Odd Time Signatures Guitar Lesson – Beginning 5/4 on a Jazz Blues in F
Odd Time Signatures Guitar solos can be very difficult to get into if you are not used to them. In this lesson I am going to go over how to hear or feel a 5/4 groove, play it through a blues and then expand this into a way of building a vocabulary that you can use for playing a solo in 5/4.
What we often forget is that we already have years of experience playing in 4/4 and that we rely on this whenever we play. It isn’t until we have to deal with a another meter that we start to notice how much we really use our basic feel of 4/4. So to learn to solo in 5/4 it is useful to first check out how to play a groove and understand how the meter sounds.
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Do you guys play odd meters like this? What tunes? ????
Gold…
Odd time signatures keep music fresh and interesting. 5/4 has been the most challenging and this was a great explanation.
Jens, great little video even though it's a few years old. I play piano, not guitar, but I still enjoy and get a lot out of your posts. I have have been polishing my jazz chops on Brubeck's Take Five the last few months so this is highly relevant. Thank you!
Great lesson really!!! I already felt a huge diference in my 5/4 feel with a 2 hours workout just combining all those rhythms with each other improvising on standarts turned into 5/4 , it's like I already feel where the music will resolve, thanks!!
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Thanks man
Hi Jens – I really enjoyed this. Have you done anything similar for 3/4 – not so unusual, but I love Wes Montgomery's Full House, so if you have any ideas on how to think about that, it would be great. 🙂
Very helpful, thanks, Dave!
I am trying hard to nail this odd time signature without strings in my guitar out of frustation
Please suggest me some simple melodic songs in odd time signature
Amazing!
hey is it okay if I use the groove you play at 2:37 as a backing track for a scholarship for a music program? (I will credit you!)
Hi Jens i love the choice you made of a blues for this lesson. Great choice immediately applicable that i will use 🙂
This is a great lesson
Thanks for the lesson, Jens, enjoyed it a lot. Would be cool to see some more videos on different complex rhythms, how to hear and feel them at least in the recordings.
really interesting, thanks
Amazing one!! Jens Thank you!
thnx jens awsum lesson, merry Christmas!! i have a request do chord melody all the things you are or some other song you like thnx
I’ve been playing a long time but I’m still what I would call “odd meter challenged”! 4/4 is what most of my gig tunes are in with some 3/4 mixed in. As you say in this video, 5/4 is mostly heard as “swing” in my mind—Thank you Dave Brubeck! ???? I look forward to more on this topic. I think with some creativity AND willing musicians, some of the “odd meter times” can put a new twist on the jazz standards I normally play on my gigs—without killing the original idea. Thanks Jen!
Very useful lesson Jens , many thanks . Hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a very groovy New Year . All the best Gary
Got here from Reddit. I'm shocked by the amount of videos there is. It's not that I'm not ready for it, it's just where do I start from?
Very nice ! Thanks for the video
419 by The Funk Ark, https://youtu.be/ZviZrkLQPRg
great video Jens!,..thanks a lot!…
I always thought of the take five rhythm as a 10/8 , because of the dotted quarter notes; and thought of it as compound rhythm. does this make sense?
Nice ????