Jazz Anticipations on Country Guitar

Part of the Video Series How to Play Country Guitar

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Learn how to apply jazz guitar theory to spice up your country lead guitar playing in this free video on how to play the country guitar.

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Jazz Anticipations on Country Guitar
This is Josh Z from the group The Mother Truckers and I am going through some country licks today. I would like to change it up a little bit on the chord changes. So if we are in a G country thing and it goes to 5 Chord which is the D, something that a lot of the country players do is throw in some little jazzy touches and one of the most basic ones is to anticipate the chord change by going half a step sharp. So if you are playing in G right before you go to the 5, you pretend as if the rhythm was going D sharp to D instead of straight to D. So you would outline that which is all I've done is played a D 7 chord and gone down into a D 6. Even if the rhythm guitar of the base is not playing that D sharp, you can apply it and that lands on the 5. Then just do a major scale down to the 1 from the 4, from the 1 I guess. So let's go through that slowly. So when we are approaching the 5 chord about a beep before you hit it, you anticipate the 5 chord by going half a step higher to a D sharp 7. So here's your D 7, your D sharp 7 which I throw in the 5. Instead of 1, 3, 7, I go 1, 5, 7. So that sounds like. Then I slide back down to the regular 5 which is like a D 6 and then I just walk down to the G. So slowly the thing would sound like this before the down beat of the 5 chord.

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Expert: A lifelong player of the guitar, Josh Zee is currently the lead guitarist for the band, The Mother Truckers. Read More