OPEN (Modern Open String Voicing Collection)

OPEN (Modern Open String Voicing Collection)

In this harmonic study I concentrate on the very unique chordal shades and hues that we can capture on the guitar when utilizing open strings in the development of our voicings.

Here I present to you 100 of my favorite chords that utilize a combination of fretted and open strings. They are presented in a chromatic order and in different chordal qualities dependent on the relationships of the open strings against the root.

Once you get familiar with the voicings presented here you can augment your harmonic vocabulary even further by using the tonal relative major/minor and tritone substitution relationships to get more milage out of each chord shape.

For example, all the voicings presented for Emaj7 can be used for C#min7 and vice-versa all chord shapes for C#min7 can also function as Emaj7 because they are relative major/minor of each other.

By the same token all voicings for C#7alt can also function as G7 because they are tritone substitutions of each other. 

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