Who has the best phrasing: The greatest Jazz sound? Check out the Bebop Secret kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qNuVfap0uNmrm6M.html
@delpanos3 жыл бұрын
Grant Green is the man !
@eternalrainbow-cj3iu3 жыл бұрын
@@delpanos Time dosn' exist so in amutipl univese.wr are able to fid hypthetically are noadays Grant Green...
@bobartur13863 жыл бұрын
I’m always impressed with the way you explain complex concepts in extremely simple way. Thanks a lot!
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Glad it was helpful!
@captainkoo2 жыл бұрын
Yes, and he keeps them lean, short and efficient.
@lastofthe4horsemen2793 жыл бұрын
Lots of low key humor in this one Jens.love it .So glad I've found your channel
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoy it!
@ReallyDudeYouGottaHearThis3 жыл бұрын
Rythym is paramount…and the length of a note is just as important as when the note started. Excellent lesson and a great teacher. He is breaking down concepts that took me years to figure out on my own.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked the video 🙂
@RealinDealer2 жыл бұрын
Loving the comedic aspect. You're quite the funny man. As well as a top player and teacher!
@JensLarsen2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Joseph 🙂
@ilyatishchenkov65013 жыл бұрын
It's pure magic how those little videos literally turn into hours of my exciting guitar exploration, when the practice routine used to be so dull not so long ago! And I've never really been into jazz... yet! Thank you, Jens!
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Great! Go for it :)
@davehappablap5549Ай бұрын
One of the most approachable, insightful, useful and valuable lessons for musicality that I’ve seen. Bravo, Jens and THANKS.
@Domitianvs3 жыл бұрын
"Real time sudoku" is a great way of describing what I feel when I try to improvise over complex chord changes that I haven't practiced before!
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
But then again, you should practice towards not being in that situation 🙂
@dickranmarsupial49112 жыл бұрын
I have watched quite a lot of your videos and I usually don't take anything from them, as I don't really want to sound like previous famous jazz players as a major aim. But this video opened doors for me - with simple explanations of factors/guidelines that make a huge difference! Thanks!
@andreaszeug36923 жыл бұрын
high note on the offbeat is a very good hint ! thx
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it 🙂
@simonfivez29473 жыл бұрын
This is a very very VERY valuable lesson, and great video!! Something I currently need to work on A LOT! Thanks Jens :)
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Go for it! It is indeed tricky to work on :)
@willy1986tralara3 жыл бұрын
We love you Jens. Thanks for sharing
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Glad you like the videos 🙂
@Raggo123453 жыл бұрын
Loved the Be-Bop explanation! Humorous, too! :D
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! 😃
@kilterkaos13 жыл бұрын
I love how you made clear it wasn’t Pat Martino in that video clip. Back in the 80s I became a fan of Pat Martino after hearing him on the local college radio show out of Oxford Ohio. The shows host was Mama Jazz. You’ll have to look her up, she’s an interesting person Who introduced a lot of people to jazz. Me being one of them. Because back in the 80s I was into Ted Nugent, Black Sabbath, AC/DC etc. etc.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I put that in there because the audio is Pat Martino, but I am sure that the video I am talking about and that I watched wasn't Pat Martino :)
@adhoc373 жыл бұрын
Great explanations to useful techniques. Valuable stuff. Glad I support Jens on Patreon so he can make more 'valuable' material from which we can all learn.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Fabian! :)
@piggel6185 Жыл бұрын
Can't help but notice the beautiful Yamaha SG in the background. Excellent video and awesome collection
@regularguitar933 жыл бұрын
Amazing as always
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂
@j.r.goldman32793 жыл бұрын
I am gonna try adding that extra note to end on the off beat. Thanks
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Go for it :)
@j.r.goldman32793 жыл бұрын
@@JensLarsen TY Jens It does create the Be Bop endings. Great ;lessons. TY
@comaranagroove2347 Жыл бұрын
I see you as a great teacher. I subscribed with pleasure. I have almost the same problems you had and I have it much more clear when you explain. Hope It will help me. I love the way Jim Hall playes you'd be nice to come home to with chat and Desmond
@JensLarsen Жыл бұрын
Awesome, thank you!
@biniky30333 жыл бұрын
Excellent teacher and good sense of humor. Thank you for your generosity
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
You are very welcome
@Schoensgibl3 жыл бұрын
AMAZING Input! Please keep on going - I'm really impressed!
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙂
@Fitzliputzli233 жыл бұрын
Most teachers explain simple things in a complicated way. You explain complicated things in a simple way.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much 🙂 That really makes my day
@Dang...3 жыл бұрын
Well done. Very nice, clear, concise! Thank you Jens!
@benkatof42403 жыл бұрын
So good, so simple - yet a bit elusive. I like that you are talking about this in terms of practice, because a good chunk of my practice was without real phrasing. I've changed this, but if 1/3 of my practice is scales/arpeggios, and i practice them with little thought of phrasing, it's no surprise my playing would reflect that.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Ben! Sounds like you are on the right track :)
@GordonZoot2 жыл бұрын
Jazz Club! - Why did you have to show that clip? This will set back my guitar practicing - I haven't seen The Fast Show for many years, so I simply must waste hours trawling through KZfaq to find some episodes of this great comedy show :)
@JensLarsen2 жыл бұрын
Well, It is hard to consider that a waste of time though :)
@larrydickman10943 жыл бұрын
Excellent explanation of what we are hearing and feeling when we (try to) play jazz. Cheers!
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it!
@ukulelechriswilson3 жыл бұрын
Yes of course. That good work. Thank you.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Go for it :)
@zeppelinfan93603 жыл бұрын
Congratulations on 300,000 subscribers. Well deserved my friend; thank you for all you do.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙂
@lastofthe4horsemen2793 жыл бұрын
Jens that 1 one.yes eye opening
@frankvaleron3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jens, these récent tips videos are all excellent. It's now quite hard to play without hearing your disembodied head saying bebop though! Time will tell whether this is a good thing...
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Yeah, sorry if I ruined Jazz for you :D
@frankvaleron3 жыл бұрын
@@JensLarsen you've improved it 👍 I'm consciously thinking 'bebop' as I sit here playing and I prefer what I'm playing now. I'm cutting out the long note on the 1 of the I chord and turning it into a static 'bebop' 1&, either there or on the 3&. It sounds more like Cannonball already in my own modest way!
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
@@frankvaleron Great! :)
@PsyJaye3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jens - you always break it down nicely & this session was made for me at this moment... Peace
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Glad you find it useful 🙂
@benmalone61392 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much Jens.
@JensLarsen2 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful 🙂
@eliaschecco3 жыл бұрын
Loved the BE-BOP bit!
@preitydaang82383 жыл бұрын
You are one of the best guitarist.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙂
@preitydaang82383 жыл бұрын
@@JensLarsen always welcome
@taufiqallegra3 жыл бұрын
Great lessons and thank you from Indonesia 🇮🇩
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂
@xoxb23 жыл бұрын
Thank you - your opening spiel summed up exactly my thoughts! Why doesn't it ever sound like jazz, even when I follow the tab! V helpful lesson.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
You are very welcome 🙂 Been there done that
@michaelstevens83 жыл бұрын
Outstanding video Jens. Tone, Rhythm, Phrasing and Vocabulary are critical. I like to think of Phrasing as a combination of Articulation, Dynamics, and Embellishments. Some of the best Phrasing on Guitar are Johnny Smith, Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Pat Martino, John Abercrombie, John Scofield and Pat Metheny. In particular with Abercrombie, Scofield and Metheny, their Phrasing is sometimes called 50/50 Phrasing or Articulation in which they approximately pick half of the notes and slur half of the notes of a phrase. Although they are absolutely NOT dogmatic about it. Thanks.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it, Michael! Yes phrasing comes in many interpretations and all of those are great :)
@FrancezcoVai3 жыл бұрын
thanks! this will help me a lot! i’m working on my solo “improvisation” of “take de A train”
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Great! Looking forward to hearing it 🙂
@microwavememes3 жыл бұрын
0 dislikes, as it should be. Wonderful explanation 👌
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Haha! Thanks (I am sure that will change though :D )
@davidtardio98043 жыл бұрын
HE'S TALKING ABOUT ME EVERYONE!!!!! AGGGGHHH!!!! And what is funny is that I've even played that short ii V from Wes' 4 on 6 all over the neck :) But seriously, I agree with your assessment of my playing on the Jazz Guitar Roadmap - it is very important to get the rhythm and accents better when trying to play jazz. Thank you very much for your input. I am enjoying the course immensely.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Haha, well I am also talking about myself
@galarius3 жыл бұрын
Great lesson on approach, an intense discipline that really ties it all together
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much 🙂
@GregoryPearsonMusic3 жыл бұрын
Great practical tips!
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Glad you think so!
@jamsessionemmusicademartor82882 жыл бұрын
Excelent video lesson. For free!!! Thanks, Jens!
@carlosalcala10043 жыл бұрын
I like the exercises about bebop. Thanks Jens
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! That's great to hear! :)
@eternalrainbow-cj3iu3 жыл бұрын
Nice exanpke...Very conprsedinto 8 minutes...so Well well done Jens!!!!!!!!!
@brahimtlili98162 жыл бұрын
Hi Jens thank you for your clear explanations very helpful. Big hello rom PARIs. Brahim.
@JensLarsen2 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful Brahim!!! 🙂
@paulmoore79643 жыл бұрын
this is so rarely mentioned, the rhythmic side of bebop (or any jazz genre)
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Glad you like the video 🙂
@hogpsking333 жыл бұрын
Your editing has gotten a lot funnier. I love it.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙂
@kishisuu50493 жыл бұрын
2:55 wisely walkin
@paulhicks35953 жыл бұрын
I think the aim is to make lovely, intelligent, music that may well incorporate jazz theory but not have all those usual, obvious, jazz tropes. Sometimes the worst thing that can happen to a great tune is that it gets ‘ jazzified’.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
I think so too, but what you describe can then also be seen as superficial, lacking real substance and fake. That is really up to the taste of the listener. I don't think there is an objective definition of what lovely intelligent music is, to some people Duran Duran and Steely Dan sound the same.
@paulhicks35953 жыл бұрын
@@JensLarsen I love the idea of a kind of Stealth Jazz where the aficionado is stimulated and satisfied and his jazz loathing friends enjoy it oblivious to the sublime cleverness.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
@@paulhicks3595 That sounds like a description of smooth jazz to me, which I personally don't like, but you should do what you want to do.
@paulhicks35953 жыл бұрын
@@JensLarsen not what I mean at all, not that there’s anything wrong with that. A good example would be Steely Dan, which my partner even went to see with me and enjoyed to a degree and Mike Stern which she walked out of and was very pissed off about. If you share a house with others and don’t want to wear earphones all day you need to find quality music that also has a breadth of appeal. For instance, my teenage kids loath anything they suspect is Jazz Fusion, which cancels out a large part of my collection.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
@@paulhicks3595 Steely dan is indeed an example of what I mean as well :D
@jamessidney28513 жыл бұрын
Hey Jens. With regard to 8th notes, I have heard a few great older players complain about how “kids these days” just play nothing but 8th notes, 8th notes, 8th notes. What do you make of this? Is there something in the current pedagogy, or even just the current style of jazz guitar playing that has given students the idea that all 8th notes all the time is a good way to solo? I have been to a few jam sessions that are attended by mostly younger players (college level) and man it’s kind of true that they will often take entire choruses of 8th notes. In the book Joe Pass Guitar Style, Joe specifically says you should practice your blues using constant 8th notes so that you will develop the facility of being able to play with fluidity at all times. But we all know that nobody really plays straight 8th notes through a blues. Charlie Parker would go on runs of 8th notes for a measure or two, but he was all about those interesting places to start and stop, breaking up his phrases in surprising ways. Maybe being able to play an entire solo of constant 8th notes (which does demonstrate a certain level of mastery) is like a level of playing that we have to pass through on our journey? Kind of like the way they say you have to learn theory then forget it. Or something. What do you think? What is your own relationship with 8th notes? And if making a solo of mostly 8th notes is a thing, isn’t it time to talk about accents? I’d love to hear your thoughts about accenting. It’s a big topic that horn players talk about a lot. We can do it too. Don’t know if I’ve ever seen a Jens video on that, but I’m sure you have some good insights.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
My thoughts on accenting are actually in this video and also in many of my other phrasing videos as it is an important topic. I would say that "the kids these days" who play 8th notes all the time are people like Joe Pass and Pat Martino, more so than the jazz guys of the last 30 years? In general, we have become much better at educating people in Jazz and one of the last things to be added is probably rhythm. I wouldn't describe trends in Jazz on how a few nervous 1st year students perform at a jam-session. I can't see how that really describes anything to be honest.
@siemekkisiel89633 жыл бұрын
You are amazing!
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Glad you like the video 🙂
@siemekkisiel89633 жыл бұрын
@@JensLarsen More lesson like this.
@jazzguy683 жыл бұрын
Jens, another fantastic lesson one on of the important things to consider when developing a bebop jazz language. How do you compare gypsy jazz guitar phrasing with bebop?
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
I am not an expert on Gypsy Jazz, but it seems heavier to me and a little less syncopated.
@dalefrary3 жыл бұрын
Great ideas, thanks
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Glad you like them!
@mattycee54123 жыл бұрын
Great advice
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it 🙂
@sigiriabeysekara87233 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it!
@jakelevantmusic49753 жыл бұрын
Jens Buddy, can you expand on Johnny Smith's ( Walk don't run ) the original. I would love to hear your take on the piece
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
At the moment, I am not doing the videos on specific artists. I did for a year but there was very little interest so it was not worth the 10-12 hours of work to make the video
@jakelevantmusic49753 жыл бұрын
@@JensLarsen I hey man I get IT. I dig your stuff, figured you'd be interested in something like that. There's very few vids on that particular version. I suggested you bc you brk stuff dwn in a way most don't. You actually explain opposed to showing the lines/ arpeggios/ i.e. themes etc. You provide context in short. Thanks man.
@voronOsphere3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Jens! I somehow became UNSUBSCRIBED. I saw you commenting on Sean Daniels' KZfaq Algorithms Situation Video today. I clicked on your channel and that's when I noticed! Great Lesson here! Thanks! I just RE-SUBSCRIBED and I hit that BELL!
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙂
@paulmullen262010 ай бұрын
I'm struggling with the melodic use of chord tones that go beyond a 7th chord in some of the video examples. I understand where they fit in with the harmony, I just struggle to think "that's okay to use" when trying to write a line over a given chord. How do I stop feeling stuck with just the root, 3rd, 5th, and 7th?
@JensLarsen10 ай бұрын
Find some examples of melodies that have those notes? You can go through solos of whoever you like or go through the melodies in a realbook just to get an impression of the sound.
@robertdouglas42933 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I could be wrong, my endings are still resolution, but unexpected, I change everything , A springboard for the listener to want more.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
I don't think of it like that with this, just whether it really sounds like a bop line
@emmanuelguiang70713 жыл бұрын
from AX8 to FM3
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@rockychieng883 жыл бұрын
Best jazz phrasing is simple jazz solo like Miles Davis.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Certainly solid stuff!
@justanothernguyen2334 Жыл бұрын
4:54 haha thought so
@ivo5630 Жыл бұрын
2:43 But in that case wouldn't be upbeat instead of off beat? The phrase ends on the 1&, neither on the 2 nor 4
@JensLarsen Жыл бұрын
No, off beat is the same as what you call upbeat
@ivo5630 Жыл бұрын
@@JensLarsen Thanks! terminology could be tricky sometimes haha
@hansbendixen54303 жыл бұрын
Jens barbosa : " besides they arent really rules more like guidelines". the guitar code .
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Exactly :) I was just watching that movie with my sons
@tonyfaelens36263 жыл бұрын
Ringing out the notes , from playing rock music in the past ? Peace .
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
I think long notes are common in more genres than Rock? :D
@tonyfaelens36263 жыл бұрын
Jens , i know that , i was playing rock , in de past , and to this day , i let to many notes ring out , so for me it is from rock . Early influencers Frank Zappa and Neil Young ( Electric playing ) , weird combination , i know .
@enricosenno77673 жыл бұрын
Salt peanuts...salt peanuts
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Exactly :)
@rockstarjazzcat3 жыл бұрын
Baad Haabit. 😂
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
🙏😄
@davidfreel14513 жыл бұрын
Or simply listen to what you play.
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
In my experience that usually takes training to learn to hear.