Practice Major Scales like this and You will get more out of it!

You may think that this is a guitar technique video, but there is more to scale practice than moving your fingers. Most musicians study major scales as part of their practice routine. In this video I want to talk about what you want to learn, what you need it for and how you use it to build on when making music. Hopefully you can recognize and maybe re-shape your practice and connect things more. For a lot of you this may be a big check list that you can cross a lot of stuff off on, but it will also give you some new ideas on where to go and connect the things you already know. I may give you the advice to learn a bit of theory. 🔴 Subscribe for more free Jazz Guitar Lessons and Videos: https://bit.ly/JensLessons ☑️ Support me on Patreon:   / jenslarsen   ✅DOWNLOAD A FREE E-BOOK with 15 II Valt I licks! Sign up for my newsletter: http://jenslarsen.nl/sign-up-for-my-n... ▶️ Check out my latest video: https://goo.gl/G16gVx ✴️Join us in the Facebook Jazz Guitar Group: http://bit.ly/InsidersFBGroup List of Content: 0:00 Intro - What you need to know, what is going to make you play better 0:18 It's more than moving your fingers 0:57 Step 1 - Learn the scale on your instrument 1:07 Learn the notes of the scale 1:31 Combine The theory and the scale practice 1:50 Learn the Fretboard using the scales 2:29 How knowing the notes helps in a solo and how you use it 3:26 Step 2 - Learning the Diatonic Chords and Arpeggios 3:39 The chords are in the scale 3:58 Construction Diatonic arpeggios in the scale Cmaj7 and Dm7 4:32 What you need to know about the diatonic harmony 5:19 Knowing the notes of the chords in the scale and using that. 6:01 The 7th chords in Jazz and the Triads 6:30 Triads and how they are built 6:47 Triads in Jazz: Upper-structure triads and how they are used 6:56 Em triad as upper-structure on a G7 7:24 Step 3 - Beyond the Basics 7:44 The "Diatonic" Minor Pentatonic scales - Modern Jazz Sounds 8:11 The three Pentatonic scales 8:45 Connecting knowledge to understand the pentatonic scales 9:01 Super-imposing Pentatonic scales on Extended chords 9:32 Example of how to relate a pentatonic scale to a Cmaj7 chord 10:00 Improvising with the super-imposed scale 10:32 Quartal 3-part arpeggios 10:47 Playing the arpeggios and Quartal chords in the scale 11:02 The mysterious chords and how we use them 11:33 How to use the Quartal Arpeggios in your playing 11:56 Example of analyzing some chords against a Cmaj7 12:45 The Many other subsets, arpeggios and structures to work with 13:25 What you need to learn and use! 14:00 Do you have a favourite scale exercise or approach? 14:48 Like the video? Check out my Patreon Page! 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. Edited by Luciano Poli - Business Inquiries: [email protected] Facebook:   / jenslarsenytlessons   Twitter:   / jensljazz   Instagram:   / jenslarsenjazz   My Book: Modern Jazz Guitar Concepts: https://geni.us/Y69J4 My Gear: https://www.amazon.com/shop/jenslarsen Music Notation: https://www.guitar-pro.com/#ae113 Clip-on Tuner: https://geni.us/FbPGZg4 Great Safe Gigbag: https://geni.us/1aH94 SonoCore Strings: 13-53 https://geni.us/nU3NA3V Powered Monitor: https://geni.us/YB8z3X Headphones: https://geni.us/fGDhHl Audio Interface: https://geni.us/qFIfT Camera: https://geni.us/s14DY9v Lense 1: https://geni.us/GmM8 Lense 2: https://geni.us/GJ01Hv Video Lights: https://geni.us/wQ8jhSy Video Lights: https://geni.us/MWtU