You’re working to put those notes on the frets make sure that the listener can hear them! A common tendency is to hit the outermost notes with the most force, resulting in a thinner texture. When you’re using your fingers to pluck chords, take care to balance the level of each chord tone. When strumming across the strings, make the speed of your stroke fast enough to give the illusion of one simultaneous sound made up of all the chord voices. Focus your strumming (or finger-picking attacks) on the indicated strings. Use the edges of your fingers of your fretting hand to mute unwanted strings. Take special care to play the notes requested-and to leave out, or mute the strings with the x symbol above them. Some tips for getting a good chord sound: Strive to play these chords with a solid time feel, a full tone, and attacks with your “picking hand” that match the level of intensity of the music you’re attempting to play. With time, you will hear the chords before you play them. This material will help you to map out the sounds on your fretboard. These chord blocks will show you the right shapes, but as a musician, you owe it to your audience and yourself to hear the music before you play it. The following diagrams indicate what notes you should use for each chord voicing. Introduction The Berklee Jazz Guitar Chord Dictionary is a resource for 7th-chord voicings and other frequently encountered jazz chord shapes on the fretboard. Diatonic Exercises B% Major on 5 4 3 2 E% Major on 4 3 2 1 F Major on 6 4 3 2 B% Major on 5 3 2 1 F Harmonic Minor on 6 4 3 2 F Melodic Minor on 6 4 3 2 G Major 6 Bebop Scale on 6 4 3 2 G Minor 6 Bebop Scale on 6 4 3 2 About the Author Quartal Voicings Exercises C Dorian Voicings 7. Inversions (each on 5 4 3 2 Major 7 Dominant 7 Minor 7 Minor 7%5 Major 6 Minor 6 Part II. Triads over Bass-Note Voicings with Roots on 6 5 4 V/I %VII/I Other Common Voicings: (III/I, II/I, #IV/I, VI/I, VII/I) 5 4 3 2 1 6 4 3 2 5. Guide Tone Chords Root 3 7 (Major 7, Dominant 7, Minor 7, Minor 7%5, Major 6, Minor 6, Diminished 7) Root 7 3 (Major 7, Dominant 7, Minor 7, Minor 7%5, Major 6, Minor 6, Diminished 7) 4. Moveable 7th Chord Shapes (each on 5 4 3 2 5 3 2 1 ) 4 3 2 1 6 4 3 2 Major 7 Dominant 7 Minor 7 Minor 7%5 Major 6 Minor 6 Diminished 7 Dominant 9 Minor 9 Minor 11 Dominant 13 2. Green Senior Designer: Robert Heath Editorial Assistants: Rajasri Mallikarjuna, Jonathan Whalenġ140 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02215-3693 USA (617) 747-2146 Visit Berklee Press Online at Visit Hal Leonard Online at Copyright © 2007 Berklee Press All Rights Reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the Publisher.Ĭontents Introduction Part I. ISBN-13: 978-0-87639-079-5 ISBN-10: 0-87639-079-3ĩ0448 Berklee JazzGuitarChord Guts:Layout 1ĭean of Continuing Education: Debbie Cavalier Managing Editor: Jonathan Feist Director of Business Affairs: Robert F. Available proceeds from the sales of our products are contributed to the scholarship funds of the college. He has mentored thousands of guitarists and is author/instructor of the Berkleemusic online course Guitar Chords 101 and the Berklee Press DVD Modal Voicing Techniques.īerklee Press, a publishing activity of Berklee College of Music, is a not-for-profit educational publisher. Rick Peckham is Assistant Chair of the Guitar Department at Berklee College of Music. It includes: ! Traditional notation, fretboard diagrams, and tablature for each chord ! Over 100 movable chord forms ! Multiple versions of barre and 7th chord shapes, with substitutions and alterations ! Triads over bass notes, inversions, and guide-tone chords ! Diatonic chord exercises RICK PECKHAMīerklee Press 1140 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02215 USA 61 It is organized to reveal relationships between different types of chords and help you learn the voicings quickly and thoroughly, in a way that is easy to remember.You will improve your comping and soloing, develop your fingerboard facility, and add more colors to your harmonic palette. This chord dictionary includes over a hundred jazz chord forms, from basic 7th chords with all standard tension substitutions and alterations to guide tone chords to triads over bass notes.
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