How to Start Playing Chord Changes By Using Guide Tones
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- One of the top questions I get asked is "how do I get the chord changes to come out in my jazz solos?"
It's a great question, and a whole lifetime of study is involved for mastering this skill. However, there are specific things we can be doing to start unlocking this.
Guide Tones are incredibly valuable to identify, and in this video I teach you all about them and how to use them.
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I know these concepts but that was really nicely explained and demonstrated
Thanks! Appreciate you watching.
This helped me tremendously and all my life ive finally found my problem thank you so much, this one thing is the answer ive always searched for.
Glad it helped!
Finally, I have found a local place where they have a house band that lets anyone sit in and play jazz standards with them every week! Now I have some jazz cats to hang out with and it is time to actually learn to play the standards.
Two weeks ago they had 4 piano, 4 bass, 4 drummers, tenor, (2) alto and baritone sax, trombone, 2 trumpets, a guitarist and singer. This week they had 3 guitar players and a wide assortment of other players. They are great folks, young and old. It is fun seeing the high school and college players get up there and play. We can all learn together!
I will be scouting your sites and learning a couple dozen standards. Many of these I learned long ago but went off into blues, rock, and more progressive jazz stuff. What I like about the standards is that they are structured, you can easily find them in sheet music or fake books, and they actually teach you theory as you learn their nuances and chord changes. Plus, learning them lets you sit in with other jazz cats anywhere! This was a great lesson. I love learning music theory and hope to eventually be able to sight read. Thanks Bret!
Great over all instruction! Thanks for all the work you put into this for us!
This is the first time I have heard it explained so clearly. Many thanks, happy to subscribe !
Wow. Awesome lesson. You have so much insight. Thank you.
Thank you. You explained guide tones so well. Somebody said they are shells. They may form the basis of shells but they are not shells. Your explanation is spot on.
Thank very much; I needed this lesson.
Great explanation! I tend to play the root of the chord on the first beat of the chord change. And I use passing tones to get to the guide tones.
To the point and easy to follow lesson! Thanks!!!
My pleasure Dan, glad you found it helpful!
Excellent,thank you.
The very basics, my favorite place to start
Excellent!
Great video!
Great lesson
This is such a great lesson. Thanks a lot, Brent!
My pleasure!
Nice job of analysizing my favorite standard, ATTYA..😀
Finding Chord/Scale Tones ...
One way -
Know the changes in terms of chord shapes. So ii V I in C might be Am7(shape on 5th fret), E7 shape on 3rd, AMaj7 shape on 3rd. Play them in any shape(s) you like, just get good and intimate with them as grips. Then when you land on that chord in the song, you're in a familiar shape for a scale, arp, whatever. If you're looking for 3rds and 7ths, it's really familiar to you. Want a #5 or some other tension? You know where the 5ths are in this shape. Sharp it.
Then in contrast to that, consider something like (ii V I) Dm7b5, G7alt, CMaj69 (CMaj13). For me, those aren't shapes, they're a SATB choir. Each voice moves to the appropriate next chord tone. I just sometimes ask the sopranos or tenors to "move early" (or late).
Whatever you do, practice it for heckadoodle's sake. Like I think your video host has.
Thank you sir. And thanks for all the minus one's. Lumpy
An excellent video.. Cheers...
Hey, glad to help! Thanks for watching.
Awasome clear
great informative lesson well presented.
Thanks!
what the heck, this is essential, really important. And we're getting this great information for free! This is weird, but I like it
Excellent
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I have a tip. Get the Jazz Standards play book! I did, and it's worth every penny. And I'm not on the LJS payroll. :-)
Ah man, thanks! Glad you're enjoying that book!
SO great-thanks-more examples on other tunes and how to write your own lines and flush them out-just a thought
Thanks for watching and appreciate your suggestion! Will keep note
Really good video. Tritone (G7) Whenever I go up in 4ths and find a G7 out of place..it is probably a tritone.Db is 3 tones from G.
Also it falls down from Db(Db F Ab C) to Cmin7(C Eb G Bb)..all easy transitions to Cmaj7.
good!
Excelent Máster
Great lesson. Thanx! I suppose you're from Dutch descent, right?
this is great, thanks! with a minor sixth chord, do you use the 3rd and sixth?
Absolutely! The flat 3 is what defines the minor chord.
@@Learnjazzstandards oh ok cool, sorry this might be obvious, but then can you use the sixth tone for voice leading the same you would the seventh?
Great video! Does this concept work with modern day songs as well?
Hey L.J, absolutely. The voice leading may not work the same if the harmony isn't cycling in 4ths, but as far as 7th chords go, those are still the money notes.
My take is, yes it would. Problem is, modern day tunes have very few chords in them. Demi Lovato's a one chord wonder.
@@TedMaciag true yes. But you can 'simplify' jazz standards into cowboy chords and there would be less chords.
but what about semi-diminished? Should we rather use b3 b5 or b3 b7 as a guide tones for it?
Since all the other chord guide tones are distinct, except for semi diminished and minor... they both share b3 b7... So playing b3 b5 or b7 b5 on a semi diminished would make it sound different.. hmmm
Interesting pick used here (blunt tip) What is it? Guitar? Strings? Nice tone.
Blue Eyed Soul Man thanks! D’Addario 13 gauge, Dava jazz grip (pick), Ibanez Artcore with added wood bridge
D’ addario Chromes?
Or rounds?
So when it comes to Sus chords and guide tones, you ignore the sus because it's not a guide tone?
Hi, is that means we should practicing more licks or phrasing?
You’re by NYC. So am I. Do you give private in person lessons?
Hey there! I no longer do private lessons, and reserve my time for my course students. Wish I could help you out there!
Question: Are guide tones the same as what Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock call 'Butter Notes'?
I think they were referring to the roots
What is a double flat?
One whole tone
No tab
Nhk Log thanks a lot this will change my Jazz playing