Make Sure You Learn These 3 Things First - Jazz Guitar

Learning Jazz guitar is overwhelming and chaotic when you start; there are 1000s of things to learn, and it is more difficult to figure out what to work on than practicing. These 3 things will help get started efficiently so you can start playing Jazz!

Your First 5 Jazz Licks (Beginner's Guide To Arpeggios)

The Biggest Misunderstanding About Jazz Chords

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Content:
00:00 Difficult Beginnings
00:33 #1 Avoid The Scale Madness
01:43 Learn The Right Things The Fast Way
04:43 #2 The Jazz Harmony Foundation
07:30 #3 The Jazz Flow
09:19 Fixing Your Jazz Blues Flow
10:50 The Jazz Vocabulary
11:23 Like the video? Check out my Patreon page!

My name is Jens Larsen, a Danish Jazz Guitarist and Educator. The videos on this channel will help you explore and enjoy Jazz. Some of them teach you how to play jazz guitar, but other videos focus on Music Theory, like Jazz Chords, or offer advice on practicing and learning Jazz on guitar or any other instrument.

The videos are mostly jazz guitar lessons, music theory, song analysis, and videos on jazz guitars.

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[JensLarsen]

What is the best thing to begin with for Jazz?

Most Important Scale Exercise For Jazz:

[simonbratt]

YouTube is very overwhelming when it comes to “How to Jazz”. Your videos always focus on the foundations, which every house is built.
Keep teaching and I’ll keep learning 🙌🙌

[robertpeveler]

Best video yet. ALL beginners should start here! Just wish I’d seen this 10 years ago - how much of my life would have been saved!

[JeffBetker]

40 years ago a drummer I had befriended invited me to a jazz fusion jam. I was so lost I could barely play a note! This lesson makes sense even to my 1-4-5 entrenched mind.

[markeggins]

Perfect combination of clear teaching with appropriate visuals - amazing.

[Larrymh]

As a former bass player, I'm pleased that Shell voicings leave out the 5th. Bass players are jealous about their 5ths! 😊

[davidsonmick]

Easily one of the best guitar tutorials I've ever seen! Everything you need to get started in one place, all explained clearly and simply. You should sell this teaching technique to the thousands of so-called guitar teachers who have no clue how to do it (and are often pretty average guitarists too). Thank you Jens!

[GamerGamer-okwu]

All other beginner jazz guitar youtube videos overwhelmed me, this makes everything seem so in grasp and step-wise. I will come back here time and time again. Thank you.

[markrollinger]

I agree with " best video yet" !
So much here! These ideas, I've arrived at myself after many years.
We have to take a few wrong turns along the way. What am I missing?
If you honestly listen to your own playing, along with feedback from players better than you.
Making mistakes can be a great learning experience, if you are willing to admit it.
Great work, Jens. Thanks so much.

[DadPhone-vroq]

I keep coming back to Jens Larsen 's videos. Jens is hip, and he can teach. Good job!

[Andrew-cstd]

This material is exactly what I’ve been attempting to learn for years. Hopefully the scale exercise progression you showed will finally get me there.

Also nice to see a video that doesn’t go that far over my head. I’m decent with theory intellectually, but have yet to fully connect that knowledge to the fretboard.

[reginaldparker]

Jazz, I have been self teaching myself for 6 months, but I had no anchor. Thank you for caring at the right time. Appreciated!😊

[jho]

And this is why learning simple chords was the key for me. After learning the chords, the scales just seem to arrive much more intuitively.

[stevecrockett]

Excellent description of the shell voicings, Jens! This lesson really removes some of the confusion and difficulty about learning jazz guitar ❤ Thanks so much!

[brentwheeler]

One of your best here Jens. Very clear and plenty of practical sense - and its not flat out and so a slow brain like mine can tie things together. Very helpful. We are continually told to get foundations solid and "right" but in fact not that many teachers do that - they can't resist showing us that they are way better than us. Actually - we know that !! Tis why we're here... so this material you present is a genuine helping hand. Thanks.

[okenwaorji]

This just gave me the buzz I've been looking for to help become a better guitarist..
Thank you so much.. ❤❤

[jucabala]

What a masterclass. 10 minutes of content that can be translated into months of practice!

[rafa_guitar]

As a jazz beginner this video is 100% useful and worthy to follow, thanks so much Jens!

[CarloMusicLessons]

Jens, adding subtitles (not auto generated) to your lesson is a game changer (for my personal purpose). Thank you very much.

[farhan]

Jens I want to say thank you very much on your videos.
Now my phrasing is much better, forever thank you.