Chords for Rick Beato's Pop Chords on Jazz Guitar - Guitar Lesson

Hi everybody, my name is Jens Larsen.
So this morning when I was having my coffee,
I was watching a YouTube video by Rick Biatro.
If you don't know Rick, you should definitely
check out his channel because there's a lot of great stuff.
He does a lot of stuff with harmony,
also sort of the [Ab] gray area between
what [Eb] is modern jazz and what is modern classical.
_ And also there are some videos on analyzing
[Abm] _ _ [B] jazz guitar player styles.
There's some [Ab] Wes and some Mizzini and some Joe [B] Paz also.
It's really [G] great stuff what he [N] does, _
which is why I'm watching it also.
And the video that he made and published
was on four jazz progressions that you can use for pop music.
_ And he played them on piano and I thought it would be
a nice idea to just try and move them to guitar
because I think Rick himself is a guitar player
and they actually _ can be translated to guitar quite well I think.
Let's just get to that.
So the first progression _ _ is A flat minor 7 with an 11
to a D flat [Eb] 7 altered to an E minor 7.
[Abm] And that sounds like this. _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
So in this progression [Abm] I can actually keep the chords pretty much intact.
I can play the bass note as well. _ _ _
[A] And then I changed this voicing, the D flat 7 altered voicing,
because I wanted to keep the bass note in there. _
[E] I think the one he plays [F] is this. _ _ _ _ _
But if I do that I can't [A] play the bass note at the same time.
I would have to do this.
[B] And then in [E] this key we can also add the bass note to the [D] E minor 7.
_ So that's why I did that. _
[Gm] The second example [Cm] sounds like this. _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [B] _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So [N] here the [C] important thing that happens [Eb] here,
and I think he even talks about that in [Cm] the video as well,
is that you have _ [Eb] a [B] sustained note on top of [Ab] all the chords,
or at least on the [B] first four.
[Eb] _ _ And then you have these [D] _ fourths.
These [Eb] fourths as well moving down.
[G] _ [Bb]
And then at [Cm] the end of the progression here, _
_ I [B] think in the video he [Cm] adds,
he basically does this I think.
Or this actually. _ _
_ _ _ But that's not so easy to play
and I think on guitar you [G] would probably _ _ [Eb] do this.
[A] _ And then I'm turning this into an A7 and [Am] not like an A minor.
[A] _
[B] Because we have to leave out [Gb] a note,
and I chose to [F] leave out [Ab] the C, not the D flat or [A] the C sharp.
_ _ _ And then I [D] resolve it [G] to _ _ D minor. _ _
_ _ And [D] _ _ [Bb] I mean essentially this is actually a 3-6-2 [Ab]-5 in A flat
[G] that's then resolved to a D minor.
_ So for the [Eb] third example,
_ [N] well there are two versions of it
because I needed to transpose it to get a little bit more playable.
_ If I [Ebm] try to play, I can play this without the bass [N] notes,
_ but it doesn't really seem that practical to play.
If you play the original key, I think he plays it down here,
then that would be something like this.
_ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ You can hear it's [E] kind of hard to get it to _ [Eb] connect
_ and _ [A] _ _ you have to work really hard.
_ [N] So if you play it a little bit higher,
if I move it _ up an octave and _ down a minor third,
so instead of playing in E flat I'm playing in C,
then you get this, [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [Db] _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] which I think [Eb] sounds really nice.
[Ab] _ _
[C] _ One thing I really like about this is [A] that we get this part
where the melody note, this is, I mean he [D] does that
in most of [Ab] the progressions actually,
playing with this idea that we are [Eb] tying the different chords together
[Cm] by making some, by sort of voice leading the middle part of it
and having the same note on top a lot.
[D] So, _ but this part where we move the whole chord
except the melody note _ _ _ down [Ab] a half step,
_ _ _ this is then [Db] sort of [Cm] _ _ used as a [Ab] really strange suspension
of an A7 [C] altered. _ _ _
[G] _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ [B] The last example is mostly about triads over bass notes
and you could actually play them with the bass notes in there
[Eb] for the most part, I think that's one of them
where you kind of get into trouble
and that's why I'm leaving out the bass note.
But essentially it's _ E flat triad over A flat,
so that would be essentially this.
_ _ _ And then an A flat triad [Ab] over D flat.
_ _ _ And then you get this G _ minor with a [Bb] flat six in [Eb] there.
_ That's this one and you would have to imagine this bass note
[G] and then to a C [C] major triad.
_ And if I just play [Ab] the top part of that, [Eb] then you get this.
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] And I think [A] what's kind of clear also from the way I'm playing [Abm] this
is that what's happening [Eb] here is, again,
we have a repeating note on the top of the progression
_ and then we're moving, at least to me,
what I hear is like this third interval moving [Ab] up.
_ _ [Eb] _ _
_ It helps us [C] all to C major triad.
_ _ _ [B] That's my take on how you translate these chord progressions
and these voicings to guitar.
I think they actually translate quite well
and of course you have to make some choices about [N] what is important
and what you want to preserve when you move
from one instrument to the other.
But _ _ I think that _ is still doable
and I think also these voicings do actually kind of preserve
most of it.
Of course if you don't agree with that or if you have a better idea
then leave a comment on this video.
It's always nice to have another point of view
or another perspective on it.
_ If this is the first time you see one of my videos
you can of course subscribe to my channel.
I publish weekly jazz guitar lessons
and I also have a lot of vlogs on different things
with analyzing standards and _ _ _ talking about modern harmony
and learning guitar, learning jazz in general.
_ _ So if that's the kind of thing you're looking for
then check out my channel.
_ And of course if you never saw Rick's channel
you should definitely check that out.
He just started this interview series
where he's interviewing _ _ Steve Vai and _ _ _ Mark [Ebm] Isham.
And it's great to see also because he's [N] really looking into
not only [Eb] jazz [Ab] and _ improvisers and [Eb] famous guitar players
but also just _ composers and [D] more general things about harmony
which I [Abm] personally find quite interesting.
_ In any case, _ check out his channel.
I'm sure you'll find some stuff you like
if you're at least digging my videos. _ _
For the rest there's a lesson coming tomorrow on my channel
so you can of course check that out.
That's on Comping the Blues. _
And _ thank you for watching and until next [N] time.