What other songs would you like to see covered like this? Here's my main strategy for creating chord melody arrangements: th-cam.com/video/ryBxYdKQ7AY/w-d-xo.html
Autumn Leaves is on the top of my list of one's I want to learn. I saw Pat Kelly play really nice chord melody arrangements of Mean To Me and Willow Weep For Me, I'd love to learn those tunes in chord melody form.
Jens you are hands down the best guitar teacher on youtube, especially for us self taught crowd who are guitar players that started out with different genres/didn't go to school for music.
Punters think (and expect) most guitarists can play Chord Melody but so many of us cannot. I'm only starting to get the hang of it now - after many years of playing.
Thank you, Jens, you are the teacher who makes my learning and playing more confident and enjoyable. You are the best jazz guitar teacher. I learn from you daily. Thank you, so much for making me a better player faster than I thought possible.
I like your little note, that you don't have to analyse everything. If it feels good and you like what you play and hear, it's not necessary to analyse it. :)
That would be cool to hear! Music by fans of Jens! I'd get paranoid about people stealing my unpublished ideas though 😂 So petty right! As if it's Leonardo's notebook or something 😅
This is such a fantastic lesson especially for a jazz newbie like myself. You explain so much in this video. It's like a month long tutorial in a single video. I think you are one of the best teachers on TH-cam and I can't wait to learn this song.
Thanks once again for sharing how to play jazz guitar chord melody lessons - Autumn leaves in simplified form and easy to understand the concepts behind it for any beginner jazz guitarists.
Can you recommend some other jazz standards that fit nicely with chord melody, and some someone who is just starting to learn it. I’m doing Autumn leaves in different keys which helps too.. Thanks again for your excellent lessons ..
Nice explanation. I always put the chords first and tried to find the melody notes inside the chords. This was getting frustrating. Thanks for that tip of melody first. It makes sense and sounds much better to play that way.
I’m normally pretty avoidant of guitar lesson videos. But for some reason I’ve watched a few of these and have to say, I’ve learned more here than I did in 4 years of university jazz big band on bass (to be fair, the university doesn’t offer music degrees).
It's not hard. After my first 6 months of lessons, my teacher had me making chord melodies. I was 14 and a year later was in a band, playing bass, but also played the occasional balad on guitar. Dancing in the dark was one I remember. There are lots of techniques to make it a process, then you learn what you arranged, and modify to your liking.
Hello Jens, I play Automn Leaves in a big band, your approch give me solutions. I think this song offer all what someone need to play jazz. Thank's for this vidéo and all others. Gilles, ( follower since covid confinment !!!!!.)
@5:17 I noticed something I have never thought of with respect to playing Chords and Melody: normally, when I just play just the melody, I stay in position. Jens is playing the melody notes in Proximity to the Shell Voicings! The Destination (the shell voiced chord) defines where the melody makes the most sense to play.
Thanks Jens - I have already been working on this from your previous tutorial(s) on autumn leaves. I'd love to see you do a tutorial on 'It;s the Talk of the Town' by Jerry Livingston as it was performed in 1982 at the North Sea Jazz Festival by the Guitar Greats - I have found the transcription of the chords but can't find the right inversions to be able to play the chords correctly at reasnable speed. Could you give that a try for us?
Mr. Larsen, I would like to know, please, and if possible, could you tell me what guitar you use and what amplified speaker you use to play this song Autumn Leaves, because I would like to have a sound as beautiful as this. Thank you very much
HI Jens: You are getting really good at presenting your knowledge. I bought your beginner course a few years ago. I could not get to it. It was not fun. What you have shown here today is what I was looking for. Songs that we know that we can get started and improve as we get better at playing them using TABS as your are presenting today. Would you have a 20 songs that we could learn using this style of training?
Hi Osvi, Thank you! Just learning chord melody arrangements and not learning to solo or adding being creative with the music, I don't really feel that is Jazz. You not improvising, just playing from sheet music. That's more like classical music to me, I wonder if what I do as a teacher will fit you at all. But if you want to only do chord melody then I do have that on Patreon on both the lowest and the highest tier depending on how deep you want to go.
@@JensLarsen . As we get to know the basics, the improvisation comes natural. We have to start from a good foundation, them with practice we begin to improvise organically. It is the way that some of us learn step by step. First from a classical traditional foundation, then, we can flight and innvate.
@@JensLarsen out of curiosity, what do you think is the foundation of improvisation? I've spent the past seven years studying harmony and have come to realize that my ear is under developed and my sense of melody isn't good enough to play and compose the way I want to. I think a lot about how to approach improvising, whether comping or soloing, and frequently run into the same things: use your ear, play what you hear in your head, sing while you play and play what you sing. Yet, for those of us who are struggling with breaking out of thinking about melodies in terms of box shapes on the fretboard, this advice is challenging because I don't think it meets us where we are at. How do you build the ability to improvise melodies, and, by virtue of that, improvise in general?
@cas_tration You can practice exercises and think about a lot of stuff, but you need to play solos on music if you want to become good at playing solos on music. All the other things are around it, and if you separate the skills without spending most of your time working on the main goal, you won't get there. Nobody became great at swimming by spending most of their time doing push-ups next to the pool.
Great tutorial, Jens! Thanks for sharing. I’ve been looking for your online courses, but I’m not sure where I should begin. Wich one do you recomend to start: jazz guitar or the jazz chord?
I really liked the video, it was very informative and instructive. But I am very new to Jazz in general, and to be honest, the version where you reharmonized the chords appealed to me less than the other versions before. I want to learn to appreciate this music and craftsmanship, but I just haven't been diving very deeply into Jazz music, I do like most of the standards though. What can I do about this?
@@JensLarsen Ah yes, in order to become a better Jazz player I must first become a good Jazz listener. What would you recommend for beginners? I tend to like the calm, chilling, or also bittersweet tunes like It Never Entered My Mind by the Miles Davis Quartet or Autumn Leaves
There's a video of julian lage playing autumn leaves (from his interview with rick beato) that is absolutely amazing, and bill evans' version from portrait in jazz is my favourite jazz song, bar none. Check both out if you like this tune. Cheers jens
Hej Peter! Tusind tak! Måske skal du lige kigge på den her først bare for at få en ide om hvordan det hele virker: jenslarsen.nl/how-to-learn-jazz-guitar-suggestions-to-begin-studying/ Jeg har også et kursus, men det kan du nok finde et link til på min hjemmeside
Tak for dit svar, Jens.Jeg elsker bogformatet og vil gerne købe din bog Modern Jazz Guitar Concepts, men jeg ved ikke hvad den indeholder og om det er et godt sted at starte. Jeg har spillet guitar i 30 år. Glæder mig til at dykke ned i din viden. Du er en fantastisk formidler!
The problem with your channel is that you publish a video per week, but I would need at least a month of hard work to digest it... 😅Jokes aside, this video was amazing and full of interesting hints. I will definitely start practicing this stuff tonight. Thank you for the great material you publish!
This would sound great with some dirt on it! Mabye some delay and/ or chorus for width. I might be hearing this through Mike Stern's ear's. I don't know if he's done the song, probably has, but "Autumn Leaves" sounds like it needs some more life. Then again, everything is dying in Autumn so.......... Shit
I always use reverb. How much depends upon the size of the room. And I use chorus. Very slight, usually about 30 milliseconds. Thru a decent tube amp. And it sounds fantastic. Always using seymour Duncan's, a jazz in the neck and jb in the neck.
One of the things for me is weird from your skill and knowledge....your hands ,and thus fingers are so big I have small hands and short fingers and unfortunately after years of manual labour have fattened up and lost flexibilty........... Any tips for small handed peeps
I just don’t like this version…he’s taking a soft romantic song that in its natural composition is soft and continuously flowing, but he tried to make it jazzy bouncy which takes away from its natural beauty. It’s a NO for me.
What other songs would you like to see covered like this?
Here's my main strategy for creating chord melody arrangements:
th-cam.com/video/ryBxYdKQ7AY/w-d-xo.html
Autumn Leaves is on the top of my list of one's I want to learn. I saw Pat Kelly play really nice chord melody arrangements of Mean To Me and Willow Weep For Me, I'd love to learn those tunes in chord melody form.
PDF of this arrangement on my website 🙂
Angel eyes
Stella by Starlight
I would love to learn how to play Some day my prince will come
Jens you are hands down the best guitar teacher on youtube, especially for us self taught crowd who are guitar players that started out with different genres/didn't go to school for music.
Glad you like the videos
Second that
Thanks so much for the Autumn Leaves arragement!
Thank you for the support., Paul! I really appreciate that you want to help the channel to keep going
Punters think (and expect) most guitarists can play Chord Melody but so many of us cannot. I'm only starting to get the hang of it now - after many years of playing.
The hell is a Punter?
@@tripp8833 A member of the audience.😁
Punters: You're not using enough strings
@@kevindonnelly761I've been playing guitar for over forty years I am very inefficient at chord melodies!
@@tripp8833Punters are also people who like to bet on horse races.
You are a very skilled, natural, and thoughtful teacher. Thank you for your time and effort.
You are very welcome
Chord melody is the apex of guitar performance. Fingerstyle lends well to it.
Good job 👍
Thanks for the tabs!
I love this lesson.
🙏🙂
Love this❤ More lessons like this! Thank you!❤🎉
Thank you! What songs?
@JensLarsen Maybe green sleeves that is a easy one or Georgia on my mind....
Excellent video and lesson, Jens. I am getting back into guitar after a long time. Explanations like this really help a lot. Thank you! ❤
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the arrangement and thanks for playing on an ordinary guitar, it gives us mere mortals hope. Thanks again
Thank you, Jens, you are the teacher who makes my learning and playing more confident and enjoyable. You are the best jazz guitar teacher. I learn from you daily. Thank you, so much for making me a better player faster than I thought possible.
I like your little note, that you don't have to analyse everything. If it feels good and you like what you play and hear, it's not necessary to analyse it. :)
I appreciate that!
Very clear lesson. Loved the reharmonization at the end. Thanks, Jens!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent as always
Glad you think so!
I do chord melodies all the time! It’s my favorite thing to do on jazz guitar!
Do you have a channel? Would you care to share them?
That would be cool to hear! Music by fans of Jens!
I'd get paranoid about people stealing my unpublished ideas though 😂 So petty right! As if it's Leonardo's notebook or something 😅
This is such a fantastic lesson especially for a jazz newbie like myself. You explain so much in this video. It's like a month long tutorial in a single video. I think you are one of the best teachers on TH-cam and I can't wait to learn this song.
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome! Thanks Jens
Glad you like it!
❤❤❤greetings from Poland.🎸🎸🎸
You're the best Jens......!!!
🙏🙂
Yes, yes yes, magnificent explanation. Thank you., Jens.
Glad you like it!
Thanks!
Thank you, Tom!
Thanks for sharing this great lesson and congrats on the 500 K subscribers.
Glad you like the videos 🙏
Amazing lesson! Thank you, Maestro!
Glad you liked it!
So beautiful!!!
Thank you!!
Thanks once again for sharing how to play jazz guitar chord melody lessons - Autumn leaves in simplified form and easy to understand the concepts behind it for any beginner jazz guitarists.
Glad you like it
best way to start jazz standard song ❤
Its incredible that these 10 minutes of video that will give me 10 years of practice. Thank you
Gande Jens!! Siempre bien lo tuyo. Muy didáctico. Abrazo desde Argentina!
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Great lesson as always, Jens. And congrats on reaching 500K followers!!!
Thank you!
Great stuff!!! This has really helped out my playing.
Glad it was helpful 😊
Love you Jens, you make the impossible possible. 🏆🤘
I always enjoy watching your videos. You give me great ideas for teaching and to use while playing too
Awesome! Thank you!
excellent lesson!! Thank you
Glad you liked it!
@@JensLarsen the concepts can be applied to many songs and genres..
@@asansone57 certainly
Can you recommend some other jazz standards that fit nicely with chord melody, and some someone who is just starting to learn it.
I’m doing Autumn leaves in different keys which helps too..
Thanks again for your excellent lessons ..
finally something enough simple for me. greeting from chile
Great! Go for it
Fantastic! The video I always wanted you to make :)
Glad you liked it!
Thanks Jens!
Glad it was useful! 🙂
Nice explanation. I always put the chords first and tried to find the melody notes inside the chords. This was getting frustrating. Thanks for that tip of melody first. It makes sense and sounds much better to play that way.
Glad it helped!
500,000 subscribers! Congrats. Are you going to make a special video as a celebration?
Great lesson Jens. Even I can learn that! Thank you! 🙂
Glad it was helpful!
That was great, thank you! I love the last reharm but all valuable musical ideas!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Jens, thank you for the beauty extension.
You are so welcome!
Danke Schoën!
🙏🙂
This is really useful . Thanks
Glad to hear that
That’s amazing. So eye-opening. Lots of practice and studying ahead haha. Thank you Jens !
You got this!
I’m normally pretty avoidant of guitar lesson videos. But for some reason I’ve watched a few of these and have to say, I’ve learned more here than I did in 4 years of university jazz big band on bass (to be fair, the university doesn’t offer music degrees).
Thank you very much! That is really great to hear
Thank you!
You're welcome!
très intéressant merci Jens
Glad you like it!
Paul Davids 🤩🤩
Thank you! 💙🤖💙🤖💙🤖💙
No problem 😊
Nice looking Epi .
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this
New subscriber sounds great
Welcome!
It's not hard. After my first 6 months of lessons, my teacher had me making chord melodies. I was 14 and a year later was in a band, playing bass, but also played the occasional balad on guitar. Dancing in the dark was one I remember.
There are lots of techniques to make it a process, then you learn what you arranged, and modify to your liking.
Indeed, Go for it!
Wow! 😲👍👏
Hello Jens, I play Automn Leaves in a big band, your approch give me solutions. I think this song offer all what someone need to play jazz.
Thank's for this vidéo and all others.
Gilles, ( follower since covid confinment !!!!!.)
Hey, one of your gratest lessons.
Apply theorie into Musik 😊
Thanks a lot!
Thank you
muy bueno. gracias maestro
Glad you like it
@5:17 I noticed something I have never thought of with respect to playing Chords and Melody: normally, when I just play just the melody, I stay in position. Jens is playing the melody notes in Proximity to the Shell Voicings! The Destination (the shell voiced chord) defines where the melody makes the most sense to play.
There's nothing wrong with playing it in position though, but for this it makes more sense to move around so you can add chords 🙂
Thanks Jens - I have already been working on this from your previous tutorial(s) on autumn leaves. I'd love to see you do a tutorial on 'It;s the Talk of the Town' by Jerry Livingston as it was performed in 1982 at the North Sea Jazz Festival by the Guitar Greats - I have found the transcription of the chords but can't find the right inversions to be able to play the chords correctly at reasnable speed. Could you give that a try for us?
Mr. Larsen, I would like to know, please, and if possible, could you tell me what guitar you use and what amplified speaker you use to play this song Autumn Leaves, because I would like to have a sound as beautiful as this. Thank you very much
I am using my Epiphone Sheraton th-cam.com/video/bIQiWfeWLA4/w-d-xo.html through my Fractal Audio FM3
HI Jens: You are getting really good at presenting your knowledge. I bought your beginner course a few years ago. I could not get to it. It was not fun. What you have shown here today is what I was looking for. Songs that we know that we can get started and improve as we get better at playing them using TABS as your are presenting today. Would you have a 20 songs that we could learn using this style of training?
Hi Osvi,
Thank you!
Just learning chord melody arrangements and not learning to solo or adding being creative with the music, I don't really feel that is Jazz. You not improvising, just playing from sheet music. That's more like classical music to me, I wonder if what I do as a teacher will fit you at all.
But if you want to only do chord melody then I do have that on Patreon on both the lowest and the highest tier depending on how deep you want to go.
@@JensLarsen . As we get to know the basics, the improvisation comes natural. We have to start from a good foundation, them with practice we begin to improvise organically. It is the way that some of us learn step by step. First from a classical traditional foundation, then, we can flight and innvate.
@@osvibascur4601 The foundation for improvisation is NOT chords or chord melody. Trust me, I have years of experience teaching Jazz.
@@JensLarsen out of curiosity, what do you think is the foundation of improvisation? I've spent the past seven years studying harmony and have come to realize that my ear is under developed and my sense of melody isn't good enough to play and compose the way I want to. I think a lot about how to approach improvising, whether comping or soloing, and frequently run into the same things: use your ear, play what you hear in your head, sing while you play and play what you sing. Yet, for those of us who are struggling with breaking out of thinking about melodies in terms of box shapes on the fretboard, this advice is challenging because I don't think it meets us where we are at. How do you build the ability to improvise melodies, and, by virtue of that, improvise in general?
@cas_tration You can practice exercises and think about a lot of stuff, but you need to play solos on music if you want to become good at playing solos on music.
All the other things are around it, and if you separate the skills without spending most of your time working on the main goal, you won't get there. Nobody became great at swimming by spending most of their time doing push-ups next to the pool.
❤❤❤❤
🙏
Me too friend
JENS LARSEN = GUITAR TEACHER
Great tutorial, Jens! Thanks for sharing. I’ve been looking for your online courses, but I’m not sure where I should begin. Wich one do you recomend to start: jazz guitar or the jazz chord?
If you are new to Jazz, then start with the Roadmap! Black Friday is coming 🙂
@@JensLarsen Perfect! I´ll wait for the black friday. Thanks!
Thanks for..
I really liked the video, it was very informative and instructive. But I am very new to Jazz in general, and to be honest, the version where you reharmonized the chords appealed to me less than the other versions before. I want to learn to appreciate this music and craftsmanship, but I just haven't been diving very deeply into Jazz music, I do like most of the standards though. What can I do about this?
Listen to a lot of Jazz music? 🙂
@@JensLarsen Ah yes, in order to become a better Jazz player I must first become a good Jazz listener. What would you recommend for beginners? I tend to like the calm, chilling, or also bittersweet tunes like It Never Entered My Mind by the Miles Davis Quartet or Autumn Leaves
@@hhoopplaa Miles Davis smokin ', Relaxom' etc
Sonny Rollins Tenor Madness,
Wes Montgomery Incredible Jazz Guitar
There's a video of julian lage playing autumn leaves (from his interview with rick beato) that is absolutely amazing, and bill evans' version from portrait in jazz is my favourite jazz song, bar none. Check both out if you like this tune.
Cheers jens
❤️🔥
is there a little mistake in the notation at 4:55 or am I tripping out right now?😆 great video regardless, thank you!
@jens larsen, would love to see some of the Sheraton videos. I already have the Emily Wolfe model. 😊
Thanks Bobby! Here you go: th-cam.com/video/bIQiWfeWLA4/w-d-xo.html
@@JensLarsen ... you're most gracious! Thank you!
agree! thanks @bobbyjohnson7160 I got a D'Angelico Premier mini :))
@@JensLarsen Thanks !!
Three views of a secret ? MERCI from france only the best parts possible ?
Glad you like it!
What do you think of the Fender Jazzmaster.
I’ve been thinking about getting one.
Any thoughts? Or direction you can point to?
No, never tried one 🙂
Noice.
Hej Jens. Jeg har lige fundet din kanal og hvilken gave det er. Tak for det! Jeg vil gerne lære jazz. Hvad er bedst? At købe din bog eller dit kursus?
Hej Peter! Tusind tak!
Måske skal du lige kigge på den her først bare for at få en ide om hvordan det hele virker: jenslarsen.nl/how-to-learn-jazz-guitar-suggestions-to-begin-studying/
Jeg har også et kursus, men det kan du nok finde et link til på min hjemmeside
Tak for dit svar, Jens.Jeg elsker bogformatet og vil gerne købe din bog Modern Jazz Guitar Concepts, men jeg ved ikke hvad den indeholder og om det er et godt sted at starte. Jeg har spillet guitar i 30 år. Glæder mig til at dykke ned i din viden. Du er en fantastisk formidler!
@@PeterAmby Det er svært at sige med sikkerhed. Bogen er mere viden og muligheder, kurset er mere praktisk.
Ok ✌️ 🙏
The problem with your channel is that you publish a video per week, but I would need at least a month of hard work to digest it... 😅Jokes aside, this video was amazing and full of interesting hints. I will definitely start practicing this stuff tonight. Thank you for the great material you publish!
Fair enough! Have fun with this one 😂
6:01 Moon Over Bourbon Street
Who makes the guitar your playing
What brand it is? It is an Epiphone Sheraton: th-cam.com/video/bIQiWfeWLA4/w-d-xo.html
Try this: Cm7 | F7 | Bbmaj7 | Fm7 Bb7 | Ebmaj9 | Ebm(maj9) Ab7 | Gm6 | D7 Db7 |
This would sound great with some dirt on it! Mabye some delay and/ or chorus for width. I might be hearing this through Mike Stern's ear's. I don't know if he's done the song, probably has, but "Autumn Leaves" sounds like it needs some more life. Then again, everything is dying in Autumn so.......... Shit
I always use reverb. How much depends upon the size of the room. And I use chorus. Very slight, usually about 30 milliseconds.
Thru a decent tube amp. And it sounds fantastic. Always using seymour Duncan's, a jazz in the neck and jb in the neck.
Jens, why does the Real Book have Autumn Leaves in E minor, but your in G minor😊
I don't know, but G minor is the key it is most often played in
I tried downloading the pdf from your website and it said my email was in a noncompliance state! WTF?!😂
You probably unsubscribed at some point? Maybe send me an email
One of the things for me is weird from your skill and knowledge....your hands ,and thus fingers are so big I have small hands and short fingers and unfortunately after years of manual labour have fattened up and lost flexibilty........... Any tips for small handed peeps
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bu şarkıyı besteleyen sanatçının bu dünyadan olmaması lazım bu akorları kullandığına göre !..🤗🤐
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hmm i just want the tabs for the full (i.e least boring) version lol
There is a link in the video description 🙂
@@JensLarsen Nice!
Anybody need clean glue for their hair system
I just don’t like this version…he’s taking a soft romantic song that in its natural composition is soft and continuously flowing, but he tried to make it jazzy bouncy which takes away from its natural beauty. It’s a NO for me.
That's perfectly fine, I am sure you can find a version that works better for you
Thanks!
Hi Richard! Thank you very much for the support! I really appreciate that you want to help the channel
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Thanks!
Thank you for the support! 🙂