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Guitar - Ben Monder - Practice Sheet

This document provides guidance on practicing 7th chords and their inversions through different scales, arpeggiating them in different orders, and experimenting with replacing chord tones. It includes a chart of all possible 7th chords and their substitutions, and recommends practicing consistent intervallic chord structures through scales with voice leading. Warm-up exercises are suggested playing scales slowly with a metronome before improvising.

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Guitar - Ben Monder - Practice Sheet

This document provides guidance on practicing 7th chords and their inversions through different scales, arpeggiating them in different orders, and experimenting with replacing chord tones. It includes a chart of all possible 7th chords and their substitutions, and recommends practicing consistent intervallic chord structures through scales with voice leading. Warm-up exercises are suggested playing scales slowly with a metronome before improvising.

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Be able to move a triad through the major, harmonic minor and

melodic minor scales. Play triads in root position, 1st and 2nd
inversion, and in close and open position on as many string
groups as apply. Experiment with arpeggiating it in different
note orders as well as playing the notes simultaneously.

C Major 7
CEGB

EGBC

GBCE

BCEG

CGBE

EBCG

GCEB

BEGC

CBEG

ECGB

GEBC

BGCE

CGEB

EBGC

GCBE

BECG

CEBG

EGCB

GBEC

BCGE

CBGE

ECBG

GECB

BGEC

Take all these voicings up and down through the major scale,
then practice voice leading them through different cycles
(5th, 3rd, etc).
Write this chart out for all 7th chords:
Maj7-5
Maj7#5
Min 7
MinMaj7
Min7-5
Dom7
Dom7#5

Dom7-5
Then, experiment with replacing different chord tones with
other scale degrees, eg. the 2nd for the 3rd (CDGB, DGBC,
etc.)
Limit yourself to one voicing type at a time, and work your way
through a tune playing a different inversion on every beat.
Cover all possible string groups that apply to each voicing.
Make sure to go to the nearest available voicing when the
harmony changes
Learn as many uses for each 7th chord (as a superimposition
over a bass note) as you can.
Take each chord and make a list:

CMaj 7 = Dsus13 = Eb13b9#5 = FMaj9#11 = AbMaj7#9#5 =


Amin9
CMaj7b5 = D13 = FMaj7#11b9 = F#11 = Ab7#9#5 = Amin13 =
Bsusb9
CMaj7#5 = D13b5 = FminMaj7#11 = F#9/11 = AminMaj9 =
BPhryg Natural 6
C7 = Db dim Maj7 = Dsus9b6 = Eb13b9 = FMaj9sus4 =
F#7b9b5 = AbMaj9#5 = A7#9b9
C7b5 = D+9 = Eb13#9b9 = F#7b5 = Ab+9 = A13#9b9
C7#5 = D+9b5(can also be thought of as ) = F#9b5 = Ab+9
C7sus4 = DbMaj6b5 = Dmin11b6 = Eb6/9 = F#Maj7b5b9 =
AbMaj13 = APhryg(min7b9b6) = BMaj7b5#5b9(!?)

Cmin7 = Db Maj13b5 = DPhryg(min11b9b6) = Eb6 =


EminMaj7b5b6 = Fsus9 = AbMaj9 = A7b5#9b9 = BMaj7#5b9
Cmin7b5 = D7b9#5 = Ebmin6 = EMaj9b5#5 = F7sus4b9 = Ab9 =
BMaj7b9
CminMaj7 = Dsus13b9 = EminMaj7#5 = F9#11 = AbMaj7#9 =
A9

Create chords out of consistent intervallic structures. For


example, a four note chord built on the intervals 4th, 2nd, 5th,
starting on F in the F mixolydian mode would be F Bb C G. Move
that structure up to the next scale degree and the chord is G C D
A, then A D Eb Bb, etc.
Use this idea to come up with a variety of structures built on 3 to
6 notes and take them through various scales.
Then practice voice leading between structures, and over
moving harmony. Don't forget to apply melodic and harmonic
minor, as well as other 7 note scales.

As a warm up, play a scale with the metronome on 20 (or


lower, even 10) and play one note per click. Do this through
every position of the scale, trying to be as accurate as
possible. Try to be even and legato (even though you are
attacking every note). Then put the metronome on 5 or 10 and
have that be the first beat of an 8 or 4 bar cycle. Improvise
over a tune this way and see how accurate you can be.

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