Play 10th Notes for the Jazz Guitar

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Play 10th Notes for the Jazz Guitar
On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Jim Dufresne and I'm here to tell you about jazz guitar. A good trick to use is learn your tenths. We all know this song (plays)...those are tenths. Learn your tenths everywhere on the guitar and in every key. Here's a good song that has tenths in it (plays)...isn't that kind of cute...(plays). Of course. those are harmonics, those are done on the twelfth fret, 12 frets up. Here's open strings (plays) and here's with a chord (plays) and here's I follow the shape of the chord with my index finger. We'll talk about harmonics in a little bit. "Explain tenths for me, will you?" When you have, we'll start with a C scale, C scale has these notes C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C and each one of those notes can be numbered, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8, and when you get to the 8th note, 8 is the octave...octopus, octagon... and the third gives you a nice pleasant sound. And a tenth is that third raised up an octave 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10...there it is and we have basically two shapes, a major shape and a minor shape. When we go through our diatonic chord scale, you'll remember, if you've studied this before, our diatonic chord scale contains Cmaj7, Dmin7, Emin7, Fmaj7, G7, Amin7, B half diminished and back up to C again. Those shapes change from the major chords to the minor chords. Diatonic chord scale done in tenths...and you need to learn those in all the keys

About the Expert

Expert: Jim Dufresne taught guitar for 20 years at community college. He now teaches at S.W. Academy & gives private lessons. He performs at the Maybery Ranch Western Show & has a band called "Cazz Jazz." Read More

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