Lydian Dominant - 10 Licks - What is the Best Arpeggio?

[@JensLarsen]

Did you know more than half of them? Did forgot any that you like? 🙂

[@NikolajChristensen]

Didn't know a lot :) - I do like to use the B minor b5 though. Simple but effective.

[@JensLarsen]

True, but not so much #11 in that one though 🙂

[@NikolajChristensen]

@@JensLarsen ah no. I knew there was something missing.

[@damonshanabarger2604]

1:20 I don't know if this may be the case, but I noticed that the D flat note is extremely easy to bebop phrase into the scale when rhythmically falling back on the F on the first fret. OK obviously it is not the descending value of melodic minor. It is a D Major scale. I also noticed that you could bebop... lost the swing. Sorry, F# fourth fret. Had it as a bebop. Settled on a classical key change.

[@damonshanabarger2604]

Your starting out on the Mixolydian of the C Major scale and slipping into a D# on the G string.

[@lirong2]

man how I miss these lessons... slow, educating, one idea at a time and exercises to try. nowadays YT videos are all about selling you something, playing fast and unclear so you give up. Luckily this stuff is available. Thanks Jens.

[@JensLarsen]

Good thing there are a few 100 of these for those that prefer this format

[@petar_marus]

Dear Jens ! I love your work. You are the best instructor for jazz guitar on internet (been checked all them) You are the man ! Thank you

[@alessandrobernardi9258]

As always.. killer content! You can't go wrong with jens.

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks Alessandro! 👍🙂

[@pontuserickson89]

I was just practicing Beautiful Love and then this came up! Just perfect, you are the best!

[@JensLarsen]

Great that it imediately fits to what you are working on :)

[@KennethGonzalez]

Killer episode, as usual, Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Kenneth! 🙂

[@anthonydemitre9392]

It suprises me that after 2 years of watching your lessons and not really practising much that now I have started practising again so much has has changed in the way I hear and see the neck, my idea's seem fresh and less linear, sounds great I have much more confidence, once again Jens Thank you BIG TIME!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you can use it, and really great to hear that you are practicing again!

[@anthonydemitre9392]

Yes I was saying how the mind can unconsciously work things out as I didn't really play, I just watched your videos and now my idea's and playing have improved without much effort but practice will indeed be fun again.

[@MundoGeek1206]

Your lessons are great! Congratulations on the great explanations, and putting quality content within everyone's reach. Your videos are being very useful to me. Hug.

[@JensLarsen]

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

[@raphaelrobwoods]

Jens: Meget, meget godt. I love your videos -- always good stuff to learn. Plus i love your dansker accent... (40 years ago, I used to live in Copenhagen... ) I need to get back there! Tusind tak, Raphael

[@JensLarsen]

Tusind tak 🙂

[@SuperVali111]

Great Content Jens! Im a Piano Player but this is very helpful for me. Youre teaching a big spectrum of concepts of how to think when writing a Jazz solo. Its hard to find Something that helpful on KZbin. Keep them coming

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much Valentin! Great to hear they are useful to you as well as a pianist!

[@ashandesilvaguitarist]

lovely, im just getting into the modes of melodic minor and hopefully harmonic minor later. hope you make videos for all modes. thank you sir. altered scale lessons in your channel is fantastic!

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks! I don't think you really need all the modes to be honest :)

[@ashandesilvaguitarist]

you're right but im a kind of stupid person who want to know about everything i possibly can. even if i dont make use of it. :D love you for giving us all the knowledge in this channel jens! blessings to you and the family.

[@JensLarsen]

You are better off learning music than useless theoretical possibilities though...

[@ashandesilvaguitarist]

absolutely right jens. going to watch more of your older videos with examples

[@offgridjohn871]

Revision is best served cool Cheers again again

[@JensLarsen]

Haha! You're welcome! 🙂

[@JohnHorneGuitar]

Love this sound. Lots of great ideas. I tend to rely on the mi/maj9 arpeggio but I’ll be working on employing the sus4 sounds now. Thanks so much for this video.

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome John! Glad you found something you can use! 🙂

[@Charldino2345]

More pure gold content 😍

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! :)

[@necemer]

Great Video Thank you Lars. Greetings Tom

[@butterdrool991]

you know been watching ur vids now for a while. Your video production game is getting way good. :22 good title card animation. Like always great topics! some of these voicings are hard to play on 5 string bass but I'm getting creative.

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks! I actually have somebody doing most of the editing by now. And I do think that makes the lessons a lot better, both in terms of the video production and also because I have more time to think about the content :)

[@bobblues1158]

It be ENDLESS Bro!!!! Beautiful way to use your life.

[@JensLarsen]

Of course! Jazz is the Journey that never ends!

[@olivierjung913]

Hallo Jens , Tolle lesson wie immer . Kannte Lydisch Dominant schon aber deine licks sind cool. Thanks

[@JensLarsen]

That's nice Olivier! Glad you like it!

[@theempyrean1227]

Thank you, sir.

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome! :)

[@dersacrakinebrizin5380]

Great lesson. I´m playing all the licks not to remember them all, but to incorporate that mysterious yet energetic sound of the lydian dominant into my playing. To me this sound in the context of rock gives a nice fusionee colour. The main theme from the Simpsons uses Lydian#11.

[@JensLarsen]

That's a good approach! I think Simpsons is just Lydian not Lydian dominant 🙂

[@larrysixstring6790]

Hey Dirk at 2:36 Isn't that an A Maj9 (A G# B C#) not Amaj 7 (A C# E G#)? Larry

[@JensLarsen]

Hi Larry, In jazz the one playing the chords is free to interpret the chord symbol and add the extensions and alterations that fits how he or she is playing. For that reason I usually try to stick with the chord type and not specify the extensions like 9 or b9.

[@larrysixstring6790]

Got it Thanks Jens. I must admit I have seen that before -- now I know why..

[@JensLarsen]

No worries :)

[@אורכיד]

Hi Jens, i was wandering why does a V/V (for instance G7 in F major key) receive a lydian dominant scale when improvising, and wether mixolidian might work aswell. Thanks!

[@JensLarsen]

Good question. I think it is mostly a habit, but you see it already in the Jazz Standards (which are not really Jazz music and were written before Jazz started using them)

[@SamBellGuitar]

Can't wait to get stuck in.

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks Sam! Let me know if you find something that you really dig!

[@SamBellGuitar]

I am a man of simple tastes and the dom 7th arpeggio up a tone is doing good things for me right now. Thank you! :)

[@JensLarsen]

If it ain't broken.... 👍🙂

[@SamBellGuitar]

haha, very true! To be honest, Melodic Minor is a bit of a grey area for me, but I do have places in my guitar playing work life that I can use this stuff, I love the sound of it and the players who use this kinda stuff. So your videos are really helping me thank you! I will be coming back to this particular lesson and adding more arpeggio super imposition concepts to my tool belt.

[@Abc-nz2yi]

Hi Jens. I can't explain something i found in a monk tune. I have a E7#11 that goes to Bbm7. That resolution a tritone away seems to sound so good to me but i can't understand what is about. Also, I remember that when i was making an arrangement of polka dots and moonbeams, I use that kind of sound without even knowing what I was doing, just guiding myself with the sound. Maybe it's an invertion of another dominant chord

[@DESIENASHOES]

I have always loved the sound of Lidyan b7 -- I was (and still I m not) very good at using it in a cool way but I do likeit much :-) and the lesson was cool

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks Francesco! 🙂

[@xxczerxx]

I always thought that lyd.dom over a regular V sorta superimposes a VI7 - IIm (ie, a II-V with the 2nd/Dorian as the root), a la rhythm changes. Charlie Parker implies it at the end of his Billie's Bounce solo. Although now I think of it the tritone sub is pretty similar.... Interesting, never thought of them as correlated before, cheers Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Well, usually the V of II would have a flat 9 right? 🙂

[@xxczerxx]

Jens Larsen Oh yeah, forgot about that. Can't it also just be a regular 2nd though (sorta harm vs melodic minor as tonic of you get me?). I do see what you mean though, your vids always help me stretch the extra bit mentally, great licks by the way!

[@conorheduvan]

All of them.

[@JensLarsen]

Fair enough! 🙂👍

[@terrybessey8134]

Could you point me to more info regarding “back door” dominants? Thanks.

[@JensLarsen]

Here is one kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIW1oGOlotqViLM

[@JensLarsen]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYiqaZdneZWEj5o

[@JensLarsen]

And a really old one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5S7h4uEat-nd9k

[@terrybessey8134]

Thanks, Jens!

[@kevingamble9050]

Thanks a lot Jens! But I couldn't find the PDF.

[@JensLarsen]

Sorry about that Kevin! It is fixed now :)

[@kevingamble9050]

Awesome, thanks my friend!

[@imnotmarkus]

Where can I find that McLaughlin lydian blues you mentioned?

[@JensLarsen]

It's not the entire blues, but it is one of the live things with Joey DeFrancisco. I forget which one they play.

[@Web4Panama]

I have looked for it also. Does anyone know the song title?

[@owenhu9465]

what about it being the II chord of a progression? like the D7b5 chord after the C6 in take the a train. can the lydian dominant scale be applied the same way?

[@JensLarsen]

That's the dominant of the dominant right? 🙂

[@owenhu9465]

@@JensLarsen right right! i thought the G in the example was the 1, but it was actually the F, makes sense :) thanks jens

[@hectmomr]

Here, trying to feed my knowledge with all the great concepts of Mr Larsen and suddenly... an ad that tell me: "Don't worry, learn to improvise WITHOUT scales and music theory". What the hell! Sorry my french... 🤭

[@orguidocomun]

Does this fit with Just Friends A7 (I believe 7 measure). It sounds pretty static rather than a transition , although it moves to a II-V

[@twizasichilima7392]

Whats the name of the guy he recommended to listen to.......jamed lophen? Didn't catch the name

[@JensLarsen]

Give me a time in the video and I will tell you :)

[@roncastro7195]

Hot just Hot....Jens nice job here love this

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Ron! :)

[@domenicopolo]

Good content but you are all over the place.