Chords for 3 Easy Jazz Songs - For People Who Don't Play Jazz!

Hey guys, welcome back to the channel.
I hope you guys are having a fantastic day.
Grab your guitars,
because today we're gonna look at three jazz songs
perfect for people who don't play jazz.
[Cm] Let's get started.
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[F] So today's lesson is part two in our jazz 101 series.
If you missed the first lesson,
I'll put a link to it above there.
You can watch that one first.
We go through some of my favorite jazz voicings,
and there's a worksheet to go along with the lesson
that gives you guys progressions to practice
and a couple songs to work through.
But [E] today we're gonna look at three
of my favorite introductory jazz songs
that use the chords that we learned in lesson one.
Let's take a look.
For today's lesson, we're gonna use this super [B] cool
Godin Multiac Nylon String Guitar.
Plays and sounds beautiful.
So I'll do a full demo of it in the future.
But that being said, let's start with our first jazz song.
All right, our [E] first song is Stormy Monday.
Now this is a great place to start
because it's essentially the 12 bar blues
just with jazz chords substituted in.
So we'll have our root chord, our fourth, our fifth,
our turnaround chord,
all the things we know and love about the blues,
just with a jazzy flavor to it.
So this song's been covered by all the jazz greats
and even blues players.
You can look up Eric Clapton's version of Stormy Monday.
He just blues solos the crap out of it.
It sounds unreal.
So to solo over top of this [B] song,
[F] you don't need fancy jazz phrasing
or intricate [Bb]
arpeggios or anything.
You can just use your existing blues scales
[N] and have a great time playing along with the song.
So I'm gonna make the arrangements that we use today
available for download on the store.
So you guys can follow the link there
and print off the paper copies if you feel so inclined.
Otherwise, it'll all be on the screen.
So let's get started.
For Stormy Monday, we only need five shapes.
We need the dominant [G] seven.
_ You could play it like this, of course.
_ [F] We need the minor [Gm] seven.
_ [Bb] We need the seven [G] sharp five. _ _
_ [Abm] We need the nine chord [C] in A form. _ _
And we need a diminished shape as well.
_ _ So [E] there's our five shapes.
You can pause the video and learn them
if you haven't already,
but let's just jump into the song.
For the rhythm, we're gonna stick
with the basic quarter notes
so you guys can just focus on [A] the chord shapes.
Here we go.
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_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [Abm] All right, our second song is Blue Bossa.
Again, this is a perfect way to start your journey into jazz.
We've got five shapes only.
We've [G] got a dominant seven. _
Same shape as we used in Stormy Monday.
We've got the seven sharp five,
[Eb] which we also used in [E] Stormy Monday.
For A form chords, we've [Cm] got a minor seven.
Now you guys can play this one like this
if you want to avoid the bar.
Either [Abm] way is totally fine.
We've got a [C] major seven.
A minor seven. _
_ Like that.
And we've got the minor seven flat five,
_ which is very similar to the diminished shape.
[Cm] _ [E] Instead of having the double [C] flat seven,
you've just got a flat seven.
_ _ Now [E] the rhythm is essential to this song,
but I think for today,
we're just gonna stick with quarter notes,
again, to focus on the shapes.
But if you guys wanted to learn the rhythm
that I've charted out for you guys,
I would encourage you to print it off.
That way you can play along with [Eb] the rhythm,
[E] which really adds the proper flair to the song.
So here we go.
Let's play along with the [Cm] song.
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_ [Am] And then once you guys have [E] mastered those chords
along with the rhythm, it sounds [Cm] like this.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ And so on and so forth.
All right, now let's look at Blue and Green,
another classic jazz song.
Now this one's a little bit different.
It's a 10 bar pattern.
So it sort of just seems like a stream of jazz chords
that sort of never ends
[Ebm] and it's hard to tell where it begins and where it stops,
[E] which is a hallmark of certain jazz styles.
So it's good to know.
But yeah, I've added a little arpeggio,
triplet arpeggio at the end,
sort of just to let you know where the final bar is
and where it loops back to the beginning.
But this is just like a really classic slow jazz song.
Now we're only gonna use five shapes again.
So we're gonna use our [Gm] minor seven, _
[G] our seven sharp five.
_ _ This time we've got a major seven in E form,
looks like this.
_ Now you could play it as an A minor shape
with your thumb as well.
_ Either way is totally fine.
We've got [Cm] minor seven _ _ _ and we've got a dominant [C] seven.
_ _ So there's our five shapes.
[E] Let's take a look at the song.
Again, the rhythm is important,
but for now we'll just stick with the basics.
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_ _ _ _ [F] I hope you guys enjoyed playing through these jazz songs.
They're super fun to play.
They make you more versatile as [E] a player.
And if you're ever in the scenario
where you quickly need some background [Ab] music,
you [A] don't have to scramble.
[Ab] If you have a few of these jazz songs in your back pocket.
You can buy my arrangements by heading to the store
by clicking right here.
[E] And if you wanna subscribe, you can click right here.
And if you feel like watching a couple more videos,
you can check a few out here.
Have a great week, you [Cm] guys.
We'll see you next time.
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