Jazz Guitar for Beginners

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Jazz Guitar For Beginners Lesson 8 Lyle: This lesson will teach you many new ways to play a simple chord progression, and those little jazz riffs you hear in the lesson sample. Lyle: First, look at this chord chart: chord chart Lyle: It's almost a repeating 4 bar progression. Lyle: The GMaj9 is replaced with a GMaj7 every other time. Lyle: Then you repeat after 8 bars. But you are going to learn how to play a descending chord progression for all 16 bars. Lyle: Listen again to the chords in the lesson sample and you'll hear them start high and end up down low. Lyle: This is a basic II-V-I-VI chord progression in G. Lyle: The object is to hold every note of the chord as long as possible, moving fingers only when absolutely necessary to arrive at the next chord. Lyle: You're going to learn this progression 4 bars at a time. Lyle: Here's your jam track: Lyle: Many of these chords are tricky because they don't have a root note in them or they don't have them in the bass. These will all be 4 string chords. Here's the first group: Lyle: Learn those 4 chords and practice playing them along with the jam track. Lyle: Here's the next group of chords for bars 5 thru 8: Lyle: ....and I've circled the root notes that are in some of these chords: Lyle: Memorize this group of chords and try playing them along to the looping jam track. Lyle: Then see if you can play chords 1 - 4 and 5 - 8 all together. Lyle: These are good finger exercises. No stretching involved but still good for your fingers. andres: What would this progression be called, II V I ? Lyle: II-V-I-VI Lyle: Here's the next group of chords: Lyle: Now practice this group of chords with the jam track. Lyle: Next is the last group of chords: Lyle: No fancy chord names, just a bunch of ways to play these basic chords. Now try putting them all together. Here's all 16 bars and chords. I grouped them into 2 chords per bar in this next TAB only to make it a little easier to read> Lyle: That should keep you busy for awhile.... Lyle: The little solo in the lesson sample is made in the key of G Major. andres: Is there a way to remember this trick in all situations, like if I was playing a blues progression? Lyle: Lots of practice. andres: :), isn't there an operation I can get instead? Lyle: Substitute any of these chords into your blues or any other progression. Lyle: Here's the scales and patterns I used to make the solo in the lesson sample: LiveOak: Oooh... LOVE those double stops :)) Lyle: This next one is the Bb Minor pentatonic, great to use over the D9 chord only. Lyle: Very simple scales and patterns. Lyle: Here's how I used them to make the solo from the lesson sample: Greg: It's amazing the range of licks you can get with a few simple scales! Lyle: Yes, that's why it 's so important to learn your basic scales like all your Majors and Minors. Lyle: A plain scale can be used in so many ways, it's hard to say just one or two ways. Lyle: Like the Bb Minor pentatonic I used over the D9 chord, you wont find that in most lesson books! Lyle: Good luck on this lesson. Try to get all the chords down. It will be a small challenge for some tougher for others, and easy for some. Lyle: The Bb Minor pentatonic provides all the altered tones not found in the key of G Major. So when played against the D9 dominant chord it creates altered tones, giving you blues and outside sounds. radica: I like that one the best as well. Lyle: Time for me to take a break. See you again soon!	<< load notation from left
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