There are some really beautiful variations and reharmonizations of a basic II V I progression that you can check out and start adding to your own repertoire. You don’t always want to play the chords exactly as written, especially if you are trying to make a chord melody arrangement or an intro sound better.
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00:00 Intro
00:33 The Basic II V I
00:45 #1 Walking up
01:46 #2 Walking down
02:13 #3 Wandering to minor
02:58 #4 Strolling back from minor
03:46 #5 Coltrane’s Detour
04:27 #6 The Walk Down to Another Key
05:11 #7 The “Wrong Chromatic” approach II V
05:59 Make your chord progressions more interesting
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It is easy to get lost in difficult Jazz chords that you don’t have control over and can’t use when you are playing, and that means that you are not really getting anything out of them, so in this video, I am going to show you a set of easy jazz chords and then show you how much you can do with it and how you can really play pieces with them.
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00:00 Intro – Easy Jazz Chords To Expand On
00:28 #1 Shell-Voicings – What Does The Chords Sound Like
02:11 #2 Add Some Rhythm And Make It Interesting
02:41 #3 More Notes = More Color
04:39 #4 Less Notes = Even More Color (And More Notes)
05:25 #5 Become Free With The Chords
05:57 Get More Out Of Your Shell Voicings
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Often you come across songs where you are comping a static chord for a few bars, and it can get a little boring with just one voicing, not adding energy and movement to the music. This video will give you some tricks to make places like that more interesting and show you how to add some beautiful chords and reharmonizations to your jazz guitar playing.
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00:00 Intro
00:33 Example 1 – Diatonic Passing Chords on You Stepped Out Of A Dream
01:05 Diatonic Passing Chords – Easy, Solid and Effective
01:38 Example 2 – Secondary Dominants on How High The Moon
02:04 Dominants and Tritones – The Strongest Pull
04:18 Example 3 – Ladybird With Secret Dim Chords
04:37 #IV Diminished – Overlooked
06:06 Voice-leading And Chords You Can’t Analyze
08:25 Example 6 – Take The A train with some voice-leading
08:39 Make Your Chord Progressions More Interesting
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The minor key has a lot of interesting options, and also quite a few that you don’t have in Major. This video goes over some of the beautiful progressions that you can create in minor when reharmonizing a basic II V I, and you can go pretty far.
This video will give you a lot of examples and concepts to add to your repertoire!
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00:00 Intro
00:47 The Tritone substitute That We All Know
02:07 Minor Ladybird Turnaround
02:50 Making it all II Vs like Wes
03:48 Making it all II Vs But Then A Little Weird
04:17 The Amazing Amount Of Diatonic Chords In Minor
05:27 The Most Beautiful Altered Dominant Is A Minor Chord
06:20 Pretending To Be Go To Another Degree0
06:59 The Neapolitan Subdominant
07:53 A Little Like Coltrane But In Minor
09:37 Another Great Sounding Substitution for the V
09:46 Why You Want To Think in Functional Harmony
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This is a video that discusses how to think about the notes that we play. Why I think in note names as well as intervals and why you need different things to play jazz solos.
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00:00 Intro
00:23 Not All Notes Are Created Equal
01:30 The Important Details – Visual & Practical
02:32 Losing The Bigger Picture
04:44 It’s About Two Things
05:07 No Real-time Calculations
05:47 Not Only The Scale
06:57 Communicating With The Rest Of The Band
07:48 Fretboard Knowledge That Makes Sense For The Music
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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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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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You probably already figured out that knowing scales, arpeggios, and Jazz chords is not really enough to be able to play a great Jazz Solo.
It can be frustrating and seem like magic when you listen to great jazz phrases like Wes or George Benson but there are ways to work on this, and it is not magic, it is just a bit of work.
But you will sound better if you fix it!
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00:00 Intro
00:23 The First Thing You (Anyway) Should Start Doing
01:09 How Swing 8th Notes Sound
02:33 Make Your Phrases And Phrasing More Interesting
04:34 Overdrive/Distortion in Jazz – Here’s the problem
04:48 Don’t End On The Beat All The Time
05:53 Ending On Long Notes.
06:54 The Types of Practice That Helps Phrasing
07:30 More Exercises for Phrasing and Swing-feel
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A title like this is of course extreme, but I do really think that this way of working and improving your jazz solo is both underused and misunderstood, and that is a pity because it is very effective and in fact, it is also a part of The Jazz education tradition.
If you can practice in a way that makes you learn faster and sound better then what do you have to lose?
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00:00 Intro
00:22 How To Really Learn A Lick
02:31 Composing Is About The Process!
04:32 Cornerstone of Barry Harris’ method
06:16 Hearing Strong Melodies
07:24 Analyze Licks with Your Ears
08:44 This Is Why You Should Study Bebop
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Understanding what a secondary dominant is and being able to recognize or find them for chords is a powerful tool you can use in your playing and compositions. This video will show you how to use them, understand them and improvise over them
And actually, it is pretty simple if you know your basic scales.
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00:00 Intro
00:22 What is a Secondary Dominant
01:52 Not Just Theory
03:25 Finding Them In A Song
05:39 Scale Choices and Extensions- The Two main types
06:36 Examples in the song
07:15 The V of V in major – A special rule
08:05 Secondary Dominants in Comping – Moving Progressions
09:30 Secondary Dominants in Comping – Static Chords
10:22 Adding Them To Solo As Embellishments
11:23 Why You Want To Think in Functional Harmony
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