The Mistake Everyone Makes Learning Jazz Guitar

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A problem that comes up in Jazz Guitar Lessons with my students and conversations online, is something I certainly also remember from learning myself is that after a LOT of practice then you find yourself at a point where you know the scales & arpeggios, but your solos still sound nothing like Jazz. Let's Fix that!
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00:00 Intro
00:49 Bebop Energy!
02:54 Notes With More Bebop Energy
04:13 How Do You Practice Making Better Lines?
05:38 Arpeggio Motion
07:15 Trill
08:19 Twist and Shout!
09:02 How You Improve Your Vocabulary
10:22 Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
10:51 The 5 Solos That Will Teach You Jazz Guitar
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@JensLarsen Год назад

What is essential for learning Bebop? The Most Important Scale For Jazz ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Gbn8bt6cMHI.html

@RC32Smiths01 Год назад

Jazz guitar is no easy journey. Finding out what makes Jazz guitar works is not only satisfying, but an appreciation for the virtuosos who we look up to.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Exactly!

@newgunguy4176 Год назад

I don't know, man. I don't think the jazz greats struggled. Sounds like it was easy for them. If we all had talent, none of our solos would ever suck. We're always looking at what others did with admiration. The greats spent their time creating awesomeness. We spend our time admiring what they did.

@mostlycountryblues Год назад

If I had a second lifetime, I would learn jazz guitar with this channel. I’m an acoustic blues player who appreciates jazz and it is clear this content is second to none. 👍

@AzSamad Год назад

You got me right when you said super easy barely an inconvenience 😅 love that series 😂

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thanks Az! :)

@HuugyBearInc Год назад

This is such an amazing channel… I have been playing the guitar for a long time but my life has not allowed for me to dive into jazz as deep as I would like. Over the last three years I have had just enough time to slowly gain knowledge about jazz guitar, and this channel has really helped as a great source. Many thanks!

@jonathanlangston6958 Год назад

Jens, absolutely loving your Barry Harris content! Please keep it coming. It is changing the way I approach the instrument, improvisation, and music in general. Cheers, and thanks for providing the best music pedagogy on RU-vid as far as I'm concerned!

@andrewg1016 Год назад

Developing a feel and ear for great jazz, listening to standards, and letting your own creativity take hold is just as important. For me that also includes developing your own jazz voice through experimenting and connecting your scales, arpeggios and chromatic notes in unique and interesting ways.

@algrundau9441 Год назад

I think everything you said is 100% correct and can be applied to ANY guitar style.

@benberrybiscuit Год назад

Not only was this informative but the editing was spot on for my adhd brain. Thank you.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad it was useful! :)

@stufftie88 Год назад

Oh gosh! Sir, you just ended a very long lasting, nerve- and gut-twisting struggle for me!!!! Thank you so mutch! For years I wanted to get more into playing prober solos witch don't run up and down the blues scales. I knew I just had to replay solos by ear and stick to the chords and keychanges but you filled all those gaps for me, that were left in this explanation for sooo so long! It's such a reliefe!!! I suddenly feel understood and free. I now finally know what to add, what was missing!!! I'll study your video second by second. It's strange how one can become lost in these times of information that's been flooded to you over the internet over such a simple question. You can read all and nothing.

@popotopo99 Год назад

I don’t play jazz. But this is one of the best educational guitar channels on RU-vid.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you 🙂

@alexladd6861 10 месяцев назад

Excellent, Jens. I've been watching for a while, not understanding everything completely at first, I admit, but you return to material in a fresh way, so that it starts to make sense after a while. Like Barry, you have become a master teacher. Kudos.

@JensLarsen 10 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful!

@dann1966 Год назад

Jens,You are an virtuoso musician. great stuff ever !!!

@hounddog1381 Год назад

Wow! A great lesson Jens, with so much good stuff in it! Thank you!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you liked it!

@bozakarlin9034 Год назад

I look forward to the new video. I personally have a problem with articulation in bebop.

@LZcool Год назад

Super Easy barely an inconvenience :D You or your son were watching the Pitch meetings! Nice.

@jimmrvos2930 Год назад

This is a fantastic lesson Jens! I really learn a lot when you discuss what you are thinking about in a solo. For example, thinking of ways to hit the target note in your the next chord.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad it was helpful, Jim! A lot of that thinking is for practicing, once you start soloing then that should be already internalized 🙂

@jimmrvos2930 Год назад

@@JensLarsen Definitely! I like to say "when you think, you stink"!

@ukestudio3002 Год назад

Yay, finally.! Here this in blues and jazz all the time. But even not sticking to scales ..still has to swing.

@MrPablillo Год назад

Este es mi primer video de Jens y aprendí tanto, que necesito dejarlo por escrito. Muchas gracias 🎊

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad it was helpful 🙂

@bonerici Год назад

This is true for all music. What a great lesson.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you like it 🙂

@j.r.goldman3279 Год назад

I would start by saying you are much more educated and advanced In Jazz guitar than I am. You also have helped me a lot. I also see the extreme value In this lesson. I agree . However to negate Scales I do not think Is a good Idea. We use Melodic Minor , Phrygian Don and modes all the time over chords. I think a person should know both things. Onl6y knowing ONE of these concepts can lead to a musical Impasse. Both are needed. Remember I said you are far beyond me In jazz. I may be wrong. Good stuff as always . TY Jens. You are a great guy and teacher.

@JensLarsen Год назад

I don't think anyone is saying to negate scales?

@Joe_Marano Год назад

Composing lines is the thing that definitelly is helping me the most, i still sound bad but i can feel the improvement haha

@JensLarsen Год назад

Great to hear! 🙂

@herculesrockefeller8969 Год назад

It's not a Jens Larsen video without the "great" Barry Harris. 🙂

@JensLarsen Год назад

No, lately I have been digging into a lot of Bebop 😁

@ishaq24722 Год назад

I love Barry Harris. I love his play in the funky Morgan hit Sidewinder. I would listen to Barry Harris any day of the week.

@mjx2191 Год назад

Barry in the thumbnail = more views

@JensLarsen Год назад

@@mjx2191 Actually that is not really what I am seeing with my videos, but maybe it is different for other channels?

@JeffreySaxophoneTallNewton Год назад

One major reason the Bird motif (3:27 - 3:31) works so well is that he incorporates a "air pressure flourish" on the C concert (Eb on alto) at the end of the phrase. Being a sax player, I do this too. What's the guitar equivalent? Vibrato, I suppose.. Great video, as always...!

@davidkeller6156 Год назад

Thanks for another great lesson, Jens.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@benkatof5852 Год назад

Great - Essential Jens material! Essential for playing bebop... Listening to tons of bebop of course. Also, it's been helpful for me to find more mid tempo bebop or stuff that's not strict bebop but uses bebop material so as not get bogged down in super fast and complicated lines. I listen a lot and steal lines I can hear.

@JensLarsen Год назад

That's a good one, looking for the medium tempos! That's very true 🙂

@jamescopeland5358 Год назад

Great lesson Jens I am getting better but still have a long way to go

@JensLarsen Год назад

Keep at it 🙂

@simonbowkett124 Год назад

As a bass player I love your channel. 😊

@JensLarsen Год назад

I appreciate that!

@etiloyon3681 Год назад

While watching the video, I thought I should write my solos down a bit. I can't read the notes but I have Notion 5. So I manage, by copying the score in, to make the equivalence writing = sound (tedious work). And then, in the next minute, I hear you say that this is one of the important things to do. Not using Notion 5 (!) but writing your solo to find the target note. I am finally apparently on the right track. It's not much but for me it's very satisfying. Thanks a lot.

@devanjackson509 Год назад

I agree about composing. At some point you have to write something out. I think the greats were extremely well rehearsed on a lot more material than we really understand…

@nicolasforfant484 Год назад

Another great one Jens! As usual, much easier listened and watched than done... However the idea of actively composing a few "reference" lines from one type of spot to another instead of copying the "masters" seems highly interesting. It could constitute a series of DIY "buoy licks" to avoid sinking to deep in the imporvisations.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you! I have quite a few videos in the Patreon Extras series that are focused on composing licks and demonstrating that.

@Kdog123123 Год назад

I started taking lessons again at the age of 55. It was going well until I learned I MUST get the arpeggios maj, mi, dom, dim down..plus the struggle of picking them "in tempo" has been a major challenge. I've been doing nothing but that for months and still don't have it down. It's frustrating.. I'll continue and will not quit. I'm going over some jazz standards and 251s - don't know if I'm the only one that is taking forever but I know it will be a major improvement in my playing once I get them down.

@jroc2201 12 дней назад

I love your channel, I think you’re a great teacher and a great player, what do you think of Jerry Garcia?

@lukeanthonygrgas Год назад

@ 7:48 the garter technique is mentioned. Unfamiliar so I tried to look it up. Maybe I’m not spelling it right, cause I’m not finding anything on it. Excellent lesson!

@cricri8022 Год назад

Best RU-vid Chanel on jazz guitar

@ianhenkel7157 Год назад

Great advice thank you so much.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad it was helpful 🙂!

@papunAlicea Год назад

Thanks so much for share this video, blessings

@JensLarsen Год назад

You are so welcome

@1d0n9h2 Год назад

Very helpful videos, thank you! From Korea :)

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@michaelstevens8 Год назад

Jens, your absolutely right. Jazz is Swing, Implying the Chord Progression and other Language, Phrasing and the Repertoire. Its so much more than any Scale, Arpeggio or Chord. Thanks.

@WasOne2 Год назад

At the end you finally give some practical advise. Learn to play the solos by ear. i would add Learn to sing them.

@kevindonnelly761 Год назад

I don't think I've ever REALLY known what to do after scales and arpeggios. In the past, I've gotten away with playing atrocities for solos (in local Rock / Cover Bands) - but everyone always likes them - even other guitar players. Punters shake my hand and if I'm lucky, their missus might chat me up ! Deep down, I've often felt that what I play is always lacking something. I've been trying to rectify that for the last few years via your JGRM, other publications and videos. Thanks for this video Jens, am looking forward to reviewing it and burning it into the subconscious. 🙄

@JensLarsen Год назад

Super to hear that you are getting somewhere with it! :)

@kevindonnelly761 Год назад

@@JensLarsen Yep, I go a bit slow, but I need to. I've never given up a single thing in my life.

@lazyrrr2411 Год назад

@@kevindonnelly761 i HEAR you, KD . . . and why is it always somebodies' missus ? 😉 be careful - lol

@kevindonnelly761 Год назад

@@lazyrrr2411 The 'missus' thing doesn't happen any more. Don't worry, I'm careful. 😇

@frankvaleron Год назад

Don't drop the atrocities though if they're leading to everyone's missus chatting you up

@boomerdell Год назад

Great lesson as always, Jens! True story: I'm currently enrolled in and taking a course, Blues Guitar, through Berklee Online -- I love their courses, by the way, and highly recommend them to anyone regardless of instrument or genre -- and I always find myself including some of your teachings, including those I've picked up in your fabulous Jazz Guitar Roadmap course, into the assigments each week. Although I am one of the least experienced students in the class and have a long, long way to go to develop technical abilities in all aspects of guitar playing, one area in which I seem to be more comfortable than some others in the class is lead and solo playing. I don't mean to sound braggadocious and all the other students can play way faster than I can, among many other skills they possess that are superior to mine, but you've taught me so much about playing melodically and musically. I honestly hadn't realized how much I've learned from you until I started this class and began recording assigments. Thank you, Jens!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you! That is super great to hear, Boomer. Really makes my day 🙂

@lupcokotevski2907 Год назад

Check out the phrasing and improv of jazz's greatest vocal stylist, Anita O'Day, live at Newport 1958 in glorious colour. Ahmet Ertegun in the audience, head of Atlantic records.

@tomcripps7229 Год назад

Such great information Jens. I need to improve my vocabulary, and one thing about the Joe Pass dynamic is his right hand technique of half pick and fingers if not just fingers. He seems to know what he wants.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thanks! Watch out that you don't mix up vocabulary and right hand technique too much and be aware that Joe Pass mostly plays with a pick when he solos like most other guitarists

@jeffd8597 Год назад

this is not meant to negate anything Jens is saying, but I think it’s also very important to learn how to comp first. learn the chords, the changes the extensions to the cord. Listen to other people comp listen to solos of course, but once you get that feel i think your lines will follow better.

@harryballs7029 Год назад

that Barry Harris live in tokoyo album is the same gig that Jimmy Raney played on using the same back up musicians. Im pretty sure there are cuts of Jimmy and Barry playing together.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Yes, there are two tracks on one version of the album

@jackmomma7481 Год назад

It's like when you see guys playing fretless bass... but when they play, they play it just like one would a fretted bass. It defeats the purpose of playing fretless in the first place, and you're only making things more complicated that way, because now finger accuracy becomes an issue. Someone once told me that the key to fretless bass is to play a half to a quarter of a beat ahead of the rest of the ensemble, and if possible, slide into each note and change. I've only played a fretless a couple of times and always wondered what it took to produce that effect they're known for

@yes_head Год назад

2:28 Nice Pitch Meeting reference.

@gertzpalma Год назад

THANKS, JENS!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you like it 🙂

@Crunkboy415 Год назад

Scales are like the alphabet. It's the way you play and combined them that creates words than phrases, then sentences. It's essentially to add space and rhythm to create phrasing and flow. You want to get to the point where stuff just flows out from you, inventing things on the spot.

@byrondickens Год назад

Feel. Phrasing. Timing. BB King and Albert King tended to play relatively few notes but always seemed to be saying something; like they were having a conversation. You can also tell they really meant it.

@dry509 Год назад

Hence what Carol Kaye says says in her videos about how scales are not jazz…music.

@JensLarsen Год назад

If she says that then she is right 🙂

@scottwebster695 Год назад

"Super easy, barely an inconvenience" haha a nod to a fellow RU-vidr.

@whimpypatrol5503 Год назад

We can hear the beauty of these jazz innovations, and so can a small proportion of the public. But to target a wider mixed audience, as typical at a real-life gig, one that doesn't have the glamor and advantage of a great vocalist, another major step may be necessary. Consider how most major acts across all music genres incorporate popular melodies to get popular appeal and, depending on the style of music, embellish them. People like us call that jazzing the melody up. No jazz guitarist was more famous at doing this than Wes Montgomery, despite his critics. But generalizing what he did to incorporate such magic into a wider style of popular jazz has yet to be seen.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Nobody plays Jazz to become the next Coldplay or the next Madonna. The real question is if anyone should play pop with that as an ultimate goal?

@Oscaraha Год назад

Groovin on selected chord notes should be the first step imo.

@paulelwood-guitar Год назад

very very good!!!!! thank you so much!!!!!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you liked it!

@paulelwood-guitar Год назад

@@JensLarsen hit me like ton of bricks, as they say. Please do continue your excellent videos. I don't always understand what you are doing but your manner and presentation are just relentlessly delightful. Blessings on you, Jens!

@ELMENDORFX Год назад

Yeah stuck for years man. Its gotten to where I can’t stand to hear my own playing. Im like am i doing that again?? But im working on it trying to break out of it my own way with a suggested triad regime. Im already looking at and hearing the fretboard in a different way. I still suck tho ha

@twli Год назад

Yeah, great one, jens

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you like it 🙂

@chumdm3 Год назад

Golden tips right here.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you think so!

@gluonone 9 месяцев назад

My jazz instructor always told me that to sound like jazz you have to do two things: learn the actual phrases or licks from famous jazz musicians, and more importantly, listen to as much jazz music as you can. Knowing theory and scales and arpeggios helps but you’ll never sound like a true jazz musician relying solely on only those things. Learning jazz is like learning a language that has its own unique idiomatic expressions. Theory will only take you so far

@JensLarsen 9 месяцев назад

That is very true! 🙂

@Mustang_G Год назад

Super easy, barely an inconvenience. 😂😂😂 I know that line bruh

@JensLarsen Год назад

😁👍

@ishaq24722 Год назад

I think I can relate to what you’re saying. When I play outside of the key, I usually slur the note back into the key, and it sounds right. So, I think that all depends on what you play next. I think you're saying something like that. Like on Take 5 or when I play Sugar, it sounds right; when I briefly go outside the key, I have to go back in it to make the phrase right. I know Charlie Parker said any player should be able to play any note and make it harmonically sound.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Great! Yes, it is about knowing where to go!

@niclastname Год назад

I love your videos, but idk why I watch them. All it does it remind me how bad I am at jazz playing and show me what I wish I could do...🤣

@ahoneyman 11 месяцев назад

I do wish the jazz/blues idiom was more popular. There's a turnaround section to work with n harmonic movement and a static section where a player can really fine tune soloing approaches over a particular chord.

@JensLarsen 11 месяцев назад

The 12-bar blues is the most common progression in Jazz. I don't see why you think it should be more popular 🙂

@ahoneyman 11 месяцев назад

@@JensLarsen Most of the lessons I come across are much more toward Autumn Leaves and All the things you are than Billie's Bounce or Straight no Chaser. Blues lessons tend to stay within the regular 12 bar form ala BB King. Just one person's observation.

@JensLarsen 11 месяцев назад

@@ahoneyman If you compare the amount of Jazz Blues lessons with the amount of Autumn Leaves lessons then you will find 4 or 5x as many Jazz Blues lessons, certainly in my library but also in general on the internet. I don't agree with your observation there, sorry.I think you are not really looking and just going with what YT shows you.

@ahoneyman 11 месяцев назад

@@JensLarsen You're right. I'm a blues player with a passing interest in jazz so it's probably not asking the right questions and having a clearer view of what I'm looking for.

@JensLarsen 11 месяцев назад

@@ahoneyman no worries! 🙂 Here are some (certainly not all) of my lessons on Jazz Blues ru-vid.com/group/PLWYuNvZPqqcGqjnXU_qUjUO3G2PMpf47l

@mauriziobianchi9014 Год назад

HI JENS HOW CAN I BUY THIS WHOLE VICEO ? Thanks

@zaqintosh Год назад

Fucking stellar lesson, thank you Jens!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you like it!

@clintjones9848 Год назад

Only using scales as base theory for creating melodies doesn't result in authentic melodies because jazz melodies aren't only shaped in scales. Nor are they only shaped in scales and arps. If you combine intervals and chromatics with scales and arps, it's the total possibilities for how melody can be shaped. So if you use that as your raw theory knowledge base, it doesn't result in inauthentic melodies anymore.

@djmileski Год назад

Very helpful, thank u

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad to hear that!

@djmileski Год назад

Have you talked about Sonny Rollins solo style?

@JensLarsen Год назад

@@djmileski Yes, I did a video on him a few years ago. Nobody watched it 😁 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rHuErroC5lw.html

@djmileski Год назад

@@JensLarsen watching it now 😊

@lukebrooksguitar Год назад

Jens, your videos have been extremely helpful as I’ve been making the shift (or at least widening my scope) from rock to jazz. May I ask what scales I can use for Autumn Leaves (Gm)? I’ve been trying all the arpeggios over each chord- an excellent way in to the harmony. And I know that Gm pentatonic (Bb major pent) will work over pretty much the whole tune. Obviously Gminor or Bbmajor scales work too. I also know that G harmonic minor works nicely over the Am7b5, D7, Gm. Anything else I should try over the minor II V I? Perhaps A Locrian #2, to D Altered, to G Dorian? What about over the major II V I at the very beginning of the piece? Lastly, can I use a D or F augmented arpeggio over a D7 or F7 harmony- to bring out those altered tensions? Sorry, there’s a lot there, but any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for all you do!

@JensLarsen Год назад

I would maybe suggest not focusing on scales, you already know the basic options, and it is going to be a lot more about what you can do with them than what scale it is. In that respect, sticking to basic scales and having better lines is much more valuable and makes you sound better on this and other songs.

@lukebrooksguitar Год назад

Thanks very much, that makes sense. Also, you talk a lot about “voice leading.” As a newbie, what exactly IS voice leading?

@JensLarsen Год назад

@@lukebrooksguitar voice-leading is how the notes move when you go from one chord to the next.

@lukebrooksguitar Год назад

Got it, thanks 👍

@germansalvatierra9579 Год назад

Think about first what and how do you want to say while you play a solo then check out your recording of your solo And be honest if match with your 💡 ideas

@shaolin1derpalm Год назад

I asked early on about jazz books at a music store. The clerk sneered and smirked and. Said "well... Jazz is just scales" with a snicker.

@JensLarsen Год назад

😁 Clearly an "expert"

@holidaytrout5174 Год назад

Barry is the final boss of jazz RU-vid

@shaolin1derpalm Год назад

Did you just quote Pitch meeting?

@JoeJohnston-taskboy Год назад

So you watch Ryan George too? Wow. Wow. Wow…wow.

@fulanodetal4148 Год назад

When you play the triplet arpeggios with the target note, what is the target note? the 6th of the chord?

@JensLarsen Год назад

You don't always play the arpeggio on the root of the chord, so often that is not how it works out. If you play the arpeggio from the 3rd of the chord, which note is then the taget? 🙂

@fulanodetal4148 Год назад

@@JensLarsen If its a triplet it will be the root, because you will land in the down beat of the following beat. right?

@JensLarsen Год назад

@@fulanodetal4148 Exactly, so in that context the target note is not the 6th. Now if you play the arpeggio of a m7 in a II V then the target note is not the 6th, it is the 3rd on V chord.

@fulanodetal4148 Год назад

@@JensLarsen Thank you so much!! I like the concepts that you explain here, it changes completely the way approached improvisation

@laurenteze3455 Год назад

Thanks good explanations step by step l want toi come again playing guitare for m'y pleasure God bless you

@JensLarsen Год назад

Go for it 🙂

@johnjacquard863 Год назад

sweet!

@Radical_Middle Год назад

excellent. I remember years ago asking my perfect pitch teacher to show me a jazz scale, she said to me then - there is no jazz scale boy;)

@JensLarsen Год назад

😁

@donatolepore3520 Год назад

It is about the rhythm more than the pitch.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Actually, I think it is about how those two work together in Bebop.

@donatolepore3520 Год назад

@@JensLarsen of course but which matters more ? Are they equal?

@robertoparisi6970 Год назад

Bebop pitch meeting please make it happen

@JeffreySaxophoneTallNewton Год назад

True story: Trent Kynaston, Jazz sax professor at Western Michigan University, told a friend of mine and student of his that Jazz was "just scales." Prof K also taught "legit" sax.... This was nearly 50 years ago, btw...

@jopo6388 Год назад

You stop paying attention to theory and you go by intuition works every time

@powerboon2k Год назад

I loved watching this, but it may as well have been in Russian for what I understood. 🤯

@nickmcinnis Год назад

😆 "we're on a mission from God" So true.

@eohippusone Год назад

Love that line!

@yonatanc25 Год назад

playing jazz guitar is like solving math puzzles for fun . sheesh

@brodiemiddleton8396 Год назад

I saw this Joe Pass Ibanez 1980s guitar I want to buy but I'm not sure if it's real or fake and I don't feel like spending 5grand on a fake can you you help me

@rickjason215 Год назад

Joe Pass model or actual guitar he used?

@brodiemiddleton8396 Год назад

@@rickjason215 his guitar Ibanez jp20

@lawrenrich6419 Год назад

Well, there’s goes all my bebop lines …

@rca245 Год назад

play it at a party.. if everyone stops dancing, and people begin to leave,, it’s jazz.

@gabinacu777 Год назад

Hi, I found your videos always very helpful. I am a blues rock type of guitarist but I am interested in jazz as well, in the restaurants and clubs that I played since the 80s we always had to tackle a bit of jazz in the beginning so I have tried to be as close as possible to jazz in my improvisations. I noticed some things that I would like to share. A lot of today's guitarists are attracted by jazz rock (fusion), overdrive sound, bending strings, tapping and cool licks. They try to pick up from jazz certain phrases and use them in their solos. Some find a way to do a smooth transition but many sound weird, not in context. To become a good improviser in a specific style you have to listen every day to that style, you cannot listen to Joe Satriani and Jimmy Herring and wish to sound like Joe Pass. Another thing is that we concentrate a lot on the combination of notes we have to play (arpeggios, chromatic lines, etc...) forgetting that a solo is actually an extension of the main theme. The melodic line of the theme should be in our head all the time when improvising, it will make more sense and it will help us to develop our lines around the theme without thinking too much about the technicality of the phrases. For those who wish to become hundred percent jazz musicians I think that a proper musical school would be the best way. For others like me, a "jack of all trades" at the end we have to decide which way to go (specialize) , otherwise we'll get by at everything but excel in none.

@rockstarjazzcat Год назад

👍🏼

@chuckbillybob123 Год назад

Can I ask? what Joe Pass song is this

@JensLarsen Год назад

It's Chloe off Intercontinental 🙂

@elbob17 Год назад

Jazz is 6 guys all doing whatever they want at the same time.

@pascaljeanne8002 Год назад

hello jens ok but do you know " dirty loops " ? if not you should ! its the most exitin band since ...the harmony are jazz etc , the singer is awsome , the bass player and the drum are ...out this earth ! so man cool but the old jazz (that a work on) is good but go ahead !

@pascaljeanne8002 Год назад

and they are lol as you swedish !

@charlesmartiniii1405 Год назад

Chet Baker would like a word

@JensLarsen Год назад

Because he was all about scales? 😁

@charlesmartiniii1405 Год назад

@@JensLarsen in my limited experience (somewhat of a beginner) that's what I've noticed when transcribing some solos. I may be completely wrong but they seem to revolve around pentatonic and diatonic scales alot

@JensLarsen Год назад

@@charlesmartiniii1405 I have studied and played with people who worked with Chet, he is not about scales. You probably just need to understand the music a bit better.

@stefanthorpenberg887 Год назад

Something happened with jazz when it came to university. Learning improvised music in an academic way, means that you learn it the same way classical musicians do it. They play exactly as it is written. To improvise exactly according to scales and how it was done by a famous musician in the 1950s destroys the whole idea with improvised music.

@JensLarsen Год назад

You either studied music at a university more than 20 years ago, or you have no idea what you are talking about. I am sure you mean well, there are quite a few things in your comment that simply don't hold up.

@stefanthorpenberg887 Год назад

I have younger friends who studied jazz at universities just some few years ago, and they say the same. Maybe you have different experiences, but in Sweden that is how things are teached.

@megalodonpuppet1357 Год назад

Please show how to play jazz Nothing works to play jazz listening to jazz doesn't work and transcribing never does trying jazz licks and language never work jazz can't be learned I already tried jazz tunes nothing all it does is makes me frustrated

@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/

@Mr.S369 Год назад

Of course. Letters are not words. Words are not sentences. Sentences are not books. Books aren't necessarily worthwhile.

@melodiclines2990 Год назад

Lines, learn lines

@guyinpajamapants6892 Год назад

Jazz is a faster version of the blues.

@Mehmehsw5ke Год назад

They learn scales and arpeggios, but never learn the melody 🤔

@algrundau9441 Год назад

No, and Pentatonics are not the Blues, and Powerchords are not Rock or Metal and Major Chords are not Country.......... But they are all handy building blocks. ....and lets face it, at least some of the more "experimental" Jazz forms get quite "chromatic" don't they?