Yeah, mind blown from nerding out on theory with Robbie yesterday and starting to look into Barry Harris and his theories/approach. You saw it Robbie, I had to sit down on that chair to ponder the implications. It was like feeding a nuclear warhead to a child for an afternoon snack. So every diminished 7 chord converts into a Dominant chord, a different dominant chord…by lowering a single note half step, and they amount to a regular Dominant, a Backdoor Dominant and a Tritone Substitution… “Get out of here… go away Robbie” I believe were my exact words. I know all these things but I never made the deeper connection and realization. Its been right there in front of my face the whole time! This is mind expanding stuff, dangerous in the hands of a guy like Me who is now on the hunt to understand the deeper implications. Because I believe, not sure yet because I’ve not dug into it by myself, that the number of chord options one has may have either doubled or tripled. Yesterday I also learned that some of Ted Greenes chord forms were never intended to actually be played, which at the time I wrestled with Ted Greene for the first time, probably would be the 1970s where my Dad had it and then the early 90s where I, foolish mortal, thought “oh hey I’ll do Me some Ted Greene, My dad had this book”. I was not made aware of that tiny bit of information…so I fled that book screaming in horror never to return, hating it while being in awe and scared at the same time!

Happy 250th Birthday to the Americans here. Have an awesome weekend

So I was looking up some of the songs that I’ve taught others over the years, mostly chords/charts, and I was looking to archive them. Well turns out there are hundreds! So I figured, might be fun to share with the community. Random Song, as it was presented to that student. Some I don't even remember teaching but apparently I did. Each day (or so) I’ll post a screenshot of one such session. Not saying it will be useful… but maybe some are better than others!

This is one of our longest calls, but man there were some really interesting moments, and then towards the last half of the stream, Peter shared some really interesting insights into how he looks at guitar! Worth the watch if you have the time!

Sometimes I’ll try and challenge myself over silly chords. Emaj9 and Dbmaj9 it can view as bIII and I chord or I and VI. Basically trying to toggle of thinking either the two chords as their own thing or toggling between Dbm and Db. Might stretch out the chords, not sure why I started it off with it so fast.