Why Do I Still Suck?

The rhythm of "Straight, No Chaser" is used. I'll show you what I'm talking about here. ♪ Two, three ♪ (jazz music) A little rhythmic confidence, a little swagger and some swing and syncopation. One more time. (jazz music) They really don't. It doesn't matter at all. It doesn't matter, as long as you have this. Let's try it. Let's see if we can take our rhythm "Straight, No Chaser" and here any note is possible. I was really trying to get some good shapes, some good spaces here. You'll find that this sounds a lot better than hitting all the right notes on a B-flat blues and having it feel really dank and not great.

Let's try it here. You understood it. ♪ One, two ♪ I'll sing you the rhythm. ♪ Gu-ga-do-ga ♪ ♪ A-do-ga-do-ga-do-ga ♪ ♪ A-do-ga-do-da ♪ ♪ A-do-ga-do-da ♪ ♪ Do-ga -da ♪ ♪ Do-ga-do-ga-da-do ♪ ♪ Do-ga-do-ga ♪ ♪ A-do-ga-do-da ♪ ♪ A-do-ga-do-ga-do-ga -do-ga-do-ga ♪ ♪ A-do-ga-do-ga-do ♪ ♪ A-do-ga-do-da ♪ Try again, you got it. ♪ Do-ga-do-da ♪ ♪ A-do-ga-do-ga-da-do ♪ ♪ A-do-ga-do-ga ♪ ♪ A-do-ga-do-ga ♪ ♪ A-do -ga-da ♪ ♪ A-do-ga-do-ga-da-da ♪ ♪ A-do-ga-do-da ♪ ♪ A-do-ga-do-da ♪ ♪ A-do-ga-do -ga-ga ♪ ♪ Do-ga-do-ga-da ♪ ♪ Do-ga-do-ga-do-da ♪ Once again. ♪ Do-ga-do-ja ♪ ♪ Do-ga-do-ga-do-ya ♪ ♪ Do-ga-do-ga ♪ ♪ Do-ga-do-ga-da-da ♪ ♪ A-do-ga -do-ja ♪ ♪ A-do-ga-do-Ja ♪ ♪ A-do-ga-do-ja ♪ It's a turning point, right? Just with random notes you will sound much more confident, much better than without them, that's fine. Let's do a full four-chorus performance of this B-flat blues. This is for you to do whatever you want. You can choose what you notice.

Maybe you want the blues scale. Maybe you'll really try to play the changes of a B-flat blues, but I want you to

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hold the rhythm of "Straight, No Chaser" in your heart. And that doesn't mean you play every note. Again, you can take notes. ♪ A-do-ga-do-a ♪ ♪ A-boom-ba-do-da-oh-ch ♪ ♪ A-do-ga-do-a ♪ ♪ A-boom-da-da-da-da- da-do-bat ♪ ♪ Ba-do-ba-do-ba-da-da ♪ Maybe you play a bunch of them, maybe you play minimal as much as you want, but keep that melody, that rhythmic vocabulary super strong. in your mind as you go. It's a great exercise to get out of running changes and here are the notes to play and all that crap.

Just ignore that. Have fun. We'll go out with that. Until next time everyone, happy practicing. Enjoy. ♪ One, two, one one, two, three ♪ (jazz music)