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April 20, 2018 on Shifting Paradigm Records
THE NOTET silent d
Lesson Six • Diminished Scale Structures The Diminished Scale in Jazz is mostly used as an expression of a dominant chord with b9, #9, #11 and natural 13. The exception being its […]
Lesson Five • How to Use Triad Arpeggios in Solos In Lesson Four, I wrote some triad fragments to get you started playing triad arpeggios. This lesson is about why […]
Lesson Four • Picking Adjacent Strings Part Deux These are some of the exercises found in Jazz Guitar Technique Major and minor triad arpeggios can be used to great effect in […]
Lesson Three • Picking Adjacent Strings These are some of the exercises found in Jazz Guitar Technique One of the things that hangs people up technically is playing on adjacent strings. […]
Lesson Two • Respelling Chords/Scales As discussed in the previous lesson, using one chord voicing for several different chord types reduces the number of voicings one has to memorize just to […]
Sometimes moving four fingers is just too much work—especially when it’s hot and humid out. If you’re feeling lethargic, take the previous chord and just move two fingers to create […]
If I didn’t know better, I would swear the previous two chords and this one were resolving around the cycle (up a 4th). Hopefully, when I wake up, it will […]
Oh yeah, but if you have so much tension for the first chord, how do you follow it with something that’s just as, if not more, interesting? I have absolutely […]
There comes a time in every gig…you’ll know it when you get there…when the music just seems to cry out for some tension and wierdness. If you’re like me, that […]
Another use of open stings to create half steps in the middle of otherwise familiar and common chords. This is a voicing that we typically know as a D9, but […]
Here’s a “Purple Haze” chord that’s even more purple and more hazy than the original. That half step really creates a thick sound. In this case the open strings are […]
This time the open strings are the third and fifth of the C Maj chord, with the half step between the raised fourth and the fifth. It’s kinda’ similar to […]
Evidently they were having a special on open strings down at the Fulton Fish Market. I got these from a guy who told me they fell off the back of […]
MTV wasn’t all over this chord in 1982 or any other year. This has enough half steps in it to last until you get to the next measure. Then you’ll […]
Check it out dude, six notes. Whooa! One more and you’d have, like, seven. MTV was all over this chord in around 1982 (when they had videos with music, instead […]