Jazz Guitar on an Ibanez Prestige SV 5470

Trying to play Jazz on a great guitar..

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[TheBlakem]

no arguing..ok guys.. I have come a long way from this video.. I understand the modes, chord forms and scales, box positions playing off of chords... jazz is expression, like blues.. it has form, but it is also free.. dont put it in a box..... sometimes too much schooling can ruin your free form ability. My sister is a great example.. she is an accomplished clarinet player, but she cant just jam, she needs sheet music in front of her.. I would love both schooled skills and jam ability..

[JamaisMEC]

Mike, I've moved over from rock-fusion about 6 years ago, focusing totally on jazz, and taking lessons from some well-known jazz recording artists. F everyone else, K? You've got a knack for it, dude, and I would SERIOUSLY encourage you to continue. What you're playing to my ear is a popular form in Brasil these days, a sort of samba-rock fusion that works very well with jazz rhythms. I like your stuff, with key being, as Herb Ellis would say, you ability to play smoothly and on the beat!

[TheBlakem]

@JamaisMEC Wow man thanks so much! I love playing free form along with the beat.... I am grateful for the encouragement.

[leonoff89]

are u pro or a hobbyist u sound good by the way

[TheBlakem]

@leonoff89 semi pro, I play in a working wedding band...

[chrisatronx]

Not really really jazz is it? Playing lead on the clean setting doesn't turn your playing into jazz. You were mostly just playing rock'ish lines. You put a few chromatic notes in there but still that doesn't simply make your playing jazz.

[TheBlakem]

I think it was definitely Jazz lines, I think not throwing in any chords maybe an issue, but jazzy for sure..... I listen to a lot of jazz players Mike Stearns for instance, and his lines are like that as well.. so yes, it is jazz.. why isn't it in your opinion? Whats jazz in your opinion?

[baz0k]

Nice sound, but you are playing beside backing track. Pay attention on harmony. It will make your playing more sophisticated. Last but not least is a rhytm. In this video you're just rambling on guitar. You should start to think about playing as speaking. Why don't you use pauses? It will help you to make more interesting phrases.

Anyway great guitar! Keep playin. Greetings :)

[jess1541]

I have an S470DX myself and I've gotten some pretty good jazz tones from it. Definately more versitile than I thought it was. I've performed at school band concerts with it a few times, but not sure if it'd be "classy" enough for a full jazz club/restaurant gig!

Great playing by the way.

[blephara]

Cool! Lovely Jazz tone, very latino! Good job!

[Kursplunky]

thats sweet man! for some reason i thought this guitar was mainly for like metal or something. awesome though, if only i had money haha.

[FrostlordTheWizard]

actually that was pretty sweet!

What kind of pickups do you have there? Sounds stock, but the quality isn't so good to be sure of that.

[Dgray1392]

this was pretty sexy bruh lol if u r better now i would love to hear more

[yksiolac]

@NathanSnyder13

yeah bro, just trying to be helpful. Wes Montgomery probably is an example of what you meant by Improv that i would understand why you'd call it Improv. Wes never had any music theory, and simply was a musical genius. I'm no musical genius, and for me to understand what jazz makes it 'jazz,' thus, the school of thought I'm pointing out. before i can think/play 'outside the box," i must fully understand first what's 'inside the box' so i'd fully understand too how/why it works.

[yksiolac]

@NathanSnyder13

try playin an open jam jazz improv with other jazzheads in a jazz club.. let me know if they weren't playin any Real Book tunes and didn't know their II-V-I and altered scale. ask a jazzhead guy how he transcribes jazz improv lines, how he understands it and apply it to a different song/situation.. ask Berklee or MI how they teach 'jazz.' If I'm wrong, then Scott Henderson, Joe Diorio, Howard Roberts, Carl Shroeder, & the rest of the GIT faculty are all wrong, after all.

[yksiolac]

@NathanSnyder13

Yeah, but Jimmy Bruno can probably play any jazz standard tune in the Real Book, applying what you just played in different situations. That's Jazz. There's a difference between playing Jazz, and playing to sound "jazzy." It's all about understanding why certain 'shapes' work on certain situations. Jamming along a chord progression like you did is ok, but it doesn't end there. Learn tunes from the Real Book and try to apply what you learned from J. Bruno's dvd. Then, it's Jazz.

[leonoff89]

@leonoff89 eh youre not too bad at playing jazz just some practice and you gonna right on the spot learn some jazzy chords to throw into solos to spice it up a bit :)

[prabowoputra]

cool guitar! wish they still do natural rosewood headstock like the those on older S prestige

[yksiolac]

@TheBlakem

nice guitar, nice playin :) ...if you're talkin abt jazz technically, it's pretty much being able to utilize the altered scale over functioning dominants, playing chord scales (modes), and jazz standard songs that have common chord progressions like III VI II V I, etc.. but hey, great playin bro! cheers!

[flo157g]

it sounds a bit like the melodies in super mario sunshine

[mqblues]

Nice clean playing. Ignore the couch players that criticize your approach. Given the limits of the backing track you covered the improv portion well. Keep learning and enjoy the music!

[Ps3capt]

awesome

[blingnelly]

nice playing:-)

[elvisPTpor]

@TheBlakem a jazzy playing for sure not jazz but a fusion kind of melody. very very interesting cheers mate

[johnnynocaster]

I'm not really a jazz player either but that sounded great. Right now I don't own an Ibanez and never have but I will be buying one.....SOON.