Everything I wanted to know about tonic minor all in one place. THANKS! (Thx too for the blog post on this. Sometimes I can't watch a video and good ol' fashion text is just what I need!)
Gut stuff. Thank you for making these concepts digestible and relevant always. I always seem to come back to your channel. I bought a Bebop guitar course, but to make the concepts usable, I am here again!
I can't believe that a material with very important information that is found for free on RUclips can change my guitar language in such a way; Jens does not make pretentious content but totally educational and usable. I looked for information to address the melodic minor with different approaches and I didn't find anything as strong in melodic terms as these examples that you played Jens.
talking about the triads within the melodic minor was a breakthrough for me! thanks. This is what I will use to SEE the scale in a more complex way as I play.
I was told in my early years that melodic minor was really a classical thing, not worth investing time in if I want to learn theory for guitar. I can't believe how wrong they were! I always knew there was a gap in my playing, even though I've mastered the modes, the diminished scale, and harmonic minor. WOW what a huge gap it is! It's the sound I've been searching for. And all I've got to do to get it is what I did to learn the other 3! Perfect. Thank you Jens! Will be referring to this lesson and others of yours a lot I think.
Love your channel and melodic minor(: mark Levine's jazz theory book got me hooked on melodic minor, but when I asked my teachers about it at the time, they knew very little(melodic minor harmony, not it's use in classical). Please keep making videos on melodic minor(:
Jens You don t know how much useful are your lessons for one like me that has just approached the jazz study in a different way not only about scales . You ve opened my horizons. :) Grazie Jens
Jens. I love your videos. You are one of the best Instructors, and you have a great way of relaying information. You really know how to enforce the importance of application. Thanks.
Hi Troy!I actually have quite a few lessons on that. Here's one on the altered scale: ruclips.net/video/51MCFyXYyas/видео.html Another option: All the examples in this lesson are on a tonic minor chord, So a I in a minor II V I. You can just add a II V infront of the examples.Hope that helps a bit! 😀
Thank you, Jens. Eventually I've figured out a hint to study melodic minor diatonic arpeggios - they are like major arpeggios, but with lowered third. So some of them, like ii-7, V7 or vii-halfdim7 stays the same, because they don't have b3. In other ones we just assume b3 - so IVmaj7 become IV7, because 7th of this chord is (4 6 1) b3, and so on. Maybe it isn't meaningful harmonically, just a way to figure them out on the instrument when you pretty familiar with major diatonic.
Great lesson, really how to learn any scale. A few ideas I haven't thought about before when learning a scale like the sus chord exercise. Also I got an idea for a lesson, what about one on melodic interpretation? I think that would be interesting although it's more of a personal thing and maybe hard to define (atleast with my understanding) but maybe like show the original melody and then a few examples of how you could interpret it differently and maybe your thought process on it. To me that's something I kind of just do, there is maybe a basis, but not so much thinking about knowledge or techniques, what I have under my fingers or subconscious just happens naturally.
Thanks Bradley,not often I find something you haven't checked out already! 😀 Melodic variation! It is a good topic, but to be honest I have only worked on it with learning by doing and tryin out stuff, so I don't really know too much about it. If I have time I will read the Schönberg theory book and I think he actually has a chapter on this that is describing it in a more systematic way. Who knows? I would certainly like to check it out in the future because I am curious. You can also look up the book yourself?
Hi Jens, you do really great tutorials. The way you look at ideas make sense to me. I have a more general question. I have been playing a long time as a career and wish I could keep all that experience at my fingertips. Do you have a suggestion for how to retain information you've learned over the years? I want to be able to combine new ideas with what I already have ingrained. I want to be more interesting at my gigs but stay grounded too. Thanks, John
+Musical Excursions Thank you John! That's a difficult question to answer. To me it is not so much about learning specific lines or phrases but more about learning how to use something, and if you look at it like that you vocabulary is more flexible and easier to remember. Does that make sense?
Yes. That does make sense. I always make sure I understand relationships ( chords, scale,harmony,). I try to use the choice of notes tastefully. I guess it's more of a philosophical question on how to always be in the moment while tapping info from the past and striving for new things at the same time. Flexibility is is a great way to put it. Thanks Jens.
Jens...yeah ... WOW WOW ...ears opened wide...soooo much stuff going on here...its always surprising (for me) what "triggers hearing"...I seem to enjoy music most when I re-discover the past greats ..melody etc (this lesson triggered "pop sensibilities"..and shows how close jazz really is (diatonic triads etc) I hear ABBA... D F#G G#A D D(using the G# as tritone) Stevie Wonder.. I just called to say... D F#GG (the sum mer breeze)...hello dolly etc etc etc...so hey..yeah double wow...its like I just discovered the F# as M3 !!!! ....but its more like hearing the bottom of EM on top of Am...and that "C as out"....maybe as #5 ?...yes....those diatonic triads really are telling....placing of those 1/2 dims (G#A BC...etc and that stacked major (C+) ...and Im not even 2 minutes in !!!!...I cant wait to get to the Sus4 stuff...!!! yeah...this lesson is a few years for me..easy ( a lifetime) ...its like someone left the door to the ear candy shop open and went on holiday..!!!!..Thank you so much...your lessons have altered my universe.. such clarity (spelling it out for us)...and your methodology....it makes a huge difference...it makes the tough stuff....FUN
@@JensLarsen hey yeah..I finally worked out what I was hearing...Bm as mii D F# G#A (meet george jetson) G# (M7 of V(A)..as b5 of D ..surely those F# and G# dims ( as outside of hitting that warm melody G there (as a4th (the Stevie Wonder line I was hearing right next to it)...it makes perfect sense when one contextualises via the diatonic triads etc (ie.. Bm C+ DM EM etc ..far less confusing)...where would YOU generally use this m/M form ? .. or maybe that is a stupid question ?...as surely it works over every mode contained within it...( I see the dim symmetry ..G#A BC) ...DM EM...am I making it hard ? (just use it as Am?)...it seems to be about where one chooses to hear the BC...I dont know...maybe use it as a Amii in G ?....anyway..it seems 1/2 step out (G#A)...or mVs? ...M3 as 1 with a b9 ? etc...maybe thats the beauty of it? Ill certainly go and patreon you...this lesson surely has expanded my ears (Im sure the diatonic triad exercises (doing the work) will sort me out)...and maybe the sus4 sounds ? thanks heaps for all your posts..a veritable "fort knox" archive of top shelf gold jazz guitar resources. Im very thankful of your posts...and pleased to support your efforts..Cheers
Very informative video. I’ve been using books the past year or so over videos because I can understand reading more than listening. I saw a few you wrote that were on Amazon. Would any of those cover this topic specifically? Thanks!
I was wondering when can I see you play your lessons with that epi hanging on the wall.is that a Sheraton? I have the same model too. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.....iam learning a lot from your teaching.....
You're welcome Jay! You can hear me play the Sheraton here: ruclips.net/video/AVsJMLqCUaY/видео.html There are a few different videos some are a bit old :)
hi; first, thanks for your videos; i realize, after watching this one on melodic minor, that I need to know it much more (chords, arpeggios, phrases) Could you give me a set of well known standards that are based on melodic minor tonalities ( keys); thanks
You're very welcome! Tonalities are major or minor, so there are no songs specifically or only in Melodic minor. Melodic minor is just a part of the minor spectrum (hope that doesn't sound too pretentious..) There are lots of songs where melodic minor is found, basically any song in minor. Try Autumn Leaves, Beautiful Love or Love Me or Leave me. A song that has melodic minor in the melody: Listen to Chelsea Bridge or , Nica's Dream. Chelsea bridge eventually turns out to be major, but starts with a clear melodic minor sound... Hope that helps :)
yes it helps thanks ; would you say that in jazz, in a ii v i progression, it is acceptable to play melodic minor notes on the ii and v, although the chords resolve to a major chords ? if is the case, in seems to me that in jazz, there is a lot of freedom in the choice of notes when improvising. am i correct ?
There is freedom to chose scales, but in a tonal cadence like a II V I you want to start with knowing it in and out with the straight ahead choices IMO.
No prob man. You took your time to do this vid to teach people some useful about melodic minor and nobody forced you to do so. So we the viewers are the ones who have to thank you for sharing your knowlegde. Have a long and happy life bro
I am an intermediate player . I love this scale but I find studying and especially fingering it very hard to learn. Is there some sort of logic behind the fingerings of example 2 and 3? The leaps from 5th fret to 9th fret on the same string really confuse me. Please do not view my question as criticism, I absolutely love your lessons and find them full of great information. But I try to study the melodic minor and always lose focus en before I know it I am playing pentatonics again..:) thanks a million !
Sure, Rogier! They are fairly basic diatonic triads or arpeggios? You can maybe try to play them in your own scale system, I take it that does not have those stretches. That said, it is a major 3rd which is one fret more than the minor pentatonic box, so it is not in any way crazy.
Jens, thank you kindly for your answer. I will start hacking away at your melodic minor study. is there any way I can make a donation to you? Do you have a bitcoin adress?
These are very difficult licks with unexpected turns, some of the hardest stuff i've come across here. My best advice is to break it up into 3 pieces, then it makes sense.
Thanks Jens - can you recommend a standard with some relatively slow chords changes that requires the use of a lot of melodic minor? (I'm sure there are lots...)
Hi Jens. Big fan of your channel! Question for you. Is there a "standard" melodic minor pentatonic scale? (that can be played in 5 positions and works well over many voicings). I can't really find anything about it. I've seen conflicting things. One person says 1, 2, b3, 5, 6. Another person says 1, b3, 4, 5, 7. Your thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks! There isn't really a standard melodic minor pentatonic. I guess if you had to capture the important notes in the scale you would end up with 1 b3 5 6 7 but to be honest I don't think the sound needs to be pentatonic (most sounds aren't anyway)
Hey Jens, I'm sure you've answered the question a thousand times, but I can't seem to find it: which guitar is that? I know it's an Ibanez but can't remember which one
Geez so many ideas in one video the problem is too much music theory i know badics but i find hard to follow his therminology i will come back later to this video when I know more music theory!
Everything I wanted to know about tonic minor all in one place. THANKS! (Thx too for the blog post on this. Sometimes I can't watch a video and good ol' fashion text is just what I need!)
Great! Yes, I think I would also prefer that if I was really trying to absorb the stuff.
This might well very be the most important lesson to ever appear on RUclips! Thanks Jens this is fantastic information.
Glad you think so, Ed!
Gut stuff. Thank you for making these concepts digestible and relevant always. I always seem to come back to your channel. I bought a Bebop guitar course, but to make the concepts usable, I am here again!
I can't believe that a material with very important information that is found for free on RUclips can change my guitar language in such a way; Jens does not make pretentious content but totally educational and usable.
I looked for information to address the melodic minor with different approaches and I didn't find anything as strong in melodic terms as these examples that you played Jens.
That was a great lesson with some very nice, interesting and uncommon melodic sounding lines. Thank you!
Thank you very much Garry! Really glad you like it 🙂
talking about the triads within the melodic minor was a breakthrough for me! thanks. This is what I will use to SEE the scale in a more complex way as I play.
+Bflatest Thank you! Triads are indeed a great resource when using any scale ☺️
i had been looking at melodic minor as a scale only and my solos were very scale sounding NOW I will break it up with triad riffs too
+Bflatest That's certainly the way to go! ☺️
Thanks Jens. One of the best explanations of mel min scale I have ever seen.
You're very welcome Joe! I am glad you found it useful!
Jens Larsen Now I have to go back and make sure I can do this for all the other scales! Lots of homework! 😊
Yes, I guess it's like that. Sorry... 😀
I was told in my early years that melodic minor was really a classical thing, not worth investing time in if I want to learn theory for guitar. I can't believe how wrong they were! I always knew there was a gap in my playing, even though I've mastered the modes, the diminished scale, and harmonic minor. WOW what a huge gap it is! It's the sound I've been searching for. And all I've got to do to get it is what I did to learn the other 3! Perfect. Thank you Jens! Will be referring to this lesson and others of yours a lot I think.
That's great to hear Ross! Melodic minor is such a beautiful sound in so many places!
Love your channel and melodic minor(: mark Levine's jazz theory book got me hooked on melodic minor, but when I asked my teachers about it at the time, they knew very little(melodic minor harmony, not it's use in classical). Please keep making videos on melodic minor(:
Thank you! Will do 🙂
Another amazingly helpful video! Thank you so much Jens.
+evinite You are very welcome!
Fantastic lesson, wonderful teaching as always.
Thank you Mr. Jens.
You're very welcome! Glad you found it useful!
Jens the best jazz master ! Thanks for your free lessons
Thank you david leon I am glad you found it useful! 👍
Jens You don t know how much useful are your lessons for one like me that has just approached the jazz study in a different way not only about scales . You ve opened my horizons. :) Grazie Jens
Really nice, concise. Great advice. Went through it thrice.
You're very welcome! And good at rhyming! 😁
Jens. I love your videos. You are one of the best Instructors, and you have a great way of relaying information. You really know how to enforce the importance of application. Thanks.
Thank you very much Keith! Makes my day that you like the lessons and understand what I am trying to do with them! 🙂
Very Nice Indeed --- Thank You
Good as usually!!
keep it master Larsen!
Very goog work.
Thanks a lot 4 share such knowledge!
You are very welcome! I am really glad to hear that you can use it!
Fantastic! Thanks Jens!
You're very welcome!
Thanks
Jens, you a hero
Thank you Matthew! 🙂
I know melodic minor and it's chords but your video and pdf gives me a solid way to practice to use it at will when improvising Thanks
You're very welcome Anthony! 😀 For me the sus4 triads are actually something fairly new, I never spent that much time on that until a few months ago.
How do you do it when the seventh chord just flies bye
You need to practice until it is a part of your vocabulary, that does not happen overnight 😀
thank you jens for this lesson. I appreciate you :D
You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂
Jens, great lesson. It would have nice if you showed us how to use he scale in 2-5-1 progressions and over what chord the scale is used. Thanks!
Hi Troy!I actually have quite a few lessons on that. Here's one on the altered scale: ruclips.net/video/51MCFyXYyas/видео.html
Another option: All the examples in this lesson are on a tonic minor chord, So a I in a minor II V I. You can just add a II V infront of the examples.Hope that helps a bit! 😀
this lesson was very dense but very cool - and good stretching :- )
Thank you very much 🙂👍 Hope you don't get in trouble with your hands 🙂
Jens, I hope you know that you're the man!
haha! Thank you Kent! I am really glad you appreciate it!
Thank you, Jens. Eventually I've figured out a hint to study melodic minor diatonic arpeggios - they are like major arpeggios, but with lowered third. So some of them, like ii-7, V7 or vii-halfdim7 stays the same, because they don't have b3. In other ones we just assume b3 - so IVmaj7 become IV7, because 7th of this chord is (4 6 1) b3, and so on. Maybe it isn't meaningful harmonically, just a way to figure them out on the instrument when you pretty familiar with major diatonic.
wonderfull!!very useful!!!thank you so a lot!!!!!!
+greeneyes80614 You are very welcome! 👍☺️
Wow this is just infinite amount information thank U much
Haha! You are very welcome! Hope you don't drown in scale exercises :)
Ok muchas gracias Jens ese video no lo tenia lo voy a estudiar un saludo desde CDMexico
That's great! Hope you find what you are looking for! The playlist is quite extensive :)
Been playing for years this was so helpful, cheers for uploading.
Very happy to hear that! 🙂
Wow, that's gonna take a lot of practicing!
One step at the time, I am sure you'll get there! 😀
Thanks! You're awesome!
You're very welcome Steven!
Brilliant lesson Jens..thank you! Got yourself a new subscriber.. :)
Thank you very much Huirua! 🙂
Great lesson and content Jens! That third "sus4 triad" is the three notes that John Coltrane is playing at the intro to "A Love Supreme"
Thanks Frank! I didn't think about that :)
Thats it just checked, over that Emaj intro
Jens really digging the "sus4 voicings". Lower the F# to F natural and we get Harmonic Minor voicings
Exactly! 🙂
tks ! awesome!!
You're very welcome Franko! I am glad you like it! 🙂
I'm going to quit my job and start the Buddhist Temple of Jens Larsen Jazz Guitar. Entry participants will meditate on a melodic minor scale.
Great! Let me know how that works out for you! 😄
What is your favourite way to use melodic minor? Tonic, Altered, Lydian Dom7th?
the 3. minor 6 or 7M dominant altered non altered dominant really useful
Indeed! Great sounds all three! 😀
all are nice. But altered is particularly tasty due to the tension it creates
Altered is certainly interesting! I actually think that to me the tonic minor sound is the most beautiful one
i think of solar of course , the weird point for me is the use on m7 chord because of the tension generated by the 7M in this case
love it
Thank you Siddharth Gautam! 🙂
Great lesson, really how to learn any scale. A few ideas I haven't thought about before when learning a scale like the sus chord exercise. Also I got an idea for a lesson, what about one on melodic interpretation? I think that would be interesting although it's more of a personal thing and maybe hard to define (atleast with my understanding) but maybe like show the original melody and then a few examples of how you could interpret it differently and maybe your thought process on it. To me that's something I kind of just do, there is maybe a basis, but not so much thinking about knowledge or techniques, what I have under my fingers or subconscious just happens naturally.
Thanks Bradley,not often I find something you haven't checked out already! 😀
Melodic variation! It is a good topic, but to be honest I have only worked on it with learning by doing and tryin out stuff, so I don't really know too much about it. If I have time I will read the Schönberg theory book and I think he actually has a chapter on this that is describing it in a more systematic way. Who knows? I would certainly like to check it out in the future because I am curious. You can also look up the book yourself?
Came here due to Sean Daniels shoutout, and I'm not disappointed :)
Thanks Luc! I am glad you like the video! Sean Rules! 😁
He sure does. Question: by your accent and name i guessed you're german, is that the case? :)
+Luc Lo Nope, I am (very?) Danish ☺️
similar language, counts :D
Ammazing Minor jazz beautiful
You're very welcome! Thanks for checking it out!
Im so tired of being stuck in the major scale!! thank you.
+Francisco Castillo You're very welcome Francisco! ☺️
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Hi Jens, you do really great tutorials. The way you look at ideas make sense to me. I have a more general question. I have been playing a long time as a career and wish I could keep all that experience at my fingertips. Do you have a suggestion for how to retain information you've learned over the years? I want to be able to combine new ideas with what I already have ingrained. I want to be more interesting at my gigs but stay grounded too. Thanks, John
+Musical Excursions Thank you John! That's a difficult question to answer.
To me it is not so much about learning specific lines or phrases but more about learning how to use something, and if you look at it like that you vocabulary is more flexible and easier to remember.
Does that make sense?
Yes. That does make sense. I always make sure I understand relationships ( chords, scale,harmony,). I try to use the choice of notes tastefully. I guess it's more of a philosophical question on how to always be in the moment while tapping info from the past and striving for new things at the same time. Flexibility is is a great way to put it. Thanks Jens.
You're very welcome John! I hope you can implement it into your playing and get something out of that way of thinking!
WOW!
Glad you like it! (at least I hope that is the case :D )
Jens...yeah ... WOW WOW ...ears opened wide...soooo much stuff going on here...its always surprising (for me) what "triggers hearing"...I seem to enjoy music most when I re-discover the past greats ..melody etc (this lesson triggered "pop sensibilities"..and shows how close jazz really is (diatonic triads etc) I hear ABBA... D F#G G#A D D(using the G# as tritone) Stevie Wonder.. I just called to say... D F#GG (the sum mer breeze)...hello dolly etc etc etc...so hey..yeah double wow...its like I just discovered the F# as M3 !!!! ....but its more like hearing the bottom of EM on top of Am...and that "C as out"....maybe as #5 ?...yes....those diatonic triads really are telling....placing of those 1/2 dims (G#A BC...etc and that stacked major (C+) ...and Im not even 2 minutes in !!!!...I cant wait to get to the Sus4 stuff...!!! yeah...this lesson is a few years for me..easy ( a lifetime) ...its like someone left the door to the ear candy shop open and went on holiday..!!!!..Thank you so much...your lessons have altered my universe.. such clarity (spelling it out for us)...and your methodology....it makes a huge difference...it makes the tough stuff....FUN
@@JensLarsen hey yeah..I finally worked out what I was hearing...Bm as mii D F# G#A (meet george jetson) G# (M7 of V(A)..as b5 of D ..surely those F# and G# dims ( as outside of hitting that warm melody G there (as a4th (the Stevie Wonder line I was hearing right next to it)...it makes perfect sense when one contextualises via the diatonic triads etc (ie.. Bm C+ DM EM etc ..far less confusing)...where would YOU generally use this m/M form ? .. or maybe that is a stupid question ?...as surely it works over every mode contained within it...( I see the dim symmetry ..G#A BC) ...DM EM...am I making it hard ? (just use it as Am?)...it seems to be about where one chooses to hear the BC...I dont know...maybe use it as a Amii in G ?....anyway..it seems 1/2 step out (G#A)...or mVs? ...M3 as 1 with a b9 ? etc...maybe thats the beauty of it? Ill certainly go and patreon you...this lesson surely has expanded my ears (Im sure the diatonic triad exercises (doing the work) will sort me out)...and maybe the sus4 sounds ? thanks heaps for all your posts..a veritable "fort knox" archive of top shelf gold jazz guitar resources. Im very thankful of your posts...and pleased to support your efforts..Cheers
Respect!
Glad you like it, Andrew!
Very informative video. I’ve been using books the past year or so over videos because I can understand reading more than listening. I saw a few you wrote that were on Amazon. Would any of those cover this topic specifically? Thanks!
InderdAAd!! Goed zo en dank je!! Melodischer kan haast niet ;-) Ga door,ga dOOr!!
+Paul Gerards Dankjewel Paul!
fantastic video
Glad you like it!
Do you have a video on superimposing chords?
+Reiley Williams Several, but it also depends on what you consider super-imposing. Is using a Cmaj7 arpeggio over an Am7 super imposition?
I was wondering when can I see you play your lessons with that epi hanging on the wall.is that a Sheraton? I have the same model too. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.....iam learning a lot from your teaching.....
You're welcome Jay! You can hear me play the Sheraton here: ruclips.net/video/AVsJMLqCUaY/видео.html
There are a few different videos some are a bit old :)
Great!!!!
Thank you! 🙂
Awesome lesson video !!! it,s so Fantastic Melodic minor lesson !! I need your help for my Guitar with your every lesson ~~ ^^
Thank you! Glad yu find it useful! 👍🙂
I,m so happy at the find your lesson !!! gold mine~~ haha I will study hard with your lesson !!!
hi; first, thanks for your videos; i realize, after watching this one on melodic minor, that I need to know it much more (chords, arpeggios, phrases) Could you give me a set of well known standards that are based on melodic minor tonalities ( keys); thanks
You're very welcome!
Tonalities are major or minor, so there are no songs specifically or only in Melodic minor. Melodic minor is just a part of the minor spectrum (hope that doesn't sound too pretentious..)
There are lots of songs where melodic minor is found, basically any song in minor. Try Autumn Leaves, Beautiful Love or Love Me or Leave me.
A song that has melodic minor in the melody: Listen to Chelsea Bridge or , Nica's Dream. Chelsea bridge eventually turns out to be major, but starts with a clear melodic minor sound...
Hope that helps :)
yes it helps thanks ; would you say that in jazz, in a ii v i progression, it is acceptable to play melodic minor notes on the ii and v, although the chords resolve to a major chords ? if is the case, in seems to me that in jazz, there is a lot of freedom in the choice of notes when improvising. am i correct ?
There is freedom to chose scales, but in a tonal cadence like a II V I you want to start with knowing it in and out with the straight ahead choices IMO.
so metal :)
Haha! It certainly is!
Killer dude. Nailed it .not one piece of information thats not helpful
Thanks man! That's very nice of you!
No prob man. You took your time to do this vid to teach people some useful about melodic minor and nobody forced you to do so. So we the viewers are the ones who have to thank you for sharing your knowlegde. Have a long and happy life bro
Fuhk Yumam i
My teacher just gave me a bunch of stuff to learn and this is all very useful
I am an intermediate player . I love this scale but I find studying and especially fingering it very hard to learn. Is there some sort of logic behind the fingerings of example 2 and 3? The leaps from 5th fret to 9th fret on the same string really confuse me. Please do not view my question as criticism, I absolutely love your lessons and find them full of great information. But I try to study the melodic minor and always lose focus en before I know it I am playing pentatonics again..:)
thanks a million !
Sure, Rogier! They are fairly basic diatonic triads or arpeggios? You can maybe try to play them in your own scale system, I take it that does not have those stretches. That said, it is a major 3rd which is one fret more than the minor pentatonic box, so it is not in any way crazy.
Jens, thank you kindly for your answer. I will start hacking away at your melodic minor study. is there any way I can make a donation to you? Do you have a bitcoin adress?
Thank you very much Rogier! Let me know how it goes!
You can donate via the PayPal donate button on my website, or check out my Patreon Page :)
excellent lesson...random question but are you wearing an Adam Levy "Guitar Tips" T-shirt?
+shiningzimra Thank you! Yes it is! I support Adam on Patreon ☺️
When do we get to see that strat in action?
How about now: ruclips.net/video/zQjdDuK3g-4/видео.html
or the video on jazz tone on a strat: ruclips.net/video/-XXTNv5W3GE/видео.html
@@JensLarsen yes!
dig the channel
good work
out of curiosity, what is the pedal thing beneath the guitar neck in the background?
be safe, be happy, work hard
peace \m/
Thank you! It is an @fractalaudiosystems AX8. Great unit, modelling amp and effects, that is making all the sound you hear in my videos from guitar
@@JensLarsen thnx, keep on picking \m/\m/
Yes..!🎼🎵🙃
Thank you 🙂
These are very difficult licks with unexpected turns, some of the hardest stuff i've come across here. My best advice is to break it up into 3 pieces, then it makes sense.
Isn't it necessary to play natural minor descending?
No it isn't. In fact in Jazz we almost never do 🙂
Jens Larsen Thanks, Jens! For the reply and for making my days as a guitarist brighter 😁
You're welcome! If you have any suggestions for topics or things you are looking for the feel free to let me know 👍
Thanks Jens - can you recommend a standard with some relatively slow chords changes that requires the use of a lot of melodic minor? (I'm sure there are lots...)
Minor blues? 🙂
@@JensLarsen hehe that simple.. Thanks :)
That or ballads like You don't know what love is, Chelsea Bridge or Soul Eyes
Who is the Jens Larsen for piano here on youtube?
Thanks! That's quite a compliment! 🙂 Sorry, that I don't know...
Can you use these lines over D7?
Yes, but it will be most effective in the places where you would use a Lydian dominant, so D7 as a tritone sub, a bVII and similar situations 🙂
muito bom artigo obrigado
Glad you like it Raimundo! 👍🙂
Hi Jens. Big fan of your channel! Question for you. Is there a "standard" melodic minor pentatonic scale? (that can be played in 5 positions and works well over many voicings). I can't really find anything about it. I've seen conflicting things. One person says 1, 2, b3, 5, 6. Another person says 1, b3, 4, 5, 7. Your thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks! There isn't really a standard melodic minor pentatonic. I guess if you had to capture the important notes in the scale you would end up with 1 b3 5 6 7 but to be honest I don't think the sound needs to be pentatonic (most sounds aren't anyway)
Can you please explain finger patterns slowly? Use numbers
We already talked about this :)
@@JensLarsen is there a video?
Hey Jens, I'm sure you've answered the question a thousand times, but I can't seem to find it: which guitar is that? I know it's an Ibanez but can't remember which one
+Nicolas Arango No worries Nicolas! It's an Ibanez AS2630 from 1977 ☺️
Well, i'll have to settle with an AS93
+Nicolas Arango You can find 2630's 2nd hand from time to time, they are not that expensive
Geez so many ideas in one video the problem is too much music theory i know badics but i find hard to follow his therminology i will come back later to this video when I know more music theory!
Sure! No problem David! You can always leave a comment if you have a question! 🙂
My brain Is gong to explode :P: LOL
You'll get there!
J.R. Goldman I’m just scraping mine off the wall right now....
Are finger patterns like this?
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Very clear instructions , thanks Ksaxman.com
Thank you Keith! I am glad you found it useful! 👍
Any advice for fusion licks in A harmonic minor? I got some funky riffs and groovy rhythms but have no idea about how to play the leads
What chord are you using it on?
@@JensLarsen Am - F7 - E7
@@ze-ce.cra_ You should only use harmonic minor on the E7 chord in that progression 🙂
@@JensLarsen oh wow, so I should use scale interchanges? 😓 Welp I'm not very good at it, but I'll try. Thanks a lot! 👍👍
@@ze-ce.cra_ Go for it! :)
Is Jens Larsen using a 3NPS scale??? Not something you see every video 🤯
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Thank you
Half the battle is knowing when it's gonna start in. A count in would be helpful
It's not a sight reading exercise 😁
So you like tobacco bursts...
So you had a hard time learning melodic minor from this video and looked at the guitars instead? 😂
everything's fine until you speak about quartal and sus.. : (
What is the problem with that? 🙂
Jens Larsen guess I have to spend some time on this kind of visualization I’m not use to 🙂 thanks for posting and share cool things!