Which chord progressions do you find important in minor and did I miss one? Make your chord progressions more interesting: ruclips.net/video/RGfmYLirg1I/видео.html
Yes, I would like to watch the Major version of this video. I grew up playing rock, then branched into fusion, classical and metal, so there are still a ton of standard jazz progressions I could learn a lot from. Thanks again for all of the excellent lessons Jens. You rock! Ermm.. You jazz! ^-^
I think you’ve mentioned before is how the Cm/Am7b5/Dm7b5/G7b9 I-VI-II-V turnaround is basically the minor key equivalent of rhythm changes, in standards like “Softly As In A Morning Sunrise” for example. And as with major rhythm changes there are many variations you can make, one thing I like is to make the IV and II chords altered dominants, Cm/A7#9/D7#9/G7#9. This imparts a darker bluesy sound to the progression that I’m fond of.
I don’t know how many pianists follow you but I am one of them. Your treatment of theory and it’s practical applications very clear and immediately translatable what I’m working on.
Jens, the work you’re doing here is top quality on all aspects of the video. Playing, writing, editing and the educational material itself. Take just one thing, the editing. I don’t know if people in general actually know how much work it is to edit a video like this and doing it in such a great way. Always great, thanks Jens and congrats on your outstanding growing RUclips channel. More Jazz to the people!! 💚/E
Thank you Emil! I really appreciate that coming from someone who knows how it works :) Of course, we are two people editing the video, so that makes it a bit easier to get done. Keep swinging!
Nice video Jens, just the right length. If it had been 20 minutes, I probably wouldn't have watched it. I'll definitely watch it a few more times as there is a lot to take in. Some lovely sounding chord progressions here and that's just what I'm looking for. I know loads of chords and understand how they are built but understand less about how they all fit together. That's where you come in. Thanks. I would appreciate you doing a video on Chord Progressions in Major.
These videos are of great help to players worldwide...most appreciated. I'm a pro musician on other instruments, looking to guitar for fun. This helps alot.
Hey Jens, really insightful lesson, has opened up lots of possibilities. I really enjoyed the examples you played with the chord melody arrangements, I've been trying to find something like this to help with chord melody work like in your examples. I would so buy a book of arrangements like this if you did one, would appreciate a lesson or two with chord melody if you could.
Glad you enjoyed it! I do have some material on Chord Melody: jenslarsen.nl/product/chord-melody-survival-kit/ Is the best constructed educational material, but there is also a playlist of free videos: ruclips.net/video/_prQirfAsKk/видео.html
This a great resource video for minor ii7 V7 IM6/7 progression. Watch it at least thrice for full effect. Yes please Jens, a major version would be most propitious. Thanks.
@@JensLarsen Jens, i have 3 questions related to the jazz guitar road map... i have been learning the triads arpeggios using the CAGED system. So 1st question would be.. which system are you teaching in the road map? (CAGED, 3NPSS, Berklee) question number 2: is there a buying warranty, or something where i can see which method are you using and if i fee confortable with it? :). and last question: are you teaching many positions on the neck or just one which fits all? i mean just one that you can use this knowledge to use it on others. Sorry for the questions but are my 3 doubts regarding this interesting course. Thanks a lot in advance! All the best!
@@ingluissantana Get an invite to check it out and send me an e-mail if you have questions. I am sure that is easier :) You can request an invitation here: bit.ly/JazzGtRm
Dear Jens, your deserve a nobel price (for musician ;-)). I am advanced but I always learn something from your very well done videos !. I also have a personnal method that I can eventually share with you or at least get your comments. Brgds
This is such a great video, well structured and clear and I'm so grateful someone is taking the time to really explain jazz guitar like this. (only thing to note is at 3:08 the chord name says Fm7, the chord shape is F9 and the chord you're playing is Fm9 ahaha)
Hi Jens, another amazing lesson. Always learn a ton from your lessons! I'm really contemplating purchasing your course but am just afraid I may not commit to it like always. I really enjoy watching your videos though I usually only understand about 50% of it.
Like the way you go RIGHT IN on this one...even seems like u guys put the tag "my name is Jens Larsen...learn jazz, make music" a little bit later.. Anyway awesome and very useful topic ...and by the way...I have dismissed Pat Metheny for many many years...after following your lead on jazz guitar..I decided to give him a more matured listen .and dammit...I get it now. Metheny is a great jazz guitarist if for no other reason he has developed HIS voice on guitar...sounding like noone else...using eastern influenced modes, (phrygian?) and minor 2nds and very distinctive picking techniques...Miles use to say that the greatest challenge for any jazz musician was learning to play like yourself. Metheny does it to the max.
It is not that complicated, I was always curious about other styles of music and since I was already into Blues then hearing Parker play the blues just made sense to me :)
Thanks Jens... I worked this week with a guitarist who had difficulty discerning his leads through minor chords & I don't want to insult him as he is younger & quite talented otherwise... what to do?
I had a student who never ever understood that songs were cyclical. That you **repeat** one part twice and then move to the chorus, bridge, turnaround. Whatever. We would have to start the whole song over if he messed up in the third chorus. I broke it down and we just played 'sections'. I don't know if he really got it, but eventually he was playing in a band for pay. I would ask your student to explain in each part why it is interesting - to him or to the listener. So maybe then he can identify the moving note or the flow of the chord progression. At root, ask him what he likes about it. What sticks in his mind. If something sounds 'right' or 'wrong' and try to figure out why. I told my son that country music plays notes ahead [up the neck] from the root. Blues plays them behind [lower on the neck]. That gives you major or minor positions. You have to be able to hear the difference but if you learn it mechanically, you eventually learn to hear it.
Hey Jens! Great video. Any chance I can get the full pdf to alone together? I'm a patreon but couldn't find it if exists. (And yes, a major version as well please :) )
@@JensLarsen yes, that's what i was asking. I thought there would be a full version somewhere :) I really like that small piece you play, I can't stop playing that over and over :)
@@barscanvural9385 It is very time-consuming to write out and record examples if I have to make them complete songs, so I don't do that. If you have access to the chord melody arrangements then I am pretty sure there is an arrangement of Alone Together though, but that is in the original key of Dm.
Hi Jens -- just curious, here: what's with the new-age-y light bulbs that have popped up in your vids. and in those of a lot of other youtuber types? (I see them in Rotem Sivan's vids a lot -- who else? Is it just jazz dudes? Not sure there.) Anyway, -- I mean, they look nice and all, but it seems weird to see them popping up all over like some fad nobody told me about. It kinda makes me nervous that way -- do I need to buy one? Will my kids think less of me? Or are they a sponsor perk or something that I won't have till I reach a million subscribers? Cheers, Drew
I believe they are often called edison bulbs? They are in a lot of YT videos because they are 1 - very warm, so a nice contrast to most key light for separation, 2 - they are mostly dimable which is super useful for practical lights in the background, and they are really cheap :D But even though I only used one for the last few months(?) then this is something that has been around for at least 5 years.
You need to suffer a little for good voiceleading :) I have videos on more stretchy chords, try to search for drop2&4 on the channel? Or check out this playlist which has most of those videos: ruclips.net/video/K2sR0itSxkw/видео.html
Which chord progressions do you find important in minor and did I miss one?
Make your chord progressions more interesting: ruclips.net/video/RGfmYLirg1I/видео.html
Yes, I would like to watch the Major version of this video. I grew up playing rock, then branched into fusion, classical and metal, so there are still a ton of standard jazz progressions I could learn a lot from.
Thanks again for all of the excellent lessons Jens. You rock! Ermm.. You jazz! ^-^
I think you’ve mentioned before is how the Cm/Am7b5/Dm7b5/G7b9 I-VI-II-V turnaround is basically the minor key equivalent of rhythm changes, in standards like “Softly As In A Morning Sunrise” for example. And as with major rhythm changes there are many variations you can make, one thing I like is to make the IV and II chords altered dominants, Cm/A7#9/D7#9/G7#9. This imparts a darker bluesy sound to the progression that I’m fond of.
Thanks for including the Ab7/13 G7b13 C-. The interchangeability of the Dm7b5 and the Ab7/13 was the thing that first let me 'hear' a tritone sub.
I don’t know how many pianists follow you but I am one of them. Your treatment of theory and it’s practical applications very clear and immediately translatable what I’m working on.
Glad you think so 🙂
Jens, the work you’re doing here is top quality on all aspects of the video. Playing, writing, editing and the educational material itself. Take just one thing, the editing. I don’t know if people in general actually know how much work it is to edit a video like this and doing it in such a great way. Always great, thanks Jens and congrats on your outstanding growing RUclips channel. More Jazz to the people!! 💚/E
Thank you Emil! I really appreciate that coming from someone who knows how it works :) Of course, we are two people editing the video, so that makes it a bit easier to get done. Keep swinging!
JAZZ TO THE PEOPLE!!!!!!!
Man this lesson is massive, when I really want to get jazz sounds I come to this channel. You never dissapoint, alway exceed my expectations.
Thank you! :)
Amazing to have a resource like this for free, thanks Jens.
Glad it was helpful!
Nice video Jens, just the right length. If it had been 20 minutes, I probably wouldn't have watched it. I'll definitely watch it a few more times as there is a lot to take in. Some lovely sounding chord progressions here and that's just what I'm looking for. I know loads of chords and understand how they are built but understand less about how they all fit together. That's where you come in. Thanks.
I would appreciate you doing a video on Chord Progressions in Major.
Go for it :)
Thank you for your lessons, you make all of this so much easier to understand.
You're very welcome!
Another quality lesson. Thanks again Jens.
My pleasure!
Great lesson using most of my favorite chords! Yes, please and thank you on the major version.
Thank you, I will keep that in mind 🙂
These videos are of great help to players worldwide...most appreciated. I'm a pro musician on other instruments, looking to guitar for fun. This helps alot.
yes, would welcome a similar treatment of changes in major key songs
Thanks! I will keep that in mind!
Always great Jens! Great lesson! The conceptos are really clear. Thank you! Greetings from Argentina!
Thank you, Gabriel!
Fantastic lesson as always Jens! Mange tak!
Glad you liked it!
Thanks, Jens. One of the videos where the lightbulb finally blinked on for me 😋
You’re welcome 😊
Really insightful, thank you Jens.
You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂
Muchas gracias. Saludos de Ciudad de México!! 🙌
You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂
Hey Jens, really insightful lesson, has opened up lots of possibilities. I really enjoyed the examples you played with the chord melody arrangements, I've been trying to find something like this to help with chord melody work like in your examples. I would so buy a book of arrangements like this if you did one, would appreciate a lesson or two with chord melody if you could.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I do have some material on Chord Melody: jenslarsen.nl/product/chord-melody-survival-kit/ Is the best constructed educational material,
but there is also a playlist of free videos: ruclips.net/video/_prQirfAsKk/видео.html
Hi Jens, another GREAT video, thanks for sharing!! Definitely it would be awesome a similar one for Major cadences.
Thanks Claudio! I will keep that in mind :)
Thanks for the really informative video, Jens! Please do a video for major as well.
Glad you like it 🙂 I will keep that in mind
Santana (my favorite band before I even had my first guitar) used that A minor line cliche in _Oye Como Va_ as well.
Greatest Lesson Brother.
Glad you like it 🙂
Great lesson Jens and that's the kind of stuff I need to work on. That Beautiful Love sounds a lot like Barney Kessel.
Thank you, Tom 🙂
Greetings!
My sincere thanks to your good self for the wonderful sharing!
Stay blessed!
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You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂
omg, great video. sooo useful for beginners such as me. definitely must do another video for chord progressions in major.
Thank you :)
This a great resource video for minor ii7 V7 IM6/7 progression. Watch it at least thrice for full effect. Yes please Jens, a major version would be most propitious. Thanks.
Thank you Pete!
Jens is really such a great teacher!!!
Thank you! I am glad you found it useful! 👍
@@JensLarsen Jens, i have 3 questions related to the jazz guitar road map... i have been learning the triads arpeggios using the CAGED system. So 1st question would be.. which system are you teaching in the road map? (CAGED, 3NPSS, Berklee) question number 2: is there a buying warranty, or something where i can see which method are you using and if i fee confortable with it? :). and last question: are you teaching many positions on the neck or just one which fits all? i mean just one that you can use this knowledge to use it on others. Sorry for the questions but are my 3 doubts regarding this interesting course. Thanks a lot in advance! All the best!
@@ingluissantana Get an invite to check it out and send me an e-mail if you have questions. I am sure that is easier :)
You can request an invitation here: bit.ly/JazzGtRm
Dear Jens, your deserve a nobel price (for musician ;-)). I am advanced but I always learn something from your very well done videos !. I also have a personnal method that I can eventually share with you or at least get your comments. Brgds
Thank you! 😃
Immer wieder Großartig erklärt.Danke aus Erfurt
Glad you like it 🙂
I actually really like that minor scale switching thing for some minor 2 5 1 progressions. So handy and interesting.
Great 🙂
Absolutely please make one for major.
I will keep that in mind 🙂
This is such a great video, well structured and clear and I'm so grateful someone is taking the time to really explain jazz guitar like this.
(only thing to note is at 3:08 the chord name says Fm7, the chord shape is F9 and the chord you're playing is Fm9 ahaha)
Glad you like it!
Thanks yes great video!
You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂
Hi Jens, another amazing lesson. Always learn a ton from your lessons! I'm really contemplating purchasing your course but am just afraid I may not commit to it like always. I really enjoy watching your videos though I usually only understand about 50% of it.
Thank you! I am glad you are interested. If you have questions just shoot me an e-mail :)
Thanks Jens!
You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Like the way you go RIGHT IN on this one...even seems like u guys put the tag "my name is Jens Larsen...learn jazz, make music" a little bit later.. Anyway awesome and very useful topic ...and by the way...I have dismissed Pat Metheny for many many years...after following your lead on jazz guitar..I decided to give him a more matured listen .and dammit...I get it now. Metheny is a great jazz guitarist if for no other reason he has developed HIS voice on guitar...sounding like noone else...using eastern influenced modes, (phrygian?) and minor 2nds and very distinctive picking techniques...Miles use to say that the greatest challenge for any jazz musician was learning to play like yourself. Metheny does it to the max.
Thank you! Metheny is great, but sometimes his group albums are a bit slick 🙂
I would be interested in hearing more about your progression as a rock musician to a jazz musician. What was it what brought you to jazz?
It is not that complicated, I was always curious about other styles of music and since I was already into Blues then hearing Parker play the blues just made sense to me :)
Thanks Jens... I worked this week with a guitarist who had difficulty discerning his leads through minor chords & I don't want to insult him as he is younger & quite talented otherwise... what to do?
tell him to PLEASE go practice? I don't know 😂
I had a student who never ever understood that songs were cyclical. That you **repeat** one part twice and then move to the chorus, bridge, turnaround. Whatever. We would have to start the whole song over if he messed up in the third chorus. I broke it down and we just played 'sections'. I don't know if he really got it, but eventually he was playing in a band for pay.
I would ask your student to explain in each part why it is interesting - to him or to the listener. So maybe then he can identify the moving note or the flow of the chord progression. At root, ask him what he likes about it. What sticks in his mind. If something sounds 'right' or 'wrong' and try to figure out why.
I told my son that country music plays notes ahead [up the neck] from the root. Blues plays them behind [lower on the neck]. That gives you major or minor positions. You have to be able to hear the difference but if you learn it mechanically, you eventually learn to hear it.
When I struggle I play something at half tempo or even quarter tempo. Easier to here
I love your videos
Thank you, Anthony!
Please do a Major version as well. Thanks!
Thank you Richard 🙂 I will keep that in mind
Every time I watch a Jens Larsen video, I feel stupider. Its unbelievable the amount of knowledge this person possesses
Haha! That will pass if you practice and learn some Jazz songs :)
Hey Jens! Great video. Any chance I can get the full pdf to alone together? I'm a patreon but couldn't find it if exists. (And yes, a major version as well please :) )
On Patreon you have the transcription of what I played. I didn't record and transcribe the whole song.
Not sure if that is what you are asking?
@@JensLarsen yes, that's what i was asking. I thought there would be a full version somewhere :) I really like that small piece you play, I can't stop playing that over and over :)
@@barscanvural9385 It is very time-consuming to write out and record examples if I have to make them complete songs, so I don't do that. If you have access to the chord melody arrangements then I am pretty sure there is an arrangement of Alone Together though, but that is in the original key of Dm.
Hi Jens -- just curious, here: what's with the new-age-y light bulbs that have popped up in your vids. and in those of a lot of other youtuber types? (I see them in Rotem Sivan's vids a lot -- who else? Is it just jazz dudes? Not sure there.) Anyway, -- I mean, they look nice and all, but it seems weird to see them popping up all over like some fad nobody told me about. It kinda makes me nervous that way -- do I need to buy one? Will my kids think less of me? Or are they a sponsor perk or something that I won't have till I reach a million subscribers? Cheers, Drew
I believe they are often called edison bulbs? They are in a lot of YT videos because they are 1 - very warm, so a nice contrast to most key light for separation, 2 - they are mostly dimable which is super useful for practical lights in the background, and they are really cheap :D But even though I only used one for the last few months(?) then this is something that has been around for at least 5 years.
Do you have that Alone Together chord solo available as a lesson?
No, that was just something I played for this. You can download what I played though, there is a link in the video description 🙂
@@JensLarsen will do. It’s really nice!
Do you have an dumbed down ADD version
Jens, what is a turn around?
A short chord progression that either loops or take you from the end of a song back to the beginning
Jass Master Jens.
Every time I hear the andalusian cadance, all I ever think of is "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby" and almost always "Stray Cat Strut"
True! and hit the road Jack :)
Check out this one --- Django Reinhardt - "Blue Drag"
And Sultans of sw... oh sorry, wrong channel 😂
@@HeadbangoO 😂👍
6:22 the first chord ouch my hand 🙂
It would be awesome if you made a video exploring these long stretch chords
You need to suffer a little for good voiceleading :)
I have videos on more stretchy chords, try to search for drop2&4 on the channel? Or check out this playlist which has most of those videos: ruclips.net/video/K2sR0itSxkw/видео.html
2:16 Personal note.
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Big big biggest
Thank you 🙂
compress it please
too much low mid in your voice too
slowlyer, you speak and you speak and you speak. which is nice, but slow down, and your voice is to nasal, please eq it