Holy craaap have I been wrestling with the content of the Unique Voicings series!
I have So. Much. Stuff. - And it's NOT in the book. I was working on the next 3 lessons and realized I need to put at least 2 lessons in front of those! And that's just from 1/2 of one page of the book!
Just because I wrote a book in 1999 doesn't mean I quit learning. Never quit learning!
[Remember I'm using the term "Unique Voicings" in a technical sense: "Unique" as it is used in the title refers to a chord voicing that is only available in a single position on the neck, usually because of the use of open strings in that particular voicing. It is not movable to any other place on the neck. If a particular shape is moved around to different positions it becomes a different chord because the relationships of the open strings to the fretted notes has changed.]
Ok - so here's the next lesson in the series. It involves root position Major and Dominant 7th chords - as in Unit 4 - but with open strings added to create Unique Voicings.
Ready for this?
80 - yes, EIGHTY! - fretboard diagrams!
3 photographs that illustrate fingering problems and how to solve them!
3 demonstration videos!
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BTW - you'll notice I'm using a Taylor T5z for these lessons. I've had a couple of people ask if my lessons apply to acoustic guitarists because I'm almost always using an electric for the videos. About half the gigs I play are on acoustic and everything I teach can be applied to an acoustic guitar. (Check out some gig footage.) The Taylor is an acoustic/electric. For these lessons I barely had the amp turned up; it's almost completely acoustic. These Unique Voicings sound great on an acoustic. One of the reasons I used the Taylor is because some of these chords can be quite dissonant and a guitar with good intonation is very important to hear them properly. The Taylor has excellent intonation.
