I Wish Every Jazz Beginner Could Watch This!

While I wasn't expecting a Ryan George reference, I'm not surprised at all.

You know how when you add all the extensions to a chord, you basically get every note in the diatonic scale?

Well, I am wondering your thoughts on this Jens, basically that modes purely as a scale pattern is a great layout or visual for the chord and its diatonic extensions. Which seems most applicable or practical to how you're showing us these licks and how potentially the scale patterns lay over these licks, and we can just see the b6 or #11 much easier based on the patterns we know.
Do you think that's a viable route for going beyond these licks?

Thanks

God bless you My dear, thanks to have taken the time to create those video this channel, i m just discovering , you re an excellent teacher ! Merci beaucoup !

immediately this is the most useful guide to arpeggios and jazz i’ve ever seen. Thank you so much 🙏

Literally decoded jazz

this is so good! thank you Jens!!

Wow this really is a goldmine of info for me to work on! Thanks Jens!

Man, I’m so grateful for your videos! I love that they’re straight to the point and filled with ideas rather than a bunch of talking just to pad out the video length. Thanks for what you’re doing!

Saved, so I can watch each section at 1/16th of the speed, multiple times over months, which is realistically how long it will take for me to even begin to digest any of this.
That's after learning ALL of the arpeggios in root E and root A positions from Rick Beato.

Was that "Super easy, barely an inconvenience" a Pitch Meeting reference? 😂
But also thank you so much for a simple, straight forward lesson, cannot wait to practice this.

Jens for President!

I wish I had seen this several years ago. 😂

Thank you for the amazing lesson Jens! I've learned a lot from this video and all your other videos.

Major 'DUH'!! I've been playing AND teaching for a long time and until this video never realized that 2-5-1 arpeggios all start on the same fret if you're on the 6th or 5th strings. And moving along to the next strings aren't difficult as long as you allow for the B string. That alone has opened up my eyes and ears. Thank you Jens!

Really dig your channel - always clear and immediately useful!

Jens, one thing I really appreciate about you is the knowledge and respect you have for guitarist in other genres like rock and blues. You understand all of us can learn various element of playing guitar from any source, even from those we wouldn't necessarily consider good players. "Minds are like parachutes, they only work well when they are open". I don't recall the source of that quote.

Jens said that although the solos he's examined use inversions for TRIADs, they don't use them for SEVENTH chords. There must be a good reason for this. But what IS it?

Thank you for incorporating more of Barry's wisdom into your channel, Jens! I feel like I am getting better through his influence all the time. Gone, but not forgotten.

Amazing melody lesson. Very complet !!!!

I had all the prerequisites for this video and it took me exactly from where I was stuck to new ground to play in 🎉

Love the Pitch Meetings reference!

Learning arpeggios is tight!

Shout out to Ryan George 😂

You just answered all the questions I asked my self about jazz playing. Thanks! 🙏

8 minutes of pure Jazz gold goodness. THANK YOU Mr. Larsen.

Incredibly valuable lesson...for free. You would pay $75-100+ by me to get this level of instruction in person or online. I took lessons from great teachers. Truth be told, this 8 minute video can give you enough homework for a month. The real trick comes down to being organized, practicing and having a structured approach to learning- not just random videos. Before you take calculus, you have to learn the basics for it to all make sense. Same with guitar.

Arpeggios are super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Why are the I (C) and IV (F) chords major sevens, but the V (G) is a dominant seven?

Jens I learn more from a single 8 minute video of yours than I've learned from countless books and many hours of lessons in the past. You make everything so damn simple and creative!

In 1977, my saxophone teacher, Sam Sanders (think: Joe Hen, who studied at Detroit's Wayne Statue University) gave me his variation on this. It took 1.5 years, but I have as good of technique as anybody in the world. Thanks, Sam! This was in Detroit, the place where the make all those Jazz musicians, so he probably got it from Barry too, as he's from [where else?] Detroit!

So beautiful and soothing music

This is a VERY important topic, using musical phrases as you practice scales and arpeggios. Patterns are a useful because you're actually playing a melodies instead of repeating sequences.
I use 3-5-9-Root. Simple but effective. Also 9-b9-Root, for a hromatic passing tone.

Fantastic - so useful! 😊

Could you make a video of how to choose the “right” scales in songs with a bunch of key changes, for example “darn that dream” and different ways to connect the scales/melody?

Massively inspiring video!

Best lesson ever! Thanks to you I start to understand jazz!

Thank you so much Jens for all your wonderful lessons! You pack so much useful information into each one... this is weeks worth of practice demonstrated in 8 minutes. I especially liked the pivot arpeggio that you showed... I will be working that into my practice routine for sure.

Super easy, barely an inconvenience! 😅😂🤣

Great video, Jens. It's worth pointing out that generally you want tp add the chromatic notes on the upbeats {the "ands']. At least that's what I've been taught.

Lol I'm literally sitting in front of Leavitt's Modern Method open to the page on "one octave arpeggios—triads"! I'm going to push through and learn this, but with the understanding that it's the one-octave fragments that matter most. It's also a good exercise for articulating across strings, so I can't in good conscience say, "Jens said it doesn't matter." 😂

What type of jazz do you play? Because the only guitarist right now and just said I like actually there’s actually a lot of them but the ones that I can remember are you in Rotan Sivan. I don’t know what style of jazz play so that I can listen to it more but things like bebop and swing aren’t necessarily what I like

Well thought out and done!
A fast pathway to get you up and running
“From arpeggios to jazz lines in 7 easy steps”
Love it
Thanks again Jens
I owe you big time :)

I love that diagonal chord. What's it called?

Great breakdown once again!!! Thank you

Super easy, barely an inconvenience? I want a jazz guitar video pitch meeting!

I recall an homogeneous lesson by 🇨🇦 Dave Martone from a decade ago, in shred. You’ve just provided additional clarification. Thanks, Jens!