How To Make Jazz Blues Licks - All The Best Ingredients

[@JensLarsen]

Who is your favourite artist when it comes to Jazz Blues? Content: 0:00 Intro - Jazz Licks and Blues Licks 0:42 Simple Melodic and Technical Ideas 1:08 The Mighty (but short) Grace Note 2:36 Jazz History - Wes vs Yngwie 3:57 Blues scale and Jazz Arpeggios 5:37 Blues intervals (and Slow Bebop) 8:07 Double Stops - The Two Strategies 10:00 Internalizing the techniques and using Double-stops 10:20 Like the video? Check out my Patreon page.

[@Khayyam-vg9fw]

Grant Green and Kenny Burrell come to mind.

[@stevewebertampainvestments2097]

hard to say one fave but Oscar Peterson was a very authentic blues/gospel schooled straight ahead jazz virtuoso

[@Trombonology]

Strictly among guitar players, I'd say Grant Green and Joe Pass -- and Tiny Grimes, who played four-string tenor. In general, I'd say Lester Young, who incorporated a lot of blues into his jazz playing.

[@maxwesmont]

I love Wynton Kelly for bluesy licks. He always plays bluesy and swings like hell. There’s a reason Miles picked him for F.F. on kind of blue. (That solo is awesome)

[@jimkangas4176]

Hard to beat Wes, but all the others mentioned are really good as well

[@captainkoo]

Another brilliant video, loaded with content . The way you each is both logical and clear . A true gift

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@winstonsmith8240]

Said it before and I'll say it again. There's always something. Thanks Jens.

[@JensLarsen]

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

[@MultiLakica]

Jens....Master of teaching.Great guitar player and high-end teacher.Thanks Jens...

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you 🙂

[@aptelbruno8316]

Jazz/Blues licks , just a dream ! With it, a great lesson, clear and complete ! Thank you Jens.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Glad you like them 🙂

[@timcoote1403]

I love listening deeply to Grant Green and especially for blues injections into jazz playing. I know he was a go to guitar side man for other players but I always feel as if he is a bit overlooked in his own right.

[@JensLarsen]

Grant is a great player! I don't really think he is in any way overlooked though? He is mentioned all the time among jazz guitarists

[@JosephusDalrymple]

I’m a big fan of Kenny Burrell - my love for his sound started my on this guitar journey. And of course there is this Dane I found on KZbin that plays all styles so well, especially jazz blues. Goes by the name Jens (not Quist). :) Thanks for posting this. It’s right up my alley.

[@knightishraq]

Great lesson jens. The lessons are getting more easy yet profound these days

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Ishraq! :)

[@symptomoftheuniverse1261]

I don't play jazz at this stage of my life. You see I'm trying to understand everything that i play and I'm not good enough learning the theory and all these arpeggios at the moment and i feel Very young to play only jazz(without offense). I'll start playing in the future. But the thing that I wanted to say is that your lesson is very helpful for my starting point. I'll combine blues and jazz together and maybe someday I'll start playing jazz too. It's difficult for me to concentrate to this kind of music because I don't prefer it yet. Thank you sir

[@fourthofseven]

Excellent lesson!

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks! 😃

[@piotrbalmusic]

Awesome instruction. Love your clear presentation.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much 🙂

[@piotrbalmusic]

@@JensLarsen Thank you Jens. I am learning from you a lot. You have a fantastic way of showing things simply. I am in a process to start over... so I am looking for ways to revisit and reevaluate what I know about improvisation and improve... You helping me a lot ... and many others. 🤝🌼🌻👍

[@jumemowery9434]

Jens is the *Master*!! I love the lesson and I really enjoyed the video editing/effects too. Thanks Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks Jume! :)

[@leandrobarusso7511]

Great lesson Jens! Thanks from Argentina. Your teaching goes deep into details often overlooked

[@6string697]

Very good. My ears are having a hard time coming from pentatonic to jazz but they definitely heard that. Thanks Jens.

[@JensLarsen]

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

[@RC32Smiths01]

Always a great lesson with information valuable to anyone wanting to enhance their skill! Jazz Blues is definitely up my alley!

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks RC :)

[@RC32Smiths01]

@@JensLarsen Cheers!

[@PBLongfoot]

Thanks so much for this one. I'm a typical I - IV - V (12 bar blues) player and I've been looking for lessons like this to break me outta the "box." GREAT lesson. ✌❤🎸

[@simon0770]

Jens Larsen. Smart man, great teacher.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Simon!

[@stuartarnold4495]

Good to hear that your on the better side of the flu ,especially now with so much going on with the corona virus. The video is again first class always a lot to take in and play with. Thanks, and Wes Montgomery, love the thumb style it's my preference as well..

[@jannickberres9580]

thank you, your explanations helped me a lot🙏

[@JensLarsen]

Glad to hear it 🙂

[@waltergrobbe5589]

Une des meilleurs vidéos tuto de blues... Merci !

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it! :)

[@valmontsibbo]

A really great lesson Jens so on point and well explained. Thanks

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you, David! Glad you like it 🙂

[@bluesrockguitaristmikesall2708]

I knew Stevie, from seeing him at the Evergreen Hotel in Pittsburgh in the late seventies .He was playing with "The Triple Threat Revue" then. He was playing a hybrid Blues-Rock/ Jazz -Rock style,over classic Blues.................Great showJen's, really got me reminiscing .

[@guitarnation7420]

Another great lesson! Thank you Lars I've learned so much in such a short time, since I've begun enjoying and digesting your lessons daily now, on a wide variety of topics with regard to of course Jazz guitar. I do have a slight advantage however, as I myself have been playing for many years in a variety of other styles, but always finding myself going back to Jazz/Blues. So I've finally begun to take it serious in the last 2-3 years. Better late than never. lol In any case, I thoroughly enjoy your style of teaching and of course your style as a Jazz musician as well. You always make me feel as a student (I'll always be a student nomatter how long I've been playing) very capable, even if I'm new to a particular Jazz concept. You explain everything in careful detail and then most important, you teach your students how to APPLY the information and of course it's ALWAYS I formation we can use, as soon as we get it under our fingertips. How cool is that? You'd be surprised or maybe not, at how many instructors out there will teach this lick or that phrase, without actually showing a student how to apply and use the information! I've had many students myself, come to me complaining about how this teacher or that teacher, never really showed them how to apply the information they were being taught. That can be so discouraging to a new and developing guitarist or any player at any level. So it is a pleasure to learn from a teacher/player who understands this. Especially Jazz being at first to many, a very complicated style; but with a good teacher to help unlock the beautiful mystery that is Jazz, it's encouraging and so of course you want to keep learning! So thank you and of course we are ALL looking forward to more great lessons! Will be checking out your Patreon page as well to support. God bless. Peace my friend.

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like the videos! :) Go for it!

[@jimwarner2387]

Good stuff 👍

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you enjoyed

[@Brett.Williams365]

Very nice. Thank you Jens.

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it Brett :)

[@tyreolh9643]

Great lesson as always. Thank you.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! :)

[@thomaswalton9354]

Exactly what I'm working on at the moment. Great stuff man 👨

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Thomas!

[@bluesrockguitaristmikesall2708]

Great Content Jen's you are such a great teacher.

[@JensLarsen]

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

[@villariaz1685]

Hi Jens - excellent Nice day to You

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you, André. Glad you like it 🙂

[@jimsneider4296]

great video, as always jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it Jim!

[@matthewgalicia1101]

I have an issue and shortly after you manage to adress it. keep it up👍

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it works out like that, Matthew :)

[@emanuelpouradier4001]

Wouah cool, this video is exactly for me! It's allow to go through classic pattern and understand them and not just play over and over the same lick without knowledge. And by the way I really like Wes Montgomery or George Benson and robben Ford in jazz blues players

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it Emanuel! :)

[@christianp4123]

New camera? Video looks amazing!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! No it is the same I have been using for a year 🙂

[@EclecticEssentric]

Packed full of tidbits, thanks Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it, Timmy 🙂

[@austerereligiousscholar2314]

Jens, would you comment sometime about SRV's jazzy playing as in "Stang's Swang"? I would be interested to know how you feel about that aspect of his playing.

[@JensLarsen]

I think it is great, but not really Jazz

[@bubblevest1544]

If anything jazz, it would be riveria paradise, not so much his soloing, but chords and structure.

[@landofold]

I'd love to see you ripping some SRV style blues on that Strat one day Jens.

[@renecents]

So, an interesting question ... does Jens consider himself a Jazz guitarist or just a guitarist or perhaps, a musician. If someone said we need a blues guitar player for a gig tonight, what would be his response, do you think? What would be yours? 😁

[@JensLarsen]

I think I do consider myelf a Jazz Guitarist, even if I do play other kinds of music too :)

[@renecents]

Jens Larsen ... and if you don’t mind me saying so, a very good one. I wondered, because many professional musicians prefer not to be pigeon holed by genre. Music is music after all. Thank you for taking the time to respond, Jens. Enjoy the rest of your week and don’t work too hard.

[@michaelcraig9449]

At 2:56, is that the Yngwie Malmsteen Marshall "Wall of Doom"?

[@JensLarsen]

Yes, I think it was an Yngwie picture, but I am not sure to be honest

[@PIANOSTYLE100]

Jens While watching this I had an Aha moment. Around 2000 I found that could do the Diatonic 7 arpegios in frets 7-11.up and down.. While watching this video..you mentioned playing arpeggios. I think you mentioned a 1/2°7.. I drew a temp blank. I knew the chord on guitar and piano.. but I temporarily dismissed it. Then II thought.. I'll do B-7b5. I know this but I try to be clear. I always start with the major scale. In this case B and it is not as friendly as some. B C# D # E F# G# A# B..Key of 5 #s. To get a B--7 b5 (R b3 5 b7) (B D F A) Basically a dim. triad with of stacked min 3rds with a b7. (A).. So the arpegio could be done all over the neck. I would start at G on the base E string and try different ways to play G-7b5 arpeggio. The main thing to know when doing arpeggios is to see that most strings are in fourths.Just G and B string are a major third. The idea is to know also the min7 ..the dim..the Maj7..the Dom 7. These have to be known in forwards and backwards. Down and up. I've never done this. A few years ago, I was playing the jazz version of Georgia on my mind. It starts with Fmaj7 E-7b5 A7b9..Basically does a 17 3 6 2 5 progression. A great exercise..would be to do this in arpeggios.. It will not sound like Georgia..but if it will be really good to work out at about 6 or so places on the neck. Beginners especially should start slow.

[@superjam1446]

Hi Jens. I need some advice. I have worked through almost half of the Jazz Fake book, playing through 100 or so standards and the chords and changes just don't seem to stick. I am basically doing it for the muscle memory, and can benefit that way, but it seems I just am not developing as a jazz player... What can I do to really be able to play Jazz without having the book?

[@JensLarsen]

Take one tune, learn that by heart, melody, chords, soloing etc. Then when you know that go to the next one. The first one takes long the next one gets a lot easier :)

[@superjam1446]

@@JensLarsen Thank you so much. I really enjoy the videos, especially the Live sessions. I never liked Jazz to be honest, but I saw a video of you freely comping with a band, and you were having a blast. I realized that beauty of Jazz is in the improvisation, and being able to play music almost like a conversation with other musicians. I will be practicing!

[@jimkangas4176]

A couple tips I've found useful - focus on the melody, and be able to play it in at least two places on the fretboard. I'll bet you still remember tons of tunes from your youth that you can sing/hum, yet you probably didn't get them from a fake book. Remembering the harmonies is harder, although I recall one mentor telling me that "every tune has a secret" - it's true! After a while your ear will recognize those progressions (check out Jerry Coker's "Hearing The Changes", plus listen to Jens). I won't admit how long I've been at it, but somehow I'm able to play a lot of stuff somehow that I hear in my head now.

[@jimkangas4176]

One other thing. Try to NOT use the lead sheet. I used to do gigs staring at the lead sheet and between that, looking at the fingerboard, it was just too much brain processing going on. When you know the progression, I found it gets much easier and you can focus on the creative part.

[@AntarblueGarneau]

SRV was emulating Albert King eg large intervals. Huge bends. Albert used bends as large as minor or major 3rds! SRV didn't do it that way he most used whole step bends to imply Albert King style. Andy Aledort developed a way to play large bends by playing them on the 2nd string which is usually used for the "BB box" )

[@MarsziParszi]

Could you link where you took the B.B King fragment from?

[@JensLarsen]

No, sorry. I don't remember :)

[@tlincicome2957]

I'm going to write a blues song with the words "Learn jazz. Make music". Oh I'm learn' jazz...baby..learn' till the break of day. Learn' jazz!... Baby! Learn' jazz to make music to you...etc,.

[@corndog1868]

Search here for (Sinful Demo Album 1985) featuring Nuno Bettencourt and Jose Anes before RockCandy!!!! Enjoy

[@figgsboson]

Hey Jens, sounds great as always and great info. I had read somewhere you had an Ibanez Artcore? If yes which one and how does it feel and sound for jazz?

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! It is an AS2630, they are older than the artcore series 🙂

[@displaychicken]

John Scofield plays an Ibanez. Check him out it’s a great jazz guitar.

[@figgsboson]

@@displaychicken yea Scofields a low key favorite of mine, transcribed his solo on the Red One back in college. However, his guitar (the nice version) is outta my price range lol

[@henrikduende]

what are you useing ? not iphone?

[@JensLarsen]

No, it is a guitar :)

[@henrikduende]

Jens Larsen oh hoooo skämtare där! Vad filmar du med? 😁

[@JensLarsen]

Undskyld! 😄 Jeg filmer med et Sony A7iii og et Tamron 28-75mm objektiv

[@JensLarsen]

Link i video description 🙂

[@Sam-jc3wu]

You sexy son of a bitch I’m just the guy who just learned the pentatonics but also had something missing. Chromatisism. These last 10 minutes just totally blew my mind man I oughta oblige you with a reacharound for that

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you S K I am glad you found it useful! 👍

[@TheAmazingAhmed]

If only you wouldn't talk for an hour!!! Man it's angering!! Play more.. blablabla less!!! Jeez!!

[@JensLarsen]

I guess you must have a difficult life with TikTok attention span. But on the bright side: You probably forget it very fast too....

[@TheAmazingAhmed]

@@JensLarsen I'm not into tiktok at all or other social media platforms it's all so stupid.. Bottom line is you are a good professor and you teach advanced stuff which I want to learn, but you sure talk a lot more than you teach, I don't think anyone cares about the talk more than he would about the playing itself!!

[@JensLarsen]

@@TheAmazingAhmed I think it sounds like you want to play stuff that you think is advanced but actually learning it and understanding it so that you can use it is not something you are really interested in. Which is fine, but then my channel is not for you

[@TheAmazingAhmed]

@@JensLarsen okay then I won't play videos from you anymore In fact I would hide everything from you so you can keep talking instead of playing .

[@JensLarsen]

Ahmed Fadhil you do that 🙂