How To Play Outside - A Few Great Jazz Solo Secrets
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2024
- This video will show you 5 different ways that you can play some beautiful outside things on m7 chords and make your jazz solo sound a lot more interesting.
If you are soloing on a song and want to keep the listener interested then playing something that really rubs against what you expect to hear is a great way to add some variation and make your solo more interesting.
Altered Dominant - Arpeggios and Pentatonics:
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00:00 Intro
00:42 #1 Half-step down
01:57 How and Why Superimposed Chords Work
02:35 #2 Altered Dominant
03:57 Altered Dominant & Scale Melodies
04:27 #3 Half-step up
06:06 #4 Diminished Scale
07:22 #5 Augmented Scale
08:45 The Best Triad Exercises - How To Get The Essentials Right
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What is your faovurite when it comes to playing outside?
Level up your altered dominant soloing with this: th-cam.com/video/pAkipvT2CtQ/w-d-xo.html
my favorite way is just to play a scale a half step up on the 7th chords and to resolve it by playing the next extension of the original scale.
Oz Noy Jens. Check out a tune called ‘Come On’. It’s got some sweet moves in the solo.
this is basically the exact lesson I've been wanting someone to put up for a decade now. as always Jens, top notch work.
Glad you like it 🙂
I wish I had this video when I first started out jazz......It decodes lots of myths and mysteries of outside playing for me.
When it comes to playing outside, I like it to be about 72˚F with a gentle breeze from the northeast. ( also… great lesson ! )
You could just open the window and put the Amp outside
idk… from the south…over my shoulder is sweet.
…GREAT lesson, Jens. …wait, did Jens just say: Michael Brecker? i’m in…and out. :))
@@JensLarsen Wifes happy, but not the neighbours
I think we all had that awkward moment of trying to play outside without really knowing what it takes, but no more! Thanks Jens for this great lesson!
Glad it was useful 🙂
3:00 very John Scofield kinda tone, love it Jens!
Thank you! :)
This is playing outside made simple, very easy to understand for anyone starting out on upper structural phrasing 👍👍
Glad you think so!
always interesting. one of the best channels ever
Glad you think so!
Wow, what a talented teacher. This video is just oozing coaching experience and understanding. Thanks mate from Australia
Thank you 🙂
The fact, that you nail the issue straight from square one with no beautiful stories about Adam and Eve makes you such a precious teacher in a world full of narcissists with nothing to say. Kudos for that!
Glad you think so!
Jens, I’m not a musician. Just play to myself for my own pleasure. But i’ve been reading lots of outside playing. What you taught here is wonderful and made me understand the real concept others had failed to do. Thanks so much.
Glad it was helpful 🙂
Ótima aula! Parabéns e obrigado!
This is so great, thanks so much Jens
You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂
Great video again. Thank you Jens!
Thank you, Andreas 🙂
Good stuff. I like starting On the Db Lydian Dom Over C minor. Good stuff as usual TY Jens.
Jens, this lesson is a gold mine. Loving the uptempo groove and your swing in and out of Cm7. Thanks!
Glad you like it :)
@@JensLarsen I love your channel …it’s been a big help though I’m still terrible..thanks
I’ve been playing for awhile and I think I’m a pretty good “rock” guitarist that can dabble in diminished and altered chords and arpeggios. However, trying to get more into the Jazz side of things is a whole different concept altogether. You’re blowing my mind!
Thank you!
Geat material as always! Thank you :)
Thank you, Antoine 🙂
One of my favorite lessons of the year. Much thanks Jens. ^-^
My pleasure!
Just thank you. This is the lesson I was looking for this years. Thanks!!!
Glad you like it 🙂
The augmented scale is my favorite, it sounds good !
That really is a great backing track. I keep expecting the soloist to come in and start playing any second now...
What a beauifoul lesson Jens! Thanks
Glad you liked it!
Once again, thank you very much!
this is gold , thanks , Jens !!!
Glad you like it 🙂
Thanks!!
Gonna play “around” with these tips!
One of your best lessons for us rock players trying spice up our playing. Thanks Jens!
I just commented something similar. 🤙🏼
Really great lesson, I finally understood how to do it, thanks to you!
You're very welcome!
Your phrasing are so musical and you play it so confident that doesn't really sound outside. Absolute great lesson👏👏👏
man, thats an awesome videooo!!! thanks!! these examples are fantastic :)))
You're very welcome!
Jens, Your videos are great! Thank you.
Glad you like them!
Fantastic lesson Jens, really something that is enormously useful and helpful :)!
Glad you think so!
You've done so many great videos, and this is one of the very best. The material is not overly complicated and is straight to the point. There will be a Cm7 on my looper later tonight.
Go for it :)
I love this lesson because it is so immediately useful. Thank you!
You're very welcome!
As usual, another great lesson!
Thanks Jens!
Glad you enjoyed it!
golden infos here JENS , THANKS you are FANTASTIC!!!
Glad you like it 🙂
This video is gold to me.
Glad you like it!
Thanks Jens! Brilliant lesson, it explains so much that has been a bit of a dark area to me. A goldmine, packed with nuggets, and at breathtaking speed, worth watching over and over again. And free! 😁.
Glad you like it Keith 🙂
I loved the random notes as well...
Great lesson, beautiful soloing!!!
Glad you liked it!
Wow! Jens, it is amazing how your videos still keep on getting better in the quality how you present something and how you use some „special effects“ in your videos, it is really nice to watch 😃
Thank you 🙂
Thank you for lesson
You have the best lessons ever, love the concepts and idea's and also the whole video is extremely well made ! The guitar sound is superb. Thanks for sharing and making all this effort. Keep it up !
Thank you! Really great you like the video! 🙂
Thank you Jens!! Exellent :)
Glad you liked it!
I Have always used on a minor seventh chord, the neighbour note a half step below and above's, harmonic minor scale. I will either start outside, with fast runs, and quickly either start going into the next chords scale sounds I wanna hear, or play, or, I will come right into the present scales harmonic minor scale, or any other scales or runs or lines I know will sound in. This has always worked for me. This was a good video. All your videos are really well thought out and concise. Thanks again.
Thank You Jens.
Ma sei un grande. Concetti essenziali e non sempre scontati
oh! This is risqué and I love it. Very challenging, great post. Nice mention about the backing track, just added his channel to my list. Cheers.
Glad you like it 🙂
Man what I’m getting from this lesson is that triads are everything! I definitely need to shed this more …thanks for the great lesson Jens
Glad it was helpful!
Not only are you a bloody good guitar player, you're a bloody good teacher too. Many thanks.
Thank you 🙂
On minor chords I LOVE going up a bVI and playing Lydian dominant. Sounds AMAZING
Thanks for great tipps!
Glad it is useful!
Magnificent material Mr Larsen,and your playing here is soulful,first-rate smooth jazz,also enjoyed your educated English.. Greetings from Cuba.
This is an excellent video!
Thank you 🙂
Fantastic lesson, so helpful, thank you 👌
Thank you! Glad you like it 🙂
A Interesting Topic..nice explanation..Good guitar sound...Gold for the true Fusion digger
So cool. Just got back from a 2 week trip without a guitar or much internet - suffering from withdrawal. I really like the altered dominant material, and the half step stuff too - pretty simple but all about feel. Great.
Great! Hope you had a nice holiday :)
Quite illustrative coverage and so succinct. 5 star
Thank you Roger!
thanks Jens! great lesson as always
Glad you liked it!
First riff in and already awesome! 👊
Thank you! :)
Great stuff, loads to work on here. Allowing your child to choose a few notes while you play works too, especially on the piano, and frequently results in playing a half step up and a half step down at the same time. This harmonic sophistication can then be transposed to the guitar
This is beautiful!!! Thank you so much!
You are sverywelcome!
Thanks sooo much for this mind blowing and mind opening lesson! Now I have a few years of practice ahead of me to make it happen! :) It's crazy when you think about the amount of 'unlocked secrets' the younger generations have on TH-cam these days at their finger tips... this amount of condensed and structured info simply wasn't available when I started out! No doubt the world is going to see a very talented next generation of musicians...greatly thanks to Mr Jens Larsen! 🙏🏼
Thank you! Glad you find it useful! 🙂
Excellent...
Thank you!
Wow yeah, this is exactly what I’ve been needing for a while. Great advice and amazing playing in the examples! How about a video talking about playing more dynamically? I got used to having my compressor on all the time and am just rediscovering a lighter touch!
Great Video again.Top Man.
Glad you enjoyed it
love the touch of overdrive on the tone
Great - that’s given me loads of ideas. Currently my ‘outside sections’ usually happen by accident!
Thanks!
Thank you very much for the support!
I'd love to see more fusion and model stuff, this is really excellent. I have both your books and have access to the jazz road map course, but I really like the leaning to more modern stuff too!
Awesome, thank you! I will keep that in mind :)
this is the exact video i was looking for
Great! 👍🙂
Piece of cake ... great mind stretching ... pat
Go for it!
@@JensLarsen I am working on "practice arpeggios like this" and a couple of others, incorporation with some of my practices. It seems it takes a bit to sequence the notes and then I should likely use a mestome too So I cant move on tot he net ... My ability to play (improvise) melody, in just working on these, is vastly improved.. You'll forget more than I'll ever know and a rational inspiration for me. Thank You.
Kijk aan dit is nog eens een SUPER informatief stukje uitleg Jens en SUPER goed toe te passen! THX !!
Dankjewel Paul!
@@JensLarsen Graag gedaan Jens! Dit is gewoon SUPER 2 the point: BULLSEYE ;)
Fantastic video!!! I am going to have to sit down and really dig into this. How about a similar video for other static chord jams?
Hermosa lección 👏 👏 👏
You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂
uah! bravo bravissimo! bene benissimo! sei un bravo insegnante, maestro
Cool!
thanks for help, precious suggestions, great outside lines are in john scofield "resolution" with M.Johnsson and Benson's Tutu, and some Metheny tune too, ciao from Italy
thanks for sharing!!! :)
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Greatest TH-cam channel to ever exist
Thank you!
The random notes were not that bad ^^
Thank you for the knowledge!
Glad you like the video 🙂
Jens, another amazing lesson. I think you could create an entire book on just this material - inside-outside sounds in jazz guitar. I was always fascinated about certain types of outside sounds and wondered how it was achieved - the 7th alt and diminished sounds seem to be the answer. Understanding these concepts seems similar to studying chess - I imagine a first goal is to get these types of concepts under the fingers through a lot of practice in at least one key.
The most important skill to master for this is probably just being able to improvise clearly and melodically over chord changes. Then you can add other chords when you want to go outside.
Great
Glad you like it! :)
Man, you're an amazing guitarist
Thanks! 😃
Great lesson !!! Greetings from Argentina.
Thank you 🙂
awesome!
Glad you think so! Which approach do you prefer?
@@JensLarsen I'm really enjoying the diminished scale triads as a "subdominant" sound that goes to the altered V sound. I'm starting to hear the Brecker sounds more clearly. Thanks for these videos, Jens.
Great lessons, Jens. For me, this is teaching you how to do the bit in the John Scofield solo where the other members of Scary Pockets look impressed.
Cool, thanks!
Awsm more lessons on jazz funk pls
Thank you for this excellent lesson!!!
My favourites is Dominant altered and the Augmented Scale, very magic sound!
The Altered Scale with a natural 5 also works great In this situation .
Very cool! I'd love a lesson about motivic development, but maybe it's something you already addressed in a video? Thanks!
This is really cool. Thank you!
You're very welcome!
priceless!
Glad you like it 🙂
great lesson
thanks \m/
(ps i dig the desktop pic on your computer \m/ )
Thank you 🙂
Phrase well, and everything works. Personally, I think minor pentatonics (not blues oriented) a half step up or down can create some really hip lines, especially if you create some 4th or 5th oriented melodies with them.
Woody Shaw, McCoy Tyner, Tom Harell pops into my mind.
I like to use the whole tone scale from the 5th of the m7 chord. e.g. Cm7 = G wholetone.
Yes, that is a great one as well 🙂
Man, I like them all very much; but this one was particularly good! And I am actually a keyboarder ...
Glad you liked it!
I think side slipping is probably the easiest for those trying to learn how to pull off outside sounds. But I think the melodic minor on the minor 6th you mentioned always sounds engaging. I’ve tried going from a Cm sound to a B Maj. sound and I’ve had some luck with that. It’s a kind of side slip but I’m not exactly moving the same shapes down a 1/2 step. I think it helps it sound a little less “cut and paste”. I have tried modulating the same scale or arpeggio up or down a 1/2 step but I have to be careful how I voice-lead in and out of it.
Nice! The Instagram post which I made a few months ago actually had the Bmaj7 option in there as well, but I didn't want to make the video too long so I left it out 🙂
@@JensLarsen Yeah I thought that would be a move you would know. I think McCoy Tyner used that a lot in terms of his outside pentatonic moves. I definitely didn’t think of it myself.
@@devanjackson509 i got it from a teacher who played a solo on a minor blues in the lesson and I had no idea what he was doing 😁
The ones that you say that sound bad for me they sound good lol
If I had one suggestion to get across even more information it would be if the chord interval numbers were included below the staff, directly below the tab number. Because while the fretting information is definitely helpful, it really only matters when I'm playing the riff, but the interval information is pretty much universal and helps to watch the video without a guitar. If I quickly know the riff is b3-5-2-b2-1, then I can employ that in other positions and octaves. I can also sort of hear the relationships in my mind and know where the dissonance occurs. Of course, I understand that I can just do this myself for each example you show, and I just might, but I do wonder whether that information would help others too. As always though, thanks for your great content!
Why not just use the sheet music? that gives you the same information since you have a tonal center. That is also how we train most musicians at school.
@@JensLarsen That is totally true. I should really just do the work on my sight reading I guess! But I did think for those who only read tabs, it could be helpful as well. Because with the sheet music there, technically the tab music itself is already rendered unnecessary, except for those who don't read music.
That backing track sounds exactly like koinonia ! :)
Hi Jens, could you do a lesson on how to use Nicolas Slonimsky’s thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns?
How you explore that material is pretty different from person to person, and 99% of the work is not coming out of the book so I doubt if it really makes sense as a video, or rather if I made it then you probably would not find it useful. Not sure if that makes sense?
A video of that would be about 24hours long and extremely boring 😁. Just take what you like from the book.