Chord Solos - This Solid Exercise Is Useful In Two Ways

In this video, I am showing you how to use Block Chords on the guitar by breaking down an arrangement of the melody to Solar. Playing Block Chords is quite demanding on guitar but at the same time Chord Solos, and Block Chord Harmony is a big part of the Jazz Guitar Tradition. There are countless great Block chord solos by Wes Montgomery, George Benson, and Joe Pass. It is in some ways the highest level of putting chords to a melody. The Chord Melody arrangement is made using some of the core principles in harmonizing melodies with block chords. This also links a bit to the Barry Harris 6th diminished scale system, though that system has a lot of other aspects as well. Most of the Chord voicings I am using in the arrangement are Drop 2 chords which also links it to the Barry Harris approach. Download the PDF: https://jenslarsen.nl/block-chords-th... Content: 0:00 Intro - 3 Levels of Playing a Melody 0:34 Miles wants Block Chords! 0:42 The benefits of studying this: Options and Chord Solos 1:17 Arrangement of Solar 1:35 Example #1 - The Arrangement 1:57 Harmonizing the Cm melody. 2:17 The Principle - Inspired by Barry Harris 3:02 Split the melody in Chord Tones and Leading Notes 3:14 Example of a Harmonized Cm Scale 3:58 The Problem with "Simple Systems" 4:23 Gm C7 Melody 5:52 Gm7 C7 Slow Example 5:58 Fmaj7 - adding an altered dominant 7:39 Fm7 Bb7 7:51 Fmaj7 - Fm7 - Bb7 Slow 8:01 How To Learn to harmonize in block chords 8:22 Blue Monk Arrangement on Patreon 8:50 Drop 2 Voicings and other options 9:42 Ebmaj7 - Static Chord technique from Bill Evans 11:05 Ebmaj7 - Ebm7 Ab7 - Dbmaj7 - Dø G7 Slow 11:18 This is great together with Chord Solos 11:26 Like the video? Check out 🔴 Subscribe for more free Jazz Guitar Lessons and Videos: https://bit.ly/JensLessons ☑️ Support me on Patreon:   / jenslarsen   ✅DOWNLOAD A FREE E-BOOK with 15 II Valt I licks! Sign up for my newsletter: http://jenslarsen.nl/sign-up-for-my-n... ▶️ Check out my latest video: https://goo.gl/G16gVx 🎸Join us in the Facebook Jazz Guitar Group Community: http://bit.ly/InsidersFBGroup If you like this video and want to help translate it into your own language you can do so here: http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_vide... Edited by Luciano Poli Facebook:   / jenslarsenytlessons   Twitter:   / jensljazz   Snapchat: jenslarsenjazz Instagram:   / jenslarsenjazz   Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JensLars... Tumblr:   / jenslarsenjazz   My Book: Modern Jazz Guitar Concepts: https://amzn.to/2HoG4Eg My Gear: Great Safe Gigbag: https://amzn.to/2E9xKXb SonoCore Strings: 13-53 https://amzn.to/2Ya2uPI Powered Monitor: http://amzn.to/2iPKMza Audio Interface: http://amzn.to/2iPKGrd Headphones: http://amzn.to/2iPKqbQ Camera: http://amzn.to/2hXxBfJ Video Lights: https://amzn.to/2MUpwVF Notation Software: http://bit.ly/GuitPro Notation Software: http://amzn.to/2iLCZQk John Daw Custom picks: http://dawmanpicks.com/