The BEST Place To Explore Jazz Chords

You know how fun it is to play Jazz chords and explore the beautiful sounds, and intros is the BEST place to combine those two things!
The Biggest Misunderstanding About Jazz Chords And How To Quickly Fix It
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Content:
00:00 The Best Part of Playing Jazz Chords!
00:31 #1 Turnaround - It's better than you think
04:20 #2 Creative Turnaround Reharmonization
05:35 #3 Fewer Chords More Color
07:18 #4 Using Pedals in Jazz
09:37 #5 The Other Pedal
10:07 #6 The #IV subdominant intro
11:26 #7 Use The Song (with a twist?)
13:34 Exploring Jazz Harmony
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[@JensLarsen]

What is your favorite way to explore Jazz chords and Harmony? 🙂 Here's one of mine: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqizpX6Ai81snrs

[@socialmeaslesinpartnership1252]

I don't know. I play pretty much by ear, sometimes chord sheets if I have to. I know some classical pieces from notation though. I'm getting into jazz by getting bored with the "plateau" of blues and its turnarounds and so I mess around with a few inversions and embellished chords that I know to construct other phrases rather than learn scales - which always sound like a "knitting machine" approach to me when practice becomes "repertoire" - so I vary my approach pretty well always. That's my excuse for having the attention span of a cheese omelette. This video is far too erudite for me but I'll do my best. For me, it's about listening to other players and their recordings. I steal constantly and I can never understand why anyone ever asks for the tab or the "how to" on what we see played on KZbin. I just nick it. Sometimes it's wrong but that's how music evolves anyway. I find it possible to tell the diff between a player that knows structure and those that play "cod" jazz with a few tricks and I try to use stuff that works musically rather than all the tra-la-la "braincrack" stuff. Improvising always starts off fairly disciplined but, alone or with others, it all starts to get a bit more >ahem< "experimental". In front of an audience is a different matter - there are places to freak out but mostly....not.

[@HEPBbI-B-NORME]

Браво Маэстро! Отличная работа! Однозначно Лайк! Берегите себя! 🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯🎸🎸🎸

[@malikon6953]

Cry Me a River (Barney Kessel - Julie London) is my favorite intro. When I first heard it I stopped what I was doing like, "what was that?" ... a couple days later I started studying Jazz.

[@JensLarsen]

Nice!

[@JensLarsen]

Which one of these is that? 😁

[@2hard2knock]

I have followed and studied your techniques for years. Just wanna say that you are simply the best at sharing your deep musical insights, and your art is simply at its finest. Thank you.

[@BL55]

Have been watching your videos for years now, and that shirt is definitely your favorite --- c'mon, you can admit it. 😀

[@JensLarsen]

No, it is the one that gets the most comments 😁

[@enterprisesoftwarearchitect]

What an incredible video, Jens!!! Bless you!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you

[@ricklaino6385]

As usual.......great lesson Jens......!!!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you liked it!

[@titosmith7942]

Super helpful info! Thanks!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you so much for the support!

[@planeofinertia7433]

I find to my ear, walking down thru a Augmented 5th, then into Dominant, then Diminished eventually landing the Major 7th, is a Uniquely stylistic approach to modern expressionism... Thanks for your excellent content. ~ Inertia

[@JensLarsen]

Good stuff!

[@aminahmed2220]

Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful weekend also Saturday is my friends birthday ❤😊

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! Wish him/her a happy birthday 🙂

[@cbolt4492]

Perfect!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it!

[@tomcripps7229]

Thanks!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it Tom!

[@thijs199]

aaaaaaaaand tsgone. the nice weather, tsgone

[@damonshanabarger2604]

10:08 Could possibly be reworked if moved up a half step, and somehow, the C# Major 7 changed to a Dominant. This could possibly prove to be rather tricky. But I might just create my own new favorite intro. One thing's for sure is that it needs the intensity turned up to 10 because the next part is really mellow. The C#7 could be a tritone substitution for the C Lydian of G minor. It doesn't hurt to experiment.

[@socialmeaslesinpartnership1252]

I don't understand much of this but I can nick all the chords.

[@JensLarsen]

Go for it 😁

[@socialmeaslesinpartnership1252]

@@JensLarsen Yay!

[@socialmeaslesinpartnership1252]

@@JensLarsen Yay! What's really great is that you've taken the trouble to post the notation and tablature. Also good that these are structured progressions (intros) so we have a sense of how these enriched chords fit together. Lastly, your guitar looks and sounds lovely. Thank you.

[@Tom-db7bx]

Hi Jens. Thanks for your channel and I have learned a lot for chord melody. Many years ago I walked into a guitar store and a man was playing a 7 string guitar and he was playing what I found out to be chord melody and the song was a country song called Sioux City Sue. It's a pretty upbeat song but it really impressed me because it was one guitar and it sounded great. At 23 years old I was used to strumming chords only! Life and work gets in the way and I was never really able to pursue chord melody until the last year. I was curious about one thing. It seems that chord melody is usually associated with jazz songs and I was wondering why you don't see really very many lessons on rock, country or pop songs? I guess that man that day 40 years ago really had an impression on me! I was just curious. Thank you.

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like the videos! I think there a people who play pop and rock songs for guitar, but it just isn't called chord melody?

[@timbradley135]

Some ideas: contrary motion intro, intro with the fewest possible notes, pedal tone in the lowest voice, only one position.

[@JensLarsen]

Sure, good concepts 🙂

[@charlesmartiniii1405]

My basement, peavey 5150, distortion cranked all the way up. I love playing jazz, but nothing beats the feeling of a disqustingly mean riff/solo

[@RobKandell]

I could argue the Bb7 as a tritone sub, but that misses the point, doesn’t it? The point being to hear a different function. (?)

[@JensLarsen]

It isn't a tritone sub of Cmaj7 though....

[@uptempotransport28]

Isn't a bII chord a neo chord in the classical world?

[@JensLarsen]

Not sure what you mean?

[@uptempotransport28]

@JensLarsen neopoltin 6th chord. Richard Wagner used it. It used a bII root that works chromatic with the dominant. Just curious if you ever heard it that way

[@JensLarsen]

@@uptempotransport28 Ok, I have mostly seen examples with the 4th degree as the lowest note. Wagner is also so late that he is maybe not the best example for showing how something is used in classical music.

[@uptempotransport28]

@JensLarsen 4th degree? So in C major (exp) were talking about F or Bb? I'm a theory nerd sorry lol. I know Db7 is a tritone sub to C. Is that what you mean by bII chord? You're great. Just trying to rip brains lol

[@JensLarsen]

@@uptempotransport28 the 4th note in the scale.

[@gioworld_creations]

I wish I grasp what you're saying.

[@CatrinaDaimonLee]

amboi as the malay would say, look it up, it aint a bad word

[@plteltronix7085]

to decieve the audience u gotta decieve ur band first, or smth like that

[@JensLarsen]

😁👍

[@RobKandell]

Jazz chords are best explored with a mini-amp on the beach.

[@JensLarsen]

I am not 100% sure I agree, but beaches may be different where I live?

[@kevindonnelly761]

@@JensLarsen You would need to use Shell Voicings.

[@RobKandell]

@@JensLarsen - I’ve not hit the coast on the North or Baltic Seas, but there’s nothing like the Great Lakes. 😎 @kevindonnelly761 - Exactly, mate! 😁

[@JensLarsen]

@@kevindonnelly761 😂😂

[@bassyey]

The best place is my house so nobody can hear my horrible playing.

[@JensLarsen]

I am sure that is not true! 😂

[@carolz6463]

For me, it is the front porch in early evening with a cold beer. My neighbors smile and wave and nobody runs away screaming, so I take that as a good sign,

[@josephkantor2548]

Thanks!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Joseph! 🙏