- Hi everybody, my name is Jens Larsen.
A part of what makes it difficult to play jazz
and that's something that you really run into,
when you start learning jazz
is that sometimes you really have to follow the changes
and that means having one scale and one chord
and then a few moments later on the next chord,
you have a completely different scale
and you actually have to play a melody that works,
moving from one chord to the next.
But this is also one of the things
that really makes jazz melodies
and jazz licks sound like jazz,
so it is something that's also nice about jazz,
even if it is difficult to learn.
In this video, I'm going to show you
how you can get started working like this
by taking some really simple scales
that you're probably already familiar with,
namely the Pentatonic scale,
the Minor Pentatonic scale to be precise
and then I'm going to show you
how you can make some jazz licks
just using that one scale in two different positions.
If you're already familiar with playing changes
and you know some jazz pieces,
but you're not using Pentatonic scales,
then you also wanna check out this video,
because using Pentatonic scales is a specific sound,
it's more related to modern jazz,
but it's also definitely something
you wanna have in your vocabulary.
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This first lick is on a II-V-I in the key of C major,
you really wanna work on your II-V-I licks,
because II-V-I is a very common progression,
if you're playing jazz.
So in this case, it's in C major,
so that's D minor seven to G7 altered
to C major seven and the scales I'm using,
I'm using a different scale for each of the chords,
for the first chord for the D minor,
I'm using really a basic D minor Pentatonic,
so that is from something you're probably already used to,
that'll be this scale.
So I'm really here in the 5th position,
I'm gonna stay in this region of the neck,
I can stay completely in that position
and then I'm going to use two different fingerings
for the minor Pentatonic scale,
so first a D minor and a G7 altered,
I'm using B flat minor Pentatonic
and then for the C major seven,
I'm using an E minor Pentatonic
and I'm using the same fingering for that one
as I used for the D minor,
I'm just playing it two frets higher.
This is really just to keep it simple and easy to work with
and of course if you know more positions,
you can always just choose other positions to work with,
this is really just to get you started
and the aim is also that you really work on changing scale
whenever the chords are changing,
that's the skill you wanna develop here
besides being able to make some licks
that sound a little bit more like jazz.
On the D minor seven,
the lick starts on the high E string with this A,
then moving down through the strings, so,
like this,
then back to the F
and then already now I played eight notes
on the D minor seven and in this case,
of course, since we're playing 8th notes,
that means that now the chord is changing to G7
and I kind of need to just shift my hand
up to the next position,
where I can play the B flat minor Pentatonic
and then I have this line,
so that's also pretty clearly in this scale
and then now I need to change to C major seven
and I do that by just sliding up to the E here
and then playing this melody.
What you need to know
is that when I'm changing from one scale to the next,
then I'm not skipping around,
so it doesn't really work too well,
if I'm playing something like,
because you kind of wanna have it sound like one long melody
and that doesn't really sound like one melody,
that sounds like I'm ending one melody high
and I'm beginning the next one,
so the easiest way to do that in the beginning
is to really just work on connecting
and moving to a place in the next scale,
that's close to the one where we came from
and that's also what's happening in the lines.
So really I'm moving from this D to this D flat
and you can actually practice this
as a sort of scale exercise,
because you already have the positions
and then if you start playing on a D minor,
so let's say that I'm starting on the D,
so I have to play 8th notes, I have to play eight notes
and then I need to change scale, so I can do,
and now I need to change to the B flat minor
and then now to the E minor
and now back up, so then I play two bars of C major seven,
which is the E minor Pentatonic
and then I'm moving back to the D minor.
So doing an exercise like that,
where you start, just start someplace in the scale
and then try and play through the scale
and try to connect whenever you need to change chord,
connect to the note in the next scale, that's the closest,
this way of playing is really going to help you
just being able to continue the melodic movement
and also connect to different melodies,
once you start coming up with licks.
In this example, I'm trying to change direction
a little bit more with each of the melodies
that I'm making with the Pentatonic scale
and that's really just because you don't wanna have melodies
that are only moving in one direction
and another thing that you don't want
is to have your melodies only move
sort of in a stepwise motion,
so the melodies you make that only sound like,
that's not gonna make for very interesting
or inspiring licks to listen to
and you wanna have something
that skips around a little bit more.
So this one is still quite playable,
but there are a few more skips, so.
The main thing to sort of take away from this
is you can of course work on just playing in the scale,
but sometimes you wanna have some places
where you're not moving
in a stepwise motion within the scale,
you can actually practice different things
to not always play stepwise motion in a Pentatonic scale
and one sort of essential exercise in that
is just to play this idea where you,
instead of playing the notes one after each other,
you skip one note,
essentially it's what you would call Diatonic thirds,
but there are hardly ever thirds in the Pentatonic scale,
so it doesn't really make sense to work on it like that,
but that would be this pattern.
Of course you can also do this,
where you're changing the direction,
so I'm playing up one and then down the next one.
So just really basic exercises
that are gonna help you get intervals like this
into your fingers and you really need those,
that's sort of the basis,
that's where you start if you wanna have melodies
that are not only sort of stepwise movement.
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As you probably have already noticed,
that I quite often use legato technique,
when I'm playing these lines with Pentatonic scales
and that's because Pentatonic scales
are mostly played two notes per string
and they really lend themselves well
to be played with legato, so it makes sense
to also just check out your Pentatonic scales
with legato techniques or something like
and this is really gonna help you,
especially if you wanna play sort of faster lines,
because when you're playing alternate picking
on fingers like this,
then your right hand has to work really hard,
because it has to change string quite often
and you can of course make that a lot easier
by using legato,
so it's a lot easier to play than,
and that's one main reason to do this.
In other places,
it's actually also gonna help your phrasing,
but I think that's a little bit more of a complicated topic
that I'm gonna do in another video.
The line on the D minor seven here
is quite simple, I'm starting on the F
and then pulling off down to the D
and it's really just back up the scale
and then on the last part of this,
really what we get is just a D minor seven arpeggio,
because the D minor Pentatonic scale
is of course really just a chord,
so the D minor seven chord,
that arpeggio with one extra note, which is the G11
and then from there on the G7 altered,
then I'm using a three-note pattern,
again using pull offs,
so this pattern
and then I'm doing that on the next string as well
and then moving up to the high string
and then resolving to the G and the C major seven.
The idea here is that when you're playing
patterns like this,
then you get sort of the melody moving in one direction,
skipping up and then again moving down and skipping up,
so there's a lot happening in the melody,
it's not just running up and down the scale
and you kind of wanna use the pull offs
to just give your right hand a little bit of time
and it also makes sense to actually work
on practicing patterns like this.
One exercise like this would be to play
sort of descending three-note groups up through the scale,
so that could be something like this.
If you wanna check out some more ideas
on how you can use Pentatonic scales in a jazz context,
then check out this video
where I'm going over nine different ways
that you can use different Pentatonic scales
and Pentatonic ideas on Blues.
If this is the first time you've seen one of my videos
and you wanna learn more about jazz guitar,
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That's about it for this time,
thank you for watching and until next time.
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