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> Most people that play jazz guitar cannot do these even though they
> have heard about them and will tell you that they know them. I was
> playing piano for a big band one night and when I got there the
> guitar player said that he was going to just play 3/7ths all night
> so he wouldnt get in my way harmonically. Well I don't think I heard o=
ne
> shell all night, it's something that guitar players have learned
> to say sometimes because their teachers might have told them that.
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I doubt if I really know these. Do you have on your site a post of such
small voicings-3/7ths? I think this is something I could stand to drill
on a bit to spruce up my comping (by paring it down! only in jazz!)
Or is this best done by just examining voicings I already know.
Also: in playing rootless voicings, shells, etc. is the unaltered 9th
ever considered a safe part of the shell? I have never heard myself in
terrible conflict with a pianist playing the 9th, but I have found
myself clashing with a soloist a time or two over a 9th. =
My experience is simply too sporadic, and includes "struggling" players,
not experienced hands, so I really don't know how well to generalize
from what I've experienced in this realm.
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