![]() ![]() If some of the notes of the major scale doesn’t quite work with the chord your hearing, you can temporarily modify the scale by raising or lowering the bad notes. That might sound like a lot to learn initially, but it’s really not that difficult. Notes per string is not consistent.Ĭoncisely, his method is based on knowing the sound of each of the 12 notes over the three chord types he identifies. Though not exactly the standard CAGED shapes, Jimmy’s shapes allow him to identify the chord shapes (or arpeggios) of ii, V and I chord in those shapes. Jimmy works from five shapes of the major scale, which he understands as being common to all chords of a ii-V-I. Immediately, there is less information to process. Altered and diminished chords fall into the dominant category. In Jimmy’s approach, there are only 3 chord types, being major, minor and dominant. Jimmy’s approach is altogether different, and worked much better for me. It was frustrating and I felt that I’d never make any real progress. Even when I could manage to follow the chords, I ended up playing little more than scale fragments in a disconnected manner without rhythm or phrasing. I found that as the chord types and chord progressions became more complicated, it became prohibitively difficult to follow the Chord-Scale approach. ![]() This approach really obfuscates the fact that in the above progression, you’re really just playing the notes of the C major scale throughout. ![]() In C major, Levine instructs you to play the chord-scales D Dorian - G Mixolydian - C Ionian For a simple ii-V-I progression, for example Dm7-G7-Cmaj7 Levine really promotes Chord-Scale Theory. No Nonsense Jazz Guitar is definitely the one to get first, but both are excellent.īefore I got No Nonsense Jazz guitar, I was trying to learn jazz by using “The Jazz Theory Book” by Mark Levine. Hi have both of Jimmy’s Hot Licks DVDs, No Nonsense Jazz Guitar and Inside Outside Jazz Guitar. ![]()
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