"Learn The Modes!" is Horrible Advice - This is A Better Skill

You have probably seen people giving the advice like "learn all the modes if you want to play jazz" or "first learn the modes all over the neck and then check out a 2 5 1" Most of the time this advice is probably given with a good intention but what this makes you study is not going to help you play any better or set you on a path to make music, so the question is really if it is a good goal or advice at all? Maybe you shouldn't really worry about modes at all. That's what I want to discuss in this video, and I will give you something else to study that is a lot more useful for your playing (and which will make you able to play modes anyway....) 0:00 Intro 0:25 Modes - Are they solving the problem you want to solve? 0:49 What Skills to Develop 1:26 #1 How Modes Are Taught 2:12 The Pentatonic Modal approach 2:42 #2 How Does It Fit With The Music 3:36 Characteristic notes of a mode and the chords you use it on. 4:39 Understanding Chord Progressions? 5:10 #3 What Is Missing - Where do they fail 5:34 What to do instead. 6:28 That is actually playing modes 6:42 #4 A Better Solution 7:40 Rows of notes don't make you a better improviser 7:55 Like the video? Check out my Patreon Page. How to Solo Over Chord Changes Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_HZSUfOKwM&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcHYOlEVg5uHPBy_AudysODz&index=1 Country solo lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3d0-SM08L4 🎸Check out my Online Course, The Jazz Guitar Roadmap: http://bit.ly/JazzGtRm 🎸Check out my new course: The Jazz Chord Craftsmanship: https://bit.ly/JazzChordCraft 🔴 Subscribe for more free Jazz Guitar Lessons and Videos: https://bit.ly/JensLessons ☑️ Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jenslarsen/ ✅DOWNLOAD A FREE E-BOOK with 15 II Valt I licks! Sign up for my newsletter: http://jenslarsen.nl/sign-up-for-my-newsletter/ If you like this video and want to help translate it into your own language you can do so here: http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?v=iWm_dxEszu0&ref=share Edited by Luciano Poli 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