Minor Type Jazz Chord Extensions (Jazz Guitar Lesson JA-022) How to play

[dunmer2007]

OWW! D Minor 11 is extremely painful to play, especially since I've never thought of bending my fingers that way! X^D I'm a self-taught guitar player who found every chord and scale the long way, through trial and error..

[Arrivald]

I have a question concerning the minor11 chord, the way Justin presents it it consists of the root, minor third, eleventh(is it like the fourth, but octave higher?) and minor seventh, while on some other sites it says minor 11 chord consists also of the fifth. Why is it skipped here?

[ifto1]

very good my friend! gracias!

[dolphinguy2014]

try not to bury ur pinky finger under the guitar

[seth3556r]

I love it that you play jazz telecaster. so do I

[MostEvil7string]

Maybe already asked and answered but too many comments to search through here ;-)

I thougt that Dm13 would add the b6 interval since we're in the minor scale of D yet you add the natural 6 interval. Why is that? And how would then you notate a Dm with a b6? Dmb6?

thanks for the great lessons!!! Most of the teachers throw us a fish where you teach us how to fish (stupid metaphor I know hehe)

Sven

[Cu1t06]

very useful lesson

[xesionprince]

Sounds like the start of a Chicago song

[cuzzinchris]

There's lots of cool sounds living there.

[exodusada]

help me a lot thanx !!!

[TheDBelanger]

D minor 9 is a great chord. I also love D minor 7 #5 played like this:

X

10

10

10

13

10

[LordEizen]

i dont understand how are the second dm7 shape... the one you play around 1:20

[TheMetalGuitar123]

@LordEizen Dm7 10 X 10 10 10 X Dm6 10 x 9 10 10 X

[LordEizen]

@TheMetalGuitar123 ty =)

[TheMetalGuitar123]

@LordEizen sorry I commented to a six month old question! lol Hopefully you figured that out between when you asked and I answered.

[SteveBrownOfficial]

Great lesson & I like the close ups.

[ericrob2112]

your the best theacher i found on the web! i am autodidact and i realy love jazz., always looking 4 tips. you just upgraded my playing . sory for my english.

[plecttrum]

Thanx Justin, very enjoyable !

[BlikeNave]

Justin- Thank you.

[Dave4Slash]

Absolutely grate...

Awesome lesson..

1000 Thanks t o you.

[jsem94]

i often play D minor 9:

5

5

5

3

5

x

[jothekid]

anybody got a tip on how to get a good position for the 1st Dm11 he teaches? the one with 8-8-10-12 on the bottom 4 strings...man I just can't seem to position my hand to hear clearly all the strings!! my pinky mutes the bottom string

[BlikeNave]

How about instead of hitting the root on the 4th string (12th fret), you just play the 7th (10th fret). In the video he talks about how you don't always have to play the root :] Either that or play the other position for it, where you have the bass note on the lowest string, nothing on the 5th string, and 3 notes in the middle strings.

[artyfarty2]

Thumb behind the neck (pointing more or less toward the headstock), elbow tucked tight to your side, fingers leaning towards the headstock.

[xxfaction6xx]

put the the minor third on the bottom. It would be from low E to high e- x-8-x-7-8-8

[cptnjacksteiner]

what helps me is i use my thumb on the bottom e string

[FTStratLP]

Good to see, that not only my guitar's necks are dirty :-)

Na, seriously - again a great lesson Justin!

[Chilloutman33]

How do you pluck those? Do you use a pick or your fingers?

[StuGibson]

He's using the fingers of his picking hand.

[LichKingSkullWart]

Whatever you prefer, Guitar is what you want to learn not how you learn it.

[Axemaniac]

Hi Justin, many thanks for your lessons, I think your philosophy and approach to music/guitar education is fantastic. Are you planning to do any lessons on jazz improvisation? Cheers.

[LichKingSkullWart]

Not an assault, use personal messages to show your feelings of gratification.

[jasperoosthoek]

Hey justin. Doesn't D minor 6 belong to the dorian scale/mode instead of minor/aeolian? Why is it called minor then?

[JustinSandercoe]

@ jasperoosthoek - you are right, but in the "Joe Pass" approach, you just break things into 3 categories, and let your ears sort the rest. Quite often you can treat a VI as a II anyway (like 1st chord in Blue Bossa). Why is it Minor - cos it has a b3 of course! But you knew that right!

[jasperoosthoek]

Thanks for the quick response! This clarifies at lot, so you don't have to be as strict with 'minor' as in classical harmony.

Jazz as a genre is a long term project for me, each time learning some more, putting it aside for a while (not stop playing guitar of course) and rediscovering it all again. But I never give up :-)

[RedDragon52]

@jasperoosthoek The Dorian mode is minor. It has a minor third.

[jfunkfinger69]

@jasperoosthoek You can also use melodic minor over D minor 6...

[jasperoosthoek]

@jfunkfinger69Thanks man! My comment was a year old and I've been playing mostly blues and rock since I made it.

But, ..., for the past 5 days I went started with jazz again, hopefully this time I can make it work :-D. Time to dig in!

[jfunkfinger69]

@jasperoosthoek Easiest place to start is the Diatonic Major scale and its modes.

[bluechameleon18]

I was going through a rut... Your lesson saved the day! Thank you!

[TUBEMAN192]

i mainly play blues and r'n'r but still i find this very helpful and interesting. great work Justin keep 'em coming!

[AcousticMusicPage]

Thanks!...favourited...downloa­ded and glad i subscribed :)

[Hoopermazing]

You should include a graphic to show which notes you're playing. Your fingers are so flat on the fretboard, I can't tell what you're actually fretting.

[AndeDK]

Then i think you are to fast to this lesson and maybe to much a beginner. I can easy see where the fingers are playing, and i dident know the chords before i saw this.

[Hoopermazing]

Not at all. I've been playing guitar, off and on, longer than you've been breathing. I simply loathe ambiguity and I like diagrams.

[AndeDK]

If you have been playing guitar more than 21 years, and you cant see where he is putting his fingers, or atleast try the chords and listen to your ears, i think you slacked alot.

[Hoopermazing]

I'm not sure which part of "I prefer diagrams" you're failing to understand. If his fingers were more arched, their placement would be unambiguous. Unfortunately, they aren't, hence my suggestion of diagrams. I fail to see why this is of concern to you. Different strokes for different folks. Some people like tabs, for instance. I don't care for them at all. I prefer standard music notation, but I don't care if others prefer tabs.

FYI: There is no such word as "alot."

[AndeDK]

Nothing against you as a player, but i just think everyone can grab the chord as it looks, and just follow your ears to guide you :) OR, atleast work your way on google when justin is mentioning the chord as a dm7 etc you google it :)

[Hoopermazing]

It isn't a matter of what I can do. As I stated before, I prefer clear diagrams. Googling isn't necessary. When I see a novel chord fingering, I like to check it off against my Chord Wizard Gold 2 library, and add it if it isn't there. In the case of your example (Dm7) I could just look in the vicinity of where his fingers are for D F A & C, but it's most efficient to just punch in the fingering from a clear diagram.

[JustinSandercoe]

@ Hoopermazing - I would love to have diagrams up too - but it just takes far too long to make them all! Sorry. Will get some notes up on the web site though soon. J

[Hoopermazing]

No worries, it was just a suggestion. Also "diagram" might have implied something more involved than what I actually meant. In the interest of clarity, what I meant was little superimposed Youtube annotations (I'm going to assume that since you have your own Youtube channel, you know what those are) with this kind of business: x20211 (i.e Bm7b59)

Again, no worries.

[smauro3]

Thanks so much!

[Itsooz]

Love the bit at 5:00 although it took me a while to learn it

[meowordie]

nice lesson but you should fix you camcoreders speakers of put it farther away but zoom in

[fresh1air]

Great lesson! I've learned so much from you... Thanks Justin!

[kevlar1818]

Try going from Dmin7 to G9, its like Dmin7 to Dmin6, probably cause they're basically the same notes. (That grip of Dmin6 is essentially G9/D)

[faig1958]

Thanks =D

[Adsem]

great!

i find your lessons very usefull, very clear.

best teacher i found so far on youtube.

[MrDomguitar]

@Adsem yea he is very good but marty schwartz is also good

[seventhbrokenstring]

great video, thanks!

[RichardChuckie]

woo.