3 Things To Get Right For Great Guitar Technique

What are great exercises for technique that you think I should try? 😎 Here's the most important scale exercise in Jazz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ze22BNftAA

If you're thinking of other You Tube channels with helpful exercises, you could try Andre Tonelli. He doesn't do jazz, but he has a seemingly endless collection of exercises for warm-up, dexterity, scales, intervals etc, which are thorough and challenging but also interesting.

Doing the 2 point interval system from Tom Quale. It’s the first time I truly see my fretboard knowledge shooting up. Scales, triads, chord tones…all in there. Aside that, rhythmic notation and difficult songs

I just bought a Vidami pedal to make starting/stopping/looping YouTube videos easier when trying to learn/transcribe songs

Thanks!

I've been using the Pat Metheny guitar etudes book for warmup exercises. Good for building right and left hand technique, but they are not lines I would actually use in a jazz solo.

What a great video. Always looking for new and interesting practice ideas

Thanks, Jens!

Thank you,Jens⭐🌹⭐

Really helpful. Thank you

I needed this, thanks.

The alternative for Spotify is using the loopback feature on your interface and recording a copy of the song in a DAW. I then import that recording into my jam project in Reaper and play along. You can loop any point, slow it down, and use EQ (or more advanced tools) to make the guitar stand out clearly in the mix. I also like to match my guitar tone to what is used in the song. When you recreate the solo accurately it actually becomes harder to hear yourself and you'll know you're nailing it.

woahhh thats a cool bass dawgie

Great lesson Jens

Great lesson as always! I've been using some scale exercises I got from Chad LB videos, bascially putting chromatic enclosures into scale patterns, but playing them legato on guitar is super hard. Also gone back to step 1 with Mick Goodrick's book and been looking at melodic minor modes on one string - amazing how much I get from this every time I do it!

Awesome 😎

Bassist exercise but works for guitar - play three dotted eighth notes (think Black Cow) with a metronome. You start with the first note on the downbeat and play for awhile. Then first note on the "ee" of the beat (1-ee-and-uh). Then the "and", and then the "uh". Then on the downbeat of beat 2, etc. Downbeat and "and" are usually easy for players, I found "uh" to confound me until I felt it as a pickup to 2. And yes, metronome is the work of the devil but it probably has been one of the best uses of my practice time. A lot of players have bad time, and bassist really can't get away with that. Neither should guitarists 😀

Nice video. Thanks

Great video ! So glad i found ur channel. Im learning so much 💯💯👍

Which Rotem's excercise you had in mind at 1:27?