Best Guitar Lessons - How to Practice Jazz

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How to improve at jazz guitar ? (and practice jazz improvisation in general)

*Don't let yourself be discouraged!*

1- Spend time with your instrument :

Personally, I had a harder time in the beginnings. I cherished every little improvements that appeared in my playing, little step by little step. It made me realize that the efforts are always rewarded, one way or another...

Work at it, and you'll get results. Spend the necessary time...


2-Planning

Like any project you need to have a "direction". Know where you're going and why you're practicing THIS thing right now.

It doesn't matter if you change "paths" along the way : simply aim somewhere useful. (examples : "I want to play convincingly on 12-bar blues" or "I need to memorize 10 standards" or "I will do this or that transcriptions from Wes" etc.)


3-Step by Step Thinking Long-Term

It takes a significant time investment to play an musical instrument better. Think Long-Term and make every minute count : 30 minutes today, then an hour tomorrow, 15 minutes over the weekend, etc.

All of that SUMS UP! That's how you created the player that you are now (and creating the one that you'll soon be.)


4- By Leaps

You'll notice changes in your playing by "jumps" rather than by a steady upwards curve. The longer you've been "stuck" somewhere, the closer you are to your next "Leap" in improvement!

Keep going! You'll wake up one morning and do things on your instrument that you never taught you could! That is the sum of all your practice sessions. Do you believe in miracles?

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• improvisation
• improving

[besamemucho5]

WOW.....where were you with this kind of talk when i needed you....? i started playing guitar many years ago and i quit because i thought that guitar playing was for talented people only...now i know better...if you don't practice in a serious manner you will never cross that first hurdle that seems to be out there after a few months of practicing...thanks for your vids...you made me a subscriber with this video...

[jazzguitarlessonsnet]

@besamemucho5 Wow! Thank you, I'm glad you liked it. Practice Well. M-A

[aquaphone]

Thanks so much, very encouraging.

[jazzguitarlessonsnet]

@aquaphone Thanks for watching!

[manifestgtr]

this is absolutely true man...I tell this stuff to my students all the time...guitar is not guitar hero...unfortunately you won't be able to play like holdsworth after 5 or 6 hours of practice...if it worked like that, guys like him wouldn't be so amazing...ive been playing since I was 7 years old and 20 years later I'm just starting to be happy with my playing on a regular basis...music is every bit as complicated as medicine...anybody who denies that is deluding themselves

[jazzguitarlessonsnet]

@manifestgtr Good point. Thank you for commenting. (-:

[0live0wire0]

great site, i'm checking it out right now and for a few hours i learned a lot. Thanks.

[lucaslop123]

Dude this is very true. My problem is... At my first beginning, i could practice like 10 hours of guitar chromatics and stuff, but with time... i started learning musics, and that "ruined" my career, i mean not ruin but, it took all my love from learning chromatics to practice and learn musics...

And now it's very difficult to me to re-have that passion and love for chromatics. I really know that i need it, but somehow i just can't do it. I start practicing, it lasts like 30 min then i quit! :S

[baro455]

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[Khamomil]

I spent 20 years in the USA, had several private teachers, none of whom had a way of teaching jazz that made sense over all. Especially how to improvise, and how to use the different scales. I wish the internet had been up back then. I will never be a pro but am going to start again after quitting so many years ago.