The MOST Important ii-V-I Line to Learn First! 

What lesson content would you like to see going forward? The more specific the better!

I have no idea how you got into my timeline but this has to be one of the coolest lessons with obviously a ton of work put in for our benefit!! Thank You 👏🙏

You can say what you will.about social media but us passionate ,unsigned musicians are enjoying exposure to some of the most righteous content. We are living a in guitar learning Renaissance....

Congrats again Chase 👍🎸 your channel has meant a lot to me. Been going through an illness and my inspiration to play has been low. Your content and teaching have been a huge blessing to me in so many ways. Best to you brother, thanks so much! Doug

I have been looking for YEARS for a video like this! Thank you sir you truly know your stuff and have a great approach to jazz and teaching. Seriously the best beginner jazz vid ever i cant wait for more to come.

First time the channel came up in my RU-vid feed. Glad it did. Great job on explaining and taking the time to demonstrate the variations at a reasonable pace. It helps tremendously in understanding what you are teaching.

I just discovered your channel with this vid. When I saw that this vid was more than 10 mins, and then you started off by opening a can of soda, I’ll be honest, I was thinking, “man, just get to the point, I just want to hear the playing, I don’t want to watch another Adam Neely.” But then you went straight into a expertly-presented, unpretentious, master class in important jazz patterns. I LOVE that you explained all the musical and jazz terms like “building in thirds” and “make the changes” instead of just assuming that everyone knows what those terms mean. I have a less than basic understanding of music theory, so that was extremely helpful. I honestly walked away with a better understanding of music and jazz. Thanks!

Excellent lesson. Solid content, great delivery. Thank you!

Hi Chase, once again, thank you for all you do. This week your two lessons on “Benson, two chords” and the interaction with the V7b9 lines (and the altered scale) has really opened my eyes all along the neck. Game changer for me. Thank you.

Loving the latest couple of Jazz guitar vids man.. It's like you answered my exact comment from last time with the perfect level of content. Amazing job dude, so much to get stuck into here 👌🙏

the algorithm popped you into my YT feed yesterday. glad i clicked. i've checked out several of your vids and so far it's great stuff. between your channel, jens larsen, rotem sivan, jazz guitar with andy, learn jazz standards, and robbie barnby - i'm getting some top quality jazz guitar instruction. congrats on the 10k! headed over to IG now to follow there!

I appreciate you addressing us beginners and intermediates. I fall in the middle of that! Thanks for remembering us! Best.

Yeah man that last video did so well! It’s great watching the channel blossom. Keep cranking out the top notch content. I enjoy looking forward to each new lesson/video. This would merge well into a lesson and concepts on chord soloing. ✌🏼

Chase, you are on a roll: the Benson 2-chord lesson and now this one on the ii-V-I. What I recognized from the G7b9 fingerings from an earlier lesson on the magic jazz chord: the harmonization of a V-altered scale. Anyway, this lesson brought it all together for me. Thank you.

Drink to that! Congratulations on reaching the 10k subscribers. Well done. Keep up the good work and great content.

Dude, thank you for these lessons; they are immediately useful. I can hear the difference and how the lines lead you toward the chords.

just wanna thank you for sharing your expertise in jazz guitar playing

Awesome lesson!!! So glad I ran across your channel. Information is really clear and concise. Great job!!

I like it! Opens my eyes to what is going on under the hood of my ears. Thank you for your kindness in sharing your knowledge.

There's a lot of excellent and super useful and applicable knowledge here! I can't thank you enough!

Great lesson. So glad I found your channel. Practical idea that can be put into practice for some great results. This lesson really got me thinking about the variations and resolutions available. Great stuff!!!!

Loved this! Great video, and thorough/logical layout. Thanks so much!

Good stuff. I've been playing since around 1978, and I still love checking out phrasing like this. Breaking it down. Cheers.

Sooooo much good advice, so well explained in such a short format... It gets me over-excited about trying it in my style (wich is far from Jazz, I must say). Thank you! Here is a suggestion for you: I wish you could show us a concrete application of all these concept with real solo played over a typical II-V-I progression.

Great lesson you have a really clear approach - love it! Would be great if you expanded this one into long ii-V's one measure for the iim7 one for V7b9 two for the I chord etc... Keep up the great stuff my man!

Congrats! Very clarifying and didactic class, Chase! Thank you so much! I am a beginner on jazz guitar so it's really helpful.

Great stuff - advanced players should listen to this as well!

Great lesson aimed at the sweet spot of my current learning curve! Thanks.

Well deserved 10k, hope you get lots more. Thank you for these beginner friendly lessons!

just found your channel. Love it. Not a huge jazz guy but I love to learn all kinds of music and I like jazz/blues and your stuff helps with that. Thanks so much

I really appreciate this content. It's really helpful for me as an introduction to jazz principles. My musical background is in classical guitar. I now play a lot of blues rock type music, but maybe it's time for me to finally delve into jazz a little bit. As far as I can tell, jazz theory is based on the same fundamental principles as classical music theory: playing through the changes, as you call it (melodies based around chord tones and passing notes, and the concept of tension and resolution). The difference between jazz and classical seems to me mainly that jazz harmony tends to add a lot of notes on top of the basic triads, including notes from outside the key, as well as maybe jazz tending to use different rhythms and different types of overall song/composition structure compared to classical music. By the way, some musicians seem to be put off by the idea of "rules" in music. I like to think of music theory not as a set of rules but rather as an analysis and description of the melodic, harmonic, rhythmic patterns of a particular style of music that give that style of music its particular sound. Every style of music has a set of patterns that it tends to use and you could talk about the theory behind them. Some styles of music are just a lot more complex than others so mastering all the different patterns takes a lot more work. In the end there's only one rule in music: if you like how something sounds, go with it! Great musicians have always experimented and innovated. thanks and all the best! I'm going to check out your ebook.

A fresh take on intro jazz...thanks. I'll be following.

Good information, congrats on reaching 10k. I would like to see a study on the modes of the Melodic Minor.

This is great, exactly what I need to start playing Jazz guitar!

Excellent to start with one line and than build on it. Very powerful

Musicians! This post is excellent and well worth watching a few times to be sure that you catch all of the content as this knowledge is an excellent tool for soloing and sounding fantastic.! The intro is helpful for the instructions/ explanations and giving time to tune up! Enjoy!🎸🎸🎸🎸😎

Thank you this is really useful: I never know what to do over chord changes and especially when you give different examples of the same principle it hits home and gives my neurons some homework :-)

An excellent and extremely helpful video. Thank you.🎸🎸

Thanks for the lesson. Looking forward to more.

Nice video. Very clear and you made it sound simple. Loved it.

Great info. Very useful and nice clear explanation. Thank you!

this is super informational thank you! you make it make sense

Great stuff!! Keep it going!!

This lesson really clarified a lot of mismatched pieces. For a folk guy, this really answers the question “ Why jazz?“.

Great lesson! Being able to manipulate licks in real time is so much more satisfying than just regurgitating them.

Good stuff. Subscribed!

Good, clear teaching. Nice job.

Great lesson, thanks!

Very good lesson; it's a beautiful transition.

Great lesson,and subscribed. Keep up the great work. Education is such an underrated skill. You have it mate. Thanks from England.

You explain well. Thank you.

I have to get this guitar! i love it!

I liked this lesson a lot. Thank you

Nice lesson. Thanks!

This was great man! Would love to learn more about fundamental principles of voice leading. Thanks!

Excellent content, great explanations. Thanks.

Great presentation! Thanks

This is a great lesson. Thanks!

Very appreciated class - thx a lot

that was awesome thnx!

Very good presentation of this material.

Love this

Great Lesson

Hey greetings! I have always found it helpful to simply think of V’s instead of II V’s… I once gave a ride to Mr Green in Manhattan after the last set. We listened to some funky Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt from the cassette deck (!!) in my Honda.

Musicians! Pay very close attention! This teacher is outstanding and you should find this lesson to be very helpful. I have been performing around New York with a Jazz quartet and I learned exactly what I needed to learn! This teacher and lesson is a great place to start. There is also a RU-vid channel called practice Jazz backing tracks that is really helpful as well! Enjoy! Don’t be afraid to play a few gigs to learn what you DON’T know! 🎸😳🎸😳🎹

Excellent stuff!

I'm really enjoying your style of teaching; it's very clear, and you're not assuming that your audience already knows or has a background in jazz. What would help me would be to hear these lines and variations played over the chords. Playing a short loop that you can play them over would really help hearing them in context. Cheers

Congrats on 15K likes and thanks for the great content!!!

Brilliant brilliant teacher

Fantastically useful and clear, wish I’d learned this crucial foundational bebop stuff earlier! Many thanks. By the way looking at what to play on long 2-5-1s would also be good.

The going from a B to an A flat gives a nice Gypsy Jazz quality.

Very very good simple examples all related to chords. 10/10

Thank you!

This is great info.

Wow this lesson was great!

I enjoyed your lesson - I've written it all down, and you've packed a lot of helpful detail into such a short and well thought out presentation. I'm trying to get my feet onto the first rung of the jazz ladder, and your lesson with its clearly explained facts has been exactly what I need.

Congrats !!!!

Great lesson!! I would enjoy a similar lesson for minor 2 5 1s. I don't quite get how to use the altered scale a video on that would be great aswell! Congrats on 10k and keep it up!

Super super helpful

Great lesson because I've been learning the basic arpeggios but didn't understand why I wasn't hearing the chord changes in this fashion.

Gréât lesson 👍

Top notch!

Excellent lesson…I would love to see it taken to the next level as a solo in the context of a standard; perhaps ‘Take the A Train’. Really great stuff. Thanks.

Dude you look like Jared Barkowski who also teaches jazz on RU-vid "Sound Guitar Lesson" channel! I thought it was him! Congrats on the 10K man! Love this channel!

Great lesson. Also - I have that exact guitar !

Well done, if you could give us some advice on the tricky question of which notes to use outside of the key to pepper the melody and create interesting tensions, cause usually I am afraid of risking of sounding wrong on them so I stick too much to the "safe" maj/min parent scale of the underlying chord. God bless.

these are great, man, real public service!

What I was always curious about is do you consciously think about the notes you are playing and their relation to the chord, or do you intuitively use a chord shape to know where you are (for example the G mixolydian in the video) and understand the relation from the shape, not from the notes?

Nice, almost positive this line is Bert Ligons basic teaching line from the classic book “ connecting chords with linear harmony” he also started teaching octave displacement. Good luck

I have rewatched this several times, and each time I try to give a thumbs up. But alas, I can only give one. As for a lesson, do you know of any complete walking bass lines and variations one could use for common tunes?

Congrats.

Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive and Jazz. Who knew! LOL thank you for this!

A great lesson, it terms of clear concise explanation. building block principles , slower tempo build up to crasp the essence first and a solid structred approached one can learn and build from. ( This is something most great players seem to overlook and the pupil is left confused). May I suggest you visit Peter Farrell's Benson classes, great material really strong, but he suffers from poor explanation and needs the audience show how fast and skilled he is at playing the lines. His content is awesome but one is left trying to translate this to useabale material.

Thank you, excellent vid. Useful stuff and easy to understand for a jazz beginner (i.e. me). Susbscribed.

The Best ii-V-I line I ever learned was from a Clint Strong Video back in '99. It took me a while to memorize it but there are no altered tones as in your 3 bar line and Everytime I play this long lick ( which is quite difficult ) every guitar player who hears it their jaw drops open!

I was supposed to go to the university of north Florida to study with Jack Peterson, but ended up on the road playing bars. That was the early 90’s.

Great lesson thanks! Congrats on the 10k milestone! Nice Ibanez, but perhaps you celebrate by picking up a Benedetto? 🤣Aren’t these the lines Barry discovered while transcribing Charlie Parker at Berklee? They’re to be found in Bach’s music as well. Hey, I’m curious as hell, what was it like to study with Barry at UNF? Thanks! Cheers & congrats! -JGC

This is great Chase. Do you have variations for one chord per bar? Dmin7/ G7/ Cmaj7? Thank you

The other side of this lesson nay be Harmonizing a melody ? That’s a topic I would really enjoy. Thanks for the lesson!

Oh so you build these chords in thirds until you have 4 notes! I always wondered why 2 -5 -1 in C wasn't just Dm-G-C I never got that concept till a minute ago! THANKS!