Jens I learn more from a single 8 minute video of yours than I've learned from countless books and many hours of lessons in the past. You make everything so damn simple and creative!
You couldn’t be satisfied with a lightbulb moment, could you? You had to go and set off a nuke…….. and I’m gloriously happy - this is one of the most useful tutorials I’ve seen! Just that first bit of advice - learn the short arpeggios - instead of the full neck versions… that’s gold! I’m going to watch this video several times - with a guitar in my hands - to get the most from it
I agree 100%. I have a book full of single octave arpeggios for dozens of chords, yet there isn't a single mention of how to use them in a musical context. Thank God for instructors like Jens who understand the struggle and are willing to provide clear, simple, practical explanations of how to transform theory into musical expression. Because of him my book of arpeggios is open on my music stand instead of gathering dust on a shelf.
I've been looking for a video lesson like this for so long. Rather new to Jazz, although Im not really trying to play straight Jazz, but rather incorporate elements of it into my current style. Between this and your Jazz chord videos, just invaluable information to a guitarist. Love your content man, thanks a bunch! Seriously
Major 'DUH'!! I've been playing AND teaching for a long time and until this video never realized that 2-5-1 arpeggios all start on the same fret if you're on the 6th or 5th strings. And moving along to the next strings aren't difficult as long as you allow for the B string. That alone has opened up my eyes and ears. Thank you Jens!
This might be one of your best most accessible videos ever. Instantly usable info anybody can apply right now, yet ways to make a deeper dive and more complex later.
Thank you for incorporating more of Barry's wisdom into your channel, Jens! I feel like I am getting better through his influence all the time. Gone, but not forgotten.
Hi Jens. Just to say that this is one of your best videos, so far! Spot on! Thank to you, I'm going to start to practice my arpegios in the best way possible. I love to play guitar, but I'm still stuck in a kind of rhythm guitar, with only chords, mainly bossa nova jazzy style, but I want to add some lead stuff too. Keep this great work.
Jens, you are a master at explaining an approach to jazz that is accessible and fun. Much gratitude for pointing the way for hours and hours of pure joy on my guitar. 💕
Arpeggios definitely make for so much in Jazz. I appreciate the lesson thoroughly, especially for those who might not know how to articulate arpeggios in a Jazz context quite yet.
Wow, this video may possibly be the best Jazz Guitar intro video I have ever seen. ❤ Much respect Jens you assemble the components for great jazz soloing into a digestible framework. As a mathematician and a guitarist, I can appreciate this video on so many levels.
This is the best lesson so far, for me anyways! It helped "getting it together" and breaking-out of the strict diatonic/modal approach. And it's straightforward to change key (I worked on it in D Major/b minor). I will be working on this for the next few days. So I can nail it for good. Thank You, Jens! 👍👏
This is my absolute favorite and powerful lesson that Mr. Larsen teaches online and he's done so many of them on this subject and its always so great! I never get tired of it because its so fundamental to jazz solo. Using triads and building them later off the third and fifth really becomes such a powerful way of adding 9ths and 11ths for complex harmony too. Thanks Jens!
This is the most compact jampacked and pragmatic jazz improv tutorial I've ever watched. There's a motivation to practice, because none of this is daunting or hard to implement in an actual song since it's so closely related to basic diatonic concepts I think?! Been practicing licks in all scales but not all licks are easy to put into practice in a solo necessarely
This is an awesome lesson. There’s is so much important information here that provides keys to understanding how to make great jazz lines. Thanks Jens!
Jens, one thing I really appreciate about you is the knowledge and respect you have for guitarist in other genres like rock and blues. You understand all of us can learn various element of playing guitar from any source, even from those we wouldn't necessarily consider good players. "Minds are like parachutes, they only work well when they are open". I don't recall the source of that quote.
Man, I’m so grateful for your videos! I love that they’re straight to the point and filled with ideas rather than a bunch of talking just to pad out the video length. Thanks for what you’re doing!
Great lesson Jens! I've been applying your lessons to bass, so what I'm saying is your lessons translate to other instruments well. Enclosures have confused me for a bit, I think I've got them now. Thanks! And keep up the great work! You, Mark Smith(Talking Bass) and ChadLB (Sax) are the three best teachers on RUclips in my opinion!
I would point out that in your ii - V - I examples each new arpeggio started at the third. For me, this was a key to creating lines that sounded like something. It was also a good reminder to start with rubato, before trying to create lines at a steady tempo.
Could you make a video of how to choose the “right” scales in songs with a bunch of key changes, for example “darn that dream” and different ways to connect the scales/melody?
This is a great lesson. I would recommend this video to be included in your jazz guitar roadmap course in one of the first lessons on rehearsing arpeggios. Especially the part in this video where you explain about how they relate to a 2-5-1 progression. That the second degree in the C major scale relates to Dm and the fifth relates to the G. I totally see that now, but I didn't realise it in a clear way until I watched this video. To me the C major arpeggios related in a random way to anything in the key of C, which it does, but seeing that the different degrees of the arpeggios can relate to the other chords was strangely enough an epiphany for me. Thanks a million for opening up this door for me. 😃 All the best, Thor
God bless you My dear, thanks to have taken the time to create those video this channel, i m just discovering , you re an excellent teacher ! Merci beaucoup !
Well thought out and done! A fast pathway to get you up and running “From arpeggios to jazz lines in 7 easy steps” Love it Thanks again Jens I owe you big time :)
Phenomenal lesson. As a modern guitar player only beginning to approach jazz this is invaluable. Also the last video on RUclips where I expected to hear a Pitch meeting reference 😂
Great video, Jens. It's worth pointing out that generally you want tp add the chromatic notes on the upbeats {the "ands']. At least that's what I've been taught.
Thank you so much Jens for all your wonderful lessons! You pack so much useful information into each one... this is weeks worth of practice demonstrated in 8 minutes. I especially liked the pivot arpeggio that you showed... I will be working that into my practice routine for sure.
Outstanding video thank you! This year you have been doing more and more beginner level lessons - GREAT. In the past I too often found your videos just too difficult for me to make use of. This level is great. Keep it coming. I can always upgrade to more complicated lessons down the road.
Amazing! You've managed to cover an awful lot of valuable ground here in one (short) go! There's a wealth of info here for those willing to take these ideas down some rabbit holes. Cheers!
In 1977, my saxophone teacher, Sam Sanders (think: Joe Hen, who studied at Detroit's Wayne Statue University) gave me his variation on this. It took 1.5 years, but I have as good of technique as anybody in the world. Thanks, Sam! This was in Detroit, the place where the make all those Jazz musicians, so he probably got it from Barry too, as he's from [where else?] Detroit!
Jens, the student guy: Is using extra notes gonna be a problem? Jens, the jazz teacher guy: Super easy, barely an inconvenience 😂 I’m eagerly awaiting the Ryan George cameo one day
Hello Jens your teaching surprise me again, good explanation there are few master who can explain so well and from the hart like you.thanks men and namaste🙏🎸
This is a VERY important topic, using musical phrases as you practice scales and arpeggios. Patterns are a useful because you're actually playing a melodies instead of repeating sequences. I use 3-5-9-Root. Simple but effective. Also 9-b9-Root, for a hromatic passing tone.
This was super helpful, thank you Jens! It's really great to learn some of these ideas to open up the sound of the arpeggios and not sound like I'm just playing the chord notes when improvising.
Was that "Super easy, barely an inconvenience" a Pitch Meeting reference? 😂 But also thank you so much for a simple, straight forward lesson, cannot wait to practice this.
Jens Larsen, not just a great musician and a great teacher, also a great movie lover (definitely not `super easy, let alone barely an inconvenience` ;))
Very interesting. I am taking my guitar learning more seriously and diving deeper into jazz and music theory. Your videos are inspiring and very well explained! Thanks!❤
I learned Arpeggios via Metal, I got the large "simple" shapes down first and improvised so often I started just adding whatever scale notes I felt like which led to enclosures naturally. Then after listening to more fusion type stuff I decided random chromatics can fit well too provided you resolve back to the scale notes. I'm trying to learn proper jazz to a point but its really hard after playing Shred stuff for so long as well as not liking most horn based jazz, just cant stand listening to those instruments. I do however listen to Allan Holdsworth's discography every night before and during sleep "subconscious absorption learning." I think i'm slowly getting there, I'm somewhat stuck on memorizing proper comping chords, i learned to just play really large barre chords for everything and moveable caged method to play capo stuff without a capo. Those shell voicings and the inversions or other number things related to shell voicings that arent inversions but somehow also are, are confusing as heck. I would go to university for jazz if I could understand more stuff first because I feel I would just fail miserably if I didnt already have that stuff down, I'm also a slow learner due to a brain injury and I'm 36 now so kinda old to go to school.
Lol I'm literally sitting in front of Leavitt's Modern Method open to the page on "one octave arpeggios-triads"! I'm going to push through and learn this, but with the understanding that it's the one-octave fragments that matter most. It's also a good exercise for articulating across strings, so I can't in good conscience say, "Jens said it doesn't matter." 😂
i had the same issue when i was learning impro.i took some lessons from a big name in greece and he told me to learn all the position of every arpeggio.by enstict after i have done this work i found it very unmusical and in the midtime a friend of mine told me that he knew an amazibng jazz fusion guitarist but he was no big name...he was an undedog.and i deside to go to him.he was the most allaround player i have ever seen he tought me all the stuff with a simple and sophisticated way in one year.i changed my whole way of thinking and playing the intrument. no positions no patterns but learning each not on the fingerboard so that i could see the fingerboard as a whole and mainly play orizontal and connect tha scales and arpeggios with a musical way.in the begining i had to improvise using all the fingerboard on one chord vamp to get the sounf .the feeling and the colors
This is so awesome. I have been on the brink of starting one of your courses for years. I play, but most of the time I am stuck inside a square box of my own making... if you know what I mean. Can you recommend the best progressive course to start with you?
Thank you! It is difficult to give specific advice, we are all different and need to focus on different things 🙂 Maybe Check out this post: jenslarsen.nl/how-to-learn-jazz-guitar-suggestions-to-begin-studying/ The course that probably will work the best is the Roadmap
Hey Jens, thank you for the valueable lesson. I think in the past I've heard you being an advocate of 3NPS, however, in this video you're basing licks on the (I'm sorry) CAGED shape 2:58, E.g. 5:43 - I would play B on the same string as G, etc. Do you not lay the notes into those positions at all when you're playing or it's just for this particular lick your fingers found this more convenient? I'm trying to get more structure into my playing and was thinking I would base it around the 3NPS positions, i.e. get all the arpegio shapes out of them into my fingers while other notes from the scale encircle them according to the position. Do you approach that differently, finding the convenient arpegio shapes and then locating the notes from the scale around them which gives you 2:58?
Well, I studied the Berklee system and 3NPS but I don't limit myself with positions when I play. This position is in both the Berklee and the CAGED system which is why I use it very often for examples. Technique is there to make it easier to play so limiting yourself by positions can really work against your progress.
@@JensLarsen Oh yeah, I got them mixed up - you said you only learned the 3NPS for an exam. I understand the sentiment about limitations imposed by positions, but I think I need a foundation that would help me see the notes of the chords and scales. Getting triad shapes under my fingers definitely improved my comfort on the neck, but with arpeggios and scales there are a lot of options so you have to choose a system to start from
Saved, so I can watch each section at 1/16th of the speed, multiple times over months, which is realistically how long it will take for me to even begin to digest any of this. That's after learning ALL of the arpeggios in root E and root A positions from Rick Beato.
You may find it more useful to watch the video at normal speed but in small chunks so that you can internalize each option separately. Just a thought...
Share your best advice for getting started with Jazz! 🙂
And check out this system for chromatic notes: ruclips.net/video/6NnFgdgOnc0/видео.html
🤓 if you asked me i would say: “watching the jens larsen channel” and “following his instructions” … and “staying cool” 😎
Learn how chords are spelled. Learn the caged system. Learn some basic progressions in as many different positions and keys as possible.
Oh, good grief. This lesson contains thousands of songs and instantly usable material. Much obliged, Mr. Larsen. 24kt gold.
Thank you! 🙂 Glad you like it!
I thought I heard Here Comes That Rainey Day.
Truly the best jazz guitar instructor on the entire web I feel like.
"Super easy, barely an inconvenience." Brilliant quote!!
🙂
Jens I learn more from a single 8 minute video of yours than I've learned from countless books and many hours of lessons in the past. You make everything so damn simple and creative!
Same here. His is easily the best instruction i have ever come across.
You couldn’t be satisfied with a lightbulb moment, could you? You had to go and set off a nuke…….. and I’m gloriously happy - this is one of the most useful tutorials I’ve seen! Just that first bit of advice - learn the short arpeggios - instead of the full neck versions… that’s gold! I’m going to watch this video several times - with a guitar in my hands - to get the most from it
Haha Thank you! 🙏
Simple, practical, and elegant.
Probably the best instructional video I've seen on the internet.
Thank you so much Jens!
Glad it was helpful 🙂
I agree 100%. I have a book full of single octave arpeggios for dozens of chords, yet there isn't a single mention of how to use them in a musical context. Thank God for instructors like Jens who understand the struggle and are willing to provide clear, simple, practical explanations of how to transform theory into musical expression. Because of him my book of arpeggios is open on my music stand instead of gathering dust on a shelf.
@@gordonlewis7570 Thank you 🙂
I've been looking for a video lesson like this for so long. Rather new to Jazz, although Im not really trying to play straight Jazz, but rather incorporate elements of it into my current style. Between this and your Jazz chord videos, just invaluable information to a guitarist. Love your content man, thanks a bunch! Seriously
Thank you very much! It's great to hear that you can put it to use 👍
Phenomenal, masterful lesson. I usually say “I wish this was taught to me when I started,” but this lesson especially. Thanks, Jens!
Major 'DUH'!! I've been playing AND teaching for a long time and until this video never realized that 2-5-1 arpeggios all start on the same fret if you're on the 6th or 5th strings. And moving along to the next strings aren't difficult as long as you allow for the B string. That alone has opened up my eyes and ears. Thank you Jens!
I can honestly can say Jen's is the single best jazz guitar teacher on youtube. No one else comes close!
Thank you 🙂
Agreed
This might be one of your best most accessible videos ever. Instantly usable info anybody can apply right now, yet ways to make a deeper dive and more complex later.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for incorporating more of Barry's wisdom into your channel, Jens! I feel like I am getting better through his influence all the time. Gone, but not forgotten.
Glad you like it 🙂
Hi Jens. Just to say that this is one of your best videos, so far! Spot on! Thank to you, I'm going to start to practice my arpegios in the best way possible. I love to play guitar, but I'm still stuck in a kind of rhythm guitar, with only chords, mainly bossa nova jazzy style, but I want to add some lead stuff too. Keep this great work.
Glad it was helpful!
I am beginner jazz guitarist and you are totally right this is super useful to me, thanks for the info greetings from mexico
Great to hear! Go for it!
@@JensLarsen thanks I have a couple of your books, I hope in the future be able to grasp them, too advanced for me right now !
@@JoseJimenez-ob2sf yes, I suspect the Roadmap is a better starting point 🙂
Jens, you are a master at explaining an approach to jazz that is accessible and fun. Much gratitude for pointing the way for hours and hours of pure joy on my guitar. 💕
Thank you very much! Glad it was helpful!
8 minutes of pure Jazz gold goodness. THANK YOU Mr. Larsen.
Arpeggios definitely make for so much in Jazz. I appreciate the lesson thoroughly, especially for those who might not know how to articulate arpeggios in a Jazz context quite yet.
Thanks for checking out the video
@@JensLarsen Absolutely. Cheers
Wow, this video may possibly be the best Jazz Guitar intro video I have ever seen. ❤ Much respect Jens you assemble the components for great jazz soloing into a digestible framework. As a mathematician and a guitarist, I can appreciate this video on so many levels.
Fantastic as usual. You really are the arpeggio guru 😁
Thank you so much 😀
Best lesson ever! Thanks to you I start to understand jazz!
Go for it 🙂
Your lessons help make me a better harmonica player all the time. I use them often when practicing.
Great to hear!
immediately this is the most useful guide to arpeggios and jazz i’ve ever seen. Thank you so much 🙏
Glad it was helpful! 🙂
This is the best lesson so far, for me anyways!
It helped "getting it together" and breaking-out of the strict diatonic/modal approach.
And it's straightforward to change key (I worked on it in D Major/b minor).
I will be working on this for the next few days. So I can nail it for good.
Thank You, Jens! 👍👏
Excellent! Great that you can put it to use 🙂
Thanks! Mr Larsen.. your videos are always well done, superbly informative and helpful!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Thank you very much for you support! I really appreciate that!
This is my absolute favorite and powerful lesson that Mr. Larsen teaches online and he's done so many of them on this subject and its always so great! I never get tired of it because its so fundamental to jazz solo. Using triads and building them later off the third and fifth really becomes such a powerful way of adding 9ths and 11ths for complex harmony too. Thanks Jens!
I recall an homogeneous lesson by 🇨🇦 Dave Martone from a decade ago, in shred. You’ve just provided additional clarification. Thanks, Jens!
Pure gold worth of information all packed in a video, wow! Thank you for making the internet worth browsing!
Glad it was helpful!
This might be the best 8 minutes of jazz guitar instruction I have ever seen. Bravo - need to go work on my pivot arpeggios now!
You are very welcome 🙂 Go for it!
This is the most compact jampacked and pragmatic jazz improv tutorial I've ever watched. There's a motivation to practice, because none of this is daunting or hard to implement in an actual song since it's so closely related to basic diatonic concepts I think?! Been practicing licks in all scales but not all licks are easy to put into practice in a solo necessarely
Thank you! Glad you like it
You just answered all the questions I asked my self about jazz playing. Thanks! 🙏
Great! Go for it 🙂
Incredibly helpful. Thank u sir.
Glad it was helpful!
This is an awesome lesson. There’s is so much important information here that provides keys to understanding how to make great jazz lines.
Thanks Jens!
Glad you like it! 🙂
Jens, one thing I really appreciate about you is the knowledge and respect you have for guitarist in other genres like rock and blues. You understand all of us can learn various element of playing guitar from any source, even from those we wouldn't necessarily consider good players. "Minds are like parachutes, they only work well when they are open". I don't recall the source of that quote.
Thank you 🙂
This quote is attributed to Frank Zappa! Aaah good ol' Frank... ☺
Man, I’m so grateful for your videos! I love that they’re straight to the point and filled with ideas rather than a bunch of talking just to pad out the video length. Thanks for what you’re doing!
Hi Jens, you are the best teacher! You are welcome in France!
Great lesson Jens! I've been applying your lessons to bass, so what I'm saying is your lessons translate to other instruments well. Enclosures have confused me for a bit, I think I've got them now. Thanks! And keep up the great work! You, Mark Smith(Talking Bass) and ChadLB (Sax) are the three best teachers on RUclips in my opinion!
Thank you! That is indeed good company to be in 🙂
I had all the prerequisites for this video and it took me exactly from where I was stuck to new ground to play in 🎉
Super great to hear 🙂
I would point out that in your ii - V - I examples each new arpeggio started at the third. For me, this was a key to creating lines that sounded like something. It was also a good reminder to start with rubato, before trying to create lines at a steady tempo.
Solid advice for sure 🙂
Could you make a video of how to choose the “right” scales in songs with a bunch of key changes, for example “darn that dream” and different ways to connect the scales/melody?
This is pretty old, but start with this video and then check out some of the other videos in the playlist ruclips.net/video/frzyy30d3UY/видео.html&
At last I seem to understand the arpeggios. Thanks Jens for keeping it simple.
This is a great lesson. I would recommend this video to be included in your jazz guitar roadmap course in one of the first lessons on rehearsing arpeggios. Especially the part in this video where you explain about how they relate to a 2-5-1 progression. That the second degree in the C major scale relates to Dm and the fifth relates to the G. I totally see that now, but I didn't realise it in a clear way until I watched this video. To me the C major arpeggios related in a random way to anything in the key of C, which it does, but seeing that the different degrees of the arpeggios can relate to the other chords was strangely enough an epiphany for me. Thanks a million for opening up this door for me. 😃 All the best, Thor
The Roadmap actually covers these concepts already, but in a step-by-step way so that it is easy to internalize and apply to your playing 🙂
This lesson is like the secret decoder ring for bebop - so much content in one short video!
Glad you think so! That is exactly what I hope it would be 🙂
God bless you My dear, thanks to have taken the time to create those video this channel, i m just discovering , you re an excellent teacher ! Merci beaucoup !
Glad you find them useful!
Great breakdown once again!!! Thank you
Thanks for watching!
Your lessons are invaluable. Thank you for this one!
My pleasure!
Well thought out and done!
A fast pathway to get you up and running
“From arpeggios to jazz lines in 7 easy steps”
Love it
Thanks again Jens
I owe you big time :)
Glad you like it 🙂
This is so frustrating. You’ve taken away all my excuses…! 💥😅😂
Top notch information, pacing and editing.
Thank you 😁
Phenomenal lesson. As a modern guitar player only beginning to approach jazz this is invaluable. Also the last video on RUclips where I expected to hear a Pitch meeting reference 😂
Haha! Great that you can use it 🙂
this is so good! thank you Jens!!
Glad you like it!
Amazing melody lesson. Very complet !!!!
Glad you liked it!
So beautiful and soothing music
Thank you 🙂
Really dig your channel - always clear and immediately useful!
Glad you enjoy it!
Great video, Jens. It's worth pointing out that generally you want tp add the chromatic notes on the upbeats {the "ands']. At least that's what I've been taught.
I actually wouldn't get too attached to that as a rule 🙂
Thank you so much Jens for all your wonderful lessons! You pack so much useful information into each one... this is weeks worth of practice demonstrated in 8 minutes. I especially liked the pivot arpeggio that you showed... I will be working that into my practice routine for sure.
I’m mostly a rock guy who dabbles in a bunch of styles, and you are my jazz daddy. This is another amazing lesson.
And omg I had a buddy give me a basic lesson about enclosures a couple years ago and you just made it make so much more sense
Wow, so much content in just an 8 minute video! This was your best yet Jens. Thank You!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow! Amazing content, excited to do your online jazz course, your teaching is a great blessing to the jazz guitar community!
Outstanding video thank you! This year you have been doing more and more beginner level lessons - GREAT. In the past I too often found your videos just too difficult for me to make use of. This level is great. Keep it coming. I can always upgrade to more complicated lessons down the road.
This is your jazz guitar future. What you can do with this single video is infinite. Thank you!
Totally agree. This single lesson is like the the keys to the Lamborghini.
“Super easy, baarreeelllyyy an inconvenience!” If that was referencing what I think, that was amazing😂 Great lesson as always!
Glad you liked it!😁
References are Tight !
@@mugwump422 wow wow wow wow wow wow... wow.
Amazing! You've managed to cover an awful lot of valuable ground here in one (short) go! There's a wealth of info here for those willing to take these ideas down some rabbit holes. Cheers!
Glad you like it 🙂
Wow this really is a goldmine of info for me to work on! Thanks Jens!
Glad you like it 🙂
In 1977, my saxophone teacher, Sam Sanders (think: Joe Hen, who studied at Detroit's Wayne Statue University) gave me his variation on this. It took 1.5 years, but I have as good of technique as anybody in the world. Thanks, Sam! This was in Detroit, the place where the make all those Jazz musicians, so he probably got it from Barry too, as he's from [where else?] Detroit!
Jens, the student guy: Is using extra notes gonna be a problem?
Jens, the jazz teacher guy: Super easy, barely an inconvenience 😂
I’m eagerly awaiting the Ryan George cameo one day
I should indeed get a green screen at some point 🙂
@@JensLarsen yeah yeah yeah
While I wasn't expecting a Ryan George reference, I'm not surprised at all.
🙏😁
(3:12) "Super easy, barely an inconvenience." For those who don't know the reference.
Hello Jens your teaching surprise me again, good explanation there are few master who can explain so well and from the hart like you.thanks men and namaste🙏🎸
You're very welcome!
This is a VERY important topic, using musical phrases as you practice scales and arpeggios. Patterns are a useful because you're actually playing a melodies instead of repeating sequences.
I use 3-5-9-Root. Simple but effective. Also 9-b9-Root, for a hromatic passing tone.
Glad you like it!
Massively inspiring video!
Glad you like it 🙂
Love the Pitch Meetings reference!
🙂🙏
This was super helpful, thank you Jens! It's really great to learn some of these ideas to open up the sound of the arpeggios and not sound like I'm just playing the chord notes when improvising.
Glad it was helpful 🙂!
Thank you for the amazing lesson Jens! I've learned a lot from this video and all your other videos.
Happy to hear that!
Was that "Super easy, barely an inconvenience" a Pitch Meeting reference? 😂
But also thank you so much for a simple, straight forward lesson, cannot wait to practice this.
Indeed 😁 glad you like the video
Beatiful ❤❤❤❤ thanks a lot!
Glad you like it!
Excellent lesson, useful and educational, thank you.
Glad to hear that!
Fantastic - so useful! 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Jens Larsen, not just a great musician and a great teacher, also a great movie lover
(definitely not `super easy, let alone barely an inconvenience` ;))
,
Thank you 😁🙏
Maestro! Amazing video.
Glad you liked it!
Great lesson Jens
Thank you, James 🙂
Thanks Jens it is a really good subject that guitarists need like me, we want to play jazz but we "can't" (Sometimes rock looks similar but...no)
Such well prepared lesson videos... fantastic teacher!
Glad you think so!
Thank you for these great insights. Helping already!
Very interesting. I am taking my guitar learning more seriously and diving deeper into jazz and music theory. Your videos are inspiring and very well explained! Thanks!❤
Thank you 🙂 Glad you are putting it to use!
Wow, excellent lesson! Super clear. Thanks!
You're very welcome!
I learned Arpeggios via Metal, I got the large "simple" shapes down first and improvised so often I started just adding whatever scale notes I felt like which led to enclosures naturally. Then after listening to more fusion type stuff I decided random chromatics can fit well too provided you resolve back to the scale notes. I'm trying to learn proper jazz to a point but its really hard after playing Shred stuff for so long as well as not liking most horn based jazz, just cant stand listening to those instruments. I do however listen to Allan Holdsworth's discography every night before and during sleep "subconscious absorption learning." I think i'm slowly getting there, I'm somewhat stuck on memorizing proper comping chords, i learned to just play really large barre chords for everything and moveable caged method to play capo stuff without a capo. Those shell voicings and the inversions or other number things related to shell voicings that arent inversions but somehow also are, are confusing as heck. I would go to university for jazz if I could understand more stuff first because I feel I would just fail miserably if I didnt already have that stuff down, I'm also a slow learner due to a brain injury and I'm 36 now so kinda old to go to school.
Lol I'm literally sitting in front of Leavitt's Modern Method open to the page on "one octave arpeggios-triads"! I'm going to push through and learn this, but with the understanding that it's the one-octave fragments that matter most. It's also a good exercise for articulating across strings, so I can't in good conscience say, "Jens said it doesn't matter." 😂
Super easy, barely an inconvenience? I want a jazz guitar video pitch meeting!
Haha! That could indeed be fun 🙂
@@JensLarsen Jens, you almost make me want to switch teachers
Nice ! thank you for these videos!
Glad you like them!
i had the same issue when i was learning impro.i took some lessons from a big name in greece and he told me to learn all the position of every arpeggio.by enstict after i have done this work i found it very unmusical and in the midtime a friend of mine told me that he knew an amazibng jazz fusion guitarist but he was no big name...he was an undedog.and i deside to go to him.he was the most allaround player i have ever seen he tought me all the stuff with a simple and sophisticated way in one year.i changed my whole way of thinking and playing the intrument. no positions no patterns but learning each not on the fingerboard so that i could see the fingerboard as a whole and mainly play orizontal and connect tha scales and arpeggios with a musical way.in the begining i had to improvise using all the fingerboard on one chord vamp to get the sounf .the feeling and the colors
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great lesson. sooo useful
Glad to hear that!
This is so awesome. I have been on the brink of starting one of your courses for years. I play, but most of the time I am stuck inside a square box of my own making... if you know what I mean.
Can you recommend the best progressive course to start with you?
Thank you! It is difficult to give specific advice, we are all different and need to focus on different things 🙂 Maybe Check out this post: jenslarsen.nl/how-to-learn-jazz-guitar-suggestions-to-begin-studying/
The course that probably will work the best is the Roadmap
Really good!!! Thank you!!!
Glad you liked it!
Hey Jens, thank you for the valueable lesson.
I think in the past I've heard you being an advocate of 3NPS, however, in this video you're basing licks on the (I'm sorry) CAGED shape 2:58,
E.g. 5:43 - I would play B on the same string as G, etc. Do you not lay the notes into those positions at all when you're playing or it's just for this particular lick your fingers found this more convenient?
I'm trying to get more structure into my playing and was thinking I would base it around the 3NPS positions, i.e. get all the arpegio shapes out of them into my fingers while other notes from the scale encircle them according to the position. Do you approach that differently, finding the convenient arpegio shapes and then locating the notes from the scale around them which gives you 2:58?
Well, I studied the Berklee system and 3NPS but I don't limit myself with positions when I play. This position is in both the Berklee and the CAGED system which is why I use it very often for examples.
Technique is there to make it easier to play so limiting yourself by positions can really work against your progress.
@@JensLarsen Oh yeah, I got them mixed up - you said you only learned the 3NPS for an exam.
I understand the sentiment about limitations imposed by positions, but I think I need a foundation that would help me see the notes of the chords and scales. Getting triad shapes under my fingers definitely improved my comfort on the neck, but with arpeggios and scales there are a lot of options so you have to choose a system to start from
This Pre supposes that the beginner know exactly where and what, particular arpeggios are😊
For a "Jazz Beginner" it is quite common to know the diatonic arpeggios. They are the most important scale exercise after all 🙂
super easy licks are tight!
Indeed! 😁
Wow such must good knowledge in one video!
Glad you think so!
😲 this is some real bite size Jazz that makes sense.
Thank you! 🙂
Haha I was sitting here thinking this would be a meal for the next year or more.
Pitch Meeting reference?? Wow wow wow. Wow.
Saved, so I can watch each section at 1/16th of the speed, multiple times over months, which is realistically how long it will take for me to even begin to digest any of this.
That's after learning ALL of the arpeggios in root E and root A positions from Rick Beato.
You may find it more useful to watch the video at normal speed but in small chunks so that you can internalize each option separately. Just a thought...
@@JensLarsen thanks for replying.
Jen do you cover all this in depth in your roadmap course? I'm looking for structured lessons and haven't found anything yet.
Hi John, Yes I do cover this in the Roadmap so that it is applied to a song and you get to work on getting it into your playing-