TED GREENE - Chord Mastery

Started by randulo, July 05, 2016, 07:12:05 AM

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randulo

Watching the great Pat Martino videos made me wonder if Ted Greene was mentioned anywhere here. You may know his book Chord Chemistry, which was out of print for a while and is now around even as a Kindle book. I have given away numerous copies to young (and not so young) guitarists. Here's why: Remember all those "10,000 Guitar Chords!" encyclopedias you'd see in stores? Yeah, the 10,000 chords were actually made of a bunch of voicings that just moved up and down the neck with no real value. Move a G7 up one fret, you have an Ab7 (or G#7 if you must). Ted's book Chord Chemistry is one of the most useful tools for learning the neck of the guitar, finding beautiful sequences of chords, not just jazz, but any idiom.
Ted passed away a few years ago, but his web site is maintained and has a large number of pages dedicated to his music as well as a lot of students who have posted chords and charts.

Here's an example of which there are many on Youtube that shows some of his harmonic techniques (Lenny Breau is another great player for this kind of special thing):

If you find this interesting, there are tons of Ted Greene sessions on Youtube, even weddings he played, but also clinics. An amazing player, a great teacher and a humble, serious man.
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Chumly

Thank you so much, I have decided to become a student of the guitar (and vocal of course) again, despite the fact that I've played for many years, and have a reasonable level of competency in some styles.  Nonetheless, I know I can improve a great deal and there is no time like the present (add further clichés here).
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. - Richard P. Feynman

Elantric

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https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=5411.msg37176#msg37176

I regret to say that my surprise about discovering Fripp's 5ths NST tuning was short-lived, as the Chapman Stick has been using it already, albeit in an ascending pattern on its low 5 bass strings [i.e. from string 6 to 10] -- I had forgotten about that, as I use to have a used (standard) Stick (for only $400!) that got stolen about 31 years ago! In any case I'd prefer to explore guitar chord melody playing in the styles of Ted Greene and George Van Epps than any thing else. I have studied chord/scales extensively and written about them, for any one interested, some of which is at http://www.pdmusic.org/theory.html. Otherwise I can woodshed my soloing "chops" with Band-in-a-Box and Jammer Pro auto-accompaniment software -- both programs which I recommend to all musicians, who want to practice when they don't have a "real" band to play with :>)

http://www.pdmusic.org/
http://web.archive.org/web/20070822135847/http://www.pdmusic.org/theory.html

keithshapiro

If any of you are interested in Ted Greene and his technique, check out Mitch Chmara on youtube. Just takes Teds concepts and really runs with it. I know because I study with him in Denver. Mitch took lessons from Ted OVER THE PHONE for 2 years. He says "yeah man, I had two phones working, one in my ear and one in front of my amp so Ted could hear what I was doing during the lessons. Check him out.

Keith
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