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Intervals On Guitar - PDF Cheat Sheet With Shapes - Free Download
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2021-09-25
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
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This free PDF chart contains shapes for a better understanding on how to play of music intervals on the guitar. This cheat sheet is availabale for free (or Pay What You Want) on Jazz Guitar Licks Gumroad Library
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Half-diminished Chords - 28 Guitar Shapes
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2020-09-18
- In Chords / Voicings
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Half-diminished chords (aka m7b5) have an especially important place in jazz music. They are generally found in minor 2 5 1 progressions as the ii chord or can be used as substitutions for dominant 7 chords. This blog post provides 28 different shapes based on drop 2, drop 3 and drop 2-4 voicings for playing m7b5 chords on guitar.
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28 Major 7 Guitar Chord Diagrams
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2020-08-28
- In Chords / Voicings
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This blog post provides 28 positions with intervals to play major seventh chords (maj7) on guitar. Three types of voicings are used : drop 2, drop 3, drop 2-4 and their inversions.
The diagrams are organized this way:
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28 Ways of Playing a Dominant 7 Chord On Guitar
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2020-08-22
- In Chords / Voicings
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Dominant 7 chords are surely the most important to know when you want to try your hand at jazz guitar. These chords are very present in jazz and blues tunes, that's why it is crucial to know them at your fingertips.This quick lesson show 28 dominant 7 guitar shapes based on drop 2, drop 3 and drop 2-4 voicings.
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Minor Seventh Guitar Chord Chart - 28 Positions
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2020-08-16
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This blog article provides 28 guitar chord shapes to play minor seventh chord on guitar. These positions are built using three different types of voicings as Drop 2, drop 3 and drop 2-4.
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15 Jazz Guitar Chords For Beginners
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2020-02-28
- In Chords / Voicings
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Here are 15 basic jazz guitar chord positions that every beginning jazz guitar student must know. These chords are grouped into five families :
- Major seventh chords (Maj7)
- Minor seventh (m7)
- Dominant 7th (7)
- Half diminished / minor seventh flat fifth (m7b5)
- Diminished 7th (dim7)
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Chord / Scale Relationships - Guitar Charts Cheat Sheet
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2020-01-14
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
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These guitar cheat sheets show the relation between common modes and chord shapes.
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Guitar Intervals - Infographic With Shapes
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2019-12-26
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This infographic chart show how look simple and compound intervals on the guitar neck. Click on the right mouse button and choose "save target as."
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Modes of the Major Scale and Related Chords - Guitar Infographic
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2018-07-24
- In Infographics
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This infographic provide guitar shapes that will help you to make the link between the seven modes of the major scale and their related drop 2 and drop 3 chords.
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Dominant 7 Chord Altered Extensions - Guitar Infographic
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2018-05-01
- In Infographics
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Dominant 7 Chord Altered Extensions - Guitar Infographic
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Extended Major 7th Chords | Guitar Diagrams & Voicings
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2017-04-01
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Seventh chords (aka four-note chords) represent the backbone of jazz harmony. It is common to extend them with extra tones. These other notes form the upper structure of a chord which includes the 9th, 11th and 13th.
Adding extensions to chords help to get off the beaten tracks and provides some new harmonic colors to your playing (chord soloing, comping, and arrangement).
This lesson provides useful extended major 7th chord shapes to apply to your playing.
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How to Play Minor and Major 6 chords on Guitar | 24 Diagrams and Voicings
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2017-02-04
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Major 6 and minor 6 chords are often used in place of major 7 and minor 7 chords when comping over jazz standards. That's why it is very important to be able to play them on the guitar neck. There are two main types of chords that contains a sixth, M6 and m6. These chords are made up of 4 notes and built with the interval patterns :- R-3-5-6 for the major 6 chords.
- R-b3-5-6 for the minor 6 chords.
In this post you will see how to play these major 6 and minor 6 chords (root and inverted positions) using 24 guitar diagrams and voicing charts.
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There Will Never Be Another You - Jazz Guitar Chord Lesson
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2017-01-20
- In Jazz Standards
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"There Will Never Be Another You" is a popular song by Harry Warren (music) and Mack Gordon (lyrics). It is one of the most known jazz standards and an indispensable study for any jazz guitarist. This jazz guitar comping lesson provides you different chord voicings (drop 2, inverted, rootless and extended chords) on the top four strings of the guitar to comp over this jazz tune. By the way, it will also give you some new ideas to support harmonically a soloist. Indeed, you may even try to apply these chord voicings to the tunes you are used to playing.
