Major 7th Chords Guitar Lesson
Major 7th Chords
Brendan adds to his jazz chord voicings series with a discussion of major 7th chords.
Taught by Brendan Burns in Jazz Guitar with Brendan Burns seriesLength: 24:32Difficulty: 2.0 of 5
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Jazz Guitar with Brendan Burns
Found in our Beginner Lesson SetsBrendan Burns breaks down jazz styling and chord voicings for lead ideas and comping.
Lesson 1
Dominant 7th Chords
Brendan Burns discusses drop two voicings. Then, he explains how to explain dominant seventh voicings on strings 4, 3, 2, and 1.
Length: 24:11 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Minor 7th Chords
Brendan Burns discusses the minor 7th chord voicings on strings 4, 3, 2, and 1. To form a minor seventh chord, simply flat the third of its dominant seventh counterpart.
Length: 15:07 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Major 7th Chords
Brendan adds to his jazz chord voicings series with a discussion of major 7th chords.
Length: 24:32 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Minor 7th Flat 5 Chords
In the final installment of his Jazz Chord Voicings series, Brendan discusses and demonstrates the minor 7 flat 5 chord voicings.
Length: 12:54 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
About Brendan Burns
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Brendan has been passionate about music since childhood. He began his studies on trumpet, in elementary school, and then moved to guitar as a teenager. He holds a Bachelor's Degree from Berklee College of Music, and has studied with Norm Zocher, Joe Stump, Bret Willmott, Bob Pilkington, Jay Weik, Tim Miller, & Charlie Banacos.
While at Berklee, Brendan was a member of the Music Mentoring Program, teaching private lessons to gifted high school students. He is currently teaches, and is chair of the guitar department at Brookline Music School. Brendan also teaches guitar for Tune Foolery & privately at his home in Cambridge, MA.
Along with educating, Brendan plays out often as a Solo Guitarist, performing standards, pop, and classical repertoire. He has recorded and played with the chamber-fusion band Ra Quintent, and as well as Vessela Stoyanova's Eastern Stories Under Western Skies Project. Brendan also performs as a leader, director and sideman for various Boston art-rock projects, and is former member of MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika.
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Discussions with our instructors are just one of the many benefits of becoming a member of JamPlay.I find that techniques like this one tend to sink in better with me if I grab one chord, or one series of chords, and just play every variation while focusing my attention elsewhere, like watching the news. My guess is that not obsessing over it allows me to make it more automatic later on. Who knows? Maybe this could be of some help.
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OK - this is crazy: I get it, what I'm learning in this lesson set is going to be a step change for me. But it is litterally giving me headaches! I'm posting this to take a break after only 30 minutes of trying to apply this through the chord changes of "All the things you are" - that I selected because there are many changes. I have improved my knowledge of the fretboard in the past months (still a lot of room for improvement though), but the hardest thing is to instantly think "this lead note is the 3rd of this chord which gives me this grip..." on and on! A very humbling experience...
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Thanks! It's a good perspective: my goal is going to be comfortable with this by the end of the year, and take advantage of having some vacation to take around Xmas time to boost my music hours and comp over some Jazz tunes with Band in a Box!
Awesome! Keep rocking it!