Love this! It would be nice if you played through 12 bars in time so we can hear what each level should sound like in context. Also, what are these secret chords you speak of and where can we learn more?
Appreciate the feedback! You can check out some of my earlier lessons on “The Secret Jazz Chord” and also Barry Greene’s original videos on the same topic. I learned it from him when he was my teacher.
@@ChaseMaddox Great playing and great channel. I am a subscriber for sure. I love Barry and his playing, but Barry gets into the weeds so to speak before playing it through. It makes it more difficult for us mere mortals 😂 to understand and assimilate. If you can play it once through first, as an example, it would be great. Thanks again.
Musicians!! This post is excellent and well worth watching more than once! I have a Jazz quartet and I perform in NYC and this post is SO HELPFUL pay attention and learn!! Thank You 🙏!
@@ChaseMaddox Yes Sir ! I don’t always say anything about jazz guitar 🎸 posts but I find a good one I let other players know! Thank You so much!! Enjoy!!
Great video. Can you take this one step further and talk about soloing over these chords? There is a lot of options starting with blues scales and expanding into more advanced ideas.
Exception content.....i studied in Philly late 70s 80s Pat Martini school....we substituted every note of every chord like a blooming onions back then creating boundless layers. What I'm fallin' into lately is substituting a lower or higher octave note within a chord that creates a drone or rub sound that guitars are at an advantage to produce.... frivolous side note....with glasses on, you remind me of string skipping AL dimeola, adds,a placebo effect to your validity😜 .....
Hey Chase, did you ever finish the list of 30 Beginner tunes to learn in order? Only saw a sample of it from a video I can't find anymore. Is there a way to view it, curious where I might find it, thanks!
@@ChaseMaddox I think so, not sure but that’s probably it. There was some video you had showing an Excel sheet and the first two tunes listed were Watermelon Man then Cantaloupe Island. Then Modal tunes and then the first one with 2-5-1s was Perdido.
Thank you! Definitely check out the other videos I’ve done in the “Lessons” playlist. Most of them also have free PDFs that accompany the lesson. Cheers! 🤘
Nice Sanderson books in the background! This is a bit advanced for me right now, but I will be subscribing and saving your videos as I progress on my journey. Thank you for the content!
@@ChaseMaddox He's totally the best! Oathbringer for life! For a lesson, really, I am just a beginner. Sang in a band 20 years ago, stopped music, and lost myself in the grind of life. Decided to pick guitar up, went out and got myself an Ibanez hollow-body (similar to yours!) and start formal lessons as an older dude. Hopefully in a few months I'll be able to pick up a lot of jazz and blues concepts and progressions, and I can come back to these videos and play along. :) You're doing a great job man, keep it up!
Great video Chase. Thanks for the shout out! Expanding on use of the Secret Jazz chord in different progressions, vamps, solos, etc, is so useful and applies what you’ve taught in other lessons. Looking forward to continued awesome videos. I’ve got so many content ideas you might like so let’s keep the contact. ✌🏼
I think that between levels, you should play the entire blues that you've just described, so it can give a sensation of how each level feels and sounds.
It's very interesting how the 'secret jazz voicing' is always a Maj7#11 (or Maj7b5) on either the major third or the flat-seventh of the chord root at hand. This to me is a useful mnemonic, especially if I'm thinking of rootless voicings.
@@ChaseMaddox Sure. I meant that for, say, F#7alt, the rootless voicing can be thought of (enharmonically) as BbMaj7#11 (based on Bb, the M3rd of F#). For F#13, you can grab the Maj7#11 from its flat-7, E, giving you EMaj7#11. You can see this in two chords a tritone apart, say C and F#. C13 will have BbMaj7#11, and so will F#7alt; Bb being the flat-seven of C, and the M3rd of F3. (#11 or flat-5, either way.)
Great video! For me it would be more helpful to see each level demonstrated with a progression at the end, maybe a longer one with all the levels at the end of the video. Regardless, I appreciate the content!
Thanks Ken! Do you mean it would be more helpful if I played through each level of the progression? As chords or soloing over? Trying to understand what you’d find most useful 👍
@@ChaseMaddox Yes! No soloing needed, just playing through the 12 bar progression once at the end of each level using the chords introduced in that level, along with another progression at the end incorporating every level together. For me personally, it would help to hear how the chords sound as they follow one another in real time!
I agree! The “secret jazz chord” voicing is the name of a concept that my college professor, Barry Greene, came up with. It’s his name for that voicing type and I use that name since that’s his formulation I’m using.
i have been told that im a good musician,...i dont believe them. i like your style of demonstration. jazz is highly technical an that is what makes it fun. i learned music to get me through psychics chemistry....which is really close in reaction ...example you take a tuning fork of standard material and dope it or bi metal the fork ...you could change the note in many ways or the sustain of the fork or the volume!
@@ChaseMaddox as an engineer i worked on some commercial applications such as consoles and studio filters. working with sonic engineers we measured acoustics and then translated the wave forms into DSPing formulas and percision electronic circuits.... what you are mostly paying for when you buy them is licensing and patents, i own four of them myself!
@@ChaseMaddox as i stated chem and tones ...if you hetero tones you will never be out of minor tuning..the ear will not pick it up! if you vibrate more than 65% percent of the ear hairs. you cant get the tone out of your head if you vibrate more than 65% of the structure glass will break or crack!
Anybody who gave thought to harmony would think that B dim has more of E7 going to Amin kind of sound than G7 to Cmin. (Or even F dim going to F major) You seem to rely too much on chord/scale theory and real book changes. I guess some people believe that earth is flat
So is a lot of Jazz "secret"? If so, who wants to be part of a music culture or movement that deeply frustrates the heck out of people trying to learn it, by keeping back its knowledge..sorry "secrets", just for all the snide, sneering trust fund hipsters to learn, and use?
Are you referring to the “secret jazz chord”? If so, that’s not a name I came up with but my teacher Barry Greene who is much closer to the hippie era than hipster 😉 My entire purpose in teaching on this channel is to reveal any “secrets” I’ve learned, not hide them.
No disrespect to Barry, he is great, but the “Secret Jazz Chord” lingo has got to go. At best it is a layer of abstraction that you have to pass through to get to the facts. Imagine going to a gig and playing with others and someone asks, “What are the changes?” … “Oh that is just F7 to the secret jazz chord” ?!?!
Love this! It would be nice if you played through 12 bars in time so we can hear what each level should sound like in context. Also, what are these secret chords you speak of and where can we learn more?
Appreciate the feedback! You can check out some of my earlier lessons on “The Secret Jazz Chord” and also Barry Greene’s original videos on the same topic. I learned it from him when he was my teacher.
@@ChaseMaddox Great playing and great channel. I am a subscriber for sure.
I love Barry and his playing, but Barry gets into the weeds so to speak before playing it through. It makes it more difficult for us mere mortals 😂 to understand and assimilate. If you can play it once through first, as an example, it would be great. Thanks again.
Musicians!!
This post is excellent and well worth watching more than once! I have a Jazz quartet and I perform in NYC and this post is SO HELPFUL pay attention and learn!! Thank You 🙏!
Thank you Jack! I appreciate the comment in support and am glad you’re getting a lot out of the video! 🤘
@@ChaseMaddox
Yes Sir ! I don’t always say anything about jazz guitar 🎸 posts but I find a good one I let other players know!
Thank You so much!!
Enjoy!!
@@jackgriffith9229 sharing your thoughts and this video with others is a huge help to growing this channel, so thank you! 🙏
Yes use it with a track
Ok 👍
Brilliant. Thank you
Thanks Alesandro! 🤘
Great video. Can you take this one step further and talk about soloing over these chords? There is a lot of options starting with blues scales and expanding into more advanced ideas.
Thanks Joe! I absolutely can do that, great idea 👌
Cool stuff , great chords/harmony. Unlike some of the books on your shelf 🙂
Lol what books do you take issue with?
@@ChaseMaddox That Peterson book . You seem like the last person who needs any 'life advice' from somebody like him . Same applies to me though !
I own and read a bunch of books that I don’t necessarily agree with. The best way to understand someone’s ideas is to read their books though.
great job, thank you
Thank you! 🙏
Exception content.....i studied in Philly late 70s 80s Pat Martini school....we substituted every note of every chord like a blooming onions back then creating boundless layers.
What I'm fallin' into lately is substituting a lower or higher octave note within a chord that creates a drone or rub sound that guitars are at an advantage to produce....
frivolous side note....with glasses on, you remind me of string skipping AL dimeola, adds,a placebo effect to your validity😜 .....
Haha I’ll take it! Thanks for the comment Alex! 🙏
Love your lessons!!! Thanks
My pleasure! Thanks for checking them out Carlos!
Hey Chase, did you ever finish the list of 30 Beginner tunes to learn in order? Only saw a sample of it from a video I can't find anymore. Is there a way to view it, curious where I might find it, thanks!
Are you talking about my Master Standards Blueprint?
@@ChaseMaddox I think so, not sure but that’s probably it. There was some video you had showing an Excel sheet and the first two tunes listed were Watermelon Man then Cantaloupe Island. Then Modal tunes and then the first one with 2-5-1s was Perdido.
Here’s the blog post with the list: www.jazzmemes.org/blog/The-50-Jazz-Standards-Blueprint
This might’ve been the video you’re referring to: The Master Standards BLUEPRINT
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@@ChaseMaddox Thank you very much! I'm a pianist but love your content and tell anyone who's into jazz guitar to check out your stuff. Thanks again.
Lovely cool voicings! And gorgeous sound... This channel is addictive. Thanks for the PDF!
Thank you! Definitely check out the other videos I’ve done in the “Lessons” playlist. Most of them also have free PDFs that accompany the lesson. Cheers! 🤘
Nice.
Hey Erick! Thanks for checking out the video 🤘
Nice playing brother. Is there the ibanez ak85
Thank you! I think it’s the Ibanez AG85 🤘
Great stuff Freshwater Records
Thanks James! 🤘
Great video and content 🎸👍 have a great weekend brother!
Thanks man! You too! 🤘
Nice Sanderson books in the background!
This is a bit advanced for me right now, but I will be subscribing and saving your videos as I progress on my journey. Thank you for the content!
Haha oh man isn’t Sanderson the best! What topic could I do lesson on to help you out?
@@ChaseMaddox He's totally the best! Oathbringer for life!
For a lesson, really, I am just a beginner. Sang in a band 20 years ago, stopped music, and lost myself in the grind of life. Decided to pick guitar up, went out and got myself an Ibanez hollow-body (similar to yours!) and start formal lessons as an older dude. Hopefully in a few months I'll be able to pick up a lot of jazz and blues concepts and progressions, and I can come back to these videos and play along. :)
You're doing a great job man, keep it up!
Thanks Jason! I’m happy to do more lessons that apply to beginners on guitar, to bring them up to these more advanced concepts.
Great video Chase. Thanks for the shout out! Expanding on use of the Secret Jazz chord in different progressions, vamps, solos, etc, is so useful and applies what you’ve taught in other lessons. Looking forward to continued awesome videos. I’ve got so many content ideas you might like so let’s keep the contact. ✌🏼
Thanks Nick, looking forward to it! 🤘
Nice vid, will take me a while to digest, but I get some "For Django" vibes, which I love. Cheers!
I’m still digesting it too! 😄 Glad you dig the video!
I think that between levels, you should play the entire blues that you've just described, so it can give a sensation of how each level feels and sounds.
Valid point! Thanks for the feedback! 🤘
I can't download anything on my bloody tablet anymore. Even for free! (Otherwise I'd be a patron). Loving your content. Thanks .
Ahh that’s frustrating! Thanks for the support 🙏
It's very interesting how the 'secret jazz voicing' is always a Maj7#11 (or Maj7b5) on either the major third or the flat-seventh of the chord root at hand. This to me is a useful mnemonic, especially if I'm thinking of rootless voicings.
Can you give me an example? I’m not sure I understand how you’re thinking of it.
@@ChaseMaddox Sure. I meant that for, say, F#7alt, the rootless voicing can be thought of (enharmonically) as BbMaj7#11 (based on Bb, the M3rd of F#). For F#13, you can grab the Maj7#11 from its flat-7, E, giving you EMaj7#11.
You can see this in two chords a tritone apart, say C and F#. C13 will have BbMaj7#11, and so will F#7alt; Bb being the flat-seven of C, and the M3rd of F3.
(#11 or flat-5, either way.)
Makes sense! That’s a good way to think about it, thanks for your thoughts 🤘
Great video! For me it would be more helpful to see each level demonstrated with a progression at the end, maybe a longer one with all the levels at the end of the video. Regardless, I appreciate the content!
Thanks Ken! Do you mean it would be more helpful if I played through each level of the progression? As chords or soloing over? Trying to understand what you’d find most useful 👍
@@ChaseMaddox Yes! No soloing needed, just playing through the 12 bar progression once at the end of each level using the chords introduced in that level, along with another progression at the end incorporating every level together. For me personally, it would help to hear how the chords sound as they follow one another in real time!
You studied with Barry Greene! I've only ever heard him use the phrase "secret jazz chord"
I did! What a great concept 👌
One suggestion is to use a chord grid instead of a tab for us older folks.
I prefer notating it as music notation and TAB, since a chord grid is so similar to TAB.
Nice presentation. But these are no secrets; it's standard jazz harmony.
I agree! The “secret jazz chord” voicing is the name of a concept that my college professor, Barry Greene, came up with. It’s his name for that voicing type and I use that name since that’s his formulation I’m using.
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i have been told that im a good musician,...i dont believe them. i like your style of demonstration. jazz is highly technical an that is what makes it fun.
i learned music to get me through psychics chemistry....which is really close in reaction ...example you take a tuning fork of standard material and dope it or bi metal the fork ...you could change the note in many ways or the sustain of the fork or the volume!
Thanks for the comment and the interesting analogy! 🤘
@@ChaseMaddox as an engineer i worked on some commercial applications such as consoles and studio filters. working with sonic engineers we measured acoustics and then translated the wave forms into DSPing formulas and percision electronic circuits....
what you are mostly paying for when you buy them is licensing and patents, i own four of them myself!
@@ChaseMaddox lastly breaking glass ...if you can vibrate more than 65% of the atomic structure with your tone you CAN break the glass.
@@ChaseMaddox as i stated chem and tones ...if you hetero tones you will never be out of minor tuning..the ear will not pick it up! if you vibrate more than 65% percent of the ear hairs. you cant get the tone out of your head if you vibrate more than 65% of the structure glass will break or crack!
Anybody who gave thought to harmony would think that B dim has more of E7 going to Amin kind of sound than G7 to Cmin. (Or even F dim going to F major) You seem to rely too much on chord/scale theory and real book changes. I guess some people believe that earth is flat
I’ll see you at the gig and we’ll see who relies more on chord/scale theory 😉
Yes, definitely a plane and stationary, flat is not a shape but your comment sure is!
So is a lot of Jazz "secret"? If so, who wants to be part of a music culture or movement that deeply frustrates the heck out of people trying to learn it, by keeping back its knowledge..sorry "secrets", just for all the snide, sneering trust fund hipsters to learn, and use?
Are you referring to the “secret jazz chord”? If so, that’s not a name I came up with but my teacher Barry Greene who is much closer to the hippie era than hipster 😉 My entire purpose in teaching on this channel is to reveal any “secrets” I’ve learned, not hide them.
No disrespect to Barry, he is great, but the “Secret Jazz Chord” lingo has got to go. At best it is a layer of abstraction that you have to pass through to get to the facts. Imagine going to a gig and playing with others and someone asks, “What are the changes?” … “Oh that is just F7 to the secret jazz chord” ?!?!
@@michaelhagerth1196 how would you refer to that specific voicing?
@@ChaseMaddox Please forgive me… I hadn’t watched the previous video. It all makes sense now.