Beautiful Jazz Chords That You Never Played

Learning Drop2 and Shell-voicings is a great way to learn some systems of jazz chords and a lot of inversions all at once. But if you only think in systems you forget to explore what chords you can come up with that are not in those systems. That's what I explore in this Jazz Chords Lesson.

In this video, I am going to talk about some of the guitar jazz chords that I like to use and find really beautiful which I don't really hear people use a lot, probably because they don't fit in the systems. And they are not even that difficult to play, so there is no need to not check them out!

Contents:
0:00 Intro
0:15 Jazz Chords - Only in Systems like Drop2 and Shells?
0:57 Good places to use rich sounding chords
1:40 Example 1a - Extra notes on a 3-note voicings
3:02 Example 1b - Lydian dominant
3:42 Example 2a - Spread Altered voicing
4:54 Example 2b - Lydian b7 version
5:22 Example 3 - Sus4 Upper-structure: Maj6/9
6:58 Example 4 - Reinterpreting a Dom7th(9) chord
8:05 Allan Holdsworth Inspired?
8:20 Like the video? Check out my Patreon Page

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Do you know some of these already?


Just back from shooting a video on different amps :)
Contents:
0:00 Intro
0:15 Jazz Chords - Only in Systems like Drop2 and Shells?
0:57 Good places to use rich sounding chords
1:40 Example 1a - Extra notes on a 3-note voicings
3:02 Example 1b - Lydian dominant
3:42 Example 2a - Spread Altered voicing
4:54 Example 2b - Lydian b7 version
5:22 Example 3 - Sus4 Upper-structure: Maj6/9
6:58 Example 4 - Reinterpreting a Dom7th(9) chord
8:05 Allan Holdsworth Inspired?
8:20 Like the video? Check out my Patreon Page

[tonyfaelens]

A. Holdsworth, Tim Miller, John Stowell, Juan Dhas, Very-very nice Chords !!!! THNX

[nervefunk]

Beautiful chords! I personally know them all, they are beautiful as they are but the magic happens when you play them one after another in such tastefully made progressions!

[georgesplanas]

Very nice voicings, sound great!
Yours videos are very interesting!
Thanks

[maxwillow]

Its somewhat amusing that just playing the 'pretty dominants alone' can sound almost dissonant, but when played as part of a 2-5-1 progression, they fit in really nicely, Thanks Jens,

[jahoopyjaheepu]

Very nice video. Some of these chords seem so apparent now that you've shown them to us, but I never thought to play them!

[mattycee]

So close to that 100k amazing!! Congrats so well deserved

[jumemowery]

Thanks Jens. A big thumbs up for this video. This is the kind of stuff I really love.

[Igorguitarful]

Jens, thanks very much for sharing your knowledge

[dkwvt]

Fascinating, lots of grips here I use having stumbled on them exploring what is under or proximate to my fingers. I love it when you validate my knocking around with some real theory... Thank You! 😎

[giantessmaria]

god, such sweet sounding chords....almost like the ending of a really enchanted fairytale...

[jazzapv]

Feeling like being on a treasure hunt. Really useful, i will build some of these in my vocabulary, thanks Jeans.

[JariSatta]

5:18 Nice. I'd tap w/ right hand thumb, and roll chord w/ R.H. index middle ring and little

[vikramjitbanerjeetuki]

Really digging these chords, I know a few of these but still it was nice to reaclamatize myself with them, and nice to see the Sheraton get some action instead of the regular Ibanez👍

[nw]

Hey Jens, big fan of your videos. If I could offer a suggestion, I’d say that I think your viewers would really appreciate a slightly longer demo of you playing at the beginning (or end) of each video. To illustrate an example of what the topic of teaching translates to in terms of actual playing. Always helps to hear the instruction consolidated into music! Even just about 30 seconds would be pretty helpful I think.

[franklehouillier]

Nice! These are all good ukulele/tenor banjo chords too.

[shauryasinghmusic]

Hi Jens ! What voicings would you use for medium swing, hardbop, bebop styles ? I am guessing “shell voicings” is it ??

[sukhendubiswas]

Wow.... this is really good video. Nice sir.

[jedmarsillo]

Grey vid Jens. The entire time you were playing I kept thinking this sounds like Holdsworth then you bring him up right at the end. Awesome stuff as always.

[Mrius]

Wayne's book taught me how to improvise harmony on the spot, very interesting stuff.