Originally Posted by: maggior

Yeah, I'd imagine it's much easier to play these kind of crazy chords on a piano where you have 2 hands to make up the chord :).

Absolutely. :)[br][br]But, there also the practical matter of figuring out how to voice a chord so it will work with & not against the melody. That's why even pianists or full orchestras that have the ability to play all the intervals of a given chord often choose to leave some out. Too much clutters the sound & obscures the melodic line.

Old jazz guys sometimes refer to anything beyond 1, 3, 5 as "color tones". And of course a lot of jazz standards use the extended chord tones as the melody notes. So a lot of those guys use shell voicings to add just the right amount of "color" to the arrangement.

That's how I approach teaching those chords in that series of tutorials. Showing the most practical way to voice each chord with a root note on the bass strings & the "featured color tone" in the upper register.