(Jazz guitar playing)
- Hi everybody, my name is Jens Larsen.
In this video I'm going to show you
how you can use five different sus4 triads
to improvise over a maj7 chord.
We're going to take a Cmaj7 chord
and then for each of the different sus4 triads
I'm going to go over,
I'm going to show you how to play the arpeggio,
how you can make a line with it,
and also how you can use them as
part of a chord voicing if you want to play the chord.
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(guitar playing)
This first example is using an Esus4 triad.
So the Esus4 triad, if we relate that to C
then we have the major third,
the major sixth, and the major seven.
So we actually have the complete Cmaj7 voicing.
The way you could play that arpeggio in this position
if we start in the E that could be something like this.
(guitar playing)
And really that's also just the first part
of the lick that I'm playing,
so I'm just playing the basic arpeggio
in these two octaves.
(guitar playing)
And then I start mixing it up
with some E minor pentatonic material.
(guitar playing)
Ending on the major 7th.
(guitar playing)
So this is using a Gsus4 triad
and the Gsus4 triad has the fifth,
the root, and the ninth.
So we don't actually have a complete
Cmaj7 voicing but you can still
use it as sort of a substitute for a Cmaj7.
(guitar playing)
If you want to have this sound
it's also very similar to in fact playing
sort of the first chord you find in Purple Rain.
And the way I'm using it,
so if you want to play that in this position
you can play that from here.
(guitar playing)
That would be the arpeggio.
And the way I'm using it in the lick
first I'm just playing (guitar music)
sort of this part of it.
This is really just like the Gsus4 of course
also an inversion of a Csus2.
I think this mostly reminds me of a Csus2.
But that's the position I'm playing here.
(guitar playing)
And it helps to something that really sounds like a Gsus.
And then that's repeated.
And that idea is kind of repeated
but now I'm moving into again
some E minor pentatonic material.
Coming off from the A to the G down to the E
and then (guitar playing) ending on the nine
of the Cmaj7.
(guitar playing)
Here I'm using the Asus4.
So Asus4 is giving us the six, the ninth, and the third.
So we kind of have a C6/9 chord
like this voicing here.
And the way I'm playing it,
so one way of playing it would be just
to start here in the position.
(guitar playing)
Like this.
And the way I'm using it in the lick
is actually I'm using the fact
that we can move up in octaves
and then use the different strings sets
and use the same fingering.
Which works really well for these sus triads.
It's actually something that works well for most arpeggios.
That's why I start with more or less
the standard C major, even C major pentatonic run.
(guitar playing)
It's just all A minor pentatonic.
(guitar playing)
And then you get the sus4 triad.
(guitar playing)
And here I'm also reusing the fact
that the sus4 triad when you play it
has the sound of some sort of (guitar playing)
open signal type sound.
Which is one of the nice things about
this melodically word you can sort of take out
of this sus4 sound and that's really
nice to just put in there
because it sounds so different
from the normal triads and the normal
third based arpeggios that we usually play.
(guitar playing)
Here I'm using a Dsus4 triad.
So the Dsus4 is going to give us the nine,
the fifth, and the sixth.
So we don't actually have a third.
It's not a complete voicing in that sense,
but it's also still a nice part
that we can play it's kind of similar
to what you will find very often in sambas
where they'll play this type of voicing
and then just leave out the third.
So the line that I'm playing I'm starting on the A.
And then skipping down an octave
and then just start the arpeggio
so A D G and then again up to A
and then the same idea repeated.
And then from here skipping into
some E minor seven arpeggio.
(guitar playing)
Ending the line on this G on the C major seven.
(guitar playing)
So here I'm using a Bsus4 triad.
So the Bsus4 triad is really a different type of sound
because it's more of a lydian sound.
It's not found in the C major scale.
And if you take the B triad, so the Bsus4 triad,
the B is the major seven, the E is the third,
and the F sharp is the sharp 11.
And the way you can play an arpeggio
like that in this position would be something like this.
(guitar playing)
And what I'm using here in the lick that I played,
so the first part of it is just a descending sus4 triad.
Starting on B and then down to F#.
Pull off to E and then B.
And then because we have the F#
and the E next to each other they're
sort of prime candidates to use a pull off like this.
So I'm kind of using that (guitar playing) idea again
in the next inversion of the arpeggio.
So I'm just starting on the F# now.
Pull off, and then the B and the F#.
So we have (guitar playing).
And that's really easy way to use
these inversions of the triad.
I think it's something I actually took
from a Michael Brecker solo which I might
be doing another video on at some point.
(guitar playing)
And then I continue with an Em7 arpeggio.
Kind of using the idea of the pull off
again just for the phrasing.
(guitar playing)
And just ending on the E at the end of the C major seven.
As you can tell you can tap into
some really interesting sounds
and melodies with these sus4 triads
on top of major seven chord.
And probably this is topic that I'm going
to explore more combining both just sus4 triads
but also other things where you're
superimposing them on the chords.
And I'm of course also curious if you have
something that you use a lot,
so I use superimposing certain pentatonic scales,
or triads, or chord arpeggios on other chords,
and that's something that you find works really well
then leave a comment on this video
because I know I'm curious and I'm sure
that the other people watching the video
are also curious to hear if you have a great suggestion
for something that you can superimpose on top of a chord.
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