How To Play Jazz Guitar Chords Progression #1 Lesson
Hey there, I�m Tomas Michaud welcome back.
This lesson to dayis gonna be a little on a Jazzy side.
I wanna show you a cool four chord progression that you can use in either Bossa nova, straight-ahead
jazz or you can even spice up a pop tune.
Here we are, four new chords and I�ll show you the chords one at a time.
The first one is a G major 7 and were gonna make it like this, take a look at my left
hand.
Im actually hitting four strings, the 6th string, and then I�m skipping the 5th and
hitting the 4th, 3rd and 2nd.
If youre strumming it, the 1st finger slightly touches the 5th string and that mutes it,
hear that?
that�s 6th string and thats the 5th and on the 1st string not that critical, actually
you could include it but one way to mute it is just to lower your hand slightly and again
touch it with the back of your 1st finger now Im muting.
When I used my fingers to pick up my right hand, I don�t have to worry about that because
my fingers can pick exactly which strings I want to sound so make that major G7 1st
finger on the 3rd fret 6th string, now Im gonna put my 3rd and 4th fingers down together
that�s on the 4th and 3rd strings 4th fret and then finally my second finger down on
the second string third fret.
Give it a try and see if it sounds like mine or from strumming.
On to the next chord, I warned you they have some strange names.
This next one Im gonna call G 13 flat 9 okay.
This is a common name for this chord but its not the only way to name it okay I got my
second finger on that fourth fret sixth string now Im gonna put my first finger again skipping
the 5th string on the 4th string 3rd fret.
I got my 3rd finger over here on the 3rd string 4th fret and then finally the pinky on the
5th fret 2nd string, sounds like this (strumming) it is a very dysneic chord.
If Im strumming Im gonna mute that 5th string and the 1st string again, okay.
Third chord, this next one is a pretty sounding chord fortunately, its Dsus.
Ive got my first finger over here on the 3rd fret 2nd string and then I stretch my 2nd
finger over all the way to the 6th string 5th fret, then 3rd and 4th go down together
on the 3rd and 4th strings, 3rd finger on the 4th strings and pinky on the 3rd string
all 5th fret and Im consistent with skipping the 5th and the 1st string so Ill strike with
my fingers or if I strum and mute them.
Now for the final chord, D7 flat 5 coming back to the home the G major 7 the sounds
that you want to go to the G major 7.
Im on the 4th fret 6th string, Ive got using my 2nd finger to strike that note and then
Im skipping the 5th string, my 3rd finger is on the 4th fret 4th string, pinky is on
the 5th fret 3rd string, and the first finger is on the 3rd fret 2nd string.
It should sound like that or mute it or strum.
So strum these progressions, start with the G major 7 just go nice and slow four times
and Im assuming first you learn how to make the chords and make sure they sound properly
then you put them together.
This is G major 7 and the G13 flat 9, Dsus, and then the D7 flat 5 so your building up.
Start off with just fingering the chords, finger them to see if they sound and then
try two chords together and then add the third chord and the fourth
chord.
Now there are a number of different ways you could strum this progression, I put up my
acoustic so you could see what sounds like with a pick, listen.
I like to do it a Bossa Nova sound only with my nylon string guitar with a Bossa Nova type
of rhythm.
Im not gonna teach that rhythm in this video but if this is something youre interested
in just let me know, leave me a comment.
I don�t wanna waste my time if nobody is interested but if you are even if two comments,
Ill go ahead make a video with that strum that picking pattern which I think is a lot
of fun.
Thanks for joining me.
If you like this, give me a like button.
Leave me a comment especially let me know if you wanna know that Bossa strum that I
did in the beginning of this video and please if youre not on my blog, go to my blog, you
can download the chord chard for this chord.
It is much easier if you can se them and also you can leave me a comment on my blog.
Ive read that much more than my YouTube.
Thanks again.
Im Tomas Michaud, see you later.