II-V-I Chord Sequences (Jazz Guitar Lesson JA-027) How to Play

[InRegardsToMetal]

I was watching this, amazed at how much these chords are like ambient metalcore chords.

Mind=blown.

[elysianfury]

you gotta do both, or at least form the chords so you get a visual association try it

[elysianfury]

i'm at 1:27 and I want to leave because he keeps talking instead of playing

[MrDomguitar]

@elysianfury idiot these things are very important for the 2 5 1sequence. you really need the voice leading stuff

[elysianfury]

@MrDomguitar did you just call me an idiot? WTF I'm the kind of guy your students will go to after you lose their attention. learn to play while you talk. Can you chew gum and walk? 

[MrDomguitar]

@elysianfury im not justin.^^ and of course its good to teach people if you play but often its good to say first what you are learning in this lesson and say whats very important. with this attidude you never will learn music theory! sry

[SweeetPicker]

Thank you, it's a great lesson !

I never learn music theory, but this was very interesting : )

[changyitw]

Really helpful! Many thanks!!

[shmaltz]

Totally awesome lesson!!!

[JayBoogie950]

Great tutorial! I play piano and this still helped me voice out the II V I

[tutatos]

amaazing lesson... thx a lot!!

[UltraMagnus3786]

I play sax and this was nice listening to. Nicely done.

[MrTokken88]

Nice. Thank you for the upload.

[theDannyAllanBand]

This is great!!

[crasue]

great lesson ! very kind :) thanx 4 shre your knowledge !

[Jaspaahh]

thanks for this

[chaitanyabhalla]

You're a star!

[sabschmi]

great lesson - thanks. It really helps a lot!!

[awtube869]

justin --- you are a good teacher -- thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge and technique ---- just like all good musicians do!!

[iamtheend77]

awesome

[wazwylde]

You are a great teacher!

[lased420]

your lessons are very helpful! thank you!

[cshaopin]

I think 25% of the guys are music teachers and they've lost lots of money as their students are learning these good stuff free on youtube at home.

[RUOCCOLOCO]

This is good... I like the way you explain it!

[matsapo1]

After listening to some of your ii-V-I's I feel like you picked up a few things from the late Ted Greene... glad to see someone else teaching voice leading within chords. Cheers!

[patrickdwyer]

I'm stunned also at all the dislikes. Man I learned a lot from this guy, who is this fella he's great!

[Fitzliputzli23]

Great! Your lessons are filled with tons of useful stuff. A single 10 min vid of yours is worth half a year guitar lessons by a personal teacher charging me a fortune. Thanxx, man!

[awma1975]

Fantasitc job! Thanks a lot!

[foxybrown2]

I don't get what do you mean the vids are too long? That means you get more info.

wow some people are very interesting in the odd remarks

[WhynotMiha]

you videos are all too long for me to watch them through all, but I get alot from those 3 minutes that I do. you're great! :)

[JWMussiicc]

Great videos

[twisterested]

wow, man, first time viewing your vids. AAAWEESOME

[mfbown]

How can there be 109 people who dislike this? Amazing. They must be lost because they didn't do their homework!

[DBZ5371]

@mfbown absolutely agree. Justin is the best.

[HUMANSAREBENEATHME]

Justin,I owe u lotsa $ brother. Your lessons are invaluable.

Thanx,you're the best.

[danhughart]

I am a long time student of Ted Greene and I have to tell you that your information is excellent and wonderfully clear. I'm sure he would like your lessons, and the Telecaster was his favorite!

[psychopathtoine]

i used to think that if i started with a Dm7 i had to continue with 7th's

thanks for this lesson, it opens a new door! :)

[wmc128]

That's a nice Fender Tele 

[awma1975]

109 music teachers loose money...

[leoman131]

great lesson. very helpful.

[rvprs22]

Awesome lesson, loved the variations and the basis for many hours of exploring! Thanks so much!

[Wazz1949]

I really like your explanation..... Thanks

[closetome]

Thanks Justin u did help me on my way!!!! Now i'm watching the joe pass jazz lines vid on youtube. Thanks!

[Devreaux]

hey dude, i know this comment will be just another comment but i really think you are the best online teacher i've ever seen

[GEternalBraid]

this guy knows what he says, pay attention.

[GBPaddling]

Voice leading is cool .

[ms009WW]

respect man

[AnarchyAnt89]

What the hell is up with all the dislikes on this video? People that couldn't keep up with the theory?

Anyway, thanks again for this amazing series, it's really refreshing to see such great lessons explained in such a polite, personal manor.

[smartti1970]

lessons not free anymore, i m suposed to buy eminem record now .-) well i guess its fare for you , after all this free work you should be rewarded.... thanks so much for all the lessons..

[GtrDudeL]

great lesson!!

[richshred]

Hey Justin,

Would just like to say a huge, super-massive thank you for these Jazz lessons!! I always thought i was to dumb to play Jazz, but always really enjoyed the lush harmonies.

With a few watches of your superb vids, I am begging to do stuff I always thought would be beyond me. Thank you so very much, I really can't thank you enough.

Yor a legend Sir!!

Rich

[The5Chan]

OUCH!!! That second chord hurts!!!!! G13 AHHHHHHH I thought I was good at guitar!!! Thanks for the free lessons man. I have a feeling I am gonna be able to really improve, Thanks!

[PflegerFlav]

he looks like spencer...

[Kdoza]

excellent lesson...definitely opened up possibilities

[Ieatbabyseals]

Pause 1:44 look at his face

Awesome lesson though

[fsaari]

pointless comment

[SkyinHumboldt]

Thank you Jusin, got it the first time. Sky

[awma1975]

great!

[machoenid44]

for me you are the best Master of jazz tutorial.God bless you

[guessnot19]

Some of those progressions sound kind of like Maroon 5.. can you hear it?

[SemiTall]

Thanks for this series. Going through each one slowly and working it out on paper diagrams and then playing the chords, I can, after many years of trying, finally visualize the mechanics of chord theory worked out on the crazy guitar fretboard. Bravo!

[vastrange]

thank u, thank u, thank u!!!!!

[greywrath]

that was very helpful man!

Thx!

[rpaddoc1]

This is great: so helpful. Thanks!!

[schniggitty1]

Good stuff. Thanks Justin.

[musiccalgary]

Could the C be a 6/9?

[blitzritz]

Love 8:11 :D

[Ford4Lyfe7]

LOL ITS AWESOME xDD

[blitzritz]

dude this is awsome! i hope someday i can play like you. Love jazz yo! :D

[Ixtee1979]

hey justin, your way of teaching is great. This little exercise is so fun to play around with

[usnsnewbedford]

Hey Justin, you are the best on the internet with guitar instruction by far! I'd like to request some Cat Stevens: Peace Train and Father and Son...Thanks so much for your consideration. JS

[wilz182]

baa A5 (POWER CHORD) for the win hehe. kool vid :)

[nat522]

ive dat strap lol

[wikichris]

Jesus...good vid!

[iamangelo]

i absolutly love your teaching, you are amazingly helpful :) im from the UK also.

amazing job man, im always watcing

[RichLesPaull]

nice telecaster dude, great vid

[naryanr]

G7 sharp 5 flat 9, god damn i'm glad i never took lessons, learn the guitar yourself, you'll probably hate it an a year if you don't

[SomethingExrated]

I don't see why, G7 #5 b9 is a perfectly legitimate chord, especially in a genre like jazz.

[naryanr]

everything's a perfectly legitimate chord in jazz...

[naryanr]

someone seems to think i'm right and you're wrong. tell me i fail when you've got more thumbs up lol

[Slawter187]

I could say the same to you. And yeah, I'm right, because I've been playing for 2 years, learn theory and love it so much. So there.

[naryanr]

you could say the same, but it wouldn't make any sense. and i did say "probably," i've been playing more than two years, i love it as well. but i'm making money out of it.

[JackH342]

Do you have enough chords to choose from?

[slackerjester]

This shit boggles my mind. I could never play the guitar.

[mathowlett]

Wow... I've been playing guitar for a long time and this has suddenly opened my eyes to how little I know and how much more I could be doing. Thankyou so much. This video has really inspired me.

[jimmyshitbags]

lol, didnt understand a word he said, he might as well have been speaking glaswegian

[TacticalTupperware]

Don't forget the tri-tone sub...

Also, Lydian dominate chords work best with a static dominate chord rather than functioning as a V. I like altered dominates for V chords......unless you are doing a tritone sub. Then the Lydian dominate chord works well.

Good video overall thanks for sharing.

[yellow2000fluff]

You think your a smart ass don't you ???

[alexkevans]

lol! :)

[attilasaxe]

dear mr sandacore thank you for your invaluble lessons. it is always refreshing to find someone on the net with no ulterior motive. carry on yours truly

[wasteyelo1]

great lesson

[nickbarnes8]

g13 is my favorite kind of bud to smoke!

[sunnydays32]

haha lol nice man

[lastpatriot4America]

Thanks for the help headed to your site now

[Barefoot67]

can you only alter the dominant  chord?

[TacticalTupperware]

Typically you alter a dominat chord that functions as a V chord (#9, b9, #5). The #11 chord works well with a tri-tone sub or a dominate chord that doesn't function as V. I hope that makes sense.

[jh193187]

Great job man!

[TheMinusBlindfold]

THAAAAAAAAAANKKKS A LOT MAN! =)

[guitarjamzdotcom]

nice watch man !!!

[jackieearl]

Man you are great thanks Im going to your site now...

[Rynotows]

Thank you Justin. Lots of stuff to work on there.

It figures that my favorite ones are the 'stretchy' one's ! :o)

Gotta go, I have some work to do ...

[walksonwalker]

Grrrrrreat!

[formaldehyde28]

Perfect lesson! I love you Justin!

[deathofamartyr2]

i actually am sending my video admission test and application next year to the institute of contemporary music performance next year. So i might see you out there if i am accepted. School in the UK is so much cheaper compared to school here in the states

[surrealIdeal]

very usefull. i prefer (the easier way) to play the C Maj 9 just with one (left) finger on the 5th string 3th fret.

[astroman30]

Brilliant

[noblezada]

AH! I love it. Great teaching, and good video. I'm subscribing now.

[MnM3k3]

puttinng floating letters of the chord names while u play them will really make it easier to follow all of them ^_^

[10oooo01]

To be fair, if you know some music theory or chord voicings this is a good lesson. If you haven't any previous experience in this kind of chord then you need to go back some steps. You will benefit immensely! I'm not impressed by the image thing but he has expanded his repetoir! I like it but it's not obvious what he is doing. If you want some insight just listen to whats happening repeatedly and it will begin to make sense.

[10oooo01]

What happened since he interviewed Larry Carlton? Something landed on his head. Maybe its a -4 +7 +11 -9 +11 -13...obviously its a P demented with a A flat miner suspended from a fishing line. Obviously a 6 and a half would expand our repetoir with a major surgery on the front temporal lobe whilst playing a 10 11 12. Obviously if we play a dominant diminished 7 sharp knife with a four finger grip and dribble down our amp...............zzzzzzzzzz Come on what the **** are you talking about?

[DangerRifai]

That made me ROFL, but seriously, that's what learning music theory sounds like if you don't pay 110% of your attention!!

[Botfeldt]

Try reading some music theory.

[steamlilly]

My head is boiling)

[RobTrain09]

Nice guitar! don't really know what you're talking about....better watch the other lesson...

[spidrmage]

theres a lot of cool voice leading in the song "no such thing" by john mayer. surprising thing to hear in a pop song!!

[cmartinjr2]

Holy crap, this is it! :D

[k00lguy202]

his telecaster is kickass.

[Tenacious004]

Hey justin, great lesson.

Hopefully in the future you can make kick ass totally awesome guitar riff to backtracking of a bunch of farts! That would be groovey. Bad ass kick butt riffs with fart noises. See ya ole boy.

[msay2006]

Hi Justin Great Lesson I see you have an extra tone or volume not on your wonderful telecaster what have you added to it...?

Love the sound by the way. :o)

[Bennieblaze]

justin tanx! i'm gettin into jazz and i'm reall happy bout the lessons on jazz. its ws vry xplisit.keep it up

[moe012]

absolutely great, thanx a lot man.

[catfishmudflap]

Beautiful

[Barefoot67]

thanks, great lesson!!

[enclave]

love the lesson justing .. well done ... i was wondering if you can show us ideas for passing chords between any chords .. what is the actual theory behind it all.

great job

[zeppelinfloydlV]

Wow, thank you, I just happen to be studying Jazz and this is of course one of the 'Common situations' I've been learning.

[MrKielersprotte69]

Hi Justin! That`s really great stuff,man! You teach it in a way, that even I get it :-)

[am60mo]

Lots of very deserving, positive feed back here. Please people "donate". If only a single dollar, that would make it much more likely that this type of tutorship be continued. And, keep it reasonable for those that can't afford to, but dream to learn to play. Thanks Justin.

[strabbs1]

wow very inspirational, iam putting the strat away and diggin out th ehollow body, nice!!

[mraggrovator]

This guy is the best .

[Hazenstones]

Wow, my comment was completely shot by Justin fans! Well, the way I learned the blues was by learning rhythm first, tapping the guitar with both hands, then with chords and embellishment chords. You actually learn by doing instead of memorizing all of this stuff. I already forgot what the lesson was, but I didn't forget what I practiced in rhythm yesterday. I'm also a teacher, just discovering utube, and teachers share methods. I have all this info; its a matter of how to practice it.

[DrBones666]

Well, either put up (some videos) or shut yer gob.

Far as we can see, Justin does and you just yap.

[Hazenstones]

Thank you Dr. Bones. Like I said, I'm just discovering utube. My comment was not intended in a negative way, on the contrary; I meant to add to what he did. I just know that doing this on a rhythmic practice works better. Teaching is the hard part, I know guys with Master degrees in music, but just can't figure out to pass down what they know. I'm only trying to help. Try it his way and add my tips; if that works for you great, if it doesn't, well you don't have to read my yapping. LOL

[ways1234]

Thanks , awesome justin.

[ilyaorlov]

Thanks a lot, that sounds so beautiful.

[TuMira85]

i love this guy, he's so erudite and kind.

[rockdfunk]

have never seen so many variants on a 2-5-1, thanks so much!

[Steveman1981]

Pretty chords!!!! Great teaching!!!!

[starrchild99]

Lawdy.... that's awesome.

[mhandel]

Hey! Here's the lesson I asked for, cool stuff, keep it coming!

[Solaras88]

best guitar teacher on youtube for sure

[strabbs1]

@Solaras88 oooh thats a tough one, i think its him and marty scwhwartz joint top.marty teaches sorta "quick" little tricks to spice up your playing and justin teaches the nuts and bolts essentials.so between thhe two off em your covered on all bases, we are very lucky people to have such high calibre of musician teaching pretty much for free.puts you rfaith back in humanity realy!

[Orionsglare]

great man, thanx.. really analytical

[mraggrovator]

Fantastic lesson,great close up shots.

[BornAgain4him]

I have a long way to go...............

[r0kas]

hey, nice stuff Justin :)

greetings from Lithuania

[Hazenstones]

Justin, you are a wealth of chord information, but to me, this doesn't mean anything when can't do it in rhythm. I usually learn the THAT first (my background is blues) then I start to 'color' things around. I would appreciate a lesson on rhythm as well as the chord info. Ultimately, you wanna play without thinking of chord names and shapes.

[skengeboy]

I believe Justin´s even released a dvd entirely about rhythm. Probably one or two about chord names and shapes too. Just check out the other videos, there's A LOT of information to digest here.

[chitowngolfnut]

i absolutely love this

[TehSadest]

Did you know his site is free... Hes the best guitar teacher evr!!!

[MikeMarino]

this is great

[spoddie]

4:13 - not playing the root.

Remember you don't always have to play the root and fifth, the bass player will do that for you!

[steveypeavey]

sunday morning rain is falling...

[BrixSnBs]

Exactly what i was thinking :)

[alguira]

those chords have some bossanova groove on it! curiously, i've using some of these 'cause the sound it's just brutal. Dm9 just gives me chills xD

btw, thanks justin forr all the teaching. Im preparing myself to study modern music at barcelona conservatory but i find your lessons extremelly useful from a pratical point of view.

I pay a lot to my school, and i hope my teacher has some of your hability to teach.

Once again, thanks.

[mean0machine0]

so many bloody chords in jazz

[Notyethendrix]

I love this channel, it really takes me to a next level as a guitar player.

Cheers Justin, you've got some really tasty voicing.

[creeker90]

coolest lesson so far!

[creation4use]

i wish...

[trite3825]

dude

you jazz

*it's like you rock...but jazz. nerd joke win!

[f1r3f1x]

Rock is 3 chords played in front of 3 000 people. Jazz is the contrary.

[JazzyZenBrotha]

f1r3f1x - That's so true. I've heard that saying before.

[starrchild99]

Ha ha... I've not heard that b4 but v funny!

[petanemec]

Hello Justin, I must confess that the first time I saw You somewhere on YouTube I said to myself...oh another embellished guy...but now I must apologize for that because You do it really well and Your videos are really great. You want to help and You actually really do. Thank You for that, keep it up.

[228player]

woo first! great informative videos! Thank you very much!

[theoak84]

who would give this a negative? what losers..