The same of course goes for this second rhythm, so first get comfortable with playing the rhythm and working on making lines over one chord at a time. Of course the next step after being able to play through the F blues with this rhythm is to try to open up so that you don’t use the rhythm all the time but still try to use it and get it to sit well in the rest of your melodic ideas.
In example 2 I have written out an improvised chorus over an F blues that I played using the rhythm. Once you have the rhythm under control and can easily play it and can make lines over a chord in time with this rhythm you can take it through a progression that you are familiar with. If you need to slow down or even to stop between phrases that is ok, it is part of the process.
Start with one chord and take it from there. Once that feels comfortable you can expand it so that you start working on making melodies with the rhythm. The first thing you want to try is to just play the rhythm on the guitar. The first rhythm, shown in exampe 1 is a really simple 3 note pattern. Learn the rhythm, practice making lines with it over one chord and then try to play with that rhythm through a simple F blues. To make it easy to learn we take one rhythm at a time. The same approach can also be applied to a rhythm. You are more likely making smaller goals so that you first learn the arpeggio in one position, maybe only one octave and then later more positions while trying to make lines with it and using it over easy progressions. If you are trying to learn a new arpeggio or a scale you are not immediately going to try to play it all over the neck in the middle of a tune. In this lesson I am going to go over one exercise that you can do to help develop more rhythms and quickly get them into your playing. This is of course very important but often you find yourself realizing that you need to develop your rhythms so that you don’t only play endless streams of 8th note lines. Most students learning jazz are working on the harmony and the scales and trying to hit the right notes.
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