Jazz Chord Symbols

In this video I show you what kind of chord symbols you may come across when you play Jazz....


In this video I show you what kind of chord symbols you may come across when you play Jazz.

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19 Responses to “Jazz Chord Symbols”

  1. Lince7777777 says:

    Pretty intense man. Really helped, especially with the augmented and diminished chords. You and your editing. lol

  2. jefgain says:

    Basic but very important and reminding me that diminshed chords are also other chords is a good thing for me to remember.

  3. sareks1980 says:

    good video. isn’t a C9 actually a dominant chord?

  4. M0rganstudios says:

    Yeah it is, but the way he voiced it there was no seventh. So it doesn’t really contradict that notion. But yeah usually C9 means C E G Bb D and C add9 means C E G D

    Music Guru…I may actually dedicate a video to you just to make sure my students check your stuff out. YOu’ve already gone over so many advanced concepts I planned to cover!

  5. cool594 says:

    yeah but i got a ? for example if you put a C9 you can put c d e g on your left hand instead of putting c e g and then d on you right hand .right?

  6. M0rganstudios says:

    Yeah you could do that. You can arrange them however you want…mostly. I wouldn’t cluster too many notes together in the lower part of the keyboard cause it gets too muddy. General rule, the lower it is the more consonant the intervals should be (IE 5ths and octaves only below a certain point) Use your ear.

    Also usually the bottom note is the root or the third. Sometimes the 5th…or even sometimes the 7th. Never the 9th though unless its a passing tone in a walking bassline.

  7. boricious says:

    very nice…now i understand what augmented and diminished chords are…and i now know what other jazzy chords are…thanks

  8. Charleswang64 says:

    exactly what i needed

  9. pobz100 says:

    No, that’s not a C9 chord. The 9th should be proceeded by the Dominant 7th, Bb in the chord of C. Your example is a Sus2 chord as there’s no 7th.

    C9 would be C-E-G-Bb-D – THAT’S a C9 chord. Now, often the 5th maybe omited, therefore a you could have C in the bass, them E-Bb-D in the RH. That would make a common voicing.

    This guy keeps making errors in his videos about chord structres among others music theories.

  10. whereisg says:

    Now that was a great comment M0rgan. Concise and to the point. If I have any questions, im definitely going to ask you or this Ben guy.

    Ya’ll have been a huge help

    Peace
    -tg

  11. whereisg says:

    Same here man, I jus bought this Bluesy JAzz sheet music and it comes with a cd. I been trying to make these chords sound just as rich as the samples.

    Good stuff (8

  12. M0rganstudios says:

    The D in a C9 chord doesn’t have to come before the Bb. Jazz players often play the extensions out of order and it actually makes things more interesting. Can you imagine always trying to play a 13th chord with all the extensions in order? Fact is in the high parts of the keyboard you can cluster stuff together and it sounds fine.

  13. M0rganstudios says:

    Arg, that last comment was in reply to pobz100

  14. M0rganstudios says:

    Haha, and I meant to say the Bb doesn’t have to come before the D.

  15. M0rganstudios says:

    (also re pobz100 ) A sus2 chord wouldn’t include the third. CSus2 is simply CDG. The idea is the 2 resolves to a 3 in the next chord. But CDEG, CEGD, or CGED or whatever is Cadd9. Sometimes the first one is called Cadd2, but it really doesn’t matter, its the same thing really.

  16. cjholmes2 says:

    There’s always a bit of freedom in how you voice the chords but the really important notes of any extended chord are the third and seventh. As pobz100 said, you can get away with omitting the 5th (because it doesn’t add much information about the chord), but a C9 should always include the minor 7th (Bb). Cadd9 and C9 aren’t the same.

  17. M0rganstudios says:

    I’ll agree with that. C9 implies the Bb, Cadd9 implies only an added D.

    I actually pointed that out in the first page of comments XD

  18. themankh says:

    wow u saved me dude =D

  19. TheOsseous says:

    I was just practicing the piano, and playing the G713, but I did’nt know what it was called….thank you..

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