Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Hate Interval Exercise for Jazz Guitar? Just wait...




I have laid out conventional intervals (here). But, there are more!

A tritone is defined in music theory as three adjacent whole tones. In the video, Mary starts with A-B, B-C#, C#-Db where A-Db is the tritone. Moving across the next in fourths, A-D, the next tritone is D-G#. Where this pattern changes is from the G-B strings (4-5) where the fingering pattern is different but the tritone is still C-D, D-E, E-F#. The fingering is easy 1-2 except from the g-b string who is 1-3..

Skipping a string, same notes, the fingering is 4-(1-)

When Mary plays stacked triotones, she plays A-Db, Db-A, A-Db with fingering 1-2-3-4 on adjacent strings. This is an interesting sound because there are only two notes A and Db an octave apart. On the A-string, the fingering is 1-2-3-(4+) and on the D string the fingering is 1-2-(3+)-4.

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