3 Amazing Jazz Chords You Should Use More!

Here are 3 Jazz chord types that sound beautiful and that you should use to make some amazing-sounding harmonies and beautiful Jazz chords!
1️⃣ Phrygian Chords
2️⃣ m7(13)
3️⃣ maj7(9,13)

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My name is Jens Larsen, Danish Jazz Guitarist, and Educator. The videos on this channel will help you explore and enjoy Jazz. Some of it is how to play jazz guitar, but other videos are more on Music Theory like Jazz Chords or advice on how to practice and learn Jazz, on guitar or any other instrument.

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[RobKandell]

The Maj7#11 can be used to great effect in the right context, though I’ve left out the 5th.

[YeLLGoYeLLGo]

Thanks 👌🎧💙💚all chords all fit together

[shipsahoy]

I love 'em all, but the backdoor dominant on the last one swept me up!👍

[MNG]

Ok.. even I'm I'm a bad mood.. I like this

[syalda]

Beautiful stuff!!! Thank you so much for sharing this with us all! 😊

[marcofabbri]

Last one is awesome, especially paired with the backdoor dominant ❤ and if we bring Fm7 to its first inversion, we get a chromatic ascending bassline: Fm7/Ab (also equal to Ab6), Bb7/9/13 and Cmaj7/9/13.
Plenty of reharm possibilities!

[joshuachenault]

I've been intimidated by your channel for a while now and these shorts are the perfect tool to get my feet wet! Thanks for all the knowledge you share and keep going!

[SamuelLawson]

You probably get this question a lot, but I must ask - do you have these tasty bits available in published/printed form? The videos are extremely valuable, but I struggle to follow whilst playing.

[LaurentLZ]

Great sounding chords indeed ! What's the rocket science behind Fm7-Bb7 resolving to CM7 and not EbM7 ?

[people_wrestling]

Aaaaa! how do you get your jazz tone?? Do you have any books on these chord tricks or your jazz solo stuff? I'm trying to expand my jazz theory and guitar book collection, if you have any recommendations or if you write your own I'd love to add them to my shelf

[kevindonnelly]

Lerved them all. The #11 in the CM7 (first group) would be great to play in front of a Folk Muso. I love its colour. That Dm7(11, 13) in the second group sounds soooo spooky ! Also, when you say 'Phyrigian' are you referring to the G# in the G7sus4(b9) chord in the first group ? Nice Colours !!

[irawhitlock]

Beautiful! How is it Phrygian though? iii chord? Natural minor scale with flat 2?

[fusion-music]

G7sus4(b9) is the interesting one for me, but I don't see how you got the 7th in that voicing. (I'm dyslexic- a major barrier) but I have an affinity with the phrygian major b9 in flamenco and Arabic influences. Even though I technically know a 11th is a 4th and a thirteenth is a 6th (and understand why they're given different names, I find dyslexia makes it hard to identify an 11th or 13th in a chord or visualizing a chord. A flat 9 chord seems routine. There's a logic that says, just go up two half steps (etc etc) and you have your chords. Then try inverting them. No, the brain doesn't go there. Yet I play inversions by memory, but struggle to identify how it is what it is. Anyway, food for thought. Thank you.

[mickhudson]

Dat klinkt geweldig Jens, ik heb tijdens mijn spel echt verschillende variaties in mijn akkoorden verwerkt en je video's hebben me enorm geholpen.

[chewygumboy]

Why do you call the first exemple a Phrygian chord? 🤔

[conartist]

The last chord In the first two phrases sounded yucky 😂

[Ana_crusis]

Just a tiny note on pronunciation phrygian has a soft g like the word judge. phrygian /ˈfrɪdʒiən/