Search the Community

Basic Jazz Guitar Here you can learn the very basics which are needed to play a basic jazz guitar. I talk about the major scale, how to build chords with the major scale, stacking up triads and how to find out all 7 chords which are attached to the steps of the major scale. To each chord there is a mode attached. Please also start to create your own chord progressions as explained in the video. To master this tutorial, probably rewatch this video over and over till you understand it all and it is also essential that you learn the schematics below by heart. I : Maj7 Chord Ionian ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) II : m-7 Chord Dorian ( 1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7 ) III : m-7 Chord Phrygian ( 1 b2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 ) IV : Maj7 Chord Lydian ( 1 2 3 #4 5 6 7 ) V : Dominat 7 Chord Mixolydian ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 b7 ) VI : m-7 Chords Aeolian ( 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 ) VII : m7b5 Chords Locrian ( 1 b2 b3 4 b5 b6 b7 ) You can download the working sheet to this lesson here : Once you are done with this tutorial please go to the next one :

Learn Jazz Guitar Chords Here you can learn how to build and understand jazz guitar chords. You need to know the theory of the derivation of 7th chords from the basic modes. Every modes has 7 notes. You build a chord by stacking triads above each other starting from the root, triad, 5th and the 7th. The remaining 3 notes are the so called options which are different for every mode. Most of them can be added to the chord to create that jazz guitar sound we all love. I show you how to find out the options, which ones are available and how you can build chords including them. Here you find the theory files :