May 2009 \ Premier Clinic \ Jazz \ Swing Comping Pattern

Swing Comping Pattern

Jody Fisher

Comping patterns for accompanying a jazz soloist
Premier Guitar May 2009

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Accompanying others in a jazz setting is very different from accompanying in other musical styles. In rock, blues and pop music, the guitarist is expected to lay down a steady rhythm. While there are times in jazz when this is also true, the guitar's role is generally to complement whatever the soloist is doing. In this lesson, we will discuss various ways to do this. Rhythmic ideas, taste and chord vocabulary will be our primary focus for now.


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MAC MAN
on 05/06/2009 		Awww! and it's a great lesson. ;)
MAC MAN
on 05/06/2009 		It works on mine Safari 3.2.1 G5 OSX 10.4.11 no problem. It is flash.
Doug
on 05/05/2009 		Too bad this won't play on my Mac at all, even after multiple attempts and downloads.
chris
on 05/04/2009 		Yeap........ Ditto.......can't get this stuff to play on my MAC either........ Have installed this plug in for shockwave a bazillion times and nothing. How about using windows media player or quicktime?
Scott B
on 05/03/2009 		I can't get it working either
tonemeister
on 05/02/2009 		I can't play it either. I used to be able to play them. I downloaded the plugin, which I thought I had, and still it says "No suitable plugins were found." I even shutdown FireFox and installed the plugin. Please use a standard format that works.
scott
on 05/01/2009 		same here. Why not use flash like everyone else?
jon
on 04/30/2009 		as usual can't play on my mac-"download problems"-why don't you get format that works???



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