Refreshing Your Chord Vocabulary on Simple ii-V-I's

Paul Bollenback shows how to expand your chord vocabulary on the ii-V-I — the most fundamental progression in jazz — by starting from three basic shapes you already know and moving the inner voices around. Beginning with standard Dm7, G13, and Cmaj7 voicings, he systematically derives a whole family of new chords, one voice at a time.

What's covered

• Moving individual voices within a basic Dm7 grip to produce Dm7b5, Dm11 (voiced in fourths), and D7#9 as ii-chord substitutions
• Open versus thick voicings — including a pretty open Dm7 with the doubled 3rd
• Creating inner-voice motion with passing chords like Bbmaj7/D resolving through G13
• Which voicings work in a functional ii-V-I context versus modal or other settings
• Fingering and hand-position habits — keeping fingers close to the frets — plus how to practice each voicing so it's usable in real time

If your comping keeps falling back on the same old grips, this class gives you a practical method for opening it up: take what you already have and learn to move the voices. Full video is 1 hour and 26 minutes.