Bebop Soloing - The Licks You Need To Check Out

Bebop is a beautiful but difficult musical language to learn.
Sometimes it works better to hear how the phrases sound and try to play them. This way you get a feel for how you should phrase them, and add to your bebop soloing techniques.
This started as a lesson on how arpeggios are used in bebop but then I got really into the licks and liked them so much that I ended up just making a lot of really solid traditional bebop lines.
You should check out the licks but also try to isolate small phrases and make your own licks with them. That is how it really becomes a part of your vocabulary.
Check out the lesson on using a different type of chromaticism, passing notes, enclosures and more:
• 10 Great Chromatic Ide...
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Content:
0:00 Intro - Bebop Language
0:09 How To Add To Your Vocabulary - Studying Bebop Licks
0:50 Lick #1 -Melodies within The Lines
1:03 Why I Don't practice Bebop Scales
2:01 Lick #2 - Jazz Licks with Direction
3:03 Lick #3 - Breaking Up Scale movement
3:52 Bebop Ending - Rhythms
4:19 Lick #4 - Trills and Inversions and Arpeggio Patterns
5:19 Trills to break up the flow
5:38 Lick #5 -Using Voice-leading ideas as Reharmonization
6:53 Lick #6 - A Chromatic Motif
7:51 Lick #7 - Motivic Altered Dominant
8:56 Lick #8 -16th-note trills and forward pull
10:05 Lick #9 - Extended Arpeggios
11:08 Lick #10 -Arpeggios with Triplets and Embellishing a Dim Inversion
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[@JensLarsen]

I am beginning to think that Bebop is the sound of Jazz, or is that something else? Content: 0:00 Intro - Bebop Language 0:09 How To Add To Your Vocabulary - Studying Bebop Licks 0:50 Lick #1 -Melodies within The Lines 1:03 Why I Don't practice Bebop Scales 2:01 Lick #2 - Jazz Licks with Direction 3:03 Lick #3 - Breaking Up Scale movement 3:52 Bebop Ending - Rhythms 4:19 Lick #4 - Trills and Inversions and Arpeggio Patterns 5:19 Trills to break up the flow 5:38 Lick #5 -Using Voice-leading ideas as Reharmonization 6:53 Lick #6 - A Chromatic Motif 7:51 Lick #7 - Motivic Altered Dominant 8:56 Lick #8 -16th-note trills and forward pull 10:05 Lick #9 - Extended Arpeggios 11:08 Lick #10 -Arpeggios with Triplets and Embellishing a Dim Inversion 12:38 Like the video? Check out my Patreon Page

[@rjones197]

I thought about it, and I feel that when most people that I talk to think of jazz guitar, they think of bebop. There is something very distinct in the note selection, movement, and range of the licks used, that challenge the ear but still feel well matched to the chord complement. As a novice, bebop sound is what I strive for but often miss entirely.

[@connshawnery6489]

I hope you do an entire series on this because the bebop language could be a very valuable and powerful addition to any player's vocabulary. Tons of great ideas and creative possibilities to be drawn from this medium.

[@JensLarsen]

@@connshawnery6489 Did you check out the rest of the playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYm4lHl9lLmcmcU

[@marceloagustinmombelli3767]

The way you dissect the licks and explain each element makes this lesson a primer on bebop. Also you seemed so happy and connected to the things you were teaching. This goes to my top ten lessons to watch and re watch and re watch. Lately you are on fire kind sir!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much Marcelo! Really appreciate that you say so!

[@cbolt4492]

Hi Jens, I've avoided learning lick's but I think I'll be checking this out in depth

[@JensLarsen]

Go for it!

[@samuelemahtolo]

I've been here before and I've liked these 10 licks. But it seems that the more my comprehension or knowledge of jazz improves, the more I see all the beauty in these licks. They're truly great. It seems to me that you're more of a teacher for intermediary and advanced students than beginners. Thank you so much. I believe I'm making progress.

[@DESIENASHOES]

bebop lessons are always among the bests - like it much thanks-

[@JensLarsen]

Glad to hear it Francesco!

[@Diego-wb8bj]

Jens this is huuuge for anyone who wants to incorporate this beautiful language, thanks a lot!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you find it useful 🙂 👍

[@santiagoinfantino2368]

The best lesson Ive seen in my entire life of Bebop. Fine.

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome Santiago!

[@richardsorice4509]

I have to agree with you, Santiago. Thanks, Jens! Great lines with logical explanations.

[@4gcole]

Really nice lines Jens! I agree Bebop is the sound of jazz and we need more of it!

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks George! Glad you like it!

[@Producelikeapro]

So glad I discovered this channel! Jens, this is by far the best explained and most interesting channel on Jazz Guitar!

[@JariSatta]

It is! 100%

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you, Warren! Looking forward to collaborating on some videos!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much, Jari 🙂

[@Producelikeapro]

Jari Satta agreed 100% easily the best Jazz guitar channel out there!

[@Producelikeapro]

Hi Jens Larsen fantastic! Looking forward to it as well!

[@samuelemahtolo]

Yé...here comes another one. Maybe the most useful so far. Thank you so much, Mr Larsen !

[@JensLarsen]

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

[@charlesmoore6803]

You continue to provide lessons that are über-useful and contain essential insights. Thank you SO much, Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you, Charles! I am glad you find the videos useful 🙂

[@RC32Smiths01]

Bebop and Licks are two of my favorite musicalities! Grateful for this lesson!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you RC! Glad you like it!

[@RC32Smiths01]

@@JensLarsen Ahh it is always my pleasure to watch!

[@davidtardio9804]

Excellent lesson. You really do a great job dissecting the licks and you can see how taking these ideas will help us figure out ideas of our own.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you David! I am glad to hear that!

[@amiramir4676]

Thanks dear jens for shairing these valuble items

[@JensLarsen]

You are very welcome :) I am glad you find it useful!

[@MrDotneck]

Another excellent lesson with beautiful lines - Thanks for sharing!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! Glad you like it 👍🙂

[@constantinez551]

Always helpful ! Thank You Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it! Konstantinos! :)

[@davidlogan1659]

Another superb lesson Jens. So appreciated

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much David!

[@tonyhume100]

i don't expect to see any "thumbs down" on this one! superb licks, brilliantly explained - soooooo good...my afternoon is going to be a jazzy one. (now, where's my guitar?)

[@bobchurunkle9921]

Loving these lessons, this will keep me busy for ages, also finding the mood in the examples given are helping me start to understand the feel of be bop as I'm practicing rather than just copying a string of notes, thank you againc, great lessons 🎸😊

[@JensLarsen]

Really glad you have fun working with it Stephen!

[@marknava124]

Because of you jens im inspired to learn to much in jazz thanks a lot for your deep understanding in jazz music.

[@JensLarsen]

Glad to hear so, Mark! Go for it!

[@eternalrainbow-cj3iu]

I see that you did also faster lines, and much variation in rythm Very interesting, beatiful and very musical, and expressed as Charlie Parker on guitar. I almost always play your examples, and sometimes start to study some of them, in more keys...I studied merely your 4th in altered scale and augmented Lydian augmented and also your lick of Pentatonicb8(scofield-pentatonic) you came with a really nice lick bases upon the D F# C F Bb chord and then each tone four notes quite sophisticated...I did study that but still very difficult to really get, it is coming...still using it(piano+ guitar I play about one week much guitar and let's say three weeks much piano I learn each time a lot from my findings in piano and vice versa....

[@Brett.Williams365]

O my goodness! This is the best channel ever! Thank you so much for your educational work, Jen's.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much, Brett! 🙂

[@rogerball6265]

Jen Larsen, This is your best structured and presented video of yours. Really like the presentation of the lines in more typical tempo and then in a slow tempo. In addition the added "micro" analysis of each part of the lick is great. Good work

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it! I do use fast and slow demonstrations quite often so it isn't really a new thing 🙂

[@elldarrio2451]

Very very useful lesson, thank you Jens

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it! 🙂

[@josemolina959]

Another gem!!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Josè 🙂

[@donnymac575]

These are some really nice lines Jens.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much Don! :)

[@RocktCityTim]

I do so love the new format - thanks for this. What's funny for me is that my natural playing tilt is towards a Bebop groove. Maybe it's my 60s jazz upbringing 😼 and being a "hep cat" as my dad used to say.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! I think a lot of us gravitate towards swing and bop sounds 🙂

[@GermanPichinao]

Nice content and very useful editing.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! :)

[@GerardoHernandez-qy3tr]

Thank you very much Teacher The best of the best. I hope some day you'll teach us how to use the scale to make our own lines

[@JensLarsen]

Really glad you like it Gerardo! :)

[@user-yi2be2vi6w]

這集真的太讚

[@soumadip_skyy_banerjee]

Thank uuu 💜

[@JensLarsen]

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

[@josemolina959]

Can’t stop watching and listening! Must find a little more time for practice. 👍🏼😎🎼

[@JensLarsen]

Haha, sorry about that 🙂

[@user-gb3lq9gg4i]

Thank you so much for always giving me good lessons. I am Korean !!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it! 👍🙂

[@stuartarnold4495]

It certainly sounds good but again as you said it's not the most simple. That's why we have to use your advice. Thanks

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you, Stuart :)

[@hubertvancalenbergh9022]

I find myself taking snippets of these licks and rearranging them, like playing four consecutive notes and repeating that pattern several times, each time emphasizing a different note, and then juggling the notes around in a different order.

[@JensLarsen]

SOunds like a great way to work with them :)

[@shipsahoy1793]

Thanks for this Jens, it really answered some questions about soloing over ii-V-I’s in a bebop style. Can you show how the basic approach will differ over minor ii-V-i’s and how it could differ depending on whether you were leaning in towards harmonic, melodic or natural minor, and what style(s) of jazz it would be appropriate for? I apologize if this is asking too much. Always enjoy your vids. 😎

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it! Most of the time on a minor II V I you will have natural minor on the II, harmonic minor on the V and melodic minor on the I 🙂

[@shipsahoy1793]

Jens Larsen - That actually makes sense to me, I can relate to that, thanks! Yeah, with those different minor scales/modes, it’s all in the different harmonies extrapolated from within the upper tetrachord of the scale. A major 5 (V) chord within a minor 2-5-1 progression would not be harmony from Aeolian (natural minor), LoL. 😎

[@gssong7111]

Love your "idears" , Jens! 😊 Any chance of offering your notation in bass clef, too? I do like the reading challenge, though...

[@JensLarsen]

Learning to read treble clef is good for you! 🙂

[@vishyoutubevideos]

Good afternoon, Jens. Looking forward to practicing these licks tonite! Are you planning something for 150k followers?

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks VA! I am not, planning anything. Mostly because KZbin has announced that it will be cleaning out subscriber counts so maybe I will be on 145K in a few days (it is impossible to really know :D )

[@MegaOnne1]

Awesome! But should i write and practise and try to memorise my lines and use them exactly in my playing or should i just write some just as an ear/composition exercise and then forget them?

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks! Maybe a little of both? I guess I mostly come up with stuff and keep making variations on it.

[@SimpleManGuitars1973]

Have you ever checked out a Japnanese anime called "Cowboy Bebop"? It's basically sci fi adventure show but with inCREDIBLE jazz music for a soundtrack from a Japanese jazz band called Seatbelts. This is the main theme of the show and I genuinely think you would like it but I'm curious if you would consider this exact piece to be "bebop"? kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGPVh6GIrLxjnpo

[@JensLarsen]

I didn't know the series, though I have heard the name. It sounds like typical 60's TV music, which is jazz inspired but not really what I would consider bebop :)