Great lesson, Chase! Melodic minor is a weakness in my playing. Will learn. BTW, thanks for the Grant Green lick and bonus lick from a few weeks ago. Very useful licks.
Thanks Richard! Definitely still spots of my playing where I'm not comfortable with certain keys of melodic minor. Glad you're finding the lessons helpful!
Yep as you can see, people are loving how you incorporate the Secret Jazz Chord into these lessons. Would LOVE to see a lesson on this in context of a Bb and F Jazz Blues. Thanks Chase and keep this rolling! ✌🏼
Great suggestion once again! I’ll definitely do something applying that concept to the blues. Some of those ideas I have planned for this jazz blues course, but it keeps getting pushed back because we’ve been building some awesome courses with artists. Thanks Nick! 🙏
Another cool lesson ty ! Question @ 2:48 you screened shot a EbMaj7(#11) ; you play EbMaj7(#5#11) but call it a C-9 . At @3:13 you play Dm11(b5,no3) but call it Bb13. What am I missing?
Think of them as rootless voicings! Most of the time you'll want to play the voicing without the root, especially since we're limited on guitar compared to a piano.
FANTASTIC you make learning jazz doabled for a blues cat or metal player I will join your lessons They are secrets without this video I would never be able to plY THIS TYPE IN MILLION YEARS Excellent lessons
Think of Jerry Coker's suggestion that there is also no need to memorize every 'mode' of the melodic minor scale when a thorough mastery of 'one' is sufficient. I really just go for the G# altered scale when I see A-maj7, Cmaj 7 #5, E7, G# alt, Bsus b9, D7 #11, F#-7 b5.
Great! Thanks for turning me on to this time! Eventually I'm gonna learn my first jazz piece the way it's supposed to be learned! Lol (not just memorizing the sheet music and playing the notes exactly the same everytime)
The “secret jazz chord” is a name for that my teacher Barry Greene came up with for a specific voicing. Nothing secret about really. Check out some of my previous lessons where I talk about what it is in detail 🤘
@@ChaseMaddox Okay thanks. I'll watch some more videos. It seems to me that maybe it's a maj7b5 chord which I've found to be a great substitute for many other chords including rootless voicings. Any min7#5 inversion I've also found very helpful. Studying with Barry Greene must have been a great experience. Best regards from Montreal. BTW Be careful in your Jiu Jitsu classes. I'm a Judoka and can relate 🥋Had many injuries over the years, but never anything serious.
@@UnitedEffect Thank you for your comment! Feel free to comment or email me at contact@jazzmemes.org if you have more questions. I appreciate the well wishes in my jiu jitsu! I practice a lot of the judo throws as part of class and one bad break fall could definitely hurt the fingers/wrist/elbow.
@@GlennMichaelThompson honestly that’s the best way to learn the material if you’re able! For some people it might be too big of an initial barrier so I offer the pdf as well 🤘
I’ve been on multiple gigs throughout the years where I witnessed someone getting attacked including a band mate and none of them were prepared to defend themselves. Not gonna be me. I appreciate the concern 👍
Either one would apply. I’m referring to both really, the secret jazz chord shapes used for melodic minor and the scale shape that is superimposed over each of those chord shapes. Chords are built from select notes of the scales so those shapes are just smaller shapes within the larger scale shape.
Did you say "jujutsu class"!?! Lol.... Forget about that stuff man, all they do is show you how to get their around! Find a good NINjutsu school! That's what's going to show you what you will be needing. More soon than you know!
@@ChaseMaddox week... This world is a big piece of shit shit, cat! That's what I meant. Have seen the video with that pathetic elitist Klaus Schwab, saying "we" have to prepare for an angrier world!?! Why you think he's saying that? Because they are getting ready to harm a hell of a lot of people! That's why...
The melodic minor scale is the basis for a lot of the more complex chords jazz musicians tend to like. Chords like altered dominant, Lydian dominant, sus flat 9, minor 6/9, etc. are all coming from the melodic minor scale, not a major scale.
I might do a full video on the entire production setup but the gist is I’m using a Nikon Z6ii for the video with a Godox SL60W and soft box for lighting, Rode Video Mic NTG for the audio and just plugging my guitar to my Fender Hot Rod Amp. I don’t do any post production on the audio or video. It takes me long enough to make the actual lesson and pdf each week 😄
Damn, surprised to hear your opening statement. Another guitar player sacrificing his fingers to BJJ 😂. My left ring finger got bent 90 degrees a few months ago and still healing.
Thanks for watching! It’s a basic Ibanez Artcore model from about 15 years ago. I paid a little extra at the time so it would come with the quilt finish and matching pickguard.
Appreciate you 🙏 I train a more traditional form of jujutsu that’s striking, throwing, and grappling techniques combined, but mostly what is known today as BJJ. What jazz guitar stuff are you shedding lately? What can I help with?
I’m used to playing that B on top, but most of my students have a difficult time getting that note to sound with the middle finger barre, so I usually omit it from the notation.
@@ChaseMaddox Thanks for that ,very kind ,and so quick.I could see you using the three fingers,i,m used to using all four and flattening my second for that sound
@@ChaseMaddox as of now I've barely started out my jazz journey, my background is a progressive rock musician. Will request topics when I feel stuck, for now you have a ton of stuff that I'm probably gonna take the time out and really learn
melodic minor is very important in jazz ! its the altered scale ! but the 12 melodic scales ? ahaha i let you do it for your friends ! i got others things to do !
Thanks for the sub! My injury wasn't a finger issue (this time), but more of a serious neck crank from an aggressive black belt. So many parallels with learning music and training guitar. Probably will do a video soon comparing some of the principles they have in common.
@@ChaseMaddox ah yeah, I've been there. Neck cranks are no fun. Just remember that when you are the black belt 😄. For sure, so many parallel concepts. I'm here for that video. Glad you are feeling better.
@@ChaseMaddox I wanted to start BJJ as an old man, but then I remembered I quit basketball after jamming my wrist. Risking the music wasn't worth it for me. Great lesson btw. MelMin is the coolest scale.
Haha good point! 😄 I’m really lucky that where I train at Valente Brothers the culture is extremely good and it’s a rare exception to have that kind of experience in sparring. In general all these upper belts are great partners to work with. Thanks again Joseph! 🤘
It doesn’t explicitly state the scale for each chord. Based on the secret jazz chord concept, the melodic minor scale is always a whole step below the note used as reference for the secret jazz chord. So for C-9 you use the 9th as reference, and a whole step below that is C melodic minor. For Db13 you use the 13th as reference, so a whole step below that is Ab melodic minor. Make sense?
@@ChaseMaddox On multi-line instruments like guitar, I've never seen the point. Sure Saxophone it's a MUST, but guitar. It's all the same everywhere you go on the neck.
Hey Jim! You should have received an email with the link to download once you purchased. Check your spam folder, and if you still don’t see it, send me an email to contact@jazzmemes.org so we can sort it out 🤘
Melodic minor as jazz musicians think of it is a major scale with a minor third instead of a major third. It tends to be used more than harmonic minor in my experience because the chords built off of the melodic minor scale are more common in jazz. Feel free to ask any questions you have, happy to address them 🤘
Yep, right off the bat, the "spy chord", at the very end of the Bond theme. Sting also uses it a lot. The chord has more of a distinctive sound to me than the scale, because I end up using the scale for a lot of different functions.
Haha it’s a struggle! I’m a blue belt training with gi mostly, so I have to be careful with the grips. My rig is pretty simple honestly, Ibanez Artcore model guitar direct into my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. I have a pedal rig too when I play pop/rock/funk.
There are a couple focused solely on that topic and I mention the concept throughout other videos. Check the “Lessons” playlist, let me know if you still can’t find it 👍
Great lesson! Also your playing is very articulate, precise and your guitar sounds amazing. Is there a microphone picking up the acoustic sound or are we hearing the p-ups only?
Thanks Patrick! 🤘I’m just using a Rode Video Mic NTG aimed at me speaking and it also picks up the sound from my Fender Hot Rod Amp. Nothing too crazy on the setup, guitar to amp and I don’t adjust the audio after that.
@@ChaseMaddox Thanks for answering. The attack is very crisp and the high-end is defined, transparent, much clearer than the typical PAF or any magnetic p-up I have heard so far. The sound you are achieving is very close to the acoustic sound of an archtop, love it. It translates your playing really well. Are the p-ups the Ibanez originals?
I appreciate it! 🙏 Standard Ibanez pickups that came with the model. The mic is probably capturing some of my acoustic sound because it’s aimed close to my guitar and the amp isn’t directly mic’d.
@@ChaseMaddox I thought it might be the case that the mic was getting some of the sound from the guitar body. So no magic pick-ups :). In any case it sounds amazing and tends to prove that your Ibanez has at least a decent top, whether carved or not. I think on some Joe Pass records also an external microphone signal was mixed in alongside the pick-up-to-amp track. So many thanks for answering my gear-focused question. I believe there is still progress to be made in acoustic guitar amplification and your recording sounded like a dream come true. But important as that side of things is, transducers and electronics, and even good instrument design and build are nothing without technique and musicality, both of which boxes you definitely check magna cum laude. Thank you for your excellent work, it is very inspiring.
You see the chapters? Skip the one marked intro if you are so incredibly pressed for time 👍 I like to think of my channel as more of an in person lesson with my audience and catching up before the meat of the concept.
