You can use triads to play jazz chords, and it is a very powerful tool for this. Triads are very flexible and easy to play while also sounding great as chords. In this playlist, I will go over how you can use the triads you already know to play great sounding jazz progressions using only easy 3-note jazz chords.
We can play a wide range of chords with these 3-note easy jazz chords and they are very easy to add notes to or change notes to give us the extensions or alterations we want.
You can check out the videos here or go through the playlist on YouTube through this link:
Jazz Chords – Using Triads in Jazz Comping – Study Guide
Working with Triads as Jazz Chords and making it a flexible tool
This video discusses how you can work with triads and inversions when comping, showing you how to voice-lead them, use inversions, and add extensions and alterations.
Finding Triads for 7th chords
This video is actually about soloing, but the first few minutes provide a very thorough method for relating triads to a 7th chord.
Playing a Jazz Standard using Triad voicings
In this lesson, I am going to show you how you can get started with some triad voicings. Starting with what you already know and then go over 5 levels, step-by-step, of how you can play some great sounding comping ideas using these amazing voicings.
Applying Triad voicings to a Jazz Blues
This lesson is going over how you find triad voicings for a C jazz blues. You will also learn what you can do with the voicings you find using melodies and inversions.
Other great 3-note Jazz Voicings to Add To Your Vocabulary
When you think about Jazz Chords then you are probably thinking about rich chords with a lot of beautiful extensions. Of course, the rich colors of Jazz are about having chords that are embellished like this. At the same time when you are playing Jazz and when you are comping then you also want to have flexible chords so that you can move from one to the next, create small melodies and 3-note chords are fantastic for this.
Using less common Triad choices on a Maj7 chord
This video is going over 6 triads that I use for my Cmaj7 voicings and will also demonstrate how you can use them in a II V I cadence in C major. At the end of the video, I go over 4 more triads that are a bit tricky to use but also yield more interesting sounds!
Let me know what you think!
These videos give you a path to work on using triads and becoming very flexible with them, is there something you are missing or maybe something else you would like to see?
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