Fingerpicking Smooth Jazz Lesson

- sieg66622nd June 2012
  Tasty chords. Very Smooth. This will give both hands a good workout. Thanks.
- Sinisa Cekic22nd June 2012
  Hey Vasilije,great to see you again buddy !
  Good work
- Cosmin Lupu22nd June 2012
  Great ideas and concepts Vasilije!
- Slavenko Erazer22nd June 2012
  ODlican RAD, man! 10
- Dieterle23rd June 2012
  Very nice lesson and interesting ideas
  
  relaxing to listen .Great !
- MonkeyDAthos1st September 2012
  love this one! love anything smooth jazz
  related
- Alex Feather2nd September 2012
  QUOTE (MonkeyDAthos @ Sep 1 2012, 11:53 PM)
  love this one! love anything smooth jazz
  related
  
  It is a great lesson indeed!

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- Tags: Fingerpicking, Chords, Substitutions, Jazz, Chord melody
Hi GMC!

In this short piece that I composed we’ll learn how chords can be played in various positions to enable us to play melody at the same time.

In many ways harmonies used here are typical for smooth jazz and bossa nova music, so it is not a bad idea to memorize these shapes and apply them in your own songs. Song is in the key of F# minor, and basic harmony can be viewed as I II V, with variation on the 2nd degree where D maj7 is played instead G#min7-5 as substitution.

Enjoy!