Guitar Series: Book 4- Advanced Chord Progressions Return to catalog
Table Of Contents

  To Understand and Use This Book
  Left Hand Stretching Exercises
  Basic Chords and Their Extensions
  Fifthless Seventh Chords
  How to Handle Chord Extensions
  Limitations Among Added Extensions
  Alternate Component Names
  Extended Dominant Seventh Chords
  Extended Major Seventh Chords
  Extended Minor and Half-Diminished Seventh Chords
  Extended Chords in the II7 V7 I7 Progression
  Extended Diminished Seventh Chords
  Melody/Harmony Conflicts
  Chromatic Connections between Chords
  Chord Symbol Abbreviations
  59 pages
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The next two examples expand the above progressions by adding another fifthless diminished seventh which connects FM7 and Gmi7. Play back and forth across each example:
With pickup notes, either progression fits the first bars of Memories of You, Liza, Tiptoe Through the Tulips, and many other melodies. Without pickups, either progression fits the first bars of Imagination, Makin' Whoopee, Birth of the Blues, and still other melodies. Play the progressions in the following rhythm, with or without pickups as required: