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Tips For Your Jazz Band Guitarist
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Getting the Sound
• Type of guitar and amp • Cover the sound hole(s)
to eliminate feedback • Where to sit o Your body between
the guitar and the amp • String Guage o .011 or .012 first
string • Pick thickness
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o Heavy • Volume setting o Roll off a bit (10%)
Chords
o Barre o Freddie Green o Dead String (color tone) (fifthless) o Simplification o Chords voicings for styles
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Root Locations on the Sixth String
Name-------E F G A B C D E Fret---------0 1 3 5 7 8 10 12
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Comping
Accompaniment Complement
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Arrive at a Peace Settlement with the Piano Player
• Stay out of each other’s way • Space is cool • Chord voicings (thin vs. thick)
The Basie/Green formula • Ed Bickert/Rob McConnell’s Boss
Brass • Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays • Kenny Burrell/Tommy Flanagan
(Beyond the Bluebird) • Herb Ellis/George Shearing
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• Wes Montgomery/Live at the Half Note
Stylistic Accompaniments Latin Swing Rock (Power Chords) Funk (Space) Single Note Comping
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