How To Make Music From Exercises And Practice Effectively

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Getting from just practicing a scale or an arpeggio to the point where you can actually use it in music is quite difficult, and something that a lot of people struggle with. You want to set up your jazz guitar practice in a way that will actually help you get your exercises into your playing as something that makes your solos and improvisations better.
The most important Scale Exercise in Jazz:
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That is what this video will teach you!
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If you want to learn more about how you should practice and what you should focus on to make it more efficient then check out this video where I go over two things that are often underestimated but that will save you a lot of time in the long run and make it easier to have fun when you practice.
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Content:
0:00 Intro
0:36 The Most Important Scale Exercise in Jazz
1:25 Getting the Exercise right - What not to do!
1:42 Don't make the exercise too long or complicated
2:05 Make sure that it is something that you have a place to use
2:20 Don't make it so difficult that you have to spend a year learning to play it.
2:48 Taking the exercise to a song or chord progression
3:48 The Progression
4:09 The Arpeggios
5:50 When do you know the arpeggios?
6:27 Making music
6:37 Just the Arpeggios
7:05 More Notes!
7:45 Rubato
8:41 Efficient Practice goals
9:00 Like the video? Check out my Patreon page.
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@JensLarsen 4 года назад

How do you take exercises and make them into music? Content: 0:00 Intro 0:36 The Most Important Scale Exercise in Jazz 1:25 Getting the Exercise right - What not to do! 1:42 Don't make the exercise too long or complicated 2:05 Make sure that it is something that you have a place to use 2:20 Don't make it so difficult that you have to spend a year learning to play it. 2:48 Taking the exercise to a song or chord progression 3:48 The Progression 4:09 The Arpeggios 5:50 When do you know the arpeggios? 6:27 Making music 6:37 Just the Arpeggios 7:05 More Notes! 7:45 Rubato 8:41 Efficient Practice goals 9:00 Like the video? Check out my Patreon page.

@wyatthaversack4191 4 года назад

This is truly the best Jazz guitar resource on youtube. It blows my mind that all of these PDF's and study guides are free and I hope Jens starts getting more recognition.

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Thank you very much Wyatt! I actually think I get a lot of support and feedback both through RU-vid and Patreon :)

@KennethGonzalez 4 года назад

I don't care who or what level player you are -- if you don't walk away from one of Jens' videos with something new to consider or go to work on, you're just not paying attention! Another great installment, sir ;-)

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Thanks Kenneth!

@TimBeauBennett 4 года назад

This might be one of the most useful videos you've ever made. I sort of know all of this stuff academically, but I so often don't apply it to my practice time.

@robomanskate 4 года назад

Feel I should comment to say thanks for everything. I have no idea how you can keep such a rapid pace of releasing content, continually providing new information, but also keeping it continually insightful! Generally that's not an easy thing to sustain, many communicators and teachers hit their core points a few times and then begin running out of things to say that they haven't already said, but you seem to do it with ease. Very well done.

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

I appreciate that! It is fun to make the videos, which helps coming up with topics. At the same time it is of course a challenge to think of something that is relevant :)

@daleschimpf 4 года назад

@@JensLarsen and of course there is nothing wrong with covering the same concepts with different angles and approaches. That can help it sink in better for many people.

@masnak1994 4 года назад

Thanks Jans! Thanks to the jazz theory’s I’ve learn through the years from your videos I apply it in my playing! And I now enjoy playing the guitar more! Thank you thank you thank you!

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

That's really great to hear 🙂

@stephanmeinl4401 4 года назад

I confess that some of your posts are far too complicated for the level I am on. But It is jewels like this lesson that I will spend a lot of time on because they really bring my playing and overall understanding much further. Thanks a lot Jens 🙋🏻‍♂️

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Really glad you find it useful! :)

@luigicannizzo2669 4 года назад

Very Important Teacher. .. Thank' s for your Lesson Mr. LARSEN ... ☺😊😀/👍👌👏

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

You are very welcome 🙂

@rickjensen2717 4 года назад

Words of wisdom from a great master!

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Thank you, Rick 🙂

@Buleq147 4 года назад

This is fantastic lesson and for me one of your best. Also I think it is great regardless the level of the player. I often find that by limiting yourself (like in the video) is the best way to improve. I mean it is usually that one want to play too much, especially when practicing. So not making exercises too long is great advice also. This is the lesson for not only practicing more effectively but it goes deeper - to play better music. Thanks!

@stevetaylor1308 4 года назад

This is great advice, I will make use of this in future as I have been guilty in the past of practising scales and arpeggios that I have never used in a song

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Thank you Steve! :)

@TheMegansdad 4 года назад

Great lesson Jens. TY.

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Thank you, Larry 🙂

@b.maximebk 4 года назад

Awesome insight as always Jens. Thank you!

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@benkatof4240 4 года назад

Thanks for another great lesson, Jens.

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

My pleasure!

@aptelbruno8316 4 года назад

Great job ! Useful and pleasant ! Thank you Jens.

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Glad you like it Bruno!

@RC32Smiths01 4 года назад

Hey man, Practice makes perfect! Always a great and informative lesson to see man!

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Thanks RC! :)

@udo1483 4 года назад

Super wie immer, vielen Dank

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Glad you like it!

@-Atmos1 4 года назад

I need to practice more of these type of exercises , there's being a lot going on at the moment and I wanna take it to the next level to improve improvisation . Hope you're Well .

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Thanks Mike! I am doing fine actually. Great that you like the video!

@-Atmos1 4 года назад

@@JensLarsen Good to hear you're fine . Thankyou for your videos . Also , beautiful 335 , I have a Telecaster but a Gibson 335 would be a dream one day . Peace .

@alfredomanlapaz8123 4 года назад

Thanks a lot Sir Jens for that very informative lesson👍

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

My pleasure!

@Joypoddar08 4 года назад

Your lessons are priceless..

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Thank you, Joy!

@Gabriel-ou8sj 4 года назад

Great lesson! Just what I was looking for

@chipispowdercoatingcharles8444 4 года назад

This is great advice

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Thank you! :)

@matthewcartmill955 4 года назад

Hey Jens! Thanks for doubling down on the efficient practicing lessons while we've all been quarantined. I'm a cellist, but your channel has single handedly enabled me to hold my own with jazz guitar. My question (and idea for a future video maybe) is: it seems that so much of guitar playing is 'lick based'. No matter how many scales, exercises, etc one practices, one's hands always seem to grab onto some lick that you have heard in a song before, or some guitarist that you've transcribed. I'm curious what you think about that approach. Obviously, transcribing, playing by ear, and playing off licks that you've heard is an important part of being a musician, but I find myself either latching onto licks for any given chord or position, or relying solely on my theory/scale knowledge to get me through, but I have yet to combine the two in a seamless way when it comes time to actually perform. Any thoughts? Thanks so much for everything you're putting out there, and for keeping us quarantined musicians company.

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Glad you like the videos! Of course you can learn from licks, but the thing you don't want to do is to practice only playing licks because that will make it very hard for you to actually connect phrases and not sound like a copy/paste festival when you solo. It is not enough to just have a phrase and move your fingers (even if that is really easy on guitar) you want to make sure it stays flexible and that you can improvise with it. So make sure to spend time playing things that connect and also in tempos and in ways that helps you have freedom to come up with new things. If you search on the channel for motivic development and call-response you might find videos with some suggestions.

@bluesrockguitaristmikesall2708 4 года назад

Nawenko:wa ( Great Thanks- Mohawk Language) Jens. You Rock!! (In the Jazziest sense of that term ).Would you please do a video on Herb Ellis.

@easthastings6919 4 года назад

hello jens ! first of all thank you for all the effort that you put in this videos.it's an amazing content. i wanna ask you something, all i know is how to move around major scale and not perfectly. i know some melodic minor scale.like very little and some theory.i've never practiced arpeggios and chord progressions. can you please tell me where should I start. like should i start practicing with this videos? or it's a little bit early for me. thank you in advance.

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Glad you like the videos! You could try to check out this post: jenslarsen.nl/how-to-learn-jazz-guitar-suggestions-to-begin-studying/ to get some suggestions!

@easthastings6919 4 года назад

@@JensLarsen thank you for a direction! i'll gladly start out there

@Pipun7534 4 года назад

Hi Jens, thanks for all your work, where is the link to the video where you explain more on how to use the 7th diatonic arpegios in scale excersise?

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Did I forget to put that in there? Then it is this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2Ze22BNftAA.html

@Pipun7534 4 года назад

@@JensLarsen Thanks máster!!

@kyledavis828 4 года назад

Jen what year is your 335? I really dig the faded cherry finish!! Great content as always underrated channel!

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Thank you! I think it is from 69, but the serial no is a bit hard to pin down exactly :)

@kyledavis828 4 года назад

Thank you for replying beautiful guitar reserved only for the master of course!

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Haha! Well I did try quite a few ones before I decided on this one 😁

@cmackenzie100 4 года назад

Hi Jens! Thank you for all these amazing videos. When you are practicing and writing your own licks, do you record them or write them out for later reference? Do you go over this material later or just try out a few phrases and hope that stays in your playing? I'm curious as to how this works in general. Thanks again. Regards from Chile!

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Glad you like them! I am not practicing the licks to play them again, I am practicing making them. So I don't keep them. It can be useful to write them down, but actually that is more if you want to figure out why the work or why they don't work. Does that help?

@LotusTrane 4 года назад

Awesome content as usual! What you said about using exercises that are only a little bit out of reach has me reexamining a lot of what I'm working on right now. Getting all of the closed diatonic 7th chord inversions down in 7 positions is daunting, and I've been trying to do it all at once, rather than focusing on one position and one inversion at a time. After that I'd like to get them down in string sets as well, which is even more daunting. Do you have any suggestions on narrowing the scope of these goals other than to just take it one position at a time?

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Maybe do one position at a time, but in that same place on the neck do other keys that are very similar, so do C,F and G in one place on the neck. That way you learn more positions but also transfer techniques from one position to another.

@rupertseptimus27 4 года назад

Hi Jens - love this lesson and so many more.. don't know how and when I can process a fraction of the great content. Of all the wonderful looking guitars you have hanging up do you have a particular favourite? Also do you have Band in a Box to jam to?. Thank you

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Thank you! Glad you like the videos 🙂 I guess my favorite is the Ibanez, followed by the Gibson.

@tahsinthoughts 4 года назад

Hey. New camera/ production equipment? Liking the production quality!

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Thank you! It is the same camera and stuff for a year actually, but maybe I got better at using it :)

@BecketSolis 4 года назад

great video

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@jazzboi4621 4 года назад

Wow, I’ve always really struggled with effective practice. Thanks for this, I’ll definitely be checking out your other vids on practicing. Also do you do Skype or zoom lessons?

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Glad it was helpful! I don't have time to do one-on-one lessons right now, but if you send me an e-mail I can recommend a good teacher!

@jazzboi4621 4 года назад

Jens Larsen okay thanks! It’s benjaminhyde2@aol.com

@GiovanniBottaMuteWinter 4 года назад

Thanks for the video! Your comment about triad pairs and chromatic enclosures made me think about the way Pat Martino uses chromatic enclosures basically everywhere. How would you recommend incorporating that type of sound into my playing? I have tried writing phrases like that but it’s really hard because, as you said, they get really long and complex. Maybe there is a better way to break it down?

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

You can easily start to make lines with chromatic enclosures, I have quite a few videos on that, just search for chromatic enclosures on the channel :) That comment was more about not making exercises that as concept takes 3 or 4 bars to be clear.

@pedromariano2100 4 года назад

Thanks Jens Larsen... You are Very good.. Your fhrases are relevent.. What your amplif. Of your guitars?

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Thank you Pedro! I use a Fractal Audio AX8 for my sound :)

@thijs199 4 года назад

:) het enige wat nog steeds lastig blijft is die chord switch. Ik wil het live doen. De rest zit er goed in. Maar die chord switch ik mis meestal een noot. het is 2 x helemaal goed gegaan tot zover. Het lukt wel ik heb niet zo'n problemen met iets moeilijks doen ik heb goed gekeken hoe jij het deed, dus dat ik niet iets raar oefen ofzo. Komt goed.

@n00bie96 4 года назад

I know I'm missing something... At 4:04, how did you determine using the D Harmonic Minor over A7b9? In fact, how do I know what works well with what?

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

The simplified version is that if a dominant resolves to a major chord then you use the major scale of the chord it resolves to, if it resolves to a minor chord then you use the harmonic minor scale of the chord it resolves to :) You should maybe check out the video where I analyze All of Me, I talk about it there as well, just to see it in action so to speak :)

@n00bie96 4 года назад

@@JensLarsen Thank you so much. Will do!