Would you please take a vacation. I never see my wife anymore. I spend hours watching, working on guitar and jumping to your other videos. Each one seems to get better and I think "this is perfect for me". (I feel like my brother who would always say after a Grateful Dead concert, tonight's concert was the best. Just substitute "this video" for "tonight's concert") Just joking about the "take a vacation". Keep them coming!
This is an excellent lesson. There are many hours of practise from these 9 minutes. Well explained, just right. Thank you - the best jazz guitar teacher in youtube!
I really like your idea of getting into my fingers one part of a lick by transposing it in an ascending and descending sequence. This seems a lot more manageable for getting used to playing fragments of bebop licks whenever they might come to mind and over whichever chord/sound/flavour presents itself. Sooo sensible! Thanks for sharing this. I’m Going to try it on sax with my omnibook. Great ideas that are transferable to sax, any day of the week. All the best.
I also play guitar and sax, but I'm falling behind on sax a lot, so I'm starting from a clean slate and going back to the blues, transcribing Billie's Bounce. I feel like beboo guitar is easier than sax cause you can see the scales unlike on sax, but doing arpeggio practices on sax and forcing myself to memorize the 1,3,5,b7 have helped me on guitar too. While I don't know all notes by heart, I know arpeggios, and by, for example connecting the 3rd of a iii7 to the 7th of the IV7 of the same chord because I can actually name the notes, I can create long bebop lines on guitar
I thought you'd like to know that your video lessons are the best value on youtube! I just watched four of them and then went to Patreon to express my admiration. Your lessons are crystal clear and immediately practical. BTW, I am not a guitar player and the lessons are STILL good enough to pay for. Hat's off to you!
Thank you very much! I am really happy you want to support me! Hope you have ideas for some of the upcoming lessons! if you don't play guitar, then what do you play?
For someone that really was already playing 'jazz' lnes without really knowing any theory/context these lessons are just piecing so many puzzle pieces together in my mind! Heel erg bedankt!
Brilliant lesson, Jens, thank you so much! I think you became so fluent doing these lessons that the info-per-video-minute rate is increasing drastically (it's even funny to compare this video to one from 3 years ago, hahaha). This last video was almost too fast to grasp everyhting in a single view. Nothing bad with it, but I like it when you don't seem to be such in a hurry :) Thanks again!
Thank you so much!! P.S. Description of this video is in Russian language. Is it for sure the work of Russian hackers?! ;=))) Огромное Спасибо!! P.S. Описание этого видео на русском языке. Это наверняка работа русских хакеров?! ; =)))
Thank you! No, I don't really think about bebop scales. For me they are a waste of time. I prefer learning how to add chromatic leading notes when I want those where I want those. That is (for me) a much stronger approach :)
It's a bit long to explain in a comment. The first part is a D7 arpeggio with a leading note and then it skips up to the 9th (E) and moves down in half steps to D
Jens Larsen thank you so much you got right back to me! Your videos have been so helpful and insightful to me for good practicing routines and exercises and all that good stuff, although I'm a pianist :) I'll try that out and try to match it to that sweet line of yours!
Hola Jens! saludos desde Argentina! me gustan mucho tus videos. Tengo una duda, no entendí el uso de la triada aumentada, me lo podrias explicar nuevamente?
Hi Jens, could you suggest a couple of good standards to try these ideas out on? I figure stuff with lots of V - I cadences is generally good but my Jazz musicology isn't good enough to know what tunes relate to what era or style off the cuff. Thanks Alex
If you want to try the exact lines out you could have a look at Rhythm Changeso or Scrapple from the apple which both have B parts consisting of Dom7th chords. Actually the Girl From Ipanema also has a lot of 2 bar dominant chords. Otherwise, Sweet Georgia Brown or Take the A train.
You can see it as an arpeggio that works well with Am7, the II chord of D7, but it works better if it is connected to the C as it is in this example. Does that help? 🙂
fun to watch, just want to get home and see how to include these licks into my playing. What guitar are you playing btw?.. i see its an ibanez but cant tell the model. cheers
Hey Jens great lesson, just have a question. Would it be out of the style of bebop if one were to use spread arpeggios? Also, loved the Herbie Hancock joke legitimately made me laugh.
Thanks Parsa! 😀 I don't know of any bebop solos where they used spread or open voiced triads, so in that respect it would be out of place, just like quartal harmony. But don't forget that we don't live in the 1940's so we don't have to play strict bebop! 😁
You need to be able to play fast. You need to be able to think ahead and you need to practice in a medium tempo making sure that the lines you are improvising can also be played at a higher tempo.
Hey Jens, En lille request til en video: Noget af det jeg oftest finder svært i jazz er at fortsætte en melodi på I akkorden. Både II og V akkorderne eksempelvis bliver altid rig på idéer - fordi de gerne vil et sted hen, men jeg føler det er svært at "holde den kørende" på I akkorder da vi så er "hjemme igen" (særligt når de er mere end 1 takt). Måske det er noget du kunne have lyst til at fortælle lidt om en gang? :-) Mvh. Mads
Great video again. I'm wondering about the diatonic logic behind the scale exercise at 4:39. My guess is that each arpeggio is chosen because it can be sweeped. Maybe you can confirm...
Not so much that it can be sweeped. More that arpeggios in 3rds distance fit the chord and then using the way the notes are placed on a guitar. I am choosing a specific placement for each arpeggio so that it can be played with a sweep, but not choosing that arpeggio. Does that make sense?
@@jimf4754 Too much thinking is probably not the best way to learn to play a style of music. You are better off gradually building your ability to hear certain types of melodies
@@JensLarsen I hear you .. I've immersed myself in theory and I gotta be honest it's just confusing. Joe pass said the same thing. Im Currently stuck in major scale modal playing and want to branch out . For the longest time I was stuck in pentatonic land. Just trying to tie it all together. I'm looking for the phrasing so I don't always sound the same
Jens Larsen I am vietnamese.I like blueza music very much. I am very disadvantageous because no one teacher me, i do not know where to star. So i would like to have a friend's sharing across the ocean. May you be my teacher. Replying
Okay Jens again Thank you, already i subsribed to your channel, I will donate some money when I've got the opportunity(some friend uses internet banking and than when he comes over I will donate because I learn a lot from you, Here is my suggestion: Please play a solo for instance three choprusses over a standard and let than to us pupils see how you use your theory to your practise, so it takes some time but we than learn a lot more because jsut II V I with all respect is as you know not enough to become an all round jazz guitarist, if you improvise and than analyse your own solo I wpould be amazed, and learn it seek it out etc. and see deeper in to the things you try to teach me!!! You played with Hans Voogt the teacher of My Teacher henk van benthem!!! he studied with Wim Overgaauw the TEAXHER of Eef Albers, what I told you about 9 tone scale he uses at the bIItritone substitution adapted to II V I but at the Tritone so Ebm7 Ab7 Dbmaj7 seven resloving nicely to Cmaj the scale also 9 tones so enneatonic: Db Eb E F Gb Ab A Bb C Db so a bit different than your last scale of the Cmaj 7 scales lesson C-D-EbE-F# G Ab Bb B C forgive me if I offended you in any way is not my intension my wish is if we realy communicatde! So have a Nice DAY
I have lot's of lessons on complete standards here: jenslarsen.nl/shop/ So you can use that instead of donating. It's ok, you don't offend me, but you keep going on about theory that you obviously have no understanding of, and that is tiring. If you want to get better then focus on playing, keep it simple and get you basics down. Messiaen modes are not going anywhere and have been around for 70 years already anyway.
I can't afford that for all videos, but you could share this one and ask if anybody wants to contribute Spanish subs. There is a link in the description
Better watch yourself with that watermelon. We need you here. Ever think of hiring a watermelon cutter? 😂 love your bebop videos lessons amd discussions....
I think that is true for any genre if you want to be any good at it. There is more to learning a musical language than memorizing a bunch of licks. Isn't that actually what this video is about?
He's not decoding anything; he talking 100% in code. Video should be prefaced with if you are in demand and earning a good living playing jazz let me show some things I like to do that you might find useful too. For everyone else that doesn't know the secret 'handshake', you can leave now or listen.
Or are you just somebody saying: "This video is not perfectly suited for my level (however low that may be) and therefore it is not a good video!" To me that is a very ego-centric statement. Assuming everyone is at your level. Look at the response to the video, does that reflect that? Instead of asking about something in the video that I might answer you now get this 🙂
Really? I would imagine that if you don't know who Herbie Hancock is then that sentence just won't make any sense, certainly me cutting my finger while slicing a watermelon is hardly racist.
Jens Larsen Just being silly. They’d probably know who he is and that he’s a black man, so just the mention of a watermelon and a black man in the same sentence might trigger someone these days 🙄🤷🏻♂️
If you want to check out which 3 Scales you need to know for Jazz then take a look here: ruclips.net/video/NEvBZTD-f6s/видео.html 🙂👍
Jens Larsen Thank you so much for your time and work and wisdom! Would you be ao kind as to tell me what notes you played in the lick at 8:24?
I've been stuck trying to get "out" of arpeggio sounding runs for ages. This video has saved me a lot of time - thank you.
Glad it helped!
Would you please take a vacation. I never see my wife anymore. I spend hours watching, working on guitar and jumping to your other videos. Each one seems to get better and I think "this is perfect for me". (I feel like my brother who would always say after a Grateful Dead concert, tonight's concert was the best. Just substitute "this video" for "tonight's concert") Just joking about the "take a vacation". Keep them coming!
Thanks Ken! I am happy to hear that you like the videos! Hope you don't neglect your wife 😃
So is it. Jens is great
Agreed! 😅 ❤
This is an excellent lesson.
There are many hours of practise from these 9 minutes. Well explained, just right. Thank you - the best jazz guitar teacher in youtube!
+Len J Thank you very much Len! Glad you like it ☺️
I really like your idea of getting into my fingers one part of a lick by transposing it in an ascending and descending sequence. This seems a lot more manageable for getting used to playing fragments of bebop licks whenever they might come to mind and over whichever chord/sound/flavour presents itself. Sooo sensible! Thanks for sharing this. I’m Going to try it on sax with my omnibook. Great ideas that are transferable to sax, any day of the week. All the best.
I also play guitar and sax, but I'm falling behind on sax a lot, so I'm starting from a clean slate and going back to the blues, transcribing Billie's Bounce. I feel like beboo guitar is easier than sax cause you can see the scales unlike on sax, but doing arpeggio practices on sax and forcing myself to memorize the 1,3,5,b7 have helped me on guitar too. While I don't know all notes by heart, I know arpeggios, and by, for example connecting the 3rd of a iii7 to the 7th of the IV7 of the same chord because I can actually name the notes, I can create long bebop lines on guitar
I had have no idea what to practice at night, but this kept me rollin. Thank you!
Great! Go for it 🙂
I thought you'd like to know that your video lessons are the best value on youtube! I just watched four of them and then went to Patreon to express my admiration. Your lessons are crystal clear and immediately practical. BTW, I am not a guitar player and the lessons are STILL good enough to pay for. Hat's off to you!
Thank you very much! I am really happy you want to support me! Hope you have ideas for some of the upcoming lessons!
if you don't play guitar, then what do you play?
Jens, your videos are wonderful! Thanks for sharing all of these helpful pointers, you have reignited my bebop guitar mind!!
Go for it 🙂
you are the best teacher man! ive learned soooo much from these videos; thank you!
Thank you! I am really happy you find the videos useful!
Gold mine this channel
+Jorj J. Thank you! Glad you find the videos useful!
For someone that really was already playing 'jazz' lnes without really knowing any theory/context these lessons are just piecing so many puzzle pieces together in my mind! Heel erg bedankt!
Heel graag gedaan Kevin! I am glad you find the videos useful!! 😃
thank you, this makes it a lot easier to start practicing bebob lines.
You're very welcome Clemens! I am glad you like it 🙂
Your explanation is just flawless...
+Ichsan Pramadi Thank you! I am glad you found it useful!
M'lord, you are a beast....
Haha! Thanks!
Very good lesson. Thank you. Luc
Glad you liked it!
Brilliant lesson, Jens, thank you so much! I think you became so fluent doing these lessons that the info-per-video-minute rate is increasing drastically (it's even funny to compare this video to one from 3 years ago, hahaha). This last video was almost too fast to grasp everyhting in a single view. Nothing bad with it, but I like it when you don't seem to be such in a hurry :) Thanks again!
Thank you! Actually it looks like RUclips favours the faster moving lessons though 😃
Yep, that's right. And it was a bebop lesson after all... it's got to be up-tempo!
Exactly! 😁
I really Enjoy this Lesson ...Well Done , with some good exercises etc.
+Jimi Hendrix Thank you Jimi! Glad you like it! What do you think about the video I did on your playing? ☺️
thank you so much, i'm learning a lot with your videos, thanks for share !!! i really appreciate it ... greetings from Chile
Very happy to hear that Nicolas! Thanks for checking them out!
Thanks Jens.. 🙏Good job.. 👌
Glad you like it 🙂
thanks god, finally , i 've found a channel which contains so much useful info. Your a great speaker, its so easy to understand. Even me got you))
Thank you very much! You can also check out the PDF download and accompanying articles on my website! Link in the description
Thank you so much for such a great free lesson!
You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂
thank you the best teacher on line
Thank you very much Bruno! 🙂
🤘🤘🤘🤘amazing lessons bro
What is the most important part of Bebop? Rhythm in the lines or is it certain scales or arpeggios?
Boston Rumble! Yes certainly a huge part!
Jens Larsen to get good blueza color,what should I start with the scale?which bar match to the blueza?
This seems so high level....I'll be back in 7 years to learn these
+Orlanzo Telfer Maybe just start with some diatonic arpeggios and Learning how to. Improvise over changes. Then this will seem easy 😎
Hæ! Where is the video on octave displacement which you mention? Thank you very much for your lessons Jens!
I didn't make a video specifically on that, but maybe go browse the bebop playlists on my channel. The info is in there :)
great lesson, thank you!
You're welcome! Glad you like it!
Another great lesson!!
+varg vegard Thank you Varg! ☺️
Thank you so much!!
P.S. Description of this video is in Russian language. Is it for sure the work of Russian hackers?! ;=)))
Огромное Спасибо!!
P.S. Описание этого видео на русском языке. Это наверняка работа русских хакеров?! ; =)))
I love your lesson, sir...
+Naufal Aden Thank you Nadal! I am glad you like it ☺️
Great video and cool licks! 🎸🎼
Thank you SDWayne I am glad you found it useful! 👍
Excellent lesson!
Thank you!! 🙂
Big stuff! Thanks
Great videos. Greetings from México.
+ANCM.MX Thank you! Glad you find them useful! ☺️
Hi, your classes are excellent as always. Do you ever think about bebop scales and their uses, because there is not much on the subject. Thank's
Thank you! No, I don't really think about bebop scales. For me they are a waste of time. I prefer learning how to add chromatic leading notes when I want those where I want those. That is (for me) a much stronger approach :)
Great lesson.
Thank you Deepak! 🙂
Gostei muito das suas aulas apesar de eu não entender o inglês eu aprendo muito em harmonia.
Obrigado! I am glad you find them useful!
I love your videos and I greatly appreciate them! Could you please tell me what you played at 8:24
It's a bit long to explain in a comment. The first part is a D7 arpeggio with a leading note and then it skips up to the 9th (E) and moves down in half steps to D
Jens Larsen thank you so much you got right back to me! Your videos have been so helpful and insightful to me for good practicing routines and exercises and all that good stuff, although I'm a pianist :) I'll try that out and try to match it to that sweet line of yours!
Thanks! Glad you find the stuff useful! Don't forget you can slow down the video on RUclips :)
Jens Larsen Thanks, will do!
Hola Jens! saludos desde Argentina! me gustan mucho tus videos. Tengo una duda, no entendí el uso de la triada aumentada, me lo podrias explicar nuevamente?
Thanks Pablo! The augmented triad is in many ways just a D7(b13), but the bebop guys used it a lot and often resolved it to the 9 of the next chord.
Thanks, Jens!
You're very welcome! :)
Thanking a master....thank you.
You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂
Hi Jens,.....Great lesson....little hard for me as the fingers are loosing dextricity....lol.
Just keep at it :)
Instead of arpeggios or intervals what scales are you thinking?
The ones that go with the chords I in this context.
Hi Jens, could you suggest a couple of good standards to try these ideas out on? I figure stuff with lots of V - I cadences is generally good but my Jazz musicology isn't good enough to know what tunes relate to what era or style off the cuff.
Thanks
Alex
If you want to try the exact lines out you could have a look at Rhythm Changeso or Scrapple from the apple which both have B parts consisting of Dom7th chords. Actually the Girl From Ipanema also has a lot of 2 bar dominant chords. Otherwise, Sweet Georgia Brown or Take the A train.
Awesome, thanks Jens.
yes! Great lesson. What a monster! Only thing is I have to watch it a thousand times until I can get it hahah
+Leo Méndez México Thanks Leo! I am sure you will get it faster than that ☺️
Great stuff, man! You really sound 'parkerish'.
+Fitzliputzli23 Thank you! Nice of you to say so! ☺️
on point teacher...
Thank you! :)
Watermelon Man! :-)
can anyone tell me what is the relationship between the Em7 arpeggio and the D7 in second example?
You can see it as an arpeggio that works well with Am7, the II chord of D7, but it works better if it is connected to the C as it is in this example.
Does that help? 🙂
Do you have any videos on Enclosures?
Yes! Quite a few! ruclips.net/video/Ml2xvFdGCP8/видео.html
Thanks 4 the refresher teach...much luv
Your welcome Justin! 👍👍🙂
fun to watch, just want to get home and see how to include these licks into my playing. What guitar are you playing btw?.. i see its an ibanez but cant tell the model.
cheers
Thank you! I am playing an Ibanez AS2630 🙂
Well done. If you have to cut left fingers take the thumb 👍😉😂
Haha! I guess so, though I do use that really a lot 🙂
Hey Jens great lesson, just have a question. Would it be out of the style of bebop if one were to use spread arpeggios? Also, loved the Herbie Hancock joke legitimately made me laugh.
Thanks Parsa! 😀 I don't know of any bebop solos where they used spread or open voiced triads, so in that respect it would be out of place, just like quartal harmony.
But don't forget that we don't live in the 1940's so we don't have to play strict bebop! 😁
Very true
Like for the watermelon man 😂
Thanks! Glad you appreciate my sense of humor 🙂
How did you get speed on improvisation? or how do yu develop it????
You need to be able to play fast. You need to be able to think ahead and you need to practice in a medium tempo making sure that the lines you are improvising can also be played at a higher tempo.
Thank you so much, you are a great teacher! and thanks for this material, it will help me a lot in my travel through the bebop language
Good luck with it Aldo 🙂
they also resolve rhytymically
Hey Jens,
En lille request til en video: Noget af det jeg oftest finder svært i jazz er at fortsætte en melodi på I akkorden. Både II og V akkorderne eksempelvis bliver altid rig på idéer - fordi de gerne vil et sted hen, men jeg føler det er svært at "holde den kørende" på I akkorder da vi så er "hjemme igen" (særligt når de er mere end 1 takt). Måske det er noget du kunne have lyst til at fortælle lidt om en gang? :-)
Mvh.
Mads
Hej Mads!
Det er da en god ide! Jeg havde sådan set det lidt i tankerne så det var jeg da prøve at gøre noget ved!
suave bebop 100 jazz
Gracias!
Great video again. I'm wondering about the diatonic logic behind the scale exercise at 4:39. My guess is that each arpeggio is chosen because it can be sweeped. Maybe you can confirm...
Not so much that it can be sweeped. More that arpeggios in 3rds distance fit the chord and then using the way the notes are placed on a guitar. I am choosing a specific placement for each arpeggio so that it can be played with a sweep, but not choosing that arpeggio.
Does that make sense?
nice
Thanks!
how about bebop for beginners.
Maybe this? ruclips.net/video/D1jc5uZ0Ee4/видео.html
@@JensLarsen looking more for the thought process of bebop. . But I'll definitely start learning the lines to help the light bulb turn on
@@jimf4754 Too much thinking is probably not the best way to learn to play a style of music. You are better off gradually building your ability to hear certain types of melodies
@@JensLarsen I hear you .. I've immersed myself in theory and I gotta be honest it's just confusing. Joe pass said the same thing. Im Currently stuck in major scale modal playing and want to branch out . For the longest time I was stuck in pentatonic land. Just trying to tie it all together. I'm looking for the phrasing so I don't always sound the same
@@jimf4754 forget modes. Maybe Check out this post: jenslarsen.nl/how-to-learn-jazz-guitar-suggestions-to-begin-studying/
There's a teacher
Thank you!
Parolex sheet music????
Sorry?
Jens Larsen I am vietnamese.I like blueza music very much. I am very disadvantageous because no one teacher me, i do not know where to star. So i would like to have a friend's sharing across the ocean. May you be my teacher. Replying
I can't teach you personally like that but feel free if you have a question 🙂
Thank you ! really helpful. I subscribed please put me on your mailing list. I will check in again. Brilliant video !
Thank you very much Rick! 🙂 You can sign up to my mailing list here: jenslarsen.nl/sign-up-for-my-newsletter/
I can't do that for you, sorry 😀
Daisy ducks, hahahahahahha My friend It is pronounced Daisy Dukes!!!!!!! uuuuuuuuuuuu get that uuuuuu in there. Blessings!
This man loves his sunbursts lol
+J Harsch Certainly! But I actually don't discriminate 😁
Okay Jens again Thank you, already i subsribed to your channel, I will donate some money when I've got the opportunity(some friend uses internet banking and than when he comes over I will donate because I learn a lot from you, Here is my suggestion: Please play a solo for instance three choprusses over a standard and let than to us pupils see how you use your theory to your practise, so it takes some time but we than learn a lot more because jsut II V I with all respect is as you know not enough to become an all round jazz guitarist, if you improvise and than analyse your own solo I wpould be amazed, and learn it seek it out etc. and see deeper in to the things you try to teach me!!! You played with Hans Voogt the teacher of My Teacher henk van benthem!!! he studied with Wim Overgaauw the TEAXHER of Eef Albers, what I told you about 9 tone scale he uses at the bIItritone substitution adapted to II V I but at the Tritone so Ebm7 Ab7 Dbmaj7 seven resloving nicely to Cmaj the scale also 9 tones so enneatonic: Db Eb E F Gb Ab A Bb C Db so a bit different than your last scale of the Cmaj 7 scales lesson C-D-EbE-F# G Ab Bb B C forgive me if I offended you in any way is not my intension my wish is if we realy communicatde! So have a Nice DAY
I have lot's of lessons on complete standards here: jenslarsen.nl/shop/ So you can use that instead of donating.
It's ok, you don't offend me, but you keep going on about theory that you obviously have no understanding of, and that is tiring.
If you want to get better then focus on playing, keep it simple and get you basics down. Messiaen modes are not going anywhere and have been around for 70 years already anyway.
Subtitles in spanish please
I can't afford that for all videos, but you could share this one and ask if anybody wants to contribute Spanish subs. There is a link in the description
yea use the instrument
Better watch yourself with that watermelon. We need you here. Ever think of hiring a watermelon cutter? 😂
love your bebop videos lessons amd discussions....
Be Bop is not about preparing licks. If you are memorizing licks, you are missing the point.
I think that is true for any genre if you want to be any good at it. There is more to learning a musical language than memorizing a bunch of licks. Isn't that actually what this video is about?
Jens Larsen I listened again, and I agree.
@@marcovalentini5741 No worries :)
He's not decoding anything; he talking 100% in code. Video should be prefaced with if you are in demand and earning a good living playing jazz let me show some things I like to do that you might find useful too. For everyone else that doesn't know the secret 'handshake', you can leave now or listen.
Or are you just somebody saying: "This video is not perfectly suited for my level (however low that may be) and therefore it is not a good video!"
To me that is a very ego-centric statement. Assuming everyone is at your level. Look at the response to the video, does that reflect that?
Instead of asking about something in the video that I might answer you now get this 🙂
please stop to talk when you play guitar for the music its cool
You can probably find other channels that fit you better 🙂
Someone unfamiliar with the work of Herbie Hancock might take that watermelon comment as racist 😆 🍉
Really? I would imagine that if you don't know who Herbie Hancock is then that sentence just won't make any sense, certainly me cutting my finger while slicing a watermelon is hardly racist.
Jens Larsen Just being silly. They’d probably know who he is and that he’s a black man, so just the mention of a watermelon and a black man in the same sentence might trigger someone these days 🙄🤷🏻♂️
great lesson! exactly what i was looking for.
Great to hear 🙂
Thanks, Jens!