![]() With all aspects of playing you need to listen to or be aware of your body. ![]() I remember them as much more difficult than thia though. ![]() I think I did to some degree train my hands with Ted Green exercises. Very difficult and lots of 2nds in the voicings (the guitar parts were co-written by Ben Monder). You gotta be careful if you're a pro and other people are counting on you, because it becomes a career injury.Īs a reading musician, when I see guitar charts asking for voicings with lots of 2nds in them, I usually assume the arranger is ignorant about writing for guitar.Ironically the first big band project I played in at the conservatory was a Maria Schneider project. Guitarists aren't the only ones prone to music injuries, lots of horror stories out there. I think most serious guitarists have taken their hands to the limits to see what they can and cannot do. You have learn how to listen to your own body. I know I've hurt my hand a few times through the years trying to force it to do things it wasn't meant to. I could never deal with a lot of Ted Greene's chord shapes. We each have to exploit the things we can do, everyone's hands have their own unique strengths and weaknesses. Given how much they are used I would consider them common fingerings for an average (jazz) guitarist, my experience with students but that is only based on my experience. The reason that I call them essential is mostly because they are a type of voicing that I use really a lot and because that is what I call my lessons on voicings. I got them into my playing at the same time as I was learning drop2 and the drop2's gave me more trouble in fact. To me these voicings don't feel stretchy compared to some of the Holdsworth stuff. To be honest I never thought about it like that at all, but maybe you have a point. All hands are not created equal.Thanks CG. Title: The Chord Factory: Build Your Own Guitar Chord DictionaryAuthor: Jon DamianNew book: ships from United Kingdom via airmail with tracking, delivered by USPS, allow 2-4 weeks due to current circumstances.Publication Date: Oct-30-2007.Binding: Paperback.Pages: 167.Edition: paperback/cd.Dimens. Some folks can make some gains with stretching exercises to attain more flexibility in their hands, but sometimes it just causes damage by trying to ask the hand to perform some mechanics it wasn't engineered to do. I have average size hands, and by experience, those fingerings would cause me some type of repetitive stress damage if I were to try and adopt them. Jens, I've got nothing but respect for your playing, teaching and knowledge, but, I usually play on a 25 1/2 scale guitar and those fingerings are not what I would advise to other players as "essential" or "practical", which might lead a beginner to think they are common fingerings for the average guitarist. ![]() And again.that one I move around a lot.so #6 on the bottom line would be D-9. But the half step is pretty enough to hold up that tonality without the missing notes. I also use #3 on the bottom line as an A-9.this time with no root and no 7.just the 9, 3, and 5. I move the shape around depending on the chord. By that logic, obviously that means I also use #4 from the top line as a D-9. And I sometimes use it for CMaj7 too.but not nearly as often. Sounds great! Sometimes I add the open 5th string to give it a root, but usually no. I use #1 from the top line as an A-9 all the time. But a few of these are go-to voicings for me for specific tonalities. I have 'used' (lightly in passing) most of the chords.but generally just as some little sort of non-sensical passing movement. Thanks Jon! I'm happy to work at The Chord Factory.I use them all the time and wanted to make a lesson demonstrating how I do that when I realized that I don't have a name for themĪs far as I know, when you have voicings made up of ONLY 2nds and 3rds, they are technically cluster chords.so like you said.what you call them would really depend pretty much entirely on what root note you're putting underneath. Jon Damian has done all of us guitar players a huge favor: He's taken us by the hand to some brand new, exotic places musically. presenting everything in a clear, sometimes humorous way. "What an amazing book! Incredibly detailed and thorough.
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