Don’t Practice Inversions! 🤯

The Right Way to work with Arpeggios! 🤯 This is Better than 7th Chord Inversions for Jazz solos 😎
-1 Triplet
-2 Pivot
-3 Target
In the end, the arpeggios are a melodic device, not just a set of notes
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[@anthony.andremusic]

I’ve learned so much from watching your videos, truly awesome and informative work, thank you for these lessons!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! That is very motivating to hear 🙂

[@TaylorJohnHardin]

These were the first ideas I was obsessed with! Pivots are GOLD

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U r one ot The Best jazz guitar teachers

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Love your stuff, thx👍👍🙂

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it 🙂

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As always that was ultra hip and boss Jens

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it 🙂

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Great Jens

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks James!

[@thijs199]

Im willing to say that mixolydian b6 is actually the way the song works. it fits with the key of E, it makes G#m phrygian as well

[@lukeweston1234]

I've been doing some transcribing and I'm realizing a lot of them are triads or super imposed triads with enclosures, rather than super long arpeggios

[@user-ob1zg5rz8r]

I practice inversions to improve sight reading

[@percyvolnar8010]

Exactly!

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[@puipui7382]

I love Charlie Parker but I don't think anyone should be limited to another's approach, as great as it still is. If 7th chord arpeggios are a way to contrast with other artists I don't see the issue. I wish more Jazz musicians looked for ways to play things that others weren't playing.

[@JensLarsen]

It is about what you are going for, but I find that a lot of students practice inversions and start to wonder why they can't get them to sound good.

[@webstersprophet]

*throws my copy of Visual Improvisation For Jazz Guitar in the garbage*

[@thijs199]

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[@makeajazznoiseYTstoleit]

This is the worse argument ever. People in the past didn't do it therefore you shouldn't do it either. That makes we want to do it even more.

[@JensLarsen]

Please do!

[@makeajazznoiseYTstoleit]

@@JensLarsen because then I'll get less "good" less fast by not mindlessly emulating the "masters" or the past, and not having the vocabulary people expect when they listen to jazz music?

[@JensLarsen]

@@makeajazznoiseYTstoleit No, because that is what you want to do. Obviously, diving into the traditional language is not your priority, and that is perfectly fine.
That said, I still think it is bad teaching to tell people who want to play Blues that they should use the chromatic scale instead of the pentatonic scale because otherwise, they will end up sounding like all the people they love listening to.

[@makeajazznoiseYTstoleit]

@Jens Larsen I have no issue with the traditional language. It was obviously the best for its time. You mentioned Charlie Parker in your video. But what about the people that who were kids when Charlie Parker was alive and took that vocabulary and evolved it. Then the people who were kids when those people were in their prime and took that evolved vocabulary and evolved it further. 1950s bebop is cool, but were generations beyond it, that is my position.

[@JensLarsen]

@@makeajazznoiseYTstoleit So you want to tell people who want to play Blues that they should use the chromatic scale instead of the pentatonic scale because otherwise, they will end up sounding like all the people they love listening to.