George Van Eps Style Inner String Movements

Hi everyone,

Has anyone else come across this GVE technqiue? I havn't really found much information on learning them elsewhere, so I decided to write a lesson about how to apply them to various string sets and chords on the guitar.

Spice Up Your Voicings With Inner String Movements - JamieHolroydGuitar.com (http://jamieholroydguitar.com/how-spice-up-your-voicings-with-inner-string-movement)

Thanks and hope you enjoy the article!

Harmonic Mechanisms For Guitar by George Van Eps (http://www.amazon.com/George-Harmonic-Mechanisms-Guitar-Vol/dp/0871669064)

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Very nice!

They are big books - in every sense!

thanks for the lesson man! sounds really nice when you add in the passing notes

Thanks!

Van Eps is just amazing-he's got the coolest concept. Jamie, great work man!

I have a question. I don't have the GVE books and it's probably answered in there.

When adding the extra 'inner string' note (ex. 1 and 2 - harm'd G and C scales) why the chromatic tones on the iii and vi chords? As opposed to keeping it diatonic? Both choices sound great so I'm curious why you or GVE opted to make the iii7 and vi7 a iii6 and vi6 - natural 6th's to the chord instead of diatonic 6th's to the key?

*in the last major scale exercise I get that it's part of the melodic line and used as a passing tone.

Thanks for the link and the lessons. In one of those strange coincidences, I was reading Ike Isaacs' Jazz Guitar School this morning ( another neglected book in my bookshelf ), and I came across a reference to George Van Eps. Ike says his books are a must-have for any serious student. I thought I'd search TDPRI to see if anyone else knew of him, and here 's your post! Your lesson looks a lot like Ike's, so I've posted it for reference.

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When adding the extra 'inner string' note (ex. 1 and 2 - harm'd G and C scales) why the chromatic tones on the iii and vi chords?

I dont have the books here but my guess is that's George's way of heading for the ii by way of G# and V by way of C# - leading notes into the ii and V in the inner voices - is typical GVE. I'll have a look tomorrow.