We have a huge advantage as guitarists: We can play the chords of a song and hear how the harmony sounds. When you play a jazz standard that you want to learn then you want to keep Jazz Chords easy. There is no reason to make it harder than it is so building a strong foundation and really checking out how the basic harmony in moves and sounds is very important.
In this video, I am going to show you how to play voicings like that, and also give you some suggestions for how you can take this to the next level by adding a basic chord melody, extensions and colors, or playing walking bass and chords.
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Content:
0:00 Intro
0:41 What is a Shell-Voicing
1:58 How to Practice the Jazz Chords
3:02 Shell-Voicings on a Jazz Standard
4:59 Adding More Notes and Extensions
6:06 Chord Melody with Shell-voicings
7:25 Walking Bass and chords
8:18 Like the video?