want to be in pickup position 4 or 5. I personally like 4 because it helps chords speak a bit better. Just take down the treble until it's mellow but not muddy. Sometimes it helps to give it a little mid boost, maybe take down the bass a little bit, and if your amp has a presence dial, take that down a bit too. The idea is to get a nice, round, and mellow sound quality while still retaining clarity.

[peterfunkIthe2nd]

Hi, what would you say about rolling the volume off a little bit to get that sound? (not a hidden sarcasm ...just practice bro). regs

[Gostate7779]

I am mesmerized... Neck pickup and roll tone back... I need to subscribe to this guy *sarcasm

[mknouse3]

The guys at expert village seem to consistently diliver THE WORST instructional videos on youtube.The name would lead you to believe that this Rtard is an "expert" jazz guitarist. This one's almost as funny as the "84 scales" guy. God Bless America

[Mydnytefantasy89]

I don' have to try for sounds. Vintage hollowbody with low gain a bit of bass some mids and treble. Perfect sound =]

[lhurien]

no matter what kind of sound you want to get... tune up first.

[Zobartan]

maybe I am on a wrong, I was just expecting sort of fusion sounds and how you can make your guitar sound funky and how you can have better quality on a jazz sound when recording, but this is far far away from "how to make your guitar sound jazzy" it more how to make your guitar sound lazy

[krullebol4]

god do tune up please...

[rackscrack]

Anyone who finds this to be helpful is either severely retarded or hasn't yet PLAYED their newly bought electric (or any other for that matter).

"WHATS THIS!? TO GET A DEEPER, DULLER TONE I HAVE TAKE THE TONE DOWN FROM ITS BRIGHTEST SETTING!? WHAT GENIUS FIGURED OUT THIS REVOLUTIONARY ANTI-CONSUMERIST STRATEGEM!? I WAS GOING TO BUY A SPECIFIC GUITAR WITH F HOLES, BUT IT SEEMS OTHER GUITARS CAN HAVE MORE THAN A SINGLE SOUND!" Yarp... fun times

[rackscrack]

WOO TYPOS!

[JAZZMANICK]

A jazz guitarist is never complete without

his hollow body with a fat woody sound.

If you like jazz get a hollow body life is short !

[greenlion22]

completely useless

[BeverlyHillsUp]

Im getting kinda sick over the whole over use

of the word 'jizz' . Okay, it was in that hilarious song

Jizz in my pants but honestly everyones being

really immature by relating everything to Sperm. ==''

[MartinZ136]

i was expecting some recommended pedals for guitarrist, not an specific guitar to be bought

[AugmentedMinor]

Sort of useful. I was expecting a more technical aspect.

[00zobi00]

And whose the target Audience for this chazz?

[guitartec]

Sounds like Jizz not Jazz

[punkiassjunki]

LOL. haha it was hilarious when he was tuning the tone nob n he was like "a bit more".... just abit more...a lil more..just abit more...abit more...a tiny bit more lol

[roguepenguin94]

i love jazz, it's the only music style that always feels like a challenge. and it's great cause there so many teqnuiques to master it's the neverending style.

[barrjordan]

what are good jazz guitarists?

[Shyuum]

Epiphone SG special could be one

[bungholio80]

Wes Montgomery most importantly, than Joe Pass, John Pizzarelli, Pat Metheny, Charlie Christian of course among many others.

[njdkidd1231]

here are great jazz guitarists...robert conti,tal farlow,wes montgomery,joe pass, johnny smith just to name a few

[punkiassjunki]

i reckon either george benson or west montgomery. montgomery is proberly better though i think.

[sumblocka]

i have a fender strrata caster and for jazz i use the middle to the front pickup i like jaz because it is so much fun and i just likek the way it sounds now i also luv things like rock such as Guns N roses adn Van Halen Allice Cooper White Snake The who but jazz just makes me ohh god just gets me excited

[jhum101]

with Strat-style guitars, would you recommend using just the neck pickup, or the neck-middle setting?

[bungholio80]

I usually just use the neck pick-up, it's a nice smooth sound and has a little more kick when you need it too also, neck-middle I usually use more for smooth rock tones or clean rock tones.

[frankypuente]

tried it but cant get that sound, could it be my behringer amp, which I believe is a thunderbird bass amp

[Markzyisme]

behringer are in my top 3 of worst amps ever.

[Nautilus987]

Which others suck?, please tell me!

[fuliend]

Try tube amps. They're powerful for rock, and exceptionally warm-sounding. Fender is great for jazz, but crate has some very cheap tube amplifiers. I can get a nice sound out of the smallest, cheapest Marshall model. But then again, I have a Gibson Black Beauty.