Re: Guitar chord systems redux
Jack F. Vogel ( Jack.Vogel@Eng.Sun.COM )
Wed, 14 May 1997 13:50:05 -0700
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> reed wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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 one
> > shell all night, it's something that guitar players have learned
> > to say sometimes because their teachers might have told them that.
> >
>
> 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!)
Hmmm, how about just thinking about the thing as a rock/blues power
chord except based on the third :-). Of course sans-distortion :-).
In the case of a M7 or m7 it actually IS that form, for the dominant
you just have a 'power tritone' :-) :-). This assumes rootless forms
of course. Does this make sense or help anyone??
I also had a question for Reed... So when this guitarist SAID he
would play 3/7 and didn't, what WAS he playing :-)?
Cheers,
Jack