In this lesson, I teach you how to improvise jazz guitar chord melodies with minor 7th chords.
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🕛 Video Content Outline

0:00 - About this video
1:05 - Series outline
1:53 - Step 1) Chord tones on the top string
2:28 - Step 2) Chord inversions
3:28 - Step 3) Change voicings to taste
4:34 - Step 4) Drill the chord shapes
4:53 - Step 5) Fill in the scale
9:02 - Step 6) Drill the chord melody scale
9:11 - Step 7) Improvise chord melodies!
9:58 - Step 8) Use it in real music
11:17 - Recap
12:08 - Free solo guitar arrangements!

🔗 Links & Lessons Mentioned in This Video

🎸 Full playlist of this series
🎸 Modes (and how to study them)
🎸 Phrasing (for composing or improvising melodies)
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💬 Lesson Description

This is another episode of my series called "Make it a Chord Melody".

In this lesson, we talk about how to improvise jazz guitar chord melodies.

Improvising chord melodies means that we're playing melodies and supporting every instance of the melody with a chord shape.

It takes a lot of technique, vocabulary, and fretboard knowledge to improvise jazz guitar chord melodies, but it's so worth it.

Once we achieve that sound, we're able to hear a melody and what the harmony sounds like at the same time.

It's a really fun thing to do.

In the lesson series, we follow a multi-step, organized procedure, starting with the minor 7 chord in this video.

So, grab your guitar and follow along!

I hope you enjoyed this lesson about how to improvise jazz guitar chord melodies and found it beneficial. Let me know what you thought in the comments.

Thanks! :)

- Jared

🎨 Diagrams From This Lesson

C Minor 7 Chord Tones on the Top String

C Minor 7 Chord Inversions

Inversion Variation

C Dorian Scale on the Top String

C Dorian Scale Chord Melody

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