3 Bebop Exercises and how to turn them into Jazz Guitar Licks
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- 3 Bebop Exercises and how to turn them into Bebop Jazz Guitar Licks. Bebop is a fundamental part of all modern jazz. In this video I am going to go over three concepts that are used a lot in bebop solos. I will turn them into some simple exercises and finally demonstrate how you can put them together to make some solid bebop jazz licks.
The three exercises will give you ideas to change the way you make jazz licks more bebop sounding adding larger intervals, 8th note triplets and chromatic notes to them. All good things to add to your jazz improvisation skill set!
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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!
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! 🙂
trough your video I started to create my own jazz line thanks a lot!
That's great Renaud! Keep at it! 🙂
Love this, you have helped me so much
You are so welcome!
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,
Sooo hip really appreciate it sir!!!!!
Glad you like it 🙂
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!
Killer, useful concepts, clearly presented. Thumbs up.
Thank you! I am glad you like it!😀
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!
Thank you a lot from Spain!
Thanks , these are good exercises
You're welcome, glad you like them!
Brilliant lesson!
+Davide De Bortoli Thank you Davide! Glad you like it ☺️
THANK YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN.
You are very welcome Jerry!
Excellent tips - thanks!
You are very welcome!
thank you master!
You are very welcome!
Great lesson!
Thank you very much Menno!
excellent lesson!
Thank you!
Very, very nice!
Thank you very much 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 Glad you like the videos!
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
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 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 👍
Reminds me of Pat Martino a bit!
That sounds reasonable to me :) He does use a lot of these things!
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 🙂
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?
Jens, have you seen Guitar Pro 7? Would you recommend it? I've been trying the 30-day evaluation mode and I see some very weird things. For instance, the chord shapes it shows for say a Bm7b5 look nearly impossible to play. I can go over to google and find a website that will show me an easy chord shape using the upper D G B E strings. I then tried writing a simple song copying from the Real Book into Guitar Pro 7. I couldn't get it to produce 4 bars in a row. It would do 3 bars in a row, then wrap to the next line...I don't see any music sheets out there that only have 3 bars per line...lol. But bottom line seems to be that if it can't show me the easier to play chords in the chord diagram, I'm not sure what use it is. Perhaps this problem doesn't appear in Guitar Pro 6?
+shitmandood I haven't tried it, so I can't really say anything about it. Sorry.
I suspect that it can do 4 bars per line though. You just need to know how ☺️
Hahaha. It's a struggle for me. I'll try again. I really want to learn how to read/write musical notation & like the price point of Guitar Pro compared to Sibelius/Finale. :-) I've watched your Chords video and will re-check it against Guitar Pro's chord dictionary. It didn't have a feature on showing easier fingerings as I've seen in Guitar Pro 6 on TH-cam.
Why would you rely on software for fingerings of voicings? I don't follow that at all. Surely my lessons include the voicings already?
:-) Well, I had my guitar hooked into my laptop, Guitar Pro 7 loaded, and was looking at my physical copy of the Real Book, and saw an Em7b5 (for practice I was going to take a lead sheet from the Real Book and try to write the musical notation into Guitar Pro 7). I don't have all the chords memorized yet & saw GP7 has a chord library. So I loaded it up & the first grouping of chords show some very difficult, perhaps impossible fingerings (maybe they could be played with both hands??)...haha. I then looked at all of the chords they provided for Em7b5 and none of it looked playable (perhaps by Jennifer Batten or a Guitar VST?). Yes, after I found that GP7 was not working, I did go back into YourTube library & found the chords. I will proceed in using your Chord playlist on TH-cam to get all of that down. Thank you!
No worries! I was just baffled that you would use the program for that 😊
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! ☺️
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!! 👍🍻💪
Hello, how can I start watching your videos?
Maybe you should start here jenslarsen.nl/how-to-learn-jazz-guitar-suggestions-to-begin-studying/
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I bit to complicated for me. I try keep things simple. Improvisation comes from the heart not theory.
Whatever works for you 🙂