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Practice Loops - Jazz
   
  To practice your improvising skills, click on the arrow next to each title. The loop will repeat continuously until you click the icon again. Tune your guitar with an online tuner, by clicking on the "tuning fork" below, similarly a metronome by clicking on its image. Your browser requires an Adobe Flash player plugin. Click the image for additional information.Click for Flash Player information
 
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  Jazz Progressions
Bossa Nova in C minor: C minor: i - iv - iimin7b5 - V7 - i // Db major: ii - V7 - I
The complete chords for the jazz standard Blue Bossa. The progression modulates from C minor to Db major for four bars, returning with a iimin7b5 - V7 - i in C minor.
Suggested Scales: C minor, C harmonic minor, Db major
   
5/4 in E minor: i - vmin7
This odd-meter vamp is the A section to "Take Five" raised up one half-step. Suggested Scales: E pentatonic minor/blues, E dorian
   
5/4 in G major: IVmaj7 - iimin7 - iiimin7 - vim7 - iimin7 - V7 - Imaj7
This is the B section to "Take Five" raised up one half-step. Watch out for the ii - V of E major at the end of the progression (cycling back to the E minor A section). Suggested Scales: G major
   
5/4 in E minor / G major: i - vmin7 / IVmaj7 - iimin7 - iiimin7 - vim7 - iimin7 - V7 - Imaj7
This is the above two loops combined.
Suggested Scales: E minor, G major
   
Bossa Nova in C: ii - V7 - Imaj7 - vi - V7 - IVmaj7
Suggested Scales: C major, D dorian, F lydian, G mixolydian, A aeolian
   
Swing in A minor: i - iv - V7
Try a G# diminished 7th arpeggio over the V7 chord for a Django-like sound.
Suggested Scales: A harmonic/hungarian minor
   
Swing in C: ii - V7 - Imaj7
The most common jazz progression. Once you get comfortable with this, try playing the melodic minor scale over the ii chord and/or the dominant diminished scale over the V7.
Suggested Scales: D dorian/melodic minor, G mixolydian/dominant diminished, C major
   
Cycle of Fourths in G / E minor: ii - V7 - Imaj7 - IVmaj7 / iimin7b5 - V7 - i
Every diatonic seventh chord is visited in this common jazz progression.
Suggested Scales: all modes of G major, E harmonic/melodic minor
   
Bossa Nova in F: Imaj7 - II7 - iimin7 - bII7(b5) - Imaj7
Similar to the progression for the A section of "The Girl from Ipanema," this progression can be tricky to improvise over. The G7 suggests the V7 of the key of C, and the Gb7(b5) is a tritone substitution for the V7 of F.
Suggested Scales: F major/lydian, G mixolydian, G dorian, Gb lydian dominant/whole tone
   
2nd Bossa Nova modulating from Db to F: Gbmaj7 - B9 - F#min7 - D9 - Gmin7 - Eb9 - Amin7 - D7(b9) - Gmin7 - C7(b9) - Fmaj7 - G7 - Gmin7 - Gb7(b5) - Fmaj7
Similar to the B section of "The Girl from Ipanema," some of the changes in this whirlwind of modulation are open to interpretation; some suggestions for each chord below.
Suggested Scales: Gb Lydian, B mixolydian, F# dorian, D mixolydian, G dorian, Eb mixolydian, A dorian/melodic minor, Eb diminished, G dorian/melodic minor, Db diminished, F major/lydian, G mixolydian, G dorian, Gb lydian dominant/whole tone
   
Choro in D: I - ii - V7 - I (D - Em - A7 - D)
The A section of "Sons de Carrilhoes," this Brazilian rhythm contains a typical jazz chord sequence.  There is a C diminished 7th chord resolving to the ii (Em) in place of the I (D) in the last cycle.
   
Samba ii - V in C and Bb: C major: iimin7 - V7 // Bb major: iimin7 - V7
This backcycling progression does not resolve to a final tonic chord.
Suggested Scales: G mixolydian, F mixolydian
 
 

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