12 Essential Jazz Guitar Chords - Beginner Jazz Guitar Lesson | Toolbox 2.1

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TIMESTAMPS
0:09 Intro
(Sixth String Root)
1:08 Major 7
1:23 Dominant 7
1:37 6
1:56 Minor 7
2:34 Minor 7 flat 5
3:00 Diminished 7
(Fifth String Root)
3:48 Major 7
4:08 Dominant 7
4:22 6
4:45 Minor 7
4:57 Minor 7 flat 5
5:16 Diminished 7
5:48 Practice Tips

Welcome back to Jazz Guitar Toolbox, the series where we cover the absolute essential skills that every jazz guitarist should know. Today we're covering what many jazz guitarists are known for: chords! There are thousands of jazz guitar chords - where do you start?

The answer is that you should learn the voicings that will allow you to play jazz standards as soon as possible. With that in mind, here are the twelve chord voicings that will get you set up to play many of your favourite tunes! Learn 2 voicings each for major 7, dominant 7, 6, minor 7, minor 7 flat 5, and diminished 7 chords.

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[asyrafmansor]

This video is the holy grail for jazz beginner

[bagsbrickerman]

Master Teacher
I've played jazz guitar professionally for over 45 year's, yeah I'm old, LOL.
As a black musician our lives may have been different, maybe not, smile.
Our mind's may view or approach thing's differently because of our hoods.
The cool thing about jazz is that no matter whom you are or where you've come from, jazz people can work and enjoy music together, most of the time, lol.
I've watched your videos and examples for year's and I think you're absolutely one of the top 3 jazz guitar lesson channels on YouTube.
The thing that kills me is your truth in teaching, if I follow your exact instructions the pure sound goes out.
It took me year's of playing to discover truths lthat you teach.
Lastly, I'm still learning for your amazing teaching and PLAYING skills.
It may seem to some like I'm blowing smoke up your ass, there always will be haters, smile.
However people should be gaven their flowers while they're alive.
Praise should be given out loud.
Thank you for sharing your gifts and may God richly bless you and yours.
Peace out.
Smile
Ps
Nothing I've said was meant to be negative in any way.

[frankmayer]

ça prend un Québécois pour avoir une Godin Montréal.:) Fantastique video, 32 ans de guitar rock et je comprenais rien au jazz, tes videos sont tellement clairs que le jazz commence a etre une petite partie de mon vocabulaire. Un immense merci.

[ARBoloney]

Quand apres 30 secondes j' entend le Queb!😂, vous allez directement dans ma liste jazz tutorials, merci!

[bobjohnson]

I have a Godin classical guitar. You're the first person I've seen with a Godin. Like it a lot.

[eelaws]

I'm happy to see other people call the actual bottom notes the top notes because they're higher in pitch and from the players vantage point, they appear to be higher up when looking down on the fretboard. He says it at the 2:25 mark.

[phildavies]

Thanks Marc - very helpful, constructive, logical presentations

[alvinrhoda]

Good job. Love the easy on the eye demos on the shapes and jazz chord progressions. Will be playing all my Xmas tunes using the jazzy style. Thanks. Alvin

[williamreaves]

Thanks Marc! I love the genre, and your teaching too.

[modenelalivintrumpet]

i watched this video and i liked it you have avery simple and understandable approach.thanks

[hamslider]

Your intro is dangerously close!
This video was really helpful!

[kellyinterrante]

This is agreat help as it teached two different posiions with two bass notes. It is a lot of great info broken down to make it digestable

[Electric.songs.]

Thank you so much for this lesson!!! I made screenshots of all of the chords! Thank you.

[arielvictorrecto]

this is a very good intro for jazz chords

[wendellpeters]

Thank you, I've got it. Very helpful :)

[ajnazatahm]

Just discovered your channel and blog. Thank you so much for what you do

[ppg]

Nice tutorial...nice and slow for beginners.
Merci!!
🎸😎👍

[Electric.songs.]

Thank you for your free sheets🌔❤️❤️❤️❤️

[stevejohnston]

greetings fron BC , nice to see these diff voicings ...ya, i love triads, but agree these work well for arpeggios voxman hank the fingerings of scale arps are fun and interesting ..dang .its all good stuff for outlining the chord changes ...well, im working on that ...any videos on outlining Marc ???

[andrewwestaway]

Good simplification for jazz beginners thanks. Two presentation conventions I feel could benefit from slight modification 1. Showing fingering charts in the vertical position when they would look more like what the player sees if they were rotated 90 degrees anti-clockwise. 2. Showing live play fingering as the student would see the teacher instead of rotating the video 180 degrees so that it matches what the student sees when playing. Both steps should be easy with today's flexible publishing technology. Jens Larsen argued against the idea with some drivel excuse about it being useful to learn by watching other players, yet he still posts scale diagrams upside down i.e. from the student's perspective. Watch any piano tutorial and the camera will be placed showing the player's perspective. Imagine making the student learn by having them look over the back of the piano at an upside down keyboard. Here's a chance for you to get one up on Jens. Maybe you could incorporate a rotate function and let the students decide which they prefer? Cheers from down under - where everything is upside down anyway.