🚂Take the A Train Jazz Standard lesson | Learn the chords and how to solo over them 👍
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- In this video I take a look at the jazz standard 'Take the A Train'. First I will show you the chords and shapes I like to use. Then we will dig into the harmony and analysing the chords and how they are functioning. We will then take a look at scale and arpeggio choices you could use to solo over the changes.
This is such a great tune if you are relatively new to jazz, it's in the key of C and there's no crazy chord changes! It's tempting to dive right into soloing, but it's important to be confident in playing the chords and melody first (ideally from memory).
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I am musician and teacher based in the UK. My main influences are Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery and George Barnes.
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Take the A Train is an essential standard to know! Hopefully this video will help if it's new to you or you want to look into how to play over the chord changes. If you'd like a copy of the chart then head to my website to download it: www.jazzguitarwithandy.com/standards
Great job Im going to check out all your videos !
I’ve seen a lot of lessons here on YT. This is one of the best yet. Excellent teaching method. Thanks mate 👍🏆🇦🇺
Cheers! You're very welcome :)
I much prefer the sound of D lydian dominant over the D7#4. D Lydian dominant gives you the extensions of 9, 6, #4 as well as the 4 chord tones of D7.
Thanks again, Andy, your lessons are really excellent. I think you're one of the best jazz guitar teachers on UA-cam.
Thanks Joe, that's very kind of you to say!
Best jazz lesson ever. So cool to get the scales and arpeggios thrown in!
Thanks for tuning in Martin! Lessons uploaded every Weds and Sat.
Thanks Master! I don't speak English only little bit😅 but the music is a universal language, thanks for your help
Thanks for watching Mario.
Your lessons are fantastic. Great combination of theory and practice. Heads and shoulders above the rest of the online Jazz guitar teachers.
Cheers Jeff, thanks for the comment. That's the idea re blending theory and practice.
Thanks for this invaluable lesson. Hope to see more like these!
Thank you! Yes, the first lesson of each month will be a video like this.
Well played, that’s a beautiful guitar
Thank you!
This is full of pure gold info, thanks Andy. I think I’ll sit through it and make notes about all these “rules”/options 👍🏻
You're welcome Steve.
Thanks for the lesson Andy! I'm just getting into jazz guitar after years of playing rock and metal and your videos are really helpful. Cheers!
No worries Ivan. Thanks for watching. I got into jazz from rock and blues.
Excellent breakdown 👏. I use the following as a way of composing solos: 1 simplify the chords to the bare minimum, 2 play extended chords arpeggios, associated scales and pentatonics by heart, 3 play some simple phrases using these building blocks, 4 sing a melody based on this and then transfer this to the guitar....and finally ask one of my daughters if they like the melody and if they can remember it 😁!
I love this Rick. What extended arpeggios do you typically play?
@@jazzguitarwithandy Hi, I would use thirds right up to the13th ( including any alterations)so covering the entire scale, but also try quartal harmony or build fifths - this actually doesn't work well very often but sometimes provides an intestingly different sound if used sparingly. The main thing is to compose a memorable simple melody that people can hum and remember.
@@rickjensen2717 I agree. Melody is king 🤴
Hey this is wonderful, thanks for putting so much time and thought into this lesson. A serious dive into this song. Great for folk trying to learn music theory such as myself. I really appreciate all the energy you put into this. Cheers
Thanks for the feedback Greg.
That's the great thorough lesson I was looking for this standard on guitar ! Thank you so much.
My pleasure, thanks for tuning in. I'm cover one or 2 standards a month now and will be putting them in a playlist.
Can you record the whole song all the way through and include the melody? It would be great to hear your full interpretation. That would also help me comp along and use some of the soloing techniques your reviewed. What a great review of the modes. I needed that and need a lot more practice I realize. After 42 years, I was getting stuck. Thanks for the inspiration.
I love this. Thanks so much Andy, for all of these great lessons.
Thanks Donald
Awesome for my level! A full breakdown, just what I needed. Thanks Andy
Thanks for tuning in Matthew.
Thanks for the lesson and that's a beautiful guitar!!!
Thanks :)
I never comment on youtube videos, but this really got me out of a rut. Something as simple as "you can play a minor 7th arpeggio built of the third of the major chord" was something I already knew theoretically, but never put that into my frame of mind when improvising. I'm flying over this standard now!
Thanks for the comment Luke. I think these arpeggio subs are such a great way to inject other sounds and movement that isn't in the chord changes. Glad you found it helpful!
Thank you for making this video.
No worries!
Amazing work is done! I’m a pianist, but still watched this lesson with pleasure !
Thank you for watching! It's nice to have other instrumentalists watching! I wish I could translate my guitar playing onto the piano!
Really good rhythm lesson!
Thanks for the feedback! Any requests for standards for me to cover in the future?
Jazz guitar lessons with Andy Yes! You should do a video like “10 standards to learn rhythm comping” or something. People really like list videos. And you can do songs like all the things you are, satin doll, blue bossa, there will never be another you etc... !! Maybes some jazz tone videos (dark jazz tone vs bright jazz tone. Semi hollow vs fully hollow body)
Thank you very much, this is really nice.
Glad you found it helpful Barbara 🙏
I stopped the video at 3:22 and I realised that I am basically looking at the cover of Wes Montgomery - Full House album. :D
Hugely helpful. Thank you kindly 🙏
You're very welcome!
Good video I have to learn this piece for Year 12 at school! Thanks Andy
No worries. 👍
Very useful ! thank you from Normandy France.
Merci beaucoup :)
great video
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Tankyou alot Andy, Im glad to find your chanel. Gretings from México!!
Thank you Benjamin. My favourite football player is Mexican! Raul Jiminez!
Guitar looks and sounds fabulous!
It’s great a great archtop. Been through quite a few to find this one! Was worth the wait
D Lydian dominant should be played over D7b5 in key of C.
Great master👍
Many thanks for watching and commenting!
Great teacher thanks
You are welcome!
Forgot about D mixolydian#11 (4th mode of A melodic minor) for the D7b5, which is used a lot
True! That's another good option! Thanks for the comment.
Please do a tutorial on the rhythmic patter!!
Hey Andy! Great lesson. I got a lot of this. I've noticed that it is one thing to be able to play a scale across the neck, like the C scale for example, but it is something else to play that scale in interesting ways. For instance when you played a little riff made up of the the C scale at 11:45, I was just impressed at how it sounded. like I can play the C scale yes but I play it in predictable ways. So is there a place where not only learn the scale notes in order, but where I can learn fun riffs for each scale exactly like the one you played at 11:45?
I think a lot of people experience that Daniel. Here's a couple of thoughts re scale practice, some of this may or may not be applicable to where you're at currently!
*Have you internalised the sound of the scale - could you sing it without your instrument, could you imagine it against a major chord? When you play it, can you prehear the sound of the next note?
*If you have been practicing in order then move onto practicing in intervals - eg 3rds, 4ths, 5ths, 6ths and 7ths. This could be part of a warm up. Sing everything....
*Work on varying the order of the scale - try practicing from the 3rd or the 5th.
*Pivot the scale - I've made a lesson on this, it's where you complete the scale in a lower or higher octave
*Limit yourself to 3 or notes of the scale - things like 1235 - play different combinations of those - sing what you play as you play, or try to sing an idea and find it. Focus on playing musical ideas, things that are simple and memorable.
*pick a rhythm and then apply notes to it
Hope that helps...
@@jazzguitarwithandy I can definitely sing the notes of a major scale without my instrument. I was actually focusing on ear training a bit for a sec but then I had a guitar teacher that shrugged it off when I asked him if we could do some ear training stuff. He just has me playing Scale Pattern Studies for Guitar Aaron Shearer(orange and black book) like it is the most important thing I can possibly do as a guitar player. He also got me playing some Bach after I passed first position in that book. not sure if you know this book but it gives 4/5 studies of each key in every position for major, melodic minor and harmonic minor. I get how modes just grow off these scales so I get why he would want me to play that. what do you think about that approach? Basically right now I am doing that for 20 minutes a day with a metronome and then going on to something else bc I like to have fun when I practice not just do scales lol. But what you are saying makes me want to start my ear training exercises again . I started by trying to make sure I could sing every interval ascending and descending , kinda like the second bullet point you wrote. Thanks for writing back! I will let you know how my practicing is going. Ah also my guitar teacher HATES talking about modes. He is classically trained but is very very against thinking about modes. I get it in a sense. He's like, as long as you know what key the music is in, thats all you need. I get that way of thinking..... I also don't think modes are that confusing really. just another way of looking at it. anyway he is better than me lol so I listen
This is a really great lesson! Thanks, so much information to choose from, and to take in.
Which brings me to the following question: as a beginner in jazz (and theoretical knowledge), how do you get all this into your working knowledge. I've been playing the most obvious arpeggios over this song and Autumn Leaves for quite some time now, I find it really difficult to play freely when all the chords are flying around!
Thank you for the feedback and glad you found it useful.
For me that's a really important problem you mention. It's something I'm always working on! There's always more than one way to do something but for me the following things are important:
* a solid understanding of the fretboard, eg where all of the notes are
*Being aware and easily able to recall what notes are found in the chords you are playing over and finding them on the neck
*Hearing everything you play. There is something to be said for being able to outline the chords with just arpeggio tones, but are you just moving your fingers or are you hearing it too? Sing your lines as you play.
*Look for the links between your arpeggios to make them flow. Do you start your arpeggios from the root or go to the nearest note of the next arpeggio at the point of chord change?
*Reduce chord sequences to keys. Eg you can view Am7-D7 to Gmajor 7 as three separate arpeggios or you could say it's all in G major and use the G major scale to craft a melody over it?
*Try to hear and sing/play simple melodies over the top of the changes
*Reduce the changes you are playing over, eg just work on the first line until you feel comfortable or happier with what you are doing over it.
These are just a few suggestions. Have you heard to the term unconscious competence?
Andy
@@jazzguitarwithandy Thanks for your in depth answer! I have heard of the term indeed. I think I simply got a long way to go since I'm in the conscious incompetence fase haha.
I'm glad a lot of your points made are about keeping it simple and mainly musical (hearing the melodies). I guess I was stuck in keeping up with the changes no matter what.
Hello. Thankyou for this grate video. ¿Why don't you use de dominant sharp 11 scale over D7b5?
The actual tune itself is tricky and worth working out.
Thanks for uploading this Video:-)) just wanted to ask what your thoughts are on the yamaha thr amp behind you. I am interested in buying one for me as well. Regards from Hamburg. Like your Videos a Lot!
Hi Meris, what guitar would you be using the amp with? I think they are fantastic practice amps. I find it works better with solid body or semis. the speakers are a bit small for coping with my hollow body archtop.
Thanks for lesson. Great main influences! Perhaps cover Django/crossover standards..After you've gone, All of me, Rose room. Other suggestions...Easy living , Angel eyes, Lil Darlin'. East of the sun. Is that a Yamaha THR series amp you're using? Happy with it...any jazz guitar amp suggestions? Greetings from Qld. Australia.
Thanks for the comment and suggestions. I was thinking of doing All of Me at some point. The Thr10 is actually my third amp! Which is funnily how they originally marketed it.
For the price it’s fantastic. For home practice and jazz tones, it’s perfectly fine. Portable and easy to use.
I use a Deluxe reverb and Vintage 47 live and sometimes at home when I want a bit more volume.
Depends what you are after? Something for gigging or home use? A nice small valve amp is always good.
For the D7b5 the altered scale is the WRONG choice. The D Lydian dominant scale would be much more appropriate for any secondary dominant or static dominant chord. IOW notes from the A melodic minor rather than Eb melodic minor... don't you agree??
It just depends how out you want to go. Lydian b7/Lydian Dominant is a great choice too. Whole tone is fun too. Rights and wrongs are interesting concept when applied to the music of jazz and improv!
Love that guitar what years is it? Did you take the pick guard off? Thanks for the lesson
Thanks Jake! 🤩 it’s a 1977. I bought it without the pickguard and will get a replacement one day, but want to make sure it’s the right sort.
How I purchase the guitar tabs for this song ?
Love that Gibson. Can I borrow that? You play it better.
Lol! Man it sure is great. It's all in the guitar, it plays itself!
bonjour peux tu faire un tuto de song for my father merci
I've made two lessons on that song here: ua-cam.com/video/-hpS4mn5ObE/v-deo.html
and here ua-cam.com/video/AGn0YxzoZ3M/v-deo.html
I'm afraid my French isn't very good!
11:25 scales
13:41 7b5
I got a question for example in key of C
Can i use A Dorian??
Good question Paul. I think ultimately you can experiment with this kind of thing. You just have to be aware of the outside notes that it will yield. The outside note in this instance would be F#, might be nice in some instances for tension, I'd use it sometimes on the C chord. Might be more careful when it comes to chords with the note F in (G7, Dm7 and Fmaj7 in this tune). When I say careful, I mean I wouldn't dwell on that note, doesn't mean I wouldn't use it though.
What version is this? Did you make up the chords?
I tend to listen to lots of versions when I do chord videos and go for what seems most typical.
@@jazzguitarwithandy so you did make up the chords?
@@montana85 I'd hardly call it made up. Those are a pretty standard way to play the chords!
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