Altered chords are a flavour of dominant chords, where we add certain extensions: #9,b9,#5,b5. In the example on the video I use C7 as basic chord and add the extension D#,Db,G#,Gb also as combinations.
Tag: chords
How to comp on a Blues Jazz Progression
I’ve been asked many times how to comp on your usual jazz – blues progression. Here I give a few rhythmic/harmnic tips on how to approach this topic. The form and chords of our typical jazz/blues progression can be found in this other post. The material I talk about in the video is pretty basic and straight forward, but it’s amazing how effective it is.
You can download a transcription of what I play at around 1:45 of the video HERE – (PDF file)
The Legacy Of Ted Greene
By searching inspiration for new lessons on youtube, I stumbled onto this great channel that shares some great jazz guitar videos, and I wanted to pass them to you. Quite interesting those about Ted Greene, some close ups of probably some of his famous private lessons in 1993. This is one of them:
This the channel, thank you to jazzguitarfanatic for sharing these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/jazzguitarfanatic#p/a/u/0/R4tKUkF_ONE
If you have never heard of Ted Greene you want to find out about him on his tribute site: http://www.tedgreene.com/
He was not only a phenomenal player, but a very influential teacher and author, most famous for his books
Chord Chemistry
This is material that will change the way you play guitar, I guarantee you.
More open strings voicings – Hall Goes West
In this lesson I show how to add more open string vocings to your vocabulary by explaining the transcription of Hall Goes West, from my cd ‘Entwined’.
Power Chords – From Basic to more advanced structures
A long-ish lesson about power chords. From The basic 1-5 that we should all know, to more contemporary and fuller sounding shapes, as used by contemporary prog rock bands, and more! Just watch, learn, go out and play.
Printable PDF: Power chords shapes