Chords for How to Play Jazz Guitar - #2 Jazz Scales - Guitar Lessons for Beginners

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_ _ Okay, so we're going to get started with some scales here, and I think the first [F] thing to
talk to you about is that there's different styles of music use different scales.
[Gb] And if you were [Em] using like a folk or a [Db] rock type [Eb] of improvisation using [F] a scale, you'd
probably [Eb] use a major, minor, [C] pentatonic, or a blues scale.
_ But if you're going to try to get a [Eb] more jazzy sound, [Gb] you tend to use a lot of other types
of modes, and we're going to look at [D] a lot of those [F] in this course.
But this is only some of the scales that you'd need to know.
What I would recommend, [Eb] we have [B] a project called [Eb] Total Modal on [D] True Fire, and that
would [E] give you all the scales [D] that you'd need to know for [Dbm] improvising in a jazz setting,
[Eb] or any type of music actually.
But [Am] _ today we're going to look [B] at just [F] a few scales, and the first thing I want to do [Eb] is
just kind of play a little bit for you and talk you through and [E] tell you what kind of
scales I'm using.
So you can kind of hear the difference, and I think that will make you [D] understand what
[Am] scales sound like.
So let's do a little playing now.
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Alright, so [F] right now you're hearing the [G] chord vamp [Am] that we had just [G] learned, and what I'm
going to [F] do is improvise [G] over this.
Remember this is an A [Am] minor to a G [G] to an F [F] chord.
So [G] the [Am] most common scale you would [G] find used [F] over this for improvisation [G] in like a [Am] folk
or a [G] rock idiom [F] would be the minor [G] pentatonic, which I'm going to show you how [Am] to exactly play that.
Right now I just want you to kind of listen [F] to the sound.
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_ [D] _ _ [F] _ _ Alright, [Am] so that's a minor [G] pentatonic, A minor [F] pentatonic.
[G] Now another scale that would work [Am] over this would be an A [G] Aeolian [F] scale, which we'll learn
in a second, but just [Am] listen for the sound here.
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[Em] _ _ [Am] So _ [G] _ _ [F] _
_ [A] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _
[F] _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
you can [F] see that has a little bit different [G] sound, [Am] a little bit more [G] towards jazz there.
[F] Now of course [G] you could combine both, so let me kind [Am] of just do a little bit of that [G] where
I'm kind of [F] talking through what I'm playing.
[G] So we have [Am] minor pentatonic, [A] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] then a scale, [A] Aeolian [G] _ _ _ [A] _ _
[G] _ _ [Am] _ pentatonic, [G] _ _ _
_ scale, [Am] A minor [G] Aeolian. _
[F] _ [G] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [D]
So you can [F] see there's two different types [G] of scales here and they [Am] have kind of unique
sounds to [G] them [F] and we'll take a look at [G] those in a few minutes on [Am] how to exactly play