Start With Simple Jazz Chords, But Do This! 😎

Many students make the big mistake of learning Jazz chords as different grips without learning how to make music with them. Let me show you a process using just one very simple chord and how much you can do with that as a starting point. There are a lot of fun things to explore!

3 Basic Jazz Chord Exercises That Will Change Your Playing in 2024

I Wish Every Jazz Beginner Could Watch This!

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Content:
00:00 Get Rid Of The Grips
00:17 Level #1 - The Chord and a Rhythm
00:59 Level #2 - Phrasing For Jazz Chords
01:31 Level #3 - The Drumkit Split
02:04 Level #4 - More Melody
03:17 Level #5 - A Blues Thing (part 1)
04:03 Level #6 - The Final Frontier
05:46 Level #7 - Chromatic Notes
06:43 Level #8 - A Blues Thing (part 2)
07:44 Level #9 - Passing Chords
08:33 Level #10 - Split It All!
09:07 Practical Approach To Soloing
09:25 Like the video? Check out my Patreon page!

My name is Jens Larsen, a Danish Jazz Guitarist and Educator. The videos on this channel will help you explore and enjoy Jazz. Some of them teach you how to play jazz guitar, but other videos focus on Music Theory, like Jazz Chords, or offer advice on practicing and learning Jazz on guitar or any other instrument.

The videos are mostly jazz guitar lessons, music theory, song analysis, and videos on jazz guitars.

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[JensLarsen]

What exercises worked for you with Jazz Chords?

3 Basic Jazz Chord Exercises That Will Change Your Playing in 2024

[jeremiahandrews]

Good stuff!

This is a new way of thinking about music for me. Stop thinking about fancy chord progression and theory, just have fun navigating around one chord idea!

It sounds simple, but these music ideas can really catch your interest and sound very "full" if that makes sense.

[emlyngriffith]

Yet another useful lesson….thanks again! 👍🍷

[rodnyg]

simple three note chord, comping, and shell voicings aren't just a way for beginners to start playing jazz rhythms . Artists like Freddie Green, Herb Ellis, & Sonny Clark mastered the art their entire careers

[tipp]

What a lovely and simple lesson! Even I can manage that. Such effective use of basic chords to make great music. Thanks you Jens!

[nilspeereboom]

Yes, great lesson. Tusind tak, dank je wel.

[elsf]

2:43 This part got me thinking about something tangential. I feel like it's a really good idea to learn a simple monophonic instrument for things like that. Sometimes, a really great song that you love will have the simplest melodies that are so clear when you learn them on an instrument that doesn't require string skipping— idk how to explain this completely lol. Playing a 3 note melody feels different on some instruments and makes it easier to pull that back to the guitar

I have been learning the tin whistle and it reminded me of that. There's so much that can be done in 1.5-2 octaves when that's all you got. When I play a wind instrument or a monophonic synth for a while, the guitar neck suddenly looks like a wide open expanse of ideas

[LJSheffRBLX]

Jens Larsen, great content I really liked it

[jeffmoppi]

This makes me think of the song "I want to be loved by you" with Marilyn Monroe

[a]

Looks like you're running out of content yet you haven't done anything with open notes in between fretted notes.