The Most Important Music Theory And How It Helps You Play Better 

Rewriting the scale using thirds!Thanks Jens I love this idea, this is brilliant & really helpful!

Thank you 🙂

Really glad you found that useful!

Thank you 🙂

Great! Glad it was helpful!

Thank you, Jack!

You may find it gets easier the more yo go through and that the time invested will pay off :)

@@JensLarsen Happy to hear that =))

Glad it was helpful!

That is really great to hear, Vicky! I hope you have a great Christmas and a happy 2022

Thank you 🙂

Really glad you find it useful 🙂

You are so welcome!

Awesome! Thank you!

Thank you! Great to hear!

Glad you like it 🙂

Glad you liked it!

Thank you Damien! 🙂 Glad you like the course!

Glad you liked it! :)

Glad you find it useful 🙂

Glad you think so!

Thank you 🙂

You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂

Glad it was helpful!

@@JensLarsen Amazingly helpful: thanks so much again!

Glad you like it 🙂

Glad you like that one 🙂

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for checking it out!

You are very welcome

Glad it was helpful 🙂

You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂

Glad you think so!

Thank you, Alan

Thank you 🙂

Glad you like it 🙂

Glad it is helpful 🙂

You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂

Thanks Brian! Coming from you that is a huge compliment! :)

Thank you! I will keep that in mind 🙂

Glad you like it!

Glad it's useful 🙂

Great! :)

Thank you!

Thank you 🙂

Thank you very much! I am working very closely with my editor to level it up :)

@@JensLarsen It's very impressive. Apart from the good info, I love the playfulness as well. Now while we as viewers have speed control dials and should use them, I would tentatively suggest to set the overall speed just slightly slower. Just a tad lower. Maybe 90% of the current speed or something? I found myself having to pause a few times to read stuff on the screen (while there was also audio info in the form of your commentary) to make sure I did not miss things. Overall though, looks great.

Glad you guys like the videos!

Thank you Gregory 🙂

You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂

Thank you Stepehen! Yes, it really is all about nailing the basics to get access to everything else :)

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you 🙂

Thank you 🙂

Thank you 🙂

Thanks Larry! I agree that it is useful to be able to communicate with others, but it is not that strong an argument since most of the people watching are not in a position to play with others (or not at a level). So that is why I don't include that aspect.

@@JensLarsen Understand your point. Thanks Jens.

Go for it 🙂

Thank you Daniel! :)

@@JensLarsen, thank you for replying to my comment. I used to play clarinet and saxophone years and years ago. I just ordered a tenor. I used to play in orchestras, never much jazz, and I always wanted to. You videos are going go be the backbone of me learning how to improvise. I’ve never seen this explained in such an easy and “digestible” way. Thank you for your hard work, YOU are the man!

Thank you! I am glad you found it useful! 👍

Thank you!

Thank you 🙂

Thank you! It is fast, but that is what most people seem to prefer. I am really glad to hear that you find the roadmap useful! I am so proud of that course!

@@JensLarsen I didn’t mean that you talk too fast, I just mean that you have the ability to pack a lot of information into each video. It is great that you have accumulated so much musical knowledge and are willing and able to share it. Thank you!

@@hidesertmusic Don't worry about it. I am actually always trying to adjust the pace and looking for a balance :)

@@JensLarsen you are doing fine. Keep it up. I’m trying to learn how to build chords to use as a melody. It’s a long road.

Thank you! Did you check out this? jenslarsen.nl/how-to-learn-jazz-guitar-suggestions-to-begin-studying/

@@JensLarsen will do, thanks a lot!

This video was shot before I published the other video so it has nothing to do with your comment, don't worry (I don't even really remember what it was :) )

Somebody hasn't been paying attention :)

Thank you, John!

Actually, I think it is not very useful to think theory as rules. You get caught up in right and wrong notes when that is really not helping.

@@JensLarsen I think that was good ol' Dr Loomis's point.

We need more of those :D

Can't be that many years, I use it fairly regularly in videos 🙂

Exactly 🙂

Yes exactly! Feel Notes :D

It is linked in the end screen and also in the video description, but you can also just click this: ✅A Simple Jazz Solo Skill You Want To Master: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iki_qdAKxW8.html

Thank you Jens!

I refer to it as a "blues classic" and I am discussing a phrase the way Clapton played it (which is different from how Freddie King played it) I don't think I am saying that he wrote it or talking about that at all. None of that is incorrect.

Haha! There is a playlist with strat videos, one of the videos that is viewed the most on the channel is with a strat :)

@@JensLarsen Really? I have seen a ton of your videos and never seen it being played. It's always on the wall. :) I guess I am just watching selected material. Now I need to dig in and find these videos. :) Anyways, great value in all videos no matter what you play! Keep at it!

@@electorize Thanks! These videos are with a strat: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zQjdDuK3g-4.html But there are a few more

@@JensLarsen Yes. Found them. Hendrix playing standards... I'd prefer Wes on Gibson ;)

@@electorize Hard to make some people happy....

Thank you! Glad you like them :)

Play scales and scale exercises slowly while saying the notes. Build that up in complexity. It isn't difficult, but by actively using what you know you get it into your system

Sonotone 13s There is a link in the video description 🙂

Well, maybe Justin guitar is more in line with your level?

Well, you can also go to the article on my website and use the text to support you going through the video :)

Thank you very much! :) I have these videos: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PeIdrmUWw0Q.html

@@JensLarsen Thank you! 😃

At that point in the video I am not trying to build a single chord, I am writing out the scale so that it is easier to see what is available and how it is related to the chord that is being played (in this case G7) If you write out only a few notes then you don't have that overview. Does that help explain it?

@@JensLarsen So if I understand it correctly it is an arbitrary number. I find it difficult to instantly know and naming all notes of a chord (and order like in inverse chords). So learning the stacking order in thirds on all 12 major scales inside out as mnemonic may solve this. It's all in the knowledge of the fretboard. Thx. for your response!

@@startrooper2earth You can practice that quite easily, even without a guitar :)

I can give u an advise, so u dont have to think:"oh hell, how am i supposed to do all that and where should i even begin?!" if u want to learn all the chords in all keys and all notes in all keys, dont go on to it like:"oh hell, i gotta learn all the names and crap" music is based on logic. so u can do it easily. learn this what jens said here: C E G D F A E G B etc. and when u know that, learn 6 keys. A B C# D E F# G# B C# D# E F# G# A# C D E F G A B C D E F G# A B C# D E F# G# A B C# D# E F G A Bb C D E F G A B C D E F# G after u know that, learn the circle of fifths, how build up scales with # and b : F# C# G# D# A# E# B# Bb Eb Ab Db Gb Cb Fb now you learn how to change your 6 keys into a different key: just put an imaginary "b" in front or a"#" and u will see it by urself. i dont want to write so much... but u get the point. then u learnt how to transpose everything in either a # or b key. after u did that, u know I ii iii IV V vi vii° chords to all keys and dont have to think:"whats the V chord in the key of Eb?" U just know it that its B, because its always with the alphabet and by knowing the circle of fifths, u could conclude it easily. After that u just need to learn to play everything u learnt in one key on ur instrument, for instant guitar. u ask urself probably:"whats that supposed to mean?" Take the key of C for example and learn all the inversions and notes (scales) and chordshapes of one key and learn to know it by heart on the neck. A Capo helps a lot at times with that, because u have to be clear to know the chord combinations if u have to play a C as an A shape chord. when u did that, u are ready to play everything, because u know now the connection why the G major shape is on the 3rd fret and why the G major on the 10th fret is an A major shape. And then u will more and more understand why playing arpeggios is so important and how everything is connected and u will get to hear music in a different way as before. anyways, hope u get all that and u will get somewhere with it. and if i helped anyone else, im glad i helped. music and math are acctually the same thing. just logic. and u have to find ur own way to solve the problem in a simple way and thats why we have so many ways to slove things and play things easy but also the hard way. u just gotta find ur own way of getting to the conclusion. but to appreciate music in its whole, u have to understand the concept of it and how its build. just like math. start learning the basics and u will be ready to understand jazz and classical music. thanks for reading and have a great day either way if i didnt help at all :)

Go for it 😁

Not consciously :) which part?

Now you mention it: Join the club! 😂

@@JensLarsen Brilliant video as always man.

Aren't all the videos about that? :)

@@JensLarsen maybe on how to arrange a piece for this setting with some example of Kenny or a more modern like Kurt rosenwinkel. Just an idea 😁

@@luisnowak7881 I think I already have videos on harmonizing melodies and reharmonizing progressions. But you should certainly transcribe some stuff. I checked out most of the Rosenwinkel debut album and that was super useful!

@@JensLarsen “east cost love affair” is in my opinion the best guitar trio album ever! Already transcriped some stuff of it. My teacher also recommended it 😃(I study jazz guitar in Berlin). The biggest problem I have is what is to much what is to less, especially over fast pieces.

Thank you! :)

@@JensLarsen Yes, the way you teach is the way to do it .. I get so annoyed when I see people trying to teach guitar that tell people put this finger behind this fret on this string for every note.. and it takes an hour just to explain an 8 bar melody.. it’s totally ridiculous. The way to teach is to define by derivation and explaining how to manage and expand their own journey… in other words teach them how to figure out things for themselves. They’re going to have to study and develop skills and experience on their own anyway, so handholding, and totally avoiding the language that explains music doesn’t work well. The other thing I like that you say is apply the scale theory to making actual music .. many people tell you to either study scales all day and all night on one extreme and then there are those that say throw at the scales completely and just learn these patterns that make the sounds that you want. I mean there’s so many different shades of stupidity, it’s incredible. In the end, it’s all about context and understanding what the game of music is really all about. One complication though is that the priority levels of need to know theoretical concepts varies depending on genre and instrument function. But it is my firm belief that knowing other things that other musicians know that you don’t necessarily need to know is helpful and insightful regardless.

True, but I am playing the clapton version of it. Freddie King plays differently

Yes, that is exactly what it is :)

Basic chord building and diatonic chords can give you a lot of useful info :)

@@JensLarsen yeah, much appreciated, I get a lot of mileage out of these little well explained lessons. Expanding my basic blues and rock style.

Exactly! 🙂

Haha! No, but bending the wound G string on a set of 13s sucks and that is my only guitar with thinner strings

@@JensLarsen makes sense :D

Haha! I get seasick from playing minecraft so it will be quite a few 😁