Vic Juris - Expanding Your Chord Vocabulary

[powersoftritone]

This is awesome Vic came to my collage awesome guy, didn't know about the book till now just ordered it can't wait

[xX0Jota0Xx]

uh let me change the tuning *superhuman quick retune* o_O

[SIRONEDRAGON]

nice ideas

[erod1944]

The Vic Juris Modern Chords book is worth the price just for the "BIG FIVE" on page 19. The rest is all a gift. Incidently, it's taken me a week plus to get that first Cmaj7 chord on page 19 to feel natural. The book definately requires real work.

[rooseguitar64]

Django..my bet is with most musicians the key of C is most recognizable. Thats why he chose that progression

[TheSlideslide]

his book is awesome and hes awesome in person i got to hang out with him while he smoked a cigar in san diego and hes cool and humble and hes got a distinct voice on that instrument! everytime i hear cats like Vic I get so happy because it reminds me that there are so many ways to operate a guitar!

[Chromatype]

I did all of this years ago and it really does help open up the scale in your mind intervallically.

[largemoose]

Very cool voicings. Unfortunately, he never actually uses them in context in this video.

[jlaw666]

some of those chords are huuuge stretchs

[cowlipz]

where did he come up with that first voicing?

how did he know to build it starting

with 9 -5 -6-4

[DjangoMeetsColtrane]

although i'm not sure why he picked that certain voicing, the cool thing is that you can take any chord or a combination on notes, or extentions, or even enigmatic concepts, and run it up or down the scale (or a variety of scales). i had a pleasure of studying with vic a few years ago. this approaches allows you to generate 100's of voicings/chords effortlessly!

[visionismind1]

all he does is drop the low E to a D...otherwise its tuned normally

[trappedsoul7]

what the heck is this tuning?

[trappedsoul7]

ignore my question. his voicings confused me at first glance

[jasoncasper16]

This is amazing! I am gonna run out and get that book!!

[oldpython]

Great commercial. Permutations of four characters = all possibilites. Why do great players talk when they teach?

[johnhorneguitar]

Some gorgeous chords there!

[spooner1957]

how many hours a day do you figure he put in on music theory alone?

[fishytank1land]

probably none

[fishytank1land]

a good musician like himself doesn't study out of a theory book. he writes the books.

[Gregorypeckory]

I wouldn't be too sure. Most great players are life-long students. Coltrane practiced out of Slonimsky's book his whole life. I've seen Bill Frisell and other greats taking in John Stowell's Clinics, with wide eyes and ears. In my opinion, part of being great is soaking up knowledge from everybody.

[VW421]

you are 100% right Greg. The top players keep learning. They escape their ego and don't mind admitting there is something to be learned from any other good player. Any player that doesn't think he could learn something from Stowell is nuts! I'm not that crazy about Stowell's compositions, but that's probably because they are over my head. I'll just keep listening. Maybe I'll get it when my ear is sophisticated enough.

[Gregorypeckory]

You've got a great attitude. I had the extreme pleasure of watching John Stowell in the group "Scenes", last night and the night before, and watching John practice ahead of the gigs. What a fantastic musician, as well as a great house guest! He's one of the heavy cats, without a doubt, yet totally unassuming. I'm glad you plan to keep listening!

[earsoup]

sounds great!

[brewepau]

Hey Vic,

Miles is communicating a message to me right now. It's coming from the nether realms. Wait it minute.... He wants me to tell you something. Miles wants me to quote him exactly. Ok, I've got it. Miles says,

"I see you, Mutha-fucker...."

[DanielBascom]

Ahh Vic and his jokes.

[prsguitarsr4me]

man that stuff is a ton of fun when you get real into it! Vic is the man

[doodle202]

thanks a lot, Vic. You sound wonderful!