Q. Hi,
I've been listening to a lot of jazz piano improv and its amazing!!! I want to do it too: I know what diminished chords and augmented are but I'm not really sure what to do with them.
2. How do you find which diminished chords go with which notes? I see people doing improv and they can match chords w/ notes so easily and how do you pick and choose? Thanks!!
A. There are literally hundreds of styles of jazz. Most of what you hear, the real flashy stuff is bebop orientated - frantic tempo's, disjointed progressions, extended harmonic vocabulary, odd phrasing, and mostly the song exists as a vehicle of 'self-discovery' or what musicians call noodling.
So - Jazz isn't just playing some dim/aug chords and fucking around the C major scale, just as french isn't oui/non and good to go. Where to start?
Get a fake book - it gives you the melody and the progression. Learn the melody by heart, learn the progression by heart. This big ass pdf is a good place to start. The songs are old and Broadwayish - but it'll get you started playing real jazz songs.
http://www-irma.u-strasbg.fr/~vigon/amis/partoches/jazz/fichiers/Fake%20Book.pdf
From there you'll notice that certain songs have all fucked up progressions - like C major to Ebmaj7 - well, how the hell can that be? Then you'll notice that G is in the Cmaj chord as well as the thirst of Eb. So in Jazzland, as long as the note is in there somewhere (given that it's not just 'out there' or part of a weird chromatic passage, or leading into another note) it's good to play, and can transition you to a new scale. When you start to make up your melodies, write the melody and the reharmonize with more complex chords and google substitution.
Remember, the SONG comes before the solo. Learn some songs and you'll start to connect the dots on what scales are used over what chords. IMHO, most of the really hard stuff to solo over are showtunes. Find a jazzer who can make those progressions sing is really something - because everyone already knows the song/lyrics yet wants to hear something new and exciting from the jazz man. Whatever. It's all bullshit anyhow, no one listens to this crap anymore.
Guitar / Piano chords for D?
Q. I'm new to guitar, don't know how to put this. When I'm playing a song in D, what other chords are suitable to be played along side D? List each one of them please, especially the jazz chords!
I just picked up the guitar yesterday so the only ones I know for D are A & G haha so I appreciate the help. Thanks! :)
A. Hello there,
Here is a link to a chord progression generator. You can use it to find various combinations of chords. For instance, you want to play in D. You can check out the I 4 5 1 progression. You can hear how it sounds and see what the chords are. Since you are just starting, you may not know what the 1 4 5 1 means. You don't need to at this point. The numbers refer to the root note (1) in this case D, the 4th note up the scale and the 5th note up the scale. Don't get hung up on that aspect. You will pick up the theory in time. For now, use try select different progressions to see how they sound. If you like them, use them. A easy way to experiment on chord progressions without understanding music theory.
http://www.hotfrets.com/songanator.asp
Also, here is a link to a chord chart. It is a pdf file and several pages long. Just down load the pdf file to your computer. Whenever you want to see what the fingering is for any chord, you can find it on the chart.
http://www.guitarnotes.com/guitar/notes2/ultimate11.shtml
Later,
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