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Summary: Find out what makes a chord 'jazzy' in this free video clip on jazz piano tips.

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Austin McBride Austin McBride learned music by studying from the Beatles and Radiohead. Has played Jazz tunes for the past 10 years. read more

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by Caramellatta

Thanks for the lesson! Looking forward to checking out the rest of them. You were saying B minor when you meant B flat major, right?

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by TheWad

Wow. Its just that easy. Thanks.

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What Makes a Chord Jazzy?

Hi I'm Austin McBride with Expert Village and today we will be talking about some Traditional Jazz. I will show you how to play some traditional jazz tunes and give a brief explanation of those. Traditional Jazz music will typically be in jazz scales which will be if we're starting here in a C chord we'll be using rough notes for example a 7 or perhaps 6. These things that will basically create an error in the key and that's basically what gives it the jazz feel and the jazz sound so if we're just playing a basic minor chord to major 1 F sharp to E minor, let's throw a 7 in there and it turns to jazz. So from here, 5, 7, B minor bring it down to a 7, and all of a sudden we're playing a jazz chord progression. And that's how you play traditional jazz music.

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