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Glossary of Terms and Chord Definitions

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• Arpeggio – The notes of a chord played in succession to one another, rather than simultaneously. A broken chord.

  http://http://www.answers.com/topic/arpeggio

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• Bb13
• Bb7
• Bbma7
• Blues – A style of music evolved from southern African-American secular songs and usually distinguished by a syncopated 4/4 rhythm, flatted thirds and sevenths, a 12-bar structure, and lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first: “The blues is an expression of anger against shame and humiliation” B.B. King. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/blues

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• C7b9
• Cmi7
• Cmi9
• Chord changes – A chord change is a movement from one chord to another and may be thought of as either the most basic chord progression or as a portion of longer chord progressions which involve more than two chords. Generally, successive chords in a chord progression share some notes. http://www.answers.com/topic/chord-progression
• Chromatic – Motion by half steps; or pitches used outside of the diatonic scale in which they normally occur. http://www.answers.com/topic/chromatic

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• D7#9
• Db9
• Dmi7
• Dominant – A chord based on the fifth degree of the diatonic scale being used. A dominant usually resolves to the tonic. http://www.answers.com/topic/dominant

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• Ebma7
• Edim7
• Etude – A short song, usually written for pedagogical or instructional use. http://www.answers.com/topic/etude

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• F13
• F13 1st Fret
• F7+5

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• G7+5
• Gb7/Db
• Gmi7

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• Improvisation – Spontaneous Composition. The performance of music that is composed on the spur-of-the moment by the performer, usually as a solo, or cadenza . Also used extensively in jazz . http://www.answers.com/topic/improvisation

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• Jimmy Bruno – World-renown guitarist whom I have known for many years. http://www.jimmybruno.com/

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• Kelly Joe Phelps – One of the most musically amazing “blues” guitarists I have ever seen or heard. http://www.kellyjoephelps.net/index.htm

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• Measure -
  Music. The metric unit between two bars on the staff; a bar. http://www.answers.com/topic/measure

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• Pat Martino – It is next to impossible to quantify the “best” in a particular art form, however, Pat Martino is the reason why I began my study of Jazz improvisation on the guitar. I am blessed to have had the opportunity to listen to his music and the good fortune to study with him in the late 1980′s. http://www.patmartino.com/

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• Scale -Scale, in music, any series of tones arranged in a step-by-step rising or falling order of pitch. http://www.answers.com/topic/scale-in-music?method=6

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