How to Use Guide Tone Voicings in Fingerstyle Jazz
How to Use Guide Tone Voicings in Fingerstyle Jazz guitar lesson music notation
These lessons are excerpted from Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar Essentials – build your chord vocabulary, repertoire, and improvisational chops with this comprehensive guide.
Guide Tone Voicings
Guide tones are simply the third and seventh notes of a chord (sometimes the third and sixth if the chord is a simple triad or sixth chord). Guide-tone voicings have long been popular with jazz musicians, including guitarists Grant Green, Jim Hall, and pianist Red Garland. Thelonious Monk often used guide tone voicings…
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