Every single video of Jens Larsen is a gem...we r so lucky and privileged to have you ...God bless you

The best jazz teacher on the internet ...learning so much from you...so structured and informative for someone like me who doesn't have the luxury of going to a jazz school

The sheer amount of solid information on your videos is amazing. You don't skim on theory. If anyone here reads this, TAKE YOUR TIME with Jens' videos. They're not videos to watch 5 of them on the train on your way to work. If you focus on one of them a week, you have material for years and you can still come back revisit.

How Do You Approach Soloing on Chord Changes? Share a great tip or an exercise! :) Content: 0:00 Intro 1:00 #1 Learn The Arpeggios But Not Only How To Play Them 2:13 Not Only Thinking In Intervals - Here's Why! 3:56 #2 Give It Some Context - Add the Scales 4:47 #3 Put It In The Same Range - Where the Real Overview Is 5:56 #4 Connect the Chords - Voice-leading and Melodies 6:48 #5 Think Ahead - Universal Good Advice, Also in Jazz Solos 10:07 Avoid these mistakes in your solos! 10:18 Like the video? Check out my Patreon page

Teacher Larsen, I am from Brazil. I always watch your videos. I learn a lot from your teachings. Thank you very much!

Well-considered concepts and explanations. An additional exercise I’ve been finding helpful is to rest after each target note and only play the 3 eighth notes directly before the next target note. Very helpful for learning to think ahead.

So, I'm teaching myself jazz on the mandolin, and these videos are the best thing i've found on the internet, by far! The concepts are so well explained and universal that I don't have much trouble at all applying them to a different instrument. Thanks Jens for making this beautiful music accessible to more people of all skill levels!

No one explains like you, Jens :) It took me a while to be in the mental space to pick up jazz improv but the self-quarantine has given me the opportunity, so I watch your videos and learn so much. I’m finally working my way through Autumn Leaves! So, thank you for doing everything you do.

This is good advice and I have lived by it for over 40 years. There is also a lot to be said for playing the chord progression. When I first started if you wanted a chord progression to practice over you bought a 60 minute tape and played the chords over and over and over. By the time you had your tape you were really familiar with how the progression sounded and were better equipped to improvise over it. (It also did wonders for your chord vocabulary as you had to keep changing it to avoid monotony.) What happen so much today is we use computers to generate the progression, or buy a recording etc and this part of the learning process is missed, just getting the sound of the changes under your fingers. This is just something that I have realized in hindsight that really helped me. If you can use it that's good. If you can't, that's ok too. Cheers

One of these days, I will have this level of understanding and comfortability with theory and playing. This is so inspiring

Not a very original comment, but thank so much for teaching us for free, basically. I used to play guitar (usually metal stuff) up until I was 16, I got pretty good at it in what I wanted, but then switched to the piano. Now, at 28, I'm picking it up again and your videos are immensely helpful!

That is truly one of the most beautiful guitars I have ever seen in my life. You make it sound fantastic! Excellent video, very helpful.

Keeping up with and understanding the progression as it changes is definitely pivotal to serving the song! Awesome!

You made me Re-Love playing Guitar. Thank you so much.

this was interesting for a non-jazz beginner. So for each chord, try and end on the third.

"that bebop, or even Bach kind of flow". Love it.

Your most concise, concrete and clear presentation ever. Thanks Jens!

Love Jens. Great lessons. Damn I want that vintage Yamaha double cutaway. Not to mention the Ibanez, Epiphone, etc.

Presently this type of knowledge is right where I am at. Not necessarily in soloing but this answers questions I keep coming to. Thanking you sincerely. Sometimes a little gem of knowledge, really does give you a light bulb moment.

exactly what I was looking for with excellent and on point examples that explain the context really well! Thank you Jens!

What a great lesson. Thank you. The problem is, I keep hearing So many song melodies in these exercises that I keep going off on tangents! Very fun

Great explanation. Best "signal to noise" ratio on this topic

Brilliant video as always!!! Keep them coming we need you!!! Been playing since before 1970 myself!! Best wishes Pete Austin Plymouth England.

great video as always, this was easier to understand for me than some of your other videos i think your explanations were easy to understand

This is exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you so much Sir and God bless you.

All of these ideas have helped me a lot. Keeping things in the same range as really made my lines sound a lot prettier to my ear. I think large interval skips are something I'm still figuring out how to handle properly and I've noticed quite a few players use them in motifs when they decide to use them.

Jens you are the best teacher! Very good ideas! Thank you!

Great video Jens. I agree that it’s not just about the notes, but knowing the chord tones in each arpeggio that really unlocks the changes. Also inverting the arpeggios like you said, that makes the voice leading much easier to understand. And then of course, finding the voice leading between the upper extensions is the next step!

Excellent tip!

Excellent guidance, Jens! This is exactly the way I approach and show it. Two enthusiastic thumbs up!! 👍👍

Your lessons contain so much useful information Jens, thanks a lot! I always have to watch them several times before some of it sinks in :-)

Great video Jens! This one is extremely helpful and is often not explained like this, thank you very much!

This is such good stuff, Legend you are!

I know this is a bit off topic, but I am always impressed by your technique and how you never seem to miss a note. Everything is so clear and clean. I have not watched all your videos, but I do not see you talk about technique and mechanics much. Would you consider doing such a video? (Apologies if it is already somewhere I have not found.)

Perfect videos for where I am on guitar and where I want to be. Btw that double cutaway Yamaha is gorgeous.

Loving this learning! Thanks Jens.

So helpful, thank you 😊

Golden lesson. Thanks Jens!

Whoa.. This is a gem indeed! Thank you Jens.

Thank you for the lesson. Well explained, nice and easy mood, objective. All good stuff.

Top stuff Jens - good advice in there - Thanks 👍

Fantastic lesson, thank you!

Thank you so much Jens.

Great lesson Jens! Thank you!

Good video and a great lesson. This stuff is a little over my head theory wise but you break it down nicely. I get better understanding. Nicely done.

best guitar channel out there

Another golden gem. I know you're working on a full video course. I hope it's ready soon for your followers to purchase. It would be nice if it ialso ncludes info from this youtube video. I need examples to practice , but I also need a 'push' from ypou and feedback to try constructing my own original lines.

Funny to see you skillfully playing these tasty jazz licks on a guitar I tend to associate with 1980s punk (John McGeoch, Frank Navetta). Sounds great though! Gonna practice this today.

This lesson is very helpful to me. Tak ska' du ha'.

Always informative and challenging lessons here!

Great video, Jens! Thank ypu!

Your work is unreal and very helpful. I hope I can support you on Patreon but i do not work right now. However, i will when I work again. I am grateful for your work. One day could you do a Mike stern video! Lol Thanks

Nice Video Jens!

the best!!

Sería genial que todos los videos tuviesen la opción de subtítulos en español.saludos desde chile .🇨🇱

Love Shadow by Fashion uses an Em7(9) to A7(13) for part of its verses although I don't know yet what the other two chords are. Jazz chords are amazing.

This is tough but yes the is what I'm looking for on how to change chords

Maybe he simplest example of thinking ahead is the first run in the "Stairway to Heaven" solo. An A minor pentatonic run ending on F (a tone that is not in the A minor pentatonic scale), because by then the chord is already an F major, not an A minor anymore. Interestingly, there was a G major chord in between there, too, but it doesn't matter. The solo kinda glides over it in A minor pentatonic scale. This simple example tells a lot about soloing, I think.

nice one!

Thank you my teather

My soloing is like the example you played when you played separate non connected arpeggios over each chord in sequence. Since the thirds and sevenths of each chord define the tonality of that chord are you thinking about connecting the seventh of a chord to the third of the next? That seems to work well for 2-5-1 changes but what about when the changes aren't just 2-5-1. Have been working on Just Friends for example.

Great exercise! I can feel the weight of your guitar though. We have same guitar 🎸😂

Excellent lesson, as always. Also, really nice shirt!

I found one mistake in my playing while I was watching your explanation of the Barry Harris exercise. I always started scale runs with a chord tone on the off-beat. If I start on the down beat or put a leading note or scale note on the off-beat followed by a chord note on the down beat it sounds better. This wasn‘t clear to me. Thanks!

Thank you Jens! Do you recommend playing with backing tracks? Is there an app, program, or software you recommend? Also, do you have any tips for playing over Hullo Bolinas?

How’s it going Jens?? It’s really great your videos they are very helpful, I just wondering if you use band in a box. Thank you so much Very appreciate if you answer me. Cheers mate.

Question: In your opinion, should I take a song-based approach (starting with relatively simple tune), or be a bit more "surgical", so to speak (ii-V-I, backdoor, coltrane changes, etc.)

I absolutely love your videos. They are so informative and helpful! What kind of guitar is that Jens?

5:48 Coincidentally these days I saw one video where you were talking about voice-leading as a melodic concept

Jens - kind of unrelated, but when you are playing fourths melodically across strings (e.g. if I want to play 3rd fret 6th string G and then 3rd fret 5th string C right after) what is proper technique to do this?

Jens, when you add scale notes between the arpeggios, isn't that just playing modes? Is the difference that you think in terms of arpeggios rather than modes?

this is a solid

can you please do a video of exercises on how to accomplish your step 1 here ??

I guess it's hard to fathom a jazz musician thinking about note names while they're doing these up tempo, intricate lines unless this is just an early step that's absorbed then discarded

Great Stuff -- by the way, I cannot find anything on the guitarist "Francis Bach" that you mention at the end -- am I spelling the name right? Thanks

Thank you for this great video. I also purchased your course on satin doll from your webstore and I will extend the process you teach to all other standards I know (which is a lot of work and will take a lot of time, but I think it is very worth the effort). But one thing is not yet completely clear to me. If I connect every chord in a chord progression with target notes it sounds a bit like an etude or constructed, for instance (this is a bit extreme example but maybe explains what I mean) if I play every chord change towards the seven of the chord to move to the third on the next chord. I guess motivic development is an important element to avoid chord connections to sound overly exercise-like. But do you have other advice to get it sound more musical?

Really love your channel....What's the name of that guitar, its model?

how to use scales over arpeggios, example im playing a dm7 chord and arpeggio as well what scale should i use? whould i use the c major scale?

3:14 You are absolutely right, but modal nerds will disagree lol

Hi Jens, I'm currently on the way to build up larger reportoir and came across the tune "wives and lovers". There is a DbMaj7 in Eb Major surrounded by Am D7 and Gm C7 and I dont quiet get how to analyse this chord? Thanks in advance

Hey Jens! Do you give one on one online lessons? :)

finally, youtube allows bookmarks on the video timeline

Have some faith. Working on this stuff will somehow come out in your playing. Have a little faith.

What guitar is that hes playing. It's like a sg but kinda nicer

God dammit what a nice Guitar :-)

Helô Jens.. Sell me one of your guitars? Very, Very good. I Very like your vídeos Jens... Hugs from Brazil...

Hey Jens, are you by any chance danish? Your name and accent sound very danish

It discourages me that yo need to know all this stuff. I feel like I know what to play over chord changes. Maybe if it was analyzed it is mixolydian, half diminished or the harmonic minor - I dont know.

1:34

I understood everything except everything after, 'Learning how to'.

This is a beginner lesson, right?

Fala muito...

See Jens. Grab guitar. Play along