BEGINNING JAZZ GUITAR LESSON - PART 1

hi guys Howard here with beginning jazz guitar so excuse the uh word dribble for a little bit if you will but I get a lot of people asking about getting started on jazz guitar in fact it's a big thing over the years in my private instruction guys will come in they've been playing for five years maybe 10 years but they've never gotten into jazz and they just want to know the basics you know the fundamentals and how to get it going and then they can just snowball from there if they want to so I'm going to share with you how I've taught it to my students over the years what I think is the best way to get started on beginning jazz guitar now I've covered a lot of this material in previous lessons in a different way but not specifically focusing totally on Jazz okay so bear with me while we go through some basic fundamentals and then we'll get things moving okay so the first thing we want to do is we want to take a look at a basic C major scale because it's the root of everything so the notes in the c major scale are of course c d e f g a b and then C again and you can play it in two octaves if you want with any fingering you choose any fingering at all you can go crazy actually but the most important thing that we're going to be discussing here is that for each note in the scale this is basic music theory there's a corresponding chord some of the chords will be majors and some of the chords will be minors because the scale dictates that okay now the easiest way to remember this is that the one the four and the five are always majors and then the remaining chords are minors if it was a minor scale you would flip that on its head the one the four and the five would all be minor chords and the rest would be Jazz uh lesson here the first chord is based on a C major the second chord is based on a D Minor third on an E minor fourth fifth G sixth a that's also the relative minor