Rhythms for jazz

[GPUK]

Hello,

Can you please help me? I'm looking for ideas on rhythm.

I'm having lots of trouble, can anyone out there give me some names/recordings of great examples of 'swing' and other essential rhythms.

I'm thinking that if I transcribe lots I may be able to cop or at least get an idea for their approach to playing.

Are there anyother tips that I can use, like accents on particular beats or whatever.

I know that this is a stupid newbie question, :embarass: , Thanks

[bubber]

Are you - or do you want to be - a drummer?

For swing rhythm, if what you mean is the jazz style of the thirties, for a start you could listen to Count Basie rhythm section from that period, and the small group recordings of Lionel Hampton and many of the Teddy Wilson/Billie Holiday records. IMO they illustrate what swing rhythm is all about.

Don't know to much about transcritions, but I guess if you got it in you, you'll get far by using your ears and find an expreienced jazz drummer to guide you.

[GPUK]

Thanks for the reply...I mean more modern jazz, I already play (guitar). I'm just having a little trouble sounding convincing.

[Kryssi]

What you are looking for might not be rhythm, but rather articulation. I recently started giving lessons to a guitarist who had never played jazz, and when I gave him a scale to try improvising with he didn't sound jazzy at all. I told him to listen to Wes Montgomery and pick up some of the ideas that he has, and to listen to artists like Tal Farlow, Pat Martino, and Jimmy Bruno as well. They use jazz articulation in their syncopation, slides, arpeggios, and basically all of the licks they play. That is the sort of stuff I'd listen to if I needed work developing a jazz sound.
My guitar teachers says it's good to try to sound like a saxophone. Maybe that helps, too.