playing behind a vocalist

[derek]

I am on AAJ occassionally also. Welcome to the group Jeff, and thanks for the links.

[funnyval]

Originally Posted by gersdal

Very impressive work by Joe Bianco. I loved his way of presenting these voicings. Thanks a bunch!

You're welcome, guys - enjoy. This is an early version of the II-V-I Tutor and there will be some enhancements coming soon...

Joe

[Jeff Brent]

Here's Joe's updated link:

II-V-I Tutor

Joe ROCKS!

[23skidoo]

Thanks for posting this updated link. I'm new here and missed the original post..... this should be a sticky or something! This is just about the most useful accumulation of information for guitar I've ever seen. Many, many thanks to all involved.....

[Jeff Brent]

Originally Posted by 23skidoo

Thanks for posting this updated link. I'm new here and missed the original post..... this should be a sticky or something!

This is just about the most useful accumulation of information for guitar I've ever seen. Many, many thanks to all involved.....

Yeah, somebody tell the mods to make this a sticky!

Thanks for the kudos!

[Jeff Brent]

Updated url for the II-V-I guitar tutor:

http://users.zoominternet.net/~joe.bianco/251-tutor

Originally Posted by Jeff Brent

This "Bill Evans style rootless chords voiced for guitar" that I originally posted on wholenote.com has generated a great deal of interest, not only here at jazzguitar.be, but elsewhere as well.

Two jazz guitarists (Gerhard Ersdal [gersdal] and Joe Bianco [funnyval]) took it upon themselves to create derivative works by re-formatting the original materials I had posted at Wholenote.com (which has had almost 9,000 hits in the last couple of months).

In Gerhard's case, he tabbed out all the grips and put them into standard notation (a Herculean effort).

But Joe Bianco really went to town with these. He streamlined them, slicked 'em up and made interactive comparative analyses of the chord components!

Joe's "Online ii-V-I Tutor" frankly blows my mind! This is the best exposition of guitar chords (rootless or otherwise) that I have ever seen in my life!!!

Just click on a set of voicings on the left navigation bar that you'd like to check out, and THEN instantaneously compare the chord elements by hitting any one of the 9 buttons at the bottom center:

Rootless ii-V-I Tutor

This is absolutely AMAZING!!! (imho)

As I've mentioned many times, if I had been able to find a book that contained these rootless voicings for guitar (and believe me, I looked and looked), I would have simply shelled out the twenty bucks or whatever and saved myself the hundreds of hours that it took to work these up from scratch.

Never in my wildest dreams, though, did I expect for collaborators with the expertise and professionalism of Messrs. Bianco and Ersdal to come out of the woodwork and take this over the top. This is a project that has really blossomed into something that will benefit generations of guitarists the world over.

Here is the link to Gerhard's tablature (pdf - 9 pages):
Rootless Major 2-5-1 Jazz Chord Fingering Sequences pdf

Here is the link to my original grids at Wholenote.com:
Rootless Major 2-5-1 Jazz Chord Fingering Sequences

If you know any guitarists that could benefit from these voicings, please forward the above URLs to them

Best Wishes,

Jeff Brent

[Jeff Brent]

Link updated again:

http://users.zoominternet.net/~joe.bianco/251-tutor

Originally Posted by Jeff Brent

Here's Joe's updated link:

II-V-I Tutor

Joe ROCKS!

[Larry Feldman]

I was asked to create a chart for a singer based on this incredible version of Trouble Is A Man. Check out Carmen McRae and Pianist Norman Simmons and their communication together. I only hope to be a quarter of this. Carmen McRae - Trouble Is A Man - YouTube

[FatJeff]

Nice!

[Jeff Brent]

I know this is an old thread about a wonderful online study of jazz guitar chords that Joe Bianco and I collaborated on together, but I thought you all should know that I just got a music theory book published by Hal Leonard.

It's called "MODALOGY - scales, modes & chords: the primordial building blocks of music"

You can check it out here:

www.modalogy.net

There is an extensive preview section, along with a gaggle of reviews, a FAQ section, and other way cool stuff.

Best to All!

[FatJeff]

Looks very cool - I'm a total book whore, and I'm sure I'll end up buying it. :-0

[chazz]

TIL THERE WAS YOU is not a common jazz standard but provides an opportunity for two cool sound effects ..... this is outside the box frilly less then serious experimentation. 1. After a you play the melody or after a singer sings there were bells play and experiment with overtones to hint and emulate bells .... will not go further into it but D Major is the best key for both these outside the box experiments .....
2. Same song same key after you play or sing there were birds play birdlike trills or try to emulate or hint at bird song sounds ..... in D Major trill options are there across and up and down the neck ....... I will try to add something pic or tab or vid if there is interest remember less is more for these two techniques let's not shoot for Roy Clark
) some of you may be serious players who avoid this type of musical clowning ..... others may be like me a boundary is there to deny and not taking yourself too seriously

[eddy b.]

2nd on the tuck and pattie super duper duo!!!! While you
re at it check out anything Kurt Elling sings State of the Art Male Jazz Singer!!!! L. Hobgood's piano work will light the way for you on nature boy.