In part 1 of the Jazz Series, we looked at the types of 7th chord forms that are found Major and minor keys (Its worth noting that they remain context throughout ALL keys->for example the Diatonic 7th "III" chord in any Major key will always be a minor7th regardless of if you are in C Major, or B Major, Eb Major, Bb Major, D Major...I think you...

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I) Review:

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First things first, only certain frets will give you harmonics. But when you lightly touch above the fret-nub on the special frets, you'll get a bell chimey "touch harmonic".

But there are different types of touch harmonics, the harmonic-potent frets can be organised into groups based of the tone of their harmonic. I will label for you the...

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Lets take a look at some root-position 7th chords from the C Major & A Minor scales.

Things Worth knowing from the get-go:

-7th chords are to Jazz what power-chords are to heavy metal, they are the the genre's "bread & butter Chords" so to speak.

-Before we try to deal with some of the more common Jazz Chord...

Triads/Chord Inversions
(+Applying them to Guitar)

Table of Contents
1. Intoduction
2. Setting up Triads
3. Triad Inversion

Introduction

Hey Everyone, this is my first lesson on UltimateGuitar.com. I thought I would share my knowledge on Chord Building. In this Lesson I am going to start with the basics, which is Triads and Inverting those triads. If you...

First things first, I must tip my hat to UG/utube user "tapPOOH" b/c without his help, I wouldn't have been able to get this far on these sequences. So with that said, Here we go!

So, as previously mentioned Buckethead uses these for pretty much every solo he plays. In order to get to the point where you can zip up and down the fret-board like him,...

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So when you get down to it...more than 80% of modern music one hears is simple pentatonics. This is true not only of guitar music, but also for voice, piano, wind instruments, ect. So without further adeu, I give you the most efficient (and easiest) way to learn the Major/minor pentatonic scale for the entire fret board in...

Are you bored of harmonising in the same old ways? In this lesson I am going to teach you how to harmonise your lead lines through the use of contrapuntal techniques. “What are contrapuntal techniques”, you ask? I will cover that soon – it’s not half as intimidating as it sounds. This lesson will require that you have a basic knowledge of music the...

This is my first lesson that I am attempting to write. While learning about chord theory and arpeggios I applied it to the solo in "Sultans of Swing" by "Dire Straits". I was amazed by how a great solo like this one was constructed on the most basic principles and theory. Don't worry if you don't know your basic chord theory or scales because this...

Tritone substitution is a a kind of chord substitution that can give added musical interest to a progression and/or enhance melodic lines. Using this concept tends to give your progressions a jazzy feel and it can be a very nice change to a stale chord progression in any genre you can make it fit in. It's used extensively in jazz, but I've seen it...