Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Really enjoying the lessons on the site. Thanks again for pulling this all together, Tomo. Slowly working through the triads section and the jazz standards section for now.

For "Take The A Train," I wanted to double check the chord substituions you make in the fourth measure of the fourth line. G7 and G7flat9 are printed there (half a measure each).

But it looks like you play one strum each of

| G7 | F over A | G diminished over B flat | G over B |

Is that correct?

Thanks again, JM

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So happy to hear that! Thank you!

Take the A train. Great chord progression!

Typical V chord in Jazz. We can use b9, #9 and b13 resolve to I chord in general.

G7 = G7(b9) then you can play Dim7 chord from M3, 5th, b7 and b9 of G.
You can play Bdim7, Ddim7 from 5th string, Fdim7, Abdim7 from 4th string.
Each Chords contain M3 5 b7 b9 of G7. This is one of jazz Chord tricks!

Hope this makes a sense.

Thank you!

Tomo

Thank you -- very helpful explanation. Creative substitutions are part of what keeps these jazz standards interesting. Always nice to get to understand the theory that makes the substations work well.