5 Jazz Guitar Exercises That Would Have Saved Me Years
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Content:
00:00 Stop Wasting Time!
00:25 #1 The Layered Fretboard
02:48 #2 Don’t Just Learn Licks
05:32 #3 Are You Playing Music Or Exercises?
07:18 #4 Jazz Harmony With 3-Note Chords
09:20 #5: The Fastest Way to Learn Jazz
11:27 Joe Pass’ Flexible System For Chords and Chord Melody
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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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What are the most efficient exercises that you work on?
Here's the most efficient way to approach Jazz chords: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wYYCfl8F_Y&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcH_C2pwxUa9E96ZM0anWJsR&index=1
Thanks for this video
you are a wonderful guitar teacher.
You are looking younger than ever! Whats your secret?
Dear Jens, that's exactly how it is… we should live backwards, from old to young… ????
Joe Pass = 1984 BB? (2:55)
I despise commercials in your videos because your presentation never seems to have a dull spot or to much filler material. It's good stuff. Every commercial is like encountering an angry dog during a walk.
For me, the best thing is transcribing solos. In my case it tends to cram everything into one "exercise"; which, by the way, includes learning the song itself. I know the task can be daunting, but be assured that we have all felt that way at one time or another. What's the old saying about eating an elephant….. you do it one bite at a time.
Question: I want to learn sight reading. Tired of cheating by using YouTube. In your experience teaching, do you have any recommendations for a book or author. I was looking online. Overwhelmed by options. Thank you
Good advice for those of us playing genres other than jazz, too. Jens is universal!
Love your work, Jens!
Thanks
This video is the one we both wish we had all those years ago when we started on our jazz journey. I have found that when trying to learn, smaller is better. I don't try to learn a whole solo or 6 note chords and arpeggios any more. I learn songs and let the melody teach me the theory. I start with the shell voicings, usually 1 – 3 – 7. I also learn the single note melody in all the 5 CAGED positions and all octaves. Then somehow magically after 50 times through the song, they mix up and I can visualize the melody and the chord at the same time and I start to change one melodic phrase one note at a time.
I don't learn licks anymore and I also do not try to learn solos by ear, too much work. Instead, when I hear a phrase I like, on the radio or something, I sing the phrase to get the notes and rhythm. Somewhere on YT I can find that solo again and I use that to pick out the phrase on my guitar. I play the phrase until I get it under my fingers and in my ear. I can then apply that phrase to the song instead of the melodic phrase when I play one part the song. Melody, melody, melody, phrase, melody, phrase, melody, etc.
When it doesn't work, I alter the phrase (major, minor, dominant) to fit the chord and rhythmic feel of the song. I have then added a piece of vocabulary.
Excellent, concise knowledge. Your are a master teacher
The Joe Pass book is an odd one. It’s not really a method book and it can be a bit difficult to put into practical use. Just my opinion!
Such a comprehensive lesson…this could be “semester one” without paying a university type info.
At 58, I've really being building towards jazz for years, but I can convince people I can play it, but I have to know it, I'm just getting being able to get a chart, voice my own chords and take a solo over it. Points like these are really helping me. Thanks Jens.
Music is, after all, an aural language, not a written one. Writing things down is great reference, and reading music a valuable skill, but in the end, it’s the way it sounds that matters.
I use an app called “Amazing Slow Downer”. God if I could have that when I was a kid when I first starting trying to play Beatles solos, etc. I’d still suck today, but might suck less.
Also, don’t be afraid of horn solos – I have been working on sax and trumpet solos – extremely enlightening, and gets you away from guitaristic phrases. Next up: any Benny Goodman solo. That guy was profound.
Thank you Jens for another great lesson, recommendations and reminder in systematizing theory and practice.
Hello Jens, I’ve been watching your videos for a long time and have learned a lot of important things from you. However, since I’ve seen most of your content, I get the impression that many of your recent videos are quite similar to the older ones — you’re just reusing or combining previous topics.
I can’t even count how many times I’ve heard you mention learning arpeggios in position over one octave, the Joe Pass book, the idea of using parts of licks instead of full ones and integrating them into your playing, the shell voicings, and so on.
Why not share something new — a fresh idea, a new paradigm — instead of the same old topics, even if they’re presented with better quality?
Great vid, handy as I learn more on lap steel, have you heard much of jioaquin murphey ? Oklahoma Stomp & Sweet Georgia Brown have some amazing jazz solos of his on lappy..
great lesson Thx
I like it that a lot of your exercises are built around the C Major7 because if you are already following some of your other podcasts you are already doing some exercises on that chord, which will hopefully you can build on. Keep up the good work ????
You nail it every time. Fantastic video!
For me, I just learned actual Joe Pass songs, chords and solos, and it has been an incredible wealth of things to get my jazz playing going. I have that Joe Pass book, but I am so slow at reading music ..just couldn't get anywhere. Jens, your instruction, especially the diatonic arpeggios bridge the gap of just what JP is doing so much of the time. I've found that his solo parts in so many of his recordings are these arpeggios, used in so many ways. Also, your instruction on pivot arpeggios is truly a difference maker! One can just hear how much they are used in other jazz music!! So helpful!! I have learned an incredible amount from you(…. and Barry Harris :)!! ) Real stuff one can actually use!
Thx Jens, great lesson
Thx!
Jazz is dealed to forget scales and give many forms to the same song along the time…is just a game to experiment. I play solo providing bass chords and melody at same time and there s a lot to learn. Certainly Jens advicings are gold
Split the chords … will work on that for sure. Thanks !