Thanks a lot for this. I’m a sax and piano player. I really like your approach, especially how you suggest doing “small melodies” with a non-static (dynamic) passing note rather than just drilling scales the old-fashioned way. I like the idea of starting from the leading tone and managing the minor second the way you did, too (Barry Harris). Octave Displacement -I remember this but I forget to apply it! I can hardly wait to shed this way. Thanks!
Thanks so much for this lesson. I'm a lifelong bass player, learning jazz guitar the last couple of years; I've been in a quandry over how to make my solos sound less like arpeggios or scales. This gave me a great starting point.
Hi Jens, just found your site and already finding your suggestions useful, thank you. Have also subscribed to your news letter and look forward to more time with jazz, thanks again.
I think that you are missing the point, or at least the theoretical point of the bebop scale when you put the passing note whereever you feel like. Oboiusly you're making good music so I'm not telling you that your doing something wrong but as I've heard it, a point of the bebop scale for instance G mixolydian with the added F# is that if you start on a chord tone on the down beat and play eight notes up and down the scale, changing direction whenever you please, but always play stepwise you automatically outline the chord on the downbeats, so runs can be made i blazing tempos without having to think about it. like A a B c D e F f# G, the downbeats spell the G7. It's fairly uninteresting in the long run but a very easy way to outline the changes,
@@JensLarsen Yes haha as funny it sounds. But the question is if you explain with more details this chromatic scale that isn't precisely the bebob scale.
It isn't a scale, it is a way of inserting passing notes between diatonic notes. Essentially you could turn it into a strange 14 note scale: G G# A A# B D C C# D D# E F F# A G But it isn't really supposed to be a scale 🙂
Great video but totally lost on octave displacement. i think if you showed 'all' the notes before being displaced that might clear it up? Wouldn't octave transposition make more sense? How do you transpose the 5 in 2 5 1 and end up with 2 5 1?
I didn't invent the name, but it is actually pretty accurate in describing what is going on. You might want to think about how you can move a part of the melody and not the entire II V I. This is btw a much more constructive comment than your previous one 👍
Hey Jens great lesson. I think your first tabbed ex. is not showing how you played it. You're staying in the 7th position but some of those arps are written in 9th. Too much of a pain to go fix that I know but student beware that is trying to do exactly what you are doing in the video. I agree playing the diatonic arpeggios all in the same position is a great exercise.
That's true! Also some of the first ones. Well even if you do the other fingering you'll learn something 🙂 I just don't really read tabs so I always forget to check that stuff
@@JensLarsen Your channel is amazing, Jens, I'm having a second jazz life after years of playing and transcribing Vai and Satriani solos, and your channel is informative and inspirational, keep up the great work!! 👍🍻💪
I wish people would explain bebop scales in the way you did here! (perhaps unintentionally.) instead of a whole entity that needs to be learned, why not just teach it as putting a passing tone in the scale like you do? Seems simpler to me.
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Thank you Luke! 🙂
Thanks a lot for this. I’m a sax and piano player. I really like your approach, especially how you suggest doing “small melodies” with a non-static (dynamic) passing note rather than just drilling scales the old-fashioned way. I like the idea of starting from the leading tone and managing the minor second the way you did, too (Barry Harris). Octave Displacement -I remember this but I forget to apply it! I can hardly wait to shed this way. Thanks!
trough your video I started to create my own jazz line thanks a lot!
That's great Renaud! Keep at it! 🙂
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Thanks so much for this lesson. I'm a lifelong bass player, learning jazz guitar the last couple of years; I've been in a quandry over how to make my solos sound less like arpeggios or scales. This gave me a great starting point.
Thank you Remley! Really glad to hear that! 🙂
Love this, you have helped me so much
You are so welcome!
So useful. Going to compose some lines with that. Another very valuable lesson. Thanks Jens!
That's great, exactly what you should do! Go for it!
Thank you a lot from Spain!
Thanks your one of a kind
Master teacher. I've learned so much .. u rounding out, my playing
Great that you find it useful Abel! 👍
Hi Jens, just found your site and already finding your suggestions useful, thank you. Have also subscribed to your news letter and look forward to more time with jazz, thanks again.
Thank you Mal! I hope you find something you can use! Feel free to ask or come with suggestions!
Sooo hip really appreciate it sir!!!!!
Glad you like it 🙂
Killer, useful concepts, clearly presented. Thumbs up.
Thank you! I am glad you like it!😀
Brilliant lesson!
+Davide De Bortoli Thank you Davide! Glad you like it ☺️
Excellent tips - thanks!
You are very welcome!
Thanks , these are good exercises
You're welcome, glad you like them!
THANK YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN.
You are very welcome Jerry!
Great lesson!
Thank you very much Menno!
thank you master!
You are very welcome!
Very, very nice!
Thank you very much 🙂
Thank you so much appreciated 🎼🎵🎶🎸🎺🎸
You are very welcome
What do you think is the thing that really defines Bebop lines?
Jens Larsen Chord tones mixed with different froms of chromaticism. 😄
*forms
Haha! Fair enough! Though that could almost be true for Country guitar?
I'd say the rythm
and the rythmic way the lines relate to each other
I am not sure what you mean Quintin? Can you maybe relate it to a bebop theme or a solo as an example?
Thanks again Jen's. Really helpful. Perhaps some altered dominant then resolution thoughts?
Maybe one of these? Altered Scale - How to use it, Arpeggios and Pentatonic scales: th-cam.com/play/PLWYuNvZPqqcFlPogA-mM9aS4NN4w_UGBl.html
Great works big fan from Viet Nam
Thank you 🙂 Glad you like the videos!
The 3 Bebop Licks You Need To Know: th-cam.com/video/2iFZdLf7a1o/w-d-xo.html
I think that you are missing the point, or at least the theoretical point of the bebop scale when you put the passing note whereever you feel like. Oboiusly you're making good music so I'm not telling you that your doing something wrong but as I've heard it, a point of the bebop scale for instance G mixolydian with the added F# is that if you start on a chord tone on the down beat and play eight notes up and down the scale, changing direction whenever you please, but always play stepwise you automatically outline the chord on the downbeats, so runs can be made i blazing tempos without having to think about it. like A a B c D e F f# G, the downbeats spell the G7. It's fairly uninteresting in the long run but a very easy way to outline the changes,
Nice one! Btw ¿Do you have a deeper explanation about the second example of those chromatics notes? Thank you Jens :)
Thanks! Do you mean the note between B and C?
@@JensLarsen Yes haha as funny it sounds. But the question is if you explain with more details this chromatic scale that isn't precisely the bebob scale.
It isn't a scale, it is a way of inserting passing notes between diatonic notes. Essentially you could turn it into a strange 14 note scale: G G# A A# B D C C# D D# E F F# A G
But it isn't really supposed to be a scale 🙂
Great video but totally lost on octave displacement. i think if you showed 'all' the notes before being displaced that might clear it up? Wouldn't octave transposition make more sense? How do you transpose the 5 in 2 5 1 and end up with 2 5 1?
I didn't invent the name, but it is actually pretty accurate in describing what is going on. You might want to think about how you can move a part of the melody and not the entire II V I.
This is btw a much more constructive comment than your previous one 👍
Hello, how can I start watching your videos?
Maybe you should start here jenslarsen.nl/how-to-learn-jazz-guitar-suggestions-to-begin-studying/
Reminds me of Pat Martino a bit!
That sounds reasonable to me :) He does use a lot of these things!
Hey Jens great lesson. I think your first tabbed ex. is not showing how you played it. You're staying in the 7th position but some of those arps are written in 9th. Too much of a pain to go fix that I know but student beware that is trying to do exactly what you are doing in the video. I agree playing the diatonic arpeggios all in the same position is a great exercise.
That's true! Also some of the first ones. Well even if you do the other fingering you'll learn something 🙂
I just don't really read tabs so I always forget to check that stuff
May be to add legato and slides in next video to create phrasing of jazz guitar...
I think I cover parts of that in this video: th-cam.com/video/nnAFVTNxW6Y/w-d-xo.html
Very good! May be to expand it by using hammer-on from nowhere like Pat Metheny?
Well, I actually don't really use that technique myself. I am also not convinced he does to be honest?
Passing notes add colour to scales.
True!
@@JensLarsen Your channel is amazing, Jens, I'm having a second jazz life after years of playing and transcribing Vai and Satriani solos, and your channel is informative and inspirational, keep up the great work!! 👍🍻💪
Interesting
I wish people would explain bebop scales in the way you did here! (perhaps unintentionally.) instead of a whole entity that needs to be learned, why not just teach it as putting a passing tone in the scale like you do? Seems simpler to me.
Haha! Thank you so much Cody! That's what I am always ranting about on the internet! 😁
Jens Larsen Makes sense, then you can put that extra note anywhere, instead of in one set spot.
+dimlocator44 Thanks man! ☺️
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Gracias! 😀
I bit to complicated for me. I try keep things simple. Improvisation comes from the heart not theory.
Whatever works for you 🙂
excellent lesson!
Thank you!