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Originally Posted by AllCowsEatGrass
Do you know of any good book or video resources or general tips for getting jazzy chord changes down? I can get the straight chords, but I fail at making it sound swingy and jazzy and walking like.
Hi cows. Heres some exercises I do on piano that are really helpful learning alterations of dom7 chords, tritone subs, and just changes in general:
First is playing ii7-V7-Imaj7 through the cycle. This should be down pat. I dont know how voicings are on guitar but do not just play 1-3-5-7 for these chords. Set up a backing track for the bass line, or learn to walk and comp simultaneously, and play 3-5-7-9 on the ii chord; 3-6-7-9 for the V and 3-5-7-9, and 3-5-6-9 for the I chord. So omit roots from your voicing. This will teach you all the 9ths and 13ths for all the chords in all the cycles.
So first you do Dmin7-G7-Cmaj7. Then go up a fourth and do the progression in F. So Gmin7-C7-Fmaj7. Etc... around the cycle. Then practice inversions on your voicings.
Then practice the same thing with b9 for the dominant chord. These are commin and sound cool. Then do b13 #9 on your dominant chords. These are all the altered dominant voicings now.
Next for tritone subs I like to practice down chromatically like this:
Cmin7-B7-Bbmin7-A7-Abmin7-G7-F#min7-F7---> etc... Start the next round on C#min7 to make sure you play them all. What you should notice here is that the 4-note voicing for the dominant chords in this pattern, for instance on B7 one voicing is A-C#-D#-G# (7-9-3-6) and these are the exact same notes you would use on an Falt7 chord, only on F it would be 3-b13-7-#9. To me this is the coolest thing. Play Cmin7-B7-Bbmaj7 and Cmin7-Falt-Bbmaj7 using that same voicing on the dom7 chord too see and hear it.
I have lots more feel free to ask away and best of luck practicing