7 Skills Jazz Beginners Don't Spend Enough Time On
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
- One of the biggest mistakes Jazz Beginners make is to practice a lot but not develop the skills that really will get them further, in fact, a lot of practice is just wasting time and building bad habits. In this video, I want to review 7 beginner jazz guitar skills that will help you become a better Jazz guitarist, some of which you might be working on already, but you can use the video to check if something is missing.
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Content:
00:00 Jazz Beginner Mistakes
00:21 #1 How Long Should A Note Be?
01:53 #2 Jazz Is Not A Looping II V I
03:28 #3 Learning The Language
04:22 #4 Make The Machine Swing!
05:20 #5 Putting Chords To Use
05:53 #6 Make Your Own Licks!
06:47 #7 Chords Should Be Phrases Too
07:37 Joe Pass’ Chord Trick
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My name is Jens Larsen, Danish Jazz Guitarist, and Educator. The videos on this channel will help you explore and enjoy Jazz. Some of it is how to play jazz guitar, but other videos are more on Music Theory like Jazz Chords or advice on how to practice and learn Jazz, on guitar or any other instrument.
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What is difficult about learning Jazz?
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I have the habit just like you said let the song teach you
Look under the hood sort of check how to frase I often use A drumloops to give it more spunk I hate metronooms not that they are bad but just like you say create swing😂
I often jam along with Oscar peterson and Joe pass I have really enjoyed THE Reunion Blues It's Just unbelievable these were really the guys whom were the roots of the jazz
Music as long as you keep Oscar peterson away from the Mike moaning
“Learn a lot of song so that music theory describes music that you already play and already hear” is such a great take away for the day. Now I’m inspired to pick up my guitar and practice today
Great! Go for it! 🙂
@humbucker08 ^*songs, not song🤦♂️
@6:25 'Composing is actually just improvising slowly, and also with a way to go back and fix the lines so that they sound better and that you can figure out how the new thing should fit in there' - GOLD!
Thank you! I think if you look at how Barry was teaching then that is clearly a part of his method, even if it is not mentioned that often 🙂
Playing with the two four deal on the metronome is essential in order to play Jazz with other band members regardless of how solid your timing is. Emily Remlar's first video lesson taught me that. She made two instructional videos on the Hot Licks label. A battery-powered clock on the wall is 120 ÷ 2 = 60:) I practice around the clock. It is also where I compose music. 120 BPM is my favorite meter. I like to solo by filling in the blanks of points to chords, so that the overall flow of the swing and feel of the songs I compose maintain their continuity.
i dont listen to Jazz, i dont play Jazz, and i understand less than 1% of what is being said.... but i sure do love your channel anyway!
always a useful hints and concept 😇😇😇
I never practice comping because I play rock and have zero idea of what you are talking about and I don't know how I got to your video, rock on dude!
Metronome really is a lot more gratifying than some make it out to be haha. Just the feeling of getting your notes on time helps when inevitably having to analyze a song's rhythm. I've been using that since day one! Cheers for a great lesson.
Absolutely! Thanks Ron!
@@JensLarsen Always!
this video really helped me stay stoked about learning jazz tunes 🙌
Best lesson ever. Not only for beginners. We all need to go back to level one now and them.
Many Many thanks for this Precious directions to ameliorate beginners TOUCH AND FEELING OF JAZZ
Hello Lars, I'm currently enrolled in the Roadmap. I have seen many videos in your channel and yes you have mentioned many times that practicing with the metronome is gonna force you to truly learn the song and improve your phrasing. However it felt more fun to me to play with the backing track, but I have learned it is just easier 😅
So I uploaded a video on the community practicing with the backing track, after I saw your comments saying that the soloing wasn't really following the changes I tried playing just with the metronome... and felt completely lost (unsure about chord changes) plus what I was playing didn't sound like the song at all. So I started practicing with just the metronome and I was very forced to think ahead and also to build better ways to make transitions.
At this point I'm just practicing with the metronome, building lines and seeing how I can introduce the arpeggios and the scales just to have more resources when improvising.
I can feel how the song is making much more sense and sometimes I play with the backing track and I can feel an enormous difference.
Thanks for the great videos.
Many thanks for all the work you put together to help us get into jazz guitar.
Thank you, very much for your support. I really appreciate that you want to help me keep the channel going
Been following your channel for a couple years now and it helped me so much. As someone who was self taught and grew up learning metal, punk, and other guitar driven genres, jazz seemed super intimidating. What helped me get good really quickly was learning the entire album "chet baker sings" by ear. I slowed down youtube to .25 speed and transcribed Russ Freeman's piano parts to guitar. Fully immersing yourself in the language is truly the best way to learn. Your videos on shell voicings and minor subdominant chord types were incredibly helpful in my journey. Let us rejoice at the chameleon nature of the m7b5 chord
Great to hear 🙂 Go for it!
Just bought a bass guitar and I starded practicing outlining the harmony with a walking bass before switching to guitar. I found it really useful to memorise the harmony and play over versions to really grasp the music.
It's really nice to see how the overall quality and craftsmanship of your videos, editing and content has become better and better over the last year Lars! I really like that style.
Thank you very much!
Another great video that motivates! Will be cracking out the 2/4 metronome 🙂
Go for it!
New guitarist here. I love your videos and learn so much from each one, even though I'm a beginner. This said, I've played drums all my life (was as working drummer for a long time), so the idea of not playing to a metronome is just laughable. ALL musicians should practice playing to a metronome. And as a drummer even when playing live I played to a click. So yes, solid, solid advice, Jens. Thank you!
Thank you! That is really great to hear!
Simply the best jazz guitar teacher on youtube.
Clear, efficient, musical, bits of humour and also great video production.
Check out Jens Larsen, Learn Jazz, Make Music...check out Jens Larsen again just to be sure 😁
Another great lesson, thank you Jens.
I have now a teacher I meet with twice a month and it is making a huge difference in my playing. Your lessons are just as important. Thank you again.
Sounds great! Glad you are really going for it!
“When you play with a metronome, if it swings it is you. When you play with a backing track, if it swings it might just be the backing track.” I plea guilty. I’m learning a lot from you and I don’t play guitar. Thank you so much!
Great Lesson Jens So True.
Glad you like it!
Nice as usual. A good way to get scared about comping is to see videos of Peter Bernstein (that you mentioned in the video), his comping is unreal ;)
Another great one man! Btw....nice production values. The video looks so pro dude
Hollywood quality 😊
Much appreciated!
I brush my teeth with the metronome on 2&4 hahah
Now I'm working on the "nearness of you" in Db ballad comping behind a singer.
Many times I put the metronome to just click once over four beats, to truly challenge myself 😅
Amazing stuff Jens 😎
Thanks Christian!
Great advice as always!
As someone who plays and listens to lots of genres, #6 did make me chuckle and think "only in the jazz community do you need to be told to compose and that it's okay to do" haha. And I liked your explanation "It's like improvising but slower, and you can fix things" as if they don't even know what composing is. 😂
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for this. I had a piano teacher once who totally eschewed my work on Czerny and Hanon. He said "who cares," and got me to focus on playing actual music - Bach, Haydn, Beethoven. So on guitar I've been doing various drills and exercises to learn how to play chords and arpeggios and scales and whatnot -- and that's still important -- but I am trying to turn my focus to playing music, some standard tunes but also some sacred pieces. It's much more satisfying.
As a kid I learned trumpet from Arban's with some teachers who were top symphonic players -- one was the endowed second chair in the Minnesota Orchestra -- and it was 90% scales, lip slurs, intervals, double-tounging, and all of that stuff. No wonder I gave it up.
Grande Jens very very jazzman grazie per le tue lezioni,mi si sta aprendo un mondo ,dopo anni di stand by sento che sto crescendo jazzistica mente parlando ❤ grazie 🎸
Glad you like it!
Such good advice thank you
Glad it was helpful!
You are a good teacher and an inspiration. I am very happy to have found your channel.
Whoa trippy premiere intro. Good practical tips too!
Do you mean the countdown to the premiere?
@@JensLarsenYes - I’ve only ever experienced the synthesizer fanfare- this was new and dare I say it, jazzy!
@@aliensporebomb I try to change it up a bit
Hello guitarist 🙏🍀❤️👌🎵🎼✌️🎸. Thanks 🙏
Йенс, привет! Как всегда сжато и полезно! Спасибо!
sabe muito
love the new lighting jens-your old ibanez’s finish looks like a 30$k archtop in those cu’s!
also, good list!
Thank you! It is not new lighting and I am not playing the Ibanez 🙂
ah-i see its an epi. duh. is that new?
and the lighting seems deeper and richer on this vid. anyhow! looking forward to good, maestro!
btw. interesting addendum to your video you probably don’t remember but I met you when you did the master class with open studio. I am one of chris Parks, Barry Harris students. Anyhow, we recently finished working on Blue Bossa for six weeks and everybody had to take one chorus in which we could do whatever we want most people obviously attempted a solo. Mine was super mediocre! lol mostly because I can never remember enough of the Barry Harris rules that we work on to implement them which brings me to my next point: a newer student, will sherwin, who is quite talented played something that I thought was awesome so I DM’d him off to the side and he admitted to me that he composed the solo. I told him it was great and I immediately transcribed it and posted it on my CZcams channel. I upped the tempo and put a little gain on it so it sounds more like me but it’s his solo note for note. composing solos is really really important and I wish I had thought of one as concise and interesting as this young gentleman had.
Che sound 🎉like bellissimo
Thank you. It has been 50 years or so.😅
cmaj7 triad? hah hello fine sir! lookinh forward to it :)
Awesome video Jens, what’s the software you are using at 6:27 to transcribe your line called?
That is just me writing it out in GuitarPro, my editor made it look like that 😁
Thanks Great video, what do you think about backing track with only click in 2and4 plus a bass line(as in Real pro)? I usually use these, is not exactly a mentronome but it is closer to it with respect to a backing track
Learn to hear the harmony and drop that for a real metronome. You know it is just a backing track...
It's interesting how you mention mainly playing short notes when playing a solo because for other genres I would want to play longer notes more than with Jazz.
I am just pointing out what is ruining phrasing for a lot of students 🙂
@@JensLarsen Good info for beginners to know. In recent months I have been working on fixing my Jazz solo phrasing for sure.
Hi, thanks for a great vid, as always. I've noticed that you sometimes use pick, and sometimes you play with fingers. Could you explain your technique with fingerplay? I have plenty of trouble getting enough speed with them, and sometimes I miss some notes as I try to gain speed. I mostly try to pick with thumb and index finger alternately when on one on close strings, and with others when theres more strings involved.
I don't have any system for playing with my fingers, I just do it, and if it is fast I use a pick
Great, thanks for the reply 😊
Jens I am extremely interested in jazz/rock fusion. There is not much out there in the way of instruction. If you could give me some suggestions for websites etc it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
It's really something I check out a lot, to be honest. Maybe look up Jake Wilson and Tom Quayle?
what do you think about the value of studying classical theory, Bach progressions, key mods and stuff? (for developing your own style/voice and progressions) I'm currently fascinated by Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in Dmin.
From what I understand, a lot of the great jazz players played and studied classical at some point, sometimes on a different instrument than guitar!
I think it is great to do, but if you are a beginner looking to learn jazz then I would first focus on Jazz. You don't learn Metal by checking out country.
@@JensLarsen good point, thanks. I would say I'm beginner/intermediate though always considered myself more of a fusion player coming from a rock&blues background. I think the most beneficial for me right now would be to learn/play more standards to apply the chord vocab I've been learning. Cheers
Is that Sheraton made in Korea or Japan? And are the pickups original? I have the same type mine is made in Korea and all original and a really fine guitar
Here you go, the story of that guitar followed with what I just changed: czcams.com/video/bIQiWfeWLA4/video.html
where is the chord video you referred to at the close? I couldn't see the link
It's there when I watch. What device are you using?
Hey Jens, when I transcribed the solo by ear and then checked the sheet music, I noticed that I was playing some of the phrases in a different position than the one in the sheet music. Is this a problem and how can I hear where the soloist is playing on the fretboard?
I don't think that is important at all, don't worry about it!
@@JensLarsen thanks a lot
Does anyone have any beginner-friendly solos to learn by ear? I've been hyper focused on gypsy jazz, but there's no full django solo I can learn without slowing it down 50% and then practicing it even slower.
Try some of these: czcams.com/video/K7OO-s31pOU/video.html
Why some Danish player..?? :) He is a Legend...Marvelous musician..:)
Mostly to test if people have a sense of humor
NHOP: some Danish bass player….? Savage, good sir!!
😁👍
I’m confused; so jazz swings and grooves also?
any suggestions for songs to learn after/alongside 'take the a train'? beginner level 😀
Maybe one of these? czcams.com/video/ifabQh-Liws/video.html
thanks jens! have resumed the roadmap course after a break, going well, highly recommend 🙂@@JensLarsen
Each genre has it's own idiomatic tendencies that dictate which aspects of "theory" are brought in to focus. Melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic tendencies, combined with recording techniques and processing variables generally dictate the perceived genre.
Guitar methodology has changed a lot over the years. I was a lousy student who quit after a month, then I've had to struggle on my own. I never get to the point of practicing scales. Give me a note, a chord or a rhythm and I hear a new song. I don't have the patience to learn other people's songs, I learn by composing and finding my way. Not very effective, perhaps, but for me it's all about learning to play what I hear in my head. I never got to learn sheet music, music theory and everything else you learn in music education. I listen, feel the music in my body and rest safely in the words of Miles Davis: "When you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that makes it good or bad. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent." It's all about dynamics (rubato), the heartbeat of the music and the eternal truth: If you can't make a slow ballad swing, shredding won't help you. (Which is probably why ear trained jazz guitarists are more interesting than academic jazz fusion guitarists...). Happy Holidays, Jens, and look forward to whatever you come up with in 2024.
Really interesting. Do you have any problem finishing your own songs? If not, and if they're working great, then you will be learning all sorts of theory along the way anyway. Maybe not with the normal 'labels' attached, and not (as yet) so connected perhaps, but 'learning theory' will be happening! I learned a lot this way by improvising on the piano.
No problems finishing my own songs. I've been a professional touring and recording artist for 45 yrs now, writing my own material. I was just addressing different approaches to teaching/learning music. Methodology. To me, music is not learnt by knowing scales nor by practising with a metronome - that's an academical approach to music learning. To be honest, sheet music and music theory plays a secondary role in the learning process being nothing but memory notes and conclusions. If one cannot hear and internalize music in the body, then sheet music and music theory won't do you no good. They can never take the place of a trained ear and you'll never be able to understand music from an intuitive perspective. The best way to understand the fundaments of music is to compose and to improvise. No matter genre.🙂
How about using Drumgenius as a "more interesting" metronome?
That is still a backing track
Listen to Drumgenius Ballad 3. (I personally like playing at Bpm 58) Bass - Hi Hat - Bass - Hi Hat & "stirring the soup" with the brushes. Minimum backing sound yet perhaps(?) "more interesting" or "more inspiring" to improvise.
@@michaeldennisguitarlessons And you like it and find it "more interesting" because it is easier than having the metronome at 58 bpm or at 29 bpm. It isn't wrong to use it (as I say in the video) but don't lie to yourself.
0:36 Bro you're 7 FEET TALL?! You are a jazz giant
I'll thank my editor! 😁
RIP Andre braugher
How sad, I didn't realize he passed away.
ho ho ho, merry new year! happy vegan eggnog day! blessed saturnalia! best atheist holiday to you! rock on, fellow jazzers! rock on!
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Jens - in the video you have a shot of an app that appears to be transcribing what you are playing. Is thst for real? What app is that? Thanks.
Your videos are a great supplement to the road map course!!
That is just my editor making GuitarPro look good, it is not actually at the same time. I played it first and wrote it out afterwards
@@JensLarsen oh darn. Looked so cool. Thanks and happy holidays
"Some danish bass player" 😂😂
🙏😁
I never knew Jens is over 7ft. tall! I mean we Northern Europeans are pretty tall on average but....?!
let me just state that I most definitely am not the annoying commenting viewer
On the Two and Four. What if it's in 5/4 ? 😂
Then it is on beats 2,4,1,3 and 5. Surely that is not that mysterious?
@@JensLarsen Obviously.
@@JensLarsen The (rhetorical) question was a joke, hence the laughing emoji. (But I did ask the question that some beginners might be afraid to ask)
@@davidmcauliffe8692 and I answered it. Remember that we can't hear how you say things in a comment.
Some Danish bass player? Everyone knows NHOP.
Exactly 😁
Are you really 7 feet tall Jens?
Hey settle down. That camera is too dramatic.
😁🙏
NHOP is NOT just “some Danish bass player”. Mind your Euro-manners.
Learn some euro-humour
Why do you have ru and ua flags behind you?😅
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@@JensLarsen lol im blind, your equipment screens
@@alexlovser equipment screens?
6:18 look behind you
@@alexlovser I don't see it?
Oh man I'd love to watch the video now but I guess I can't. Oh well guess I'll skip this one
It’s a live stream, maybe you should have let Jens know when you were available!?
Seems to work fine for me...
This is/was not a live stream buddy. @@TeleTonemonkey
I´m sorry but this is such a misleading lesson, especially for beginners. You are portraying Jazz as some kind of formula. "I´m guilty of playing long notes".
There´s no such rules in jazz. Mainstream media has been transform music into some kind of stereotype or sport, when its literally just about playing. People everywhere learning hundreds of licks, yet they don´t know what the hell to improvise at the spot. Julian Lage uses lots of long notes in any beat, it is about the intention of the note, the degree, the color and the resolution or just the musicality. Now somebody is gonna limit their way of playing just because they are going to try to avoid long notes/bendings/vibratos in jazz. And end up sounding exactly the same than millions of players just because they are not actually trying to improvise, but rather just following useless formulas or "rules".
As I also say in the video, it is not so that you should never end a phrase on a long note, it is important that it is a choice, not just a habit. There are no rules like that.
I mess your "Learn jazz, make music."