Playing The Thrill Is Gone in Jazz Guitar

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com. I am a professional guitar instructor and today we will be discussing intermediate jazz guitar. A nice little chord progression or song that I like to use for this is kind of taken off of A Thrill Is Gone by B.B. King; it's kind of a blue's progression but it has a jazz feel to it. We are going to do this in the key of B minor. We are going to start off with our 1 chord, B minor 7 chord. He does this for about 4 measures; then he goes up to his 4 minor 7 chord back to 1, 7. Then he goes to a G7, which is what we will discuss later, is the 5 of 3—we will discuss secondary dominant chords later—but it just really brings us into our 5, 7 back to 1. So 2, 3, 4"