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Jazz Guitar Lessons with Dixon Nacey
In this lesson, the third in our series of ‘Chord Compendiums’ we examine the Suspended Chord with common sus4, sus7, sus9, 11, 11(b9) and sus13(b9) voicing. FINGERING: In terms of fingering, I will occasionally use my neck-hand thumb to play lower notes (most often the root) in order to free up the neck-hand fingers to play more extensive chord tones, or to create a ‘platform’ (with the thumb and first finger), along which the other 3 remaining fingers can then embellish musical ideas. While I do not recommend this - as it is probably bad technique - I certainly don’t … [Read more...]
In this lesson, the second in our series of ‘Chord Compendiums’ we examine the Minor Chord with common minor triad, mi7, mi6, mi9, mi11, mi13, mi7(b6) and mi7(#5) voicings. FINGERING: In terms of fingering, I will occasionally use my neck-hand thumb to play lower notes (most often the root) in order to free up the neck-hand fingers to play more extensive chord tones, or to create a ‘platform’ (with the thumb and first finger), along which the other 3 remaining fingers can then embellish musical ideas. While I do not recommend this - as it is probably bad technique - … [Read more...]

In this lesson, the first in our series of ‘Chord Compendiums’ we examine the Major Chord with common voicings for the major triad, ma7, ma6, ma9, ma13, ma7(#11) as well as a brief section on add 2 and add 9 voicings. As these are only beginner chord types, we will be introducing increasingly advanced chord types such as slash chords, clusters and split string structures, in future releases. In terms of fingering, I will occasionally use my neck-hand thumb to play lower notes (most often the root) in order to free up the neck-hand fingers to play more extensive chord … [Read more...]

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