One of the most fun parts of learning and playing Jazz is exploring the Jazz chords and the beautiful colors you can add to it and the freedom you have to improvise with them.
In this video, I am going to go over how we start with basic shell-voicings and then end up with voicing with lots of extensions and colors.
And this is also a great way to really get better at checking out and connecting different types of chords and explore the fretboard
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Content:
00:00 Intro
00:34 Level 1 – Shell-voicings, Maj7 & Maj6 chords
01:18 Maj7 & Maj6 chords
01:59 Samba comping with Shell-voicings
02:24 Level 2 – Shell with extension & Drop3
03:25 Comping with The Bigger Chords
03:43 Level 3 – Triads & Rootless Jazz Chords
05:17 Jazz Standard with Triad Voicings
05:36 Level 4 – Drop2 and Inversions
07:24 Level 5 -Inverting Shells with extensions
08:36 Adding more colors to a Standard
08:58 More Colorful Chords and Less boring Chord Progressions!
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