Jazz Practice Exercises

[nimbleswitch]

These practice charts will likely be of interest only to beginning-intermediate bass players. There are 13 jazz chords broken down into chord tones. You can silence only the piano and play along with the bass for intonation practice, or silence only the bass and play various inversions of the chords in different registers with the piano and drums. Use iReal Pro's looping feature to select what chord or chords you wish to work on at any given time. Some of these roots you may never encounter, but I included all 21 anyway. I set these all up in Practice Style, but you can change that as you like. One playlist has one chart for each root with all 13 jazz chords on it; the other playlist has one chart for each jazz chord with all 21 roots on it, plus three repeats just to round out the cycle. Depends on how you want to practice. [Revised 2014-04-22]

13 Jazz Chord Charts; 21 Roots (13)

Individual songs:
Maj6: 1 3 5 6 - JHC
Maj6add9: 1 3 [5] 6 9 - JHC
Maj7: 1 3 5 7 - JHC
Maj7aug: 1 3 ♯5 7 - JHC
Dom7: 1 3 5 ♭7 - JHC
Dom7aug: 1 3 ♯5 ♭7 - JHC
Dom7♭5: 1 3 ♭5 ♭7 - JHC
Dom7sus4: 1 4 5 ♭7 - JHC
min6: 1 ♭3 5 6 - JHC
min7: 1 ♭3 5 ♭7 - JHC
minMaj7: 1 ♭3 5 7 - JHC
half-dim7 (min7♭5): 1 ♭3 ♭5 ♭7 - JHC
dim7: 1 ♭3 ♭5 ♭♭7 - JHC

21 Root Charts: 13 Jazz Chords (21)

Individual songs:
Root: B♯: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root E♯: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root A♯: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root D♯: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root G♯: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root C♯: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root.F♯: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root B: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root E: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root A: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root. D: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root G: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root C: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root F: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root B♭: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root E♭: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root A♭: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root G♭: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root D♭: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root C♭: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC
Root F♭: 13 Jazz Chords - JHC