Chords for Jazz Guitar Licks w/ TABS Easy Licks Jazz Guitarist Should Know - ii-V-I Beginner Jazz Guitar Lesson

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Hello guys, my name is Marc from jazz guitar lessons.net.
It's been a long while since I shot any video
and today I realized, hey, there's one thing
that I believe every jazz guitar should know.
It's a simple lick and the three reasons
why I think you should know it.
First, you can learn it in less than a minute
and you don't need tabs.
Second, it's based off something you probably already know.
And third thing is it outlines the chords
very, very, very well, very, very well.
So _ all you have to do is take things you know
and you'll be able to outline the chords
and this is our aim, right?
In jazz improvisation usually is to be able
to have the chord sound while we're improvising.
So here's the lick, very simple.
_ _ A one, two, three, four.
[Am] _ _ _ [G] _ [Am] _
And it takes [C] place on a two, five.
So two beats, A minor seven, [A] like this.
So [Am] A minor seven.
I know you don't see the dots on this classical thing here
[A] but [C] fifth fret, fifth fret, fifth fret like this.
[F#] Then D [D] nine or D seven.
_ If you wanna name it as strings, you do five, four, [Am] five,
five [Bm] here and your G major [B] seven or [Am] G,
whatever [Bm] you choose to play as a G.
So your lick uses [N] the A minor seven arpeggio,
the D seven arpeggio and lands on one note [E]
of G.
The chords go like this, two beats each.
A one, two, three, [Am] four.
A one, two, three, [G] four.
And that's it.
So let's jump right into it so I can show you
the bare bone version.
Then we'll do some modifications of it
so we can have [Am] altered notes, you know,
flat nine, sharp nine and stuff like that.
Cool, so for you guys that have played _
Stairway to Heaven, you remember this probably.
_ _ [E] Right?
_ [C] So the [E] first note that we're going [Am] to start on
is this A minor seven arpeggio.
Usually people will go like, okay, I know my arpeggio.
_ _ [D] Arpeggio [G] up, [G#] arpeggio up or down, [C] you know.
[Am] _ _ [D] _ [Bm] And this does [G] nothing to me because [N] you jump the gun
and you don't really link the chords together.
So by learning the arpeggios in which I will show you now,
starting from the Stairway to Heaven chord,
you will be able to [B] outline a two five.
Cool, so first note is your E note,
second [Am] string, fifth fret.
_ _ _ Same fret, the other string.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ [Am] So E, C, [G] A, G.
[C] That's exactly the A minor seven sound. _ _
E, C, [Am] [G] A, G.
You're good?
_ _ [F#] That's for the first chord.
So you have four notes and you're playing [G] an arpeggio
in a way in which we will link to the next chord.
You take this [F#] last note, you [B] take it down to an F sharp.
So it's a fourth fret on the fourth [Am] string.
_ [G] _ [F#] _ And now guess what?
You go back up the notes that you [Em] went back down.
[Am] These [G] notes, [F#] you climb [Am] back up. _
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Name of the notes?
E, C, A, [F#] G, F sharp, [Am] A, C, [E] E.
_ Again?
_ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ _ Easy, easy breezy.
Last note, you end on the D, [D] third fret, second string.
[Am] _ _ [D] _ [Am] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ So let's play it together as a loop.
So you can play it with me
[G] and sometimes I'll play the chords,
sometimes I'll play the lick.
So you can play chords for [Am] me and cough, et cetera, et cetera.
You ready?
One, two, three, four.
A minor seven.
E [G] seven.
_ Let's repeat this.
[Am] _ _ [E] _ _
[F#] Now I'll play the lick.
[Am] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[Am] _ _ [B] Now you play the [Am] lick.
E, [F#] ta, ta, ta, [G] ta, ta, ta, _ ta, [C] _
ta, ta, ta, [F#] ta, ta, ta, ta. Cool.
[E] _ That's it, you got it.
I _ think that just by [Am] doing this [D] motion here,
_ [F#] you [Am] are outlining so much [D] of this change
[A] that that's all you need, basically.
You could do [N] it through scales,
you could do it through different other licks,
but this is one of the bare bones minimum that you could do.
Now let's add one little funny thing.
When you go back up the arpeggio on the D seven,
[E] instead of doing, _ _ _
we'll take this [F#] note [D#] and take it to an E flat.
So it will [Am] sound like this.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _
And [Bm] D is the last note again.
[Am] _ [A] _ _
_ [D] [G] Et voila, now you have a D seven flat nine
and you just move one note.
You don't have to think about any of this.
I think this is really the place
when you can stick to that and find variations on it
and start _ to add things before and after
and kind of stretch it out if you have.
Now we're on two beats for the D minor.
The A minor seven, D seven is two beats each,
but if you were in a situation
for which you had _ four beats each,
you could kind of take it and stretch it out,
add outside notes to it,
but we won't get into that today.
I just wanted to show you the lick.
So if you're still here, for a more advanced player,
you realize that you can play this in other keys.
So we can change string set
and [F] repeat the process for D minor, [G] G seven, [C] C major,
except here, your [A] arpeggio, your D minor will be [Dm] here.
_ [G] _
[Am] Right?
Fifth fret, A, [C] F, D, [Bm] C, [Dm] B.
[A] _ _ _ _ And this is a C major.
_ _ Flat nine, that's it.
_ _ _ [Dm] _ [G#] _
_ _ [G] _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ [Dm] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [G#] _
[G] Flat nine, _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [B] _
[Am] that's it.
_ [Bm] _ _ [Am] _ _
[Bm] That's a complete [F#] other thing I had in my mind throughout.
It's like, what am I hearing?
What am I hearing?
Okay, okay.
So I'll leave it at that.
I hope you gain something out of this lick.
It's a simple one.
See if you can take a minor two five
or see if you can take two five that's in a different key
and a different fingering
that perhaps you're more comfortable with
and see if you can do this thing
whenever you're about to run arpeggio, say,
how about I take what Mark from jazz guitar lessons.net,
that's me, _ what you do, what we did together,
instead of just like blindly running the arpeggio,
just start on the note, descend this arpeggio
and resolve the note like this. _ _ _
It [B] makes it sound like the chord change
instead [Am] of, as I told you,
[D] _ [Am] _ it sounds [D#] not that it's the right notes,
but it doesn't sound like the chord is changing
from one to another.
Good.
So I'm Mark from Jazz Guitar Lessons.
Improve your jazz guitar playing with a real teacher
and I'll see you next time.
Take care. _ _ _
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