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I have been using this general concept for over 50 years. And that brings me to a funny story from about 50 years ago.

I was playing Hammond organ in a trio where the other two instruments were drums and guitar. The guitarist was a much better singer than he was a guitarist. His forte was rock and not anything with complex harmonies. One of the hit records at the time was Going Out Of My Head which the guitarist sang beautifully. But he had problems with the first two chords… Cmaj7 and Cm7.

Since I was providing the bass on the organ, I figured it would simplify his guitar playing if he just played the rest of the chord besides C which I was playing on the B3. So I got him to play an Em and an Eb chord. It worked great!

That gig at that hotel ended after a year. I stayed in California and the guitar player headed off to Florida to join a group there. A few years later he told me about the problems he had when he tried to teach the new group how the song went Em/ / / Eb/ / / Fmaj7.

The warning here is these are the shapes and not the chords.

Man. Feels like I just learned how to walk on my own in the jazz universe 👏

I hope you ll do it again with a different theme/chords, because in the end it is about the practice done at home alone, and these last lessons were about that, so thanks again and again

Adam “the madness”

oh my god, those three lessons on 6-chord-shapes are amazing. thank you adam

thank you so much for these last weeks

my respect for your dedication reminds me of old school pleasure.  I hope to have the pleasure of meeting you live sooner or later.

I love the way these sound! So simple! This weeks example and last weeks “Someday My Prince Will Come” sound so beautiful. I can’t believe how much better I sound already! Thank you.

Thanks very much. I waited for the streaming and then felt  sleep :(
glad to see this third part. This is nice thing... really something

Greetings from Chicago

great examples of this amazing style/perspective. thanks!

Wonderful lesson and helpful Q and A. Thank you!

Personally, I like the closed shape. I like the "block chords" sound

Thanks, Adam! You helped me finally understand this for good. One thing that hung me up a bit that I’d like to just put here for others to see was that for the minor 7 chords, you build it’s relative 6th chord in second inversion from the 5th of the initial Minor 7 chord, apparently. The other chord types are literally a 6th chord in root position built from the 5th degree of the initial chord you started with.

Hello!  DePriest Do you explain in a way that a blind person can follow? Or do you rely on the cam focus?
from Washington state.

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found this super helpful, thanks !  I just wish you referenced an easier key like C so I can work out the concepts better in my head and later work them out in all 12 keys

can you use this concept in any style of music

as great as usual, a little mistake on the pdf, on the closed voicings, your G7 has a flat D that you play natural ...