Soulive Lesson - Steppin' Chord Breakdown (the real chords!)

This is a video I decided to make to clear up how Kraz comps the chords in the last part of Steppin'. In this video I mainly just play around with the various chord voicings you can do. The exact chords that he plays are explained near the middle of the video. The video quality is crappy but its good enough to learn the chords and the overall rhythm of the song general!

These are the chords:

Gmin7 - Fmin7 - Bb13 - Ebmaj9 - Amin7b5 - D7#9

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Soulive
• Steppin
• Kraz
• Eric Krasno
• Neal Evans
• Alan Evans
• chords
• guitar
• funk
• soul
• jazz

[sbulman]

Close.

many jazz songs use variations of this progression such as "Sunny" (check out pat martino, scofield, and joey de francesco doing that song). Even part of soulives version of "jesus childeren" play around with this progression in the key of Amin. anyway here are the chord names .

Key of Gmin

Gmin7 (9 is optional)

Fmin7

Bb13(sounds best in the 3rd pos. with the 9 on the high e string)

Ebmaj7 (9 optional)

Amin7 b5

D7#9

repeat with swagger

[Pprovo1]

@sbulman thanks man, yeah I put the correct versions of the chords in the description because I know I messed up some of the namings in the video.

[ramezk]

wonderful tone, what guitar/amp are you using? and great demo too

[Pprovo1]

I have a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, and a guitar I custom built. If you want any more info just PM me.

[JohnnyM21]

Nice video! Thanks for breaking down that progression. In fairness to the other guy posting Steppin' chords, I've seen Kraz play it both ways, I think he tends to play it your way more when he's comping chords during neal's solo. Great job!

[Pprovo1]

Yeah he has a variety of was of playing it. Recently I think he's been playing it the way I have it layed out here though. I might make another video going over the entire song if anyone has trouble with it.

[Earphunk]

Steppin' is SICK!!! GJ

[eddywhitemusic]

Just wanted to help out with some of the chords.

The 2nd Chord you play is a Fm9 (with no 3rd, put that is the implied harmony), the 3rd Chord is a Bb13, the 4th chord is an Ebmajor9, the 5th chord is an Am7(b5) (it would be an F9 the bass line was an F, but from your video it looks it's an A)

[CSG1027]

Nice tone

[RighteousCypher]

Nice brotha man- I'm the one that posted the other version, which I have seen kraz play- but this is money though- Especially for the original studio version- Nice job.

[darthvadorthestrong]

dude thats cool, what other tunes do you know? you have breakout by any chance?? Also I can't really get those down can you transcribe those chords as in just plan old tabbing(the numbers) i can't quite see where you fingers lay. thats asking a lot but maybe just post it here instead of another vid. Check out the one vid I have on my page of Kraz on the Talkbox

[jujango]

Your chords are money.