Chords for 3 Super Easy ii-V-I Licks to Practice

Alright, hey, what's up Brent here?
I'm the jazz musician behind learn jazz standards calm and in today's video
I'm gonna be going over three easy _
251 licks that you can practice that you can learn now 251 chord progressions as you may or may not know are
Super important in jazz repertoire you see them come up all the time and a 251 in the key of concert C
For example is a D minor 7 a g7 and a C major 7 2 5 1
So it's important to know these chord progressions really well in all 12 keys and also have some material to be able to improvise over them
So I always find the best bang for my buck
I'm gonna invest some time into learning some licks or learning some language is over 251 licks
So today I'm gonna give you three that I think are great to practice
Okay, so I'm gonna go and get behind my guitar and show you what I'm talking about
Okay, so here I'm at the guitar and I want to give you a little disclaimer first
All the musical examples today are gonna be in concert C major
That's for demonstration purposes.
And so if you're a B flat instrument like a tenor sax player
It's gonna [Eb] sound like you're playing in D major if you're reading the notation today
Or [Gb] if you're an E flat instrument like an alto sax player, it's gonna sound like you're playing in a major
So it's fine.
You can just play along you can transpose this [Ab] if you want
But at the end of the day the whole goal is to get the jazz language down
So don't worry too much about it.
Okay.
So the first lick I want to show you is a major 251 lick
And it's a long two [Am] five one now when I say long that means that each chord is [Bb] being played a bar long
So in the key of concert C major [Dm] two five one is D minor seven.
That's the two
_ [Em] _ G seven, that's the five
[G]
Okay, and then [C] C major [A] seven _ is the major one
[Em] _ _ _ _ [E] Okay
_ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Okay, that's a long two five one [Am] chord progression, okay, so here's the lick first lick _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ [F] _ _ _
_ [Fm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [E] _
_ [C] _ okay, is that cool
That's a cool lick, right?
So [Em] the main thing I want to point out is that you're really just outlining a D minor seven try it at the beginning [Am] there
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [C] _
That's all just a D minor [G] seven
Arpeggio not just a triad.
It's actually a seventh [Am] arpeggio of D minor seven
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ Okay, so I'm gonna explain the latter half of that lick because the second lick has a lot to do with that
I'll show [B] you that in a second, but I'll play this lick one more [F] time _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ [A] _ _ Okay, let's move [Dm] on to lick number two
Now this is what I call a short two five one lick and that means that the two and the five chord
Are only being played for two beats each.
Okay, so it's gonna sound like this
_ _ [G] _
_ _ _ Yeah, so short because it's really short [E] in time
No longer to the two and the five chord last for one bar each now
You'll see what I mean how this is so similar to that first lick check it out
_ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ [Fm] _ _ [E] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [E] _
[C] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [Fm] _ [E] _ _ [Fm] _
[C] _ _ [D] Okay, really cool lick right?
So this is what I call sort of a little bit of an altered lick
It's kind of outlining in that five chord is outlining some it does some altered extensions in there.
So if we take a look
_ _ _ [G] _ _ Okay, that's like the [Gm] 11th of D minor right there G is the 11th _
[G] _ _ All those chord tones are completely related to D [Dm] minor 7 [E] _ _ _ _ [C]
now we land on C with [G] the G7
which is a little bit weird because
[C] _ That's like the sus4 there, but we [E] fix it up here.
So it [D] goes
_ _ [Ab] _ When we hit that a flat, okay that a flat note in there.
What was the a flat to the [G] g7?
_ _ _ [F] _
That's a flat 9 right?
So we got [D] this flat 9 in there _ _
[Fm] Now that's a tension note.
It adds a lot of tension into everything [G] right and then resolves to the [F] G _ _ _
the F [E] and
Then it resolves to the third of C major 7, which is [A] the E
Resolving to the third is is brilliant.
It [Ab] really works really well.
And if you notice F is the seventh of
_ G7 the flat 7 and it resolves to the third of C major 7 that happens all the time and it's a real strong resolution
When you resolve from the seventh of one chord and then the proceeding chords you resolve to the third
Does that make sense?
So the [D] here's the lick again
_ [Fm] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [G] _
[A] _ Pretty cool lick right?
[Bm] Okay now for something [B] a little bit different.
This one's not necessarily
[E] Related to it.
This one has a lot of chromaticism in it.
So lick number three check out this one.
This is really cool
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _
[Em] _ _ [Db] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _
[E] _ _ _ Okay, so let's check this one out.
This one's really cool.
There's a lot of chromaticism in here.
So
[F] _
[G] _ _ [C] _ Okay, that's basically outlining [E] a D minor 7 arpeggio.
[C] Let me get some chromatic stuff going on here
[Db] _ [D] _ _ Okay up to that D [E] natural then E E
[Eb] _ E [D] flat
_ _ D D we're [G] hitting that G right there, right?
_ [Em] five chord
_ _ _ [E] _
[F] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [C] _ _
[Bm] Okay, that's the important note right there [E] that B natural [G] because what's the B natural to G7?
That's the third the [G] third is a really strong note really strong defining note for any chord
[Em] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[F] _ Now this is a really cool [Db] thing happens
C sharp
[D] _ D
[E] _ E again, that's the third E is the third of C major [Db] 7
_ _ [D] _
That's a chromatic approach note that sheet that C sharp _
[E] _ Okay, so here's the lick one more time
[G] _ _ [A] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ [E] _ _ _
Awesome.
Alright, hope you enjoy those.
Hope you get practicing on those now
Here [C]
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