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Ceasy Blues.
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Probably the easiest way to learn Jazz
is to, first of all, learn some blues.
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Not blues the way you learned in book two.
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You need to learn a more slow,
laid back blues.
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We'll give you something
closer to a jazz fit.
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You still use the basic three chords over
the 12 bars, so you're going to use C,
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F, and G, but instead of that left hand,
you're just going to use these slow
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chord changes and some blues
improvisation in the right hand.
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The reason we start with blues
is because we can just use three
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chords in the left hand.
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And we can just use one scale [SOUND].
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All the blues scale in one
particular key which will sound fine
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over the three chords.
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In Jazz, you'll have to learn skills and
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patterns for each chord,
which is much more difficult.
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So let's find the three
chords to start you off.
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So we're going to use C, F,
and G in the left hand, but
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if we just use the basic three-note
chords, it wouldn't sound very blues-y.
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And that's not gonna work.
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So blues chords are very
often seventh chords.
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And they rarely use as many chord
notes as more fuller jazz chords.
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And chord ships that don't have all
chord tunes in are called voicings.
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So let's look at C, third, fifth, seventh.
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So that's It's full four-note chord.
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[SOUND] If you left out the third and
fifth, [SOUND] some voicing.
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Sometimes it's played in the right hand.
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[SOUND] Okay, so three blues
chords are going to be voicings.
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So that's the C.
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First and seventh,
leave out the third and fifth.
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F7 chord is going to be an inversion.
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Now, with this style of playing,
you won't need the root
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of every chord at the bottom because
the overall key will be so obvious.
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So, leaving out the root can give the
chord a more open vague mysterious sound,
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but always make sure you get
the seventh note in the chord.
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So if F7 middle.
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[SOUND] And move the root down
to the seventh, so one two.
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So that's your F7 chord.
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So your C7 chord, you're voicing C plus
the seven and then your F7 middle.
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[SOUND] Leaving out the root.
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So you can see that this
note is the same on both.
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[SOUND] So
quite close together which is handy.
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[SOUND] And
the G7 chord is like a G7 backwards.
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So G backwards [SOUND].
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G going back down finding
the other two notes [SOUND].
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And the 7th, one, two.
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[SOUND] That's G7.
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Leave out the 5th.
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So your chords are C7, no third or fifth.
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F7, middle, no root.
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G7, backwards, no fifth.
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