Jens, this is great video that covers a topic that doesn't get enough visibility, so thank you for putting this together. For beginner jazz guitarists like myself, while I want to consume as much vocab as I can and then get it into my playing, it's important to see the big picture as well and ensure that the vocabulary comes out in a way that suits the overall story and connects well. Great stuff!
Jens, as always, your "timing" and "phrasing" are impeccable--that is, your timely delivery of the topic and the way you present it! Yes, you've covered this topic (in one way or another) many times before, but--thankfully--you're wise enough to know that there are those of us so dense that presenting the information in a yet another context might lead to our finally "getting it." This gem validated my progress (thanks, in no small part, to you) and presented new challenges. Thank you for your generous and prolific contributions to my musicianship.
So easy and basic information that actually are the most important steps towards the advanced concepts of Jazz. Thanks again for presenting all these things 🙏🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶
Great lesson, a masterly reverse-engineering of certain bebop techniques. i didn't know that you could throw a bunch of notes around just for the heck of it. What fun!!!! My inspiration Jimi Hendrix knew all of this.
Great lesson! I really appreciate your lessons on phrasing. And explaining how "bebop" is a direct reflection of the phrasing; that was an eye (and ear) opener! Thank you Jens!
Jazz tunes are often based on an actual song, so the length of an end note relates to a lyric, not an arbitrary choice. For a solo you can follow the lyric rhythm, or not, but the variety of short note phrase endings should relate the the lyric, unless you deliberately want to mess with the style as a statement? If the tune has no lyric, the style will probably imply a lyric, so better to consider that. Lyrics have often been written after a tune is already established, such as Jaenine and Laura, so consider them also.
the *Jazz Guitar Roadmap* is so worth it. It is as all Jens' Utube videos: funny, incredibly well thought thru, helpful, dependable and worth not only for jazz but to learn about music, the fretboard, music theory. it gets you from beginner to intermediate in no-time. highly recommanded 5 stars! ***** this video is a great lesson too and funny and so much information you share, @JensLarsen just forever grateful. thank you
I gave my email and name to get an 'invitation' to the Roadmap course. I've gotten two emails but no information about the Roadmap course. Will I eventually get an email about the Roadmap course?
@@Hhenriette your comment inspired me to look into the Jazz Guitar Roadmap course. I began the course last week and it is everything you said. I would not consider myself an absolute beginner but, more accurately, teetering on the cusp of intermediate level. By no means would I discourage a true beginner from taking this course but, for anyone like me (an advanced beginner stuck in limbo) this course is exactly what’s needed to progress.
I think the last line of the video was the most important "learn jazz, make music". My first thought was you can't do both.then I thought back over 2 decades ago learning blues, rock and metal licks. I was frustrated for a long time that what I was playing didn't sound like real music, my soloing attempts always sounded terrible. Then one day something clicked into place. I don't know what changed but I suddenly sounded competent. Learning music isn't enough to be able to make music. You've got to learn, practice, make a lot of mistakes and learn some more. And if you're lucky something might click for you.
Had to laugh when I heard the part about ending phrases with the 2 note bebop tag - I just finished my first pass through Jens’ Modern Concepts for Jazz Guitar book. It’s a fantastic book, but in each of his ii-V-I exercises O rewrote the endings to replace a long note with the bebop tag. Cheers!
@JensLarsen maybe i phrased this wrong. This technique is in many bebop solos it's very important to the technique of jazz but, maybe I am wrong. It's something joe pass uses all the time in the django solo. Thanks for responding
@@chrissguitarshow206 I can't tell what you mean exactly, but usually questions like are a bit like "I can't play fast but I still want to play double time" Double time is also playing fast. It is the same technique 🙂
Watched the video, I think this is exactly what I needed to work on. I went back to the beginning and tinkered with the opening example of what sounds like C maj and E7. I added 3 triplet notes to fill the dead space: hammer on of B string 8th fret to 11 (G to B♭, the B♭ not being part of either chord), and to complete the triplet E string 7th fret (B), with the next note being 10th fret D (E string). Would this be a simple example of the transition between the chords?
my own fix i tried was to set a certain bpm over the tune and start to simply solo WITHOUT ever stoping to play 8th notes over the whole neck.next step then was to mix it 16th parts or go slower.
Regarding these #3, #4, #5 patterns that you show at the end of the video, is there any of your videos explaining them as a building block to create lines? I know that there is the "patterns for jazz" book that presents some of these standard movements but this book is too dense for me 😅
Could you remake this 2024 with full chain for poor people and with current stellar voice recording and channel separation? Say with a Squier that anyone can afford. That would really have added value as it would provide confidence for training and remove the worries about getting high end guitar. Those Thomann(and other cheapos) guitars can be very playable today.
@@JensLarsen I think not. I was supposed to be posting on the video where you showed Fractal setup:ruclips.net/video/-XXTNv5W3GE/видео.html and I watched carefully. I had some questions left like could it be achieved with some affordable setup like using solidbody and tonex or something else. What I really mean is the question what is required if I start with pure guitar using instrument input to a DAW track and going from there. Like boiling it down to necessary steps. I have listened The Incredible Jazz Guitar really 1000 times(on the factory floor) but never tried to play that stuff. My wish was the guide to tone with is necessary but like under 200€ for the modeler and under 500 for the guitar. But if it could be solid body - I have them. But then those need pickup recommendation. The cab section seems to be very impactful in those modelers.
@@KetogenicGuitars I am sure you could, but it will be different from guitar to guitar and modeler to modeler. It's hard to make a video that is more general than what I already did. I think the info is already in there.
Jens, as always, great lesson. One question, though. Why are the Barry Harris licks called 5, 4, 3, and 2? I can't see anything in the licks that relates to those numbers.
@@BonjosPocket I did a search as you suggested. One page that appears is a course on Barry Harris taught by guitarist Chris Parks who was a student of Barry's. Chris also has his own RUclips channel called Things I've Learned From Barry Harris, but I've not found the "short" I think you are referring to. Would you mind finding it and posting the link here? Thanks.
@@williamlaven channel called openstudiojazz, latest short section, the one you need is 11th from top. I wrote like 3 times already, it keeps disappearing
Hi Jens, I like your jazz guitar video! I would like to ask a question about the Abersold 29: Is it normal that in the Tablature of solo the editor puts notes to paly on open strings? Thank you !
0:12 A Harmonic Minor over E7 is also E Phrygian Dominant (E F G# A B C D), which is one way to handle playing over E7 in this context, but there may be simpler ways to approach this. 😉
@@BonjosPocket Ha ha ha, I’m sorry! Just take this stuff a little at a time. Piano (for learning notes/theory/harmony) is a good way to go if you play drums, too.
I gave my name and email to get information about your Jazz Guitar Road Map course. I’ve received three emails but no information about the course I’m interested in. Did I miss something?
My only problem with jazz is the stupid drop chords and inversions, way too much crap to memorize, and chords with muted strings in the middle are super annoying unless its 3rd diads and i'm playing baroque influenced stuff. I've tried learning some Allan Holdsworth chords and phrases, he's the extent of the jazz I'll listen to, ironically I cant stand horns despite Allan's love of them and wanting to play one, so I dont really listen to "real jazz" I just like really colourful lead and good legato.
@@JensLarsen I just want to understand more of what Allan Holdsworth was doing, unfortunately giant steps still sounds terrible to my ear, but I love Allan's music. Weird huh?
Be=Bop is NOT my bag....to me it is VERY boring and very predictable....no matter HOW you cut it, Apple Pie is STILL abn Apple Pie. !! but YOU are a GOOD Teacher.... thank YOU !!
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What is the most difficult thing about learning Jazz? 😥
Don't do Bebop scales: ruclips.net/video/Jria4wPiwdA/видео.html
Hi Jens, do you have a current contact email.? I tried your info@ but no reply. Please PM me here.
My questions are about your Patreon subscription. Ron D.
@@jazzterboi1 I didn't see any mail from you, maybe try again?
@@jazzterboi1 It is not possible to DM people on RUclips
@@JensLarsen I just sent you a new email.Ron
🎶 All of me, this applies to all of me 🎵
😁
Jens, this is great video that covers a topic that doesn't get enough visibility, so thank you for putting this together. For beginner jazz guitarists like myself, while I want to consume as much vocab as I can and then get it into my playing, it's important to see the big picture as well and ensure that the vocabulary comes out in a way that suits the overall story and connects well. Great stuff!
Glad it was helpful! 🙂
Jens, as always, your "timing" and "phrasing" are impeccable--that is, your timely delivery of the topic and the way you present it! Yes, you've covered this topic (in one way or another) many times before, but--thankfully--you're wise enough to know that there are those of us so dense that presenting the information in a yet another context might lead to our finally "getting it." This gem validated my progress (thanks, in no small part, to you) and presented new challenges. Thank you for your generous and prolific contributions to my musicianship.
Glad you like the video, Bill 🙂
Every week, and another semester’s worth of material. Thank you so much, Jens!
Glad you enjoy it!
@@artompkins7958 agree! :)) a semester :))
Lots of concrete, helpful ideas, but the video was worth watching just to learn where the name "be-bop" comes from! Thanks for that! -Tom
Glad it was helpful!
So easy and basic information that actually are the most important steps towards the advanced concepts of Jazz. Thanks again for presenting all these things 🙏🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶
Glad it was helpful!
Great lesson, a masterly reverse-engineering of certain bebop techniques. i didn't know that you could throw a bunch of notes around just for the heck of it. What fun!!!! My inspiration Jimi Hendrix knew all of this.
You've really leveled up your videos Jens, great stuff! Educational and entertaining.
Glad you think so!
Great lesson! I really appreciate your lessons on phrasing. And explaining how "bebop" is a direct reflection of the phrasing; that was an eye (and ear) opener! Thank you Jens!
You're very welcome!
Thanks!
Thank you Tom!
Always a great lesson.....
Thanks Jens.......!!!
My pleasure!
super le montage plein d'humour ! ^^ (et la vidéo of course)
🙏🙂
Thank you so much for this lesson! It's so much good material!
Glad to hear that!
Your lessons and tips are always straightforward and easy to understand - thanks again!
Glad they are useful! 🙏
Great lesson .
Clear and no distrctions.
Man, you read me to filth with this video haha. Rock/blues self taught guitar player entering jazz and running into aaaaall these problems 😂
😁🙏
Jazz tunes are often based on an actual song, so the length of an end note relates to a lyric, not an arbitrary choice. For a solo you can follow the lyric rhythm, or not, but the variety of short note phrase endings should relate the the lyric, unless you deliberately want to mess with the style as a statement? If the tune has no lyric, the style will probably imply a lyric, so better to consider that. Lyrics have often been written after a tune is already established, such as Jaenine and Laura, so consider them also.
Great lesson, Jens!
Thank you, Daniel
@@JensLarsen Pst, it’s Nick, but I still love you. 😂
@@steellemonstudios sorry 😁
Great lesson. Love the Epi.
Glad to hear it!
Always great 😎
🙏
the *Jazz Guitar Roadmap* is so worth it. It is as all Jens' Utube videos: funny, incredibly well thought thru, helpful, dependable and worth not only for jazz but to learn about music, the fretboard, music theory. it gets you from beginner to intermediate in no-time. highly recommanded 5 stars! ***** this video is a great lesson too and funny and so much information you share, @JensLarsen just forever grateful. thank you
Thank you Henriette! That is really great to hear
I gave my email and name to get an 'invitation' to the Roadmap course. I've gotten two emails but no information about the Roadmap course. Will I eventually get an email about the Roadmap course?
@@robertkahn4284 send me an email info@jenslarsen.nl
@@Hhenriette your comment inspired me to look into the Jazz Guitar Roadmap course. I began the course last week and it is everything you said. I would not consider myself an absolute beginner but, more accurately, teetering on the cusp of intermediate level. By no means would I discourage a true beginner from taking this course but, for anyone like me (an advanced beginner stuck in limbo) this course is exactly what’s needed to progress.
@@robertkahn4284 ❤that is so nice to hear. I agree with your comment completely. Same kind of in between level here. @jenslarsen 😊😊
I think the last line of the video was the most important "learn jazz, make music".
My first thought was you can't do both.then I thought back over 2 decades ago learning blues, rock and metal licks. I was frustrated for a long time that what I was playing didn't sound like real music, my soloing attempts always sounded terrible.
Then one day something clicked into place. I don't know what changed but I suddenly sounded competent.
Learning music isn't enough to be able to make music. You've got to learn, practice, make a lot of mistakes and learn some more. And if you're lucky something might click for you.
Had to laugh when I heard the part about ending phrases with the 2 note bebop tag - I just finished my first pass through Jens’ Modern Concepts for Jazz Guitar book. It’s a fantastic book, but in each of his ii-V-I exercises O rewrote the endings to replace a long note with the bebop tag. Cheers!
Thank you.
You're welcome!
great video Jens saludos ¡¡¡
Thank you 🙂
🎉🎉🎉 great video
Thank you 🤗
I was having trouble focusing on this very valuable lesson until added was Sponge Bob SquarePants. Thank you
Glad it was helpful! 😁
A video you could make that would be extremely popular in my opinion would be how to perform the really fast speed burst of notes on a turnaround.
Realistically making a video where the point is that people have to learn to play fast to play fast is not a recipe for success 🙂
@JensLarsen maybe i phrased this wrong. This technique is in many bebop solos it's very important to the technique of jazz but, maybe I am wrong. It's something joe pass uses all the time in the django solo. Thanks for responding
I still love you man your the best
@@chrissguitarshow206 I can't tell what you mean exactly, but usually questions like are a bit like "I can't play fast but I still want to play double time" Double time is also playing fast. It is the same technique 🙂
Thank you for your service to the jazz community i have watched you for years. Maybe when I am back in Europe I can come see you.
Watched the video, I think this is exactly what I needed to work on. I went back to the beginning and tinkered with the opening example of what sounds like C maj and E7. I added 3 triplet notes to fill the dead space: hammer on of B string 8th fret to 11 (G to B♭, the B♭ not being part of either chord), and to complete the triplet E string 7th fret (B), with the next note being 10th fret D (E string). Would this be a simple example of the transition between the chords?
If you think that sounds good then yes 🙂
my own fix i tried was to set a certain bpm over the tune and start to simply solo WITHOUT ever stoping to play 8th notes over the whole neck.next step then was to mix it 16th parts or go slower.
Regarding these #3, #4, #5 patterns that you show at the end of the video, is there any of your videos explaining them as a building block to create lines? I know that there is the "patterns for jazz" book that presents some of these standard movements but this book is too dense for me 😅
No, I never made videos on those specific patterns but I did do a lot on Bebop and that way of thinking about vocabulary.
Could you remake this 2024 with full chain for poor people and with current stellar voice recording and channel separation? Say with a Squier that anyone can afford. That would really have added value as it would provide confidence for training and remove the worries about getting high end guitar. Those Thomann(and other cheapos) guitars can be very playable today.
Are you posting this on the right video? This is not about guitars
@@JensLarsen I think not. I was supposed to be posting on the video where you showed Fractal setup:ruclips.net/video/-XXTNv5W3GE/видео.html
and I watched carefully. I had some questions left like could it be achieved with some affordable setup like using solidbody and tonex or something else.
What I really mean is the question what is required if I start with pure guitar using instrument input to a DAW track and going from there. Like boiling it down to necessary steps. I have listened The Incredible Jazz Guitar really 1000 times(on the factory floor) but never tried to play that stuff.
My wish was the guide to tone with is necessary but like under 200€ for the modeler and under 500 for the guitar. But if it could be solid body - I have them. But then those need pickup recommendation. The cab section seems to be very impactful in those modelers.
@@KetogenicGuitars I am sure you could, but it will be different from guitar to guitar and modeler to modeler. It's hard to make a video that is more general than what I already did. I think the info is already in there.
Jens, as always, great lesson. One question, though. Why are the Barry Harris licks called 5, 4, 3, and 2? I can't see anything in the licks that relates to those numbers.
There is no real logic as far as I know 🙂
@@BonjosPocket I did a search as you suggested. One page that appears is a course on Barry Harris taught by guitarist Chris Parks who was a student of Barry's. Chris also has his own RUclips channel called Things I've Learned From Barry Harris, but I've not found the "short" I think you are referring to. Would you mind finding it and posting the link here? Thanks.
@@williamlaven ruclips.net/user/shortsMV3zuOA7mqw?si=QUO3ni3uxwUdxNLy
@@williamlaven ruclips.net/user/shortsMV3zuOA7mqw?si=QUO3ni3uxwUdxNLy
This one
@@williamlaven channel called openstudiojazz, latest short section, the one you need is 11th from top. I wrote like 3 times already, it keeps disappearing
I like to think like I'm singing on the guitar, even when playing chords or comping
In a way you are 🙂
Hi Jens, I like your jazz guitar video!
I would like to ask a question about the Abersold 29:
Is it normal that in the Tablature of solo the editor puts notes to paly on open strings?
Thank you !
Aebersold? I don't understand.
@@JensLarsen it is an american book of sheet music.... the number 29 is one with Jimmy Raney
@@lucapoggi8803 ok, I don't know about the tabs in that book, sorry.
Hey Jens, nice tips as always.
Which Epiphone you're using here?
Thank you! This is my Epiphone Sheraton: ruclips.net/video/bIQiWfeWLA4/видео.html
Why d harmonic minor over e7🙃
0:12 A Harmonic Minor over E7 is also E Phrygian Dominant (E F G# A B C D), which is one way to handle playing over E7 in this context, but there may be simpler ways to approach this. 😉
@@steellemonstudios 💀💀💀 guess i'm gonna stick to the drums..
@@BonjosPocket Ha ha ha, I’m sorry! Just take this stuff a little at a time. Piano (for learning notes/theory/harmony) is a good way to go if you play drums, too.
I gave my name and email to get information about your Jazz Guitar Road Map course. I’ve received three emails but no information about the course I’m interested in. Did I miss something?
Send me an email info@jenslarsen.nl
Play through the changes.
observation... too much spongebob, not enough plankton... just sayin'
Noted! 😁
Dont forget Mr krabs :)
Good hair
I'd be happy to be able to play your "problematic" solos.
Did you just say that David Gilmour doesn't leave a lot of space between his notes?
My only problem with jazz is the stupid drop chords and inversions, way too much crap to memorize, and chords with muted strings in the middle are super annoying unless its 3rd diads and i'm playing baroque influenced stuff. I've tried learning some Allan Holdsworth chords and phrases, he's the extent of the jazz I'll listen to, ironically I cant stand horns despite Allan's love of them and wanting to play one, so I dont really listen to "real jazz" I just like really colourful lead and good legato.
"only problem" and then lists 10 problems...better stick to your power chords, bud!
You don't have to learn Jazz if you don't want to 🙂
@@JensLarsen I just want to understand more of what Allan Holdsworth was doing, unfortunately giant steps still sounds terrible to my ear, but I love Allan's music. Weird huh?
@@gssong7111 Nah, drop chords with muted strings in the middle are all one thing. I learned Tokyo dream though, lots of power chords in that one.
Fall down the stairs and land on your feet but only for a short time…
Be=Bop is NOT my bag....to me it is VERY boring and very predictable....no matter HOW you cut it, Apple Pie is STILL abn Apple Pie. !! but YOU are a GOOD Teacher.... thank YOU !!