A month of Rhythm Guitar

[grahambop]

You could also play my exercise without the root, i.e. just play the 2 upper notes (on strings 4 and 3), this would be a bit more like Freddie Green I guess. Probably would sound better played along to a suitable bass backing track.

[grahambop]

I've written out some examples in Musescore of the sixth-diminished chord scales I used in my ATTYA exercise, thought it might be useful in understanding how I derived them. I've included minor 6/dim here for completeness, although I'm not sure I ended up using that one. These cover Ab6 (or Fm7), F7 and Fm6, so you would need to transpose them up or down as required for other keys.

[Christian Miller]

I've written out some examples in Musescore of the sixth-diminished chord scales I used in my ATTYA exercise, thought it might be useful in understanding how I derived them. I've included minor 6/dim here for completeness, although I'm not sure I ended up using that one. These cover Ab6 (or Fm7), F7 and Fm6, so you would need to transpose them up or down as required for other keys.

Thats basically what I’ve done since 2010. Those are my money chords. Unfortunately I’ve not been able to patent them. So I’ll nick that and use it with my students. Cheers!

incomplete voicings are big and clever btw. Don’t fear them.

You also want the ‘Monk moves’ to join up the round the houses dominant progressions,

3 x 3 4 x x
5 x 4 5 x x
6 x 5 6 x x
7 x 5 7 x x
8 x 8 9 x x
etc

definitely no patenting those though because everyone uses them

[grahambop]

Thats basically what I’ve done since 2010. Those are my money chords. Unfortunately I’ve not been able to patent them. So I’ll nick that and use it with my students. Cheers!

no problem, I got them from Barry Harris by way of Alan Kingstone!

Also I was interested to try doing notation+tab+chord grids in Musescore, took a bit of googling but got there in the end.