At 2:20, Always, always, always ! For ANY Scale that you want to use in a Solo - you will want to check out its Diatonic Chords and Diatonic Arpeggios. You teach a lot of great things Jens. This comment is one of my favourites. It's so powerful ! When I was a kid, I used to try and solo with a Major Scale straight up and down - and wonder why it sounded so boring !? Wicked ! 🤘
You 're really a mine of information specially on this melodic minor blues style which is not often discussed. This said, I have enough material to keep me busy till the end of my life ! :) Tak vor de
Since both the IV, and V chords of melodic minor are dominants, It’s great for neo-blues tunes (and sections of tunes) that vamp between dominants a whole step apart, like Killer Joe, Inchworm, Baby’s Callin Me Home (Steve Miller). It’s a way to break out from just playing blues against them.
That natural 6th on a minor blues is quite a strong sound to me for whatever reason so I tend to use it for occasional effect while soloing mostly out of harmonic minor. Guess if I get back to playing I should explore melodic minor more for soloing.
yup m6th arpeggio, also the m6thadd9 arpeggio. 7th arpeggio in there too, and pentatonic, and a Melodic minor 5 note whole tone variant scale, I call the Melodic minor pentatonic. gotta love the melodic minor.
Hey Jens, why do you even have that pedal board behind you and I also notice in your other videos that you use expensive amps or modeller? I know that you mostly play jazz, and most of the time you play in clean channel with little to no effect, so what's the point of having such gear?? Maybe having such gear is useful if you play jazz funk fusion or play metheny style jazz where he uses synth-like guitar effect Sorry, just asking, no offense
Because it is extremely practical for recording or playing soft live while feeling like a 100W tube amp on ten. It also has really solid reverbs and delays built in which are two effects I use almost all the time (if you listen to my sound you should be able to tell that most of the time there is reverb and a slightly modulated delay) I can also bring a twin reverrb and a massive pedal board to a gig, but it ony weighs 15 kgs with the powered moniter. Another advantage is that I don't have to rely on incompetent people placing mic's badly in front of the amp and just handing them two XLR's is enough of a pattern interrupt for them that I usually sound great. And of course, I am also equipped to do other types of gigs than Jazz with this rig and only bring another guitar. Does that help explain it? From the list above I can't imagine anyone not going this route if they have to record themselves and do many gigs, it is so incredibly consistent and easy :D
I am a musician, so I've pretty much played any gigs that I got hired to do, but besides Jazz it is mostly subbing in Pop, Soul and Funk bands or sometimes projects that are closer to musical repertoire
uah! 🐻👍💥🎸💥... but, the name of all that chords! it is really a big, huge mess for me, i m Italian and so, sigh! sob! i must slow down the speed of the video ... i miss the dear names of the notes DO, RE, MI, FA ... always in english you say "e" but is A, LA, you say 'i' but is E, MI... this drive me crazy ... and after that they came: flat nine, sharp eleven, augmented major minor seven !!! haaarrrghh! 😱😱😱🤪😭😱... anyway great video... i m also learning Anglicorum barbaricum lingua 🤭😋😜😂
At 2:20, Always, always, always ! For ANY Scale that you want to use in a Solo - you will want to check out its Diatonic Chords and Diatonic Arpeggios. You teach a lot of great things Jens. This comment is one of my favourites. It's so powerful ! When I was a kid, I used to try and solo with a Major Scale straight up and down - and wonder why it sounded so boring !? Wicked ! 🤘
That was a great shot at 0:22, placing the guitar in playing position. The little things!
Haha! Thanks 🙂 an inspired moment with editing
Another awesome video Jens!! So inspiring to hear your killer phrases on my track 🔥🔥 Thanks!
Thanks Jacob! Always great to work with you :)
@@JensLarsen right back at ya
You 're really a mine of information specially on this melodic minor blues style which is not often discussed. This said, I have enough material to keep me busy till the end of my life ! :) Tak vor de
Melodic Minor is where it's at for the blues! Great work!
Thanks RC :)
@@JensLarsen My pleasure!
Learn some basic Melodic Minor skills:
This is Why Melodic Minor Is Awesome - ruclips.net/video/DWRAJukOgTI/видео.html
The Eric Clapton of Jazz, definate must watch all videos for Jazz instruction
Since both the IV, and V chords of melodic minor are dominants, It’s great for neo-blues tunes (and sections of tunes) that vamp between dominants a whole step apart, like Killer Joe, Inchworm, Baby’s Callin Me Home (Steve Miller). It’s a way to break out from just playing blues against them.
Thanks for bringing my attention to the sus triads on the melodic minor. Not something I ever practiced ! Great !
You're very welcome! Go for it :)
Thanks for the tabs, gonna dig into your channel more.
Glad you like them! Go for it :)
Great as always, Jens. Stay safe
Thank you, Dan
Quist has great backing tracks
This is a great lesson, I have been doing a Melodic minor study.
Legendary guitarist
Okay, my morning practice is set. Thanks, Jens.
Go for it!
Excellent!
Glad you liked it!
Very useful stuff! Thanks for the video!
Love your in depth tutorials. Thanks!
Thank you! Glad to hear that 🙂
Makes good sense Jens, thanks!
Maravillosa lección, con muchas cosas interesantes para aprender. Muchas gracias maestro.
Glad you like it!
That natural 6th on a minor blues is quite a strong sound to me for whatever reason so I tend to use it for occasional effect while soloing mostly out of harmonic minor. Guess if I get back to playing I should explore melodic minor more for soloing.
You certainly should :)
Good lesson TY Jens
Glad you like it 🙂
Best teacher. !!!!
Thanks again Jens!
Thanks. Another great lesson.
Love your channel Jens, although I play bass, I really find it helpful when it comes to improvisation. Thanks
Thanks! Really glad to hear that :)
Love ❤️ super video ❤️🙏🙏❤️🙏🎼🎵🎶🎸✌️🍀👌🇮🇱
awesome lesson
yup m6th arpeggio, also the m6thadd9 arpeggio. 7th arpeggio in there too, and pentatonic, and a Melodic minor 5 note whole tone variant scale, I call the Melodic minor pentatonic. gotta love the melodic minor.
"I am not at all a nerd!" Funny!
😁🙏
Hello Jens Larsen I have just sign up as a Patreon
Great! See you over there :)
Perfect
ottimo !!
Great content as always, just one remark, should it be f# instead of g in the last measure of the diatonic chords? at aprox 2min 48 in the video?
First time hearing the overdrive from you haha.
Then you should listen to my albums :)
This is the sound I have been trying to really capture, do you have an in-depth course on this?
Thanks! I have a few more lessons on melodic minor, ruclips.net/video/DWRAJukOgTI/видео.html
and some webstore lessons on Minor Blues as well.
I really like your lesson, why dont you make a video and play a full song, i do like to watch that, cheers
Just have a look on the channel, there are songs and concert videos as well
What guitar and amp are you using. Sounds great. Thank you.
Thank you! It is my Ibanez AS2630 and a Fractal Audio AX8
Great! A question though, when do I need to check out diatonic chords and arpeggios for the scales I want to use?
As soon as you can play it
@@JensLarsen oh ok so basically ALWAYS
@@YQN2149 Hahaha
What great lesson !! Just a question..what pick do you use? Dunlop? Thanks Mathieu
Chicken picks badass 3.2 🙂
@@JensLarsen thanks!
I will try it but 3.2 is very heavy 😱
@@loumat62 Ok, those were the ones I liked :)
@@JensLarsen thanks for your answers ! I'll try it
wow
Im really struggling on how to get better at changing arpeggio on each chord changes. Any tips please?
Practice playing towards the next chord using target notes :)
@@JensLarsen Thanks, you videos are really helping me. I just need to work on using arpeggios in my solos and not just scales.
Sus4 is also in Generic Modalty comoression what deserves alo to be a topic I suppose....
Hey Jens, why do you even have that pedal board behind you and I also notice in your other videos that you use expensive amps or modeller?
I know that you mostly play jazz, and most of the time you play in clean channel with little to no effect, so what's the point of having such gear??
Maybe having such gear is useful if you play jazz funk fusion or play metheny style jazz where he uses synth-like guitar effect
Sorry, just asking, no offense
Because it is extremely practical for recording or playing soft live while feeling like a 100W tube amp on ten. It also has really solid reverbs and delays built in which are two effects I use almost all the time (if you listen to my sound you should be able to tell that most of the time there is reverb and a slightly modulated delay)
I can also bring a twin reverrb and a massive pedal board to a gig, but it ony weighs 15 kgs with the powered moniter.
Another advantage is that I don't have to rely on incompetent people placing mic's badly in front of the amp and just handing them two XLR's is enough of a pattern interrupt for them that I usually sound great.
And of course, I am also equipped to do other types of gigs than Jazz with this rig and only bring another guitar.
Does that help explain it? From the list above I can't imagine anyone not going this route if they have to record themselves and do many gigs, it is so incredibly consistent and easy :D
@@JensLarsen yeah, it kinda answer my question
do you also play gigs other than jazz?
What pedalboard is it? Boss or line-6 if I'm not mistaken?
I am a musician, so I've pretty much played any gigs that I got hired to do, but besides Jazz it is mostly subbing in Pop, Soul and Funk bands or sometimes projects that are closer to musical repertoire
Ah, and it is a Fractal AX8
@@JensLarsen yeah, great, that very expensive gear
I've heard many good stories about fractal
@5:20 … Will I ever be able to hear an arpeggiated minor chord and not think ‘Stairway to Heaven’?
I heard that too over the bm lol
**bflatm**
Hairway to Steven
uah! 🐻👍💥🎸💥... but, the name of all that chords! it is really a big, huge mess for me, i m Italian and so, sigh! sob! i must slow down the speed of the video ... i miss the dear names of the notes DO, RE, MI, FA ... always in english you say "e" but is A, LA, you say 'i' but is E, MI... this drive me crazy ... and after that they came: flat nine, sharp eleven, augmented major minor seven !!! haaarrrghh! 😱😱😱🤪😭😱... anyway great video... i m also learning Anglicorum barbaricum lingua 🤭😋😜😂
okay after playing your sus4 steps I tried out gcd over A SO M711 ALSONWOETHWHILE TRYING Ibguess
Very good, but why you talk so fast ?
I think it's because he's in a hurry to help everyone!