Chords for Summertime Part 1: Chords
Tempo:
82.525 bpm
Chords used:
G
E
F#m
D#
Em
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
This is the old standard summertime and I'm going to use this to demonstrate how to construct a simple solo.
As we know it's a 16 bar blues, really a three chord trick, just E minor, A minor and B7.
Let's go through the chords one line at a time.
The first line of the chords, as I'm playing it here in the key of G, is E minor to F sharp diminished
to E minor over G, that's the first inversion of an E minor chord, and back to F sharp diminished again.
It should sound something like this.
[G]
[F#m] [G]
[D#] [E] The second line of the chord, I've put in to here something which jazz musicians refer to as a minor line cliche.
It starts off in A minor, goes to A minor major 7, A minor [Am] 7, A minor 6.
So the line should sound like this.
[C] [D]
[B] [G#]
The third line is the same as the first so we don't have to repeat that.
And the fourth line goes into the relative major which is G major.
I'm using G major 7 here again to give us a bit more to play over.
C major 7 as a substitute really for an E minor 7.
There's an F sharp half diminished chord and then right at the end there's a little snatch of another minor line cliche,
this time in [Em] E minor.
[G]
The whole line should sound like this.
[F#] [G]
[Bm] [E] [Em]
[F#] OK, what I've done here is to put the three lines of our chords into Audacity
and we can highlight each line in turn and put it onto loop play
so that we can practice developing our solos over each line separately.
[E] [G]
[E] This is our first line and the [G] third line.
[F#m]
[E] [G] And it just repeats [D#] endlessly.
And we can use this to practice and develop our solos.
See my next video for the development of
As we know it's a 16 bar blues, really a three chord trick, just E minor, A minor and B7.
Let's go through the chords one line at a time.
The first line of the chords, as I'm playing it here in the key of G, is E minor to F sharp diminished
to E minor over G, that's the first inversion of an E minor chord, and back to F sharp diminished again.
It should sound something like this.
[G]
[F#m] [G]
[D#] [E] The second line of the chord, I've put in to here something which jazz musicians refer to as a minor line cliche.
It starts off in A minor, goes to A minor major 7, A minor [Am] 7, A minor 6.
So the line should sound like this.
[C] [D]
[B] [G#]
The third line is the same as the first so we don't have to repeat that.
And the fourth line goes into the relative major which is G major.
I'm using G major 7 here again to give us a bit more to play over.
C major 7 as a substitute really for an E minor 7.
There's an F sharp half diminished chord and then right at the end there's a little snatch of another minor line cliche,
this time in [Em] E minor.
[G]
The whole line should sound like this.
[F#] [G]
[Bm] [E] [Em]
[F#] OK, what I've done here is to put the three lines of our chords into Audacity
and we can highlight each line in turn and put it onto loop play
so that we can practice developing our solos over each line separately.
[E] [G]
[E] This is our first line and the [G] third line.
[F#m]
[E] [G] And it just repeats [D#] endlessly.
And we can use this to practice and develop our solos.
See my next video for the development of
Key:
G
E
F#m
D#
Em
G
E
F#m
This is the old standard summertime and I'm going to use this to demonstrate how to construct a simple solo. _
As we know it's a 16 bar blues, really a three chord trick, just E minor, A minor and B7.
Let's go through the chords one line at a time.
The first line of the chords, as I'm playing it here in the key of G, is E minor to F sharp diminished
to E minor over G, that's the first inversion of an E minor chord, and back to F sharp diminished again.
It should sound something like this.
_ _ [G] _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[D#] _ _ _ [E] The second line of the chord, I've put in to here something which jazz musicians refer to as a minor line cliche.
It starts off in A minor, goes to A minor major 7, A minor [Am] 7, A minor 6.
So the line should sound like this.
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G#] _
The third line is the same as the first so we don't have to repeat that.
And the fourth line goes into the relative major which is G major.
I'm using G major 7 here again to give us a bit more to play over.
C major 7 as a substitute really for an E minor 7.
There's an F sharp half diminished chord and then right at the end there's a little snatch of another minor line cliche,
this time in [Em] E minor.
_ [G] _ _
_ _ The whole line should sound like this. _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ [E] _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ OK, what I've done here is to put the three lines of our chords into Audacity
and we can highlight each line in turn and put it onto loop play
so that we can practice developing our solos over each line separately.
_ [E] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[E] This is our first line and the [G] third line.
_ [F#m] _ _
[E] _ [G] And it just repeats [D#] endlessly.
_ And we can use this to practice and develop our solos.
See my next video for the development of
As we know it's a 16 bar blues, really a three chord trick, just E minor, A minor and B7.
Let's go through the chords one line at a time.
The first line of the chords, as I'm playing it here in the key of G, is E minor to F sharp diminished
to E minor over G, that's the first inversion of an E minor chord, and back to F sharp diminished again.
It should sound something like this.
_ _ [G] _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[D#] _ _ _ [E] The second line of the chord, I've put in to here something which jazz musicians refer to as a minor line cliche.
It starts off in A minor, goes to A minor major 7, A minor [Am] 7, A minor 6.
So the line should sound like this.
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G#] _
The third line is the same as the first so we don't have to repeat that.
And the fourth line goes into the relative major which is G major.
I'm using G major 7 here again to give us a bit more to play over.
C major 7 as a substitute really for an E minor 7.
There's an F sharp half diminished chord and then right at the end there's a little snatch of another minor line cliche,
this time in [Em] E minor.
_ [G] _ _
_ _ The whole line should sound like this. _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ [E] _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ OK, what I've done here is to put the three lines of our chords into Audacity
and we can highlight each line in turn and put it onto loop play
so that we can practice developing our solos over each line separately.
_ [E] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[E] This is our first line and the [G] third line.
_ [F#m] _ _
[E] _ [G] And it just repeats [D#] endlessly.
_ And we can use this to practice and develop our solos.
See my next video for the development of