BLUES Chord Substitutions: JAZZ BLUES (Killer progression)

Learn how to evolve a standard 12 bar blues into a sophisticated Jazz Blues progression in this guitar lesson with crystal clear graphics and animations, so everyone can learn and understand the way chord substitutions in Blues work. Pimp the 12 bar stand major blues with diminished chords, altered chords and dominant 9 and 13 chord to create a beautiful jazz blues progression.
0:00 Introduction
0:19 12 bar blues fingerstyle
3:08 Adding the II V I
4:32 Adding the #IVdim7
6:20 Rebuilding the last 4 bars
7:51 The turnaround
9:12 Another II V I
10:00 The whole Jazz Blues Progression
11:18 Conclusion
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Artwork: (c) 2020) Rob van Hal
Used:
Ibanez JEM 7vb (www.Ibanez.com)
Ibanez RT
Ibanez SD GR Bass (www.Ibanez.com)
Schecter Banshee GT FR (www.schecterguitars.com/)
Takamine GD930 (www.takamine.com)
Castilla Classical Guitars
Samson Concert 99 Wireless system
Rode Microphone
Axe FX II (www.fractalaudio.com)
BIAS FX (www.positivegrid.com)
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(c)2020 Rob van Hal, Netherlands
Subjects in this video:
Jazz Blues,
Blues,
Blues in A,
A major Blues,
Chord substitutions,
12 bar blues chord substitutions,
Jazz Blues chord substitutions,
#IVdim7 chord,
#IV diminished chord,
II V I,
II V I progression,
II V I progression in Blues,
Jazz chords,
Blues turnaround,
Jazz turnaround,
Music theory lesson guitar,
Music theory,
Guitar tutorial,
Guitar lesson,
Q jam tracks,
Jazz guitar tutorial

[@Chimp_No_1]

This is the most comprehensive 12 bar blues lesson on KZbin ! Thank you for sharing !

[@artemisnite]

The 60s!?! Elmore James is crying. Can you see the tears roll down his nose?

[@stevehalper510]

This was exactly what I needed in a jazz blues lesson. Dutch Master! 😀

[@flybynight1929]

Best intermediate to advanced lessons on KZbin IMO. When you're ready for deep dive into theory that is easy to follow and comprehensive and well explained, this is the place!

[@QJamTracks]

Thank you Matt!

[@timothyhungate8123]

I agree 100%. I've learned so much from his KZbin channel and patreon.

[@LC-ur8gv]

This is how guitar lessons should be done. All substitutions are followed by the theoretical explanation behind it, so you can understand the WHY and make your own progression. Well done, it might take me months to master all the content explained here, but at least now I know HOW. Thank you.

[@tolgaiceli9555]

it is a great lesson with the crystal clear info, thank you very much for sharing !

[@tomasvitale5366]

Wow, this really helped me to understand how to put multiple 2-5-1s in a progression, even made my own variations, thank you

[@shyrokovdenys]

Nice and thank you very much.!

[@DonTheGuitarGuy]

Wow, thank you for such a clear explanation of things I've been chasing for 45 years. Absoulte best lessons I have seen, sooo much to dig into. Thank you for all you share!

[@kriegsmit]

Great Lesson a real Mind Opener Stuff! Thank you!!

[@correametal]

Another great lesson by my favorite mentor!!! Thanks for all you do for us Rob, you are the man!!!

[@QJamTracks]

Thank you Jose! :) Always appreciate your comments.

[@rafa_guitar]

yes Rob, another clear and useful lesson, plenty of worthy acknowledgment to be learnt in each of your very well structured and visual helping lessons! Thanks so much Rob!

[@QJamTracks]

Thanks Rafael for yet another motivating comment!

[@fake734]

This will change my playing altogether for the better and turn heads ! Thk You !

[@randallreinders5722]

Thank you so much. Great explanation

[@lambrosmilonas8468]

Thanks Rob! This tutorial of the 12 bar progression is excellent.

[@QJamTracks]

Thanks Lambros!

[@HarlanHarvey76]

This is an excellent video! Few videos on KZbin need to be saved and shared but this is one of them! Great lesson.

[@QJamTracks]

Thanks Harlan!

[@MindsEyeVisualGuitarMethods]

I've been trying to get this understood for years! Thank you for this.

[@tonyrapa-tonyrapa]

I'm aware of substitutions but this video really nails the theory behind it with excelllent explanantions. My favourite white dutchman YT channel by far!

[@QJamTracks]

Thanks Tony :)

[@iantaylor827]

So that's how they do it! Thanks so much. Learned a lot in a very short time.

[@hilmarholland9165]

Excellent Lesson !!!

[@760Piper]

Hi Rob. I learn so much from you. Thanks for sharing this.

[@QJamTracks]

You're welcome :)

[@hearpalhere]

Excellent lesson, thank you!

[@user-wc9hh3yx6x]

Very useful, man. Thank you.

[@lawboss]

Great lesson! Lots to think about and apply.

[@QJamTracks]

Thanks Tom! Have fun studying these concepts.

[@Rolinluen]

Wow 👍 well explained and very visual. Thanks for sharing your theoretical knowledge 🙏

[@QJamTracks]

Thanks Rolando :)

[@gerrymcfarlane9676]

Excellent lesson

[@dkwvt13]

great hacks, excellent presentation and explanation. Thank You...! B-)

[@martinpizarro6620]

great lesson!!!

[@gilbertomedeirosribeiro6785]

There's nothing like drinking clear well of knowledge. In 15 minutes I learned more about blues than ever before in any time I sat down to study blues. Awesome, top notch material!!!

[@almendratlilkouatl]

so you only studied it like 10 minutes max before? just basic stuff in this video

[@gilbertomedeirosribeiro6785]

@@almendratlilkouatl dear Panjo, some of us are not as bright to see it clearly. That’s great you’re one of those! But in the mean time I pay tribute to those that light up the way for me as Rob does. Cheers and happy playing

[@jadonx]

@@almendratlilkouatl I don't think this is basic.

[@QJamTracks]

Thanks Gilberto! Glad you can learn from this video.

[@ismailmeric6499]

I really love your videos thanks ...

[@QJamTracks]

Thanks Ismail!

[@tarsomastella3124]

This excelent, thanks for taking your time to prepare this. I would love to see a improvisation approach on each of the bars. But I am trying to find myself the path.

[@sashaliss2962]

awesome lesson

[@QJamTracks]

Thanks Sasha!

[@lucianoguitar7755]

this information is worth millions!!!

[@QJamTracks]

Thanks!

[@tonesofhome69]

Wish you're just around the corner and teach me... Thanks for sharing your knowledge

[@azzuro195]

white dutchman playing ibanez knows the blues for sure. well done mate

[@thechildmedics7568]

Great Lesson ! Would love a similar lesson on minor blues as well !

[@dumpstercat2229]

I second this

[@jadonx]

I thought oh no, then you sped it up...phew!..Great tutorial thank you.

[@trevorbayfield4006]

I remember listening to Wes Montgomery D Natural Blues and being blown away by his dazzling playing over turnarounds..

[@QJamTracks]

An absolute genius indeed!

[@cristianandr76]

Excellent explanation of chord subs, good job! However, one needs to already possess some serious jazz music theory to understand the gist of it,including the jazz scales. It's an intermediate to advanced lesson. 👍Crystal clear, indeed!

[@sammiller9855]

Many thanks! Please consider doing a video(s) on the use of chromaticism in both harmony and melody.

[@DEZZA12]

thank you for using a JEM

[@m74568]

Interesting lesson not a blues guy myself but i do like the use of major pentatonic over blues progressions think bb king

[@QJamTracks]

Hi AZ, Not a frequent blues player myself either:) I think the substitutions may work in other genes as well :)

[@AK-vm6lw]

Great lesson. One minor quibble: I would analyse the #iv dim7 (D#dim7) in bar 6 as a suspension of the I7 chord. D#dim7 has the same notes as Adim7 (i dim7). Suspending the resolution to the I chord with the i dim chord is a pretty common chord progression and also a widely-used substitution in solos. I don't think it makes sense to analyse it as a dominant substitution (F#dim7 for D7b9) because it doesn't resolve like a dominant in this situation.

[@QJamTracks]

You got a point there :) Thanks Amandla for this contribution.

[@SelfPropelledDestiny]

I'd love to see an approach to improvising over this progression. Obviously, I can kind of follow the guide keys, but I can image there are lots of approaches.

[@emlyngriffith5846]

Great lesson….why not take the chord changes further….eg some changes with every beat in the bar? Then things get really interesting 👍🍷

[@a.p.5825]

I realize most people here will make the distinction, but it might be helpful to label the b13 chord as a 7b13. It ended up looking like an "Ab 13" chord, instead of "A b13"

[@QJamTracks]

You got a point there.

[@Otagel_3000]

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[@bookmarkjedi]

In the section beginning at 3:08, I don't understand why the Em7/A7/D7 substitution is seen as a 2-5-1 progression. That would make sense if this were in the key of D, but I thought this is a 1-4-5 progression in the key of A. Given this, why isn't Em7/A7/D7 seen as a 5-1-4 progression? I understand that on its own 5-1-4 is equivalent to 2-5-1, but relative to A as 1, why isn't Em7/A7/D7 viewed as 5-1-4 here?

[@timetravel5921]

If I'm understanding it correctly, for this segment of the progression you're shifting the tonal center to D as such it's a 2 5 1 in D.Then you come back around later on to A as the tonal center with similar tricks.

[@bookmarkjedi]

@@timetravel5921 I don't quite understand why that is, but thanks for the explanation! 🙏😊

[@bookmarkjedi]

@@timetravel5921 Thank you for the explanation. After watching the video again, I see that he mentions that it's a 2-5-1 in the key of D. I wish that he had gone into the explanation a little deeper, especially since he started the video by saying that he's going to keep it simple by keeping the tune in the key of A. I can understand that it's a 2-5-1 in the sense that he's switching up the Em7/A7/D7 substitution where it was originally supposed to be D. So that makes some sense, but the idea of switching the tonal center, then making the substitution from that new tonal center, only to return to the original tonal center, is a bit tricky. Again, thanks for your help!

[@joshuasimspon8999]

Have you ever considered a classical technique lesson?

[@QJamTracks]

I guess that would be outside the scope of this channel, although I do teach classical music here in the Netherlands :)

[@GendunCh]

You need to revisit your knowledge of blues history, sir. Robert Johnson played 12-bar blues and died in 1938.

[@QJamTracks]

Excuse me

[@montygoines1644]

Please do not strum a jazz progression like its an acoustic song