Dixon Nacey - How Insensitive Jazz Guitar Lesson

[felipecei]

Brazilian bossa is softer... All this if you strictly follow the rhythm.

[dragondix]

@felipecei Thanks for the advice. I'm certainly not an expert at playing Brazilian guitar (comping or melody), but I love the sound and feel of the great players and singers of this style.

[CaptainLOLLL]

Totally insensitive :>(

[andrewatwill]

This is cool how you used semi-artificial harmonics gives a really nice touch - such a great tune, one of my all-time favorite Jobim tunes :-)

[siuchin]

Did you play the background rhythm too? if yes, what are the chord/can you make a lesson for that too please :D btw nice solo!

[vecernicek2]

Your playing is wonderful as always. Thanks for inspiration. By the way, if you get in the mood for posting another lesson, I would surely appreciate your take on improvising on modal harmony. How would you approach improvising over many bars of one chord to make it sound more intriguing, with some tension and release.. I would love to see your ideas on that

[rexmiguechidoto]

sorry for commenting twice but. Can you upload a video of how you developed that thing of singing and playing? ¿is it something you practiced? I´ve seen Kurt Rosenwikel doing that too but im not sure if it is something developed of nothing (natural) or if it is something practiced

[dragondix]

@rexmiguechidoto practice this: sing every note you play when working on exercises, say running scales (and arpeggios are even better, as they have wider intervals). Try and be as accurate pitch wise as possible (I'm not a singer so I'm not great at pitching), but the concept is to be 'singing' ideas from your head / ear / heart without the guitar getting in the way. Then after a few months of doing this, sing BEFORE you play the notes. Then keep doing it! I've been working on it for years...

[CaptainLOLLL]

@dragondix I too would LOVE a video giving tips on how you developed this... LOVE YOUR WORK!

[rexmiguechidoto]

hey man, can you upload a video of exercises for developing swing feel on solos?

[dragondix]

@rexmiguechidoto listen to lots of great swing feel guys - benson, wes, jim hall, joe pass. Learn their comping, their solos. Emulate their feel EXACTLY. Then, when practicing, use swung 8th notes (the dotted triplet feel) to play through things you are familiar with, scales, arps, patterns, exercises etc - but try this: don't 'bounce' on either of the played beats - down beat or up beat. Very slightly accent the second beat (upbeat), but not too much. This will help your swing phrasing!

[Sandemose]

1:13 and onward was enormous...gosh...what kinda name is dragon dicks anyway? Best, Sandemose

[dragondix]

@Sandemose ok - geek moment, when i was younger that was my 'gaming' name. Dragondix... sad but true lol.

[brendanmarkhall]

Yeah. Dix you should post videos more often! Hope that wasn't insensitve!