Jazz Basics

Jazz Basics

Jazz guitar playing is filled with tremendously rich sounding chords. Jazz uses a lot of color tones beyond the normal 3-note triad based chords, like sevenths, ninths, and thirteenths. These extra notes and extra harmony are what give Jazz guitar chords such a rich and complex sound. The 15 chords in this lesson are a few of the basic building blocks for much of Jazz guitar chord playing.

This lesson covers…

• Major Seventh Chords

• Minor Seventh Chords

• Dominant Seventh Chords

• Ninths, Elevenths, & Thirteenth Chords

These chord forms offer a good foundation into Jazz guitar chords. They give you a great musical palette to create some rich Jazz guitar sounds. Grab your guitar and let’s get started! - Steve Krenz

Steve plays a Gibson Custom L-5 CT in this lesson.

Check out Gibson's Learn & Master Guitar course for more great instruction.

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