How to Use Enclosure to Create Great Bebop Lines

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5 жыл бұрын

There are many different approaches to conceptualizing jazz language and the way the great beboppers played. One of these concepts is called "enclosure."
In this video, I dive into the basics of enclosure, how it works, and how you can start incorporating it into your jazz lines!
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@JoseAlvarez-gj3qs 6 ай бұрын

You are one of the few musicians who really share your knowledge instead of showing off how wonderful you are, thanks, you really help!

@Learnjazzstandards 6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@JensLarsen 5 жыл бұрын

Great examples! Chromaticism is like "Instant Jazz" 👍🙂

@elpastor7155 5 жыл бұрын

Jens Larsen instant noodles lol

@gblikas 4 жыл бұрын

Came here from this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qNB7orh6xLOspGw.html. Glad to find you hear also! haha.

@twominuteguitarlessons Жыл бұрын

Seeing a jenslarsen comment here after watching a jenslarsen video makes me feel amazingly good about jazz musicians ❤❤

@t0dd707 10 ай бұрын

I feel like I’ve watched ALL the enclosure videos for guitar and this is THE best. Thanks!

@Learnjazzstandards 10 ай бұрын

Wow, thanks!

@MrJohnHermansen 15 күн бұрын

Actually defining words! That is good teaching. seems so obvious but a lot of teachers don’t know that a single good definition is a valuable foundational building block.

@Kyrelel 3 жыл бұрын

Easy way to remember: Enclosure = abcd ... Enclosure: 1 note above (a) and 1 note below (b), either chromatically (c) or diatonically (d). Target Note: A note in the chord being (or about to be) played.

@sixmillionaccountssilenced6721 6 ай бұрын

there is no easy way, there is so much combinations how to do things like this in jazz :DDD

@elsalte 4 сағат бұрын

Sos un genio loco. Nada más que agregar. Por fin lo entiendo!!! Gracias Gracias Gracias!

@XiaNingTian 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a predominantly bluesy rock player breaking into different types of jazz through the likes of jump blues and rockabilly. Currently working on giving my lead lines jazzier flourishes and this definitely is something to have under my fingers.

@jsawyer1954 5 жыл бұрын

I appreciate your approach to teaching this concept. It's easy to understand, practical and I am able to use it for teaching my students as well. Thanks! Keep on doing what you're doing!

@Learnjazzstandards 5 жыл бұрын

Glad to help James!

@glenrude2218 4 жыл бұрын

Nice clear concise exercise. I have a blues pentatonic background so this helps my efforts to begin sounding more jazzy.

@sixmillionaccountssilenced6721 6 ай бұрын

Great lesson!

@Learnjazzstandards 5 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

@bennymusicandstuff 5 жыл бұрын

Great example. I had a book about this. They called it upper and lower neighbors. Even more great is when i refer to your last video. Sing the upper and lower neighbors when you play the chord. Chromatic or diatonic. Very good ear training. Keep it up man. Good stuff. :)

@Learnjazzstandards 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Benny!

@glen.s9860 8 ай бұрын

You are brilliant I never understand this hearing a lot of people talk about it. But you explain it so well but I am learning the sax

@Patrick_Bruno 4 ай бұрын

Excellent content. Very clear and helpful. Thank you !

@Learnjazzstandards 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Woolley_like_sheep 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much I understand and can start practicing this now

@alexanderlochardful 5 жыл бұрын

Great explanation on Enclosure it's so well detailed, it's mind expanding 🎼🎶🎶🎶🎼.

@Learnjazzstandards 5 жыл бұрын

Glad to help Alexander! Thanks for watching.

@teamopichon 5 жыл бұрын

I just found your your KZfaq channel and I really like the way you explain things because you make it seem very simple and clear. I am brand new on this thing call jazz and improvisation and believe me there are a whole lot of things I still do not understand. I play the saxophone but this video applies to any instrument. Thank you so much for being so mindful of those who like me are daring to venture in this new pattern of improvising things.

@Learnjazzstandards 5 жыл бұрын

My pleasure Fernando! Lots of stuff on the blog, KZfaq channel, and podcast. So plenty more where that came from!

@RobertJones-et7gh 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Thanks

@youttub7850 3 жыл бұрын

Thaks for this video! Althought I dont know how to read music ive been playing by ear since i learned piano and I have been learning a lot of jazz theory so i recognize what u playin instantly and i can apply it right away into my playing! Greetings from Guatemala

@igetmycalcium 5 жыл бұрын

Just had to drop off my lessons because of finances but your ebook, videos and podcast are all great!!! This is what we were beginning to discuss in my lessons. Thanks for all you put out here for us. I will make sure to hit up your patreon soon!!!!!

@Learnjazzstandards 5 жыл бұрын

Glad to help Bob!

@XasNitram Жыл бұрын

simple & clear!

@finnbarrcorr 3 ай бұрын

Amazing lesson! Thank you 🙏🏻

@Learnjazzstandards 3 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@glen.s9860 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks You have just educate me more into this musical language I am finding out, learning music is so much hard to learn, compare to my trade. but I ave spend so so much on saxophone I am not giving up

@dave9497 2 жыл бұрын

I Like the use of decptive harmony in phrasing...suggesting the possibilty of a certain change...

@Sebassplayer1978 5 жыл бұрын

I'm a bass player and l find your content very useful. I'm practicing soloing just with chord tones and l will definitely use the enclosure approach !

@Learnjazzstandards 5 жыл бұрын

Hey Sebastien, thanks for watching! Glad to help. I just happen to be a guitar player, but my content is for all instruments.

@IsothermeMusic 4 жыл бұрын

The cool thing about the way you describe it is that it’s easy to see why the V chord us often an altered dominant. Your D# is the #5 of the G7. When you approach from below to the maj 7 of C with an A#, it’s the #9 of the G7. Thank you for relating melodic enclosures to the chords in this way. 👍🏻👍🏻

@Learnjazzstandards 4 жыл бұрын

Isotherme Music glad you found it helpful!

@tomcripps7229 5 жыл бұрын

Great lesson. This is only my second video but your teaching style is top notch.

@Learnjazzstandards 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tom! Appreciate the kind word

@Datanditto 4 жыл бұрын

Man I feel like Im working with my own private guru! Great lessons, thanks!!

@deafprof 5 жыл бұрын

Great stuff!

@Learnjazzstandards 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@paulmullen2620 9 ай бұрын

The classically trained musician in me is twitching at the double non harmonic tones with that D-D#-E line. I totally get the jazz theory and understand why this works, but it's so hard to talk myself into that being okay after all of those music theory classes where that was a big no no. Anyway, great video, and this is very useful for better sounding solos for sure. I look forward to applying this to my own soloing!

@AJG76 Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@jimtessin4130 Жыл бұрын

Excellent

@Learnjazzstandards Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

@HollyFayHolverson777 Жыл бұрын

Everyone explains this (enclosures) using a static harmony or the C major scale. Finally, someone explains how to work on this over an actual chord progression. What I'd next like to know is, how could I practice this over the Coltrane tune Moments Notice?

@drywater4935 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting. I will use it for a metal solo, it works perfectly well!

@Jinseng 10 ай бұрын

Diminished arp + enclosures = craziest bebop metal line

@cpchris2 8 ай бұрын

I love enclosures on arpeggios too

@8888beethoven 3 жыл бұрын

Cool man

@udoregente5131 Жыл бұрын

Danke!

@Learnjazzstandards Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Udo!

@mauricerobinson9560 3 жыл бұрын

Great lessons I did no what enclosures were all tho I’ve been playing them

@michaelprice9240 5 жыл бұрын

@Learnjazzstandards 5 жыл бұрын

My pleasure Michael!

@jirikrajnak9047 4 жыл бұрын

your guitar has gorgeous inlays

@LVRN-qj7kr 5 жыл бұрын

So you can start from below, THEN go above, and then hit your target note? I've only heard it explained above and below, not below and above. Thank you for being the first person I've heard to explain that. Also, would it be practical to use enclosures while practicing a scale? Or is it more for arpeggios?

@cycleoffourths8898 3 жыл бұрын

Greeting from Lemmings, Greenland

@marcobarbantibrodano6531 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, i will start practicing enclosures on ii v i’s

@edesbalazs 2 жыл бұрын

Hello, thank you for the lesson! One thing I don't understand, is the exercise you show around 6:00. You say it's in C which is OK for the first enclosure (D-C-B-C), but where do the notes/intervals come from after? It's clearly not just notes from the C major scale after the first one, do you just pick the approach notes by feel?

@alessandrograsso8570 2 жыл бұрын

A Good idea Is Charlie Banacos chromatic approach:12 exercises for all the 4 target notes for all the kind of Chords...Just One Page to study for One year(if you are lucky)....every modern jazz-fusion players play thinking about chord....Gambale,Scott Henderson,Stern,Scofield but also Bill Evans and Wes!the most important thing that lots of players with a rock background and jazz beginners risk to don't understand Is to play not "in position"!

@mitchelledels9762 Жыл бұрын

I like what you did with 2 5 1 above and below you have a melody.. I find you learn more using them in a tune- Solar, Dolphin Dance.. Give us examples of chromatic, pevit and enclosure in tunes. It STAYS with you. The idea of using the scale is good because you are learning melodic lines. Barry Harris?

@F20ization Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your video tutorial,i am learning a lot from it about enclosure.One mistake you could correct is this: you hold C Maj 9,then you say C maj 7,so you would correct it.Otherwise this video is helpful to understand how to play chromatics scales with enclosure.

@mastermachetier5594 2 жыл бұрын

The Dmin7 you write in F# but it sounds like your playing a g ?

@AdlaiAlexander Ай бұрын

On the 251 example you have an F# written for the Dm7 enclosure but you're playing a G.

@Danumurti18 3 жыл бұрын

What if I make enclosures to the 5th, but resolving to the 3rd or 7th instead?

@crispycrimps865 6 ай бұрын

what do you mean by concert cmaj7?

@kamaismusic 5 жыл бұрын

In your scale example 5:50, your target tone always lands on an upbeat. It would be better to land on a down beat. Wouldn't It?

@abcrx32j 4 жыл бұрын

Nice lesson, I might be wrong, bit I think you are playing CMaj9 chords instead o Cmaj7

@Learnjazzstandards 4 жыл бұрын

It's quite likely! Cmaj7 is just the basic chord quality, but you can certainly add extensions on top like the 9th or 13th to add some color

@BnDSlayers 5 жыл бұрын

Great video! Why do chromatic notes work over the chords (i.e. playing A# over Dm7)? What's the theory behind this?

@xxczerxx 5 жыл бұрын

If the Dm7 is functioning as a II (in key of C minor) then it might be because the chord that preceded it was the V of Dm7 (A7), like in a Rhythm Changes, in which case the A# sounds cool. Having said that, there at a bunch of reasons why an A# could sound good, I actually think my above paragraph is way overcomplicating it. It is best to look at the chords being played, then look at the whole line/phrase underneath to understand what's going on.

@torikenyon 4 жыл бұрын

They’re not considered notes that “work” over the chords. They’re chromatic passing tones to lead into the notes that do work, the chord tones. It sounds fine because these chromatic passing tones aren’t emphasized or held out, they’re passed over. The point of this style is to connect chord tones together melodically using notes that wouldn’t normally “work” by themselves.

@rodolfoamaralguitar 5 жыл бұрын

Do you tend to put chord tones on the beats 1 and 3, right?

@Learnjazzstandards 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Rodolfo! I don't think there is a hard and fast rule. But for very "by the book" exercises like this, I tend to resolve to a strong chord tone on beat one.

@elpastor7155 5 жыл бұрын

great lesson, wish you could also tab it out, not all can read notes 😂

@Learnjazzstandards 5 жыл бұрын

Hey Niccollo, I can understand that, but we have a mix of all instruments at LJS. I would suggest learning the examples by ear!

@paxwallace8324 Жыл бұрын

Yeah what was overlooked during the Abersold epoch was the increased chromatic density that bop enclosures can add as well as the insane level of adherence to the progression they insure. Now on the bad side is enclosures guarantee a kind of predictability if over used and they encourage the use of licks. But use of enclosures as well as all the chromatically altered scales now ya talking. But Tabula Rassa not licks

@TechReviews10843 3 ай бұрын

I have been working on enclosures and approach still not fitting in 😢

@jonaguzman Ай бұрын

Poner subtitulos por favor

@sidsimo 4 жыл бұрын

Tabs please?

@adamkelly5478 5 жыл бұрын

Glass enclosure

@TheGodlessGuitarist 3 жыл бұрын

I'm puzzled by your 1st enclosure at 7:33. It doesnt sound like you are playing F# E F to me, but rather G E F

@nwasoul 5 жыл бұрын

Barry Harris!!

@Learnjazzstandards 5 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@infinitypiano9170 5 жыл бұрын

So, how matter how often I study this whole enclosure topic I never seem to use them in my improvs. I don't think I have a target note in mind when I'm actually playing, I'm too worried about using the proper notes of the proper scale. Except for the very end. But not during! I don't know what to do to add enclosures during the course of a solo. Sigh.

@jamesjones-rp6cl 3 жыл бұрын

Or you could just say 1/2 step below whole step above , much easier way to look at it imo

@Molluszk 5 жыл бұрын

Mistake! at 7:33. You play a "G" note as a first note but there is an "F#" note written. Just saying.

@Learnjazzstandards 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for pointing that out David! Should have notated a G there. I think either work fine, one is a chromatic approach in an enclosure, the other is diatonic.

@GregLynn 5 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU!!!!!! I THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY!!!!!!