Make Sure You Practice Like This Every Day! - Jazz Guitar

[@AlanZeitlin]

Jens, you are awesome. I'm going to support you on Patreon. I think you're just plain one of the best (if not the best) jazz teacher on youtube.

[@AlanZeitlin]

sorry, I mean to say "teachers"

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Alan! See you over there! 🙂

[@AlanBram]

Wow! TONS and TONS of "gold" jam-packed into the almost too brief 10 minutes of this! Definitely one of your best, if not the best.

[@lukesymmons]

So true. Practise songs, take bits from them you love and then Lear how you can put them in your own solos. Don't just play a scale as your improv

[@joeknipes9567]

Thanks Jens, I think this is one of your best lessons so far 🎉

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you think so!

[@thesnortgringe5276]

Been a subscriber for many years now..but I must say that lately your teaching skills has really gone up not a notch but by miles..really appreciate your time and effort in making these videos easily understood among the intermediate level learners ..🙌

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much! I really appreciate that 🙂

[@PaulPaterson]

Thanks for another brilliant lesson. What I love about your lessons is that the majority of the content can be applied to whatever style of jazz you play. I exclusively play pre-bebop jazz. But if you substitute “idiomatic 1930s scales and arpeggios” instead of Barry Harris’ approach or Django Reinhardt lick instead of a bebop lick, this whole lesson still applies. It’s still the best approach to learning to create meaningful music, regardless of musical style. ❤❤

[@starrynightguitars]

What a great video, Jens! Man, you just laid it all out there. Now to spend the remainder of my life working on all that stuff! 😊

[@JensLarsen]

You can do it!

[@TheCSteve]

I played with a guy today and it worked . I played Jazz solo .. Not the most amazing but it was working

[@JensLarsen]

Great! Keep at it!

[@val_ist]

Another Jens' jazz gem!

[@JSustain]

You always inspire and encourage us, Jens. You make a schmuck like me think I might actually be able to do it one day - if I put in the work. Thanks.

[@anneonym7346]

Wise advices that can save a lot of time and energy to players seeking insights into jazz improvisation. You are doing a very good job for the guitar-music community !

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you!

[@ricklaino6385]

I always take away something helpful from your lessons...... Thanks Jens......!!!

[@JensLarsen]

My pleasure!

[@stevecharlton145]

Good video man. A lot of that reminded me of the first 4 sections of djangology after the intro and made complete sense. Arpeggios following the chords.

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it!

[@tomcripps7229]

Thanks!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you for the support! 🙂

[@KozmykJ]

I'm finding your videos and Patreon very useful. Not only for my embryonic 'Jazz' guitar studies, but also for filling the gaps in my music knowledge between a lifetime of bass guitaring and my adventures in 'thin-string' guitar.

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks Kozmyk! 😎

[@Nihuaching]

great lesson. thanks!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you liked it!

[@alainr1916]

Thank you very much! Valuable advices, which can be put into practice right away 🙏

[@BebopDesigner]

This is gold 🙏🏽 Thank you 😭

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it is useful!

[@CarloMusicLessons]

What an incredibly useful and clear lesson. Thank you!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was helpful!

[@RobKandell]

“The Big Bad Wolf, he learned the rule. You gotta get hot to play real cool.”

[@thirdlegstalliano]

His horn sounded corny cause he didn't know how to properly practice jazz

[@c4tubo]

You got me at play songs. It's my biggest problem, for now.

[@localpm]

Superb video Jens. Thanks again my friend 🎸🎵👌

[@JensLarsen]

🙏

[@solebello]

Alright, Jens! Not bad ideas about playing jazz. I liked when you showed the actual chords that are used in popular jazz guitar. I started learning one major scale, and I listened to what was happening. Then, I heard about passing notes and worked out some modulations that I like. They also do two notes, before, going up to a chord. Probably more, of course!

[@a1m1erola]

Excellent advice on how to practice! So useful and easy to follow. thank you

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was helpful!

[@BucoBucolini]

I just sort of had this realization about metronome recently and said something similar regarding backing tracks (which I mostly used to practice, either that or keeping my own groove). Backing track lets you to lean on it. You really want to learn to hear and create harmony on your own. Keeping your own groove while playing through the song works with this but doesn't prepare you to play with others. Metronome will expose either relaxing your time or starting to gallop ahead of yourself which guitarist are prone to.

[@lycan1235]

Wonderful advices, thanks Jens !

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was helpful 🙂

[@CaioMarino]

Thank You! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Trombonology]

I feel vindicated! Songs have always been the foundation of my practice.

[@boydross]

Really a great video

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was useful! 🙂

[@songfulmusicofsongs]

Hey! Thank you for the great video.

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you liked it!

[@JensLarsen]

What is the one most important thing to practice? These are the real things to learn with Jazz chords: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWLViGyNqtaUgrs

[@7upai]

🫡🫡🫡master jazz 🎸

[@stickysat]

Thank you ! :)

[@cbolt4492]

Awesome 😎

[@ericstrauch3215]

Using the melody of the song and small pieces of it to start, then, improvise around thise bits to creaate your solo using the exercises that Jens put forth here.

[@JensLarsen]

That's also a good strategy

[@fede7034]

Hi Jens, when I practice I take usually a song, learn theme and chords, and finally I try to compose the better solo that I can for at least two chorus. What you think about this method? Do you think that composition destroys improvvisation?

[@JensLarsen]

It sounds ok, it depends on whether you feel that the composed solo helps you improvise and is a fast way to get there.

[@stefhuray5367]

Thanks. 142 / 5 000 Arpeggios starting with thirds, sound really weird in Bb jazz blues. It would be good to redo a video on Bb jazz blues. Please.

[@JensLarsen]

What arpeggios were you using over the Bb7 and Eb7 in the blues?

[@stefhuray5367]

sorry I'm starting. I thought I could use the D@ arpeggio on Bb7.

[@JensLarsen]

@@stefhuray5367 Dø works just fine over a Bb7 in a Blues. Everybody uses it all the time? I just wanted to check that you were not playing Dm7, because that is maybe not great.

[@guillaumebuizard]

I don't quite understand why it's better to work on a metronome than on a backing track or ireal. Could someone please explain? Thanks in advance And thanks for the video Jens !

[@JensLarsen]

Is it easier with a backing track?

[@guillaumebuizard]

@@JensLarsen Hi Jens. Thank you for your reply. I practice on Ireal and find it ok. I don't on metronom so I have no real idea about it. I thought you were proposing an explanation as to why working on metronom would bring something that Ireal (or a backing track) doesn't bring. But I haven't caught your meaning in the video (my english speaking is somewhat weak). So I am interested :)

[@JensLarsen]

@@guillaumebuizard just try to practice to a metronome. Maybe that will help you figure it out, beyond what I explain in the video. If you are curious then that is the easiest way to start.

[@guillaumebuizard]

@@JensLarsen Of course. I'll just simply try. Thanks for advice.

[@JensLarsen]

@@guillaumebuizard Seems the logical place to start or not?

[@4578a]

Almost every backing track is perfectly in time so it's the same thing as playing with a metronome, just not as annoying and boring.

[@rainybay06]

That Barry Harris jumpscare summarizes this channel so well

[@andreasfetzer7559]

If you practice something, and are not able to make music out of it, you should not play music. You should do something else.😊

[@jerrynelson9754]

Sounds like gate keeping to me. Let's be more dynamic than that. People can grow too. Please don't tell anyone that they "shouldn't" pay music, you were bad too once

[@ItwasAbbqrestaurant]

​@@jerrynelson9754valid point. Like any skill or trade. I couldn't imagine ridiculing someone

[@johnpereira2910]

But you're wrong when you say that nobody plays music on one string. The entire solo on the Beatles "Something" can be played almost entirely on the G string. Probably an inside joke among the Beatles.

[@We-all-watched-the-video]

Unsubbed - all of these videos just seem the same, sorry.

[@elroxmusic]

Is quoite rude innit brove

[@We-all-watched-the-video]

@@elroxmusicyeah yank

[@anneonym7346]

Seems the same from your point of view, certainly not from reality. Too bad for you dude.

[@chaniagofams2409]

Too much talking...

[@davidanthony1392]

Then listen.

[@kostas9216]

these examples are very unmusical.maybeyour point is to use these concept at the very begining which are ok to have a relative good knowledge of the fretboard .there is no great jazz guitar master to use this devises.this is of course my opinion.

[@anneonym7346]

Every jazz master uses these concepts (among other concepts), they are just disguised, but you need ears to get it. Your opinion is just an oplnion of a uneducated and deaf person, period.

[@TheFissionchips]

You forgot to mention - practice everything as fast as you can. MAX your speed til your fingers cry in pain. DO NOT START SLOW and build speed. Top out your top end (regardless of mistakes - they will iron out) and anything slower becomes a breeze. eg - sweep the notes over the diatonic 7th chord exercise and play the whole thing 4 times faster. VERY Important: Sing along with every note you play and soon you won't need scales - play what you think as you think it. No charts required. Like a good typist, never look at your hands. Melodies aren't learned they are imagined. Never play covers. They ruin imagination and encourage laziness of mind. "Resolute imagination is the basis of all magical operations" - Paracelsus

[@JensLarsen]

yes, clearly I "forgot" that 😁