Simplify your chords

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🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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It's Method Monday. Adam does a deep dive on simplifying how you handle chord voicings.

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0:00.0	Hey Peter.
0:02.0	Peter?
0:03.0	Peter?
0:04.0	Peter?
0:05.0	Is it just me again?
0:07.0	By myself?
0:08.0	Oh boy.
0:09.0	Okay, here we go.
0:11.0	... I'm Adam Anas, and there is no Peter Martin for this lesson because we're going very, very basic.
0:31.3	It's Method Monday.
0:32.7	And while Peter is out, I'm going to take on a very nuts and bolts thing that everyone can do no matter what skill level you are on.
0:42.3	If you want to build very simple, very easy chords, this is a process that can simplify the way you think about voicing chords.
0:49.3	And even if you're an advanced player, you might just take a swing at this in some harder keys because there's a good
0:55.5	chance that you don't have all of this in every key automatically. So what am I talking about today?
1:01.3	So we've been talking about Barry Harris's six chords a lot in Open Studio Pro and the daily
1:06.0	they got a practice session. I've been doing weeks of YouTube videos on it because it's so fascinating
1:10.7	and the well
1:12.0	of that is so deep. But we're not talking about that today. We're going one gear simpler today.
1:17.9	We're going the most basic version of this idea. The idea is to simplify how you create
1:25.3	chord voicings by putting a chord over a root.
1:30.3	What does that mean? Okay, so if you wouldn't mind, if it's possible,
1:34.3	I know a lot of you are driving around commutes, but if you're near a piano,
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