7 Reasons Why You're Struggling To Learn Jazz Chords

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0:00 Intro
0:24 1 - You’re Not Listening
2:02 2 - You Don’t Know Your Scales
4:13 3 - You’re Relying on Muscle Memory
5:20 4 - You’re Not Transposing
6:54 5 - You’re Not Analyzing Progressions
7:49 6 - You’re Not Voice Leading
9:07 7 - You're Biting Off More Than You Can Chew

[@future62]

Love this channel man, so much great no BS advice. One other tip I'll offer- at the end of the day we want to make/play music- so prioritize time at the instrument or listening to music over everything else. Someone who spends time doing boring rudimentary stuff like practicing scales or basic tunes is learning more than someone reading about melodic minor modes. Time with the instrument is the real "short cut".

[@johnmcallistermusic]

Really love your videos. Thanks for synthesizing music in such an accessible way!

[@jambajoby32]

Thanks for touching on the uncertainty in notes and actually practicing accuracy

[@suefauziyah]

Those tips were all very helpful. Thank you!

[@wingit7335]

What lips? What the heck is he doing now?

[@11kwright]

This video is spot on. Great advice and got to trust the process rather than reaching the destination without structure. With that knowledge if only he did a jazz course for beginners to advanced. First time I’ve come across his video. I’m going to save this video and keep as a guide.

[@maurj5048]

Could you make a video talking about how Jacob Collier comes up with his chords?

[@rebanelson607]

KZbin is a great source of free and entertaining instruction but it can definitely lead to "choking on the sauerkraut". (Now i'm hungry!)

[@PLAYINGTOGETHER-nj8jt]

How do you know which chords are jazz ones?

[@marshwetland3808]

four notes or better, rather than triads in root position or standard inversions, mostly. but has to sound good, too, of course.

[@paulalfonso9540]

chord extensions

[@ethankearney6370]

As a classical pianist trying to learn ear driven genres, number 3 hit me 😂

[@marshwetland3808]

Is that the one about listening to three notes at the same time. I think that's gonna blow my mind - currently cannot hear those notes. wish me luck.

[@kierenmoore3236]

F G C Db Bb Ab Eb … is that what you meant? (6734215 in Ab … ?)

[@wingit7335]

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[@markmiller2859]

*PromoSM* 😳

[@montielstudios5947]

I have been rrally struggling to transition into playing jazz. So much of the advice seems unattainable to me (including yours)...and after watching this video, I think I better understand why. See, I don't memorize things easily. Like, at all. I have been a singer my whole life, and yet songs I have spent my life singing I go blank on if I don't have the words in front of me. And the same goes with scales and such. I can play scales no issue. My fingers know what to do. But ask me what notes are in a D major scale, and I have to first visualize a piano, and then I can mentally play the scale to tell you the notes. Nevermind I have been playing the scales since I was 5 (and I am 51 now). So, I think I may mot be capable of achieving jazz mastery in the way so many vlogs suggest. I think I am learning more bu just playing written out chord progressions for existing music and feeling them out. The more Indo this, the more I find my hands know what to do...which is, apparently, in violation of one of your seven pieces of advice here. 🫤