Master the 13th in 6 steps!

The 13th can sound a bit daunting and complex if you are new to Jazz.
However it is an interesting diatonic sound on a dominant 7th chord,
that is really essential to know deeply if we are serious about playing
Jazz music.
But how can we go about learning and incorporating this sound?

In this video Jazzduets shows a fail-safe step by step method for
practicing the 13th.

0:00 - start
0:10 - Step 1 - play the root, the b7, the Major 3rd and 13th around the cycle of 4ths/5ths.
0:36 - Step 2 - bathe your ears playing the 13th alone on the cycle of 5ths....
0:52 - Step 3 - Write out or improvise Licks that start on the 13th of each Dom 7th chord…
1:16 - Step 4 - Precede the 13th via the 2 chromatic approach notes
1:40 - Step 5 - Precede the 13th licks via the 2 chromatic approach notes
2:12 - Step 6 - target the 13th licks by 3 chromatic approach notes.

My name is Nick Homes. I was, and still am a non genius musician who struggled for many years to find out the secrets of jazz playing. Throughout 35 years of playing, and obsessive investigation I have focussed on building systems of learning for myself and students so they can improve , and reach their goals with the highest probability.

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[brucejeric]

Wonderful sound!!! Something to concentrate on every chord tone, lower and upper structures.
Thank you!!

[davidsummerville]

Cool beans. The video on the 9th was great as well. Love these shorts!

[wilgreenstreet]

Love it Nick...is it possible for me to get a hold of that cycle of 5ths back track?

[RandomVelocity]

The last 3 notes of each in step 1 sound exactly like the music or motif from the movie Alien.

[vojislavsavkov]

Woow! What a great informations, wonderful, thank you❤❤❤

[georgekanaan]

Very good work. Could I have a list of your best books, please. Thank you.

[wilgreenstreet]

I have been playing this one like: b7 9 10 13....it is a habit for me now (no root though)

[JariSatta]

How often you encounter mixed triads or fifths?
Vincent Persichetti theorized up to 23rd chords in his Twentieth Century Harmony

[recorr]

You play always quite the same thing. But it is the same pleasuring music all over the universe.

[GraffitiLA]

Picky useless question: if you are calling it the 13th, why is the 3rd not being referred to as the 10th?