I Couldn't Play Bebop Jazz Guitar Until I Learned This….

[Music] so how do you take something like a simple c major scale [Music] and make it sound more like a jazz bebop line maybe something like this [Music] well few things you need to practice first thing might be the bebop scale and the second thing might be the enclosures after that it's just it's just like a language you gotta listen you gotta transcribe and get all of those chops into your fingers and ears well the first bebop scale is what i like to teach calling it root goes to the five goes to the root meaning that i'm gonna have one chromatic note from the sixth to the five so we get this root goes to the five so that duh that was a chromatic note so we had root goes to the five goes to the root so we had root seven six chromatic note which is a flat six into a five that way our chord horns are landing on strong beats root goes to the five and again goes to the root always landing on strong beats with the root and the five let's practice that root goes to the five goes to the roots goes to chromatic five goes to the root let's practice that going up root goes to the five goes to the root goes to the five goes to the root okay so you can practice that also from the third as well as practicing that in other tonalities other than c so let's say you're playing your bebop scale but you want to aim into the third now right so you can do something like this so you see these two notes approaching the third so we get this this is more what i call approach tones i'll show you what an actual enclosure is in a second but this way listen now that's starting to sound like a bebop phrase and i can see my first inversion see over here and i can create that phrase with it root goes to the five goes to the third now let's say i'm not starting from my root i want to start from my five and i want to go to my roots well maybe i can also utilize the same thing five goes to the third and then i can just play a chromatic approach all the way to my root third goes to the root third chromatic note goes to the root and i get this again one e and a two e and a three and a four so you can see i'm landing on strong beats one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and now i can complete it by going from this root to this five just like it is from here so this is essentially what is more looked upon as the bebop scale approach when the six is going to the five right so we can do that we just practice that right and then from the 5 to the root we'll be just playing the scale so or [Music] right all of these stuff are things you can start practicing and also in minor chords let's take d minor for example and i want to you know take this triad and start implementing these enclosures and employ approaches the perfect enclosure is kind of like a cage surrounding that note so let's say i'm in d minor right and i want to take that third and i want to play it in my solo well a thing i can do to make it sound more jazzy more bebop is enclosure that note for example take that third and approach it with this type of enclosure third so that was the cage going to the third and one e and a two so you see i'm landing on a strong beat another thing i can do is let's say i'm going to five i can do five five so let me show you a few different approaches now combined i can do here's d minor and i can go [Music] a good way to practice it is counting one and two and three one and two and three or juanienna one e and a two i prefer juaniana one e and a two a and a free enough one so i aim to land on a non-chord tone right here that was the two so that's more advanced but you can start you know once you can aim into chord tones then you can start aiming into other stuff like maybe the two right [Music] another thing that is happening a lot in bebop is that there's kind of like a compensation of whenever you have these strong movements such as chromatics scale movements enclosures there's kind of like this compensation of a bigger leap like an arpeggio something like that for example [Music] so you see this is a bigger bigger kind of arpeggiated sound so you can start doing those three things practicing your bebop kind of scales movement starting surrounding nodes with things such as chromatic chromatic approaches enclosures and also kind of like compensating your phrases and balancing them out using arpeggios so hopefully this was helpful if you want to be able to see all those triads arpeggios chords scales with tabs notation 95 examples everything you need is really organized in 15 models so you're welcome to access my galactic modern guitar series in the description of this video to really go way deeper and anyway please like this video subscribe support this channel by sharing this video commenting i'll see you in the next video new video every week so stay tuned you

Channel: Daniel Weiss

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Length: 6min 50sec (410 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 02 2022