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Jazz Guitar For
Beginners
Lesson 9
Lyle: This lesson has another chord progression
for you to learn. It's only 8 measures long but you change chords two times per
measure, on beats 1 and 3.
Lyle:
Most of these chords are your standard chords, plus the addition of the dim7
chords.
Lyle: Select the LOOP function on the TAB player,
then click play and play along to help you memorize the whole progression.
Lyle: Next is a very good rhythm technique to
learn for the jazz style, it simply is called comping. You'll strum on each beat
of the measure. But you'll take your fretting hand and
slightly lift up off the frets only to stop the strings and the chord from
ringing right after you strum it.
Lyle: Listen to this TAB file for this
sound:
Lyle:
Hear how the chord starts and stops.
Lyle: Here's a video of this
technique:
Lyle:
Here's another video of both hands in action:
Lyle:
Here's a couple jam tracks for you to play this progression
with:
Lyle: Most of the chord progression is in the key
of Eb Major so you would start with he Eb Major scale when improvising to
this:
Lyle: Here's a basic improv I did with the Eb
Major scale:
Lyle: To
get the blues sound or the jazz sound you might try playing the Ebm blues
scale:
Lyle:
Within the key of Eb Major, you get the blues sound when you play some of the
notes that are not in the Major scale such as the b3, b5, and b7
degrees.
Lyle: Here's what I call the "blue notes" in
Eb:
Lyle:
Look at these again when you play them back over the Eb major
scale:
Lyle:
Notice how the so called "blue notes" are all outside the key of Eb.
Lyle:
The blue notes are all found in the Ebm blues scale
though:
Lyle:
Here's another simple improv solo example where I switched back and forth
between the Eb Major scale and the Ebm blues scale, just to mix up the sound
against this chord progression.
Lyle:
That's all for this lesson. Your goal is to be able to play the comp style
rhythm for all the chords on each beat. Just have a little extra fun with the
scales and improvising with the jam
track.
Lyle: It's a fun chord
progression!
Lyle: Jam
on!
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