Bro you've blown my mind. Nobody's ever explained the point of practicing left hand arpeggios to me until now. Now I see that if you base your solo off them, and then add the rest of the scale notes as passing notes, you get a way more harmonic solo than just randomly playing the scale. I'm at jazz school and they haven't even articulated this properly to me - let alone told me to practice arpeggios at all! Thank you!

great lesson, I like this old-time version of Jens

@JensLarsen

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙂

Absolutely one of the MOST useful lessons on RCs out there. Thanks a lot Sir.

@JensLarsen

7 жыл бұрын

Very glad you like it Marco!

Great video, I’ve always felt like I was chasing the chords around with this tune, now it’s so much simpler. Thanks

I jumped back to this series after your comments on rhythm changes in a couple other videos, I'm glad I did. Really sound approaches here to what has become an overly thought out and hand wringing composition. MORE HOMEWORK...! Thank You!

@JensLarsen

5 жыл бұрын

Great Donald! It is indeed great to work on some Rhythm Changes :)

This is so very helpful. Thank you

@JensLarsen

4 ай бұрын

You're so welcome!

Thank you. This is first song I’m learning on guitar

Learning a lot with your videos. Thanks for all classes!! =D

@JensLarsen

9 жыл бұрын

+Monique Martinelli That's great to hear! Glad you can use them :)

superb lesson

Thank You!

finally getting into jazz... this is really helpful!

@JensLarsen

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you Ruben! Glad you find the video useful! DOn't be afraid to ask if something is unclear!

Thanks man! This really helped me out alot!!

@JensLarsen

4 жыл бұрын

Great to hear Adam! :)

Another great vid, thanks.

@JensLarsen

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks Alain! :)

You are a go-to guy, thanks for this. Very helpful in my journey.

@JensLarsen

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Thank you man i always learn a lot from your videos very inspiring! :)

@JensLarsen

6 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that! ☺️

Sir, you are amazing. Thanks for your all lessons and your effort. I really like your simple explanations in the begining and step by step progression in detail. Thanks a lot again.

@JensLarsen

9 жыл бұрын

+Jerrymc Drake You are very welcome! Jerry! Always great to hear that you can use it!

Yes, practicing rhythms changed does have health benefits :-)

@JensLarsen

4 жыл бұрын

Haha! Yes, I think so too 🙂

Thank you! You're the best.

@JensLarsen

9 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Hope you can use it! :)

@rundown306

9 жыл бұрын

+Jens Larsen Yes indeed, your method works perfectly!

@JensLarsen

9 жыл бұрын

+rundown306 Great to hear it!

Hi JENS you a really master!, thank you very much for the videos and shared your knowledge with us :), i would like to know if in the future you gonna make a video explanen how to transcribe solos or if you have some advise. Thank you again!

@JensLarsen

7 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome Colo! I talked about transcribing a few times in the Q&A. I wasn't really planing to make a lesson on it, but who knows, it might be a good idea!

What helped me with using scales way really to see the scale as an inversion much like the arpeggio and to outline the arpeggio using the scale, got that from a jason becker lick from the DC Music School lesson on him and that lick is free on youtube. now I use that kind of thing as the scale and arpeggio kind of approaches and/or embellishes the melody and kind of use fills as to what can I say with the melody and try to keep all of that connected. getting use to that is kind of bit to think about, especially if you want to modulate between changes and keep a theme/motif but the melody stands out the more I get use to it

@JensLarsen

9 жыл бұрын

Ok. I don't know what that approach is precisely, but if it works then that's great :)

@bradleystroup1457

9 жыл бұрын

+Jens Larsen if you would like I could make a video using my phone on it. basically I'm take say EM and I'm outlining EM using a sequence of phyrigian dominant. I would feature/accent the notes of EM (E-G#-B) by using phrigian dominant as the embellishment, passing tones, approach to the arpeggio.

@JensLarsen

9 жыл бұрын

Bradley Stroup No I know that principle. In jazz there's a whole school around this with Bebop scales. But thanks for the offer!

hi mr Larsen can you give some idea, on how to improvise around the chord changes to Anthropology...thank you for all your ideas....

@JensLarsen

4 жыл бұрын

Anthropology is just a rhythm change, so this video and the other rhythm changes videos are what you should be checking out 🙂

I like your lessons, but here's an unrelated question: what's that classical with cutaway you have hanging from your wall? Thanks

@JensLarsen

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That's a very cheap Line6 guitar that I sometimes need for orchestra gigs

Hey Jens at 2:09 in the video when you see the Bb maj 7. It may sound silly but for this can we play the 1st string on 6 too? I was wondering if you omitted it for a specific reason, I know some stuff gets rid of an octave because it can take away from the progression later but I was just curious. Also what about barring that chord and just muting the A string if the above question is yes

@WPEreport

8 жыл бұрын

+Mike Santo Or maybe you were keeping the 4 note chords consistent, that makes more sense. Well even if that's the case is barring a good option for the Bb7

@JensLarsen

8 жыл бұрын

+Mike Santo I leave the high Bb out for two reasons. the Bb over the A doesn't sound that nice and the chords move better if you don't have 5 voices in the first one.

@JensLarsen

8 жыл бұрын

+Mike Santo If you are barring chords that means that you have to take more care with muting some strings so I tend to avoid that. I also avoid the bar chords because I often play basslines and not having the bar is more flexible for the bass lines.

@WPEreport

8 жыл бұрын

Got it, thanks!

I enjoy most all you do and many people, rightly so, analyze Rhythm Changes but no one seems to even mention Honeysuckle Rose. Would you consider analyzing it. Thank you.

Whenever I picture you on my mind I think about sunbursts haha.

@JensLarsen

5 жыл бұрын

In the meantime I actually got a red guitar as well 🙂

Yes very helpful!

@JensLarsen

9 жыл бұрын

+gamzer Great! Thanks for checking it out!! :)

@gamzer

9 жыл бұрын

+Jens Larsen No problem, I would love to see you do something similar for other tunes with a lot of changes like Giant Steps. Even explaining how/why it's possible to leave out certain chords and simplify the progression for the purpose of the solo.

@JensLarsen

9 жыл бұрын

+gamzer I might, the Turnaround series will end in Giant Steps. You should be aware that you can't always reduce the amount of chords (GIant steps is a bit like that..) In the rhythm changes we are reducing a tonal progression to a very similar but simpler progression.

@josgroot9919

8 жыл бұрын

+Jens Larsen Maybe you cannot reduce the amount of chords much, it helps that the number of tonal center changes of GS is much smaller than the number of chords.

@JensLarsen

8 жыл бұрын

Jos Groot True, though I am not sure that is a very huge advantage when playing on it, especially since the tonal center moves in the middle of the bar :)

Hi Jens - I'm curious about the choice of the Ab in the scale for EbMaj7. To stay diatonic to the key of Bb the choice would be the A or #4 for the Eb scale, no? Is it related to the Ab in the preceding B7? Thanks!

@JensLarsen

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, Eb is diatonic, but when you have the Bb7 before it you already introduced the Ab, and that often makes that sound more natural. In any case it is not super important since you have 4 8th notes to play and neither A or Ab will be very strong notes for an Eb chord :) Making the IV chord a temporary tonic is very common, if you remember I did the same in the Roadmap course, and you will also see that most often in solos.

@CliffieVanR

2 жыл бұрын

@@JensLarsen Got it - thanks for the explanation!

axe fx spotted! Great video

@JensLarsen

8 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Keep looking and see the updates to my rig in the coming weeks :)

How would you treat a progression like Bbmaj - Bdim7 - Cm7 - C#dim7 - Dm7 - G7 - Cm7 - F7? I noticed that that kind of substitution is played quite often. I understand that it's in fact just sub I - VI - II - V for most part but I can't really grasp the meaning of C#dim7 and how to approach it.

@JensLarsen

7 жыл бұрын

Sure! Should I try to take it up in a Q&A?

@egorerofeev7762

7 жыл бұрын

That would be great, the IIIbo7 chord is tricky from what I'd seen. And in rhythm change setting with high tempo and 2 chords per bar it gets quite confusing. Thanks Jens, great vids!

@JensLarsen

7 жыл бұрын

Actually it isn't a bIII dim chord. I do have a video on those here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hJ1_ktqDo6W7mbw.html I'll get to it in one of the next Q&A's :)

@egorerofeev7762

7 жыл бұрын

Oh, I will check it out! Thx)

@JensLarsen

7 жыл бұрын

It's in next mondays Q&A!

Can you also apply this to Oleo (Sonny Rollins)?

@JensLarsen

9 жыл бұрын

+Erwin van Dijke Yes, Oleo is a rhythm changes progression. So is Anthropology, Dexterity, Rhythm a ning , Moose the Mooch etc..

@MrLeifBirger

8 жыл бұрын

+Jens Larsen Oleo is sometimes written out like this : Bmaj7 - F7 - Cm7 - F7 - Dm7 - G7 - Cm7 - F7 www.chipin-kaiya.com/c/c-transcription/c-transcription/TranOleo1_files/oleoleadsheet.gif My teacher plays it this way and I have been taugt this way. Would playing a Bmaj7 arpeggio over the Dm7 and G7 "work" so to speak? To my ear it sounds ok, but that might just be that it flies by so quick and the bmaj7 arpeggio obviously fits the B major scale. To outline the progression better, would you recommend I play a Dm7 arpeggio instead? Thank you, love the lessons.

@JensLarsen

8 жыл бұрын

LeifBirger yes you can. Oleo is a rhythm changes progression

Here he goes again with all that un necessary talking. When is he going to learn to just deliver and do a minimum of talking.

@JensLarsen

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe you are more into videos like this? kzread.info/dash/bejne/onWitsGwmZW9erw.html

@philjudd3473

3 жыл бұрын

It's called teaching...

This was really helpful as a means to approach all sorts of chord progressions. Thanks Jens!

@JensLarsen

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it 🙂