Make Sure You Practice This As A Jazz Beginner
Starting with jazz guitar can feel overwhelming. There are so many things to practice, but most of them won’t actually help you in the beginning. From teaching thousands of students, I’ve learned that it is essential to build a solid foundation of skills that work well together. In this video, I’ll give you a simple checklist of what to practice when you are starting.
Your First 5 Jazz Licks (Beginner’s Guide To Arpeggios)
The Biggest Misunderstanding About Jazz Chords
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Content:
00:00 The Jazz Iceberg
00:35 What Do You Do With Music?
01:15 Simplifying Scales
02:22 Applied Arpeggios
04:16 Consistent Chords
05:49 Smart Songs
07:45 Hidden Skill #1 – Target Notes
09:18 Hidden Skill #2 – Phrasing
10:11 Hidden Skill #3 – Melody
11:17 Where Do You Get Ideas?
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What should you focus on when learning Jazz?
The Biggest Misunderstanding About Jazz Chords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-P-gM7VJx4&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcH6zN85I0bmDybzu1QuuiR7&index=1
One thing I've been doing is learning Autumn Leaves not just in one position, but only using 3 strings. 3 strings contain all 12 chromatic notes in 1 position, so for every chord of the song you can find the 1, 3, 5 and 7 (or 6 for the Gm6) within those 3 strings in 1 position. When I've played through the song I do it again but playing chords containing the 3 & 7, then either the 5, 9 or 1 depending on what is most comfortable and what leads from the previous chord. Then when I've done that I move down a set of strings and do it again. Then when I get to the bottom set of strings, I take that exact set of notes and find it on the top strings which will give me the entry point to a new position.
At first this was very slow but now I can do the whole fretboard quickly and the root notes are lighting up as I play through the changes and I see all of the arpeggio notes relative to it as I go. I can also play leading chromatic notes because I'm more confident with where I'm going next. I feel like I've built the tools to both improvise and comp, and I can take these 3 note chords and embellish them, or add root notes 1 or 2 strings lower should I need to provide the root.
This method was sort of one I devised by crossing stuff I've learned from your videos and Tom Quayle's fretboard visualisation stuff and I feel like it's really helped me in terms of building a really solid foundation from which to build. Like I can play the head and see it relative to the roots of the changes which is something I definitely could not do before.
Anyways long post but thanks so much for all the material you've posted over the years, your channel is such a good learning resource.
Totally agree ????????????
Nailed it – everything you need to know to get started ????
I know you are "wowing at gear" right now Jens – but this lesson is one of your very best – summarises your approaches, guides, practical exercises and knowledge really well. I wouldnt underestimate how good this is….. years of work to produce a really pithy and worthwhile effort. Many thanks.
Hey Jens, I just want to thank you for these beginner videos. In particular, your advice about practicing the arpeggios within the scale has really helped me break through the "I'm not smart enough to play jazz" wall that I've been banging my head against for years. Now I'm actually starting to come up with some decent lines that "sound like jazz"! ????I'm at the beginning of the journey but I'm happy to finally be taking some solid first steps. Keep up the great work.
Bedankt
You know what is hard?
It's that your lessons are so valuable and you always show us how useful/effective they are by applying them in your playing/examples and it sounds soooo good.
The hard part is that because of how good your lessons are, I have the tendancy to stay away from the be-bop scales for example that I like because they are so natural to me.
Then in my mind it goes: "Jens says he's not a big fan of be-bop scales FOR DAMN GOOD REASONS
I can't deny because he sounds great without using them. But it's damn hard for me to apply the Barry Harris chromatic scale."
So, sometimes I feel like a "learning paralysis" or "point of view paralysis" when I have to choose what is the "best" for me to learn.
The solution is to cherry-pick according to our tastes/abilities, but it's not always easy when it goes against your own expression.
Thanx a lot for all the time, energy and fun you put in your precious lessons and advices.
Tienes tantísima razón con lo de escuchar, es básico para el aprendizaje de un estilo musical, muchas gracias
This video was incredible! ???????? Every moment was direct and full of info
Jens is that a new Gibson! Great video as always!
Great video ! It’s nice to see that an ‘accomplished’ Jazz Guru ………made lots of mistakes as a beginner…….he’s human after all !
Hello Jens, I'm finding the jazz lessons very helpful with understanding the C Major scale and music theory but I'm not a jazz listener.
Can you please share a list of albums to get started for the novice ear. I tried Virtuoso in New York and it just sounded like a collection of disjointed scale exercises to me so I need something a bit more basic and tuneful.
This should have millions of likes.
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Verry good Information about Mistakes and right Practice Routine . I am not a absolute Beginner but did a Lot of Things with wasting Time ,because i had no Road Maps.
Jens, I just recently started on my journey to learn jazz guitar. I'm so grateful I found your channel… it's probably the best on YouTube! I'm in my mid 30's now, but started playing guitar at 14… spent my time in the woodshed playing blues, rock, and heavy metal. I was exposed to jazz guitar at a young age thanks to my father, and coming back to it now has been a real experience. I feel like a beginner guitarist all over again! Your channel has been an invaluable resource so far… such an enormous help.
Very informative love feedback on my original guitar compositions I'm self taught
Concise, thorough, and practical advice. At last, I have the basis of an achievable plan. Thank you!
What I want is a step by step method.
Thanks!
Thanks!
The first thing I ever did in jazz was trying to play The man I love as performed by Django Reinhardt, the version in duo with Stéphane Grapelli on piano. I was so impressed by that song that I was motivated enough to learn to reproduce it note by note. Afterwards, listening and transcribing remained the main ingredient of my practice. Beside learning music theory (yes).
Thanks, Jens! Good pedagogy, imho. I've enjoyed your content for a long time, but I'm seriously trying to learn jazz this year for the first time, albeit on a Pacifica w/ P90 neck and a Katana gen3 artist. I'm probably learning it much sooner than I would've, thanks to your videos on Strats and Katanas. I would've just stayed in blues and funk land, never seeing the jazz potential.
I also started with a hard song: Girl From Ipanema ,and I still struggle with it. So I switched to Blue Monk. Now that I can do.
Great video!
Always great information