This “Stupid” Triad Exercise Is More Powerful Than You Think!
Triads are essential for Jazz guitar, and this exercise, which I first considered boring and stupid, can help you boost your Jazz phrasing. I’ll tell you that story and show you how you can create some amazing Jazz licks with triads!
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Content:
00:00 Not Just The Right Notes!
00:50 The Triad Exercise
02:07 Phrasing In Jazz
05:12 Thank you, George!
06:59 How To Bebop Without Scales
08:51 Expanding Your Vocabulary
10:06 Flexible Arpeggios
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How do you use triads in your playing?
Barry Harris has the ultimate system for chromatic notes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NnFgdgOnc0&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcFzDL9mT2eUF54IkjFdYsy6&index=1
Hey Jens, thanks for another great video, i love your examples and explanation,
But I have to say, having watched it I still don't really understand how to do this exercise… Maybe I'm too much of an amateur, but all this jazz terminology doesn't really sound like an instruction to me.
So I Would be grateful if for one of the next ones you would also give the tab transcriprion of the exercise itself that one could just play time and time again for hours
Great stuff, as always! I haven't peaked ahead, but I am hoping the Jazz Roadmap gets into enclosures. Cheers!
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This lesson in Gold Jens!
As an amateur hack who has been listening to jazz for decades, it’s great to have this broken down so I can understand why I like BeBop so much. I didn’t say I could play it good, but just understanding why it sounds so great is half my battle! ????????
Exactly what I needed, thank you
I started teaching this basic exercise to students at Indiana University in the mid 90s
There's a similar "Charlie Parker" way of doing arpeggios with that same enclosure.
I thought enclosures were just something i need to practice more as another trick in the bag, but this opens up a whole big can of candied popcorn! Very enlightening 10 minutes indeed. Thanks!
Does the same idea (diatonic above, chromatic below) apply over tones of chords other than the tonic? E.g. over Dm7 (the ii) you target D with E -> C# -> D?
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Thanks for the "stupid" exercise!
So wonderfully stupid that even I understand it! Thanks Jens
This is super helpful. The idea of thinking triads and then adding change of direction in places OTHER than the downbeats, using simple enclosures, and mixing that with diatonic and chromatic lines feels like a way I can organize all this in my head and spend more time feeling the music than trying to "keep up" note by note. Thanks so much for this short but invaluable lesson!
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Great stuff for where I'm at playing jazz. Thanks
Thanks a lot for this yet another amazing lesson.
Thanks to this video, I realized that these enclosures actually are the basis of the whole melody in April in Paris!
Brilliant lesson! Thank you for posting this and explaining the purpose of enclosures and how these can be added to triads, along with trills to make a melodic lick. Loved it!
2:24 to 2:31 – me playing jazz lol!!.
Great explained. Thank you very much!
I'm about to buy your jazz roadmap course. I want to get this under my fingers.
Amazing: Mozart was then the first Jazzman, with the Turkish March! Enclosures around a minor arpeggio…
At 4:30 or so, you talk about syncopation. It’s all 8th notes. It’s cool, but I can’t find syncopation, as I know it.
ITS GOOD EXERCISE , THAKNS TO SHARE.
Thanks!
Helpful, and far from boring.
Always helpful……..
Thanks Jens……!!!