It is commonly heard that guitar players are lousy at voicing chords. I defensively reply that 'it is far harder to see voicing on guitar than on, say, piano'. We have a tendency to jump up and down the neck for familiar inversions and ignore the ones underneath our fingertips.

When it comes time to try to play jazz, we are stunned at how difficult it is to keep up when the chords (and keys), change so quickly. It is almost manditory to learn how to voice chords in position, or we are jumping around and...well, getting lost.

I dug up some chord notes from school recently, and tried to voice some easy positions for I iii vi ii V I progressions. This progression will become so familiar when playing jazz, that knowing it in position will be a huge advantage.

The first example shows this progression on the highest string set, DGBE. Notice that all the roots are on the 2nd or 4th fret. Roots/5th can be doubled on the A or E strings.



I hope this is useful!
Cheers,
Sarinaj
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