SHELL VOICINGS - ALL Jazz Chords with only 8 SHAPES - CRYSTAL CLEAR!

[@Evan-lc7ol]

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is what I call a proper guitar lesson. Pure quality in everything. Hats off.

[@QJamTracks]

Thank you Evan !

[@timmyshore3755]

pants off too ? 😉💋

[@skimanization]

I had a friend a jazz guitarist in the township in South Africa he showed me the easiest way to comp the blues on guitar, he didn't call it shell voicings but now I can clearly see what he was teaching me. These shell voicings sound very nice and straight to the point...I just like their sound!!!

[@andikasavana4539]

shell voicing chord really change how i played guitar on jazz pop song, after i know this pattern i finally can play my jazz favorite song with only simple chord

[@hansgruenweg294]

At first I was afraid of that the "Jazz Police" will put you into jail. But in a trial they almost would have no arguments. You are a great defence counsel and you open the door to Jazz for many guitar players. I like the clarity in the tables you presented how chords are built w.r.t. the intervals.

[@weilmusic]

This is the best guitar lesson I have ever seen. I can finally understand what I've been playing for years

[@johnmahlmann6382]

Really fantastic. Should have thousands of hits.

[@nathanp.5563]

This is the most comprehensive, concise guitar lesson I've ever seen in 30 mins. Bravo! The visuals are amazing.

[@oluwatobiadegoke13]

You're the best guitar teacher on KZbin. 💯

[@QJamTracks]

Thank you!

[@williamsettles1064]

This is by far the most complete and most understandable presentation of shell chords that I have seen. Thank you.

[@barrywalsh4611]

Brilliant lot of work in this lesson but absolutely brilliant. Given me a new insight into jazz voicing. Thank you.

[@owenbruce4120]

Thanks for the detail, shells also known as partials, obviously you've drawn from many sources, nicely executed 👍

[@rogerweafer2179]

in 1988 Arnie Berle ran a year long lesson on jazz shell voicings,subs and 1\2 step approach chords. I used to use them almost exclusively in church hymns that went to a flat key! Every time, the "director" would turn and glance at what I was doing and give me that raised eyebrow thing then smile.It's been so long now that I've forgotten most of it BUT I still have those issues on hand. Great Lessons always.Thank You.

[@balbino4]

Very Very Very Very Good! Thank you very much!

[@cyclesgoff9768]

Greetings from Scotland. A Johan Cruyff 😍reference is always a good thing.

[@LunarWolf]

Brilliant lesson. Thank you so much.

[@HELLNAWW]

FINALLY the advanced and concise content ive been looking for.

[@QJamTracks]

Thanks!

[@jimknopf0766]

Thanks to open mention this method. A lot of guitar players in jazz use it, but don't talk about it to their pupils. So your crystal clear method is a great help for lead sheet playing and also clever accompaniement .

[@QJamTracks]

Thanks!

[@terryquinn2042]

Your lessons are a breath of fresh air, the way you explain and demonstrate is second to none. Your videos are first class and of course your playing is fabulous. Thank for sharing your thoughts and knowledge. And please keep making your videos. I feel so much more confident in playing the guitar now, and that's thanks to you. Terry Q.

[@QJamTracks]

Thank you Terry for this nice comment. Good to hear that it works for you!

[@TeacherDan]

Thank you. I truly understand shell voicings for the first time--and I bought the book.

[@QJamTracks]

Thanks!!

[@fenixfyre]

Love what you do, thank you

[@9ineToe]

Great lesson! Just a quick note that the chord diagram about 16:22 incorrectly shows a D7 shell voicing where the chart calls for Dm9 (and Rob plays Dm there to confirm should be Dm).

[@sundarayerrapragada]

I pray God thet people like you be given longer and healthier life and no worry about money !! I am thrilled each time I see your new lesson / video. Please make special videos on bending licks, legato licks and vibrato licks (sound absurd, right?) for beginners. best regards from India.

[@yeyintaung9837]

Man,you are my virtual guitar teacher,thank you

[@shelliecurry6052]

One of the best lessons I have seen. Really helps with learning the interval positioning also. I have been struggling with memorizing those. Thank you!

[@giovannigiuliani3626]

By far the best YT guitar channel. Thanks sir.

[@captainclyde5082]

Ooo a new video! Always happy with your content man, legit the only youtube guitar channel that I've clicked with and been able to benefit greatly from.

[@owenllewellyn5692]

This techniques seems to be ideal for mandolin extended chords (or lack thereof!)- with only four courses, fully extended chords can be challenging if not impossible, with inversion and omission being the only practical options. This technique provides a framework to approach extended chords in a systematised manner, rather than the haphazard approach I have used in the past. Once I've fathomed out the shell voicing fingerings for the mandolin, I can then learn them to free me up to embelish them where I might. Thanks for the helping hand!

[@QJamTracks]

Glad to be of help Owen :)

[@seananderson5334]

I'm getting more heavily into the theory of guitar along with phrasing and your videos are great for it. Very to the point. Thanks!

[@ruperterskin2117]

Right on. Thanks for sharing.

[@efgabcdx969x]

You’re great man. Much love, all the way from the Himalayan Country, Nepal. Kudos to you 🙏🎼🤘😻

[@QJamTracks]

Thank you! It's amazing that you living in Nepal can use my videos! :) Greetz to Nepal!

[@KaushikBiswas-j8m]

What a powerful lesson

[@peterpolezoes855]

I have to say this is a great introduction to Jazz .. I knew most of these shapes but applying them in this context makes it not seem so hard ! Thanks

[@ericblankenburg]

What a great video. Thank you for posting it.

[@thompsonstreet]

That is a masterful and helpful tutorial. Thanks so much!

[@MorningCarnival]

What a great lesson, just what I needed. I play guitar in big band so I’m familiar with shell voicing, but I can see how I can use them in smaller band settings now. Thanks!

[@MrBasicbill]

Brilliant summary...well presented!

[@srinip]

Excellent video - thanks!!

[@JulioCesar-qt3vk]

This is beautiful!!! By the end of the video I actually understood. Thanks so much👍🏻🤟🏻👍🏻

[@MacawAviculture]

This presentation is easily the most important explanation ever given a very complex and confusing topic, thank you my friend!

[@daslektarn]

Mathematically beautiful and professioally shot video. Hats off!

[@stuartclark3812]

Thank you so much Rob, it is wonderful that you share your knowledge in this way. I always feel enlightened and inspired to experiment more with my guitar playing after watching your videos. And a Star Wars joke too?!? You’ve just gone even higher in my estimation! Thank you for being a guitar-yoda. 🙂

[@QJamTracks]

Hey Stuart :) Thanks man! Couldn't resist the Yedi Joke ;)

[@李承洋-w1s]

Nice lesson n nice teacher.

[@bluwng]

This is a useful insightful lesson.

[@2hard2knock]

Untold thanks for taking the time and provide us with the formulas that are the building blocks of triads. Well demonstrated in a simplified approach elucidating all standard types, including Billy Jean! Your work is appreciated, thank you 🙏🏾

[@scrumpyjoe]

What a treasure of a lesson! It has all the tricks of triads in jazz music that I have been looking for, explained brilliantly. The diagrams really help with “seeing” the patterns and make remembering it so much simpler. Thanks a lot and I will be subscribed from now on.

[@Ikaros4-10]

Awesome-simple and crystal clear. Thanks a million !

[@rhr7799]

Thanks for the great lesson. Super job💯

[@giogiochka5716]

Thank you Rob for sharing your profound knowledge with us. Learning about Shell Voicings opened up my understanding of jazz harmony. Your diagram with the 14 shapes sums it all up very elegantly.

[@TaiChiBeMe]

Very Cool video! Thanks so much.

[@_arman_]

Wondertful teacher. Thank you.

[@pyschointellectual]

Great tutorial, love the diagram showing what shell chords work with, really great so easy to understand this because of the way you put it. Thanks for sharing.

[@johnmac8084]

Great lesson Rob, thanks

[@jessacuna]

Rob your teaching method is outstanding! It is clear and easy to understand. I love how you connect the dots as relate to the subject you focus on ... creating a clearer grasp of complicated musical concepts - amazing! After all these years ... NOW I GET IT - FINALLY! 🙂Thank you Rob!

[@QJamTracks]

So nice to hear!

[@sundarayerrapragada]

Thanks!

[@QJamTracks]

Hi Sundara :) I want to thank you so very much for your superthanks!! It really helps me to continue the work and its a great motivation! Thank you!

[@MorningCarnival]

Perfect for my Big band practice!!!

[@HarlanHarvey76]

What a great lesson!!

[@digitalneko7975]

I’m really enjoying your guitar tutorials , very well done video and very informative by a very educated guitarist 🎸👍🏼 SUBBED!

[@tonyrapa-tonyrapa]

Thanks Rob. I'd heard of she'll voicings before but shied away from them (not sure why). However, you've made it very clear that these are more than convenient. I already feel a lot more confident about tackling complicated pieces of music.

[@QJamTracks]

Hey Tony. Good to hear that!

[@richardprost6282]

Une leçon magnifique, complète et très bien expliquée. Un grand merci.

[@InfiniteInfinityPools]

Outstanding. Thank you so much.

[@iggykarpov]

3:05 Seven Types of Seventh Chord 4:21 4:38Four Triad Types 4:50 Seventh chord types produced by each triad type MAJOR TRIAD: 4:58 5:08 Maj7 5:10 5:24 Dom7 MINOR TRIAD 5:26 5:36 Min7 5:37 5:49 MinMaj7 DIMINISHED TRIAD 5:50 6:05 min7b5 6:06 6:24 dim7 AUGMENTED TRIAD 6:28 6:38 maj7#5 6:40 6:58 Dom7#5 (aka Altered) 7:00 SHELL VOICING SHAPES 7:30 TWO GROUPS GROUP 1 - COMMON CHORD TYPES 7:52 Maj7 + Dom7 8:11 Maj7 substitutes list 8:18 Dom7 substitutes list 8:54 Min7 and substitutes list 9:45 Dim7 9:50 GROUP 2 - LESS COMMON CHORD TYPES 10:01 10:11 MinMaj7 10:18 Maj6 and Min6 10:36 10:49 Maj6 subst for Maj13, Maj 6/9 10:57 11:09 Min6 11:14 CHART OF ALL 7TH CHORDS AND THEIR SUBSTITUTION TARGETS 🧿12:22 THE II-V-I CADENCE 12:32 STRONGLY BASED ON V-I 12:45 Major and minor II-V-I 13:21 G7's tritone b-f wants to resolve to C: b->c, f->e 13:37 Play along

[@BobWilkinson-o7u]

Thank you for this clear and highly informative lesson.

[@lawboss]

Great lesson! Thank you.

[@MikeS29]

Absolutely the best explanation I've ever seen for shell chords/voicings. Thank you, subscribing right now!

[@QJamTracks]

Thanks!

[@Stickytacos666]

I love the sound of Maj and Min7's with the 9 on top

[@anniehargood5402]

Many thanks!! Great information!

[@rsdguitarstories]

waaooowww.. that's something very crystal and clear

[@jpnarino]

I've learned enormously with your videos, thank you so much, please keep it up!

[@TheQuietRiot]

Couldn't be more grateful for this video. It's everything I hoped to learn but had no idea how to set about figuring out. Thanks so much!

[@rafa_guitar]

Your lessons are high professional level Rob, they are even too much for me becuase I just play for hobby and I have no time for diggestin all your high quality information. But you channel is like a encyclopedia when all music info is condensed, well explained, supported by excellent graphics/diagrams and everything crytstal clear, once more time... Thank you so much Rob!!!

[@markmullins6734]

I think this is a better way of learning jazz chords and using them in progressions for a already educated musician or guitarist

[@lushkordz6643]

a true wizard of stellar level harmony 🏅🏅🏅 BTW this greenish Stranberg headlesss is a beauty

[@QJamTracks]

I like my Strandberg too! :)

[@gedinchristian603]

Very interesting lesson. I hope a printable course about that on your patreon!

[@QJamTracks]

Yes the Ebook will be available in the coming weeks.

[@rudi_nieuwenhuis]

Great lesson, thanks Rob, dank je wel. One thing that confused me a bit is when you play the Blue Bossa, the chord in the tab is not always the one you actually play. For example, at 19:38 you play a Dmin7 (I think) where the tabs shows a Fm6. But great lesson nonetheless.

[@ViniciusRucciProfessor]

That's a great lesson. The only critique that I'll do is that you chose a font that make me wonder if a chord was major or minor in the exercise, since the M appears to be a capitol letter. Regardless of that minor issue, it was very usefull to learn these chords.

[@diegomaugeri4038]

Great lesson! very clear and wonderfully illustrated with charts and graphics. I was hoping though for this video to be more about how to use the same shapes as substitutes so to provide all the extensions by assuming the root is played by the bass player and such. Maybe next video?..

[@QJamTracks]

Yes, that could well be for a next tutorial :)

[@ReinerDamisch]

bar 23 in " all the things" is Emaj7 . In the sheet it is Ebmaj7

[@reverendray1]

I’ve said this before, on many of your videos Rob; but in case you forgot - a deep and heartfelt thank you. For sharing your knowledge is such a clear and understandable way. ☮️ ❤

[@jonjames1998]

OMG!! Amazing, it all makes sense now, after trying to learn music theory for so long to put it all together. This makes so much sense and now I understand Bossanova & Jazz standards. TYSM CRYSTAL CLEAR 💪❤👍

[@patrickblay7684]

Fantastic lesson to open up our eyes and ears to better understand Jazz complicated chords. Thank’s a lot for letting us enter this world.

[@mordy91]

Good video :) However I noticed some editing and playing mistakes. At 5:37-6:25 the written and sounding chords are switched around so they don’t correspond. When it says CminMaj7 it is actually a Cm7b5 being played When it says Cm7b5 it is actually a Cdim7 being played When it says Cdim it is actually a BminMaj7 being played Furthermore with the last example above the root of the played chord is as you can see changed from c to b. That being said I think it is a good video and I like the linear one-string representation of the chords where you can really see the major and minor third intervals that make up the chords in relation to each other similar to how you would see it on a piano.

[@j-law-piano-strings-sydney]

Trying to learn new tricks.... but also noticed these mistakes. I wish these were corrected... thanks

[@andreashofmeyr9583]

Yes - noticed this too! Thought I was going mad, lol. Hope the editor fixes the mistakes otherwise we'll have a small community of very confused players.

[@patreid005]

excellent

[@barrysebastian9584]

Nice job on this!

[@gregh99]

Wonderful summary of shell voicings! A correction: "All the Things You Are" was written by Jerome Kern (not Kernont), and there's a misprint of the chord at 21:53, which should be EMaj7 (not Eb as shown) - the correct chord is heard though. There's a similar misprint at 22:48 - the white Db7 should be D7.

[@QJamTracks]

Yes, indeed I made some mistakes there...

[@mmaiarocha]

What a great lesson! Thank you so much!

[@jaytc3218]

Excellent lesson. I definitely took notes and subbed. Rob made a subtle but profound point: shell voicings are versatile because you can't tell whether a particular voicing is augmented or diminished (they sort of "straddle the fence"). I look at this lesson in the same way as when students are learning power chords for the first time. Power chords lack a b3 or a 3 which means they are neither major nor minor. I think of shell voicings in a similar way.

[@ianmcevoy9936]

Cool,thanks.

[@tapilaha]

you're a life saver!

[@enriquelelodelarrea5190]

Extraordinaria clase !!!

[@looking4crossroads135]

Very helpful. Thanks for posting this!

[@johnmarlin7269]

Wow. Learned a lot here. Thanks.

[@rpbauer7844]

Very well done. Plenty of info very concise presentation. Also appreciate the PDF. Any chance the notes and tab of the same are available, especially the notes on the staff? Either way, thanks for consolidating all this information in one place.

[@stevebuckerfield3868]

Great lesson. Very clear. Thanks.

[@kerolvaghela7742]

Thank you for awesome lesson

[@GuitaristNT]

Very useful! Tks

[@jack6136]

Musicians! Fear Not! This is an excellent music lesson that help you a lot.However, you will be happy to learn that you won’t be playing chords with available tensions every time. The purpose of the chords is to support the melody by providing harmony and rhythm articulation to the overall sound without getting in the way of the melody or soloist. The content of this post is going explain a lot. Learn as much as possible practice regularly and don’t give up! 🎸

[@xprophet9]

Thank you Maestro!

[@Qbm2109]

Superb!!!!!

[@nukeyzen]

Thank you🙏

[@stefanobocconi]

I think the chord played at 5:48 is a half-dim, not MinMaj7, you can hear the Gb at the top

[@stefanobocconi]

Analogously, at 6:04 it sounds like a dim, and at 6:23 as a B MinMax7, maybe there is an editing mistake and samples have been mixed (sorry I just saw now that this had already been spotted and reported by other viewers)

[@QJamTracks]

At that point the audio files where shifted somehow and are therefore wrong. Excuse me for this mistake...