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Yeh?

the best thing to do would be to start to learn some standards - 'autumn leaves', 'stella by starlight' type stuff. learn the chord progressions, then the melody lines, then try soloing over the changes. that will help you learn a lot more than just learning a dominant 7 chord, or whatever.

Find a key you like and play a minor 251 progression minor 7 chords are cool just remove the octave from a minor barre chord. Minor 9 is a good substitute for a minor 7 as well. To play that one a good moveable position is middle finger on the root note somewhere on the a string. Index two frets down on d string. Ring and pinky 2 fret up on g and b strings so a dm9 would be
5355 starting on the a string then you can bounce first finger to low e and get jazzy wit it

learning about re-harmonization and leading notes will be really useful to learning about more "interesting" chords and melodies. there's lots of resources out there, but this mick goodrick book is EXCELLENT regarding leading notes and simply learning about the way chords can move in simple ways.



excellent books - all 3 volumes


totally different and sort of unrelated... but nonetheless.

4th chords.

Astricii wrote: you can bounce first finger to low e and get jazzy wit it

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Skip root notes in chord changes, hold on to notes over changes and tie the chords together by whatever other notes they might share. And counter progression rules. Turn the papers upside down, playing the progressions backwards sounds pretty awesome sometimes.