The Most Important Scale For Jazz
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Jazz is NOT about learning 100s of scales; one scale does 90% of the work. After teaching Jazz for almost 20 years, I’ve seen again and again how focusing on this one scale, and ACTUALLY learning how to use it, changed everything for my students. So in this video, I’ll show the scale I’m talking about, the exercises you need to work on, and how to use it to make your solos sound like real Jazz.
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Content:
00:00 Scale Madness
01:20 The Scale and How To Practice
02:52 The Chords In There and the II V I
05:22 Soloing over Chord Changes
06:46 How To Really Internalize The Scale
08:35 Borrowing From Barry’s Vision
09:36 Hot Take on Modes
10:17 Pivot Arpeggios
11:22 Getting Creative
12:03 Solos That Will Teach You Jazz
12:22 What Did Wes Montgomery Practice?
12:34 Like the video? Check out my Patreon page!
My name is Jens Larsen, a Danish Jazz Guitarist and Educator. The videos on this channel will help you explore and enjoy Jazz. Some of them teach you how to play jazz guitar, but other videos focus on Music Theory, like Jazz Chords, or offer advice on practicing and learning Jazz on guitar or any other instrument.
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Which scale do you use the most? ????
What did Wes practice? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ZngB534AQ&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcHYpTUk4LnIHZ8c8X3Qcdau
You are brilliant Jens. Learning from this requires patience but I can see that you have condense an encyclopediac amount of info into 15 mins. Thank you!
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Dude sweet ???? you are awesome!
Helpful, as always. Thanks!
You are a master teacher, thank you once again for your concise, thoughtful (and often hilarious!) lessons.
Anyone know how many guitar positions Jens recommends? A Joe Pass book I found says 5. But for arpeggios, if I can get comfortable with any 4 note diatonic arp starting with fingers 2, 1, and 4, I hope that should be flexible enough to cover the fretboard in every key without jumping around. Or is that overdoing it?
Really helpful video just shows how properly understanding the basics is what's most important! Earned a sub from me
Another great lesson Jens. Clearly explained and with tangible examples. I have known a lot of this for years but still learned some new perspectives that have inspired new ideas. Forever learning!
I love yazz though lol
I could not agree more (about the importance of the major scale). To me, I have always viewed it as, the major scale is effectively, ground zero for western music (not just jazz). EVERYTHING else is a variation OFF of that ground zero (flatten this, sharpen this, etc., all relative to the original major scale). That's how it makes the most sense to me.
Excellent lesson—creatively building on the basics! And thanks for putting the charts on Patreon. —Tom
it's the major scale. Learn all 12 major scale and play them every day for the rest of your life and you just might like your own playing someday
A big thanks Jens for all the nice Jazz concepts that you are generously giving here. You deserve 5 stars !
Dude, can you please play a few lines of music without stopping? Play 3 lines of solo changes with no backtrack?
Th best lesson you have ever done in explaining a path to understanding the vocabulary of jazz.
Great video. As a non professional guitarist, this video is useful. My only issue is with Jens' issue with modes. I humbly think knowing modes enhances this video's message.
Thank you so much for a really great lesson. Appreciate the Non-Hypochondrian/Schumannesque (OMG) vibe.
This is an excellent lesson. Let me ask you a question, though. I am pretty much a newbie with almost 2 years learning guitar. I know my pentatonic, major and modes. I am working on my triads and arpaggioes. Shouldn't I all of these under my beat before I get to this? From what I see here you really need to know where the notes are and the intervals solidly as well. I know its along haul but I am willing. I love playing with backing tracks, getting the scales down.
Je vais travailler les triades et les arpeges "diététiques" je crois que ça va me faire du bien…
We’ve come to expect one fantastic master class after another from Jens, and he never fails. Each video gives me things to work on for weeks … and well, the rest of my playing life.
I have a question about the pivots – it seems the tendency is the first interval is down a 6th, then up in thirds. I am trying to work out the reverse – up a 6th then down in 3rds, but so far they seem a less obvious to me on using them effectively. Any thoughts on that?
Genial profe❤
Breakthrough lesson and best channel on YT! Amazing instructional video!! Thank you Jens!!
Hi Jens – I’ve been using you list of “beginner” Jazz Tunes – Perdido, Pent Up House, Afternoon in Paris etc (as well as playing the Blues!) and have been making great progress! Thank you.
I’m now looking for some tunes that perhaps involve more Minor ii-Vs and wonder if you could suggest some beginner tunes that would help with that?
So far I’ve seen Softly as in a morning Sunrise; Yesterdays; Beautiful Love … could you recommend a few more? Thanks again
251????? ???? O robô é bem diferente! Aqui no Brasil, é DOIS, CINCO, UM.
Amen!
Thanks!
compartilhe seu preset para tocar jazz de sua fractal FM3 ?
share your preset to play jazz from your fractal FM3?
64 year-old here, playing for 52 of those years.
Wish I hadn't balked when my Teacher began leading me in this direction as a young student. "Lullaby of Birdland" was where he tried to get me to begin.
I thought I 'had it sussed' because I could play all four sides of Led Zeppelin's "Physical Graffiti" release. What a joke (on me, unfortunately).
You're the first jazz instructor I've ever seen that makes me feel as though I might still be able to pick up some of these stylisms. Thank you!
i’ve been practicing some of these skills for the last couple months cause i stumbled on your channel. really appreciate what you put out there, and i’m happy with my progress
“Make your solos sound like real jazz”. I was just telling a musician friend of mine that jazz is possibly the only genre of music I can think of where you have to sound like the people who created it in order to “really” play it. I can mix in all kinds of stuff while playing funk, rock, blues, New Wave, heck…even classical…but when I try to do that playing jazz, I get looks like “that’s not jazz dude”…so I’ll start essentially imitating Wes or George Benson etc and there’s a sigh of relief like “ok…now THAT’S jazz”.
Nobody talks about avoiding false expectations of the time it takes to acquire basic jazz guitar skills….If you are moving from Pop/ Blues music to jazz you probably don't know the notes of the chords you are playing ( unless you've also had some classical guitar training)… You are probably just playing shapes and know a couple of minor pentatonic positions..
Spend months learning the 12 bar Jazz blues tradition using triad chords (without the fifth).. ( including the use of ii V 1's which is different from rock 12 bar blues )…Learn the format with roots from the E and A strings…..Learn the notes …It's not like looking at a Pop or a basic blues chord chart.. you actually have to understand what's going on musically…But it's so rewarding!
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Best Patreon on the Internet. Absolute goldmine of material.
I appreciate you making this so accessible ????
What is the hypochondrian b6 scale?! That is very obscure — google finds nothing. The text looks like Slonimsky and I find this on p. vi of the Introduction to his "Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns" except that someone (you?) edited it to remove the previous paragraph and replaced it with "Hypochondrian b6". The use of "b6" was a clue that it was fake because professional typesetters would probably use "♭6". So … ha, ha, ya got me.
Who tf sent 6 downvotes to this man? Jens does some of the best jazz ideas breakdown videos on the net. This man is a global treasure!
Excellent class. Everything was very well explained and concise. For a student like me, there's enough material here for many hours but yes, this way of looking at notes is much more creative and fun than thinking about the b6 !
I also want to tell you to ignore some of the comments I read about your magnificent video.
I can't understand how there are people so negative that they spend their time criticizing, in a ridiculously absurd way, the work of someone who helps others, just like you do!
Thank you so much !
Pas "251" mais "ii-V-I", patate!