3 Things To Get Right For Great Guitar Technique

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Jens Larsen

Jens Larsen

Күн бұрын

There are two types of guitar players, which one are you: Do you like to practice exercises, and develop your technique or do you hate scales and think that the devil invented the metronome? When it comes to developing your technique then I don't think there is a correct or best way to go about it, and maybe you never need to practice scales or exercises at all., but what is anyway important is that you figure out what works the best for you!
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Content:
00:00 What Should You Practice and Why?
00:36 My Philosophy
01:10 Pure Technique
02:15 Rhythm, subdivision and control
03:21 Technique, Knowledge, and...
03:51 Advice From Wes Montgomery
05:32 Not a lot of thinking and theory?
06:09 Exercises That Combine Everything
07:08 How Learning Solos Is A Part Of My Routine
08:00 The Missing Element
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@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
What are great exercises for technique that you think I should try? 😎 Here's the most important scale exercise in Jazz: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aMCVZZVzs8zYcXU.html
@xoxb2
@xoxb2 4 ай бұрын
If you're thinking of other You Tube channels with helpful exercises, you could try Andre Tonelli. He doesn't do jazz, but he has a seemingly endless collection of exercises for warm-up, dexterity, scales, intervals etc, which are thorough and challenging but also interesting.
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
Ok, I'll have a look
@tomm5023
@tomm5023 4 ай бұрын
Doing the 2 point interval system from Tom Quale. It’s the first time I truly see my fretboard knowledge shooting up. Scales, triads, chord tones…all in there. Aside that, rhythmic notation and difficult songs
@frankvaleron
@frankvaleron 4 ай бұрын
What a great video. Always looking for new and interesting practice ideas
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!🙂
@trevorburke4959
@trevorburke4959 4 ай бұрын
I just bought a Vidami pedal to make starting/stopping/looping KZfaq videos easier when trying to learn/transcribe songs
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
Great! They are really nice 👍
@tennesseefred3972
@tennesseefred3972 4 ай бұрын
I've been using the Pat Metheny guitar etudes book for warmup exercises. Good for building right and left hand technique, but they are not lines I would actually use in a jazz solo.
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
Interesting! I never checked that out 🙂
@EastmanD
@EastmanD 4 ай бұрын
Name of that exercise book please sir ?
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
@@EastmanD just Google Metheny exercise book, you will find it
@CrazyQ6930
@CrazyQ6930 4 ай бұрын
I needed this, thanks.
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
Glad I could help
@nicholascarroll7239
@nicholascarroll7239 4 ай бұрын
Really helpful. Thank you
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
Great to hear 🙂
@BrendaBoykin-qz5dj
@BrendaBoykin-qz5dj 4 ай бұрын
Thank you,Jens⭐🌹⭐
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
Glad you like it!
@davidkeller6156
@davidkeller6156 12 күн бұрын
When I was taking piano lessons, one thing my teacher had me do with scales is play 8th notes or 16th notes with one hand while playing triplets with the other. It was very difficult at first. From that I got the idea of playing 3 note, 5 note and 7 note scales across two beats on guitar. There was a classical guitar piece I worked on once where I had to play 2 beats with my thumb while playing 5 with my fingers. I never did get that down.😂
@AutoRiff
@AutoRiff 4 ай бұрын
The alternative for Spotify is using the loopback feature on your interface and recording a copy of the song in a DAW. I then import that recording into my jam project in Reaper and play along. You can loop any point, slow it down, and use EQ (or more advanced tools) to make the guitar stand out clearly in the mix. I also like to match my guitar tone to what is used in the song. When you recreate the solo accurately it actually becomes harder to hear yourself and you'll know you're nailing it.
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
I have a way to do that on my PC which is fine, I was talking about a phone app 🙂
@reganmacneilexorcist
@reganmacneilexorcist 4 ай бұрын
Great video ! So glad i found ur channel. Im learning so much 💯💯👍
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
Makes my day that they are useful for you!
@reganmacneilexorcist
@reganmacneilexorcist 4 ай бұрын
@JensLarsen I play worship guitar and I try to use things I learn from u to enhance my playing. Especially 7th chords and playing over chords and chord changes. I really appreciate ur videos 🤘🤘🤘🤘💯💯💯
@tomcripps7229
@tomcripps7229 4 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
Thank you Tom!
@MrMont-ue8kh
@MrMont-ue8kh 4 ай бұрын
Thanks, Jens!
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
Glad you like the video!
@jsb1181
@jsb1181 4 ай бұрын
Great lesson as always! I've been using some scale exercises I got from Chad LB videos, bascially putting chromatic enclosures into scale patterns, but playing them legato on guitar is super hard. Also gone back to step 1 with Mick Goodrick's book and been looking at melodic minor modes on one string - amazing how much I get from this every time I do it!
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
Great ideas!
@jsb1181
@jsb1181 4 ай бұрын
Thanks, and thanks for your great ideas! At the moment I really like checking out warm up exercises and material intended for sax. Doing any of the warm ups from this video from Chad LB but on guitar with legato is a nice technical challenge: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nrWBf5yY17ybfKs.htmlsi=UpWaXijq_pjk66n6@@JensLarsen
@ohtravo997
@ohtravo997 4 ай бұрын
woahhh thats a cool bass dawgie
@bumrecordingstudios
@bumrecordingstudios 4 ай бұрын
Nice video. Thanks
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
Glad you liked it!
@cbolt4492
@cbolt4492 4 ай бұрын
Awesome 😎
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
Thanks Christian🤗
@ToddRichmond
@ToddRichmond 4 ай бұрын
Bassist exercise but works for guitar - play three dotted eighth notes (think Black Cow) with a metronome. You start with the first note on the downbeat and play for awhile. Then first note on the "ee" of the beat (1-ee-and-uh). Then the "and", and then the "uh". Then on the downbeat of beat 2, etc. Downbeat and "and" are usually easy for players, I found "uh" to confound me until I felt it as a pickup to 2. And yes, metronome is the work of the devil but it probably has been one of the best uses of my practice time. A lot of players have bad time, and bassist really can't get away with that. Neither should guitarists 😀
@jamescopeland5358
@jamescopeland5358 4 ай бұрын
Great lesson Jens
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
Thanks James!
@chrissguitarshow206
@chrissguitarshow206 4 ай бұрын
Finally something on technique.
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
Did you miss these: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abmlo82l36e5hnU.html
@chrissguitarshow206
@chrissguitarshow206 4 ай бұрын
Thank you Jens
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
@@chrissguitarshow206 glad you like them!
@dominikjastrzebski3570
@dominikjastrzebski3570 4 ай бұрын
Which Rotem's excercise you had in mind at 1:27?
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
I am playing open strings with different kinds of picking 🙂
@sluggardrangersol8502
@sluggardrangersol8502 4 ай бұрын
Are you going to do,a video on the gear you use? I see an Fractal Fm3 in the background 😊
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
I made this which is the story of why I don't use an amp: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kM-IeJeEqbPeZWQ.html but I think I only made Patreon stuff about my Fractal patches.
@sluggardrangersol8502
@sluggardrangersol8502 4 ай бұрын
@@JensLarsen takk for svar og takk for den bra og lærerike kanalen 👍
@daynemin
@daynemin 4 ай бұрын
I like to practice some things with my eyes closed. Makes the brain work in different ways.
@kevindonnelly761
@kevindonnelly761 4 ай бұрын
I do that sometimes too. Another thing I do is visualise something without the guitar in my hands - then pick it up and play it to see if my thoughts translate to something that works. 🙂
@daynemin
@daynemin 4 ай бұрын
@@kevindonnelly761 yep when it's something new I look, listen and mentally tag it. But once it's in that next phase it helps to take one of the senses away.
@vannigio6234
@vannigio6234 4 ай бұрын
uah! 🐻👍👍👍
@TLMuse
@TLMuse 4 ай бұрын
There are too many great ideas here! 8-) As someone with a non-musical career, for whom guitar playing is an avocation rather than a vocation, I'd be curious to hear if your teaching has given you any clear ideas regarding a few key exercises likely to make the biggest impact, for those with limited time to practice. For me, rhythm is a weak point, and the subdivision exercise really stuck out for me as something worth a try. But I also need to strengthen melodicism in my improvisation. I feel like these are common issues among my friends and occasional musical collaborators who are also not career musicians. So perhaps there are some high-impact exercises with wide appeal or applicability. -Tom
@kevindonnelly761
@kevindonnelly761 4 ай бұрын
Put the instruments down and CLAP the Rhythm. Do it S L O W L Y. If you can't clap a rhythm, you won't be able to play it on an instrument. I've seen guys go out and buy new guitars, amps, pedals - you name it - because they didn't know how to play something. Buying a flash car won't make you a better driver. 'Wide appeal' is shooting yourself in the foot. It means 'everyone likes it because it means they don't have to work.' You can have a hundred Gibson Les Pauls but still not know how to play in time. Many drummers are just as guilty. Get a metronome to help you. If you and other instrument players don't know what beat you are on or bar you are in, then none of you will know where anything is. How do you play together ? It's like turning up to work at lunch time and telling the boss: I base my daily time table on a feeling. I just feel it ! I don't need to use the clock like everyone else. I do what suits me. Playing in a band requires a lot of discipline re timing - more than many other pursuits. I am very much a PRO READER too. If I can't read something, then I can't play it ( I can - but reading nails it) - especially Rhythm. I ABSOLUTELY DETEST TAB ! It is the greatest impediment to most guitar owners. No other instruments use tab. Most other instruments are better taught too - largely because of that. NOTATION IS EASIER TO READ AND INFINITELY MORE USEFUL. Mostly, Bars are divided into: 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & If you can clap simple examples of eighth note rhythms (notes and rests), you will be years ahead of most guitar 'owners' I know. This stuff is so easy - but everyone is scared of it. Doing it takes much less time than avoiding it. This is about as close as you'll get to a 'shortcut' - but so many choose not to use it. A lot of people think rhythm is: you 'do' a beat, then another beat, then one after that and repeat. Many people think Music is easy because it may look easy. THERE ARE NO SHORTCUTS. My mother used to say: 'The easiest way is ALWAYS the hardest way.' If you don't put necessary effort into playing, no one will put any effort into listening to you. That includes band mates. In my local area (outside Melbourne Australia) I know HUNDREDS of guitar 'owners' who think they don't need to read or use Berklee Theory. Most of them have 'played' for thirty to forty years - and they ALL play the same things the same way. It's boring. There cannot be any musical satisfaction to be had at all - social satisfaction maybe - but Musical ? They play in bars and rely on the audience being drunk - so they can 'pretend' they like the band. The guitar 'owners' say they have thirty years experience. They don't have thirty years experience. They have six months experience sixty times over. There are no shortcuts. Ironically, they tell me they love the ways I play. They tell me: 'it's quality, exemplary, really good, I've been to gigs all over Melbourne and I've never seen or heard anyone play like you, I videoed you on my phone and I'm gonna pinch your licks - and so on.' I find that entertaining because I'm so used to my own playing I find it a bit droll. When people ask me how I play so well and sound so original, I tell them what I have written in this comment - AND NONE OF THEM WANT TO KNOW !! Why ask ? Everybody wants to go to Heaven but nobody wants to die ! I've played for fifty two years and taught for twenty five. I have a BA(Mus) Degree and a DipEd(Mus). Today I taught a two hour lesson to a great Muso I know. We covered: Fretboard theory and Chord Spelling. At the end of the two hours (don't forget ! It was only two hours ! That's not long), he said he learnt more about playing than he has in the last twenty five years. Over 90% of guitar owners spend six months learning excuses to repeat for the rest of their lives. That's using six months of your life to waste thirty years. Today in my two hour lesson, I taught someone to play every Major and minor Triad in every inversion in every Key. IN TWO HOURS !! I also taught how to apply this knowledge to use in Comping ('Rhythm' playing), soloing, composition, riff / lick creation, et cetera INSTANTLY. Admittedly he had a modest theory background - but all up, two hours is a lot less than six months or thirty years. I'll give him another month and he'll be scaring the life out of guitar 'owners' in his local area. Again, two hours or one month is a lot less time than six months or thirty years. Please believe that I'm writing this reply in good intention. I don't mean it to be personal. I know what works and what doesn't. I wish every guitar student in the World could read this. I hope you find what you're looking for but I can give you a 24 Carat Solid Gold Guarantee of where not to look. Best wishes and good Karma to you. 💚✌☯
@Squeeky42069
@Squeeky42069 4 ай бұрын
I have one but it's for bidirectional economy picking and it's in my shorts. It comes from the concept of the molar stroke in drumming. Incidentally, play drums and bass Additionally, for technique, play bluegrass. Then metal. For rhythm, play funk. For voice leading and harmony, play gospel. For playing with feeling, play blues. Jazz is for melody
@gapted
@gapted 4 ай бұрын
Moeller stroke- unless there's a multiple bounce stroke technique using the teeth that I need to learn...😁
@Squeeky42069
@Squeeky42069 4 ай бұрын
@gapted moellar (thanks for clarifying, it was taught to me so ive never read it.) Afaik it isn't for multiple bounces so much as coordinating your whole arm for a single stroke, so for instance, introducing a downstroke from a string change, getting the next upstroke from forearm rotation, rotating back for the third (down)stroke, and then (economy picking) changing strings from the wrist or forearm. The weird short of me looking like an angel is an example of this and can be done ascending and descending
@XDamagicalX
@XDamagicalX 4 ай бұрын
What is the unit with the red and yellow lighted switches behind the metronome?
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
That is my Fractal Audio FM3 🙂
@XDamagicalX
@XDamagicalX 4 ай бұрын
@@JensLarsen Thankyou for the information!
@Juan_M_Juarez
@Juan_M_Juarez 3 ай бұрын
What metronome brand is that?
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 3 ай бұрын
It's an old Korg metronome
@tomhynes2908
@tomhynes2908 4 ай бұрын
I’ve always thought the music takes care of the technique. Always improvising. I never was one to practice scales 3 hours a day. Not that I don’t know the scales/Modes, I just believe in playing music, learning songs and coping everyone. 😂l
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
If it worked for Coltrane and Wayne Shorter then it seems at least worth trying 🙂
@tomhynes2908
@tomhynes2908 4 ай бұрын
I don’t think that. They were always players. Playing in groups. Just listen. I would not recommend anyone invest years of practicing scales. Play me a song. Listen to Pass or Wes or Martino. Be a player, be a musician not a technician. I know guitar players that practice 3 octave scales , if the guitar allows, and still can’t play Autumn Leaves. Well I guess that’s why there is KZfaq. I discourage my students from using KZfaq. It has nothing to do with developing and ear. Or buy the Beato book on ear training. What, read a book to develop an ear. My students tell me about sites. So that how I got here. Keep on doing what you’re doing. I know it must be hard work. But there is always alternative ways and methods. We will agree to disagree. Just play. Sooner or later time will have to be invested. 8,10,12 hours a days, for years, but play music. And don’t copy guitar players. Copy horn players: Bird, Criss, Getz, Stitt, Rollins, Woods. Much luck to you in your future endeavors. The Beat Goes On.
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
@@tomhynes2908 Nobody is saying not to learn or play songs. There are Joe Pass and Pat Marino videos where they talk about what scales to learn.
@tomhynes2908
@tomhynes2908 4 ай бұрын
This is true. How do you play like Joe. Get his records. Joe never talked about scales with me. This may be off the subject but the only guitar player he ever mentioned was Wes. I’m trying not to be a polemic but just listen to the Rich Severson video with all the guitar players recorded last week at some guitar camp. This is the state of jazz guitar. It’s sad. And don’t get me going on IPads and fake books. Omg. Maybe I’m wrong and this may be a sensitivity. My college professor wanted us to practice scales 3 hours a day. You’ve got to be kidding. This wasn’t going to happen with me. I was already a professional. My prime goal as a child was to play music and by doing that I got better. Guitar players need to get out of their bedrooms and play.
@lawrenrich-nf3ni
@lawrenrich-nf3ni 4 ай бұрын
So much to practice, so little timing
@DaddySantaClaus
@DaddySantaClaus 4 ай бұрын
is there a free metronome app that mutes the beats over different bars??
@kevindonnelly761
@kevindonnelly761 4 ай бұрын
You can write that out with pencil on paper then clap / mute any beats / rhythms you want.
@JensLarsen
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
Yes, several. I use Pro Metronome which does that.
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