9 Surprising Pentatonic Scale Secrets on a Blues

[@JensLarsen]

If you like this video then check out: Jazz Scales! The 3 You Need to practice and How You apply them to Jazz Chords : kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHbZc42KeZKZbNU

[@brandonmalik3910]

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[@brandonmalik3910]

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[@TedBoyRomarino]

Man, your channel is pure gold.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you 🙂

[@giantessmaria]

i pride myself on my ability to follow most of the theory in these lessons but about a third of the way through this one, my brain just started sizzling....i need to regroup.... o.O

[@JensLarsen]

Well, it is only Jazz :)

[@MastanehNazarian]

Thinking never killed anyone, I suppose?

[@SRHMusic012]

Same here. If had a solid month to spend on this it would be well worth it. It's great to hear how these concepts sound and also to see/hear/think about borrowing ideas from other progressions or cadences to work into solos. Thanks, Jens!

[@mikesallows2100]

Jen's this is my favorite lesson so far.I have no freaking idea with what you are saying about the theory,but I learn these solos lick for lick.The next step is to incorporate the ideas into my onstage improvisation.No easy feat in the "heat of the moment" ,but I keep working at it.I am one of few Native American Blues Rockers so out of respect for you I say thank you in my Native Language Nawahko:wa Jen's.

[@johnpritchard9753]

How can anyone not like this? Superb video - thanks

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much, John 🙂 You can't make a video that pleases everybody

[@brad724p]

Revisiting this lesson; it's a gold mine. Not sure how you came up with all these approaches, Jens, but I'm sure glad you're sharing them. As I said 8 months ago, brilliant.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Brad! That's really cool to hear! Maybe I should try and do a similar take in another video :)

[@brad724p]

Yeah, these tricks-of-the-trade lessons with full examples played by you are my favorite (and, to me, most useful) lessons. But, of course, they're all good. Especially the blues.

[@tonyedwards4067]

Hi Brad, I agree, Jens is the Bomb! If like me, you get so much from his lessons it's great to support him and become a Patreon member...I not saying you are not a member, I think we should spread the word thats all...

[@cellardwellerproductions5125]

I’ve recently become aware of this pentatonic approach to soloing over certain changes. Knocked me out. I don’t know how much of a help it would be. I’m surely any help at all is a plus. Check out Jen’s book over at Fundamental Changes. Great series of books and Jen’s is next on my list. A shameless plug, Maestro.

[@cellardwellerproductions5125]

A link gentlemen for your benefit; www.fundamental-changes.com/book/modern-jazz-guitar-concepts/

[@JensLarsen]

A bunch of Pentatonic ideas for Modern Jazz sound on a blues! Did you know them all? 🙂

[@trash817]

I really want to say your lessons are one of the more valuable things i had ever seen on youtube. Your channel has an incredible usefull information for any musician, and your explanation is quite clear. Just wanna say Thank you.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much, José! I am really glad you enjoy the videos!

[@HeAhaBro]

What I especially like about your playing is your melodic choice of notes and your finger movements are relaxed and nice to watch. Another great lesson. Thanks Jen

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much Jessie! :)

[@anthonydemitre9392]

One of your best Jens, this is great, this really zeros in, to the note choices that I would like to use, real modern jazz blues Thank you!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much Anthony! Nice of you o say so! :)

[@RisikoAO]

outstanding lesson, thank you very much

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂

[@askerdog1]

EXCELLENT PLAYING , TOP NOTCH TEACHING AND ONE OF THE BEST KNOWLEDGE ON THEORY, THANK YOU JENS

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Tony! Glad you like the videos 🙂👍

[@ronaskew]

The first thing that would occur to anyone practicing this concept is that to use it freely, the theory need be immediate and instantaneous.

[@benmalone6139]

Thanks for this Video Jens. Truly great material

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it 🙂

[@jimsacra4591]

Hej Jens, this was a great lesson,that for me opened up a lot of new playing/thinking alternatives. Thank you!

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome Jim! Always glad to hear that you can put it to use 👍🙂

[@bradking1067]

Oooooooooooooo!! I'm really digging that D minor 6 pentatonic over the F7.! Thanks so much Rock on peace God bless 🎄😀 🎸🔊 🐕🎄 🎄✨🤗🎉🎇

[@JensLarsen]

That is a great sound! I think it is a little like a Robben Ford sound to me 🙂

[@Dang...]

Cool thanks!

[@plopzoppers3921]

wonderful Jens. I've watched quite a few vids on this subject and none were as casually explained as this. Thanks!

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome George! I am glad you found it useful 👍🙂

[@jeanpierreyenga1372]

Merci beaucoup pour votre conseil

[@jeanpierreyenga1372]

Ok

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it 🙂

[@teleplucker6802]

Hi Jens! Just subscribed the other day. You have me playing what I wanted to 40 years ago. Many of your other lessons have TAB and notation. I would pay to get that for this lesson! Of course I could slow it down and get it eventually but I'm getting old and need to learn it faster. I'll be checking out your other lessons after I get the hang of this and the 7 Pentatonic Tricks lesson. One of the best instructors and players out there. Thanks!!

[@MHW133]

I know what you mean brother. Im 72 and wish I could turn back the clock but time matches on for us all. Try and stay fit and take care of your hands and concentrate on those things that you will use for your "voice" and creativity. This lesson was great for me

[@triangel5530]

Very helpful episode and amazing phrasing what you did out of it!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much 🙂

[@kentlindsaymusic]

Wow, those ideas sound SO GOOD!! - feeling overwhelmed in Los Angeles..

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome Kent! :) I am glad you like it!

[@Shuzies]

Yes.....love it...................thanks Jens

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you so much Ron! 👍🙂

[@fivehackingtips]

This was awesome! A far more instructive video than that 3 scales one I watched earlier.

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks! I think it also matters what you are looking for and what you are playing, don't you?

[@ronamundson9151]

Your examples were exceptional on this video -- I think I'm going to record them together just as a beautiful blues.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much Ron!

[@chrisclermont456]

I heard many devices here that remind me of Wes Montgomery whenever he plays blues. That by itself is awesome and desirable!!

[@ulstyle]

An infinite thanks for you work, the way you explain and the value of the knowledge are incredible. I'm following you on instagram, facebook and youtube :) Greetings from France.

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂

[@aptelbruno8316]

Thank you for this great job Jens.

[@petercicco4360]

The scale you used off of F with the b3, (F G Ab C D or Fm6/9) apart from being useful as an F minor tonality, works well as Dm11b5, Bb13, E7alt, Abmaj13#11.

[@JensLarsen]

Yes

[@petercicco4360]

@@JensLarsen Another closely related pentatonic built off the 5th of that same Fm6/9 scale would be Cm(b6/9): C D Eb G Ab which = Abmaj7#11 or could be used over F to yield Fm9(13) and is also known as a Japanese pentatonic or the kumoi scale. This entire pentatonic pursuit is a pretty deep rabbit hole. I'm obsessed.

[@ricklanders]

The minor pent is my go-to scale when I don't know what else to do, lol. This gives a lot of new ideas for using it, I never knew it could sound more like jazz instead of blues. Fantastic video!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you find it useful!

[@krisspkriss]

Pentatonic plus knowing the notes in the chords being played can get you through about anything for a few bars.

[@ciccaj]

Thanks! Your videos are outstanding.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much John! I really appreciate that you want to support the channel! Have a great weekend!!

[@ciccaj]

@@JensLarsen Hi Jens - Do you have a book or something that has all your favorite scale patterns. I know a lot of scales but not many cool patterns to practice with them.

[@JensLarsen]

@@ciccaj I do have a book which covers a lot of stuff to check out in scales and how to use them in solos. You can check it out here: geni.us/Y69J4

[@sunburntaquaticape6694]

Your'e a top class player Jens! If i could play only half as accomplished as yourself i would be very happy! Best wishes.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Nicky! You are much too kind!

[@franckcebret4021]

Extremely interesting !! Thanks You Jens...👍🏾

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Franck! Glad you like it!

[@erlowther]

Oh yeah. Helping me so much. Thank you!

[@arielstaubitz2252]

This was simply pure gold. A masterclass. Amazing. I know this goes very good in a jazz blues context which I love to play, but I think how this could sound in a SRV type of blues, that's what I'm going to explore. I thank yoy very very much for this. Cheers from Argentina.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much Ariel! Hope you get that to work 👍🙂

[@brianwarner308]

never seen a fret wrap like that lol it's awesome!!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! 🙂

[@pietyau]

great lesson! thanks jens

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much! I am glad you found it useful! If you have any suggestions for topics or things you are looking for the feel free to let me know 👍

[@hubertvancalenbergh9022]

I came back to this lesson a few times. This time I'm making notes! 🙂

[@JensLarsen]

Haha! That's perfectly fine :)

[@marjorievandyke8243]

Hubert Van Calenbergh same thing for me! I listen once or twice and it goes in one ear and out the other, then by the third time I’m taking notes and can apply to my own playing (which for me is on the mandolin).

[@hubertvancalenbergh9022]

@@marjorievandyke8243 Mandolin in a jazz context?

[@marjorievandyke8243]

@@hubertvancalenbergh9022 Yep!

[@brianwarner308]

Wow this is just what i needed!! thanks a lot Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it! 🙂

[@arielstaubitz2252]

Brian Warner marilyn manson playin' the blues. Hell yeah!

[@AshishGershom]

Superb playing.. Thanks for sharing

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂

[@benwrong6855]

Cheers and Jens!

[@7deepbreaths.sounds]

Great teaching

[@antonellovanni]

very interesting thanks from Italy

[@ParsevalMusic]

"Cadences are going down" good point. I wonder if there's a way to get a cadences going up. Fantastic video

[@JensLarsen]

You can always try to see how you can voice-lead different cadences :)

[@DEDZU786]

I like the way you swing :)

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you 🙂

[@mqblues]

Essential jazz-blues language a la Wes Montgomery. Good lesson.

[@kakohernandez]

Gracias

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome!

[@LarrySiden]

Dm6 over F7 lydian? I knew to go to C-maj7. Always learning new stuff here.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Larry 🙂

[@oscarradzom6173]

First of all, I really like your approch how to teach. Could you make a video where you show what is a Minor 7, 5, 3 and so on and a major 7, 5, 3 and so on please? I have problems with that.

[@JensLarsen]

I am actually not sure what you are asking? How the chords are constructed?

[@allengoyne]

How do you work on the 6 chord -- D7 in a jazz blues? Use the same type pentatonics and their superimpositions? It's like it goes by so fast that I just wind up using the D7 arpeggio but that seems to get old fast.

[@JensLarsen]

I usually treat it as a normal secondary dominant resolving to a minor chord, so either harmonic minor or altered.

[@evh5150evh100]

You are definitely my Main Jazz teacher and I can't believe how much I've learnt from you in a short time. Im all the way over in New Zealand. Thank you so much.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much Kelvin! I am glad you like the videos!

[@nickvirts11]

Nice video, lots of ideas to explore!! I heard some Scofield at no 9!😎 thank you

[@JensLarsen]

That could very well be 🙂

[@brad724p]

Brilliant!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Brad! 🙂

[@PH-ht9ml]

Those licks you play over the backing are sooooo tasty !!!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! :)

[@GaryLet]

Great lesson. Watched it a lot. Starting to sink in. You have a real talent for teaching Jens. On the second example where you're playing the (C) minor pentatonic on the F7, if the F was F6, could you play a C major pentatonic? I guess it boils down to using my ear or write out the notes and see if there are clashing notes that don't sound like what I want.

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks Gary! I guess you could use C major (or A minor) pentatonic if it was an F6, that would imply that it is a I in F major or a IV in C major. Both scales contain a C major pentatonic. Writing it out will indeed be a huge help in figuring stuff like this out! 👍👍 Keep at it!

[@guilhordas]

on example 4 there is a cadence of Gm7 (using Dm penta) and C7alt (using Ebm penta) but when you play using the two pentas you solve in A saying that is 3, but would be the third of F right? why F in this case? I do not understand, would not be the cadence of Gm7 and C7Alt? thanks

[@JensLarsen]

The C7 altered resolves back to F when I hit the A, what else should it do? I am not playing C7 altered on an F7?

[@guilhordas]

@@JensLarsen ah ok. So the cadence would be Gm7 C7alt and F7 right??

[@JensLarsen]

@@guilhordas On a blues, yes

[@guilhordas]

@@JensLarsen vey cool lesson, cheers from brasil

[@terjelarsson5094]

Hey! Lots of great stuff here!

[@goldsmithstrings6842]

I find transitioning between pentatonic and dorian improvising (parrellel to wherever your playing the pentatonic) sounds very jazz friendly.

[@JensLarsen]

Sounds like a good way to approach it!

[@railcar123]

Great lesson!

[@railcar123]

Wondering if you have favorite fingering for the pents your using?

[@railcar123]

Also Jens have you ever tried the "major 11 pent" it's the minor pent on the root but replacing the minor3 with a major 3rd. F-A-Bb-C-Eb-F Called "Mahavishnu Pentatonic" or "Peter Frampton Pentatonic"

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! I mostly just use the standard 2 note per string boxes but I also have some extended ways that I make them 3 notes per string once in a while. I do know that pentatonic scale, as mixolydian pentatonic btw, but I never really use it 🙂

[@railcar123]

Thx Wondering also, if you had a favorite Pentatonic to use over the iii and the V of ii (on measure 8) of a jazz blues. Or maybe not even a Pentatonic but how do you approach emphasizing the F# in measure 8

[@JensLarsen]

I don't always use pentatonics. Mostly on the Aø D7 in bar 8 I don't use pentatonics because it is not really clear in the context. When it comes to which pentatonic scales you can use context is everything :)

[@drewmatthews860]

If you play mixolydian starting on the flat 5 of a 7 chord, you get a crazy sound. Like C# mixolydian over G7 is super cool

[@JensLarsen]

It's called tritone substitution :)

[@AntarblueGarneau]

Wow! This is a thorough ans comprehensive discourse on using pentatonic. I feel like I could study these great devices for a few days and begin to apply them on all sorts of jazz tunes, not to mention blues...thx Jens!!! )

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks! Glad you like it! :)

[@voronOsphere]

Thanks!

[@twli]

There's nothing you haven't covered somewhere on this channel. Everything in jazz is somewhere in the Jens archive. Thank you!

[@JensLarsen]

Haha! There are things I don't do lessons on, but by now I have indeed covered a lot of topics!

[@solomonklaasen1515]

Great stuff Jens.You really inspire me to make music.Great teacher.

[@JensLarsen]

Happy to hear that!

[@ethanmaruyama1149]

It’s all about the phrasing

[@JensLarsen]

It is certainly about that too 🙂

[@kjv-public-domain]

24 kt gold.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you!

[@mannoplanet]

Very good... I wrote all these down- I really appreciate your lessons. (can you leave the text a little bit longer on the screen?) Thanks again.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Doug! 🙂 I didn't realize that the text was moving too fast, I am always trying to get better at editing the videos 🙂

[@anthonydemitre9392]

what about pressing pause?

[@-Atmos1]

sounds good...

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you 😎

[@peterhinkle6412]

Moving up that half step to the 4 is sort of like playing the melodic minor up a half step over a dominant chord. Cool simple approach . Been working on the Mahavishnu style pent. Maj= 13457 . Is there any good straight jazz uses for those ? Thanks Jen

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks! Didn't know that was a Mahavishnu pentatonic? I guess that fits an unaltered dominant. But you can also use it a whole-tone higher, so A C# D E G over G7, or an altered version. Eb G Ab Bb Db over G7alt?

[@arielstaubitz2252]

Hi again. I came up with an approach not covered in this video, perhaps you already know that approach, but I wante to know what you think about. F7 (I) (bar 1) F Maj Pentatonic : F G A C D (T, 9, 3M, 5, 6) Bb7 (IV) (bar 2) E Maj Pentatonic : E F# G# B C# (11# 5# 7m 9b 9# F7 (I) (bar 3 and 4) Eb Maj Pentatonic: Eb F G Bb C (7m T 9 4j 5j) Or going back to F maj pentatonic.

[@JensLarsen]

Nice that will work as well, though the Bb7alt sound is a bit strange :)

[@dasai9754]

How do you think I should approach trying to get those sorta quick runs you do? An example is in the intro where it sounds like you do a sort of sweep or something.

[@JensLarsen]

I think I know what you mean. That is a sweep, you could start practicing diatonic arpeggios on string sets using sweeps and then try to work on using them when you play? That's probably what I did 🙂

[@ronreis6023]

Great video. Another topic might be other types of pentatonic scales like the dominant, b5 and dorian (m6). Have you talked about those yet.

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks, Ron I have made quite a few videos on pentatonic scales: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnSpmXZ4qMahbZI So I probably covered most of them :)

[@andrewjaman4697]

Lars, thank you! Do you have your material transcribed at all for sale?

[@JensLarsen]

You are very welcome Avi! I am glad you like the video! From this video, no I don't But I do have a webStore: jenslarsen.nl/shop/

[@andrewjaman4697]

Thank you Lars. You are truly gifted!

[@hubertvancalenbergh9022]

More than enough to develop a coherent sound in a (relatively!) easy manner. I often marvel at the many uses of the pentatonic scale.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Hubert! It is indeed a useful tool!

[@wangpeng1026]

Hi Jens, thank you for the very helpful lesson. Please could you explain a little bit about the lick you played on F7 D7 from 8:39? I can't figure out why you used those notes, but it does sounds good. Thank you!

[@JensLarsen]

Are you talking about bar 7-8 in the form in that solo? I think I am playing Am - Abm and not F7 D7.

[@wangpeng1026]

@@JensLarsen yes, i meant the bar 7-8 in the blues form. I didn't know that the bar 7-8 can be substituted by iiim7 iiibm7. Thank you very much, you already explaind it.

[@garymcelima]

very nice Jens, is there a trnscript of this lesson??

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks Gary, no I don't think I wrote these examples out, sorry :)

[@garymcelima]

Not a problem. The video is really enough. I’m not like you I’m lazy!!!!! Thanks again. Great stuff.

[@PatrickTengmusic]

hi Jens just back from a long break from your channel - please advise what to find the guitar tabs for this 9 oentatonc samples remember I am yur Patreon - thanks

[@JensLarsen]

Did you try searching for it on Patreon?

[@EdwinDekker71]

Sometimes I use a MiMa7 as a substitute for 7alt. Example g7alt becomes Abmima7

[@severinosilvestre9022]

good.

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks

[@SuperEnergy85]

Great job, we need just pay attention and get Jens Education... good stuff

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! Glad you like it 😎

[@dougsmith6648]

Jens I appreciate all that you have shared and taught many of us out here who are hungry for knowledge. But Some of us don't use Instagram or Facebook...as we have private lives and dont wish to share our info. How are we able to get your "brilliant" PDF's that you used to link to....without having to sell out our info to Instagram and Facebook. I study those PDF' s like an encyclopedia and they really help out a lot of people and help us to gain knowledge and understanding of guitar. Enjoy the day.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Doug! I guess you could sign up for Patreon? That isn't for free but it doesn't have to be very expensive and you don't have to sell your information? Feel free to mail me about it if you have questions 🙂

[@gervaclarinet]

Hey Jens... thanks so much for your contribution to the music community. I appreciate a lot the dedication you put in explaining things. not a guitarist myself but enjoying anyways a lot (a lot!!!) what you do. I was just wondering what about a video with the 'outer' pentatonics and how to approach / combine them with the ones that sound more kinda consonant to the harmony (in order to spice up sonorities in a more straight way). Cheers. Gerva

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it! Actually it may be easier to just explore playing reharmonizations instead of thinking scales if you want to play outside 🙂

[@sylwestersosniak220]

super !

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Sylwester! I am glad you found it useful! 👍

[@unclecharlie7881]

...regarding that fuzzy thing above the nut on your guitar; I think you should dye it to match your beard, or dye your beard blue, to match the fuzzy thing....keepin' it real...love your lessons....

[@evasenger100]

Where can I download the pdf?

[@JensLarsen]

I don't think I made one since I am not transcribing the played examples

[@xydex99]

This is siiiick

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you 🙂

[@christophegragnic8681]

Hi, thx for the lesson. At 12:33 I'm surprised you write Dbm7 Gb7 (7 flats) instead of C# F#7 (5 sharps). Is there a reason for this? Also there may be a typo at 12:40 since it should be "Dbm7 Gb7" instead of "Dbm7 Db7". Or did I misunderstand something?

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome! That should indeed be Dbm7 Gb7, so that is a typo. In jazz we mostly notater tritone subs from the b5 so that is why I write Dbm7 Gb7, the b5 of C is Gb

[@blackberrywhite7581]

Jens Larsen so you both understand that’s gives the rest of us hope! I could learn to play what what you doing as I have the Blues technique, but I couldn’t understand all the theory jargon it’s like when I lived in Holland 🇳🇱 all Dutch to me, (and now I discover some of it incorrect.) Jens please understand there are stages to learning first you must be Able to play; I know I could do that. But all that theory in 20 minutes it’s not Teaching it’s Torturing ! Break it down into a series of lessons and give us an opportunity to see where The ideas come from then I will be able to hang with you and not feel like hanging my self 😜

[@JensLarsen]

I do understand that there are stages. Do you understand that you may not be at a stage where this video is for you? 🙂 Sometimes I feel like people think it is my duty to break stuff down that they themselves need to do a little to learn? Not saying that you feel like that, but it is an odd perspective that the lesson is at fault because your basic theory is not strong enough?

[@blackberrywhite7581]

Jens Larsen my theory is not so weak but does not cover integrating and playing within pentatonics that I am unfamiliar with at the same time as trying to learn a new fingering of voicings and sequence the shifting on the fretboard in tempo with no notation or tabs. You have been playing so long you don’t seem to remember your transition from Classical to Jazz I also made a similar move to Blues and now I am incorporating Jazz while separately being a decent Flamenco 💃 Player, So please make me out to be dumb! I would like to see you follow me in one of my Spanish voiced progressions in Harmonic Minor or Phrygian Dominant using authentic triplets rasgueado or playing picado style solos after 20minutes it would make a fantastic video on KZbin, Jazz is almost Stationery by comparison. Just break it down or direct me to other videos where you have done so! My Spainish Teacher always said “if you don’t understand me and are not progressing as well as you are listening 👂🏻 fire me, because I am not looking at you or communicating to you equally! YOUR FIRED!!

[@Andrey.Balandin]

@@blackberrywhite7581 You have to hire someone before you can fire them, you arrogant prick. If this is too much for you, use pause and rewind like everyone else, you ungrateful douchebag!

[@335gerard]

Merci Jens.

[@JensLarsen]

De rien Gérard 🙂

[@guilhordas]

In example 4 you explain to use Ebm penta over C7alt, but when you play with the backing track the key is F right?

[@JensLarsen]

Yes, Ebm pentatonic can be used to get an altered sound and yes the blues is in F.

[@fzhardacher]

15:16!

[@JensLarsen]

🙂👍

[@alfredscoggins3206]

Hi, Jens. I don't think you're playing a D7 (or D7#9) on this. I suppose that could be Ebm to Dm (for Gm7). Or are there better ideas?

[@JensLarsen]

You need to give me a time in the video if you want me to check 🙂

[@alfredscoggins3206]

No, I meant as bar 8 in a 12-bar in F.

[@JensLarsen]

@@alfredscoggins3206 Ok. I thought you were asking something that was in the video. Ebm pentatonic isn't a good fit for D7alt because of the Db

[@alfredscoggins3206]

Ah, then probably Fm pent. What would you use?

[@JensLarsen]

@@alfredscoggins3206 In that place a pentatonic scale is not that effective. I guess you could use Ebm6 pentatonic

[@Wagohowardhanahou]

What are the chances for a one hour lesson? I have so many questions and I would like for you to tell me what level I am at and what I should be working on! (My goal is to understand chord voicing and improvisation when composing. I have played for few decades and have enjoyed all music styles. Played in a phish cover band. (Lots of improve).... zoom? You have time!.....? Pay? I happen to give free lesson on Friday’s for beginners since covid and I lost all my gigs. ;(

[@JensLarsen]

I don't have time for one-on-one lessons, but if you send me an e-mail I can recommend some good teachers for skype lessons.

[@Wagohowardhanahou]

Great. Just a one time lesson to have someone analyze skill level and give some advice for what I should be focusing on.

[@JensLarsen]

@@Wagohowardhanahou Just answered your e-mail.

[@guilhordas]

Are all the examples on this video thinking about a blues in F7? when you say that in a II V I can use Dm Ebm and Em pentas, what key are you refering? that Em penta would be over what chord ? thanks

[@JensLarsen]

It is a blues in F. I can't imagine that I don't say that and I also write out what chords the scales are applied to.

[@guilhordas]

@@JensLarsen and what about Em penta on that II V I? Em over what chord??

[@JensLarsen]

@@guilhordas You need to give me a time in the video. I don't remember everything by heart.

[@guilhordas]

@@JensLarsen sorry. Thanks

[@justinpaquette224]

Is a minor 6 scale the same intervals as a major dom 7 penetonic scale 1 2 3 5 b7

[@JensLarsen]

Yes, but the way I was taught dom7th pentatonic it was 1 3 4 5 b7. Not sure if there re strict definitions for those, also not for the m6 pentatonic 🙂

[@gyllenberg4585]

I like the Cookie Monster on the nut.🍪

[@shitij1208]

hi can u tell me any jass keyboard channel

[@JensLarsen]

Actually no, I don't really know any, but if you search for jazz piano i am sure you can find some 🙂

[@CsehCsaba75]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGLFemaanMmLg9E

[@mark-ze4en]

Jens,, are you a pianist as well? Your theory /super-positioning is so piano oriented.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you, I did play piano a long time ago, but I wouldn't consider myself a pianist.

[@toninotarsi]

At point 124sec kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqianWB9mLmSh6s you say Bb7 pentatonic is F G Ab C D. Should not be F G Bb C D ? Thanks

[@JensLarsen]

Do you mean 1:24?

[@toninotarsi]

@@JensLarsen No. It is at 2:04 . It is unclear for me where that Ab comes from. Thanks for your time.

[@JensLarsen]

@@toninotarsi I explain that at 1:52. It is the same scale with one note changed: A becomes Ab

[@johangranien2329]

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[@boblimone6454]

‘Beatles do you want to know a secret

[@TheTylrBllmn]

They play pentatonics like this on that track?

[@hycus4292]

what you are playing? I am not sure, but it doesn't fit to your examples...

[@JensLarsen]

Yes it does :)

[@hycus4292]

for example in the beginning (1:04) what exactly do you play, only pentatonics?

[@JensLarsen]

I explain it and write out the notes, but you have to actually watch the video for another 30 seconds to get it....

[@hycus4292]

Jens, thank you for your prompt reply, I saw your video many times, but when I am trying to use penta only it sounds so muddy, in opposition to your playing, what I am wrong ?

[@JensLarsen]

Can you follow the changes on a blues in F? 🙂