Jazz Guitar Q&A #26 – Learning from Licks, Why Transcribe, Bad Habits

This weeks Q&A on Learning from licks, why you should Transcribe and how you deal with bad habits.

If you have any questions on guitars, effects, improvisation, technique or improvisation then leave a comment on my video or send me a message on Facebook or Instagram.

Contents:
0:14 Intro
1:40 Online learning Survey from Matt Pearce
2:33 Why is it important to transcribe solos?
6:29 Learning from licks and learning licks
16:13 Getting rid of Bad Habits?
24:22 Outro

Jazz Guitar Q&A #25 – Functional Harmony – Jam Sessions – Uninspired

In this weeks Q&A I will go over some questions on Functional Harmony as an approach to understanding jazz standards and songs in general. How I use it and in general times what it is. Jam sessions, how do you behave and what to expect and be aware of when going to an open session. Finally there is also a question on dealing with practicing when you are not inspired or motivated.

If you have any questions on guitars, effects, improvisation, technique or improvisation then leave a comment on my video or send me a message on Facebook or Instagram.

Contents:

0:13 Intro
1:57 Functional Harmony in Jazz
12:27 Jam Session behaviour
20:25 Practicing when Uninspired
28:27 Outro

Memorizing Chord Progressions

All Jazz players come to a part of their journey where they need to memorize repertoire. Since a chord progression is a fairly abstract construction that can be difficult. In this video I am going to try to go over some ways that understanding the harmony and the form can help you memorize the song. Next I will demonstrate how it works by going over an analysis of There will never be another you.

One of my supporters on Patreon, Max e-mailed this question:

Using analysis to memorize

A chord progression is not a random set of letters that you have to be able to recite! Think of phone numbers where we use country and area codes to remember long rows of numbers.

The key to this is to understand that a jazz song is often a long progression that is constructed of a lot of smaller common progressions. Understanding this makes it easier to organize and remember the progression.

Jazz guitar Q&A #21!

In this weeks Q&A I will go over some questions on how to use the same voicing for different chords. Get started practicing with the metronome on 2 and 4. Where to use wholetone scale and also how and why I made a career as a jazz guitarist.

I will also talk a bit about my up coming Patreon page!

If you have any questions on guitars, effects, improvisation, technique or improvisation then leave a comment on my video or send me a message on Facebook or Instagram.

0:12 Intro
2:05 Patreon Page coming up
5:10 Get started practicing with the metronome on 2 and 4.
13:01 how to use the same voicing for different chords.
21:48 Where to use wholetone scale
31:42 How and why I made a career as a jazz guitarist.

Some more lessons on wholetone scale use:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ec5WgF33Hs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbJWNKJqbXk

This weeks Q&A – Jazz guitar Q&A #20!

In this weeks Q&A I will discuss Dynamics and tone on jazz guitar and how you can change your sound. Arpeggio fingerings in 3 note per string scales, Strumming in triplets and relative pitch: What is it for and how do you develop it!

If you have any questions on guitars, effects, improvisation, technique or improvisation then leave a comment on my video or send me a message on Facebook or Instagram.

Content:

0:18 Intro
2:09 Dynamics and changing tone while playing
19:49 Arpeggio fingerings in 3 notes per string
29:09 Strumming triplets
37:16 Relative Pitch
44:10 Outro

Earmaster eartraining program: http://amzn.to/2jMVnuO

3 NPS arpeggios fingerings on my website:
http://jenslarsen.nl/pdf-downloads-charts/

Jazz Guitar Q&A #19

In this episode I talk about Exploring Exotic scales and how to use them in a musical way, Syncopation and how to practice that, How to choose exercises for your daily practice routine, Do you need large hands to play guitar.

If you have any questions on guitars, effects, improvisation, technique or improvisation then leave a comment on my video or send me a message on Facebook or Instagram.

Content

Exploring Exotic scales
Syncopation practice
Daily Routines
Need large hands to play guitar

With links:

0:17 Intro
1:28 Exploring Exotic scales
15:11 Syncopation practice
26:41 Daily Routines
37:12 Need large hands to play guitar
48:02 Outro