Chords for Robben Ford Guitar Lesson - A minor Blues 3rd Chorus Breakdown 2

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ For our second four bars, there's a couple of key elements here that I want to address.
The riff is something _ like_
_ _ [G] And then there's this downward arpeggio, [A] and _
_ _ _ [Db] _ _ [G] then it goes up, right?
_ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ _
[G] So basically I'm spelling out _ _ the D minor.
_ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [A] _ _ This is the scale _ on D minor. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
So I play the first part of it, _ _ [F] _ _ _
[G] and I play a half-step. _
Moving between [F] _ [G] the _ G and the F.
_ [Bb] _ _ [A] _ _ [Gm] _
And then I play this arpeggio.
_ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
This is very much like we were doing [Bb] here, _ _ _
[F] _ but_
_ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [Em] _ _ [Bb] _ _ This is a very classic bebop _ thing to play [G] _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ on a D minor [G] chord. _
[A] _ _ [Em] _ [Dm] So it's like _ going_
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
[F] _ _ [B] _ _ It's kind of approaching that little fall thing.
Again, a very classic thing in all kinds of music.
And [A] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
then I [Abm] play _ [D] something _ _ _ like that.
[E] _ [Dm] So what I'm doing is, _ _ _ [E] I'm adding _ the [Dm] altered V chord.
I'm putting it in there.
It isn't written to be that way, but it absolutely can be done that way.
_ _ [Em] So we're _ [Dm] like_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ That's our chord progression, right?
So now all [Dm] I'm doing is, _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ I'm just developing the song.
I'm rewriting the song on the spot, so that I can use those altered tones.
[A] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [Em] Now I'm altered [D] V chord.
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] This is also very classic and traditional in bebop.
Jazz does this, you know?
There are movements you can make that aren't written.
They go by quickly and don't offend anyone.
And generally people are kind of turned on by them.
Because you just kind of woke the whole thing up a little bit.
You threw in a surprise.
_ _ _ _ And most good jazz musicians, their ears are wide open.
And they hear it very quickly and they respond to it very quickly.
So a piano player will make that change too.
_ Real quickly you can pick up on these things.
_ _ _ So that's what I was doing there.
I was adding the altered V chord at the end _ _ of _ that D minor chord.