5 Scale Exercises That Make It Easier To Learn Jazz

[@boomerdell]

Yet again, Jens delivers an outstanding lesson in which what can often feel like topics and techniques that are out reach somehow become understandable and accessible. Thank you, Maestro!🌟

[@eddierey5202]

Absolutely true! I'm stuck in a J. Larsen rabbit hole now. Send help!

[@irawhitlock1084]

Ty so much for the Barry Harris playlist! Your content is musically life changing. Now, back to the practice room for me!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it Ira!

[@RC32Smiths01]

Jazz may be complicated, but there are always roots dna foundations to learn from, and everything can come naturally.. Cheers as always man!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it, Ron!

[@RC32Smiths01]

@@JensLarsen Cheers!

[@JoePariseauMusic]

Yes, please post the link of Pat's video. 🙏😊

[@JoePariseauMusic]

Also, please make a Barry Harris playlist! 👍😁

[@JensLarsen]

What is your best advice for Scale Practice? 😎 The Mistake Everyone Makes Learning Jazz Guitar kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZC5ZqCGmLuZrLs

[@davehappablap5549]

ssssssoooooooo much value in this one lesson. I have weeks of valuable work to do. THANKS, Jens!!!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was helpful!

[@bmoraga01]

This one video saved me about 5 to 10 years of wandering in the desert. Thanks Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was useful!

[@raydamoiseau]

I wish Jens and his students a superb restful day. Keep doing your he(ART) everyone 😎

[@ZauberTocc]

Super video, contains enough material to keep me busy the next 2 years.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! :)

[@MrAOdom1966]

This is one of the most useful and informative videos I've ever seen on KZbin

[@jn7457]

Shell voicing in one position and the same lick across the neck - I haven’t tried these. I love learning new exercises. Thanks Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Go for it!

[@paulpmanhowland7818]

I will watch this again with guitar handy. Great stuff @Jens Larsen.

[@falsenotefest]

Very good exercise, useful and practical to open mind and fretboard, thank you

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome!

[@unclenote]

Great stuff Jens !Thanks.

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@benkandler6373]

Thank you!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it 🙂

[@djekse]

Thank you, yes please, make a Barry Harris Playlist.🎉🎉🎉

[@JensLarsen]

Here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bH_Rd5qanLShmZI&

[@jamescopeland5358]

Great lesson Jens, thank you

[@JensLarsen]

My pleasure!

[@RadheyShyam-rf2vf]

Thank you it is very useful 😊👍

[@JensLarsen]

You are welcome!

[@ayorichard9225]

I love this class I am going to have more light to d arpeggios

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was useful 👍🙂

[@JohnLyon-kc6oo]

Great stuff, Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@adolfohuet3974]

Nice video I can mix some of this in my current practice

[@JensLarsen]

Perfect!

[@calebcroche]

that was good. real good!!! thank you Jens

[@tomanderson7162]

This is an excellent video, I really appreciate it. You offer some tabs available on request, I would lover to have those.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! there is a link at the bottom of this article: jenslarsen.nl/5-scale-exercises-that-makes-it-easier-to-learn-jazz/ just enter your email and wait for it to take you to the page.

[@bartydulake1]

Awesome video - that really helped me to get an idea of how Jazz guitar works.

[@AlexVonCrank]

I see Barry... I watch.

[@JensLarsen]

For now it is: "I see Barry... I wait" 😁

[@macleadg]

Here’s a scale exercise I dreamed up recently. Play your scales & arpeggios, but never play on the beat. First just play the eighth note between quarters, then all the permutations of one, two, or three sixteenths and triplets between beats. I find it difficult, especially at faster tempos, not to drift toward playing on the beat. I definitely need the metronome for this! Thoughts? (P.S.: I’m new to jazz, so forgive me if this is something everyone already does)

[@feracedomusica]

Great videos!! Thanks! the Pat Metheny video it was great to!!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it 🙂

[@Sailor4431]

You have a really good learning concept! This helps me a lot. Question: I do something I would call quarter arpeggios (going up in 4ths than in 3rds). Do you also consider that?

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! Diatonic quartal arpeggios? Sure I practice those as well, but they are less common in Jazz. Often they make more sense in connection with superimposed pentatonics

[@Finn1766]

Really useful. Also for a piano player. Thanx.

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was helpful!

[@cbolt4492]

This is perfect for where I'm at in currently in my playing 😎

[@JensLarsen]

Great! 🙂

[@jeremyversusjazz]

hey jens i was on the Open Studio zoom masterclass w you a couple weeks ago. Thank you for sharing your time with us. I’m the longwinded guy who asked for your pov on BH. Nice to see another BH video on your channel! Btw your video looks really great now-i think you have the lighting dialed in perfectly. As well as the audio. 👏👊

[@JensLarsen]

Ah Thanks! Glad you like the videos, I am trying to improve and change things up all the time 🙂

[@assafm76]

Amazing video!!! can you please make a separate video for each exercise? thanks :-)

[@jazzapv]

Thank you, incredibly useful!! 🥳

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ehsaannoorani]

hi Jens super lesson as always ... can you share the Pat Metheny link ? Thanks

[@JensLarsen]

That is this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWPSY4J9nsycm5Y

[@Demiglitch]

I don't explicitly want to learn Jazz but it sounds fun to at least try these things.

[@dagmarbenghi7447]

Great as usual. Can you share or explain your fm3 preset too?

[@JensLarsen]

It is on AxeChange so you can download it 🙂

[@michaeldmytriw1047]

Please post the link for the Pat Metheny scale practice video too! This was so helpful!

[@JensLarsen]

That is this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWPSY4J9nsycm5Y

[@mf2304]

Yes! To the videos!

[@JensLarsen]

Here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bH_Rd5qanLShmZI&

[@videnteloco]

I was just about to suggest to create a Barry Harris play list.

[@JensLarsen]

Here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bH_Rd5qanLShmZI&

[@Boomsterblak]

Very Cool..Thank You

[@jeffersonm.senelishenson472]

i cant believe all this is for free great video

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you!

[@giratin7801]

When it comes to your 3rd exercise, I'm having difficulty on understanding the shell voicing system and how you find that from the notes in a scale, if you could help me learn how to find those shapes that would be great!

[@JensLarsen]

That is explained in more detail in this video, maybe that will help kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHmXpoSPnKmiqq8

[@baxmanduppa]

Could I see this Barry Harris playlist please? And the pat metheny video?

[@JensLarsen]

Here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bH_Rd5qanLShmZI

[@baxmanduppa]

@@JensLarsen Thanks!

[@simonhudson1765]

Where can I find the Barry Harris playlist and do you know of any good resources to start with?

[@markfreemantle7608]

Jens, @3:56 you define the 4 note diatonic arpeggio as a Cmaj7, starting on the 5th of Dm7 chord. I see this as an Am7. The E notes fits into the Dm7 as a 9th but how does the G fit? Or, if I look at is as a Cmaj7, how does the A fit? On the next arpeggio, the Bm7b5, the 4 notes are an exact fit to that chord, being R, b3, b5, b7. And, as applied to the main chord, the G7, even the A fits as the 9th. Do I need to identify the new arpeggio or just start on a 3rd, 5th or 7th of the defined chord and just arpeggiate a new chord from that note? Mark

[@JensLarsen]

It is just a typo, it is an Am7 🙂

[@KidCharlema9ne]

Can someone explain what a pivot arpeggio is? He sort of explained it quickly in another video but I didn't get what he meant. Something about changing octaves?

[@mikedana2450]

Metheny link would be great! Thanks!

[@JensLarsen]

Here you go kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWPSY4J9nsycm5Y

[@vimaan8088]

Please send that pat metheny link Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

That is this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWPSY4J9nsycm5Y

[@xxczerxx]

Excellent! I never could improvise until I discovered BH. This video crystallizes so many great concepts. Jens do you find Barry's approach to minor II-V movement a more useful way to play than the "standard" way? Maybe I don't apply it right but partially playing one dominant (the VII in minor) then switching to another dominant (V) is really hard to pull off. It's the one part of Barry's method I could never really get my head around!

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks! I always felt more comfortable being able to play the changes that I heard, so I took that thing as a shortcut for a scale exercise and then I just played the changes.

[@johandinho97]

yeah I want the Metheny link

[@JensLarsen]

That is this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWPSY4J9nsycm5Y

[@grantdeniso6458]

Starry starry night!

[@lawrenrich6419]

I don’t practice any scales or chords .. and I’m an amazing player.

[@divaspakhrin8969]

8:26 I think that's was a diss to Victor Wooten. #NoRespect other ideas.

[@JensLarsen]

I feel that calling that a diss is stretching it. But I do find that he managed to make things a lot more complicated than they are and confuse a lot of people with that video, and I am sure he can handle a subtle stab at that.

[@tuaacoustic]

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[@THEDRAWINGSTUDIO1]

They say 80% of your efforts give you 20% of your results and 20% of your efforts give you 80% of your results. Where should a jazz guitarist focus on that 20% ?

[@JensLarsen]

A mix of what is in this video and learning songs and solos.

[@claramclain]

NAILS.

[@joaonuno6364]

Thanos for the lesson! Where can i find Pat Metheny vídeo lesson? Thanos in advance.

[@brekreney5734]

todays wordle is equip

[@metalernest1]

What’s happening 😮

[@JensLarsen]

Nothing, yet 😎

[@feuerbachj4117]

Scale and arpeggios exercises are like sex: they are better if you practice them in all positions