Help me spell this chord

[imported_thomasross20]

If you want, frankus, I could give you endless reading on this type of thing :lol: :lol: :lol: Well pointed out, though.

Glad to see you're back!

[frankus]

If you want, frankus, I could give you endless reading on this type of thing :lol: :lol: :lol: Well pointed out, though.

Glad to see you're back!

Well I'm not back for long, just a sort of seasonal lull. I'll be too drunk and/or busy over the weekend and back into work on the 2nd.

I've kinda had my fill of reading stuff on chord extensions/substitutions/synonyms. Ted Greene and Bret Willmott seem to be pretty reliable references.

To my mind "chord spellings" are a circular argument created by not using notation, I was only kinda poking at the absurdity of the names as they depend on the instruments, key and D Kevin chord preceding it to be applicable, it'd be like me deciding to call you Dave because it's an overcast Friday in December, Dave.

So I'm learning notation and sight reading. Jase and others recommended Slonimsky and the wonderful Reginald Smith Brindle and that's precisely where I'm at, together with the Leon White book Sight to Sound my new teacher recommended and the MIT book that I had already.

After that it's Zucker's Sheets of Sound and a new Double bound 62 reissue telecaster in old lake placid blue with a humbucker in the neck and the control plate flipped so the knobs are at the front and open mic nights.

[imported_thomasross20]

Woah, you've been up to a lot, then!!
So is your absence because of the fact that you're trying to get more playing done? If so.. I should follow your example!!
Yeah, the Ted Greene books are great! I've also been doing a bit of the old rhythm and sigh reading, though I find I just can't stay interested for long, so I usually resort back to just using shapes and writing songs. Maybe one day!
So are you in a band? You have to get some clips up, I bet you're a beast!

EDIT - I agree with the whole circular argument thing..
There are times when you have to be specifgic.. but otherwise.. just get on with it, I say! :lol: (fret'll be along shortly to tell me I act otherwise :lol: )

[frankus]

These days, I'd recommend only one Ted Greene book and that'd be Modern Chord Progressions - The Solo Jazz Guitar stuff is all focussed on arpeggios so repeats a lot of chord theory. Chord Chemistry is good to have around just to frighten people with. Alan De Mause's Jazz Guitar book is almost an abridged version of Solo Jazz Guitar Book 1...

I'm finding short bursts of practise on sight reading help more than long marathon strain-athons, perhaps 3 minutes six or seven times a day.

I'm supposed to be playing a gig with my little brother in Feb but the songs he's written need to be rehearsed with an entire band before I'd be convinced they've got space for guitar solos as he wants them, I'd be happy just supporting the rhythm guitar.

I played my guitar teach the intro and verse of Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye and he said if I put 6 tunes together like that we could gig, but he might have been massaging my ego .. when I've finished it I'll put up a sound click... if I get a chance to record it.

In the mean time, this is my mate from Uni, part-time mentor and fellow left hander: Matt Soffianos, who was told to pimp himself here and sadly didn't ... do the myspace thing, people, he's very nice and he's almost allowed to eat Spaghetti in public these days!

http://www.myspace.com/mattsofianos

[timmyo]

Blame Radio4

So what's this tele, I've been reading about?

Well, it's a double bound 62 reissue telecaster in old lake placid blue with a humbucker in the neck and the control plate flipped so the knobs are at the front. I play it at open mic nights.











































OK, not really :lol:

It's a Lite Ash Tele with black dots and a lovely aftermarket nut, ex of Quinny, who had it ex of andrewrg. It is good.

[frankus]

I decided a search would be the sensible option and beheld the fine pictures. It was mighty fine.

The reason I know what I want is because I'm a left handed guitarist who's wife holds the purse strings.. that means I can buy as I please so I need to have a very precise idea and then ask a very nice japanese guy to make it for me... or a very nice american guy called John Suhr but I'm still weighing up the New Suhr vs Divorce quandry.

[thing]

Sorry to be the voice of dissent but how can a root, a fifth and a major seventh be a major chord when it could be used in an example like this:

F7b9 -> Emin6 -> A7b13 -> Dmin maj7 (without a third)


Even if it isn't this, the fact that it's being used with Em in flips example means theres an ambiguity as to whether it's melodic minor or major, here that is being resolved by the D Kevin, but it'd be worth flagging that ambiguity in a concise way IMO.

I mean, where do you stop glossing over omissions? We could called it "F#m b13" played without the root because we're comping with a particularly grumpy bass-player. In that case I'd want to know it was F#m b13 when I came to play solo guitar versions of the piece.

It doesn't have to be a major. It's a major seventh. You're confusing major and minor thirds with major and minor sevenths.

[jason morris1]

You could post some porn on the forum. That'd spell discord.

[frankus]

So how do you say or write DF#AC# ?

I always thought (well maybe starting around three years ago) that major does mean the third... the 7th is a pointer but if this was a minor 7 with a major third it'd be a dominant chord so it's not that reliable a pointer (as most people think of a dominant as a major triad with a minor third interval on from the fifth)... so if I played DAC I could be playing dominant or minor, statistically the odds would be in favour of the minor chord but I don't think many people would be comfortable saying it was a Dmin7

[Trelloskilos]

Here's a nice prog using Dmaj7, it's the intro to one of my tunes.

-2--------------------------5-----------------
-3----3----3----2----2----2-----------------------
-2----3----2----4----3----2------------------------
-0----4----2----5----5----0---------------------
------3----2-----------------------------------
------4----3----5----5----------------------------

Note the use of Kevin at the end.

Tried playing that. It sounds great up until the point where the guitar suddenly starts saying "Oh God! You're so unfair. I hate you! I can't do anyfink I want!"