3 Reasons You Will Regret Not Working On Chord Soloing
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
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Content:
00:00 Intro
00:42 How Not To Start!
02:06 Joe Pass And A Winning Strategy
02:55 A 2-minute Chord Solo method
04:10 Wes Montgomery And The Power Of Limitation
05:57 Making Jazz Chords Into Music
06:54 Bonus: Bring Chords Into Your Solos
07:10 Turning Scales Into Chords
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Hey. You shifted the time of your premier by one hour. Why? It used to be at exactly the time I got off work and I could watch it on my way back home. Not complaining but just asked.
@@aadityakiran_s I didn't change anything, maybe you guys had daylight savings change?
@@JensLarsen We recently had a daylight saving change in Aussie. Everything is one hour later.
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Easily the highest form of jazz guitar in my opinion - when done well with purpose and sensitivity its simply sublime.
It is indeed a great sound :)
Chord solos are so cool. Especially the effort to put it all together with technique and knowledge of theory!
Glad you like them!
Chord melody is my favorite type of playing. I don't know why I started to play it, but I took to it many decades ago when I came across it in a Mel Bay book. So I guess to me it fulfilled the promise that the guitar is a mini orchestra.
Thank you, Jens!
I am sure you will find this video useful 🙂
Andre Segovia said guitar was mini orchestra. I could be wrong , but I think he meant (each guitar string) represented a different instrument within the orchestra
Good video as always, Jens!
What’s great about chord soloing is that once you’ve practised it enough you can basically play any song by yourself and make it sound quite full and arranged. This applies to all genres really, not just jazz. It’s a super valuable thing to have in your toolbox because even on a pop gig you’ll probably come across a situation where chord-melody playing is the way to go.
Thanks! Yes it is a very useful skill for a lot of situations :)
Jens you are the goat, this was a perfect/ accesible gateway to start practicing and implementing chord solos that also strengthens and introduces new voicings. Thanks you 🙏
You really nail how chord soloing/chord melody work improves one's melody, rhythm, comping, and phrasing (think im missing some). For me, it helps clarify and create relationships between all those skills, which creates a kind of learning synergy. Great lesson as always Jens!
Thank you, Ben 🙂
Tim Lerch has a great course on true fire with a similar idea, about triads, in case anyone wants to go deeper on this idea.
Tim is indeed a great teacher 🙂
Most of our problems with guitar playing lies in the rhythm aspect of it! Even though most of us concentrate more on the notes themselves!!!🤔🤔🤔
Well, that actually might be oversimplifying it so that you can't solve the problem. In styles like Bebop there is a connection between rhythm and notes which is very important, you can't only work on one aspect and have the whole picture.
It's not the notes, it's the space between them. I'm sure Miles Davies said that but I did before I'd ever heard of him.
This is true in the intervallic sense as well as the rhythmic.
Groove > Everything
For what it's worth, I had to do Girl From Ipanema for my college jazz band, and I found that particular song helpful in marrying the melody with the (honestly, really cool) chord structure. The tune itself didn't diverge too far away from the chords, but it did require a bit of practice to get it right.
Yes, that is a good one, also one of the first ones I did :)
I found this channel today and have been binging it. Jazz is a deep well. I grew up with a lot of blues, rock, metal, and classical influence. As I've gotten a bit older, there's more and more jazz that's banging on my door. I'm so glad I found all of these videos to learn from Jens, and I can't wait to practice them and add them into my playing. Subbed and have liked every video I've seen thus far:)
Thank you! Glad they are useful 🙂 I do have a post with some advice for getting started if you are interested?
@@JensLarsen sure!
@@andrewlabit It is difficult to give too specific advice because everybody is different and at different levels, but maybe check out this post: jenslarsen.nl/how-to-learn-jazz-guitar-suggestions-to-begin-studying/
You are amazing
What I never see when it comes to improvising and tutorials is the basis which is in my opinion the ability to hear, sing, name and play intervals. Hearing, feeling and knowing and visualizing are the basis in each improvisation which in itself arises from silence. When one is really able to hear and name the interval connections, the chord recognition isn't that different. My starting point is discovering by ear exploring the inner landscape. I truly find it very useful what you say but I just wondered how this way of developing your own style fits in your approach. I always avoided playing sheet music by Joe Pass or whoever, not because they aren't great but I didn't want to be influenced and instead I rather checked the chords etc by ear. And that ability to feel, sing, hear and play the inside out exploring your inner landscape is what makes playing in the here and now wonderful and magic. It brings me to a timeless feeling of an endless space and endless possibilities.
I have tutorials on how to learn things by ear, and that discuss training how to play what you hear. It is in there.
The idea that you should not check out music to find your own style is something I REALLY don't agree with. Pretty much all the musicians I admire and love listening to clearly have checked out TONS of music and learned from that, and I think that goes for any type of art. Art is not created in a vacuum, and if you love music then you also need to explore the music that you love so that it can become a part of you. It is only a matter of how good you are at that (or patient)
wait you in danmark? me too! What a great video, totally unexpected!
Thank you! I am Danish, but I live in the Netherlands 🙂
great way to end a video, i cant help but crave more
love you, Jens!
Haha! Thank you Denis!
Great video! Thank you!!
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@@_on_nicegram_DougHelvering 😲 what do you mean by that?
Thanks Jens. I'm still working through other videos and publications of yours as well. My playing is improving in many departments - technique, reading, ear training, harmony - you name it. Cheers, Kev.
Great that you like it :) That is also a lot of topics to cover
Coming from a Blues background... This actually seems very similar to the technique used for playing Hendrix-style rhythm parts (Like on Little Wing or Bold as Love). His solo on Wind Cries Mary is a sort of chord solo. However it is a very different from Jazz in feel/attitude.
I think it is also fairly safe to assume that Hendrix was inspired by Jazz guitarists as well as Blues and R&B. Wes was essentially producing mainstream hits in the mid 60s so he would have heard him play.
Fantastic, Jens. I’ve been fumbling around with this idea a bit to help extend my chord melody arrangements. Very helpful information. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent approach to this quandary 👍✌️😎
Glad you like it 🙂
Thank you Jens! Super helpful!!
Glad it was helpful, Sam!
addition to joe pass - look into george van eps , he breaks down different chord shapes in major scale order.
Listen to charlie christian, the pizzarelis, and angelo debarre...so on.
Great as always Jens, and very-much appreciated.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great stuff as always, thanks for sharing
Glad it was helpful 🙂
Awesome stuff, thank you!
😎👍
Glad you like it 🙂
One could argue that Joe's sweaters are a case for avoiding heroin.
Great lesson.
I just ordered Tim Lerch's recent book and it gives a great way to play very specific melodies in this same way.
Haha! Ok! :) Glad you like the video!
I am sure Tim's book is full of solid stuff!
Awsome tips! 👏👏👏
Glad you like them!
This is most relevant jazz lesson ever. Thank you sir. Easy to forget to keep it simple stupid 😊
This is great advice for piano also. Thanks Mr Jens
Thank you Jan!
super guitar- og musikfagligt og højt pædagogisk tilrettelagt 👍🇩🇰
love this!
Thank you 🙂
great video
Glad you enjoyed it
I'm currently working on my chord soloing. Hope you guys are doing alright.😄
Thank you for this video, it helped me a lot to understand how my late father played. I tried to understand but at the time and still it is complicated.
Glad it was helpful!
Makes sense to me Jens
Thank you, James 🙂
Looks like voice leading in classical music, but with jazz chords. I don't even think about the scale so much, I just improvise melodies by playing chord tones on the beat, and add semi tone intervals as approach tones to the chords tones in between. You can't really go wrong like that. I think that's a classical thing, I taught myself so I'm not exactly well versed in the proper language
Glad you like the video! I think this is pretty much the opposite of classical voice-leading since the emphasis is on having a static chord with a moving melody.
@@JensLarsen ah yeah, like I said I'm not conversent, but I see what you mean. I really love the sound of chord soloing, but it wasn't quite clicking in my head what they're doing, probably because I'm looking at it backwards. Thanks!
nice- I am a noob but i will give it a try thank you
It is difficult to give too specific advice because everybody is different and at different levels, but maybe check out this post: jenslarsen.nl/how-to-learn-jazz-guitar-suggestions-to-begin-studying/
A bit more love for pearl jam please 🥺
Great lesson otherwise which makes things much easier.
As always, I only make fun of them because I like them myself, just like Green Day and SRV.
@@JensLarsen I just wanted to mention that again. The way poor McCready meditated on his few notes was somehow sadder than I remembered. 😅
when i was figuring this stuff out a tiny bit it was the early days of high speed internet and i sent my friends an audio file of me playing, along with an image of my head photoshopped onto joe pass' on the cover of joe pass guitar chords made slightly funnier by the fact that i used to smoke those little cigars sometimes. in the bottom white area it said, 'i'm joe pass, bitch.'
Nice! 😁
sounds good on guitar, it's a power chord. or you could see it as a rootless 2 chord in E
Hi Jens, great lesson as always! Quick question, with all the resources available today do you think having an actual teacher is necessary?
Thanks Jason! Yes, I do think that getting actual feedback on how you play is way better than any book or video.
Ik snap het 4 minor chord principe nu, als je het weet is het easy. Ik ga nu patreon overwegen lol
Hi Jens, I have question again.. let say I have progression like this :
Am7, Em7b5, E7b9, back to Am7.
Em7b5 above function as subdominant that is also a borrowed chord from A phyrgian (so it changing modality for a while from A minor/dorian to A phyrgian/A# lydian)?
So, subdominat can use borrowed chords from other modes, am I correct?
That is not how that sounds, or how modal interchange works. Maybe focus more on learning and anyzing songs to understand this instead of using it as a formula.
@@JensLarsen idk, it sounds like that to me.. Em7b5, E7b9, Am7add9.. it sounds like sub dominant, dominant, tonic. It also have melodic movement like enclosure to A (A#,Ab,A), and descending G, F, E, which together create A minor tonality?
But Ok I'll try to learning songs, thanks 👍🏻
@@Danumurti18 Depending on how you play it, it probably just sounds like a suspension of the E7. If you want to learn stuff like this you need to learn it from music and not try to pull it out of thin air. Your ears need the music to be able to tell what is really going on and it won't be useful without it.
@@JensLarsen yes Sir 🤚🏻
I think my favorite part is 6:10 onwards. I am clueless about that motif, development, and conclusion stuff.
But like this it is fairly simple to work on, right? 🙂
@@JensLarsen Don't know if it's easy for my level, but now I have something to look forward to and work with. I feel like haven't seen that anywhere! They just say hit these notes do these, but I really want to know how they got there, and you showed it. That's exactly what I'm looking for.
No disrespect to Joe Pass, but Jim Hall was the king of 70s sweaters.
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Opinions on Ted Greene? He’s like Joe Pass mixed with Bach 😮
Ted is great! 🙂
sweet
Thank you!
I guess Thanksgiving is also a good day for guitar practice.
It sure is! 😁
Sonny stitt
I don't think he played a lot of chord solos?
Your right and even the great Bird couldn't do chord solos. I was actually wanting to listen to Stitt and I typed in the wrong box. 😳
@@alecmack3852 No worries 🙂 I was just curious about the comment
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Glad you like it!
1:20 You were so skinny before, Jens. I'm glad you've started bulking up.
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I mean 6th chord
I don’t even know where to start with solos. I’m new, all I know is throw a pentatonic in the correct key and get lucky.
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I have no idea what chord solos are.
Well, maybe watch the video?
Try splitting dense lines across both hands to creat large interval jumps - tapping 2 or 3 notes on top of each chord shape with the picking hand fingers. No idea why 'jazz' players avoid tapping - Stanley Jordan is a notable exception.
It would seem to me that phrasing and sound has something to do with it, but I can't say for sure.