How to Master Rhythm Changes

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So how do you master the seemingly difficult but important jazz song form rhythm changes?
Well, today I'm gonna show you 8 simple steps to do exactly that.
🕒CHAPTERS🕒
00:00 Intro
00:32 Step #1: The obvious first step
03:29 Step #2: Get "a-head" of the game!
04:47 Step #3: The first place I really start with improvising
07:17 Step #4: This makes the chord changes pop!
09:01 Step #5: Get really good at this instead of scales
11:45 Step #6: Exposure to these will generate ideas for your solos
13:31 Step #7: Time to get those tunes out of your head
14:31 Step #8: This still makes playing perfect!
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@Noyoliz 8 күн бұрын

Really helpful video! Especially the stuff about enclosure! 🙂

@Learnjazzstandards Күн бұрын

Thank you!

@kofblz 2 жыл бұрын

In Step #2, I recommend learning the melody to "I Got Rhythm" and jazzing that up a bit. That's how Rhythm Change "heads" started in the first place. It very much helps to keep that melody in your head as you improvise.

@stevesilver9069 2 жыл бұрын

One of the best tutorials out there, very clear and concise. But I agree with David that it's much easier to start bar 5 on the Fmin7 going to the Bbmaj7, 2 slashes each on the rhythm, and on all the following sections.

@pickinstone 2 жыл бұрын

Outlining all the chords is a good flavor, but I like learning the foundational harmony better--especially when navigating uptempo rhythm changes. It's a lot of V I relationships. Barry Harris explained it perfectly, IMO. Peter Bernstein also has a similar approach to finding the key harmonic movements to outline. Then, you layer in all the chords as Brent does here--and it's a flavor on top of that structure. Works better than the other way around, I think. More freedom and you can focus on groove and melodic development when you pair it down--to what the original changes were (ish).

@PhpGtr 5 ай бұрын

Dude. We don't need the extreme zoom. You have our attention, trust us. You don't need the editing tricks.

@benkatof5852 2 жыл бұрын

Great lesson and great timing for me - making this my next mission. Your advice on moving through fast changes and guide tones is good too.

@Learnjazzstandards 2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@frankvaleron 2 жыл бұрын

This is a super analysis. I have your book and I've learned a lot from it on functional harmony and intuitive understanding

@OrganicFaithFactory 2 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@Learnjazzstandards Күн бұрын

Thank you!

@johnstarks7759 Жыл бұрын

The eternal triangle with Diz and the two Sonnys. Stitt and Rollins. The greatest Rythm Changes recording ever made.

@24-7Guitars 2 жыл бұрын

Great step by step breakdown. Really well done😁👍🎸🎸

@Learnjazzstandards 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@MrJColtrane68 2 жыл бұрын

Good stuff Brent! Thanks

@Learnjazzstandards 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@ramasawmysokanaden4298 2 жыл бұрын

Super thanks

@slugoz7709 2 жыл бұрын

with the voice leading point, the way I was taught was to always try and use half steps when trying to learn the chord tones

@timvansamang 2 жыл бұрын

Your videos are great, man! just wanted to tell you that. Cheers!

@Learnjazzstandards 2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

@infinitydiy6412 2 жыл бұрын

Totally totally!

@ErnieBraganza Жыл бұрын

Wow! This just puts together so many great learning ideas! I'm inspired to get back to work on rhythm changes (I had kinda given up) and taking these steps to other tunes.

@Learnjazzstandards Жыл бұрын

Go for it!

@supersquidward1217 Жыл бұрын

This is the most helpful video ever 👍

@Learnjazzstandards Жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

@jasonleslie9491 Ай бұрын

no tablature? i love it!!!

@jandemencik6130 2 жыл бұрын

Hey , i like your Chanel à lot. I am jazz saxophoniste and teacher too and i find you very fresh and inspiring. Thanks for all you are doing here. 👍👍👍👍

@Learnjazzstandards 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@jandemencik6130 2 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍 super :-)

@alanhowell3646 2 жыл бұрын

Great valuable advice here. Thanks Brent. On another note the video zooming in and out and the jump cuts are a bit hard to watch though.

@Learnjazzstandards 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! Will tell my team.

@Jose.LP. Жыл бұрын

6:05 Mister Sandman 😊

@FlipnoteNeedle Ай бұрын

hope this works on remix 7 in rhythm heaven fever

@bcboy123 10 ай бұрын

Be nice if you would address what bassists should do. Thx.

@davidblazye9408 2 жыл бұрын

Solid advice as always Brent. Everyone does seem to have slightly different chord changes for Rhythm Changes though! It used to bug me but I kinda realise that's just the way it is with lots of jazz tunes. Personally I don't think of bar 5 as I major but a ii V well actually v minor to I dominant 7... and bar 6 I sometimes play as you have it but usually... IV Dom 7 to bVII Dom 7...

@TheClaumigue 2 жыл бұрын

v minor?

@davidblazye9408 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheClaumigue yes precisely! That was a typo...

@stephanosioannou1825 2 жыл бұрын

# 1 thing you can do is to just transcribe any Parker solo on rhythm changes

@greidererthomas Ай бұрын

Most Realbooks have at Bar 5 a dominant 7 of the root, why a major?

@bensjam6530 2 жыл бұрын

geil

@da504ever Жыл бұрын

is the chord tone map literally just Mr. Sandman? ....

@freddecker2407 3 ай бұрын

I think my problem with Rhythm Changes is I don't feel it. For example, I feel the blues. Maybe I am not a world class blues player, but I am still confident in saying I hear the blues and feel them. With Rhythm Changes I just don't feel it.

@fawder1014 3 ай бұрын

When playing it or listening to it

@THETYMEKK12 2 жыл бұрын

Wait... Is the "rhythm change" some kind of codename for something specific apart from changing rhythm in a song?

@wafflebatterify 2 жыл бұрын

Like he says in the beginning of the video, Rhythm Changes refers to the harmony of any song, like Oleo, that uses the same chord progression of the song I Got Rhythm.

@thomashightower7881 2 жыл бұрын

I know this is old, but "Rhythm Changes" is a 32 bar (split into four 8 bar sections) AABA song form taken from George Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm". It was and still is a popular set of chord changes for Jazz musicians to play on. A lot of more modern tunes are "Rhythm Changes" but with a different melody and possibly some slight variations to the chord progression. "Oleo" by Sonny Rollins, "Anthropology" by Charlie Parker, "Rhythm-a-ning" by Thelonious Monk, and "Salt Peanuts" by Dizzy Gillespie are all examples of Rhythm Changes tunes. So the name doesn't actually refer to the act of changing rhythms, but the chord changes to the song "I got Rhythm". Short answer is yes, it's just what people call a specific chord progression so that even if someone might not know a tune, they can still understand Rhythm Changes.

@jameslifetimelearner Жыл бұрын

And Swing 42

@Isosceles1 Жыл бұрын

I've heard it as instead of saying "lets play the 'I Got Rhythm' changes" it is shortened to "rhythm changes".

@sheireland3737 26 күн бұрын

Bernie Hancock describes rhythm changes differently in his Masterclass.

@Zura_Lanch 2 жыл бұрын

SOS UKRAINE!!!

@Lopfff Жыл бұрын

That bent red book in the background is so distracting. You’re gonna warp your book, man!

@nomesev8734 2 жыл бұрын

go to shcool dana

@sloperdad4835 2 жыл бұрын

I really like your stuff but please stop the zoom in/out every few seconds. Makes me nauseous and takes away from the instruction. Thanks.

@Learnjazzstandards 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! We will work on your feedback.

@lgoler Ай бұрын

Right away in step 3 don’t like your voice leading because the root of G sounds like shit. The better tone there is to play the flat 9 of G connecting to the diminished down, which is what everyone actually plays.

@MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out 4 ай бұрын

no 1, for you, and the grammerly ad girly. there is a "T" in important. Articulation in speech and music. ImporTant. not impor--int second, like Joe Pass says, and does, "i only think about the V".... Play G altered stuff 1st bar 2bars ... play F alt. stuff last 2 bars of turnaround and the first 4 bars......."i only think about the V .....at these tempos it's coming too fast to think the ii chord"....... It works.

@ErnieBraganza Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Learnjazzstandards Жыл бұрын

Thank you!