1 1 00:00:00,610 --> 00:00:02,958 Blues Jazz Practice Progressions. 2 2 00:00:02,958 --> 00:00:05,346 Earlier in the book you played a four chord progression 3 3 00:00:05,346 --> 00:00:14,092 [MUSIC]. 4 4 00:00:14,092 --> 00:00:16,970 So here's another similar progression, a lot more chords. 5 5 00:00:16,970 --> 00:00:21,600 It's often used in jazz and jazz standards. 6 6 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:22,390 In the key of C. 7 7 00:00:22,390 --> 00:00:26,610 It's heard in songs like Cherokee and Ain't Misbehavin'. 8 8 00:00:26,610 --> 00:00:29,930 Follow the keyboard diagrams very carefully. 9 9 00:00:29,930 --> 00:00:32,009 It starts with [SOUND] C major 7. 10 10 00:00:32,009 --> 00:00:33,712 [SOUND] Keep the middle two fingers. 11 11 00:00:33,712 --> 00:00:35,364 Slide onto the outer black keys, 12 12 00:00:35,364 --> 00:00:38,141 [SOUND] just like the previous progression you learned. 13 13 00:00:38,141 --> 00:00:42,479 Right onto D minor again like before but this time instead of 14 14 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:47,165 caterpillaring to the G, keeping these two and you're sliding 15 15 00:00:47,165 --> 00:00:52,230 those up on to E flat diminished, everything out onto E minor seven. 16 16 00:00:52,230 --> 00:00:59,020 And then keep these two the same, move these on to [INAUDIBLE] diminished. 17 17 00:00:59,020 --> 00:01:02,744 Everything up to F major seven, and 18 18 00:01:02,744 --> 00:01:08,949 then move those down to F minor seven, and to E minor seven, 19 19 00:01:08,949 --> 00:01:14,783 caterpillar to A minor seven, open up to D minor seven, 20 20 00:01:14,783 --> 00:01:20,014 caterpillar to G seven, and out to C major seven. 21 21 00:01:20,014 --> 00:01:21,426 So the whole sequence, 22 22 00:01:21,426 --> 00:01:31,426 [MUSIC]. 23 23 00:01:36,126 --> 00:01:37,965 I'm sure you've heard that before. 24 24 00:01:37,965 --> 00:01:42,384 If you want to improvise over those chords, just keep it simple. 25 25 00:01:42,384 --> 00:01:46,894 Use a lot of chord tones, small patterns. 26 26 00:01:46,894 --> 00:01:49,546 So let's try something. 27 27 00:01:49,546 --> 00:01:50,131 So you've got your, 28 28 00:01:50,131 --> 00:01:52,840 [MUSIC] 29 29 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:53,551 So what about? 30 30 00:01:53,551 --> 00:01:56,056 [MUSIC] 31 31 00:01:56,056 --> 00:01:57,844 On to this chord, so. 32 32 00:01:57,844 --> 00:01:59,090 [MUSIC] 33 33 00:01:59,090 --> 00:02:02,168 You're near to just pick a chord until you can see it with the left hand. 34 34 00:02:02,168 --> 00:02:03,803 Easiest way to do it sometimes. 35 35 00:02:03,803 --> 00:02:05,744 [MUSIC] 36 36 00:02:05,744 --> 00:02:07,714 Go back down the chord. 37 37 00:02:07,714 --> 00:02:10,427 [MUSIC] 38 38 00:02:10,427 --> 00:02:11,219 Up a scale. 39 39 00:02:11,219 --> 00:02:12,926 [MUSIC] 40 40 00:02:12,926 --> 00:02:13,921 Your next chord is there. 41 41 00:02:13,921 --> 00:02:16,258 [SOUND] Your next note so. 42 42 00:02:16,258 --> 00:02:21,104 [MUSIC] 43 43 00:02:21,104 --> 00:02:23,095 It'd be up to just repeat. 44 44 00:02:23,095 --> 00:02:27,798 [MUSIC] 45 45 00:02:27,798 --> 00:02:32,734 So you know that that's what's making that sound different, those two notes, 46 46 00:02:32,734 --> 00:02:33,975 so emphasize that. 47 47 00:02:33,975 --> 00:02:35,468 [MUSIC] 48 48 00:02:35,468 --> 00:02:37,886 Right, F major, then you're up on to the third of F. 49 49 00:02:37,886 --> 00:02:40,558 [MUSIC] 50 50 00:02:40,558 --> 00:02:42,518 F minor, see there's the 7th. 51 51 00:02:42,518 --> 00:02:45,261 [MUSIC] 52 52 00:02:45,261 --> 00:02:47,171 And you're on the E minor so you're near the E. 53 53 00:02:47,171 --> 00:02:50,015 [SOUND] A minor. 54 54 00:02:50,015 --> 00:02:55,511 [SOUND] And you're going to go out to D minor so have it bunching down to D. 55 55 00:02:55,511 --> 00:03:00,520 [SOUND] And then you're in the G and you're out to C again so. 56 56 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:10,520 [MUSIC]