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Lee33

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I really must improve my rythmn playing and I wondered if anyone has ever given a link or whatever to the basic jazz chords that you just couldn't live without. You know the small compact type that you can slide all over the fretboard. Chords that sound 'nice' but aren't too big and cumbersome.

 

Anyone know of such a list?

 

Lee

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Originally posted by D8rkn3ss

be careful, you might join the ranks of the tonedeaf:rolleyes:

 

 

 

...............and there's no shortage of those.

 

 

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Originally posted by Lee33

I really must improve my rythmn playing and I wondered if anyone has ever given a link or whatever to the basic jazz chords that you just couldn't live without. You know the small compact type that you can slide all over the fretboard. Chords that sound 'nice' but aren't too big and cumbersome.


Anyone know of such a list?


Lee

 

 

You don't just have to play "jazz chords". I've jammed along to my recent Allman Brothers DVD and got along fine with basic triads on the top 3 or 4 strings.

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Originally posted by Lee33

I really must improve my rythmn playing and I wondered if anyone has ever given a link or whatever to the basic jazz chords that you just couldn't live without. You know the small compact type that you can slide all over the fretboard. Chords that sound 'nice' but aren't too big and cumbersome.


Anyone know of such a list?


Lee

 

 

These are the three most commonly used chord categories in jazz - major, dominant, and minor. These voicings can be slid anywhere on the neck for different roots. You will notice that they don't include the root on the bottom strings, and sometimes omit the 5th.

 

BbMaj7

 

6

6

7

7

x

x

 

 

Bb13

 

8

8

7

6

x

x

 

Bbm7

 

6

6

6

6

x

x

 

 

EbMaj7

 

6

8

7

8

x

x

 

 

Eb9

 

6

6

6

5

x

x

 

 

Ebm9

 

6

6

6

4

x

x

Posted

Originally posted by skatom



These are the three most commonly used chord categories in jazz - major, dominant, and minor. These voicings can be slid anywhere on the neck for different roots. You will notice that they don't include the root on the bottom strings, and sometimes omit the 5th.


BbMaj7


6

6

7

7

x

x

 

 

This particular one sounds pretty harsh because of the minor 9th interval between the Root on the first string and the 7th on the 4th string.

 

The way to avoid this is to either change the root, or change the 7th.

 

Moving the 7th, you can use Bb 6/9:

 

6 R

6 5

5 9

5 6

x

x

 

Or Bbmaj6:

 

6 R

6 5

7 3

5 6

x

x

 

 

Moving the root, you can use Bbmaj9:

 

8 9

6 5

7 3

7 7

x

x

 

 

 

 

However, if you take the original voicing and move the top note down to the bottom string, you get a very common and usable Bbmaj7 shape:

 

x

6

7

7

x

6

 

 

 

In fact, you can do that to all the voicings in the above post for some voicings with the root on the bottom string.

 

 

 

 

Also, there was a guitar magazine with a good section on common jazz voicings that I picked up a few years ago when I was first learning jazz. Here is the section on chords:

 

 

http://gozips.uakron.edu/~jjp14/Chords1.jpg

http://gozips.uakron.edu/~jjp14/Chords2.jpg

http://gozips.uakron.edu/~jjp14/Chords3.jpg

http://gozips.uakron.edu/~jjp14/Chords4.jpg

http://gozips.uakron.edu/~jjp14/Chords5.jpg

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i posted that because lee had made snide remarks about jazz musicians previously. Mind your own business, I could have been alot more harsh.


and tool kicks ass.

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Originally posted by D8rkn3ss

i posted that because lee had made snide remarks about jazz musicians previously. Mind your own business, I could have been alot more harsh.



and tool kicks ass.

 

 

harsh...

 

your a dick

 

 

there voicings that lead to each other with the minimum of moovment

just because you know {censored} about theory dosent mean you have the right to be harsh

u will look more like the tool u are

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Originally posted by mukuzi



harsh...


your a dick



there voicings that lead to each other with the minimum of moovment

just because you know {censored} about theory dosent mean you have the right to be harsh

u will look more like the tool u are

 

 

If you read the other thread that this orignated from, I think you would be seeing it a little differently.

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Jazz is my favourite genre. What's the problem? I'm pretty poor at theory - which is why I'm here. I hope to improve outa sight.

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Originally posted by Poparad



If you read the other thread that this orignated from, I think you would be seeing it a little differently.

 

 

i havent, i should but i wont. i get whats going on tho...

i still think i didnt need to be draged in to some in fighting in the loft, and i am getting sick of all the smartarse crap here at HC

 

now my voicings rule

 

so lee and darkness should be practicing them insted of undermining my chords/life/posts

 

the 736 voicings leads to a M7 very smoothly

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