Chords for Ricks Guitar School - How to solo over Jazz Blues: The easy way!

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Hey there [N] guys, it's Rick here and welcome to Rick's Guitar School.
Today I'm going to talk to you about a ridiculously effective way of playing over a jazz blues progression.
We're going to be playing_well,
actually the backing track is more of a funky blues,
but it's got exactly the same kind of chords that you find in a jazz blues.
And I'm going to show you a stupidly easy way of playing over this chord progression.
And all we're going to need is the first position of a minor pentatonic scale.
_ Yeah, honestly, it's that simple.
What we're going to do when we're presented with each chord, we are just simply going
to change one note of that first position minor pentatonic for each single chord.
And trust me, it sounds fantastic. _ _ _
Incidentally, the backing track is available for you free.
It's available if you subscribe to my website, you'll get a link sent to you _ so that you
can download it.
There's other stuff _ downloadable for you free as well, so make sure you click the link in
the description box below to get it.
Okay, so let's get to it.
I'm going to show you exactly how we're going to do this.
[Am] So the first chord in our backing track, they're actually sort of_
It's a kind of modern kind of sound with those synth stabs.
They're kind of sus4 type chords.
_ _ _ But I'm just going to show you the basic outline of the chord.
So _ the first chord is like a 7 sus4 _ _ _ _ _ or [G] _ A11. _
And we're just going to play over that A minor pentatonic.
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Okay, [Gb] keep it simple.
A minor pentatonic.
Next chord goes to D.
_ _ D9.
What we're going to do is we're going to change one note of that A minor _ pentatonic first position.
So we're going to [A] change [C] _
[D] _ [Em] this note.
We're going to lower it by a [Gbm] fret. _
[A] So we [D] get_
[E] _ [Gb] _ _ _
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_ _ [A] _ _ [Am] _ Fits [N]
perfectly with the chord.
_ So all you're doing is you're changing one note of that minor pentatonic first position.
It's easy when you approach it from that perspective.
Okay, the following chord goes back.
So we're going to use our A minor first position pentatonic.
_ The following chord after that is [F] F13.
_ _ What _ _ _ _ [G] we're going to do here is we're going to alter the fifth of the minor [A] pentatonic.
So [C] instead of_
We're going to play.
[D] _
[Eb] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ So that's really, really easy.
Just alter one note.
Just lower the fifth.
[B] Okay. _
_ The following chord after that is a B minor 7 flat 5 chord.
_ _ And for [G] that, we're going to take our minor pentatonic first position.
In fact, _ _ we're going to play exactly what we played for _ [B] the F13, but we're going to
move it up two frets.
So we're going to be thinking of B minor [Bm] pentatonic.
_ We'll play a flat 5 instead.
[E] _ [B] _ So again, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] only alter one note.
So we've only got one chord left, and that's this, _ _ _ which is [Em] E7 sharp 9.
_ _ What we're going to [A] do over that is we're going to move back to our A minor first position
framework, but we're going to replace [E] the root [Ab] _ with a major 7th, and we get the following.
_ [D] _ _ [Em] _
[E] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [Ab] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Ab] _ [C] _ _ [Ab] _ [E] _
[G] _ _ _ Okay.
So what we're doing is altering one note [Am] instead _ _ _ [Ab] [E] of_
_ _ _ [G] You can hear it fits [N] absolutely perfectly with that altered dominant sound.
So there we have it.
Ridiculously easy way of soloing over a jazz blues, or in this case, a funky blues.
_ And it's another example of how powerful the minor pentatonic, _ particularly pattern-wise,
is.
You know, here we're presented with chords which can confuse a lot of players.
And I've showed you a ridiculously simple way of using the first position minor pentatonic
scale in order to play over it, and you'll instantly sound fusion, and that can't be
a bad thing at all.
Okay.
I hope you've enjoyed this lesson.
I will catch up with you guys very, very soon.
Take it easy. _
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