Tips on learning chords
Tue, 09/25/2018 - 10:34
Hi David,
Im feeling frustrated as I know one of the vital building blocks of mastering the challenging instrument is to understanding chord structure and working with those chords for improvising, playing fills etc.
As Ive said as an old sax player we never had to worrry as we just read the charts.
Im looking for any hints of practice suggestions on how to do this. Im trying to play roots, thirds and fifths along wiht the study songs from memory but its very slow.
Any practice sugggestions?
gary
Hey Gary. You're doing the right thing, your exercise is the same one I did in the past.
Have you done the Accompaniment Playing lessons? If not, you'll want to... the focus of these lessons is exactly what you're looking for. Pay specific attention to the "Hole Changes" concept/exercise in Studies 3 and 5, it's another way of drilling your chord tones.