Originally Posted by Notes Norton
Many years ago, I worked with a bass player who was one of Jaco's early teachers. He said that Jaco learned so quickly that he soon ran out of things to teach him.
I don’t know much about Jaco except from what Levitin is saying about him and that he was quite talented and left an imprint and influence on the bass guitar.

But I wonder if anyone has experience with these “ambiguous chords”. If so some simple examples that an amateur bass player could understand would be useful. And if they could be restricted to 2 or 3 note chords then we’d be able to easily play them on our keyboards and guitars to explore how they sound.

I’m aware of Cmaj, Cm, C7, Cdim, etc., I understand these have C as the root. But I haven’t dealt with the kinds of chords it’s been said that Joni used in her music.

Any Joni fans out there that can identify such chords in her songs?

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