Grab your guitar because today I’m sharing with you a killer exercise that is guaranteed to turbo charge your jazz soloing rhythms.

When learning how to solo over jazz standards and progressions, you learn scales, modes, arpeggios, licks, patterns, and more.

But.

What about rhythm?

Rhythm is the most important element in a successful jazz guitar solo.

It’s so important, that you can play a Coltrane solo note for note, and without solid rhythms, it falls flat. And…

You can play one note for an entire solo with strong, accurate, and swinging rhythms, and it’ll sound amazing.

Soloing rhythms are that powerful.

In this lesson, you explore a quarter-note soloing workout that’s guaranteed to take your jazz improvisations to the next level of creativity.

First, you solo with steady quarter notes, locking in with the bassline as you improvise.

Next, you add a single rest to each beat of the bar as you focus in on playing both quarter notes and quarter rests in your solos.

To finish, you freely improvise over a ii-V-I progression as these new rhythms begin to appear in your solos organically.

Have fun as you get a quarter-note workout in today’s jazz soloing lesson.

Get the TAB and notation for this lesson here.

https://www.mwgcourses.com/p/jazz-rhythms-quarter-notes

Lesson Contents

0:00 – Intro

1:00 – Soloing Exercise #1

1:45 – Soloing Exercise #2

2:55 – Soloing Exercise #3

4:03 – Soloing Exercise #4

5:03 – Soloing Exercise #5

6:10 – Soloing Exercise #6

7:27 – Further Practice