Description
Rhythm, and timing itself, is not necessarily the defining factor as to whether or not a piece of music is any specific style of music. For example, playing a straight quarter note strum against a swing beat would be no different than playing a straight quarter note strum against a country common time beat. Either way, you would be strumming 4 chords per measure. The style of music is more accurately defined by instrumentation, song form, and harmonic progressions. In other words, what kind of chords are being played and in what sequence the chords are being played. A rhythm guitarist strumming a repetitive rhythmic pattern, whatever that pattern may be, is common in all styles of music.
To sum up the above, a study of jazz rhythm is really a study of jazz chord structures and progressions. The rhythm itself being universal.
This is a Supplementary Lesson, level 6-6+. It includes 11 pages and CD.
