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SESSION 18 – Jazz
B o n u s R e s o u r c e s
RESOURCES
Key Concepts
Chord Melody
Major 7th, Minor 7th & Ninth Chord Forms Ways to Jazz Up Chord Progressions
Ninths, Elevenths & Thirteenths
Skills Gained in this Session
Learn the New Jazz Chord Forms
Understand How to Embellish Chords Understand the Chord Movement Substitutions
The Ability to Spell all 9th, 11th & 13th Chords
If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you hit afterwards.^
- Joe Pass (1929-1994), one of the greatest Jazz guitarists of all time
Session Overview
Although many books could be written about Jazz guibasic concepts used in Jazz guitar playing like chord melody, more complex chords and a little tar, I wanted to introduce you to some
about jazz chord substitution. Jazz guitar is a veguitar. A basic knowledge of these jazz guitar concepts wilry creative and enjoyable way to approach the l greatly increase the color and
richness of your chord playing.
Playing a CHORD MELODY involves playing a melody inmelody line. The melody note is voiced as the highest tone in the chord with all of the other chords as opposed to a single note
notes voiced beneath the melody note. This type ofchords and also knowing how to adjust a particular playing requires knowing a wide variety of chord form to accommodate many different
melody notes. melody note possibilities out of each chord form.The idea when approaching chord melody is to obtain the most number of(^) Jazz chord substitution involves three basic ideas - Adding Color Tones, Adding ii-V
Progressions and Dressing up the Dominant 7th Chordthe basic chord to create a more complex and richer sounding chord. Primarily these added. A COLOR TONE is a tone added to
color tones come from the major scale, but they canaltered either up or down a half-step. also be major scale tones that have been
(^) Adding a ii-V progression in front of a chord creates a jazzy sounding resolution. The ii and the
V chords used to create this progression must be into. The V chord (the dominant 7th chord) is a great chord to add color tones to create a more the key of the chord that you are resolving
complex chord.
In jazz, complex chords often involve the use of thconstructed is discussed in the bonus workshop for e 9th, 11th and 13th. How these chords are this session and also in Session 20.
(^) I would encourage you to play through all of the exercises in this session carefully and think
about how these progressions are being used so thatplaying. It is as important for you to gain the harmonic und you can incorporate them into your own erstanding of these chords and
how they function as with the physical forming of t he chords themselves. Let’s get started!
To play a chord
melody, voice the
melody note as the
highest note in
your chord voicing.
Adding color tones
to a chord is a
simple way to
make a chord
sound “jazzy.”
The dominant (or V
chord) is the
perfect chord to
add color tones
like 9ths & 13ths.