Jazz Guitar Endings

[dirkji]

This thread is about this tutorial: 10 Jazz Guitar Endings

Do you know more ways to end a song, post them here...

- Dirk

[mike_k]

Thanks for this lesson, Dirk. I already use about four of these methods without thinking about it, but having all these endings laid out in a list will be a great resource for working out my own arrangements. Are there any plans for intros?

[renema]

I discovered this one on my own, years ago... Instead of using Cm6/9 which is a C mel. minor scale, you can use the 7th degree of C mel min which is a B7alt super locrian...
It is a great idea that you can use Dbm7 as a final chord after Cmaj7....
If I stretch this idea, I could say that you can use ANY LOGICAL or ILLOGICAL chord as a final chord...:=)

[mr. beaumont]

very cool...

don't forget the simple ii V to I up a half step (so Dm, G7, Dbmaj, your choice of extensions) that doesn't resolve to the I too...

[Aaron J. Halpern]

how this for a sweet ending for a song Cmaj7,c#dim7,Dmin7,Gdom7,and Cmaj

[Tom Lockwood]

Hi Folks-
I just wanted to comment on example 7 of the jazz guitar
endings. This ending ties in better with the song if you keep
the root (C) as a high note throughout the progression.
Tommy

[Tom Lockwood]

Try using example 7 with the root (C) carried through the entire
progression. Also try converting some of the chords to minor
(Fmaj7-Fmin7). Also, once you get to the root chord (Cmaj7)
you can go to A7#5#9 and cycle through the progression again-
it makes a cool little vamp. I do this on the standard "Emily"
Tom Lockwood

[yorg]

my first post,
like everybody work and home catch up,
its all i can do to play most times.
but i'm glad to belong to such a great site.
keep it up dirk et al.
cheers
chris.

[guitaroulis]

try using a sus4. For instance in a II-V-I progression, (Dm7-G7-Cmaj7) substitute cmaj7 for Csus4.Sweet ending!!!!!!!!

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[erwinvd]

An ending I recently learned from a book by Hal Leonard corp. (Jazz guitar) is a typical Duke Ellington ending:

-----------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------7---------
--------------------------------------7--------
-10---------------7 - 9 - 10-----------8-------------------
-----7 -8 - 9- 10----------------------10------------------
-----------------------------------------------

Of course you can move along the neck.

Succes,

Erwin

[Tom Lockwood]

In reply to Erwin's Post :
I like this chord better for an ending chord. I used it in my recording
of a Duke Ellington Medley on my new CD "Point of View". It also
sounds very cool with a Lenny Breau "harp" harmonic flourish to
cap it off.
------2------
------3------
------3------
------2------
------3------
------2------
You could name this chord several ways, I think of it as a C9#4/F#
Try it out!!
Tommy

[yorg]

tommy,
i know this chord as a D+9,but it is
a nice chord either way.
cheers
yorg.

[erwinvd]

Not a chord sequence, but an slow/lounge jazz ending in C is this chord, especially in Cm:

---------10----------------
----------8------------------
----------8------------------
----------8------------------
----------8------------------
----------------------------

Tommy, I give your chord a try, of course I will use it at several positions.

Erwin

[dirkji]

Thanks guys, some good suggestions (how could I forget the Ellington ending), I'll add them to the page.

Does anyone remember how that typical Count Basie ending goes?

[renema]

How about this bluesy one from Jobim, how do you name it?
---------11----------------
---------10------------------
----------9------------------
----------8------------------
-----------------------------
----------------------------
This chord belongs to the symmetrical diminished scale:
C13#9 or Eb7b9#11 or Gb13#9 or A7b9#11

[renema]

This is a dominant ninth chord with an altered 5th:
------2------
------3------
------3------
------2------
------3------
------2------
This chord belongs to the Whole Tone Scale. It can be used as:
F#9(alt5) or G#9(alt5) or A#9(alt5) or C9(alt5) or D9(alt5) or E9(alt5)

[renema]

This is a typical Duke Ellington chord. He loved putting the 4th on the bass to m7 chords; also b9 on the bass for dom 7 chords.
Cm9/F
---------10----------------
----------8------------------
----------8------------------
----------8------------------
----------8------------------
----------------------------
C13/Db
----------8----------------
---------10------------------
----------9------------------
----------8------------------
----------------------------
----------9-----------------

[erwinvd]

Typical Count Basie ending, although I could be wrong (corrections please) is (in F) :

----------13------13----13--------------------
---------11------12-----12--------------------
---------10------11-----12--------------------
----------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------
--------------------------------1-------------

Erwin

[erwinvd]

Another one when the songs ends in a Maj7 chord is this, which I learned from my bandmate, e.g. in Amaj7:

-----------4-5-4---------------------------------
-----------------5---------------------------
-------------------6-------------------------
-------------------- 7-8-7-----------------------
-------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------

another guitarist ends e.g. with an Amaj7 lower on the neck (basis position), which gives a nice tone & tension.

Success,

erwin

[renema]

<<<<<<F7<<<<E7 <<Eb7 <<E7 <<< F7


----------13------13-----13-----13-----13----------
--------- 13------12-----11-----12-----13--------
----------12------11-----10-----11-----12------
----------13------12-----11-----12-----13-------
-------------------------------------------------
---------------1-------1------------------------1--

[John Curran]

Originally Posted by dirkji

Does anyone remember how that typical Count Basie ending goes?

In C;

------8----8-----8-----
------10---10---10----
------7----8-----9-----

Usually followed by a C7#9 chord.

Similar to what erwinvd posted, only different.

best regards
john