Guitar Tutorial: Learn How to Play Jazz Chords

In this course, master guitarist Alon Cooper will teach you how to take your guitar performances to another level. Alon is a passionate guitar instructor, a musician and the founder of ‘GuitarSongsMasters.com’. He has been performing for over eight years, travelling to Sri Lanka, Australia, the USA and so on. He performs solos or with bands, bringing creativity, inspiration and technical competence. Using these skills, he will guide you on your journey to transforming simple or boring songs into lively, funky and jazzed-up performances! We have divided this course into three parts that you can take sequentially or in your preferred order.

We will begin with basic music theory and delve into how chords work. You will learn to understand the major and minor chords, music notes, music scales and more to ground you in the foundations of jazz chords. You will become an expert in reading and playing chords and intervals, seeing and playing with the root on the 6th, 5th and 4th strings. From then on, we move into the second part of the course, where you will learn powerful shortcut exercises that will speed up your chord mastery. Understand the ‘foundation finger’ and how to identify it and the chord reset and its four variations. Master important exercises that will ingrain chord shapes into your muscle memory to help with accuracy, finger independence and ease so that you can quickly become a jazz chords expert!

Lastly, you will practice performances of popular songs played in various ways incorporating the expert jazz skills you have learned so you can challenge yourself and push beyond your comfort zone. These songs include B.B. King’s ‘Stand by Me’, Pery Ribeiro’s ‘The Girl from Ipanema’ and Frank Sinatra’s ‘Fly Me to the Moon’. You will be impressed when you begin to substitute simple chords with fancy chords of your own in your favorite songs. You will begin to add emotion to your performances, learning how authenticity plays a great role in drawing in your listeners. If you are a guitar player and want to start playing jazz music or you simply want to take your expertise to the next level and incorporate beautiful chords into your song-playing, then this course is for you. Start today!