Jazz Guitar Lesson - Soloing over Dominant chords (Part 1/2)

Link to my Jazz lesson site:
http://www.thejazzchameleon.com

This lesson deals with ideas about soloing over Dominant chords. Several scales/modes and ideas are discussed.

* For the full lesson plus transcriptions to some of the examples used, go to http://www.thejazzchameleon.com *

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jazz
• guitar
• lesson
• soloing
• improvising
• over
• dominant
• chords
• scales
• modes

[PeterTheSmartAss]

nice lesson man ,but i have to disagree with you on one topic and that is : why is that you can not play the natural 7th tone of a G7 chord when bebop dominant scale has the flated 7 and the natural 7th in it ? also the thing is that F# note in this case is the #11 of a Cmaj7 chord , and lidian scale is nice one to use over the tonic major chord yes ?

Bottom line you can use all the notes of the chromatic scale over the dominant 7 chord !

take cake , best regards PeterTheSmartass .....

[lzapped]

thanks, yeah i agree with you, but i wanted to make a point about the scales more than anything else, but perhaps i shouldn't have emphasized avoiding the f#, i make it sound like you can't use it at all; you're right about the bebop scale, i put up a lesson on that on my page as well recently :P anyway cheers for the constructive comments man, perhaps i'll add an annotation in the video explaining this

[ScorpWriter]

@flingar exactly that! tritone voice leading is what you are talking about....thanks to the half step movement of the chord tones G canresolve to C maj....or a hafl step bellow, to F# maj as well...

[stevewagner1123]

whenever i hear this guy i think of the russian guy from star trek

[flingar]

Hello friend, nice video. I'd like to comment, though, that when you say that the chord needs to resolve, you are using for a reasoning the notes "F" and "D" which need to become "G" and "E". Ofcourse, as you say, the movement of the notes is strong, but I thing that the reason we have the certain movement is because of the tritone (F-B) which in Cmaj7 resolves to G-B. If you think with the terms of a 3note chord it becomes clearer, as the B also resolves itself to the root (F-G,B-C). Regards.

[poorperson]

i appreciate your help!

[ovedmusic]

so much information in such little time

if you are reading this please... please... give us more lesions

thank you

[legalrule]

Fantastic lesson one of the best I've seen so far! You explained something that I have been wondering about and you did a great job of demonstrating what you stated.

Thank you!!

[Jazzyteach65]

I have "borrowed" from your playlists from other players. but had no idea you are a player yourself/ Good job!