Re: Joe Pass and CAGED
Lawson Stone ( lstone@uky.campus.mci.net )
Sat, 07 Dec 1996 09:22:13 +0000
William Brown wrote:
>
> Lawson G. Stone wrote:
> >
> > To play a chord
> > with a #5, the chord fingering usually needs to have a 5th in it
> > somewhere.
> >
>
> Not at all. Good comping example. G C# Eb (Great A7b5, 3 note chord) as
> well
> as an Eb7 chord. Might even add the F# as the 13th of the A7 or the 9th
> of
> the Eb7.
>
I think I see your point. A fingering with no 5th relative to one root
might contain the #5 relative to another. Maybe it's temperament, but I
tend, at this point near the beginning of my jazz journey (a little new
age lingo there) I like to think relative to the implied root.
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