How To Make One Arpeggio Into 25 Great Jazz Licks

It is surprisingly difficult to get arpeggios to sound good, and often solos become boring and predictable with uninspired jazz licks, that's why it is very useful to work on becoming better at putting things together so that it sounds great.

In this video, I took a really basic Cmaj7 arpeggio and wrote 25 short and easy Jazz Licks using that arpeggio, so if you are looking for inspiration or want to check out some new ideas then you can probably find something here.

25 Arpeggios That Sound Amazing On A Dm7 Chord

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Content:
00:00 Intro
00:38 Keep it simple - Just Like You Practiced It
02:54 Turn It Around
04:21 The Bebop Arpeggio
06:15 Don't Start With The Arpeggio
07:40 Ascending Arpeggios With a Pickup
09:08 More Arpeggios = More Licks
09:18 Like the video? Check out my Patreon page!

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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.

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[JensLarsen]

How do you work on writing better lick, Transctiption, composing?

[luckyl]

I'm sure glad I've subscribed to your channel. My playing has improved x10. Thank you.

[douglasmason]

Been following your channel and came across this video when I was googling how to move from arpeggios to licks. This video format is excellent. I love the puzzle game “here’s how it sounds” “here’s how you play it” and “here’s how I made it”. I love guessing what the construction materials are and then thinking about how to apply those concepts in new ways. Please let me know if you have or make or can recommend any more content like this bc this approach really worked well for me at this point in my development. Thank you!

[squaternutbosch]

Great lesson Jens! You've got the gift of making topics much clearer. Thanks!

[davidtardio]

Seems like this is just as much a lesson on 1. More advanced enclosures that sound great, and 2. Understanding the need to have a "target" note where you know you are heading. Great stuff.

[agger]

This is such a great video. Don't know how I missed it before. I've been analyzing the patterns and trying them in different positions and with different arpeggios, like m7 and dom7. I feel like my vocab has improved 10-fold.

[RCSmiths]

Arpeggios are so fun man! They really unlock how to work around the fretboard to make interesting soloing!

[davewebb]

A brilliant weaving together of several concepts. Thank you.

[RossMcMorgan]

Thanks Jens! Just in time for my morning practice

[ParsevalMusic]

Yes please do the follow up video you are always great!

[victorramirezvillanueva]

Contenidos concretos de exelente calidad..buen video

[BisquitGecko]

This is great. So much to work with here.

[laureanoahmad]

Great great lesson
Welcome to the world of jazz
Please more videos like this.

[jessesingersongwriter]

This is fantastic, will keep me busy for a while. Thanks!

[salimbaghli]

Excellent exercise Jens. Again, you give us nice doors to open to learn how to play and understand Jazz philosophy. Lick #11 I’d say is Jens style ! Thank you again ! Definitely an exercise I was looking forward to practice.

[olisaush]

great vid Jens, what I really like is how you inspire to become more creative instead of saying "Play this arpeggio over that chord"

[filiperebelo]

Amazing. I always get incredible insight from all your lessons, thank you. You should think about creating an online school for jazz guitar, with work plans and all kind of PDF materials. I would pay to learn there, for sure!

Another thing: how is it possible to have one "thumbs down" after 50 min of posting this great video? Haters will always be haters :)

[malcolmjohnston]

I am going to try and song these lines ( octave lower), looks like a month's worth of work 🙂 thank you, appreciate that you do each line twice, with notations.

[BecketSolis]

I would really like to see a video of you using the things you said at the end in a solo

[benkatof]

Love the examples Jens! For me, the most important thing for writing new lines is being able to forget my old lines.