You need strategies for Jazz Comping in modal or static chord sections of songs. When you start learning Jazz comping on the guitar then you learn to play progressions, focusing on how to connect the chords play through the changes and get that to sound good and natural.
But the skills you develop with this won’t help you when there is a long stretch of one chord, like modal jazz, and there is no chord progression that automatically makes your jazz chords sound interesting.
In this video, I am going to go over some examples of how to comp jazz guitar on a static chord, develop some phrases, add extra chords, chromatic sounds and other things to make your jazz guitar comping more interesting.
Other great lessons on Modal comping and Jazz Comping
Beautiful Jazz Chords from Allan Holdsworth – Modal chords
The 3 Most Important Things For Solid Jazz Comping
Comping Rhythms – 10 Examples You Need To Know
Jazz Chord Voicings – The 9 Different types you should know
Content:
0:00 Intro – Comping on Static/Modal Chords
0:39 Two Basic Strategies – Allan Holdsworth vs Wynton Kelly
1:29 Example 1 Basic simple riff around chords you already know. Clear melody
2:55 Example 2 Diatonic voicings and a little voice-leading
4:17 Example 3 Pedal Point melody
5:19 Example 4 Quartal Voicings – Borrowing from McCoy Tyner
6:22 Example 5 Two Layers and Call-Response
7:20 Example 6 Chromatic Passing Chords
8:11 Example 7 More Chromaticism
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