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Joe Pass said it best “don’t play anything hard. If it’s hard don’t play it.” If it’s good enough for Joe it’s good enough for me! A lot of beginner students think the only way to sound good or modern is to play Holdsworth stretchy chords. But even Holdsworth played a lot of simple chord voicings. Not to mention, a lot of simple 2 or 3-note voicings will sound fresh and modern in the right context. These videos always come during my morning practice here in the USA so thank you, Jens!
@@lookforbriansjazz7832 😂. Yea, he said it in his jazz blues instructional when referring to the chord shapes he uses. He calls them “grips.” It’s on RU-vid. But I totally agree, his playing is far from easy!
This is a golden tip. I’m dabbling with jazz chords and often forget the simple basic notes, getting lost in the complex notations. Starting of with 2 strings and adding complexity/melody once you got those flows on different areas on the neck makes the process easier.
Great point about listening to big band. Listening to horn players and singers can open up alot to guitar players. The comp from a horn section also gives great ideas for riffs & grooves.
When teaching I find that it's much harder to find good material on the rhythmic aspect on Jazz guitar comping. A lot of books talk about voicings etc but not so much about the rhythms. I know you have a few videos on that that I use in my teaching but I could always use more 😎👍
True, but don't you also find that it is easier to teach rhythm when the students can think melody, ie. the Bigband thing? I always had more luck getting that to work.
Yngwe apearing was hillarious! Such a great lesson. Thx a lot, Mr. Larsen. Loved the concept, I'm gonna try to get this perspective playing 2 note chords.
I was feeling frustrated with the sound of my comping, as the chords didn't have the spice I wanted. So I decided to find the most dissonant intervals from the chords and play those instead. Those intervals are usually tritones, 2nds, and 7ths. Suddenly, everything sounded good, and interesting! Try just playing the tritones on a simple Blues progression. Suddenly, it sounds like you know what you're doing, even though the approach may feel simplistic. Thanks Jens. Your lessons helped me see where I was going wrong.
I enjoyed it a lot, to show how to do a good comping been simple is a complicated task indeed, only someone with so much experience and knowledge like Jens Larsen could do it! Thanks!
I was using the 2 and 3 note chords last night at band practice try to highlight the changes and vocals trying to avoid all the fast rhythm strums a lot of players do
greetings from BC Canada... proud of you that you have the ability to help us beginers ...this is a very usefull lesson ....its so desirable to want to be playing all the complicated great sounding stuff but I had been missing these cocepts of understanding basics first , im applying this to Burrells midnight blue song along with the triads ........once again your guidance is appreciated
Thank you for the lesson and the great advice as always Jens. Reminds me of "Johnny One Note" by Judy Garland. You don't need to play a lot to say a lot.
I feel like you just released me from a world of painful overthinking! This makes comping a lot easier and even sounds like I already know how, I've just overcomplicated it! I usually struggle with what to think while playing, and now I know. Think of the basic chords and a melody, which goes back to what you always say - Make Music! Thanks Jens :)
How I think about chord progression I start with the normal stuff c g f then I’ll spice it up. I think if you know the basic of the chord it’ll be easy to add and build on the chord and know why it’s cmaj7
Love the edits lol, even with the most basic of jazz its still quite complicated to me cause im more of a simple power chord guy but after listening to Megadeth I want to learn some more complicated stuff and understand a little bit of what they do. These lessons are awesome Thanks a lot.
And this is a basis for lead voicing as well, you add rhythm, contrast and repetition, articulation as in how you pronounce the notes you play, when you just know, it's far easier. You are seasoned, and you grow as a guitar player. i would always say, try it on bass, to comp on bass, it's voicings with just two notes are amazing, and when you go back to guitar you can see two notes are sometimes chords for the listener.
@@JensLarsen I appreciate your reply! One last question and I won’t be bothering no-more:) If you can have only one jazz guitar in Ibanez line up, what would you pick? Thanks in advance.
Hi Jens. Do you use uppercase roman numerals when describing the ii minor7 chord. Like II whether it is major or minor? That is confusing to me. I would normally take II to mean the second scale defree but a major chord (i.e. not diatonic to the key). Is there a reason you do this?
There are some in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3_csk-wFgSQ.html And I also have a really old video on Bb Blues Comping that has some more options 🙂
I must be odd, but voicings seem so strait forward to me. Each chord has a tonic and tensions. I can use them in any combination, and so many chromatically offset chords lead to the chord I am playing. It's honestly overwhelming, as I have so many choices. Rhythm has become more important to me.
