Jazz guitar chords can be complicated, and as a beginner it’s hard to know where to start. Well, this chord chart is a good place to start, it has the 17 chord shapes that are essential when you start learning jazz guitar. With these 17 chord shapes, you can play the chord changes of any jazz standard. Because these chords are the basics of jazz guitar, it’s important you memorize them. The easiest way to memorize these chords is by understanding how they work and how they are constructed, which you can learn in this lesson:.

Another way to memorize this set of chords is by playing songs and practicing the chord progression exercises that are below the chord chart on this page. When you have these exercises under your fingers, move on to other chord progressions, like the ones in these lesson:. I haven’t been studying, practicing or playing ‘jazz’ guitar for a few years now. Got the email link this morning, read through the page and started practicing the useful cycle exercises. For a free ‘taster’ lesson it is very generous and practical and I think you can get a lot of mileage alone out of whats on the page as an access point to practicing most jazz and I have read through other educational texts.

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Its not boring or rigorous, easy-on-the-eyes, easy-to-understand, succinct and to the point. Good Job Dirk, and thanks for your generosity.

Dirk and Matt–Like Dr. Mudaliar and Mr. Chasba, I took up guitar when I retired (college professor) some years ago. Your methodology is THE BEST–especially your very jazzy, engaging way of playing the chords on the backing tracks! It’s as if it’s not a lesson so much as a cheerful jam session we’re invited to attend that just happens to be the essential chords needed for jazz. Because it sounds like part of a jazz tune, it adds to the enjoyment of playing and learning these chords. Bravo and kudos to you both, and thanks again!

I’ve saved the page to practice it when I shall, but it would have been very kind if you would have provided the backing tracks for download, cuz here in India, internet is not so cheap. Will be waiting anxoiusly for the next lesson. Also i would like to ask, why is bebop so complicated, harmonically.

And how do we use quartal harmony. And by the way could you give some famous examples of 2 5 1, and 1 6 2 5 progressions. I am a little bit familiar with Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, Coltrane sort of thing,, any examples from there.? Wearing my accessibility ‘hat’ I am always on the look-out for praiseworthy sites that present clear, easy to read and unambiguous content. This particular chord chart is so well presented (even to the extent of making the orientation of the chord windows obvious by representing the thickness of the strings) that I would like to offer you a ‘pat on the back’ for the thought that went into assembling the page not only for clear-sighted but also for visually impaired prospective users. The fact that the lesson is probably the bet introduction to jazz chording I have found on the Internet is a welcome bonus!