Functioning & Static Chords (Jazz Guitar Lesson JA-024) How to Play

[SyverF]

You are a fantastic teacher! cheers! :)

[killrlj]

thank u justing

[violentvendetta1]

you are an amazing teacher!

[9231946847]

hey justin i hav a question regarding this altered harmony lesson.u showed here that g7 altered scale 2nd note is the parent scale that mean that is parent melodic minor scale in this case is the Ab....so my question is to u that can i play the Ab melodic minor scale while some one playing the G7 chord????if it is why so??cause those notes are b5#5 b9 #9 of g major scale ...but naturally g major scale dose not sound like those b # 5th and 9th...is it sound good to G7??? gemini.lad@gmail.com

[daregularperson]

Great lesson, Justin! Also, loved your facial expressions at the end bit (kinda sounded like someone was chuckling behind the camera :D).

[poisoneyes]

this is what i needed, thanks,

[ung2002]

Thank you so much Justin.

[rafikimetalperu]

GREAT !

[geoffstockton]

From a fellow educator, very, very nicely done! I think that your teaching style may wind up influencing me. Thanks for posting these. I've got a dozen or so posted but only a fraction of the views. By the way, I just noticed that you have 270 VIDEOS! Wow. I'm pretty much in awe.

[clarity754]

Justin,

Awesome lesson! Thanks for taking so much time to do these.

Isn't it also true that if a dominant chord resolves to a chord a half step down it is also functioning? E.g. Db7 going to C. Since Db7 is the tritone substitute for G7, the 'V' chord of C.

[keppock1607]

ur too cute. sometimes it's hard to listen to what you are saying... I just keep spacing off. :) lol You are a great teacher though, when I do listen I learn a lot more with you than I do with most people. I'm not sure where you're from but Happy Thanksgiving anyway.

[musiccalgary]

A suggestion Justin -- it would be helpful if you grouped your videos into playlists which center on a given topic.

Peace and lunch.

[FreepowerUG]

@musiccalgary While this is handy, I think this very service is exemplified on his website - everything grouped by category with helpful material alongside.

By the way, Justin, I have seen your site grow since its very beginnings and it is now, in my honest opinion, the best guitar tuition site on the net. Three thumbs up. :)

[jimbang]

well explained as always justin!

[roblimusic]

Great reminder of some 'base' theory! I remember doing this in every key with classical book of cadences... ah the good old days LOL

[jimllfaxit]

Hey,the faces look funny when resolving the chords.Its like,when playing the g7 you're holding in a big crap,then the c major, you've pebble dashed the toilet

[RUBENPEREZmusic]

you,re crazy man,,, you,re the best...

thanx for teaching all whole world..

greetings from venezuela

[DroehnIng]

shhh.... after watching most of the JA-lessons and applying it to my fingerpicking i can't stop playing. never thought i'd actually learn something this theoretical.

Justin ... what have you done to mee? ;D

[rohaihuparaguay]

your lessons are great, have seen a few of them, and I think I will try to go over all of them to cover up the many holes of understanding I have about the guitar. I think this one is very useful indeed.

[RickjamesSH]

I love the faces you make when you resolve the G7 to the Cmaj chord. On the G7 your like "I can't fap to this" then on the Cmaj your like "You can put that there!?"

[2KruDam3]

thats a really nice tele

[CaptainAmerica7770]

Nice lesson about the tricks with the guitar neck, I already had realized this and I assumed everyone figured that out when they played their first Ramones song. But I guess that shows why its important to understand bit of theory behind everything you play and understand the major scale.

[TheEarlOfDublin]

what

[Ninenineboy]

You are very passionate.... and I Love it dude.

[mikebrownonline]

obviously ill still be looking at your you tube bits.....check out my stuff for playing ability

[mikebrownonline]

can you recommend a good book then justin? for the jazz standards and bits of theory

[TheEarlOfDublin]

get mark levines jazz theory book (it isn't guitar focused but it has all you need to know). Maybe check out some of Ted Greenes books

[JustinSandercoe]

Mark Lavine's Jazz Theory book is indeed a brilliant book. Probably the written on the topic. J

[tehm]

Thanks for the lesson. I've been using that 7 barre chord with root on sixth fret to major barre chord on fifth string for a while now, and thought it sounded pretty good. It was interesting to get some theory behind it. :)

[JustinSandercoe]

glad it's making sense to y'all :) -

@SearchInSun - no new pickup

J

[SearchInSun]

Ohh justing modded his guitar :P new pup in the mid

[archipelligo]

excellent lesson, very informative, its these sort of tricks that the people on jamplay and things just dont teach you

[TheEarlOfDublin]

by "these sort of tricks" do you mean basic harmony? lmao its shocking how terrible most guitar education sites are

[TheEarlOfDublin]

to avoid confusion I don't mean justin guitar his videos are great

[Mvision123]

VERY VERY VERY ...... VERY VERY useful!

[javadude54]

Great lesson as always. I use a different method of using the fingerboard to quickly find the 1 chord from the dominant chord. Wherever the 3rd of the 5 chord is, a half step up is the root of the 1 chord. That seems to work better for me.

[marcrothman]

fantastic explanation!!!

keep up the good work.

[Avinashl]

nice shirt justin

[skyke12]

thx alot Justin!

[tamborero510]

Fender telecaster?

[ex0ja]

yes

[DaShortyJ]

heh i actually use that same trick =X

[ptran001]

justin you rock!

[sethsword11206]

interesting...

[MikeMarino]

nice lesson! I'm going to start going through all your lessons and learn everything I don't know, or need to work on

[Testacabeza]

Excellent, more jazz lessons.

I like tour tension and resolution faces :)

[bizzle1783]

yes...more jazz lessons,thanks j