The hard truth about learning to improvise (Bebop Scale Guitar Lesson - Level 2)

In this video I show you exercises to help you master improvising with the bebop scale.

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💬 LESSON DESCRIPTION:
This is the second lesson in my bebop scale guitar lesson series.
The bebop scale is about targeting chord tones on strong beats, which is a game-changing practice, whether we're interested in jazz or not.
In this video, I show you a series of drills to help you master improvising with the bebop scale.
By practicing these drills, we can break through a common challenge, which is sounding like a scale when we improvise.
We may know the “right notes” to play when improvising, but we wonder why doesn't it sound musical yet.
Step-by-step exercises like the ones in this video can help solve this problem.
I hope you enjoy the lesson!
Let me know what you think in the comments.
Thanks! :)
- Jared

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🕛 VIDEO CONTENT OUTLINE (WITH TIMESTAMP LINKS):
0:00 - About this video
1:25 - The problem to solve
2:44 - Bb7 chord tones
3:26 - Bb mixolydian scale
5:06 - Bb bebop scale
6:11 - "Treading water"
8:07 - Two notes: step #1
11:44 - Two notes: step #2
13:50 - Two notes: step #3
16:13 - Two notes: step #4
17:20 - Three notes: step #1
21:08 - Three notes: step #2
22:20 - Three notes: step #3
23:41 - Three notes: step #4
25:18 - Four notes: step #1
27:33 - Four notes: step #2
28:11 - Four notes: step #3
29:07 - Four notes: step #4
30:11 - Five notes: step #1
31:28 - Five notes: step #2
31:58 - Five notes: step #3
32:22 - Five notes: step #4
33:26 - Recap
34:20 - Free learning resources!

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[TaoOfTwangGuitarLessons]

Cool that you address the normal emotional reactions like frustration and lack of instant gratification when learning something new, regardless of one's skill level. I've stuck with this and it's starting to paying off like a hockey stick graph...slow, tedious, annoying...then small victories start to occur intermittently...then steep progress finally. Don't give up before the prize. Thanks for your work 🙏😎✌

[Othit]

I almost didn't watch this because "bebop scale" wasn't really my interest...
But this is "beyond bebop" - it's really a way to be aware of rhythm, harmony and an improvised melody all at the same time. Wow.

[TuanBui-ypoz]

Love the approach. Love the attitude towards it. “If it takes u an hour to figure out what the hell we’re doing here, than good!” LOL. In other words, lf u want results, u hv to work at it.

[davidbodeker]

Excited to try to learn this treading water exercise. I can just feel how useful it would be to master it. And the technique of continuing with the pattern until you have thought about the next move and can nail it and keep the feel going, is a great idea. Thanks for a great video!

[uberjam-sam]

Really great lesson. It's brilliant in its simplicity. Tyvm

[wyatt.bernard]

thanks jared, love watching things like this at work while doing monotonous tasks. it allows myself to think about it and understand what’s going on before i jump in when i get home. great lesson😎

[flaneurculture]

Great lesson. I've started doing this and it's very useful to build that muscle memory.

[elilubell]

has level 3 been made yet?! loving these:)

[cliftontorrence]

NLP neural linguistic programing. genius. or maybe we call it nfp, neural finger programing. still genius. what a super video. thank you.

[jonhart-djfn]

Jared, I'm interested in improvising and your tutorials are terrific! ty so much!

[mabblers]

Do you prefer to have the numbering opposed to the note lettering, A, B C....? Great lesson! This is certainly with intentional learning.

[Jimboleo]

Hey Jared, thank you very much for this awesome lesson!

[geoffep]

Jared, great lesson.
Was there any reason, on three notes for example, the pattern is not symmetrical? Say from 3 the pattern down is 3, 2, 3, 4. Shouldn't the up pattern be 3, 4, 3, 2 rather than 3, 4, 5, 4. Maybe it's good to learn both!

[samsonolasunkanmi]

Thank you for this wonderful work can we apply it to major and minor Bebop

[VichinoDDA]

Hey, I would like to apply this concept of treading water to 7 note scales (i.e. Mixolydian). What would you do with the 5-6-7-1 sequence in the two note group? I thought 5-6, 7-6, 1-7 as the seventh is a chord tone and can also be used as a leading tone to the tonic (obviously here the 7 is a b7, so more like a blues/rock leading tone)

[alantimberlake]

So I might have become dyslexic without knowing it...are we using the four Bb7dom chord tones (2 octaves) to bracket around or the individual notes of the Bb mixolydian scale? I can't tell from the video. Thanks!

[Arthur_My_Dear]

Great lesson Jared. Thanks. What are you wearing on three fingers of your right hand?

[midi]

So I'm guessing this takes place over all the positions of mixolydian and bebop positions?