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Wynton Marsalis’ 1-Minute Guide to Playing Hipper Rhythms

by Bob Reynolds Get exclusive music

Want to break free of those endless, meandering strings of eighth notes you keep catching yourself playing?

You know, the ones that seem to go on and on and on forever like a run on sentence but never really have a point or a destination or punctuation or anything that helps the listener engage with what you’re playing because it sounds monotonous and…

Listen to Wynton in this video and focus on 0:11-1:11. That’s the magic sauce right there.

Experiment with this for a week each time you practice and see how you’re thinking about your playing one week later.

About Bob Reynolds

Bob Reynolds is a jazz saxophonist and 3x GRAMMY Award-winning member of the instrumental supergroup Snarky Puppy. He's toured and recorded with John Mayer and released 11 albums as a solo artist. Bob teaches jazz improvisation and saxophone lessons through his Virtual Studio and an annual retreat for saxophonists.

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  1. Will says

    February 5, 2014 at 6:47 pm

    This vid needs to be accompanied by a pdf exercise.

  2. Mark Foster says

    May 15, 2014 at 3:37 am

    yup, the dopesauce… 🙂

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