smooth mellow jazz Options

[Blackbird86]

i've heard this style of jazz guitar before a couple of times that sounded really sweet. it was like some smooth, mellow, jazzy stuff. i was wondering if anyone know what kind of chords/scales i should learn to be able to pick up this style of play. i hope i'm not being too vague here. ...let me find a youtube example. here, this franky the genius guy plays kinda the sort of stuff i'm talking about: http://www.youtube.com/user/frankythegenius#p/a. i'm just basically looking for a list of chords and scales and maybe some theory/pointers on how to put them together, or something.


also, if anyone knew of a good resource on chord progressions, especially progressions that involve more than just major scales. i'm basically looking for some theory stuff that i can learn so that i can basically make up my own stuff.

-thanks

[ninjato]

Well what the guy was doing in that vid was in essence a chord melody.

Personally Joe Pass is the one I'd listen to for that kind of stuff but that is a little advanced for me even.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWa6aChSf1w

I am just coming around to enjoying chording all the jazz tunes I know and making them clean. Solos for Jazz I can wait. I'm just not there yet like I am w/ the Blues based stuff.

The best bet is to get a REAL BOOK (current latest is 6th edition)
It's got 90% of the most popular Jazz standards out there. It is going to look like this:

http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa242/N...NewPicture1.jpg

As far as learning progressions.....If you are fluent w/ chording, just keep learning songs from the REAL BOOK. I find that a much more pleasurable way of learning chords than just some "progression". You do have to get your head away from "the blues" stuff somewhat and think more in a "major/minor" idea more akin to classical music.

I mean we can sit and talk II V I progressions or I vi II V ...etc but that is just so dry IMO.

I use this site
www.chordc.com
to help me work out all the chords in a REAL BOOK tune.

You can also look at Chris Juergensen's site (he is also a member here and logs in once in a while).
http://chrisjuergensen.com/
and look at his lessons/writeups. Again, regardless which way you go, it requires a bit more work than many are willing to put in.

I also find using one of these really helps and makes learning jazz tunes fun.


This post has been edited by ninjato: Nov 4 2009, 09:48 AM

[Blackbird86]

ha, i actually got that exact looper pedal for xmas last year, but i lost the instructions and still can't figure out how to work the damn thing. how do you make that thing work? i have an amp, a mic with phantom power (for acoustic)...i just can't get the damn thing to work. any advice?

[ninjato]

Here is a link to the manual in PDF format.

What do you need to know? The pedal is pretty straight forward.

http://media.zzounds.com/media/JamManEngli...b639bd5fac3.pdf