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Jazz guitarists and others who play in Chord Solo style also know these things. Joe Pass is just one outstanding example off the top of my head.

Guitarists who have memorized patterns on the fretboard as chords need only start identifying the actual chord tones as relates to those patterns and shapes to begin. For example, the common open E Major shape Barre chord one note at a time spells, 1,5,1,3,5,1 from lowest note to highest in pitch.

Knowing that, you could begin to alter that chord rather easily. Change that 3 to a flatted 3rd and it becomes the common minor Barre chord pattern. Or, if the chart has a Major 6 chord in it, you could raise the higher pitched 5 two frets to a 6. Raising the highest 1 two steps is an Add9. etc.

It is just a matter of starting to think in the notes and not the shapes or patterns.


--Mac



That is right to me Mac. Translate ideas to notes get real music instantly to your instrument. Sometimes we become slaves of patterns, shapes, runs, licks and any sorta of tricks bag. I use try fo find a tonal center not only at the entire song but also in the different progressions and micro modulations present in a tune, that way I can deduce if there are passing notes around a altered bass or just a isolate chord in place.
In YouTube I found two basically the same version of Look of Love by Diana Krall in YouTube, both are based in the same arrangement maybe with some minor differences, the first one recorded in studio from Diana Krall Look Of Love CD and the other, my favorite recorded live at the Paris Olympia from Diana Krall - Live At The Paris Oly [DVD] [2001] , this last one have a great piano solo IMO better than studio version.
This is what I reach to hear:

Bbmaj13 / .//. / D9sus4/d7b9/ (I am almost sure, but correct me if wrong)
"a look your smile can't disguise"

As you all can see this is a subtle treatment of original base chords. In Bbmaj13 while the bass player play basic Bb and fith F the guitarist play play D-G-C-F-A, a atmospheric tension chord so used in brazilian jazz influenced music, the music of great Antonio Carlos Jobim have this kind of beatifull layers. The original 7thSUS chord is "enhanced" with a rich D9sus4 and a 7b9 dropping melancholically to D note part of Gm7.

This is a beatifull song...and with the magic of Diana Krall and orchestral is superb!! this morning early I recorded this quick take of the tune (with intro from my own) using Band in a Box and Real Band for layering guitar and a percussion track, the style is Real Tracks Slow Bossa trio plus MIDI E. Piano. Look Of Love , listen with flash media player

BIAB chords
Band in a Box SGU song

Gabriel Arellano,
Nucleox Music