What is the type of voicing you use the most? Drop2, Drop3, Shells, triads? Content: 0:00 Intro - Drop2 Chords 0:20 Going Further Than Inversions 0:45 II V I in F Major 0:59 Drop2 Inversions 1:32 Using Drop 2 to Create Music 1:48 #1 Adding extensions 1:56 They are all Gm7! 2:31 Rule #1 for adding extensions 3:10 Relating the voicings to other chords 3:51 Rule #2 and #3 for Extensions 4:49 Maj7, Maj6 and Maj7(13) 5:00 #2 Adding Altereations 5:14 Overview of alterations 5:26 2 Examples with altered dominants 6:35 #3 Make Music - Top-note Melodies 6:58 Example 1 7:35 Leaving out notes to create movement 7:45 Example 2 8:22 Making melodies using the voices in the chord 8:41 Example 3 9:27 Like the video? Check out my Patreon Page
Love this lesson. I work from the Mickey Baker books from the 1950s and your book as well, plus these video lessons. Keeps me thinking and creating. Thanks a million!!!!
Also a pleasure to watch your lessons my man! Choral voices are some of the most important concepts one could understand. Jazz and all of music is based around a chord in some shape or form
Hi Jens, I took some advice from one of your recent videos where you said to "stop watching my videos" -- it's too easy to get distracted from what I'm trying to do, given all your great content -- but then clicking on this today I wonder what else I've been missing. Great lesson as always! Cheers and gratitude from Canada, jz
One important concept that I’ve learned from your lessons is that a voicing can have different names and functions, I.e., a rootless D9 is also F#m7b5. Harmony is fascinating, complex and beautiful. It’s like a giant math problem. No wonder you need an advanced degree to grasp all the subtleties and complex relationships. !
@@JensLarsen .... and that is where you stand head and shoulders above all the other teachers ... you reduce these seemingly complicated things to an elegant simplicity , then build on that. This lesson is a prime example. Having lots of fun moving from basic drop 2 2-5-1 to adding tensions.
Thank you so much Jens for providing this very accurate and meaningful lessons. So meaningful that I am on the point to offer a earable version of All the things in chord melody. So accurate that I spend my time watching them and not playing guitar anymore. Too bad. ;)
@@JensLarsen your drop2 have really helped me in working on chord melody. Same for the pentatonics on blues. It allowed me to get a bit out if my habits and sounding different. Thank you!
Good ideas! I'll admit that I never liked the label "drop 2". If you do that, I think it should be "drop 3" (because it's the third note from the bottom) - since when do we build chords from the top and go down instead of from the bottom up? :) [end of rant]
Theres always a part of these videos where I get lost, and I think it's because I haven't gotten comfortable enough to start subbing chords yet (the altered dominant stuff). But I've been working on take the A train as per your recommendation for early standards to work on, and focused on comping on the top 4 strings, and messing with this kind of thing using extensions and whatnot seems like a great place to branch into. Thanks! Ps with that tune, I want to do your endless scale exercise but the d7#11 is a bit of a spanner. Would you say a lydian b7 scale would work for the purpose of this exercise? Would you arpeggiate it as 1 3 #4 b7? Sorry if it's a dumb question. Love your content, it's like having a personal jazz teacher on my phone haha.
Great! You are really putting it to use! As for the D7, in the beginning I would just ignore the #11 when you solo and just play it as a D7. One common option for that chord would certainly be Lydian b7 which is A melodic minor.
Mm I tried thinking about it as a straight D7 when I started out, but the melody really emphasises that G#, so landing on the 5th during those 2 bars can sound gross to my ear haha. I'll keep playing around with it, thanks!
Well, like everything else if you approach it from what you already know then it is easier to get it into your system. For example the 2nd row of diatonic chords in this video are drop2 so if you start there and expand on that knowledge then it is easier to learn : th-cam.com/video/esWyb1_hQRE/w-d-xo.html
What is the type of voicing you use the most? Drop2, Drop3, Shells, triads?
Content:
0:00 Intro - Drop2 Chords
0:20 Going Further Than Inversions
0:45 II V I in F Major
0:59 Drop2 Inversions
1:32 Using Drop 2 to Create Music
1:48 #1 Adding extensions
1:56 They are all Gm7!
2:31 Rule #1 for adding extensions
3:10 Relating the voicings to other chords
3:51 Rule #2 and #3 for Extensions
4:49 Maj7, Maj6 and Maj7(13)
5:00 #2 Adding Altereations
5:14 Overview of alterations
5:26 2 Examples with altered dominants
6:35 #3 Make Music - Top-note Melodies
6:58 Example 1
7:35 Leaving out notes to create movement
7:45 Example 2
8:22 Making melodies using the voices in the chord
8:41 Example 3
9:27 Like the video? Check out my Patreon Page
Drop 2 and 4ths voicings and inversions of 4ths to sound hip ;)
Too many lessons Jens ! You don't sleep at all ? I can't follow this infernal rythm... Thanks a lot !
Haha! I just went down to two lessons per week, so that should help? 🙂
Love this lesson. I work from the Mickey Baker books from the 1950s and your book as well, plus these video lessons. Keeps me thinking and creating. Thanks a million!!!!
Rpatx love that book
Great lesson. Really explained how to add notes to drop 2 voicings to produce other chords.
Thanks Scott!
Also a pleasure to watch your lessons my man! Choral voices are some of the most important concepts one could understand. Jazz and all of music is based around a chord in some shape or form
Thanks RC 🙂
@@JensLarsen Ahhh absolutely man! My pleasure
Hi Jens, I took some advice from one of your recent videos where you said to "stop watching my videos" -- it's too easy to get distracted from what I'm trying to do, given all your great content -- but then clicking on this today I wonder what else I've been missing. Great lesson as always! Cheers and gratitude from Canada, jz
That's great! I am sure you can catch up with whatever you really need :)
1:25 - 1:30 was literally my first semester of my jazz program as a student.
One important concept that I’ve learned from your lessons is that a voicing can have different names and functions, I.e., a rootless D9 is also F#m7b5. Harmony is fascinating, complex and beautiful. It’s like a giant math problem. No wonder you need an advanced degree to grasp all the subtleties and complex relationships. !
But actually you don't. It is not that complicated but you have to watch out that you don't get lost in the details 🙂
@@JensLarsen .... and that is where you stand head and shoulders above all the other teachers ... you reduce these seemingly complicated things to an elegant simplicity , then build on that. This lesson is a prime example. Having lots of fun moving from basic drop 2 2-5-1 to adding tensions.
Incredibly useful stuff. I recently got into drop 2 voicing and this is really helpful- thanks so much!!
You're very welcome!
Sei un grande jens, grazie.
Glad you like it, Gio 🙂
Interesting video. Your production quality keeps getting better by the day as well.
Thanks! I try to improve that as well :)
Great lesson. Thanks Jens.
Thank you so much Jens for providing this very accurate and meaningful lessons. So meaningful that I am on the point to offer a earable version of All the things in chord melody. So accurate that I spend my time watching them and not playing guitar anymore. Too bad. ;)
Well, I am glad you like the videos, I hope it does not take up too much of your practice time.
@@JensLarsen your drop2 have really helped me in working on chord melody. Same for the pentatonics on blues. It allowed me to get a bit out if my habits and sounding different. Thank you!
@@jean-pierretartary2657 Glad to hear it 👍🙂
That's good stuff! Thanks a lot!
You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂
Perfect Lesson also for ukulele players!
Lol
Great idea - it would be interesting to hear how the voicings change with the bottom string tuned up an octave - I must get my ukulele out and try it.
Bernie Holland or you could use a wounded low G on the bottom to have perfect basses
Great lesson Jens! Love the sound you're getting from your Ibanez. What amp are you playing through? I seem to remember you used to use an AX8...?
Yes, using a twin model in the AX8 🙂 I posted the patch on the Fractal forum
Do you need to be sure you have the 3rd, 7th of the chord while playing the melody?
Like anything in music there are no hard rules, but in general, yes 🙂
Good ideas! I'll admit that I never liked the label "drop 2". If you do that, I think it should be "drop 3" (because it's the third note from the bottom) - since when do we build chords from the top and go down instead of from the bottom up? :) [end of rant]
Theres always a part of these videos where I get lost, and I think it's because I haven't gotten comfortable enough to start subbing chords yet (the altered dominant stuff). But I've been working on take the A train as per your recommendation for early standards to work on, and focused on comping on the top 4 strings, and messing with this kind of thing using extensions and whatnot seems like a great place to branch into. Thanks!
Ps with that tune, I want to do your endless scale exercise but the d7#11 is a bit of a spanner. Would you say a lydian b7 scale would work for the purpose of this exercise? Would you arpeggiate it as 1 3 #4 b7? Sorry if it's a dumb question. Love your content, it's like having a personal jazz teacher on my phone haha.
Great! You are really putting it to use!
As for the D7, in the beginning I would just ignore the #11 when you solo and just play it as a D7. One common option for that chord would certainly be Lydian b7 which is A melodic minor.
Mm I tried thinking about it as a straight D7 when I started out, but the melody really emphasises that G#, so landing on the 5th during those 2 bars can sound gross to my ear haha. I'll keep playing around with it, thanks!
Great lesson. New camera?
Thank you Christopher! I bought a sony camera a few months ago :)
Drop 2 and Drop 3 are so difficult :'(. To me it was a bottleneck point
Well, like everything else if you approach it from what you already know then it is easier to get it into your system. For example the 2nd row of diatonic chords in this video are drop2 so if you start there and expand on that knowledge then it is easier to learn : th-cam.com/video/esWyb1_hQRE/w-d-xo.html
do you think you'd play guitar better if you shaved and cut your hair?
I heard that for each hair you cut, a chord is added to your library
I already know all of them, so there is no way to check.
@@JensLarsen I'm as bald as a billiard ball and I have a very long way to go building my chord library.