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

What is your advice for beginning Jazz? 🙂 The Most Important Scale Exercise For Jazz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ze22BNftAA&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcERS5_t8gWsVuudojn8KKLs&index=1

I can’t explain how much you have helped me along expanding into jazz!

Jens Larsen's lessons are the best I have found on the interwebs. He's not only a wonderful jazz player and teacher, his lessons have perfect (for me) pace, clear explanations and useful visuals. Jens also has an ineffably positive energy that says, "you can do this!"

More than good lessons. I find Jens Larsen's videos inspire me to try harder, and learn more. I always find something in the video that I haven't tried, and that prompts me to work harder on my playing. Thanis, Jens, for giving me this knowledge and inspiration!

I have great respect for those who can do a lot. But I have even greater respect for the way of working to make a lot out of a little.

Great lesson Jens! I can see myself replaying this video many, many times. Full of great ideas yet so concise.

God Bless You Jens. You’re an inspiration.

Great lesson Jens. Advice for begining jazz... Be patient, good things take time.

This is the essence of basic jazz approach, thank you for great lesson

So grateful for these lessons mahalo Jens and mahalo Barry

I listen to your videos at least on average three hours a day. I've gotten to the point that when I listen to lines like these, that I can hear the chord changes and other lines also. Although I haven't been able to use all of your material in my compositions, it is very exciting when I can alter functional harmony and melodic phrasing to join various music genres together to form different kinds of music. New and exciting musical ideas. Although I have become more knowledgeable in so called technical terminology in music, the vast majority of the time I still rely on my ears. I get in pretty deep and find that stopping to try to explain what my ears are telling me just slows me down. This particular video does seem to go a long way towards a simplified approach to using my ears. I can't possibly imagine how anyone could write the lyrics to popular music without studying Jazz. Jazz is pretty much everywhere you could possibly look over the last sixty or seventy years in popular music.

Great lesson Jens! You've taught these concepts before separately, but seeing the together, here and how you can connect them is very instructive. Thanks!

Thin guy is the very best! If you're a jazz beginner like me he is so great to listen to! Some stuff is way over my head but I ALWAYS get something out of his videos I can learn and then go back later for more!!! Fantastic playing and puts it at a level that even I can understand! I may not be able to play it yet, but I understand exactly what he is trying to teach! GREAT STUFF!!!

Jens. I am so thankful for your videos. You are keeping this dinosaur active and learning new things! Going to become a Patreon!

Always good to come back to the basics. Love the idea of just sticking with the arpeggios and work on making your lines more rhythmically interesting

Discipline yourself to become as good a music reader as possible. There’s so many great books to read 📚

Thank you. So much to work on starting with basics. Ties in with bass basic patterns.

Another great video. Thanks!

This is pure gold! Thank you sooo much!!

6:09 That lick has got a lot of character.