How to Start Playing Chord Changes By Using Guide Tones 

I know these concepts but that was really nicely explained and demonstrated

This is the first time I have heard it explained so clearly. Many thanks, happy to subscribe !

Finally, I have found a local place where they have a house band that lets anyone sit in and play jazz standards with them every week! Now I have some jazz cats to hang out with and it is time to actually learn to play the standards. Two weeks ago they had 4 piano, 4 bass, 4 drummers, tenor, (2) alto and baritone sax, trombone, 2 trumpets, a guitarist and singer. This week they had 3 guitar players and a wide assortment of other players. They are great folks, young and old. It is fun seeing the high school and college players get up there and play. We can all learn together! I will be scouting your sites and learning a couple dozen standards. Many of these I learned long ago but went off into blues, rock, and more progressive jazz stuff. What I like about the standards is that they are structured, you can easily find them in sheet music or fake books, and they actually teach you theory as you learn their nuances and chord changes. Plus, learning them lets you sit in with other jazz cats anywhere! This was a great lesson. I love learning music theory and hope to eventually be able to sight read. Thanks Bret!

This helped me tremendously and all my life ive finally found my problem thank you so much, this one thing is the answer ive always searched for.

Great over all instruction! Thanks for all the work you put into this for us!

Thank you. You explained guide tones so well. Somebody said they are shells. They may form the basis of shells but they are not shells. Your explanation is spot on.

Wow. Awesome lesson. You have so much insight. Thank you.

Thank very much; I needed this lesson.

Great explanation! I tend to play the root of the chord on the first beat of the chord change. And I use passing tones to get to the guide tones.

Excellent,thank you.

Excellent!

Great video!

To the point and easy to follow lesson! Thanks!!!

The very basics, my favorite place to start

Great lesson

This is such a great lesson. Thanks a lot, Brent!

great informative lesson well presented.

Nice job of analysizing my favorite standard, ATTYA..😀 Finding Chord/Scale Tones ... One way - Know the changes in terms of chord shapes. So ii V I in C might be Am7(shape on 5th fret), E7 shape on 3rd, AMaj7 shape on 3rd. Play them in any shape(s) you like, just get good and intimate with them as grips. Then when you land on that chord in the song, you're in a familiar shape for a scale, arp, whatever. If you're looking for 3rds and 7ths, it's really familiar to you. Want a #5 or some other tension? You know where the 5ths are in this shape. Sharp it. Then in contrast to that, consider something like (ii V I) Dm7b5, G7alt, CMaj69 (CMaj13). For me, those aren't shapes, they're a SATB choir. Each voice moves to the appropriate next chord tone. I just sometimes ask the sopranos or tenors to "move early" (or late). Whatever you do, practice it for heckadoodle's sake. Like I think your video host has. Thank you sir. And thanks for all the minus one's. Lumpy

An excellent video.. Cheers...

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what the heck, this is essential, really important. And we're getting this great information for free! This is weird, but I like it

Excellent

Really good video. Tritone (G7) Whenever I go up in 4ths and find a G7 out of place..it is probably a tritone.Db is 3 tones from G. Also it falls down from Db(Db F Ab C) to Cmin7(C Eb G Bb)..all easy transitions to Cmaj7.

good!

Great lesson. Thanx! I suppose you're from Dutch descent, right?

Excelent Máster

SO great-thanks-more examples on other tunes and how to write your own lines and flush them out-just a thought

I have a tip. Get the Jazz Standards play book! I did, and it's worth every penny. And I'm not on the LJS payroll. :-)

this is great, thanks! with a minor sixth chord, do you use the 3rd and sixth?

You’re by NYC. So am I. Do you give private in person lessons?

Great video! Does this concept work with modern day songs as well?

Interesting pick used here (blunt tip) What is it? Guitar? Strings? Nice tone.

but what about semi-diminished? Should we rather use b3 b5 or b3 b7 as a guide tones for it? Since all the other chord guide tones are distinct, except for semi diminished and minor... they both share b3 b7... So playing b3 b5 or b7 b5 on a semi diminished would make it sound different.. hmmm

So when it comes to Sus chords and guide tones, you ignore the sus because it's not a guide tone?

Hi, is that means we should practicing more licks or phrasing?

What is a double flat?

Question: Are guide tones the same as what Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock call 'Butter Notes'?

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