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Uploaded by on May 29, 2011

Jazz pianist Michael Wolff explains five basic harmonic concepts to play over jazz chord changes, several more videos to come. please subscribe!

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  • 6:01-6:03. What chord is he using to make that run? I don't have an strong musical ear, please help!

  • @MasterThief1324, he is playing all notes that are inside the mode of G dorian: G A Bb C D E F, which corresponds to the Gm7 chord right there. He is spacing the notes very tastefully to create that beautiful voicing, but you can come up with something similar using G Dorian. G melodic minor also happens to work very well there: G A Bb C D E F#

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  • Are you kidding me? I was right along with you in the beginning of that bichordal section, but once you dropped B Major on top of F7 I almost fell out of my seat. Awesome work, great food for thought. Thanks for posting!

  • You know what...you're freakin' awesome! Thank you for breaking stuff apart to see it more clearly! I'm a bassist and I just picked up some great tips! Thanks again!

  • wow, lots of reaches with the left hand huh? He plays the root with L5 then plays the 3 an octave higher.

  • Those bitonal sounds at the end were totally badass! A major on a Bb major 7 ends up sounding like Ritchie Beirach.

  • WOOOOW. Thank God for youtube!

  • that is 10 pounds for my 5 pound brain. gotta do some crammin.

  • wow

  • Excellent... Thanks for sharing your knowledge... The theory will really help me improvise... My right hand is way stronger than my left hand... I need to get my chord voicings down. I'm doing a lot of straight 1, 3, 5, 7 voicings. I need to get those open or shell voicings down... Thanks again for this! Please do many more...

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