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Hi, this is Stephanie from Tomato's House of Rock and I'm going to show you how to play
a common jazz comping rhythm. So when it comes to jazz, a lot of it is all about the off-beats.
The off-beats are if you were counting a measure of four, we would have one, two, three, four.
The off-beats would be the eighth notes in between those notes, so we would have one
and two, and three, and four, and one, and two, and three, and four, and.
So, in jazz, using those off-beats or the "ands" of the numbers can really give you
that nice kind of percussive feel. So a nice classic rhythm is if you were to play on the
one and then on the "and" of three. So we would have one, two, and three, four, one,
two, and three, four. I might add in my right hand just so you can hear it sounding a little
bit fuller. We would just have one, two, and three, four, one, two, and three, four, one,
two, and three, four. So you can get a lot of mileage out of that.
A second rhythmic pattern that you can try would be playing on the "and" of two and the
"and" of three. So slowly so you can hear it we would have one, two, and three, and
four, and one, two, and three, and four, and. Again, just with the right hand to add a little
bit more we've got one, two, and three, and four, and one, two, and three, and four, and....
Then you can start to mix together. So maybe we'll put our two rhythms together for one,
two, and three, four, one, two, and three, and four, and one, two, and three, four, one,
two, and three, and four, and. So you can see it's just going to give you a little bit
more texture and the same thing can really heighten. If you're listening to what the
soloist is doing, you can choose your rhythms according to what sounds like it's really
going to play off of them well. So let's hear what that sounds like with some music.