How To Play 7/8 Time - Peter Martin | 2 Minute Jazz

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What's goin' on everybody? Peter Martin here for Two Minute Jazz.
I wanna talk to you today about playing in 7. Now, it's fun to
play in odd tempos, but it's not fun to get lost playing in odd
tempos. So I wanna give you just one little tip here for playing
in 7. And that is: play over the bar lines. Okay? So if we're
going, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7: And that's the groove. The tendency
is to want to play your solo lines like segmented by bar because
it's stretching out so long. So it'd be like, 5, 6, 7:


Okay? But that actually makes it harder to play in 7, I've found,
as opposed to playing over the barlines where you're thinking
more, or hearing it more: 5, 6, 7:


Then you can kind of come back to establishing the [beat] one at
different times. So the way to get into this is to start by
playing just over one barline, cause it's hard to stretch it over
many barlines. You gotta to get to the point where you really can
feel that groove even when it's, even when it's not playing. So
like right there, you might wanna take, just go over one barline.
So I've got like:5, 6, 7:


And then I'm going to the next chord. But instead of playing the
one, I'm gonna go: 5, 6, 7:


And then I'll wait until I get the next, that third bar to play
on the one, and kind of line myself up. Right?


So then once you kind of get to the point where you can spread it
over a number of bars, and you trust yourself, you can really
start to play with that time, kind of dancing around it,
resolving it when you want to. But it all starts by playing over
two bars, then you can learn to play over three bars, and then
you can learn how to play over four bars. Alrght? Happy
practicing.


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