New chord‑melody lessons drop
Jens Larsen posted a new Patreon collection focused on chord‑melody and soloing lessons, including refreshed material tied to Barry Harris concepts for intermediate players (x.com). The release has been shared by guitar communities as a structured route for players wanting to integrate jazz harmony into soloing practice (x.com).
Jazz guitar teacher Jens Larsen has added a new Patreon collection centered on chord-melody playing and soloing, extending the paid lesson library tied to his long-running online teaching work. (patreon.com) Larsen’s Patreon says it offers transcriptions, Portable Document Format files, chord-melody materials, solos, and step-by-step courses, with memberships starting at $4 a month. His Patreon also lists a “Friday Chord Melody & Solo” collection with 335 posts. (patreon.com 1) (patreon.com 2) The new package also fits into a separate Barry Harris track on the same platform. Larsen’s Patreon shows a “Barry Harris Inspired Lessons” collection with 22 posts. (patreon.com) Chord melody is the guitar practice of carrying the tune and the harmony at the same time, instead of splitting them between a soloist and an accompanist. Larsen has built a paid archive around that format, including a separate chord-melody arrangements collection with 108 posts and a membership pitch promising “80+” monthly arrangements plus one new arrangement each month. (patreon.com 1) (patreon.com 2) Barry Harris was a bebop pianist and teacher whose method is widely used to connect scales, chords, and lines inside jazz standards. On Larsen’s site, a March 2026 lesson says Harris often began with an exercise that runs the scale matching each chord to help players hear the song form and connect chords to scales. (jenslarsen.nl) Larsen’s own explanation of that exercise is aimed at players who already know basic harmony but want lines that sound less mechanical. He writes that the method moves from scales to arpeggios, then adds triplet rhythm and chromatic approach notes to turn drills into usable jazz phrases. (jenslarsen.nl) That focus matches the audience Larsen has built on free platforms before steering viewers to paid materials. His YouTube channel shows 568,000 subscribers and about 1,600 videos, and the channel description says he has been posting weekly jazz guitar lessons since 2014. (youtube.com) (patreon.com) One of Larsen’s older YouTube lessons lays out the same teaching sequence now emphasized in the newer materials: scale work, diatonic arpeggios, chromatic notes, bebop rhythm, and moving ideas through a two-five-one progression. That video has more than 2 million views, suggesting the appetite for structured practice systems was already in place before the latest Patreon release. (youtube.com) The result is not a one-off lesson drop so much as a tighter map through Larsen’s existing catalog: chord melody on one side, Barry Harris vocabulary on the other, and soloing practice in the middle. For intermediate players trying to put harmony directly into their lines, that is the lane these new Patreon collections are built to serve. (patreon.com 1) (patreon.com 2)
