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Hi everyone,
I hope the new is treating you all well! After some delays and procrastination I'm happy to announce my book,?Loosening the “Grip”: A new approach to building guitar chords and harmony, has finally been published. Part of the delay happened because it was almost picked up by Chuck Sher, but we had some differences of opinion about content & format, and in the end I opted to publish it myself.
The book is not very long (a little over 30 pages) but I did this deliberately: I didn't want to come up with yet another "cookie cutter" book about guitar chords and harmony; instead, I lay out some concepts, ideas, and approaches I consider useful to approaching chord construction in a (primarily) jazz guitar context and leave it to the reader to come up with his or her own individual approaches.
The hard copy book will be available soon on Amazon and there will probably be a Kindle version as well. List price for the hard copy book is $27.50 (USD), but as a courtesy to friends and members here I will send you a soft copy (.pdf) version for $20 (USD) payable through PayPal. Please email me off-list if you're interested or if anybody has any questions, etc. Thanks!
Cheers,
JV
Juan Vega
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Ron,
My approach is to create an understanding of how chords are constructed, rather than on learning/memorizing "grips". I also discuss harmonic and melodic strategies for creating chord progressions that have strong voice leading and are more creative than stringing "grips" together. If someone is willing to invest the time to delve, it's an approach that could change the way you play.
Cheers,
JV
Juan Vega
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