--- In jazz_guitar@y..., "David E. Lee" <dalee@c...> wrote:
It's a big leap, I can't deal with it everyday, but I came to mick
about a year ago and asked him to help me break the wall of what to
do to with a tired chord bag and he passed a formula on to me and
said figure it out. This is not robot work, it's a way to envision
4 part movement the way Bach and classical composers did (do).
Some of it reminds me of Shillingers voice leading that
Roland Wiggins turned me onto years ago, some of it goes back
to 16th century counterpoint and Mick's angle is to
make it a part of the real time improvisors toolbox.
Hi David,
Could you explain this formula that Mick gave you to the
group here? Maybe that will help me get a handle on whether
I need to buy Goodchord.
I play keyboards and can read standard notation so looking
at keyboards and at the guitar, I can see that the guitar is
more challenging than keyboards for voice-leading but
certainly not impossible.
If I am using a given set of strings to chord then I can
voice-lead up and down that set by knowing the notes under
my fingers, by being aware of the note values of each fret
position on those strings and by knowing the notes of the
chords I wish to play. It sounds cumbersome but in practice
it's fairly smooth as long as I practice the transitions
among the chords to various positions.
The key connection for me was thinking about the least
possible note- movement between the notes in two different
chords in standard notation and then thinking about the
least possible finger-movement between the two chords on the
fingerboard.
I've been thinking this way for a year or so and all the
rules I need to know fit on a couple of pages of notepaper.
Applying those rules is certainly a challenge but lately
I've been dancing up and down and across the neck with
chords and not just with single-note lines.
How does the GoodChord system beat this? Could you give me a
concrete example? I'm not looking for an argument, truly,
I'd really like to know.
Thanks!
Cheers,
Kevin
www.TheNettles.com
