The Book Of Chord Tones - Major Seven Chords

[BassoRidiculoso]

Sooo, I collected all the possible ways you could play the notes of a major 7 chord and put them in a book. It's been a slow summer, what can I say.

There are many fans of chord tones, obviously, Jeff Berlin has been a huge proponent of the juicy harmonic goodness that is contained in those four magic tones for a long time, and they are the backbone of his approach to soloing. His book about chord tones lists a lot of patterns, but it doesn't have [b]all[/b] the variations. This book does (well for major 7 chords): 24 patterns per key, for all 12 major chords.

Future volumes will have Minor, Dominant etc. all the biggies.

They look a little something like this (click to see them larger):

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You can hear what the first dozen exercises sound like here -

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And there is some more info at the blog about it, here.

[url="http://bassoridiculoso.blogspot.com/2011/08/announcing-book-of-chord-tones-book-1.html"]Basso Ridiculoso: Announcing: The Book of Chord Tones, Book 1, Major Chords[/url]

So if you are looking for some ways to play major arpeggios that you might not have stumbled across before, or you want some exercises to explore some of those pesky mystery keys like Ab or Db, well, take a gander at The Book of Chord Tones, here - [url="http://www.lulu.com/product/16666542"]The Book of Chord Tones - Major 7 Chords by Basso Ridiculoso in Arts & Photography[/url]. There is a pdf preview available of the first 12 or so pages.

[Gareth Hughes]

Thanks for the heads up BR. And thanks always for the wonderful resource that is your site.

[schmig]

Fantastic site..new to me...thank you.

[BassoRidiculoso]

aw shucks, you are too kind.

Hopefully there are some helpful bits buried in there amongst the....stuff.