3 Reasons You Will Regret Not Working On Chord Soloing

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Chord Soloing is one of the coolest sounds in Jazz Guitar. Here is a practical approach to getting started!
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00:00 Intro
00:42 How Not To Start!
02:06 Joe Pass And A Winning Strategy
02:55 A 2-minute Chord Solo method
04:10 Wes Montgomery And The Power Of Limitation
05:57 Making Jazz Chords Into Music
06:54 Bonus: Bring Chords Into Your Solos
07:10 Turning Scales Into Chords
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@JensLarsen Год назад

How The Pros Think About Chord Progressions (and you probably don't): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-msmdbxsjmvI.html

@aadityakiran_s Год назад

Hey. You shifted the time of your premier by one hour. Why? It used to be at exactly the time I got off work and I could watch it on my way back home. Not complaining but just asked.

@JensLarsen Год назад

@@aadityakiran_s I didn't change anything, maybe you guys had daylight savings change?

@kevindonnelly761 Год назад

@@JensLarsen We recently had a daylight saving change in Aussie. Everything is one hour later.

@aadityakiran_s Год назад

@@JensLarsen No. There's no concept of daylight savings here. You used to post an hour earlier. I remember clearly. We even talked about it. Ah doesn't matter. Great content as always.

@aadityakiran_s Год назад

@@JensLarsen Oh and do you know this guitar player called Derryl Gable? He's a huge fan of yours and tells me about you in every lesson. He has a RU-vid channel also. I'm taking lessons from him now. I'm very happy.

@RC32Smiths01 Год назад

Chord solos are so cool. Especially the effort to put it all together with technique and knowledge of theory!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you like them!

@rickjensen2717 Год назад

Easily the highest form of jazz guitar in my opinion - when done well with purpose and sensitivity its simply sublime.

@JensLarsen Год назад

It is indeed a great sound :)

@herculesrockefeller8969 Год назад

Chord melody is my favorite type of playing. I don't know why I started to play it, but I took to it many decades ago when I came across it in a Mel Bay book. So I guess to me it fulfilled the promise that the guitar is a mini orchestra. Thank you, Jens!

@JensLarsen Год назад

I am sure you will find this video useful 🙂

@dannyhood7433 Год назад

Andre Segovia said guitar was mini orchestra. I could be wrong , but I think he meant (each guitar string) represented a different instrument within the orchestra

@Kinda___Happy Год назад

Jens you are the goat, this was a perfect/ accesible gateway to start practicing and implementing chord solos that also strengthens and introduces new voicings. Thanks you 🙏

@samsantanamusic Год назад

Good video as always, Jens! What’s great about chord soloing is that once you’ve practised it enough you can basically play any song by yourself and make it sound quite full and arranged. This applies to all genres really, not just jazz. It’s a super valuable thing to have in your toolbox because even on a pop gig you’ll probably come across a situation where chord-melody playing is the way to go.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thanks! Yes it is a very useful skill for a lot of situations :)

@kevindonnelly761 Год назад

Thanks Jens. I'm still working through other videos and publications of yours as well. My playing is improving in many departments - technique, reading, ear training, harmony - you name it. Cheers, Kev.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Great that you like it :) That is also a lot of topics to cover

@benkatof5852 Год назад

You really nail how chord soloing/chord melody work improves one's melody, rhythm, comping, and phrasing (think im missing some). For me, it helps clarify and create relationships between all those skills, which creates a kind of learning synergy. Great lesson as always Jens!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you, Ben 🙂

@derekdodson5623 Год назад

Fantastic, Jens. I’ve been fumbling around with this idea a bit to help extend my chord melody arrangements. Very helpful information. Thanks!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@TheRussianGenius Год назад

wait you in danmark? me too! What a great video, totally unexpected!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you! I am Danish, but I live in the Netherlands 🙂

@ainsleystones4600 Год назад

Great as always Jens, and very-much appreciated.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@samdefrancomusic Год назад

Thank you Jens! Super helpful!!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad it was helpful, Sam!

@denisblack9897 Год назад

great way to end a video, i cant help but crave more love you, Jens!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Haha! Thank you Denis!

@Yupppi Месяц назад

I sort of learned a bit of how chord soloing could look like when I decided to learn Beatles' Norwegian Wood. It just made sense to grab the chord and play the melody line on that chord. Technically I guess the melody line on chord transforms that into countless other chords, but I guess as it's music, we just agree that "yup, this looks like a melody line played on top of this specific chord so it's not a string of the wildest chords". It was also somewhat interesting psychological experience how despite sometimes the chord already having the next note of the melody in it and as such it wouldn't really bring movement, you could still clearly hear both the chord under and the melody moving on top. Even though you were just strumming all the strings and moving one finger to two places and "off", it'd sound like 4 different notes of melody. Instead of for example hearing the chord twice and two notes.

@watermelon1147 Год назад

This is most relevant jazz lesson ever. Thank you sir. Easy to forget to keep it simple stupid 😊

@LewCalicoMusic Год назад

Great stuff as always, thanks for sharing

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad it was helpful 🙂

@bobasquid3339 Год назад

Awesome stuff, thank you! 😎👍

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you like it 🙂

@Maximus-HK Год назад

Excellent approach to this quandary 👍✌️😎

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you like it 🙂

@andrewlabit Год назад

I found this channel today and have been binging it. Jazz is a deep well. I grew up with a lot of blues, rock, metal, and classical influence. As I've gotten a bit older, there's more and more jazz that's banging on my door. I'm so glad I found all of these videos to learn from Jens, and I can't wait to practice them and add them into my playing. Subbed and have liked every video I've seen thus far:)

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you! Glad they are useful 🙂 I do have a post with some advice for getting started if you are interested?

@andrewlabit Год назад

@@JensLarsen sure!

@JensLarsen Год назад

@@andrewlabit It is difficult to give too specific advice because everybody is different and at different levels, but maybe check out this post: jenslarsen.nl/how-to-learn-jazz-guitar-suggestions-to-begin-studying/

@martinochiesa6806 Год назад

You are amazing

@felipeguerzoni Год назад

Awsome tips! 👏👏👏

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you like them!

@MrJanKeys Год назад

This is great advice for piano also. Thanks Mr Jens

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you Jan!

@douglasmelvin9868 Год назад

For what it's worth, I had to do Girl From Ipanema for my college jazz band, and I found that particular song helpful in marrying the melody with the (honestly, really cool) chord structure. The tune itself didn't diverge too far away from the chords, but it did require a bit of practice to get it right.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Yes, that is a good one, also one of the first ones I did :)

@ShenFM Год назад

love this!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you 🙂

@RockYourTeeth Год назад

Tim Lerch has a great course on true fire with a similar idea, about triads, in case anyone wants to go deeper on this idea.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Tim is indeed a great teacher 🙂

@PATRIK67KALLBACK Год назад

Thank you for this video, it helped me a lot to understand how my late father played. I tried to understand but at the time and still it is complicated.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@rogeralleyne9257 Год назад

Most of our problems with guitar playing lies in the rhythm aspect of it! Even though most of us concentrate more on the notes themselves!!!🤔🤔🤔

@JensLarsen Год назад

Well, that actually might be oversimplifying it so that you can't solve the problem. In styles like Bebop there is a connection between rhythm and notes which is very important, you can't only work on one aspect and have the whole picture.

@citizensnips2348 Год назад

It's not the notes, it's the space between them. I'm sure Miles Davies said that but I did before I'd ever heard of him. This is true in the intervallic sense as well as the rhythmic.

@DonaldMohrMusic Год назад

Groove > Everything

@SoniaOnGuitar Год назад

Great video! Thank you!!

@_on_nicegram_DougHelvering Год назад

𝙃𝙚𝙮 ☝️𝙔𝙤𝙪'𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙣 𝙖 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙯𝙚 🎉..

@SoniaOnGuitar Год назад

@@_on_nicegram_DougHelvering 😲 what do you mean by that?

@aripedrob Год назад

great video

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@Deerse Год назад

What I never see when it comes to improvising and tutorials is the basis which is in my opinion the ability to hear, sing, name and play intervals. Hearing, feeling and knowing and visualizing are the basis in each improvisation which in itself arises from silence. When one is really able to hear and name the interval connections, the chord recognition isn't that different. My starting point is discovering by ear exploring the inner landscape. I truly find it very useful what you say but I just wondered how this way of developing your own style fits in your approach. I always avoided playing sheet music by Joe Pass or whoever, not because they aren't great but I didn't want to be influenced and instead I rather checked the chords etc by ear. And that ability to feel, sing, hear and play the inside out exploring your inner landscape is what makes playing in the here and now wonderful and magic. It brings me to a timeless feeling of an endless space and endless possibilities.

@JensLarsen Год назад

I have tutorials on how to learn things by ear, and that discuss training how to play what you hear. It is in there. The idea that you should not check out music to find your own style is something I REALLY don't agree with. Pretty much all the musicians I admire and love listening to clearly have checked out TONS of music and learned from that, and I think that goes for any type of art. Art is not created in a vacuum, and if you love music then you also need to explore the music that you love so that it can become a part of you. It is only a matter of how good you are at that (or patient)

@bonusfat110 Год назад

addition to joe pass - look into george van eps , he breaks down different chord shapes in major scale order. Listen to charlie christian, the pizzarelis, and angelo debarre...so on.

@georgechristiansen6785 Год назад

One could argue that Joe's sweaters are a case for avoiding heroin. Great lesson. I just ordered Tim Lerch's recent book and it gives a great way to play very specific melodies in this same way.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Haha! Ok! :) Glad you like the video! I am sure Tim's book is full of solid stuff!

@hansjrgenandersen106 Год назад

super guitar- og musikfagligt og højt pædagogisk tilrettelagt 👍🇩🇰

@jamescopeland5358 Год назад

Makes sense to me Jens

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you, James 🙂

@TheDilligan Год назад

Coming from a Blues background... This actually seems very similar to the technique used for playing Hendrix-style rhythm parts (Like on Little Wing or Bold as Love). His solo on Wind Cries Mary is a sort of chord solo. However it is a very different from Jazz in feel/attitude.

@JensLarsen Год назад

I think it is also fairly safe to assume that Hendrix was inspired by Jazz guitarists as well as Blues and R&B. Wes was essentially producing mainstream hits in the mid 60s so he would have heard him play.

@jasondarling Год назад

Hi Jens, great lesson as always! Quick question, with all the resources available today do you think having an actual teacher is necessary?

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thanks Jason! Yes, I do think that getting actual feedback on how you play is way better than any book or video.

@thijs199 Год назад

sounds good on guitar, it's a power chord. or you could see it as a rootless 2 chord in E

@thijs199 Год назад

Ik snap het 4 minor chord principe nu, als je het weet is het easy. Ik ga nu patreon overwegen lol

@dobsonsky9056 Год назад

nice- I am a noob but i will give it a try thank you

@JensLarsen Год назад

It is difficult to give too specific advice because everybody is different and at different levels, but maybe check out this post: jenslarsen.nl/how-to-learn-jazz-guitar-suggestions-to-begin-studying/

@chillipepperoni Год назад

I'm currently working on my chord soloing. Hope you guys are doing alright.😄

@nicohauptmentalist Год назад

A bit more love for pearl jam please 🥺 Great lesson otherwise which makes things much easier.

@JensLarsen Год назад

As always, I only make fun of them because I like them myself, just like Green Day and SRV.

@nicohauptmentalist Год назад

@@JensLarsen I just wanted to mention that again. The way poor McCready meditated on his few notes was somehow sadder than I remembered. 😅

@rillloudmother Год назад

when i was figuring this stuff out a tiny bit it was the early days of high speed internet and i sent my friends an audio file of me playing, along with an image of my head photoshopped onto joe pass' on the cover of joe pass guitar chords made slightly funnier by the fact that i used to smoke those little cigars sometimes. in the bottom white area it said, 'i'm joe pass, bitch.'

@JensLarsen Год назад

Nice! 😁

@Danumurti18 Год назад

Hi Jens, I have question again.. let say I have progression like this : Am7, Em7b5, E7b9, back to Am7. Em7b5 above function as subdominant that is also a borrowed chord from A phyrgian (so it changing modality for a while from A minor/dorian to A phyrgian/A# lydian)? So, subdominat can use borrowed chords from other modes, am I correct?

@JensLarsen Год назад

That is not how that sounds, or how modal interchange works. Maybe focus more on learning and anyzing songs to understand this instead of using it as a formula.

@Danumurti18 Год назад

@@JensLarsen idk, it sounds like that to me.. Em7b5, E7b9, Am7add9.. it sounds like sub dominant, dominant, tonic. It also have melodic movement like enclosure to A (A#,Ab,A), and descending G, F, E, which together create A minor tonality? But Ok I'll try to learning songs, thanks 👍🏻

@JensLarsen Год назад

@@Danumurti18 Depending on how you play it, it probably just sounds like a suspension of the E7. If you want to learn stuff like this you need to learn it from music and not try to pull it out of thin air. Your ears need the music to be able to tell what is really going on and it won't be useful without it.

@Danumurti18 Год назад

@@JensLarsen yes Sir 🤚🏻

@davedave8608 Год назад

sweet

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you!

@bassyey Год назад

I think my favorite part is 6:10 onwards. I am clueless about that motif, development, and conclusion stuff.

@JensLarsen Год назад

But like this it is fairly simple to work on, right? 🙂

@bassyey Год назад

@@JensLarsen Don't know if it's easy for my level, but now I have something to look forward to and work with. I feel like haven't seen that anywhere! They just say hit these notes do these, but I really want to know how they got there, and you showed it. That's exactly what I'm looking for.

@citizensnips2348 Год назад

Looks like voice leading in classical music, but with jazz chords. I don't even think about the scale so much, I just improvise melodies by playing chord tones on the beat, and add semi tone intervals as approach tones to the chords tones in between. You can't really go wrong like that. I think that's a classical thing, I taught myself so I'm not exactly well versed in the proper language

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you like the video! I think this is pretty much the opposite of classical voice-leading since the emphasis is on having a static chord with a moving melody.

@citizensnips2348 Год назад

@@JensLarsen ah yeah, like I said I'm not conversent, but I see what you mean. I really love the sound of chord soloing, but it wasn't quite clicking in my head what they're doing, probably because I'm looking at it backwards. Thanks!

@We-all-watched-the-video Год назад

Opinions on Ted Greene? He’s like Joe Pass mixed with Bach 😮

@JensLarsen Год назад

Ted is great! 🙂

@Ensorcle Год назад

I guess Thanksgiving is also a good day for guitar practice.

@JensLarsen Год назад

It sure is! 😁

@thijs199 Год назад

I mean 6th chord

@sergeybogdanovich7019 Год назад

Hello 🎶🎵🎼✌️🍀👌🎸❤️🙏🍂

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you like it!

@alecmack3852 Год назад

Sonny stitt

@JensLarsen Год назад

I don't think he played a lot of chord solos?

@alecmack3852 Год назад

Your right and even the great Bird couldn't do chord solos. I was actually wanting to listen to Stitt and I typed in the wrong box. 😳

@JensLarsen Год назад

@@alecmack3852 No worries 🙂 I was just curious about the comment

@thijs199 Год назад

check out this shape x8x568

@Hank-ip8rl Год назад

No disrespect to Joe Pass, but Jim Hall was the king of 70s sweaters.

@JensLarsen Год назад

😂👍

@lorenzosyquia4769 Год назад

1:20 You were so skinny before, Jens. I'm glad you've started bulking up.

@_on_nicegram_DougHelvering Год назад

𝙃𝙚𝙮 ☝️𝙔𝙤𝙪'𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙣 𝙖 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙯𝙚 🎉 ...

@bluwng Год назад

I don’t even know where to start with solos. I’m new, all I know is throw a pentatonic in the correct key and get lucky.

@_on_nicegram_DougHelvering Год назад

𝙃𝙚𝙮 ☝️𝙔𝙤𝙪'𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙣 𝙖 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙯𝙚 🎉.

@Euro.Patriot Год назад

I have no idea what chord solos are.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Well, maybe watch the video?

@TheFissionchips Год назад

Try splitting dense lines across both hands to creat large interval jumps - tapping 2 or 3 notes on top of each chord shape with the picking hand fingers. No idea why 'jazz' players avoid tapping - Stanley Jordan is a notable exception.

@JensLarsen Год назад

It would seem to me that phrasing and sound has something to do with it, but I can't say for sure.