What do you consider important scale exercises? 1 Million views! : The Most Important Scale Exercise in Jazz: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2Ze22BNftAA.html
Jens Larsen You’re always on the right track! But in addition to practice the scale forms on a single string, up and down 2 strings, 3, 4 and string skipping which I guess relates to octave displacement which you’ve mentioned a number of times.
These scale exercises help even if I'm playing with full-on distortion in a metal solo or any style of music it helps to outline the chord instead of playing mindlessly across the scales like I sometimes do but now I found the key to playing scales in a useful way I always wanted this kind of lesson just found it after many days of searching through youtube videos thank you so much for these lessons 😊
The way you explain, how the diatonic chords and scales are related to each other is incredible! The IKEA Lick is a great metaphor to understand the different shapes and voicings which are given in one chord. Thank you for opening my eyes Jens!
Thanks Jens for keeping it real. I started your suggestion on practicing arpeggios this way and I realized I didn't know the fretboard as well as I thought I did
I like the IKEA scale - it comes with the tools you need to put it together. Seriously, I've found this method to be the best for learning a scale and making it almost immediately usable. Also, it gets you in the mindset of a scale being a collection of notes and relationships to use rather than something linear to play. Thanks Jens!
I enjoy watching your videos and will continue to do so, my problem is that apart from learning the basic open chords back in my teens, I've just retired and have decided to learn the guitar properly and I think all that you're saying is a bit over my head. I will persevere but it's like I'm trying to play the guitar while wearing oven mitts
Absolute master, again, with an incredible ease and fantastic approach you manage to explain reasonably complex jazz concept in simple way. Thank you kindly sir!
Amen brother. Lot of folks vehement about practicing arpeggios as separate from the chord-scales they spring from... It really boggles the mind, that resistance to best practice. (And lol on, "next medium swing Yngwie!" :) ) Best regards, Daniel
Thank you for this fantastic lesson for all of us to play and to MAKE MUSIC ! If it sounds great then play it, as who knows what will follow..Blessings to all...:-)
Interestingly, my jazz teacher gave this exercise and a few variations of ascending, descending and skips to work on about 20 years ago when I first started learning guitar. Its still my go to when learning a new tune and makes it much easier to play on those tunes that have two chords per bar. It helps when playing seemingly unrelated back to back chords.
really good supplement to the road map course Jens, along with many of your other lessons. Starting to REALLY utilize arpeggios. Not to digress , but your excersizes in chpt 7, 8 of the road map course are brilliant. "light bulb" moments for sure.
Wow. I literally introduced this idea into my practice about a week ago. I was expecting something different but I feel a little more confident in my regime now. (:
I'm a beginner and found this to help clarify where I need to go with my practice sessions. I noticed your pick seems to be thick and I'm curious as to what your using, as well as any comments you may about picks for jazz guitarists.
In a postmodernist world of ever moving goalposts and large quantities of unmitigated Bullshit passing for knowledge THANK YOU! I've only heard the intro. But you are statng Objective truth and Common Sense. Not all Scale Exercises are Equal. Not all ideas are equal. You nailed it when you said " No actually It Kinda Sucks" Finally a modicum of sanity. I'll take it wherever I can get it. Its in short supply these days.
2 or 4 note major scales one octave starting on each diatonic note in the scale. Shell voicings diatonically without the root. Those shapes open up the fretboard vertically.
I am absolutely inspired by the video ; very helpful . I follow the theory and the application , but wonder how you get such a musically flowing sound , even at the very beginning when playing just the C maj scale ( before you even introduce the arpeggios) ???
I'm still working on the information from the other video regularly Jens! Quick question for you about this video - when you showed the additional arpeggios that can be substituted, it occurred to me that they are pretty much like doing a V of I substitution or a vi for I or iii for I. Is that correct?
Jens, so glad you don't capitulate to the criticizing clowns. These are your videos, so obviously you're sharing your well-considered opinions. "Medium-swing Yngwie" Ha! Well, it'd be an improvement over the "regular" one.
Hej Jens, nørklede lidt med øvelsen...men endte op med alternativ fingerpositioner som ligger bedre for mig. Mener du, at fingersætningen som beskrevet er essentiel?
“So in that way it’s the IKEA arpeggio lick, except of course it clicks into place and works.”..... DAAAYYUM!!!! 😵🔥🔥🔥🤣🤣🤣🦁🌞 (Great video, by the way. I just hope that between that and the Yngwie burn, you haven’t laid the groundwork for an international incident! 🇸🇪🇩🇰😁)
Hey Jens, i wonder whether it is legit to drop some steps in favour of added 9th or 11th, like if i would've played Dm(not really 7 in this case ofc) chord dropping F e.g. could i still call it Dm chord anyways since the root note is played?
Stuff like that is really about context, so in a very clear context like a II V I you can be fairly vague, but without that context of a key then that can be more difficult
Is that Gb (the flat 11) used in the second arpeggio for the D Minor 7 also known as.a chromatic leading note since its not in the scale? Or am I misunderstanding what a chromatic leading note is? Its right after the G (11th) and descends back down to an E (the 9th) shortly after. Its just a passing note but its not in the D Minor scale, what would this be known as?
@@George-nx8zu The first part of that bar is a chromatic enclosure. I talk about those in a lot of other videos like this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qLUTeiADkow.html
You stack thirds in the scale. For C major: C D E F G A B (C D E F G A) if you stack 3rds on the G you get: G B D F - G7 if you stack 3rds on the B: B D F A - Bm7(b5) does that help?
@@timhorton7420 always skip one note of the scale and use the next till you have 4 notes of a diatonic chord (but like lars said in the video, sometimes its nice to incorporate one that isn't)
Now I, a die hard disciple of the Three-chords-are-more-than-enough-religion, start to understand, why all Jazz--guitar-solos Sound the same to my ears. IKEA!
