Here in our eBook "JM-Chord-Lexicon" we list the most useful Chord-Voicings and show how they are beeing used in Jazz-Manouche today. And how they supposedly might have been played by Django Reinhardt or at least how they are transmitted until today, the way he "might have" played them (who will ever know?).
Chord-LexiconThe word „Chord“ is utilized for a bunch of notes that are played all together on any instrument. Most of the time these are so called „major or minor triads“, a rootnote plus third and perfect fifth of any kind of scale, that sound together, on the guitar often with additionally added octavs. In Jazz most of the time there are chords out of 4, 5 or even 6 notes beeing utiized, often with additional 6st, 9th or 13th notes. These are the so called „extended chords“.
Here in our JazzManouche-Chord-Lexicon we list up the mostly utilized chords which usually are beeing played in Jazz-Manouche. Of course there are so many different ways of playing chords that there is no claim of completeness in this list. For any Jazz-Guitarrist its crucial to know as many chords as possible and know how to play them, to create interesting and tasty lines of changes to back up the soloist.
ContentsJM-Chord-Lexicon
Chord-LexiconThe word „Chord“ is utilized for a bunch of notes that are played all together on any instrument. Most of the time these are so called „major or minor triads“, a rootnote plus third and perfect fifth of any kind of scale, that sound together, on the guitar often with additionally added octavs. In Jazz most of the time there are chords out of 4, 5 or even 6 notes beeing utiized, often with additional 6st, 9th or 13th notes. These are the so called „extended chords“.
Here in our JazzManouche-Chord-Lexicon we list up the mostly utilized chords which usually are beeing played in Jazz-Manouche. Of course there are so many different ways of playing chords that there is no claim of completeness in this list. For any Jazz-Guitarrist its crucial to know as many chords as possible and know how to play them, to create interesting and tasty lines of changes to back up the soloist.
ContentsJM-Chord-Lexicon
- Dominant7 - Chords
- Dominant7 - extended Chords
- Dominant6 - Chords
- Dominant6/9 - Chords
- Moll Minor 7 - Chords
- Minor 7 - extended Chords
- Minor 6 - Chords
- Minor 9 - Chords
- Specials Disminished - Chords
- Special Chords
