The Most Important Scale Exercise In Jazz
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You probably already practice arpeggios, but chances are you can do it as a better Scale exercise than what you are doing now, and that is what I want to talk about in this video. Jazz Scale Exercises should be about giving you the material you can use in your solos and help you know and play the different arpeggios and melodies found in the scale. When you improvise in Jazz then the lines or melodies that you play are related to the chords you are playing over and the solo follows the chord progression it is played over. One easy way to do this is to use the arpeggios of each chord. You can use the arpeggio of the chord you are playing over, but in fact, there are more options than this and the exercise in this lesson will help you tie all of that together in one exercise. Content: 0:00 Intro 0:13 Arpeggios! 0:52 Improve How you Practice - Tie It All Together 1:38 How to Use This and Improve your solos 1:54 The Scale 2:01 The Diatonic Arpeggios in the Scale 2:20 A few thoughts about Scale Fingerings Systems 2:42 Know what you are playing. 3:39 #1 Making Music with the material from this exercise 3:55 #2 Add some chromatic notes 4:21 Examples #1 and #2 Slow 4:30 Adding a bit of Bebop Rhythm 5:12 #3 Bebop Arpeggio Lick 5:33 #4 Bebop Arpeggio Lick 5:54 Examples #3 and #4 Slow 6:03 Do you work like this with connecting Scales and Arpeggios 6:11 Finding more Arpeggios that work on a chord. 6:30 Why an Arpeggio works Over a Chord 7:04 Constructing another arpeggio and adding a 9th 7:47 Taking this concept through a few chords 8:11 #5 Using The Em7 arpeggio 8:35 #6 Using The Em7 arpeggio 8:57 Examples #5 and #6 Slow 9:06 Finding more options for a II V I. 9:46 Basic Bebop II V I with this idea 9:55 Like the video? Check out my Patreon Page! Download the PDF: https://jenslarsen.nl/the-most-import... 🎸Check out my Online Course, The Jazz Guitar Roadmap: http://bit.ly/JazzGtRm 🎸Check out my new course: The Jazz Chord Craftsmanship: https://bit.ly/JazzChordCraft 🔴 Subscribe for more free Jazz Guitar Lessons and Videos: https://bit.ly/JensLessons ☑️ Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jenslarsen/ ✅DOWNLOAD A FREE E-BOOK with 15 II Valt I licks! Sign up for my newsletter: http://jenslarsen.nl/sign-up-for-my-n... ▶️ Check out my latest video: https://goo.gl/G16gVx 🎸Join us in the Facebook Jazz Guitar Group Community: http://bit.ly/InsidersFBGroup My name is Jens Larsen, Danish Jazz Guitarist, and Educator. The videos on this channel will help you explore and enjoy Jazz. Some of it is how to play jazz guitar, but other videos are more on Music Theory like Jazz Chords or advice on how to practice and learn Jazz, on guitar or any other instrument. The videos are mostly jazz guitar lessons, but also music theory, analysis of songs and videos on jazz guitars. Edited by Luciano Poli - Business Inquiries: polivideoedit@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jenslarsenYT... Twitter: https://twitter.com/JensLJazz Instagram: https://instagram.com/jenslarsenjazz/ My Book: Modern Jazz Guitar Concepts: https://geni.us/Y69J4 My Gear: https://www.amazon.com/shop/jenslarsen Music Notation: https://www.guitar-pro.com/#ae113 Clip-on Tuner: https://geni.us/FbPGZg4 Great Safe Gigbag: https://geni.us/1aH94 SonoCore Strings: 13-53 https://geni.us/nU3NA3V Powered Monitor: https://geni.us/YB8z3X Headphones: https://geni.us/fGDhHl Audio Interface: https://geni.us/qFIfT Camera: https://geni.us/s14DY9v Lense 1: https://geni.us/GmM8 Lense 2: https://geni.us/GJ01Hv Video Lights: https://geni.us/wQ8jhSy Video Lights: https://geni.us/MWtU
If you are new here and want to level up your Jazz Guitar playing then check out these videos to get an impression of how you can improve your playing using the videos.
Video lesson that are a good introduction on how to get started with Jazz Guitar improvising and playing jazz chords. These videos are not a method but each video can be a place where you can start you Jazz Guitar Journey and find something you might like to work on in learning jazz chords to play through a jazz standards or how to improvise over jazz progressions. There are also a few tutorials on famous jazz standards like Autumn Leaves and Blue Bossa, 12 bar jazz blues and more.
These videos will help you learn to play and create your own beautiful chord melody arrangements. The videos cover a lot of ground with putting chords under a melody, using different Jazz chords, and even playing chord solos and improvising in a solo guitar setting.
You want to play the beautiful harmony found in Jazz. These videos will give you a solid place to start and some exercises to start working on so you can play songs and get the Jazz sound in your playing.
A part of learning Jazz is also studying and understanding the tradition of the language. These videos are taking phrases from recordings and using those as examples of the styles of Players to give you some insight in their style and sound. The Musicians I have covered until now: George Benson, Pat Martino, Grant Green, Wes Montgomery and Sonny Stitt.
A list of Jazz Guitar Lessons to help you learn play Jazz Guitar by teaching how to improvise over Jazz Standards. Most of the lessons start by teaching how to play the chords and how to solo over the chord progression with arpeggios. Talking about important things to check out like Target Notes, Exercises with arpeggios and how to play Jazz Guitar Solos with the arpeggios.

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