Your First 5 Jazz Licks (Beginner's Guide To Arpeggios)
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Күн бұрынFor every beginner with Jazz it is is the same: Everywhere you look a Jazz teacher is telling you that you should practice arpeggios if you want to play Jazz, but it is just as important that you know how to turn that arpeggio into jazz licks into something you can play that also sounds like Jazz.
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Content:
00:00 Arpeggios are Everywhere
00:37 The Most Basic Arpeggio
01:17 Rhythm and Phrasing
02:30 There Are More Notes!
03:12 The BEST arpeggio Exercise
04:00 Chromatic Notes - Outside The Scale Are NICE!
05:22 More Arpeggios On Every Chord?
06:31 One of the Best Things Barry Harris Taught Me!
07:35 The Source Of Amazing Bebop Techniques!
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@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
What is your advice for beginning Jazz? 🙂 The Most Important Scale Exercise For Jazz: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aMCVZZVzs8zYcXU.html
@DerekLam-fx6sp Ай бұрын
hands down the best jazz teacher on the internet
@citizen303 6 ай бұрын
Jens Larsen's lessons are the best I have found on the interwebs. He's not only a wonderful jazz player and teacher, his lessons have perfect (for me) pace, clear explanations and useful visuals. Jens also has an ineffably positive energy that says, "you can do this!"
@billa6348 14 күн бұрын
This is a marvelously topical supplement to Jens' "Jazz Guitar Roadmap." It's easy to be consumed by KZfaq "Learn Jazz" rabbit holes. I strongly recommend saving time and money by getting Jens' "Jazz Guitar Roadmap." Do that first and his "KZfaq" videos will really resonate. Cheers!
@willygambe7736 4 ай бұрын
I have great respect for those who can do a lot. But I have even greater respect for the way of working to make a lot out of a little.
@neiles335 10 күн бұрын
This is awesome stuff Jens... I can play all the arpeggios, but didnt know what to do with them! This gives me a basis to work from. ThankS!
@leroynkang6041 4 ай бұрын
God Bless You Jens. You’re an inspiration.
@JensLarsen 4 ай бұрын
Glad you like the videos 🙏
@Boston_Matt 6 ай бұрын
Great lesson Jens! I can see myself replaying this video many, many times. Full of great ideas yet so concise.
@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
Thank you
@BrandochGarage 12 күн бұрын
Great Lesson!
@JensLarsen 12 күн бұрын
Glad you liked it!
@jasonhaberl4848 6 ай бұрын
Discipline yourself to become as good a music reader as possible. There’s so many great books to read 📚
@kevindonnelly761 6 ай бұрын
Definitely ! Reading opens more doors than most people imagine.
@CrispySonOfA 2 ай бұрын
I can’t explain how much you have helped me along expanding into jazz!
@JensLarsen 2 ай бұрын
That is great to hear 🙂
@user-sf3ui8sf6o 6 ай бұрын
Thank You…Awesome as always:)
@brentwheeler2087 6 ай бұрын
Very strong lesson Jens. An absolute pile of work and applications here. I know from experience its critical to get slow in learning this stuff, try to really hold your enthusiasm and take it slowly. There is so much music and potential in each of the segments. As always many, many thanks.
@davidtardio9804 6 ай бұрын
Always good to come back to the basics. Love the idea of just sticking with the arpeggios and work on making your lines more rhythmically interesting
@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
Glad you like the video, David
@mattg629 2 ай бұрын
Jens. I am so thankful for your videos. You are keeping this dinosaur active and learning new things! Going to become a Patreon!
@JensLarsen 2 ай бұрын
Thank you Matt! Great that you find the videos useful!
@ssk5931 6 ай бұрын
This is the essence of basic jazz approach, thank you for great lesson
@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@jmoses580 5 ай бұрын
Thin guy is the very best! If you're a jazz beginner like me he is so great to listen to! Some stuff is way over my head but I ALWAYS get something out of his videos I can learn and then go back later for more!!! Fantastic playing and puts it at a level that even I can understand! I may not be able to play it yet, but I understand exactly what he is trying to teach! GREAT STUFF!!!
@JensLarsen 5 ай бұрын
Thank you very much 🙂
@feedbackbro 6 ай бұрын
This is pure gold! Thank you sooo much!!
@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@paulpmanhowland7818 6 ай бұрын
Another great video. Thanks!
@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
Glad you like it Paul!
@davedave8608 6 ай бұрын
fantastic
@ericstrauch3215 6 ай бұрын
Great lesson Jens! You've taught these concepts before separately, but seeing the together, here and how you can connect them is very instructive. Thanks!
@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@GGutierrez 6 ай бұрын
Thank you. So much to work on starting with basics. Ties in with bass basic patterns.
@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@throckmortensnivel2850 2 ай бұрын
More than good lessons. I find Jens Larsen's videos inspire me to try harder, and learn more. I always find something in the video that I haven't tried, and that prompts me to work harder on my playing. Thanis, Jens, for giving me this knowledge and inspiration!
@JensLarsen 2 ай бұрын
Great to hear! Thank you!
@francismontocchio9910 6 ай бұрын
Thanks, Jens this is a great addendum to the roadmap course!
@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
Glad you think so!
@RobSmith-rn3ie 6 ай бұрын
6:09 That lick has got a lot of character.
@HaoXiaoXi 5 ай бұрын
Very helpful!
@JensLarsen 5 ай бұрын
Glad you think so!
@benkatof5852 6 ай бұрын
Great lesson Jens. Advice for begining jazz... Be patient, good things take time.
@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
Thank you, Ben! That is indeed solid advice
@LikeaRolandStone 6 ай бұрын
So grateful for these lessons mahalo Jens and mahalo Barry
@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@LikeaRolandStone 6 ай бұрын
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@outinacornfield 3 ай бұрын
Ah, bless you, Jens!
@JensLarsen 3 ай бұрын
Glad you like the video 🙂
@damonshanabarger2604 6 ай бұрын
I listen to your videos at least on average three hours a day. I've gotten to the point that when I listen to lines like these, that I can hear the chord changes and other lines also. Although I haven't been able to use all of your material in my compositions, it is very exciting when I can alter functional harmony and melodic phrasing to join various music genres together to form different kinds of music. New and exciting musical ideas. Although I have become more knowledgeable in so called technical terminology in music, the vast majority of the time I still rely on my ears. I get in pretty deep and find that stopping to try to explain what my ears are telling me just slows me down. This particular video does seem to go a long way towards a simplified approach to using my ears. I can't possibly imagine how anyone could write the lyrics to popular music without studying Jazz. Jazz is pretty much everywhere you could possibly look over the last sixty or seventy years in popular music.
@OnkelORK 6 ай бұрын
Lyrics to pop music and studying jazz!?! What am i missing?
@daynemin 6 ай бұрын
A little bit of jazz theory helps with any genre. I like to dedicate about 10 mins to direct listening, so playing a scale or arpeggio, chord etc and allowing my inner ear to be fully focussed on the sound/vibration. It seems a little boring and tedious but it definitely creates usable connections in the brain which come out during playing. 😎🌌
@damonshanabarger2604 6 ай бұрын
@@OnkelORK I don't know. It may be a matter of finding what your good at.
@damonshanabarger2604 6 ай бұрын
@daynemin It isn't just Jazz, but also Blues, Classical, Country, and World Music etc. The flow and ornamentation of the melody, particularly in Jazz, does seem to be well played upon in modern pop music vocals. It's not that I don't put the work into going over the material; it's that I find myself doing other things around the house and am inclined to listen to my KZfaq list. When I don't have the time to practice my guitar and mimic the notes with my voice, I plug an 1/8" cable into my tablet and play through auxiliary on my boom box.
@mindcontrol67 6 ай бұрын
There are no chord changes here,It is a static G7.
@AnneMcCueMusic 6 ай бұрын
Incredible lesson, thank you! :-)
@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
Glad you liked it!
@tomcripps7229 6 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
Thank you for your support, Tom 🙏🙂
@user-tu7uh3xj3r 6 ай бұрын
Спасибо!
@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
Glad you the video!
@WiebeMusicClass 6 ай бұрын
Good advice for a specific style of jazz
@barrymaher3922 12 күн бұрын
Christian McBride once said “The language of bebop IS the language of jazz” so maybe not so specific. Cheers!
@johnjacquard863 6 ай бұрын
fun!
@ramilak 6 ай бұрын
Darn I missed The premiere! Great video jens!
@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
No worries! The video doesnøt go away 🙂
@ramilak 6 ай бұрын
@@JensLarsen lol for sure. I just like the live banter 👍
@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
Thats great to hear! There is always next week
@zantonz 6 ай бұрын
I also recommend everyone to check Jens' book on modern jazz guitar concepts, it gives a lot of material in very clear and concise way. Works great together with this channel :)
@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@torstencoelfen2154 6 ай бұрын
Allways enjoy your Lesson. I saw you have a Book in Paperform, is that easy to handle? I think to buy this one
@raphaelfederspiel2787 5 ай бұрын
Dear Jens ! Thank you so much for this very rich Yt channel ! About this video, just on question about the BEST arpeggio exercise (3:12) : what if the tonality is in minor, should we adapt the same arpeggio exercise like this : A-7, B-7b5, CM7... etc ? Thank you !
@JensLarsen 5 ай бұрын
It's the same scale, so I would not practice that separately.
@ericstrauch3215 6 ай бұрын
Jens, you recommend not learning full arpeggios, what about learning arps on sets of 2,3,4 strings?
@bassyey 6 ай бұрын
It's better to start with arpeggios in the sense that it's easier to make pleasant sound and lines for a beginner. Resulting in a satisfying studying hours. At least that's my experience.
@mer1red 6 ай бұрын
It always puzzles me that somebody says that bebop scales are a waste of time, but at the same time uses Barry Harris as a reference. For example. Take the Barry Harris sixth diminished scale, something that is often given to beginners before his chromatic scale. Now guess what this scale is ... the bebop major scale! If you know that Barry Harris and David Baker are closely related and the main forces behind a similar bebop theory , that shouldn't surprise you. David Baker relied heavily on Barry's idea's. After reading a lot about David Baker it was clear to me that this would be not my cup of tea. Although Barry gave a lot of nice melodic idea's, once it goes deeper/more advanced I have the same 'no' feeling.
@diegobocco1035 6 ай бұрын
Pivot arpegios from Barry Harris, could be called kinda "drop arpegios"?
@guitarcoyote 6 ай бұрын
Transcribe your ❤ favorites.
@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
Always solid 🙂
@lascellehewitt3542 6 ай бұрын
I would like to see him slowing over a jazz standard.
@JensLarsen 6 ай бұрын
Like this? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nM2DrNOTntWoqXU.html
@thijs199 6 ай бұрын
and you would need to come up with just random stuff you like the sound of and hardwire that into your brain, and try not to become repetitive somehow. But that's like yeah.
@thijs199 6 ай бұрын
so, we all know we don't really wanna play like systemetically arpeggios and scales belonging to the chords, right. and do chromatic stuff and whatnot. But it kinda gets messy this way for me to organize.
@thijs199 6 ай бұрын
also I feel like it doesn't really work
@southoftheborderr_ Күн бұрын
Why he sound like Giorgio by Moroder
@thijs199 6 ай бұрын
probably I should just stick with the systemetical approach, get that down really well and then deviate from it. But that's like mind numbingly boring
@slicksalmon6948 3 ай бұрын
Arpeggios are melodic, but they’re not melody. Arpeggio solos are difficult and, frankly, boring.
@JensLarsen 3 ай бұрын
Moonlight Sonata, Eine Kleine Nacht Musik, All Of Me, The Theme From Mission Impossible, The Imperial March?
@slicksalmon6948 3 ай бұрын
@@JensLarsen Autumn leaves? Still Got The Blues? A million other memorable tunes? Nobody walks around humming a Joe Pass or Robben Ford solo.
@JensLarsen 3 ай бұрын
@@slicksalmon6948 There are 1000s of melodies based on arpeggios, to insist that arpeggios are not melodic is silly. I don't think you know what you are talking about, but feel free to explain why Moonlighe Sonata and Eine Kleine Nacht Music are not melodies, because they are both arpeggios.
@slicksalmon6948 3 ай бұрын
@@JensLarsen I said arpeggios are melodic, but they are rarely by themselves melody. Play the arpeggio progression for Autumn Leaves, for example, and the melody doesn’t come falling out. BTW, I’ve been playing for 61 years, so lighten up on the name calling.
@JensLarsen 3 ай бұрын
@@slicksalmon6948 Just because you don't sound like a melodic masterpiece the first time you play a few arpeggios doesn't mean that all "arpeggios solos" are boring and difficult. Most likely some of your favorite solos are "arpeggio solos" you just don't realize. That is like saying bricks are not great building materials because if you throw 500 bricks in the air then they don't come down as a perfect house every time.