Re: Brent Rootless 251 Jazz Chord Sequences Lessons #12035
1/22/2010 10:20:51 PM
Jeff Brent
(4178) wrote:
This material has generated a great deal of interest, not only here at WholeNote, but elsewhere as well.
Two jazz guitarists (Gerhard Ersdal and Joe Bianco) took it upon themselves to create derivative works by re-formatting the original materials I had posted here at Wholenote.com (which has had almost 9,000 hits in the last couple of months).
In Gerhard's case, he tabbed out all the grips and put them into standard notation (a Herculean effort).
But Joe Bianco really went to town with these. He streamlined them, slicked 'em up and made interactive comparative analyses of the chord components!
Joe's "Online ii-V-I Tutor" frankly blows my mind! This is the best exposition of guitar chords (rootless or otherwise) that I have ever seen in my life!!!
Just click on a set of voicings on the left navigation bar that you'd like to check out, and THEN instantaneously compare the chord elements by hitting any one of the 9 buttons at the bottom center:
This is absolutely AMAZING!!! (imho)
If I had been able to find a book that contained these rootless voicings for guitar (and believe me, I looked and looked), I would have simply shelled out the twenty bucks or whatever and saved myself the hundreds of hours that it took to work these up from scratch.
Never in my wildest dreams, though, did I expect for collaborators with the expertise and professionalism of Messrs. Bianco and Ersdal to come out of the woodwork and take this over the top. This is a project that has really blossomed into something that will benefit generations of guitarists the world over.
If you know any guitarists that could benefit from these voicings, please forward the above URLs to them.
Best Wishes,
Jeff Brent
