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Feedback
David Wallimann13th January 2009Thanks guys!
Gerardo Siere13th January 2009Great lesson David.
Muris Varajic12th January 2009Great progression and playing David!
Ramiro Delforte12th January 2009Nice approach David!
Hisham Al-Sanea12th January 2009very good lesson.
Carlos Carrillo12th January 2009very cool chords!! Nice!!
Emir Hot12th January 2009very nice David
seagull12th January 2009I absolutely love the chord progression
Vasilije Vukmirovic12th January 2009Great! Lots of chords here!
kaznie_NL12th January 2009Nice jazzy feel David!
Ivan Milenkovic12th January 2009Great lesson David. This kind of simple jazz lines are really cool for a relaxing jazz session
Pedja Simovic12th January 2009Nice one David
dubedabedej12th January 2009Nice to see that there’s a way to play Jazz for normal mortal men -
but I love this lesson cause of this wonderful and little bit funny melody. When I hear it, it puts a big grin in my face and I feel good and easy. Great, thanks! :-)- David Wallimann12th January 2009
Thanks friends!
I'm sure the jazz instructors will have a different approach though, I'd love to hear their takes on this! 
Nazgul12th January 2009Fake!
Great lesson David!
berko12th January 2009Yess, some jazz again, thanks!
Bogdan Radovic12th January 2009Cool lesson David!
Marcus Siepen12th January 2009great lesson David, that should take away some fear
Kuba Szafran12th January 2009Tasteful licks David
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Toni Suominen12th January 2009Very informative lesson David!
Piotr Kaczor12th January 2009Great topic David. Very useful lesson!
Eat-Sleep-andJam12th January 2009First. Nice Davide, I need to get better at faking my jazz
lol
- Lesson
- My notes
Playing over jazz chord progressions can be quite intimidating if you are not prepared. That is because very often, playing over jazz chords require the use of many different scales. That is when you need to spend time preparing your improvisation by searching which notes might sound good over your backing track.
Let's take a look at today's chord progression:
A C#m(b5) DMaj7 Dm7
C#m7 F#7(11) Bm7 E7
A C#m7b5 DMaj7 Dm7
C#m7 F#7(11) Bm7 E7
DMaj7 C#m7 Bm7 AMaj7
DMaj7 C#m7 Bm7 E7
A C#m7b5 DMaj7 Dm7
Bm7 F#7(11) Bm7 E7
AMaj7
Now that's scary, isn't it!
The secret to playing correctly over these is to take it a step at a time. Let's take the first two chords and try to create some interesting ideas following these chords. If you do that long enough, you'll start finding some licks and feel a bit more comfortable with these two chords. Developing your lead by taking two chords at a time will help your lead sound coherent and well balanced.
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