The beauty of jazz guitars
Whenever we hear the name Jazz Guitar, we simply know that it’s a smooth instrument used for the smoothest music in the history, Jazz.
Since its birth the jazz guitar has gone through many changes, from the classical acoustic guitar to the electric guitar, but at any given time it was able to make smooth deep sounds, used by many legends of Jazz, like Charlie Christian.
The beauty of the jazz guitar comes from the harmony that the guitarists create, using steady and balanced rhythmic phrases, almost imbued with the sense of natural breathing. Another beautiful part of the jazz guitar style is the use of stylistically ornaments, like slides and grace notes. Each sub-gender of jazz has its own style in accordance to its era, often inspired by the previous eras of jazz.
Back in the 30s and the 40s the Jazz guitar was used in big jazz bands, together with other instruments like the drums, usually played at a regular of four chords to the bar, even so, improvisation was possible using scales, modes and arpeggios associated with the chords in a tune`s chord progression. Jazz guitarists often prefer to improvise the chord and scale relationship instead of reworking the melody, mostly because of their familiarity with the chords.
The jazz guitar is as beautiful as it is mysterious, rock or country guitarists are known to “chill out” with a jazz guitar in a bar or at home.
Learning the jazz guitar is not necessarily hard, but it requires some theoretical and technical skills before one can try to master it, they must be played steadily under a stream of eight notes over a background of harmonic jazz tunes, a technique known as “melodic continuity”.
Some popular jazz guitar techniques are : the arpeggios, the alternate picking, string bend, pull-off`s , slides and vibrato. Even after mastering the techniques and the scales, the rhythm of the jazz guitar is simply art, one must listen carefully to great jazz players before diving in to reproduce or to create their own. Besides Charlie Christian other great guitarists are Herb Ellis, Howard Roberts and Barney Kessel.
A jazz guitar is great but it does need some other equipment to create smooth sexy jazz, equipment like : string gauge, the industry standard of .011-.052; string band: these can differ from guitarist to guitarist so experimenting with them is ideal; Amplifiers: the guitar is good but needs some help to be loud enough.
The jazz guitar is not just an instrument, it’s a way of life, and without love and passion it`s just strings on a piece of wood.
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