Modal Guitar Solo - Sound melodic! 🎸 Call and Response and Motifs- Jazz guitar Solo Lesson

[@goldsmithstrings6842]

Jens to the rescue!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! ☺️

[@goldsmithstrings6842]

Your welcome!

[@Jshortca1]

Wow!! Fantastic video and thank you very much! This is many lessons for me in one video. Thanks again!!

[@JensLarsen]

Very happy you like it! :)

[@Sighss]

Instant subscription. Thanks for all your lessons, everything's really clear.

[@JensLarsen]

+Sighss Glad to hear that you find the videos useful! ☺️

[@RJP37]

Thankyou so much for these lessons Jens, really enjoy learning from your channel

[@JensLarsen]

Glad to hear that James! You're very welcome!

[@lulumjazz]

Thanks Jens, I really appreciate this modal lesson!!

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcom! :)

[@lulumjazz]

Jens Larsen I personally like to throw in a tri-tone substitution lick/arpeggio, to go a little outside. Or the half up or down trick, to break the sound a bit, but try not to overdo this (I like​ it too much;-))

[@JensLarsen]

That's a good way to create some variation as well! :)

[@Blasphenomenon]

Great lesson! Thank you Jens

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! Glad you like it!

[@Roodski]

Not a jazz player, but I still love your lessons. Keep up the good work!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! I am glad I reach beyond the "jazz crowd" :) What genre do you play?

[@Roodski]

I play in my friend's metal group but I'm just trying to pick up whatever I can from whatever players I can. Lessons like these I think can applied in a lot of ways 👍

[@JensLarsen]

Ok! Always cool to know :) And yes, most of this is not really that locked in jazz as a genre!

[@downhill240]

While I'm not to this level yet, I found this interesting!

[@JensLarsen]

I would imagine you could work with these ideas at most levels!

[@ljorgw]

Nice lesson and I really like that tone.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! On both counts! :)

[@benjaminsaraviatoledo6643]

Nice! Thanks again Jens

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome Colo!

[@anthonydemitre9392]

Thanks, Jens great idea, I will go and work on this right now, lately, I need a push in the right direction as I'm still a bit ill and my brain is kind of cloudy, cheers, Sir and my best wishes

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks Anthony! Glad you found it interesting!

[@tferraro1474]

The most amazing part of this particular video example to me was how much it sounded like something Jerry Garcia would play in the middle of one of their concert jams... something I hadn't heard from you or any guitarist in years... I found that to be quite interesting!

[@JensLarsen]

Funny! You are the second one to say so :) I have never listened to him, in fact they are almost unknown in Europe as far as I know

[@jimbee8915]

Jens, thanks for the lesson. i really like that yoi stretch my music concepts.

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome Jim! I am glad you enjoyed the video!

[@jimbee8915]

Jens Larsen Thanks for the responce. Also i just got my "The Advancing Guitarist" thanks for the recomendation.

[@chris_and_music]

Jens, great lesson! Have you considered making a video explaining all the modes and how to use them properly? For example which notes should be more considered in each mode, etc

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks Christian! I have thought about it, but most of the time you don't really need the modes in Jazz, so I tend to look for something that is more practical in that respect.

[@brunopoglio3238]

Very interesting.THANKS

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome Bruno!

[@thomasa631]

Chasing the octave could add a little more spice. Also as you have said add some chromatic passing for variation.

[@JensLarsen]

Exactly!

[@bradleystroup1457]

really great video, the part where you talked about things to think about for variations was great if you can expand further that would be awesome. two things I like to do is use other arpeggios that work with that chord. say like one chord is just staying in the background and I know that these other arpeggios sound good with it. another one is what I call fragmenting and there are a few examples I think about when doing that. one way would to be taking a long phrase and breaking it into short ones, another would be add say like a step kind of quality to the melody where the original idea has a space between accents I add accents to get to the next one. and third would be where I take a phrase and whatever note I feel like, detour that phrase on that note for a new one. kind of way to take the listener for a ride

[@JensLarsen]

Great! It's good to have more approaches! Do you mean expanding on different things you can vary?

[@bradleystroup1457]

Jens Larsen yes one of your videos expanding on that would be awesome

[@thomasa631]

Jens kinda sounds like Jerry Garcia. Nice trills.

[@JensLarsen]

Really? That is interesting. Grateful Dead are pretty much unknown in my surroundings, I never checked them out 🙂

[@mrsunlite]

Nice summary of ideas Jens, don't see this covered so often. How about implying a five/one progression over a modal vamp for tension, ever do that?

[@JensLarsen]

I do use that sometimes, but I find that it is mentioned way too much compared to how much it is used :)

[@mrsunlite]

Jens Larsen Yes I try it & find it sounds a bit artificial. How about playing outside then resolving in?

[@JensLarsen]

Same thing really. Everybody thinks that they need to play everything else than what is there within the first two bars. It's all possible, but it is really the stuff to do a few times in a very long solo. Try to check out modal solos and see how much of it is outside :) It's less than 1% most of the time. You are better off working on getting your inside stuff together.

[@mrsunlite]

Jens Larsen I like the Coltrane and Brecker sound and have looked at patterns and sequencing, (have you seen the Jerry Colker patterns book?) but find it mechanical. Same for you or can you get it to work?

[@JensLarsen]

I know of the book, and of course also Coltrane and Brecker. I can get it to work and I do use it, but it belongs in chorus 5 and only played once. It's like trying to do a solo with only tapping or only sweeping arpeggios. It will never be great. I do have a few lessons on more outside stuff like side slipping, augmented etc.

[@kindnick58]

sounds like Jerry G!

[@JensLarsen]

Jerry G? :)

[@kindnick58]

Jens Larsen. Garcia

[@JensLarsen]

+Nicholas Dentato ah... Of course!

[@kindnick58]

Jens Larsen. I love it all.. wonderful lessons!

[@nihilanthropus]

4:00 the lick detected!)

[@JensLarsen]

+Yunus Qurbanlı But of course! It's part of tradition! 😁

[@raphaelkelly861]

also 0:27 :D