

Should a guitar student use a chord book to learn chord forms and are we missing the basic spiritual
A Berklee summer sessions student came to me for a private lesson asking for help with her ensemble charts. She did not know any forms for most of the chords in the tunes. The charts required a lot of Min 7 flat 5, Dom 7 flat 9 flat 13 , Ma7 9 #11 which worked through several key centers. It was clear she had never played anything that required these chords and had no idea what they sounded like, how to build them, or how to make music out of them. I assumed she had probabl