Ceasy Blues. 2 2
Probably the easiest way to learn Jazz is to, first of all, learn some blues. 3 3
Not blues the way you learned in book two. 4 4
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You need to learn a more slow, laid back blues. 6 6
We'll give you something closer to a jazz fit. 7 7
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You still use the basic three chords over the 12 bars, so you're going to use C, 9 9
F, and G, but instead of that left hand, you're just going to use these slow 10 10
chord changes and some blues improvisation in the right hand. 11 11
The reason we start with blues is because we can just use three 12 12
chords in the left hand. 13 13
And we can just use one scale [SOUND]. 14 14
All the blues scale in one particular key which will sound fine 15 15
over the three chords. 16 16
In Jazz, you'll have to learn skills and 17 17
patterns for each chord, which is much more difficult. 18 18
So let's find the three chords to start you off. 19 19
So we're going to use C, F, and G in the left hand, but 20 20
if we just use the basic three-note chords, it wouldn't sound very blues-y. 21 21
And that's not gonna work. 22 22
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So blues chords are very often seventh chords. 24 24
And they rarely use as many chord notes as more fuller jazz chords. 25 25
And chord ships that don't have all chord tunes in are called voicings. 26 26
So let's look at C, third, fifth, seventh. 27 27
So that's It's full four-note chord. 28 28
[SOUND] If you left out the third and fifth, [SOUND] some voicing. 29 29
Sometimes it's played in the right hand. 30 30
[SOUND] Okay, so three blues chords are going to be voicings. 31 31
So that's the C. 32 32
First and seventh, leave out the third and fifth. 33 33
F7 chord is going to be an inversion. 34 34
Now, with this style of playing, you won't need the root 35 35
of every chord at the bottom because the overall key will be so obvious. 36 36
So, leaving out the root can give the chord a more open vague mysterious sound, 37 37
but always make sure you get the seventh note in the chord. 38 38
So if F7 middle. 39 39
[SOUND] And move the root down to the seventh, so one two. 40 40
So that's your F7 chord. 41 41
So your C7 chord, you're voicing C plus the seven and then your F7 middle. 42 42
[SOUND] Leaving out the root. 43 43
So you can see that this note is the same on both. 44 44
[SOUND] So quite close together which is handy. 45 45
[SOUND] And the G7 chord is like a G7 backwards. 46 46
So G backwards [SOUND]. 47 47
G going back down finding the other two notes [SOUND]. 48 48
And the 7th, one, two. 49 49
[SOUND] That's G7. 50 50
Leave out the 5th. 51 51
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So your chords are C7, no third or fifth. 53 53
F7, middle, no root. 54 54
G7, backwards, no fifth. 55 55
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