Not true all the time. Playing solo guitar chord melody style allows for
those beautiful full six and seven string chords.
Not always constant, but in the right passages spaced with notes and smaller
chords sound great.
Barney Kessel and Tal Farlow were known to use a lot of six string chords
usually wrapping their thumb around the bottom two strings.
I think there was an article a while back in JJG about old rhythm players
not playing in freddie green 3 note style.
Marty Gross and Barry Galbraith come to mind of 4 note rhythm players.
But as far as comping goes less is usually more (3rds and 7ths) give the
soloist plenty room to breath.
Bill
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Stuntzner [SMTP:Stuntzner@...]
Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 12:46 AM
To: jazzguitar@...
Subject: [jazzguitar] Re: Help a newbie...
Great advice from everyone, of course. I thought my 2 cents might be
worth
a Peso, or two, so here it is:
SHORT CHORDS....period
"Short chords" are chords built from 3 or 4 of the necessary notes from
each chord. For example, a C7 chord is built as follows: C, Bb, E
They are easy to finger, remain mostly on the lower strings (thus staying
out of the way), and allow for quick changes. Mark Stefani has a blurb on
his page somewhere, I think (). I think Mark
mentioned recently that Jimmy Bruno is a short chord player too, so it's
not being a cop-out, instead it's useful stuff for the future!
--brent
Brent D. Stuntzner Construction
7931 SW 40th Ave., #D
Portland, OR 97219-3598
Stuntzner@...
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