Great Dominant scale or brilliant arpeggio? Leave a comment! 🙂
@xxczerxx6 жыл бұрын
Mixolydian b6 is a great one, it just gives a nice augmented 5th air to a typical dominant sound, not entirely dissimilar from the b9b6 mixo you mentioned! Damn so many good ideas in this one, thanks again!!
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Mac! True that 5th mode of melodic minor has a nice sound! I funny that it isn't more common, especially since it is in Autumn Leaves :)
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
That's not what I mean though. I don't think G blues sounds great on Dm7 G7 Cmaj7, in fact C blues will work much better.
@PB_Chill6 жыл бұрын
You know the blues scale was made to play over Dom chords, the b3 would be the the only avoid note if the tonic is the root of the Dom chord
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
You are thinking about the notes now. Try to play a G blues phrase in a II V I and compare it to a C blues phrase in the same place. I am pretty certain you will agree with me :) and on a side note: blues was not made to be played over dom7th chords. The original blues was mostly triads not dominants. That came later.
@musicpatricio3 жыл бұрын
you are a true genius and best teacher around Jens! thanks for all your videos
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙂
@robertdouglas42936 жыл бұрын
Jens, you have my respect.
@ubuntuposix5 жыл бұрын
i'm only jazz-curious , but the way i understand it is you can pretend like you're in minor, when the chords suggest you should be in major. (sometimes using an b2 like you're not in a straight minor (aeolian) but frygian). it may be an oversimplification which loses some details, but imo you gain the LOGIC of the melody. you keep the meaning (function) of the individual tones thus creating a coherent meaningful melody. The dominant chord itself is a mix between the 2(major-minor), because the 3suggests major while b7 suggest minor, thus this trick of blues that you can get away with pretending you're in minor, because the chord somewhat supports that.
@JensLarsen5 жыл бұрын
If you want to really make music with it then you do need to learn to hear it and not rely on tricks though. It is not that useful to think something that doesn't fit with what you hear for that 🙂
@l.felipez.s.39523 жыл бұрын
muchas gracias maestro, muy buena explicación !! saludos desde Cali-Colombia
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it! :)
@MultiLakica5 жыл бұрын
Great Jens....You are my favorite guitar teacher....Very intelegent strategy in jazz sense...Thanks for help us...
@JensLarsen5 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Glad you like the videos 🙂
@Blizite6 жыл бұрын
Very useful stuff. Amazing how many cool sound you can get within the dominant sound. Thanks!
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Trevor! Yes it is a place where there are a lot of colors to choose from! Do you have a favourite?
@eternalrainbow-cj3iu6 жыл бұрын
Pentatonic on the bIII will work on Ldian dominat I guess, but on the first stepp it will work because of the +5 for instance on blue bossa C blues scale on the G7+5 also the F# works as a bebop tone!and we have the #9 as a bonus!
@-Atmos16 жыл бұрын
I will have to watch this quite a few times ,,, great for soloing.cool.
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thanks Mike 👍🙂
@robertdouglas42936 жыл бұрын
Its very hard to explain, or express, but, feelings hard to equate to the math involved. Music wise, My dad would have been on his way to the big band era, than ww2 occured. we get to play because of sacrifice. glad to see you here!
@sebleb31334 жыл бұрын
Des sonorités nouvelles pour moi, à la fois hypnotiques mais également difficile à entendre et donc intégrer. Sans doute d’autres vidéos traitent elles du même sujet, et personnellement j’entends plus facilement sur un G7, un Am ou encore un Fm75- ou la substitution tritonique, Db7 5- pour résoudre sur C. J’avoue que j’ai du mal à m’y retrouver avec la notation de toutes les extensions. En tous les cas bravo pour cette ( ces) video(s) extrêmement enrichissantes.
@evyatar4513 жыл бұрын
Also an awesome and common scale for dominant chords - dorian b9
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Yes, but strictly speaking it is not a dominant scale since there is no major 3rd
@anthonydemitre93926 жыл бұрын
Diminished patterns are my easy go too, Thanks great lesson!
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thanks Anthony! Dim scales are indeed very handy, and sometimes quite surprising in a solo :)
@Shuzies6 жыл бұрын
Jens....These are fun colors to have in my solos ....thank you for your time....ron
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Ron! :) I am surprised you don't have some more exotic options to suggest 😄
@Shuzies6 жыл бұрын
In time....still a newby
@justinlee97566 жыл бұрын
Wow! Brilliantly done I feel silly for not seeing the flat five a whole step below(fM7b5 )and step and a half above( Bb7b5) Duhhh no wonder why the blues scale works so greatly I mean its in the G dominate So nice to hear those colors!!
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thank you! The Bb chord is a Bb7(b5) not a maj7 though? 🙂
@necemer4 жыл бұрын
Hello Great Video, as always Thank you Greetings Tom
@robertdouglas42936 жыл бұрын
Chet baker, does that with his horn, Awesome Jens!
@lu0nline6 жыл бұрын
Hey Jens! Big fan of your work. Lately I've been trying to practice ii-V-I progressions staying in the same (or adjacent) position by exploring different chord voicings for each chord. At first trying to play them without extensions or tensions, and then adding them aiming at interesting voice leading ideas. Do you have any video relating to some similar approach? I would love to see it.
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Luan! I have stuff like that in some of my Drop2 voicing videos and also this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYHFfmR8bbijkK8 It is not exactly that approach though 🙂
@jumemowery94346 жыл бұрын
Great as always!! Thanks!!
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thanks you Jume! Alway nice to know you dig it! 🙂
@renesongs6 жыл бұрын
Great lesson, definitely a way for me to explore new territory. My standard approach to dominant chords is to use either or both the pentatonic Major and Minor scales as a framework and then add #5 or b3 (the blue notes). I feel the blues scales have a strong melodic minor feel to them. Also I see dominant chords as the joker in diatonic harmony because it has both a major and a minor face to it.
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Rene! That's interesting! How does the blues sound like melodic minor? 🙂
@renesongs6 жыл бұрын
I feel that the lydian dominant mode of the melodic minor scale and the blues minor scale share a lot of colours or notes particularly the #4 to b7 relationship. Being a bluesman at heart I see that as my quick cheat to getting a lydian dominant feel over the 7th chord.
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Ok! Fair enough! I am not 100% sure I agree with you on that, but that's not too important 🙂👍
@robertpowell96183 жыл бұрын
There are other scale choices, what about Phrygian and Aeolian over a Dominant 7 chord...Bebop scale as well. Thank you for sharing some of your wonderful knowledge
@johnnydessi85676 жыл бұрын
great lesson!
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Johnny!
@composer73256 жыл бұрын
Excellent video.Thank you.
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear you like it Peter! 🙂
@scottmilner6 жыл бұрын
Jens, I am working hard on absorbing this lesson, like I do on many of your video lessons. So much information that it takes me weeks, nay months! sometimes to begin to apply... but I follow the logic of your presentations well...but Sometimes the lack of emphasis (in diction?) on certain important points leads me to skip them, only to go back later and realize how important they are! Pacing leaves me behind sometimes. Still the best stuff on the web. I was curious if you had regard for Emily Remler's rather simple take on the altered scale (she calls it "jazz minor" 1/2 step above the V), its use with resolving V7, and using "jazz minor" scale on the 5th of the dominant for non-resolving V7. Those were seminal ideas for me, now I am gradually expanding my vocabulary in solo lines and comping thru your systematic approach. Very interested to see your forthcoming book. One other problem I am having is I dont want to write out examples...too tedious. I try to find a logic in your examples that I can lift and apply. Sometimes I can. But often I am left guessing about your choice of scale fragments or arpeggios within the examples. So some "easy" generalities toward successful construction that can be applied on the fly would be helpful to me. finally, I wish it was a little easier to grasp your concept of arpeggios versus chord voicings (solo line versus comping?) Thanks very much.
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thanks Scott! I am really glad you like the videos and put the stuff to use! I think Emily Remlers description of altered dominants and lydian dominants is ok, but it will only give you a scale and you still have to figure out how to play over those dominants with that scale. :) For the rest I think your approach to assimilate and use the concept behind my examples is a great way to work. There are things where where you want to copy others playing but that is not in exploring scales and arpeggios I think! Actually my concept between comping and soloing is very fluid so there is no description of where one ends and the other begins!
@bernieriegger7447 Жыл бұрын
Hi Jens. in example #5, the G diminished 7, you show the scale as being G,A,Bb,B,C#,D,E,F and in the arpeggio example you show G,B,D,F,Ab,C#,E, and numerically as 1,3,5,b7,9,#11,13 with the 9 being the Ab (which differs from the scale example), which I'm thinking is a b9 (hopefully I'm not going insane studying music theory, lol). The scale example contains the A, but is an Ab in the arpeggio example and in your chord examples you use the Ab. Please clarify. I learned a 7dim scale which we called the symmetrical dominant scale starting on the 8th degree of the diminished scale. It alternated between half and whole steps. 1,b9,#9, 3,#11,5, 6,b7, or ST,T,ST,T,ST,T,ST. Thank You
@googlekopfkind Жыл бұрын
I noticed that too. I think he just forgot to put a 'b' before the a
@juan_belen6 жыл бұрын
Jens, excelent lesson! i'm going to move to The Hague in march, i hope i can take a personal lesson with you!
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much Juan! I hope to see you in the Hague! Though I can't really fit anymore private students into my schedule :)
@bobblues11586 жыл бұрын
Did you mention C ascending melodic minor over G9+5? Thank you very much for your tutorials and your enthusiasm!
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I didn't, it's not that common. Which is why I left it out 🙂 Do you use it a lot?
@bobblues11586 жыл бұрын
Yes, i like the sound of it. I can´t explain why!
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
The explanation isn't important if it sounds good :)
@bernieriegger7447 Жыл бұрын
Hi Jens, With the altered scale, when would you use the b5 in the chord? The reason I ask is in the examples you showed you didn't include the b5, you used the 3 and the b7 and the b13 and #9 and when would you use the b9? I assume you wouldn't play the #9 when using the b9? There just seems to be a lot of permutations of the chords you can use with this scale. Thanks. Awesome video
@JensLarsen Жыл бұрын
With an altered dominant you are free to combine different notes, and using both b9 and #9 is possible, just a bit difficult to voice-lead or play
@jimkangas41766 жыл бұрын
Nice job, Jens. One minor typo - at 11:49 on the Dim scale graphic you have an Ab but label it as a 9 instead of b9. Lots of good ideas here - esp the characteristic arps. I sometimes use one of these approaches but move up/down in m3's, so using dim structure with other arps/chords.
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
True that is a typo :) It's a long video so I included a few :)
@obus41866 жыл бұрын
Number 2 is similar to a Tritone substitute with the difference being the #5 instead of b5, if I'm not mistaken. Although I haven't been able to use the Tritone sub successfully yet , so maybe this is what I should use. Thanks for the info.
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
I think you will find that #3 is even more similar to the tritone dominant 🙂
@edwardaviles66654 жыл бұрын
I think there should be a b9 at the 11:26 scale
@hanslub31803 жыл бұрын
Yes, it confused me for a while (although I should have listened more closely: Jens is clearly playing an A♭ there)
@Benfreidkin222 жыл бұрын
Hey! Love your channel and this video. I think you left out G7b13 that has a natural 9.
@JensLarsen2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! That would be whole-tone scale.
@Benfreidkin222 жыл бұрын
@@JensLarsen not necessarily, it can be mixolydian b13.
@JensLarsen2 жыл бұрын
@@Benfreidkin22 Yes, but you asked if I left it out, right?
@omcho896 жыл бұрын
Fantastic lesson Jens, thank you! I basically try to use these scales, although I am not able to use these tricky structures (arpeggios) within scales, most of the time I try to play some sort of pattern (especially for whole tone scale actually). Fretboard overview still represents big hold up for me unfortunately... Take care!
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thanks Omar! If fretboard overview is a limitation I would probably suggest leaving out the last two and focus on the other 4. That will build a stronger more useful fretboard overview to start with. Maybe this is something to take up in the Patreon FB group? Maybe there is something I can suggest in terms of exercises?
@omcho896 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jens, that is a great idea :), definitely I will think about it (to be fair, I am lacking some basic stuff, stabillity in all note location and much more, quickly naming notes of arpeggios etc), but even to have that option is fantastic!
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
I have a student that didn't show, so. I will make a quick video and upload it to FB when I get home 🙂
@omcho896 жыл бұрын
Jens Larsen fantastic, thank you!
@sakules6 жыл бұрын
wow this comes just when i decided i would spend the whole week focused on dominants and myxolydian stuff. thanks jens
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
That's great Lucas! Good luck with it! Do you have some favourite tricks? Like G7: Dm6 pentatonic, Fmaj7(b5), E7sus4?
@shroomgag39404 жыл бұрын
What’s the amp ? That’s a golden craft , Thanx!
@robertdouglas42936 жыл бұрын
I love how that translates to a horn and back.
@andreasalustri97036 жыл бұрын
great overview...I was trying to understand why the lydian sound does not resolve (means G7#11 -> Cmaj7 does not work well?) though there is 3, 7 that could resolve to root and 3 , and ..the #11 but could resolve to the tonic..??
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Yes it is not that it can't resolve I am really just speaking about how it is used in jazz, which is very rarely on a Dom7th that resolves
@papasmamas1 Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@arnavvaid238610 ай бұрын
Thanks I'll play around with these, but what would you do over a dom9 over something like this: Dmin9 E7#5 Amin7 D#dom9 ? Pentatonic stuff kinda works over the first three but not on the turnaround
@JensLarsen10 ай бұрын
For the Eb7 in that? Probably search for Tritone substitution 🙂
@Ncarlos074 жыл бұрын
Hello Master! Could you please leave the You Tube translation option active? I'm sure that the knowledge will be better used! Many people, who are not very fluent in the English language, would appreciate it! Thank you for your kindness!
@JensLarsen4 жыл бұрын
It is active, if it isn't working then it is a glitch in YT. I never turn that off, why would I?
@guillecaminer6 жыл бұрын
Great video Jens! Thanks! Question: the arpeggio Eb7(#5), why isn't a diatonic arpeggio in G altered?
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Because a diatonic arpeggio is a stack of 3rds, and Eb7(#5) is not a stack of 3rds in that scale 🙂
@Maynard05043 жыл бұрын
Phrygian dominant is essential if you want to sound middle-eastern
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
Which is why it is #2 on the list :)
@agustingonzalez22675 жыл бұрын
Hi Jens, do you have a video where you talk about the two modes of the diminished symmetric scale? I understand that the possibilities are ST-T, T-ST but I do not quite understand how and in what context they are applied over and over and how to make them differentiate between them. Thank you!
@JensLarsen5 жыл бұрын
I don't have that. If you want to use a scale over a chord then the chord has to be in the scale. If you think like this there is no confusion. Essentially the diminished scale is applied to a dominant chord or a dim chord, everything else is a special effect.
@agustingonzalez22675 жыл бұрын
@@JensLarsen thanks!
@eternalrainbow-cj3iu6 жыл бұрын
|n Prhygian dominant situations a 11 will work with b9(also when the 3 7 are in accomping, )not so much used... so I mean not E7 going to Cmaj Phrygian dominant but Phrygian scale G Ab Bb C D Eb F upon G7(+5), if you agree please let me know...
@railcar1236 жыл бұрын
Once again, Jens produces a very useful lesson. Know of any scale that covers two dominant chords a whole step apart, ("Killer Joe") other than the whole tone or the 5th mode of melodic minor??
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Not really I am afraid. But the point of that song is also to go with the changes, at least that is what I hear them do? 🙂
@nonamed_94076 жыл бұрын
Hi. Great lesson again. Im actually practicing melodic minor a lot, and seeing how it fits over chords. Love it so far. I have lots of questions about it though, but this time I want to ask you a simple one. I remember you said once that playing the arpeggio of the chord placed a diatonic 3rd above the root of the actual sounding chord was the most natural and basic arpeggio substitution. Is that also true in melodic minor? I mean... If you play G7 as it was the 4th mode of the melodic minor scale, then the Bm7b5 arpeggio (6th degree of melodic minor) is the target. And if you play G7 as it was the 7th mode of the melodic minor scale, then the Bbm7 arpeggio (2nd degree of melodic minor) is the target. Is this a correct approach? Thank you very much.
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
The thing to remember is that G7 is not a diatonic chord in Ab melodic minor so that doesn't really work there 🙂 but the arpeggio from the third of the chord : Bmaj7#5 does actually work quite well..
@nonamed_94076 жыл бұрын
but how come is not diatonic to a melodic minor scale?.. i mean, you do use the 4th or 7th mode (depending on whether is functional or static), and the 4th and 7th degree of a melodic minor scale can create a dominant 7th chord (maybe not always through stacks of thirds, but still, it can). And if it's not diatonic to a melodic minor scale, then, what scale does it belong to?
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Diatonic meaning a stak of 3rds in the scale. The diatonic chord on G is half diminished
@brennanlable6 жыл бұрын
the progression is in C major but its borrowing extensions from the melodic minor scale on the dominant so it's C's dominant not melodic minor's. we are only briefly playing in melodic minor to high-lite some interesting colors on the chord for tension before it performs it's chordal function usually resolving to C. so if you wanted to you could just modulate into melodic minor from there but then it wouldn't quite be functioning as a dominant anymore and that's what the video is all about :) hope i got that right Jens thanks for the video!
@josdurkstraful Жыл бұрын
Blues scale works good on non functioning aka static dominants.
@BillyJ572 жыл бұрын
Jens great lesson. However I am having a hard time keeping up with some of this. Building arpeggios on the modes and extensions is a bit too advanced for me. How did you learn all this? And what do I need to get there? Is there a pdf file for this lesson?
@JensLarsen2 жыл бұрын
This does indeed require you to have a good overview of these scales. I think that is the kind of stuff you do once you have a few jazz standards you can play by heart? I don't remember if you can do that? The PDF is here: www.patreon.com/posts/6-most-important-18661389
@BillyJ572 жыл бұрын
@@JensLarsen I have songs like Satin Doll, Blue Bossa , Autumn Leaves down. Also Killer Joe, Cold Duck Time, Green Dolphin St. However, I may not have chord progressions down as well as I should.
@JensLarsen2 жыл бұрын
@@BillyJ57 ah ok. I think you did indeed tell me that earlier, sorry. Ok. Then this is about taking one of those scales and getting used to the sound, really digging into the material and finding ways of using this. It is a huge amount of information if you are new to it, and you can easily spend a month on each scale if you are not used to it :)
@googlekopfkind Жыл бұрын
I don't know what the scale is called, but I also like to use G, A♭, B, C, D, E, F instead of octatonic scale (its a mode in harmonic major). Especially when playing a sus chord like G, A♭, C, E, F
@googlekopfkind Жыл бұрын
One can also use an bB instead of a B and it still feels like a dominant sus chord to me
@dapitoni4 жыл бұрын
Hi Jens! I can understand where the arpeggio is derived from, for example to form the sound of Gb9b13 (7th degree of G altered). But, where does Fmaj7 (b5) come from to generate the sound G Mixolidian sound?
@JensLarsen4 жыл бұрын
It comes from the C major scale, but it is not really a diatonic stack of 3rds in the scale.
@dapitoni4 жыл бұрын
@@JensLarsen ok! Thanks! Great data and videos! Salute from Argentina!
@sixstringswl6 жыл бұрын
Idk if it's appropriate for what you're looking for... I'm more rock than anything. To me, it's a matter of taste. I personally, in some cases like the idea of the third rub sometimes. I would have to say I'd use the blues scale... From there it's a sure bet I'd feel adventurous and try Dorian too. Literally the same scale as mixolydian but a minor version. Isn't the dominant the most flexible chord anyway? ...having both major and minor elements?
@sixstringswl6 жыл бұрын
And yes, I get the tritone thing of the 3&7.
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
That makes a lot of sense! Though then you are probably playing on a dominant that is modal or lasting a few bars and not as a part of a moving progression 🙂
@sixstringswl6 жыл бұрын
Lololol!!!! Yes, your pretty quick as usual. In rock or metal its common place for me to have a melodic phrase that when connected to an underlying chord structure completes the chord, but maybe in arpeggio form. This underlying chord structure changes to mimic a progression. Say, Dm9, G13, C7/6. What ever it is. However, when playing over it I tend to view the fret board as a grid made of 7th chords. In the same way I see the key as one thing I see the arpeggio. In this text the scale is played every other note. Until the 7th obviously. 2,1,2 or 1,2,1 patterns on adjacent strings. Through the chord scale I can compare every other 7th chord to an inversion of the original chord it resolves to. Each position of each chord adding an additional upper extension or color tone. Sounds convoluted. The best way i can explain it is a grid. I'm new to jazz, but I'm catching on ... I hope.... I love the walking bass stuff.
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
I think you will find that the blues sound in the dominant is not that strong when the dominant is really part of a cadence. Mostly because we really need that leading note 🙂
@sixstringswl6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your responses. I was thinking about it being represented in che chord progression. These subtle differences are why I in particular always sound like a rocker mimicking something else. Haha! Like bad amp modeling. So you might favor either a diminished, harmonic or melodic minor borrowed mode, chord, arpeggio if not the basic mixolydian I'm guessing... ?
@AshishGershom6 жыл бұрын
Just superb.. I like d dim amazing
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Ashish! 🙂
@sebastiankotlinski73526 жыл бұрын
at 12:09 ur talking about a b9 but n the diagram is a 9. thats a mistake isn't it? btw, awesome lesson, thank you very much Jens! :)
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
I am sure it is! I am very good in making mistakes!
@cesarmateus3490 Жыл бұрын
How about the Type III Dominant? G Ab Bb B D Eb F?
@alej37956 жыл бұрын
Great
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Aleksandar 🙂
@chau5609023 жыл бұрын
hi,How do i arrange the notes on G7 with altered scale when singing and without bass player ,then end on C ? i must play bass note G first ,then scale notes?
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
What are you asking exactly?
@chau5609023 жыл бұрын
@@JensLarsen fill in. should one people play bass and solo ?
@JensLarsen3 жыл бұрын
@@chau560902 if you are soloing in a band you don't need to.
@cesarmateus3490 Жыл бұрын
Ab needs to be notated in the Dim. scale...you have A natural.
@Magmetal16 жыл бұрын
Hej Jens, tak for de mange gode tips! Har du været med på/lavet nogle plader man kan høre? :)
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Hej Magnus! Tusind tak! Det har jeg da! Der nogle Spotify Playlists her: jenslarsen.nl/media-en/audio/ og jeg har da også en discografi side på mit website!
@robertdouglas42936 жыл бұрын
My Apologies, not good at explaining tears or emotions, just know that I respect stuff you have learned over a life time.
@guilhordas5 жыл бұрын
Is that dim scale a dominant diminished??
@JensLarsen5 жыл бұрын
There is really only one dim scale. I think you can see which root it has from the notes I am using 🙂
@guilhordas5 жыл бұрын
@@JensLarsen I thought there were 2. diminished scale and dominant diminished scale (started halftone above diminished) G G# Bb B Db E F F#
@JensLarsen5 жыл бұрын
@@guilhordas It's the same scale, no real need to make a distinction.
@abaaba15096 жыл бұрын
Hey Dude! Great vid, as always :) I really enjoy watching your videos and i thought it's time to drop a comment. You always focus on music-making and not on self-presentation like so many other youtubers. Keep it up mate! ...might be a bit off-topic, but what do you think of Hal Galper's Forward Motion? Greetings from a german jazz pianist :)
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Glad you like it! I was taught based on the Forward motion principles (I guess?) you can check out my target note videos to see how I use it. I never read his books though so how close my approach really is I am not sure. But I think it's probably a very solid method!
@abaaba15096 жыл бұрын
yeah, I think every good jazz musician with experience uses it instinctively. For me, when I was new to jazz, it was very hard to figure out why many of my lines sounded bad, although I was using the 'right' scales/chordtones. his book really blew my mind and I wish I would have found it before I went to music college haha :D despite I've been teached by many very different jazz professors I've never came across such an easy and logic way to understand why some lines sound awesome and others don't :D
@plumhunter91586 жыл бұрын
I don't think of the Blues scale as being related to the dominant chord - more the tonic.
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thanks, glad I am not alone in that 🙂
@jokergang85466 жыл бұрын
jens ,μου προτειναν να παω στην Ολλανδια να σπουδασω για να ανοιξω περισσοτερο το μυαλο μου αλλα δεν υπαρχει μια.Ευτυχως που υπαρχεις εσυ(χωρις να θελω να σε αγχωσω)
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I hope you find what you are looking for :)
@robertdouglas42936 жыл бұрын
You dont seem like a bad guy, Math
@robertdouglas42936 жыл бұрын
I apologize if I have offended, you like Len Breau?
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
I am not offended :) I am not that into Lenny Breau, but I also don't know too much of his work. The solo guitar stuff is usually not what I think is great
@MattBrillant5 жыл бұрын
Hi Robert, Lenny, Ted Greene, Joe Pass (..........) even Mr Rosenwinkel... It's the tradition in Jazz to play solo Guitar, I Love them all and i think We have to show respect, for what they have or are still doing, even if we're not into solo guitar , cause that " s u f f " is really Great ! and it's a big, very big challenge to improve your capability of making music. Peace and Love and Harmony.
@robertdouglas42935 жыл бұрын
Well said Matt!@@MattBrillant
@JensLarsen5 жыл бұрын
@@MattBrillant I don't think it is disrespectful, to be honest about not wanting to spend hours or days on making a video that is not what I find great. Do you?
@MattBrillant5 жыл бұрын
@@JensLarsen With all my respect i think there's a misunderstanding here, i didn't ask you to do anything that you're not able to. Solo guitar is a great "Stuff" even if you're not into. When you'll get older and more experienced (talking about the playin, not those youtube stuff) you'll be able to understand the challenge and the chill of playing solo guitar. Peace Love and Harmony may fall on all of us.
@robertdouglas42936 жыл бұрын
Thats ok, What I meant was, If I am capable, there needs to be an end. whats is important , resolution in terms of letting your listener know you care about them. Im not very explainfull, Sorry Jens, Sometimes, its just a point to ask yourself, have you fufilled stuff, If, you can make someone cry a t the end,
@robertdouglas42936 жыл бұрын
Do me a very small favor , could you talk about what folks think as soft, and hardness, to express resolution, at the end of what the heart expresses, so your fans understand.
@JensLarsen6 жыл бұрын
I am not sure I understand what you are talking about?