An Insiders Look at Voicings and Comping (Days of Wine and Roses) - Topic Driven
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In this lesson I systematically show you how to generate all of the inversions for any 4 part chord. Nothing has done more for my chordal fretboard knowledge and comping than this method has. I have also transcribed three choruses of comping on "The Days of Wine and Roses" and recorded the audio with comping on the left channel and solo on the right.
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