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Improve Your Playing. 30 Days to Be er Jazz Guitar Ebook Get Your Copy Today The rhythm changes is one of mine and many other musicians favorite forms to comp and blow over when learning jazz guitar, and we will be checking out some cool ways that you can comp over this progression in todays instalment of 30 Days to Be er Jazz Guitar Comping. While many of us focus on blowing over rhythm changes, it is also important to focus on being able to comp this form accurately and an interes,ng way. In todays lesson we will be looking at dierent approaches used by guitarists in dierent se.ngs.

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Drop 3 Chords
There are a variety of approaches that we can use when comping over this song form, and the one that we will be looking at rst is using Drop 3 chords on the 6432 string to set to get play a Rhythm Changes A sec,on. Drop 3 chords are great for using when comping over Rhythm Changes in a duo situa,on because they contain all the bass notes as well as the guide tones. In the rst example well be checking applying drop 3 voicings with the root on the bo om string over the rst 8 bars of the tune. Each inversion has been chosen to give the smoothest movement between the changes to avoid jumping around the neck to grab chords.

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The rhythm changes is one of the best suited progressions for a good walking bass line. Due to the fast moving chord changes in the A sec,on you dont have to add much more to create a great sounding eec,ve bass line. Obviously this etude, like the drop 3 example will only really work in a duo se.ng, but being able to comp well in a duo se.ng will make you a stronger accompanist in a full band because the duo is the toughest gig. No,ce in the rst four bars of the example that there is one addi,onal chroma,c passing note before or a>er each chord root and the sound is full.

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Voice Leading Chromatically

Chroma,cally ascending or descending chord lines work great behind a soloist or in a chord solo se.ng because you usually need to add some juicey voicings to your chords on the top strings for the voice leading to work. No,ce in the rst two bars of the example that the top note of each chord voicing is ascending a semitone or fret for each new chord and the line descends chroma,cally in the next two bars. Combing dierent voice leading ideas always works well so in bar 5 there there is a Bb pedal note mainted on the top string which provides a refreshing break from the chroma,c voice leading.

Chromatically Ascending and Descending Inversions

Adding Passing Chords

While the A sec,on of Rhythm Changes is progression is quite busy the bridge or B sec,on only has one chord every two bars. This is a nice contrast to the A sec,on but most bebop musicians will usually superimpose the preceding II minor 7 chord with the dominant for further single line possibility and more chordal movement.

Superimposed II7 Chords with Dominant 7ths

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We can also switch through inversions of the same chord type to create movement in the B sec,on instead of playing the same chord for each bar. No,ce the use of altering shell chords to create movement over the G7 and the use of modal chords over the F7.

Further Practice and Study

Once you have the voicings under your ngers there are a few ways that you can prac,ce them.

Prac,ce the chordal etudes using four to a bar comping Apply dierent rhythms such as the Charleston rhythm to the chords Use the metronome to make sure your sure youre grabbing all the changes at the right ,me Prac,ce the etudes in all keys, but C, F, Eb, and Bb are the common keys for rhythm changes

Be sure to check in for tomorrows etude over the full progression which will include some very cool spread triad voicings as well as the concepts that we have looked at in todays lesson. Do you have any types of voicings that you like to use when comping rhythm changes that are not discussed in this lesson? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

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