Shiny Staples · Marc's Jazz Guitar Academy

Shiny Staples

Marc has consistently said that the Galbraith rhythms would sound good even if you played them with our staple chords - so I took Shiny, kept the exact rhythms but changed all the chords to be staple chords (see attached pdf). It sounds pretty good! I wouldn't recommend that

@Casey Childers

and

@Miquel Bassols

abandon their current project conquering Shiny - but there is a lot to be said for learning to effectively use the Charleston rhythms with our staple chords for your initial songs.

The To Do's for anyone working through the Foundation Lessons (

@Ashwini Nepal

@Nancy R

and

@Andy Openshaw

come to mind)

Learn to play Charlestons that start on the 1 or on the 3rd beat. (These are in the Lesson 2 Etudes)
Learn to play "anticipation chords" on the 4 and & of 4 (Introduced in the Deep Dives Lesson 12) but once you learn to play Charlestons on the 3 in Lesson 2 - particularly the blues etudes 2.5 and 2.6 - you are already playing an anticipation chord on the & of 4. You just don't need to play the initial downbeat on 3. (this may be hard to follow - I'll remind you when you hit it in Lesson 2!)
Learn to play Charlestons starting on an off beat - in particular the & of 1 and landing on the 3rd beat.

For full disclosure

the Galbraith chords sound better, with greater variety
using the staple chords occasionally forced me to make large jumps up the neck to make the phrase work which was challenging
The counting still isn't easy.

But I think this proves Marc's point!

17 comments

Shiny Staples