Drop Voicings for Guitar Complete! 

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Thank you Lindsay...that's great to hear that all my hard work in posting these lessons is appreciated!!

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Thanks Dominique!

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I agree that drop 2 are the most guitar friendly. However a few of the others have some interesting applications if you understand how to use them.

I think you need to listen again to what I said before that. I think the confusion lies between non drop voicing inversions and drop voicings which are not inversions in themselves. Drop voicings are applied to existing inversions. So we may be talking about 2 different things. Sorry, you would have to elaborate in more detail.

Super! Thanks for clearing that up!

Jim Hall

You're entitled to your personal taste like is everyone! Nonetheless, contrary to what you say, all "the great jazz guitar players of days gone by" used drop voicings with root and 5th! I could show you countless transcriptions of chord melody solos by Wes, Barney Kessel, Joe Pass etc, with these voicings in chord melody solos. Furthermore, your options when harmonizing a melody are very limited if you want to voice lead between chords only with 3 and 7 in the bottom. Many passages with 3rd or 7th in the melody will make it impossible to harmonize in 4 parts. That said, what most do to avoid root and 5th on the bottom is substitute the root for the 9th or the 5th for the 13 (if available for the given chord). Of course this is only permissible within a certain range. Also, just for the record, I learned all these drop voicings studying personally with Pat Martino. I still have them on manuscript staff paper in his own hand writing. So if what you are saying is a fact and not just your personal view, I guess he wasn't an authority on the subject like I and so many others have been led to believe.

@@RichieZellon solo yeah - play whatever you want - with a piano player? Maybe not.

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