Hey Frank – re: Chord Book???

@Frank 8250 wrote:

Hi Bill,

Sorry about the delay. I’ve been too busy working to do much of anything else including playing my guitar. It’s totally unacceptable! That’s life.

I did receive Steve Kahns’ Chord Kahncepts book. I’ve read through it to get a grasp of his method. I’ve yet to put it to practice because of my time budget problems at the moment.

Steve’s premise is that in a band situation, the guitar works best staying out of the way of the bass and keyboards by focusing on the top four strings chord-wise. That makes sense since the bass obviously handles the lower registers.

He offers many different progressions utilizing three and four note chords. I haven’t played a single chord so I can’t comment on the voicings. I like the fact that many different progressions are offered, not just a chord here and there. In other words, I’d recommend it based solely on that. Besides, Tom signed off on it, so there you go. Talk to you soon.

Frank

Hi Frank, 🙂

I really appreciate the chord-book info! That “top-3-or-4-string-chord” concept makes a lot of sense when you hear jazz-guys comping! I saw Mike Stern about 5 years ago here in Boston (The Regattabar – GREAT show BTW, with Dennis Chambers on drums OMFG!) and I noticed that he comped on the higher strings constantly (especially during drum, bass, and sax solos!) To do this while implying dense/upper-structure-type harmony, (7th,9th,13th-chords, etc.) must involve the intentional omission of lots of 5ths and maybe even roots in many of these voicings, but I’m just guessing here??? :confused: 😮

Thanks again! 😎

P.S: Hang in there bro! You’ll find time for your guitar soon! “Where there’s a will – There’s a way!”

~Bill Meehan~ 😀