Re: [Harp-L] Making the Move to Chromatic

[Arthur Jennings <timeistight@xxxxxxxxx>]

Our own Richard Hunter's "Jazz Harp" has an appendix with all the various
seventh chords in both notation and tab. Once you have those down,
alterations and extensions shouldn't give you too much trouble.

At a certain point, scales and arpeggios become almost the same thing. For
example: play a two-octave C major scale. Now play the same thing, but leave
out every second note. You just played a Cmaj13 arpeggio.

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 9:16 AM, John F. Potts <hvyj@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Great suggestions.
>
> Actually, i'm pretty comfortable with modes.  i sort of lump them in with
> scales.  I've also got a little Yamaha electric piano i got on sale a couple
> of years ago for $99 and a keyboard chord book which i've misplaced.
>  Haven't misplaced the piano--just haven't been using it to figure stuff out
> like i should.
>
> i've pretty much figured out the dominant 7th chord intervals and the major
> 7th chord intervals  and the minor 7th chord intervals.  It's the structure
> of the myriad of other chords that I don't know off the top of my head. I
> mean, I suppose i could add a 9th without too much trouble, but beyond that,
> I have stop and think or refer to a reference of some kind.
>
> Yeah, it takes a lot of practice.
>
> Again, i appreciate the very useful suggestions.
>
> JP
>



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