I'd like to incorporate more jazzy chords in my music. I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on how to structure basic jazz chords and such

this is a deep, deep rabbit hole, haha. i'll give you some key areas to focus on, hopefully pointing you in the right direction

start by working with 7th chords. major 7th, minor 7th, and dominant 7th are your core three. learn how scale degrees work: for example, if you're in the key of C major, if you play a D chord, it should be a D minor chord because it's the second scale degree in that key. if you want you can read about the circle of fifths, and modes if you're feeling adventurous.

above all though: EXPERIMENT. watch videos and read pages about jazz chords and jazz theory, and try to write some progressions. if you're stuck, listen to a song that you like and see if you can figure out the chord progression just by listening to the song. that's really good for training your ear. finally, once you have something, share it: people with a lot more knowledge than you or me are on here and can help you with specific questions you might have.

Totally agree with what soupandreas was saying, also the importance of listening to jazz can't be overlooked. While sometimes it might be tedious to learn jazz chords/progressions, the best inspiration is in listening to jazz. Recently, I've been hooked on Robert Glasper, Cory Henry, Bill Laurance to name a few keyboard players. Oh, also Tennyson and Haywyre are both doing amazing things with jazz + electronic music

Anyways, I would also check out PDFs of jazz chords explained, even though it is kind of advanced. Search "Bill Evans voicings" and there are a ton of resources he designed for understanding jazz chords visually, not just aurally. Sometimes all it takes is one chord to inspire you in a track! Hope this helps.

Try playing 7ths/9ths/11ths/13ths/ as well as trying inversions on these. Also playing dominant 7ths with flattened 5ths can sound nice too!

if you're not a person to learn by reading, and more by examples+practices, you should definitely try :

https://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab

you can learn by going through songs that have been analyzed. it's quite flexible, you can check what a chord sounded like in a song
just by clicking, you can see how it is on a virtual keyboard, you can change the scale and tempo. but mostly, you can go and find
variations of a chord progression just by "searching" have fun !

ayyy I got you. So check out 7th and 9th chords like folks have been saying, but for a modern jazz sound, also check out/mix in quartal chords as well. Here's an example:

instead of playing Cmaj7 with a 9th, which is
c e g b d
play a quartal version
c    e a d
e, a, and d are all a fourth a part. d, the ninth, is still the top most note, so you keep some of the properties of the the maj7 version, but the fourths lend it this super striking quality. It can help to kick that c down an octave.

ALSO check out quintal chords. Like, instead of standard fm7
f ab c eb
we're gonna get all wiggy.
f c g ab eb Bb

f, c, and g are all a fifth apart. same thing with ab, eb, and Bb. The result are these huge, rich chords.

Other stuff you should check out: secondary dominants, ii-Vs, and different voicings. Here are some helpful videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-bZje31xsY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJYRX5YW_eI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeXueyqh4JE

how do u guys feel about moving out of diatonic harmony? tritone use? tritone substitution? does it hold a place in electronic music? are casual music listeners ready to hear that sound?

the wonders of jazz is that you always make a chord progression out of scratch, whether it be your own derived from common root sequences (2-5-1-x), or spicing up the chord progression of a song you want to remix.

as everyone else said 7th chords are an easy way to get a lush jazz sound, theyre probably one of the most prominent, if not the most. feel free to break out of key and walk along the chromatic scale, just do it right (I cant explain what I mean by this, but it just comes with time and experience for what sounds beautifully dissonant, and what just sounds totally totally wrong)

if you want to immerse yourself in basic jazz progression/chords but still want to stay in the electronic music domain, listen to the future club scene (future bass and shit, and no not all of is the Kawaii wannabe wave racer crap if you hate that) bc theyre currently destroying the jazz-electro scene Imo.

also, pop music in the eastern world (jpop/kpop, etc) incorporate tons of jazz in their stuff. I can never find the same old progressions getting old bc theres always a way to make things totally interesting, not like western pop i.e. 1-5-6-4 or pachelbells sequence. why is this so? bc Jazz

cheers

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