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Post by millring on Feb 25, 2024 17:40:54 GMT -5
Have you ever run across a site out there like this one www.theguitarguy.com/home.htm -- or especially one with American Standards/American Jazz Standards but that includes the little chord charts like these, instead of just the names of the chords for those of us who don't know the names of every chord?  |
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Post by drlj on Feb 25, 2024 17:53:47 GMT -5
I have been using that site for quite a while—couple of years, at least. It’s a good one with lots of songs. There is also a really good chord site that will show you just about any chord and it’s inversions you might want. It also allows you to identify chords by putting in the fingerings. www.oolimo.com/en/guitar-chords/analyzeIt works best on a computer or IPad. A phone is too small. |
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Post by Dub on Feb 25, 2024 17:58:36 GMT -5
Ha!
And xx1212 is always called a C diminished seventh. (001212 might be called Cº/E or something but he doesn't specify.)
What a card.
On edit: LJ's site calls 001212 Emaj9SUS(#5) or C6(#9,#11)/E
One thing it definitely isn't is Cº.
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Post by drlj on Feb 25, 2024 18:09:13 GMT -5
There used to be more free sites but everyone is charging now so it’s harder to find things like The Guitar Guy.
On the chord site I listed, click on the beaker symbol to get the chord analysis section.
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Post by billhammond on Feb 25, 2024 18:21:19 GMT -5
There used to be more free sites but everyone is charging now so it’s harder too find things like The Guitar Guy. Big words are hard. < to > |
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Post by Dub on Feb 25, 2024 18:22:52 GMT -5
I've posted this before but, like it or not, here it comes again. It covers most of the chords we encounter.  |
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Post by drlj on Feb 25, 2024 18:33:29 GMT -5
There used to be more free sites but everyone is charging now so it’s harder too find things like The Guitar Guy. Big words are hard. < to >May I suggest a location for your editor’s hat? |
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Post by Dub on Feb 25, 2024 18:35:33 GMT -5
The Web site is too small on an iPhone but there is an Oolimo app on the app store that seems to look fine on an iPhone. The app works on an iPad too. This is a great site/app, thanks. |
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Post by drlj on Feb 25, 2024 18:45:22 GMT -5
On YouTube, you will find Sandra Sherman, Tim Lerch, and Chris Whitehead who regularly put up lessons and songs to learn. They also sell tabs for $3-5, which is pretty reasonable. www.andyfrench.co.uk/2017/11/shell-voicings-guitar/This is a good site to learn shell chord fingerings. Mostly, all these people use 3 note chords when they can. As Joe Pass said, “Play the simplest form possible.” |
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Post by Dub on Feb 25, 2024 21:57:05 GMT -5
On YouTube, you will find Sandra Sherman, Tim Lerch, and Chris Whitehead who regularly put up lessons and songs to learn. They also sell tabs for $3-5, which is pretty reasonable. www.andyfrench.co.uk/2017/11/shell-voicings-guitar/This is a good site to learn shell chord fingerings. Mostly, all these people use 3 note chords when they can. As Joe Pass said, “Play the simplest form possible.” One of the techniques they all talk about is hybrid picking. I started fingerpicking long before I ever held a flat pick, but I never tried holding a flat pick and using my remaining fingers for fingerpicking. Now I find myself trying out this hybrid stuff in an effort to approach chord melody renditions of jazz tunes. Do any of you have any tips that might help with this. |
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Post by John B on Feb 26, 2024 1:05:49 GMT -5
I've posted this before but, like it or not, here it comes again. It covers most of the chords we encounter. This appears to be Todd's advanced chart (all variations of a G chord) |
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Post by Marty on Feb 26, 2024 9:20:00 GMT -5
I remember you could buy any Mel Bay's Guitar Method or Alfred's book and it had a huge chart of chords on the back cover. It was laid out rather well so you understood chord relationships and common inversions.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Feb 26, 2024 9:32:39 GMT -5
I blame my general lack of music comprehension on the fact that when I was very young my mother did not put me on her lap and read music to me.
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Post by Dub on Feb 26, 2024 12:21:06 GMT -5
I've posted this before but, like it or not, here it comes again. It covers most of the chords we encounter. This appears to be Todd's advanced chart (all variations of a G chord) LOL The late Art Erickson who gave me this chart always drew it out by hand on a sheet of paper for me, sometimes as I sat and watched. That was probably 35 years ago. I made this more formal looking edition from the hand-drawn copies he’d given me. Art would do the same thing with tunes he was using for lessons. He’d draw music paper by hand, sometimes using a ruler, sometimes not. Then he’d draw in all the notes, key signatures, chord names, etc. to make a lead sheet. I’ve saved all of those. One of the exercises he had me do was start with the G6 with the root on the 6th string and quickly play G6, G7, G Δ, G7, over and over two to the bar. Only one string changes and each change requires two fingers to swap places. Art viewed all the four-note chords as variations on these shapes. Just look at the spelling list at the bottom to see how to alter the shapes to make the chord you want. |
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Post by John B on Feb 26, 2024 13:02:23 GMT -5
This appears to be Todd's advanced chart (all variations of a G chord) LOL The late Art Erickson who gave me this chart always drew it out by hand on a sheet of paper for me, sometimes as I sat and watched. That was probably 35 years ago. I made this more formal looking edition from the hand-drawn copies he’d given me. Art would do the same thing with tunes he was using for lessons. He’d draw music paper by hand, sometimes using a ruler, sometimes not. Then he’d draw in all the notes, key signatures, chord names, etc. to make a lead sheet. I’ve saved all of those. One of the exercises he had me do was start with the G6 with the root on the 6th string and quickly play G6, G7, G Δ, G7, over and over two to the bar. Only one string changes and each change requires two fingers to swap places. Art viewed all the four-note chords as variations on these shapes. Just look at the spelling list at the bottom to see how to alter the shapes to make the chord you want. The hard part's getting rid of anything that isn't a 1, 3 or 5. |
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