• Tags:  Chords, Voicings

  Basic Jazz concepts. An important feature of Jazz is its more complex chord voicings and we will start by looking at different ways of voicing chords from the major scale.

Hi GMC! Welcome to my first series here. I will try to produce some useful lessons about Jazz music.
Since it's a large - and complex - topic, I will use also Andrew's voice and his Theory Lessons.

So, thank you Andrew for your time!

You can find the spoken part and the text, clicking on video #2.

This is the first lesson and it's a simple one. However it would be better if you know at least some basic chords and concepts about chords generation.

You can find a Jam Track with the same chord changes of the main video. If you have some skills about improvisation already, you can can have some fun using this backing.

I used the fingerpicking technique to play chords here. Try to use also the pick.

On the picture above you find some shots of the fingerings I used for this lesson. If you're new to this type of chords, it would be cool if you write down the diagrams from yourself. This is a good tip to memorize these chords quickly.

Time signature: 4/4
Tempo: 100 bpm

Enjoy!

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