Jazz Chords Workshop Lesson 6

Welcome to the Jazz Chords Workshop Lesson 6. For this week’s lesson, we introduce the upper structure of Group B Voicings for Jazz. These voicings span the 7th to 12th frets. As before, we are sticking to one key (C major) in order to learn all possible voicing...

Jazz Chords Workshop Lesson 5

Welcome to Lesson 5 of the Jazz Chords Workshop.  We have completed the four voicing groups on the middle set of four strings in the previous lessons. This week we shall begin learning the voicing groups on the top set of four strings. These chords are the upper...

Jazz Chords Workshop Lesson 4

Welcome to Lesson 4 of the Jazz Chords Workshop.  Lesson 4 introduces the next voicing group for the middle group of strings centred around the 12th and 15th frets. I call this Group D Voicings. This is the final group of voicings for the middle four strings. By the...

Jazz Chords Workshop Lesson 3

Welcome to Lesson 3 of the Jazz Chords Workshop.  Lesson 3 introduces the next voicing group for the middle group of strings centred around the 10th and 13th frets. Let us call this Group C Voicings (Middle Set) Click the video below to watch the lesson. Learning Aids...

Jazz Chords Workshop Lesson 2

Welcome to Lesson 2 of the Jazz Chords Workshop.  If this is your first time here, I highly recommend attending lesson 1 before continuing this lesson. Click here for lesson 1.  Lesson 2 introduces the next voicing group for the middle group of strings centred around...

Jazz Chords Workshop Lesson 1

Welcome to the Jazz Chords Workshop. Here we will introduce the fundamental 7th chords as used in the Jazz II-V-I progressions. I will assume you already have some basic music theory.  For the entire course, we will be using the chord progression (shown right)...