- Hi everybody, my name is Jens Larsen.
I don't usually do videos purely on technique,
I think I tend to focus more
on what you're using your technique for,
so how to play arpeggios and use different scales
and use solos and play chord voicings,
but with this exercise, I think maybe it really makes sense
to just have a little bit of a closer look,
because I think we're missing some of the things,
that we can learn from it
and some of the ways that we practice it.
So what this is really about is,
that if you think in a little bit of a different way
and you focus on some other things,
then you can drastically improve your technique,
you can clean it up a lot,
you can set yourself up to play a lot faster
and you're also working on thinking ahead
and those are all things that are extremely useful,
if you wanna play jazz solos
or if you wanna exercise something.
The way I'm working with this exercise
is really coming out of the way that I was taught,
when I had classical guitar lessons
about one and a half million years ago
and I think it's really curious,
that we're not approaching it like this,
when it comes to electric guitar
and styles like jazz and rock,
because I never see it discussed like this,
the focus is always on something else.
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So the basic exercise I'm gonna work with here
is this sort of, it's not actually a Chromatic exercise,
but just this one, two, three, four exercise
and of course, you can do the same thing,
the things I'm gonna talk about,
it's not really specific to this exercise,
you kind of wanna have that in all aspects of your playing,
but it's a little bit easier to work with like this,
where you don't have to really worry about
where you're playing the notes and everything is easy
for your right hand and stuff like that.
The first aspect that I want you to incorporate
into your technique practice
is the idea of left-hand preparation,
so really that your left hand fingers
are trying to move to the place where you need them next
ahead of when you actually need to play the note.
Of course, you can't always do this
and it may seem a little bit counterintuitive,
that when we're improvising, we're trying to come up
with stuff at the same time as we're playing it,
but that's not entirely true,
we're actually trying to play stuff,
that we already decided that we're going to play,
that we already heard
or that we already know that we're going to play.
So there is time to prepare
and you kind of wanna have that in your technique,
it's also something that's really gonna help you
and set up your technique, if you wanna improve your speed.
For the exercise, so if we just have this
sort of semi-Chromatic exercise here,
this means that when I'm playing the notes one by one,
of course in the beginning, there's nothing happening,
that you can really prepare,
but once I'm playing this note,
then my index finger should already
be moving to the place where I need it next
and you can see how it's just ahead of what is going on
and that's of course, just because I know
that I'm going that way
and I can really clean up the sound,
it's easier to just be a little bit ahead,
so you don't have to sort of hit the string here
and with the pick at the same time,
the chances that it's gonna go well are a lot higher,
if the left-hand finger is already in the right place,
it gets you in clear,
if we play the descending version of this, so.
So here you can see is that,
I'm pretty much just putting down
all the fingers in advance
and here you can also have the idea why,
when I practice it on an exercise like this,
where I don't have to worry about the notes at all,
everything is just like four notes per string,
it's easy to play and I'm not really too worried about
which notes are in the scale, how do I play the arpeggio.
Of course, once you have this,
you can try and do something similar
with for instance scales,
if I play a C major scale in this position,
or an arpeggio.
So you can see how it's really sort of setting up everything
and keeping control and my left hand has time
to move it around, so I might as well do it
and that's really what's gonna help me play fast
and also play more cleanly, when I'm playing fast.
The other thing that I think you should focus on
and try to get into the way that you're playing
your technical exercises is control of your fingers
and one way of working with this
is really to have a little bit of independence,
but also just to try and see
if you can keep your left-hand fingers
close to the strings all the time
and in the beginning, at least for me,
this was extremely annoying.
- Argh!
- I don't think that it's really a question of
it's very often explained as
that you don't wanna have to travel too far
to get to the point where you need to go with the fingers,
but I actually suspect that what we're trying
to achieve here, when we can do this,
is that we have some independence in the fingers
and that it's easy to control them,
because if you have them sort of flying around,
then you're losing control
and then that's the problem with the technique,
it's not so much that your fingers have to travel far,
that doesn't have to be a problem really,
so this is really just about gaining some control
of the individual fingers and some finger independence.
The way you work on this is of course just the same,
so you play the exercise really slowly,
trying to see if you can do,
just staying really above the strings all the time,
without having to sort of really force it
and in the beginning for me at least,
this was very frustrating to do
and it goes the same as with the other exercise,
this is the kind of thing, where especially
if you're doing just this type of exercise,
which is in many ways just very mechanical,
boring and unmusical,
you do this once or twice and then you move on,
so if you do this once or twice, focusing on preparing
and then another one where you're trying to focus
on just keeping your fingers just above the strings
and really just having control of that,
you can let go one by one
and really to me, this is about control,
it's not so much about whether you're doing this really,
it's just that you really have the control
and that you can really decide where your finger is,
because that's what you need to have good technique.
In terms of developing the control
and the independence of your left-hand fingers,
there are quite a few exercises,
again, this is stuff,
that I have out of the classical repertoire of exercises
from when I had classical lessons
and this is something
that I could return to in another video
and if it's something that you're interested in,
then leave a comment on this video, let me know
and that is definitely something I could make a video on.
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