The Most Beautiful Chord in Jazz 🤯 Unbelieveable!

This is one of the most beautiful jazz chords you'll ever hear! The Neapolitan subdominant is a great sound to have in your vocabulary for a lot of situations!

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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.

The videos are mostly jazz guitar lessons, but also music theory, analysis of songs and videos on jazz guitars.

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[metramaks]

Maj7 chords are truly beautiful. Probably my favorite chords.

[kasparseglitis]

Ahhhh, those are such sublime voicings!

[mauriciopizarro]

Those subtle jazzguitar chords describe the greatness of the sea

[orangecoloredsky]

Beautiful! And thanks for always showing both your hands and the chord charts, I for whatever reason find it difficult if I am just looking at an instructor's hands or the charts alone.

[RobKandell]

It’s amazing how radio killed them in the 70s by overusing it in their call signs.

Thanks for the reminder!

[rickjensen]

Very nice voice leading voicings - Db neapolitan sub dominant is great👍

[jafferscakes]

I could loop and listen to this all day

[clfraction]

Lovely walk down melody, I'll spend hours on this one, thanks!!

[john-dimz]

no Jazz afficianado but this is spellbinding

[damienhillssax]

Stunning - your sound. Especially through my studio headphones!

[SavedPulley]

Absolutely love this channel. Such a wealth of knowledge

[stefanfeldenz]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Beautyfull way to teach❤

[alanpoma]

Your gibson sound is a very warm and amazing beatiful chords

[jamistardust]

Lovem the maj 7 chord. I have a song whcich actually ends on the fourth maj7 and the sung note the the maj 7th note of the chord. It has a yearning questioning unresolved feel. I call it the "why" chord. as a matter of fact "why" is the word sung in the song.

[lucianbeca]

You can use it in smooth jazz....my points of view❤

[austinsatterfield]

Ooo like that, simple but move it to a more "I'm begging my emotion!" Type sound. Like importance to resolve

[kevindonnelly]

I LERVE the Neapolitan (Subdominant) Chord. It has such a lovely colour and really gets a listener's attention. The way it is used in this video effects a lovely cadence. Sounds excellent in ballads. As well as iim7, bIIM7, IM7, I sometimes use IM7, bIIM7, bIIIM7, bIIM7, IM7 as a final cadence. I recognise this is a different use to that in the video but it's just something I like to 'trot out' occasionally. I never get tired of exploring harmony. Thanks Jens. :)

[peanutpeanut]

First one sounds like it could on forever, or at least another 2 bars

[andercoyote]

Jens you did a video awhike back and confessed when you were a noob your first favorite chord was Cmajor 7. I laughed because thats my fav. I'll move on now haha

[WCCUDFMURDR]

My favourite progression. This in key of D with inversion from E string against open b and e is nice. 775700, 665700, 554600. Because of you I know what the name is of this progression.