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DECEMBER 2013 TedGreene.com Newsletter

A very warm and happy holidays greeting to the Ted Greene Internet family and friends! As we continue to grow, more and more guitarists are discovering the beautiful music in Ted’s music and teachings: his books, lesson sheets, and audio & video recordings. We hope that these all continue to inspire and propel you to greater depths of musical understanding and heights of playing.

December is when we blow the dust off our Christmas arrangements and revisit (once again) these wonderful traditional songs. Ted loved Christmas tunes and they gave him an opportunity to reharmonize some of these old songs with a new twist. Be sure to check out the Arrangements section for Ted’s original sheets, and the From Students section to see how many of these same pages have been written up and clarified a bit for you.

In that same spirit of the season, we present video clips parts 3 and 4 of Ted’s seminar at California Vintage Guitar in Sherman Oaks, CA on December 14, 2003. Our webmaster, Dan Sindel has prepared these 15-minute videos that you’ll find in our Video section.  Be sure to check out Paul’s “compilation” page on this sheet - it really makes reading it easier.

Part 3 starts on example #4. One small tidbit I learned from this clip is that Ted refers to an add9(no3) chord as a “bump chord”-that is, the third is bumped out by the 9 (2). Part 4 beings on example #9. In January part 5 will finish off this sheet...then another kind of fun begins.

We had some very positive response to the new Ted Greene/RoAnne Marks recording we posted last month. This month we present tracks 4-7. Track 4 is a very short spoken word intro for Ted’s “Original Theme” in track 5. Ted was speaking very quietly into the cassette recorder, which didn’t pick him up very well. Here is a transcript of what he said:

“This is a theme that I was working on. It’s inspired by the music to “Shane” by Victor Young, and the music to “Big Country” by Jerome Moross, and things like that. It kind of has overtones of a western era, and possibly some feelings of family-it’s plenty of family; and good feelings about family. It seems to be the pictures of---well, we’ll see. Oh, here it is. I don’t have anything [written] down except a theme yet.”

In January we’ll conclude this album with the final track of Ted improvising a blues.

I always enjoy listening to the recorded lessons with Ted. I extracted some quotes from this month’s lesson with Mark Levy and wanted to share them with you:
“Guitar has difficulty in being perpetually interesting. If we play by our self we either have to have so much beauty-of tone, of phrase-in some capacity that’s overriding anything else, or we can say, “Let’s go with stimulation.” [Intellectual stimulation]  We have to go [with] one or the other. Usually for most people [it’s] the beauty [that is the most attractive], which I include [myself].”
“Between beauty and feel and intellectual stimulation-that covers just about the whole big triumvirate-you can go onto any one of those paths and be very much an attractive player. Usually the people that operate more from the intellect tend to not connect with as many of their fellow beings by a quotient of about 100:1 or less it seems like.”
“Maybe I’m crazy this way, and generally when I’m playing...I want every moment to have some feeling, so people pick up on it, because that’s what I want to feel.”
“You can’t play things that you’re not in the mood to play; it’s just not going to work...I use “buffer zones.” Let’s say I’ve got a set to do and I can feel I’m out of touch with what I’m about to go out there and do, I try, if I need to [play a buffer zone]. The “buffer zone” is like this:” [Ted plays an amazing example that gradually transforms one musical style into a completely different time period, mood, feel, emotion-from a Bach-type piece to soulful “Body and Soul” ballad. This process gently leads his feelings and desires to want to play in that new style.]

As we post more of Ted’s V-System lesson sheets, you may find many of them appearing in sections of the Lessons other than the V-System section. For example, this month there’s a V-2 page on chord streams that seemed more logical to put with the other chord streams lessons in the “Chord Studies” section. Also the “Big Band Blues: 3 Statement Form” lesson which Ted had in his V-System folder was put in the “Blues & Jazz” section. We want you to be able to easily find the things you’re looking for, so we’ll put them where they make the most sense...but you should also check out the individual V-System Lesson Sheets-there’s a lot more than just chord forms and inversion exercises in those folders.

Once again, wishing you all a wonderful holiday season!
Stay warm, healthy, and happy… and keep on playin’!

~ Your friends at TedGreene.com

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New Lesson Material:

ARRANGEMENTS:
* Billy Boy.  [Ted’s undated arrangement, key of E.  This is the traditional folk song/nursery rhyme you may have heard growing up:  “Oh, where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Oh, where have you been, Charming Billy?”...]

AUDIO:
* Ted Greene Lesson with Mark Levy, 1992-06-18.  [An mp3 file of Mark’s lesson, 56 minutes.  In this recording they discuss playing musically, choosing beauty, feeling, or intellectual stimulation.  “You Must Believe in Spring.”  “Buffer zones” to help one adjust to different musical moods.  Review of some Bill Evans charts,
* Ted Greene Lesson with Mark Levy, 1992-07-06.  [An mp3 file of Mark’s lesson, 64 minutes.  In this recording they discuss: “You Must Believe in Spring” – singing the melody.  Singing arpeggios. 
Movies, dreams, transcribing, modern jazz lives harmonically above the 7th, and B.B. King albums and singles.]
* Ted Greene with RoAnne Marks (tracks 4-7).  [Four mp3 files from this newly discovered 1978 recording:  “Original Theme (Ted’s spoken introduction),” “Original Theme,” “Honeysuckle Rose,” and “Pennies from Heaven.”]

VIDEO:
* Ted Greene - California Vintage Guitar Seminar, 2003-12-14.  Parts 3 and 4.
Clip 3:  Continuation of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” sheet.  This clip begins with example #3 on Paul’s compilation of the hand-out sheet. (approx. 15 minutes).
Clip 4:  Continuation of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” sheet.  This clip begins with example #9 of the compilation page. (approx. 15 minutes).

BLUES & JAZZ:
* Big Band Blues: 3 Statement Form (V-2 chords), 1985-06-22.  [One of Ted’s blues studies that was originally filed with his V-System lesson sheets.  This lesson deals with V-2 chords on the middle 4 strings.  New notation included.]

CHORD STUDIES:
* Melodic Chord Streams - 7th and m6, 1975-09-30 [Some nice chord streams for Ab7 and G#m6 chords.  Redrawn for easy reading.]
* Diatonic 4ths:  I-vi7-ii7-V7 Ascending Melody, 1986-09-01.  [Another one of Ted’s lessons on 4ths or quartal harmony.]
* Chord Streams:  3-Note Major 6th Chord Stream Exercises (V-2 with 2nd lowest note omitted), 1984-04-18.  [Great chord streams built from V-2 chords without the second to lowest voice (tenor).  These two pages were filed in Ted’s V-System folders, but it seems more logical to put it in the Chord Studies section along with the other “chord streams” studies.]

COMPING:
* Walking Bass and Walking Chords Guitar Styles, 1982-1986.  [Explanation, examples, and assignments.  Also included are two pages from 1986 for walking bass/chords on V7-I progressions.  Translation page included.]

HARMONY & THEORY:
* Secondary Dominants, Tonicization (part 1),1975-05-15.  [This is the first in a multi-part series on Secondary Dominants or Tonicization – the theory and application of preceding diatonic triads, other than the I (or i), with its own V7.  Translation/new notation pages included.]

FROM STUDENTS:
* Billy Boy.  [Ted arrangement put in notation and combined with his diagrams.  Compiled by Paul Vachon.]
* Ted Greene’s V-System - Fixed Soprano Tour of the Seven Basic Qualities and their Systematic Inversions.  [Paul’s notation for Ted’s V-1 through V-14 chords for all of the 7BQ and their inversions.  Given for either C or D.  To be used as a reference for the V-System.  This was not taken from any lesson sheet by Ted, but is a by-product of what was created during the process of publishing the V-System lesson pages.]
* Twelve Days of Christmas, 2003-12-11.  [Also titled as “A Little Bit of Harmonizing the Front End of the ‘12 Days of Christmas.’”  This is a “compilation” page with standard notation combined with Ted’s chord diagrams.  To be used when viewing Ted’s California Vintage Guitar 2003-12-14 seminar videos.  Compiled by Paul Vachon.]

SINGLE-NOTE SOLOING:
* Minor 7b5 Sounds and Scales, 1975-07-25.  [Scales and arpeggios fingerings for 4 different types of Locrian scales for playing over m7b5 sounds.  Redrawn for easy reading.]

THE V-SYSTEM:
* V-1, ii-V7-I on the Top 4 Strings, 1979-06-23.  [Some slick ii-V7 moves for V-1 chords.  The resolution I chords are not all V-1 type.]

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NOVEMBER 2013 TedGreene.com Newsletter

November in the United States is when we celebrate Thanksgiving, a time of giving thanks for the goodness and bounty we have in our lives. This month we have a scrumptious repast of new items from Ted’s legacy library for which we can be all thankful—hopefully something you can “feast” upon, musically speaking.

First and foremost are two new video clips of Ted giving a seminar at California Vintage Guitar in Sherman Oaks, CA on December 14, 2003. Our webmaster, Dan Sindel has been busy creating several 15-minute bite-size clips that we will be posting in our Video section in the coming months. For November we present parts 1 and 2. I’m sure you’ll love these. Be sure to get Ted’s sheet on Twelve Days of Christmas so you can follow along. It’s posted in our “Arrangements” section under the Christmas Tunes header. Even though it isn’t an arrangement per se and should really be in the “Chord Studies” section, Barbara decided to put it with the other Christmas arrangements since it seems more logical to find it there. (Next month I’ll have a notated “compilation” file of this lesson ready that will make it easier to follow.)

Next on the buffet table are the first 3 tracks from an audio recording of Ted with singer RoAnne Marks. This recording came to us from Allan Whiteman, who studied with Ted via mail (snail mail!). You'll love this collection. In December we’ll post tracks 4-7, and then the final track in January, 2014.

Here’s what Allan wrote about this tape:
“I was studying with Ted by mail. In those days I was a complete Ted freak. I wanted to learn to play all his pieces, but his Solo Guitar album was the only one available. (I had heard it and wrote him a fan letter asking if he taught by mail, and that’s how we got in contact). At one point I asked if he had recorded anything else that he’d be willing to send me. I told him that I didn’t care how unfinished or complete it sounded; I just wanted to hear how he was thinking. So this tape is what he sent, accompanied by his notes on the cassette insert. He’d obviously put it together as a compilation from different recordings, but whether he did this just for me or whether he’d already had it that way, I can’t say. Nor do I know if it’s the original, a copy of something he saved for himself, or the only version.

“We are all fortunate that the cassette survived this long without breakage or any other damage. I can’t remember how I came to tell Dan Sawyer about the tape, but shortly beforehand I’d found it and converted it to CD. When Dan learned about it he suggested that I make it available for the Ted Greene website.

“In his letter that accompanied the tape (which I cannot find) Ted apologized for the solo stuff, saying he was just ‘fooling around.’ I remember that I’d always wanted to learn Ted’s version of ‘Both Sides Now,’ though it was far toward the bottom of my to-do list. …When I told Ted I particularly loved ‘Both Sides Now,’ he again apologized for it, saying it was very rough, ‘mainly because I didn’t know what the hell I was doing.’ I guess in his mind he really was fooling around. God help the rest of us!”

Well, the timing was perfect, for this month we have Ted’s 2004-2005 written arrangement of “Both Sides Now” ready to post plus a “compilation” of it in the “From Students” section. Even though the written arrangement is very different from the recording you can get an idea of Ted’s thinking and some of his chord moves. Be sure to check out my compilation, as the original is hard to follow. Special thanks to Tim Lerch and Anders Hagstrom for proofreading my work on this piece.

This is also a month of “finals”—we’re posting the final part in the series on “How High the Moon” reharmonization, the final installment in the “Harmonic Improvements” series, and the final recorded lesson of Ted with Kevin Griffin. Thanks again to Kevin for sharing these gems, we’ve really enjoyed them.

I really love this month’s Mark Levy recording wherein Ted applies various reharmonization techniques to “Home on the Range” using various #11 chords. If anyone has the time and interest to map out this discussion or create a chord sheet of what they played, I for one would love to have a copy of that. It’s wonderful stuff. (Maybe we’ll get something posted on that in the “From Students” section in the future.)

It seems very timely that in this recording Ted mentions that by being grateful for life and approaching our music and guitar playing with enthusiasm and love “we bring healing energy” to our being. Here’s a short excerpt from that discussion about Ted’s advice for the attitude with which to approach our practicing and playing:

“Here’s an operation thing that can only help:….If you bring your love [of] music to it at almost all moments (or humanly possible) and forget the frustration and forget ‘Damn, I wish I had more time’ or ‘damn I wish this were easier’ or ‘damn I wish I understood this’ or ‘damn I wish I could play like this”—rather, bringing the thing of saying, ‘I’m grateful to have this time.’ How many people like that out there right now don’t even have any time? They have four kids, chores to do, etc. Or they don’t have the right instrument. They got an old terrible, hard-to-play guitar; no amp. All the terrible things you can have. So if you’re bringing just the enthusiasm and the love it’s not likely that your body will suffer much. Just---I think that’s healing energy to be thinking---that endocrine---what do they call them---endorphins thing that’s going on? That’s fairly healing energy.” [1992, June 6]

Ted had a very grateful heart and he expressed it regularly for the musical legacy that has been passed on from one generation of musicians to another—from Bach to Debussy to George Van Eps; from classical to jazz to rock and blues. Ted received this knowledge and tried to add to it by creating something beautiful. He said that having a positive and grateful mental attitude influences our ability to create beautiful music. In Kevin’s recorded lesson this month Ted offers his opposite view to ‘Murphy’s Law’—let’s call it ‘Greene’s Observation’: “Considering how many things can go wrong, it’s amazing how little does.”

So during this month of Thanksgiving, let us all (even those of you on distant corners of the globe who don’t celebrate this American holiday) be grateful for all the good we have in our lives, for the fact that you are able to play music, to touch others with this wonderful instrument, and for the legacy of all that Ted has left for us to become better musicians and guitar players.

~ Paul and the TedGreene.com family

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New Lesson Material:

ARRANGEMENTS:
* Both Sides Now, 2004-12-06. [Ted’s written arrangement, key of D and B. (be sure to see Paul’s compilation of this piece)]
* Fugue – by J.S. Bach, Ted’s Transcription, 1971-01-01. [Ted’s early (very interesting curvy) handwritten notation of this Bach piece. New notation include for easy reading.]

AUDIO:
* Ted Greene Lesson with Mark Levy, 1992-06-06. [An mp3 file of Mark’s lesson, 64 minutes. In this recording they talk about briefly about history of rock and roll, 7 degrees of V chords, and using #11 chords, especially connected with reharmonizing Home on the Range.]
* Ted Greene Lesson with Kevin Griffin, 1990, June. [An mp3 of Kevin’s lesson with Ted; 48 minutes. They review Here’s That Rainy Day, I Got it Bad, Introduction to V-1 major colors on the middle strings, 1986-08-19 (see: Intro to V-1), and V-1 major colors on the middle strings, 1986-08-20 (page 2 & 3) (see: V-1 Major Colors), strings gauges, cleaning strings, V-4, V-5, Debussy. This is the final recorded lesson with Kevin and Ted.]
* Ted Greene with RoAnne Marks (tracks 1-3). [Three mp3 files from this newly discovered 1978 recording: “Both Sides Now,” “I Get Along Without You Very Well,” and “Like Someone in Love.”]

VIDEO:
* Ted Greene - California Vintage Guitar Seminar, 2003-12-14. Parts 1 and 2.
Clip 1: Introduction by John Pisano, Ted plays a blues in D, they begin the review of the page on reharmonizing “The Twelve Days of Christmas” (for a copy of the handout go here: TwelveDaysOfChristmas) (approx. 15 minutes).
Clip 2: Continuation of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” sheet. (approx. 15 minutes).

CHORD STUDIES:
* How High the Moon, Harmonization of the 1st Phrase (Part 4), 1987-03-30. [This page was previously posted in the “Harmony & Theory” section, yet it was a very blurry copy, hard to read. We now present a high quality version combined with transcription notation pages for clarity. They are now being placed in the “Chord Studies” section. This is the fourth and final part of this series. This page contains a lot of 4th chords.]
* Approach Chord Concept – Overview via Constant Lower Voices, 1986-01-24. [Another page of Ted’s lessons on 4th chords.]
* iii7-VI7-ii7-V7 Progressions – Root in the Bass, 1977-08-08. [A variety of voicings for iii-VI-ii-V progressions in key of Eb, G, E, and B. Notation/transcription pages included. (Sorry that the grids are actually smaller on these new pages – but at least they’re easier to read.)]
* Melodic Chord Streams – minor 7th, ala George Van Eps, 1978-09-16.

FUNDAMENTALS:
* The Guitar Fingerboard – Learning the Layout thru Song Fragments, 1990, July.
* Cycles, 1988-08-28. [Ted’s definition and explanation about cycles in music: chords, notes, intervals.]

HARMONY & THEORY:
* Harmonic Improvement Concepts, Application of, 1982-07-21. [Ted applies various harmonization principles to a given melody. Translation/new notation pages included.]

OTHER:
* Favorite Rhythmic Figures for Melodies, 1981-07-11.

FROM STUDENTS:
* Both Sides Now, 2004-12-06. [Ted arrangement put in notation and combined with his diagrams. Additions from his recording to complete the arrangement. Compiled by Paul Vachon.]

THE V-SYSTEM:
* V-3 with V-2 – Chord Tone Swap, 1989-07-29. [This shows one method of converting a V-3 chord into a V-2 chord (and vice versa). This sheet is posted in the “Combined Groups” section]
* V-5 Dom7 Challenging Exercises to Really Sink the Chords In, 1989-07-29. [V-5 dom 7th chords in cycles. Transcription page included.]

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OCTOBER 2013 TedGreene.com Newsletter

This month we feature our “From Students” section with four new entries for your guitar playing pleasure. First off we want to welcome Ric Molina to our team of contributors. If you’ve been following the Forums you may have come across a couple of transcriptions Ric made from some of Ted’s video clips. We’re moving these from the Forums to the more permanent home in the “From Students” section. Ric extracted a 12 bar blues section from Ted’s Boulevard Music Seminar and called it “Blues in Bb.” In addition he transcribed “Just a Little Lovin” from a video on YouTube (which is not on our site yet).

Coincidently, this same piece was also just transcribed by Anders Hagstrom, so we’re including both of them this month. Ric made his version using TAB, and Anders used Ted-style grid diagrams. Special thanks to both Anders and Ric – we hope to see more from you guys in the months to come. And of course I added another page to my endless list of Ted arrangement “compilations”- this month with two versions of “Camptown Races.” Years ago Leon White created a TAB page of Ted’s “Camptown Races” in Eb. This month we are providing the original sheet with both the Eb and the D versions. Enjoy!

Contributions to the “From Students” section isn’t limited to those who had the privilege to study with Ted - they can be from anyone who considers himself (or herself) a student of Ted by virtue of studying and applying the material from his books, recordings, videos, or lesson sheets from this website. If you have something related to Ted’s music that you’d like to share with others please contact either Leon White or Paul Vachon via the Forums PM. We’re always happy to post more insights from those who are diving deep into Ted’s teachings.

In the Audio section this month we have two more Ted recorded lessons with Mark Levy: May 4 and May 18, 1992. Parts of the May 4 lesson was transcribed and posted in the V-System section, under the “Ted’s Comments on the V-System”: Ted Greene Lesson with Mark Levy On Voicing Groups 1992-05-04.pdf It’s good to hear Ted talking about the V-System, since we have so little of him explaining it. Open that file and read along while listening to the recording. Also we’re posting another gem from the Kevin Griffin collection. Pull out your chart for “Here’s That Rainy Day” and try to follow along with their discussion.

This month we have lots of pages on various chord studies: three files in the “Chord Studies” section and three in “The V-System” section under the V-1, V-2, and V-4 folders. I wrote up that page on “Using V-4 Chord Scales to Get Ideas Started” years ago before the V-System section was in place. Even though I made a “translation” page for easy reading, it occurred to me that this may be unnecessary - but I included it nonetheless. I hope it doesn’t seem superfluous. We continue with the How High the Moon, Harmonization series with some sweet sounding diatonic passages that I think you’ll like. And we had some requests for Ted’s lessons on quartal harmony and on chord streams… you asked for it, you got it! We’ll keep the chord streams series going for a few months. We like requests!

Whew! That’s enough to keep us all out of trouble for the fall! Next month we’ll have some very special treats for you all, so stay tuned...

~ Paul and the friendly folks at TedGreene.com

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New Lesson Material:

ARRANGEMENTS:
* Camptown Races, 1984-10-09. [Two of Ted solo guitar arrangement in the key of Eb and D. Previously posted with only the Eb arrangement, we’re now including both as on Ted’ original page.]

AUDIO:
* Ted Greene Lesson with Mark Levy, 1992-05-04 . [An mp3 file of Mark’s lesson, 52 minutes. In this recording they talk about voice-groups, 6/9 chords, diminished sub-dominants, blue phrases, and review Marks arrangement of Invitation. See the transcript of this V-System segment:  Voicing Groups.
* Ted Greene Lesson with Mark Levy, 1992-05-18. [A one hour lesson with Ted discussing chord entrances, practicing 4-note inversions, 4 types of dominant 7th chords, blue phrases, and walking bass exercises.]
* Ted Greene Lesson with Kevin Griffin, 1990, May. [An mp3 of Kevin’s lesson with Ted; 42 minutes. They discuss soloing over Here’s That Rainy Day.]

BLUES & JAZZ:
* Time Zone Blues (key of D), 1985-10-29.  [Another Ted Greene blues study. Transcription pages included.]

CHORD STUDIES:
* How High the Moon, Harmonization of the 1st Phrase (Part 3), 1987-03-30. [This page was previously posted in the “Harmony & Theory” section, yet it was a very blurry copy, hard to read. We now present a high quality version combined with transcription notation pages for clarity. They are now being placed in the “Chord Studies” section.  This is the third of 4 part series.]
* Non-Diatonic Approach Chords “Constant Soprano” Groupings, (many of which are 4th-oriented) 1986-01-24, 25. [Another page of Ted’s lessons on 4th chords.]
* 3-Note Low-End Chord Streams, 1987 May. [Five pages for m7b5 and m6 chord streams on the lower strings. Ted gives some chord forms, but many of the grids have only fret numbers, leaving the student to fill in the chord diagrams. These are great exercises for developing inversion fills over these chords.]

FUNDAMENTALS:
* The Guitar Fingerboard – Learning the Layout thru Scale Fragments, 1989 and 1990.  [Three pages]

HARMONY & THEORY:
* Harmonic Improvement Quizzes, 1977-02-02. [Three Quizzes for Back-cycling and Flat-fifth Substitution principles. These are for the Harmonic Improvement lesson series. There are no “answers” provided for these quizzes. You’ll need to check your answers using the Ted original lesson pages, or you might inquire in the tedgreene.com Forums. Good luck!]

SINGLE-NOTE SOLOING:
* Pentatonic Melodic Patterns, 1979-02-20.

FROM STUDENTS:
* Blues in Bb – transcribed by Ric Molina from Ted’s Boulevard Music Seminar video, 2004-08-22 [A 12-bar blues in Bb with some tasty moves. Ric notated it, included TAB, and an analysis. Go to part 1 of Ted’s YouTube channel or to the Video section of this site. It runs from 7:16 to about 7:45. Check it out!]
* Just a Little Lovin’ – transcribed by Ric Molina from Ted’s video on YouTube:  Just a Little Lovin’
* Just a Little Lovin’ – transcribed by Anders Hagstrom from Ted’s video:  Just a Little Lovin’
* Camptown Races, 1984-10-09 [Both versions of Ted arrangements put in notation and combined with his diagrams. Compilations by Paul Vachon. Leon White also has a version of the Eb version written with TAB and standard notation.]

THE V-SYSTEM:
* V-1 Major Types with String Crossing on the Higher Sets (mainly), 1986-08-18. [Transcription pages included for easy reading.]
* V-2, Dominant 7ths (and Extensions) for Study: String Transference, 1984-03-09.[Exercises for V-2 Dom 7th chords.]
* V-4, Using V-4 Chord Scales to Get Ideas Started. 1987-01-04. [Page with chord names and text included for easy reading.]

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SEPTEMBER 2013 TedGreene.com Newsletter

The gang here have been hard at work on video and audio lesson postings. Some tasty stuff if you listen a little and the stop and experiment with it.

My favorites are the re-harmonization examples and the rules for adding or substituting chords.

Paul continues with his ‘clean up’ project, replacing several older pages with improved transcriptions (graphically).

The summers here are often subdued with visitors on vacation and so on. This summer we received a number of new submissions. Why aren’t they appearing yet? We have a small vetting process we go through to see if the material is in keeping with the guidelines for the site, is correctly transcribed, and so on. Those steps are going on now. When the submissions pass through these gates, they will be here for everyone.

More News

As part of settling Barbara’s estate, she generously gave my wife and I her private music library. Remember she was a student of Bach on the piano. There are NO guitar books. There are, however, a number of hardbound books on lives of the great composers, Bach, and other baroque composers. She and Ted did write in a few of the books in places. (My wife plays the piano.)

Because our own library exceeds even our extended storage space, we will be making some of the books available to those interested here. If you are interested in hearing about the books and details, please private message me ONLY (via the forums), and we’ll gauge the interest and how best to proceed.

Paul & Company’s Kitchen awaits so let’s get to it.

~ Leon and the friendly folks at TedGreene.com

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New Lesson Material:

ARRANGEMENTS:
* Close to You, 1974-04-04 and 1994-12-01. [Two of Ted’s solo guitar arrangement of this well-loved Carpenter’s song (written by Burt Bacharach & Hal David) in the key of Eb and C, plus Ted’s handwritten lead sheet.]

AUDIO:
* Ted Greene Lesson with Mark Levy, 1992-04-16 (part 1).  [An mp3 file of Mark’s lesson, 64 minutes.  In this recording they talk about baseball, Marks new ‘68 Tele, voice-leading, and using song roadmaps as a system of remembering tunes.]
* Ted Greene Lesson with Mark Levy, 1992-04-16 (part 2).  [A continuation of a 2-hour lesson with Ted.  They continue talking about song roadmaps, and re-harmonizing the tune “Invitation.”]
* Ted Greene Lesson with Kevin Griffin, 1989, November (part 2). [An mp3 of Kevin’s lesson with Ted; 31 minutes.  They discuss soloing over “The Girl from Ipanema.”  Ted says, “Jazz lives above the 7th.”]

BLUES & JAZZ:
* Time Zone Blues (key of F), 1985-10-29.  [Another Ted Greene blues study for chords on the top 4 strings (mostly).  Transcription pages included.]

CHORD STUDIES:
* How High the Moon, Harmonization of the 1st Phrase (Part 2), 1987-03-29.  [This page was previously posted in the “Harmony & Theory” section, yet it was a very blurry copy, hard to read.  We now present a high quality version combined with transcription notation pages for clarity.  They are now being placed in the “Chord Studies” section.  This is the second of 4 part series.]
* Diatonic 4th Chords V7-I, 1986-12-07 - Fundamental melodic moves from 1st chord.

FUNDAMENTALS:
* Foundation Chords – Dominant (unaltered), 1981-11-05.

HARMONY & THEORY:
* Harmonic Improvement Concepts (common), 1979-10-14.  [This is the fourth in a series of lessons that Ted wrote on methods for adding substitutes, embellishments and re-harmonizing, to basic chord progressions.  This installment is Ted’s overview of the various principles covered in the other lesson sheets.  Transcription pages included.]

SINGLE-NOTE SOLOING:
* Pentatonic Melodic Patterns, 1979-02-20.

FROM STUDENTS:
* Close to You, 1974-04-04 and 1994-12-01. [Both of Ted arrangements put in notation and combined with his diagrams.  Compilation by Paul Vachon.]

THE V-SYSTEM:
* V-1 Major Type Colors – Middle Strings, 1986-08-19 (optional ascending).  [Two pages.  These lessons continue the series on V-1 major types.  On page 2 Ted left a lot of the chord forms for the student to fill in, using similar forms from page 2.]
* V-4, Diatonic Major Key Cycles of 4ths Progressions (with difficult ties in the bass), 1989-02-21. [Key of Eb.  Notation included.]
* V-5, Minor 7ths: Cumulative String Crossing, low to high, 1990-01-03.  Combined with V-5, Minor 7ths:  Leaps with Backtracking, mostly top set, 1990-01-03[Exercises for V-5 minor 7th chords.]

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AUGUST 2013 TedGreene.com Newsletter

Hope this newsletter finds you all in good health and spirits, enjoying your summer and finding more time to play guitar.

In recent months we’ve be accumulating more and more recordings of Ted, mostly from private guitar lessons, but we also have a few other gems we’ll be sharing later this year and next. I hope you’re all listening to these since they contain an excellent taste of what it was like to study directly with Ted – although every student’s experience was unique.  This month our “humble webmaster” Dan Sindel is sharing with us three short recorded lessons he had with Ted in 2004. You’ll notice a “swimmy,” “swishy” sound on these, and Dan explains that the original recordings were almost buried in the noise from the room’s air conditioner and other background noises, plus the fact that Ted’s tape recorder was on its last leg! Dan was able to clean it up so we can understand it better. Thanks for sharing these, Dan! By the way, while you listen to these recordings you might want to have Ted’s “Harmonic Improvements” pages out, since Ted discusses some concepts during one of these recordings.

Also in the Audio section is another lesson with Kevin Griffin, this time from October, 1989. Parts of this lesson were transcribed and posted in the V-System section, under the “Ted’s Comments on the V-System”: Ted Greene Lessons with Kevin Griffin on Voicing Groups, 1989Sept-Oct.pdf. It starts on page 4. It’s good to hear Ted talking about the V-System, since we have so little of him explaining it.

Also be sure to listen to the Mark Levy recording for this month. I found it helpful to hear Ted’s attitude about practice time, and setting priorities for how to best use your practice time—to play things that satisfy you, and not just work on becoming “Mr. Chord Encyclopedia.”  Also listen to Ted explain some methods and tricks for walking bass lines with chords—it starts at 35:30. Very nice examples that help you get started with some very cool grooves.

There are several pages in the Lessons section that were posted years ago that are poor quality scans, or are somewhat blurry and hard to read. Eventually we’ll replace all of these with better versions and let you know when we do so. This month we’re replacing part 1 of Ted’s “How High the Moon, Harmonization of the 1st Phrase” – plus I’ve added transcription/notation pages to make it more user-friendly. If you’ve downloaded this page in the past delete that baby and get the new one! There are 4 parts to this “How High the Moon” series (I’m calling each page “part” instead of “page”). We’ve deleted the old files for the moment and we’ll post the replacement files in the coming 3 months.

These little chord studies are well worth the work. Personally, I love it when Ted takes a short melody and harmonizes it dozens of different ways, demonstrating all the reharmonization, substitution, back-cycling, diatonic stepwise, contrary motion, diatonic 4ths, and other principles. If one really studies and absorbs what’s going on in each example (instead of just memorizing them), and doing the homework as suggested by Ted (taking them through other keys), one can gain great insights to becoming an exceptional arranger and player.

Someone requested Ted’s lessons on quartal or 4th chords harmony. I temporarily posted a couple pages in the Forums as an appetizer for this long series that begins this month. The first installment combines 4th chords with Ted’s “approach chord concept.” Stay tuned for more…

Enjoy and play well!
~ Paul and the friendly folks at TedGreene.com

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New Lesson Material:

ARRANGEMENTS:
* On Green Dolphin Street, 1985-06-06. [Ted’s solo guitar arrangement from 1985 plus his handwritten lead sheet from 1977.]

AUDIO:
* Ted Greene Lesson with Mark Levy, 1992-03-30.  [An mp3 file of Mark’s lesson, 46 minutes.  In this recording they talk about inversions, systems for practicing, diminished sounds and scales, and walking bass with chords.]
* Ted Greene Lesson with Kevin Griffin, 1989, October. [An mp3 of Kevin’s lesson with Ted; 52 minutes.  They talk about 6th chords, the V-System, ear training, George Van Eps, minor 6th chords, 4th chords (see the corresponding lesson pages on diatonic 4th chords in the “Chord Studies” section), and texture.]
* Ted Greene Lesson with Dan Sindel – [Three short excerpts from 2004 lessons. In the 2004-03-16a recording Ted talks about secondary dominants.  The 2004-03-16b excerpt has some instruction about harmonic improvements:  chord addition, chord substitution, and chord enrichment.  The 2004-03-24 is a fun little jam on the “Flintstones” theme, plus some reharmonization of the same.]

BLUES & JAZZ:
* Some Basic Chord Forms for Walking Bass Style and Practice Patterns, 1977-08-15. [Transcription pages included.]

CHORD STUDIES:
* Descending Progressions from 5/3/9, Mainly Diatonic Harmony and Diatonic Melodies, 1986-10-07. [Beautiful little diatonic chord moves with descending lines.  On this pages Ted only provides the key for each example and leaves naming the chords up to you.]
* How High the Moon, Harmonization of the 1st Phrase (Part 1), 1987-03-21.  [This page was previously posted in the “Harmony & Theory” section, yet it was a very blurry copy, hard to read.  We now present a high quality version combined with transcription notation pages for clarity.  They are now being placed in the “Chord Studies” section. This is the first of 4 part series.]
* Approach Chord Concept – Diatonic 4th Chords (Major Scale) 1986.  [Four pages on the use of diatonic 4ths as approach chords.  Listen to Kevin Griffin’s October 1989 recorded lesson with Ted wherein they discuss and demonstrate these pages.]

COMPING:
* On Green Dolphin Street, Comping on the High Strings, V-2 Forms, (key of Db), 1984-11-03. [Ted’s voicings for accompaniment in the key of Db. Transcription pages included.]

FUNDAMENTALS:
* Foundation Chords – Minor 7th, 1981-11-05.

HARMONY & THEORY:
* Harmonic Improvement, 1977, parts 1, 3, 6.  [This is the third in a series of lessons that Ted wrote on methods for adding substitutes, embellishments and re-harmonizing, to basic chord progressions.  This installment is Ted’s revision of parts that were previously posted, plus additional parts.  Transcription pages included.]

FROM STUDENTS:
* On Green Dolphin Street, 1985-06-06. [Ted’s grid diagrams combined with standard notation and lyrics. Compilation by Paul Vachon.]
* On Green Dolphin Street, Comping on the High Strings, V-2 Forms, Key of Db, 1984-11-03. [Ted’s grid diagrams combined with standard notation plus the lead sheet as reference. Compilation by Paul Vachon.]

THE V-SYSTEM:
* V-1 Major Colors on the Middle and Low Strings, 1986-08-20.  [Two pages. This is page 2 and 3 that goes with the file that was previously posted as “Introduction of V-1 Major Colors on the Middle Strings.”]
* V-4, Dominant 7th Larger Sounding Leaps, 1986-02-09. [Exercises for V-4 dominant 7th chord inversions on the lower and higher string sets. You’ll see that for many of the chords Ted provides a fret number for the diagram, but the grid has no dots. These are for the student to fill in as “homework.”]
* V-5, Dominant 7ths: String Crossing, 1990-01-02. [Exercises for V-5 dominant 7th chords.]

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JULY 2013 TedGreene.com Newsletter

July and the summer heat have arrived here in Los Angeles. Tomorrow is expected to be 10,000 degrees so wear a hat if you’re out. July always brings a somber note as we remember Ted’s passing on the 23rd, in 2005. Barb always had a tough time with July, although she was getting better with each passing year.

I was recalling one of the unique Ted moments – one of my favorites. Paul has encouraged me to share these from time to time and so I thought I might share it.
Way back in 1977 Ted got a steady gig at the Smokehouse restaurant in Burbank. The restaurant actually occupies a corner in the midst of the Warner Bros. Studios. Literally. Ted was set to play the first night and I and some of his friends and students were there early to help him if he needed something.

Everything was good to go, and then the restaurant started to fill up with guitarists. The bar side of the place was reserved for entertainment, and it was LARGE. Every player in LA seemed to be there including all the ‘name’ guys you would expect. The place was packed with these pros and I was sure Ted was nervous before he started. He sat tuning his beloved Tele, tweaking, tweaking, tweaking. I had grabbed a chair in front, and he asked the audience “What should I play?” Various murmurs of tunes came back to him, but I thought he should start light and relax with some of the more “fun” tunes he did.

I suggested the “Theme to Highway Patrol,” a black and white television drama in the late 1950s starring Broderick Crawford. It was a dark march-like piece suggesting the seriousness of law enforcement, and the inexorable march to justice by our officers on the highways. As the show opened this theme played behind an equally serious narrator stating, “Whether the State Police, Sheriffs, or Highway patrol, the safety of the citizens....” etc. It was the typical all-American crime fighting teams doing this and that. The voice-over droned on for a while.

Ted had worked this piece out and played it occasionally for a laugh with various students and friends, but it was NOT on his list of gigging tunes. Naturally, his arrangement included the whole orchestra. When I mentioned it I didn’t expect him to play it, I thought the idea of it might lighten him up a bit – maybe give him a grin. Only a few of us up front heard my remark. The rest of the place was waiting for one of his extraordinary jazz performances. He noodled a bit, somewhat unsure of where he wanted to start, and then out came a dead serious full-blown arrangement of this dark marching theme.

A few of us started to laugh as you might expect, when a player and student of Ted’s, Jeff Stillman spoke up in a loud voice and recited the entire opening voice-over of the show. He nailed the announcer voice and Ted got into the whole thing. Surreal, funny, and of course outrageous playing by Ted. The performance started with the actual beginning of the theme, and ended just as accurately. When they both finished, the room went crazy and he had a chuckle. The ice was broken and Ted went on to play one of those performances like you’ve seen on videos. If anyone ever taped any of these performances, PLEASE share it.

Here is a link to an episode on YouTube with what you would have heard if you’d been there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2sA5hiI7ZI

And no, we don’t have his arrangement – yet.

~ Leon and the TedGreene.com Team

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New Lesson Material:

ARRANGEMENTS:
* Wave  [Ted’s solo guitar arrangement from 1985 plus his handwritten lead sheet from 1977 and a 1995 fragment.]

AUDIO:
* Ted Greene Lesson with Mark Levy, 1992-02-24.  [An mp3 file of Mark’s lesson, 64 minutes.  In this recording they talk about Mark’s ‘68 Tele, diminished sounds, and priorities for practice.]
* Ted Greene Lesson with Mark Levy, 1992-03-04. [An mp3 file of Mark’s lesson, 63 minutes.  Checking out Mark’s Tele, “There Will Never Be Another You,” systematic inversions, chord transformation exercises, Classic greats.]
* Ted Greene Lesson with Kevin Griffin, 1989, July 17 (parts 1 & 2) [An mp3 of Kevin’s lesson with Ted.  They review “When Sunny Gets Blue” comping in B, how to approach a #ivm7b5, walking bass lines for blues, quarter-note triplets against 4, and “Approach Chord Blues” – 93 minutes total.]

BAROQUE:
* Neo-Baroque Contrapuntal Harmony, 1990-09-14 [Chord scales mixing 7ths and triads, with string crossings.  Included is a short page on Neo-Baroque counterpoint colors, 1989-07-16.]

CHORD STUDIES:
* Descending Progressions (More), 1986-10-07  [Ted’s lesson on descending chord progressions conceived from 1) the bass, 2) the melody or soprano, and 3) the harmonic tendencies.  Beautiful little chord moves.  On this pages Ted only provides the key for each example, but leaves naming the chords up to the student.]

COMPING:
* Wave, accompaniment style (key of G), 1992-02-15 [Ted’s voicings for accompaniment in the key of G.  Transcription pages included.]

FUNDAMENTALS:
* Foundation Chords - Major, 1980, Feb. [Three pages of what Ted considered essential chord forms of major and major 6 sounds, all three-note chord voicings.]

HARMONY & THEORY:
* Harmonic Improvement, 1976, parts 3, 4, 5  [This is the second in a series of lessons that Ted wrote on methods for adding substitutes, embellishments and re-harmonizing, to basic chord progressions.  Transcription pages included.]

SINGLE-NOTE SOLOING:
* Learning to Hear and Play Dorian and Aeolian Melodies, 1983-05-03 [Transcription pages included.]
* Exotic Scales, 1967 [Transcription pages included.]

FROM STUDENTS:
* Wave, 1985-08-04 [Ted’s grid diagrams combined with standard notation and lyrics.  Compilation by Paul Vachon.]

THE V-SYSTEM:
* V-4, Dominant 7th Both Sets, 1986-02-08 and 09. [Exercises for V-4 dominant 7th chord inversions on the lower and higher string sets.  You’ll see that for many of the chords, Ted provided a fret number for the diagram, but the grid has no dots.  These are for the student to fill in as “homework.”]
* V-5, Major 6th Chords: String Crossing, 1990-01-01[Exercises for V-5 major 6 chords.]

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JUNE 2013 TedGreene.com Newsletter

Welcome to Ted Greene’s website – the home for all things related to Ted’s music, teachings, and life.  If you’re here for the first time you’re in for a treat – there’s lots of his teaching materials, audio recordings, videos, arrangements, personal notes, photos—and more are posted at the beginning of each month. 

This month we conclude with the “formal presentation” of the V-System by adding the final installment of the 7BQ series (the Seven Basic Qualities and Their Systematic Inversions).  This month features V-14 – the last of the 14 voicing groups.  This one has some interesting stretches.  See if you can find a way to fit one of these babies into an arrangement or a chord study.  Anyone new to Ted’s V-System material should know that many of the V-System pages are for reference, to be absorbed slowly and very selectively.  Ted never handed out all of his 7BQ pages to any student, realizing that it was just too much.  He always stressed that one should play through the chords and find one or two that you like, and then leave the rest for another time [or lifetime!].  Now that all the 7BQ’s are up we’ll begin to post some of the more practical or useable V-System lesson pages.  This month we have some nice V-4 major 6 inversion exercises that should feel very familiar to your hands, and hopefully these exercises will find their way into some of your accompaniment playing. 

We had a special request for Ted’s Exodus arrangement, so we’ve posted the original page in the “Arrangement” section and Paul’s compilation write-up in the “From Students” area.  We’ve also updated Ted’s “Nature Boy” arrangement to include some fragments from his paper files that we previously overlooked.  Again, Paul wrote up a nice version in notation + grids to incorporate portions from both.

Another member wrote inquiring about Ted’s “Harmonic Improvement Concepts” lesson, seeing that a segment from it was mentioned in James Hober’s article on Ted’s Plans for Teaching the V-System.  This month we present the first installment of that series.  It has some great information for understanding how and why Ted could add so many chords to a simple progression.  We think you’ll like this series.  Find it in the “Harmony and Theory” section.

If you’ve ever wondered about what scales to play over dominant 7th chords (including altered notes) Ted has some ideas to share – a truckload full!  Check out the second installment on this series in the “Single-Note Soloing” section.

Again we’d like to invite anyone who may be interested in helping out with transcribing or writing up any of Ted’s lesson pages for this website to contact Paul.  If you want to have a say about which of Ted’s lesson sheets get posted each month you can send us your requests to Paul.  (You can find a partial listing in the back of Barbara Franklin’s book, My Life with the Chord Chemist.).  And if you find that you’ve benefited from any of this month’s new lesson pages we hope you’ll be so inclined to make a donation to keep this site running smoothly.  Every little bit counts.  Thanks for your support.

~ The TedGreene.com Team

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New Lesson Material:

ARRANGEMENTS:
* Nature Boy [Ted’s 2002 arrangement plus three other “fragments.”  This expanded version replaces the file that was posted several months ago.  This is a difficult piece, so you might like to look at Paul’s write-up on this in the “From Students” section.]
* Exodus [Ted’s 1999 arrangement plus his handwritten lead sheet from 1974]

AUDIO:
* Ted Greene Lesson with Mark Levy, 1992-00-00.  [An mp3 file of Mark’s lesson, 31 minutes.  In this recording they talk mainly about the blues, Walking with Wes.]
* Ted Greene Lesson with Mark Levy, 1992-01-27.  [An mp3 file of Mark’s lesson, 45 minutes.  Tele set-up, They review Someday My Prince Will Come and But Beautiful, and talk about diminished chords.]
* Ted Greene Lesson with Kevin Griffin, 1989, June 19 (part 2)[An mp3 of Kevin’s lesson #5, (part 2) with Ted.  Includes reviews of some classical/baroque voicings and progressions and When Sunny Gets Blue – 44 minutes.]

CHORD STUDIES:
* Descending Progressions, 1986-10-07 [Ted’s lessons on descending chords with mainly diatonic chords and diatonic melodies (2 pages).  These are beautiful little chord moves that have many uses.  On the pages Ted only included the key for each example.  You can add the chord names yourself, and most of them are pretty straightforward, but also realize that there may be chords some that fall into the realm of “moving lines” rather than a vertical chord name.]

FUNDAMENTALS:
* Aeolian Tonality, 1986-08-03 [A beginning look at Aeolian harmony.  Transcription pages included.]
* Aeolian Colors with Pedal Tones, 1989-09-03  [Transcription pages included.]

HARMONY & THEORY:
* Harmonic Improvement, 1976, parts 1-2  [This is the first in a series of lessons that Ted wrote on methods for adding substitutes, embellishments and re-harmonizing, to basic chord progressions.  Transcription pages included.]

SINGLE-NOTE SOLOING:
* Dominant 7th Scales, 1976-04-18 [Four scales, chords, and arpeggios to play over dominant and altered dominant 7th sounds.  This is the second of two lessons by Ted on this subject.  Transcription pages included.]

FROM STUDENTS:
* Nature Boy, 2002 and 1974 versions [Ted’s grid diagrams combined with standard notation and lyrics.  Compilation by Paul Vachon.]
* Exodus, 1999  [Paul’s write-up of Ted’s arrangement – standard notation combined with Ted’s chord diagrams.]

THE V-SYSTEM:
* V-14, The Seven Basic Qualities and Their Systematic Inversions.
* V-14, Voicings for the 35 Four-Note Chord Types, 1985-11-17 and 1986-08-12 [Ted’s grids (re-drawn for easy reading…Whew!...now that was a lot of work!)]
* V-4, Major 6th Chords, 1986-02-10. [Exercises for V-4 6th chord inversions on the lower and higher string sets.  You’ll see that for many of the chords, Ted provided a fret number for the diagram, but the grid has no dots.  These are for the student to fill in as “homework.”]

OTHER:
* Tuning No.5 – R,5,3,#5,R,b3 – 1984-05-18[This concludes our posting of all of Ted’s pages from his Personal Music Studies on his original tunings.]

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MAY 2013 TedGreene.com Newsletter

Happy May!

Statistics are often misleading, but we track a few of them anyway. The site is holding a steady number of visitors compared to last year. Since it is 7 years-old, we’re pretty pleased with that. The summer is often quieter with people on vacation etc., but this summer may be a bit different.

We have recently received some incredible material for fans of Ted: new video, new lessons, transcriptions, and the promise of some new live performances of Ted backing singers. That will keep the summer and fall pretty busy.

The amazing thing is that this material is appearing 7 years after Ted’s passing. Some of this is the result of work Barbara began, while some is new. Thanks Barbara!! And thanks to all who have recently come forward. (As we get the material prepped and out we’ll be thanking each of you specifically.) It does take work, and those doing the work here, with day jobs, etc., are very special people. I think you’ll be surprised at the breathtaking and unbelievable performances to come—even for those who have “heard it all” in regard to Ted.

This month we want to especially thank Allan Whiteman and Dan Sawyer for a letter from Ted about guitar amps. Allan sent a scan of his letter to Dan, who then transcribed it for easy reading. Allan also added some follow-up comments. You’ll find the original letter and the rewritten text in the “Other” section of the Lessons area. This little gem is a sample of what we’re interested in collecting and sharing with you all.

To any of you that might have some “new” material on Ted, whether it’s audio, video, lessons, arrangements, performances, sessions, a letter, or whatever-please consider sharing it. I think the site has done an excellent job of respecting everyone who has contributed, and there is always something new to learn with Ted.

Be sure to check out Paul’s transcription of Ted’s review of “That Lucky Old Sun” from an audio lesson with Mark Levy (also posted this month in the Audio section). It includes notation, grids, and text from the lesson. This is a wonderful old tune that Ted said was his favorite song when he was a kid.

Transcribing. There are a lot of tools to help transcribe Ted. Here are a few of them:
The Amazing Slowdowner (audio). Song Surgeon (audio). Video Surgeon (video slowed down!). Melodyne (audio to notation. Never perfect, but very useful). Then for output you have a ton of midi-to-notation programs (Sibelius, Finale, Powertab, Guitar Pro, and tab related programs). Our site does not endorse any of these by the way. If you have a tool you’d recommend, please post your experiences with it in the Forums.

And now, the new material for May:

~ Leon and the TedGreene.com Team

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New Lesson Material:

ARRANGEMENTS:
* Secret Love, Arranged for Jazz Trio Setting, 1983-08-14  [Ted’s grid diagrams.  See Paul’s From Students section for a notated version of this page.]

AUDIO:
* Ted Greene Lesson with Mark Levy, 1991.  [An mp3 file of Mark’s lesson, 64 minutes.  In this recording Ted reviews That Lucky Old Sun. – See Paul’s write-up about it in the “From Students” section.]
* Ted Greene Lesson with Mark Levy, 1991-12-24.  [An mp3 file of Mark’s lesson, 32 minutes.  They review Someday My Prince Will Come and But Beautiful.]
* Ted Greene Lesson with Kevin Griffin, 1989, June 19 (part 1) [An mp3 of Kevin’s lesson #5, (part 1) with Ted. – 46 minutes.]

COMPING:
* Blue Bossa – Comping or Back-up, 1989-12-31

FUNDAMENTALS:
* Dorian Tonality, 1986-08-03 [A beginning look at Dorian harmony.  Transcription pages included.]
* Dorian Progressions for Taping, 1990-05-08  [Some chord voicings for ii-V progressions, to be used as backing tracks for  your single-note soloing practice with Dorian scales & arpeggios.]

SINGLE-NOTE SOLOING:
* Dominant 7th Scales, (part 1) 1975-07-15 [Eight scales and arpeggios to play over dominant and altered dominant 7th sounds.  This is the first of two lessons by Ted on this subject.  Part 2 will be posted next month.  Transcription pages included.]

FROM STUDENTS:
* Secret Love, Arranged for Jazz Trio Setting, 1983-08-14  [Ted’s grid diagrams combined with standard notation and lyrics.  Compilation by Paul Vachon.]
* That Lucky Old Sun – Taken from Ted’s 1991 lesson with Mark Levy (see the Audio section).  Transcribed by Paul Vachon, this compilation includes grids, standard notation, a lead sheet with lyrics, and the text transcript of the audio recording.]
* Blue Bossa - Comping, 1989-12-31 [Ted’s chord diagrams aligned with the lead sheet, by Paul Vachon]

THE V-SYSTEM:
* V-2, Dominant 7th Chord Streams, 1985 [Using all 3 string sets.]
* V-13, The Seven Basic Qualities and Their Systematic Inversions.

OTHER:
* Tuning No.3 – R,b7,9,b3,5,R – Compilation #2 [Continuing with our posting of Ted’s pages from his Personal Music Studies on his original tunings, this compilation contains pages from 1986 and 2001.  This posting now completes all of Ted’s pages for this tuning.]
* Ted Greene on Guitar Amps.  [Ted’s 1990 letter to Allan Whiteman.  Transcribed by Dan Sawyer, additional comments by Allan.]

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APRIL 2013 TedGreene.com Newsletter

Well Spring has officially arrived.

After a pretty brutal winter I think we’re all looking forward to the warmer months. Hopefully you were able to spend some of that additional “indoor time” playing more of Ted’s arrangements and working on the new lesson pages-something to warm the heart, even if nothing else seems warm in your environment!

This month is significant in that we’re posting James Hober’s final chapters on Ted’s V-System. It all started 10 months ago and he’s taken us down an interesting, informative, and enjoyable path into the mind of Ted’s organization of four-note chord voicings. This is one of Ted’s legacies for the guitar teaching lore, and we believe that over time it will be studied by those guitarists who seriously want to better understand harmony and guitar voicings. We want to thank James for all the selfless work he has put into this project-I don’t believe there’s anyone would have been able to decipher and explain Ted’s system as well as he has done. For those of you who have been following the V-System saga thus far you know that James has gone above and beyond what was required for a mere explanation, and certainly much more than Barbara and I ever dreamed when we first contacted him years ago. I think it would be safe to say that Ted would have been quite happy with this V-System presentation.

Even though the final chapters (plus a new “Welcome” chapter) are all now posted, James isn’t going to disappear completely from this site. He’ll still be available to answer questions in the Forums regarding the V-System, and perhaps we’ll see an article by him popping up in the From Students section from time to time.

Now that the complete explanation of the V-System is up, we’ll be concentrating on posting more of Ted’s individual lesson pages for the various voicing groups. For the past 10 months most of what we posted has been the “Seven Basic Qualities and their Systematic Inversions” for each group, and perhaps one or two other related pages. This month we have V-12. V-13 will go up in May, and then we’ll finish off the 7BQ pages with V-14 in June. After that we’ll start posting more of the exercises, chord scales, inversion crossings, progressions, etc., that Ted wrote. There’s a huge amount of excellent V-2 material that he used with his students, and there are also many more sheets for the other lower numbered voicing groups. So we have years worth of wonderful V-System releases for your fingers and mind.

However, you should know that Ted never completed his work on this project. His work spanned decades, and he plugged away at this mountainous subject in a non-linear fashion. There are plenty of holes in the lesson pages, and some inconsistencies that he certainly would have resolved had he ever gotten to the point of final organization for publishing. For example, Ted didn’t write any practical application pages for the higher voicing group numbers (V-10 thru V-14). The 35 or 43 four-note chord voicing pages don’t really fall into the category of “useful” but are more for reference, and they were personal studies for Ted, laying the groundwork for his V-System. So anyone who is serious about those groups will have to do some innovative and creative work on their own in order to bring some of these chords to life.

This month we’ve posted the sheets on V-12, which is one of the more difficult voicing groups to play, even high up on the neck. Included in the 7BQ pages are some variations that include open strings, which you’ll find much more useful and easier to play.

There are several new additions to the Audio section this month. We continue with the Kevin Griffin recordings and begin posting Mark Levy’s amazing collection of lessons with Ted. Years ago Mark posted this collection on a server and made them freely available for downloads. Since then they’ve been hosted on other serves as well. Even though many of you already have these recordings we’ll be posting all of them permanently as mp3 files on the tedgreene.com site during the coming months. This month 3 of Mark’s files are going up: Misty, a lesson on the blues, and a 1975 lesson wherein Ted plays Here’s That Rainy Day and They Can’t Take That Away from Me. Even if you have the Misty recording you’ll want this new version in which most of the distortion was removed or reduced.

Last April (and May) we posted all of Ted’s pages on I’ll Remember April (did you learn it?). This month we’re focusing on Secret Love: his comping study and an intermediate level solo guitar arrangement. In May we’ll post his more advanced arrangement “…for Jazz Trio Setting.” It’s a sweet song that I’d never heard, but apparently Ted liked and I think you will too.

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New Lesson Material:

ARRANGEMENTS:
* Secret Love, 1974-09-12. [An early Ted arrangement, combined with his lead sheet.]

AUDIO:
* Ted Greene Lesson with Kevin Griffin, 1989, May 22 [An mp3 of Kevin’s lesson #3 with Ted – 49 minutes. This lesson involves a review of When Sunny Gets Blue comping in the key of B, but which is not related to any of Ted’s hand-out sheets.]
* Ted Greene Lessons with Mark Levy. Three mp3 files this month: Misty, Blues, and Guitar Lesson 1975 (with Ted playing Here’s That Rainy Day and They Can’t Take That Away from Me).

BLUES & JAZZ:
* Walking Chord Blues, key of E, 1989-07-11 [Another one of Ted’s excellent blues study using one chord per beat.]

COMPING:
* Secret Love, Comping Study, 1982-11-21 [Ted’s handwritten music notation for a “skeletal Comping Outline.” (No grids are given, but please see Paul’s write-up in the From Students section). The notation should be played up an octave for guitar.]

SINGLE-NOTE SOLOING:
* Diminished 7th Sounds, 1977-12-14 (part 4) [This is the final part in Ted’s 4-part series on the diminished 7th scale, with fingerings and melodic patterns.]

FROM STUDENTS:
* Secret Love, 1974-09-12 [Ted’s chords (re-drawn) with standard notation and lyrics.]
* Secret Love, Comping Study, 1982-11-21 [Paul’s compilation page that includes Ted’s notation re-written for easy reading, plus chord grids, melody line, and lyrics.]
* Walking Chord Blues, key of E, 1989-07-11 [Ted’s blues study with notation by Paul Vachon]

THE V-SYSTEM:
* Welcome [A brief V-System overview and essential chapters, by James Hober]
* Ted’s Plans for Teaching the V-System [James Hober shares some of Ted’s personal notes about his ideas and plans for teaching the V-System.]
* Acknowledgments [James Hober’s final chapter for Ted’s V-System explanations.]
* V-12, The Seven Basic Qualities and Their Systematic Inversions
* V-12, The 43 Chord Types (notation only), 2000-08-20 [Ted’s original page accompanied by a new notation transcription]
* V-1 Dominant 7th Chords, 1986-11-05
* V-2, Structures in the Overtone Dominant (Lydian dominant) Scale, 2001 [From his Personal Music Studies files, here Ted explores how many and which V-System 4-note chord types are diatonic to the overtone dominant scale. Also, he works out how many are diatonic to the major scale. Ted’s 3 original pages plus transcription pages with an explanation by James Hober]

OTHER:
* Tuning No.3 – R,b7,9,b3,5,R – Compilation #1 [Continuing with posting Ted’s pages from his Personal Music Studies files on his original tunings, this compilation contains pages from 1982, 1986, and 1996. He called this “My Gift Tuning” and “My Lovely Tuning.”]

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MARCH 2013 TedGreene.com Newsletter

March has arrived, and with it reminders of both Ted and Barb. With the coolish-but clear weather in Los Angeles, plants are starting to green-up. Both Ted and Barb were sensitive to the weather and spoke about the emotions different kinds of weather created.

As you have noticed by now, I did not get the video of Ted’s California Vintage Guitars Seminar from December 14, 2003 posted. We’ll try again to get it ready by mid-month.

In thinking of what recollections of Ted I might share, the Solo Guitar album came to mind. Recording this album brought many challenges as Ted was extremely fussy about everything in the sound. He did have one blind spot however that always made William and I laugh: many of his amps were noisy. Hisses and pops and what have you would show up, but he never seemed to hear them. They were elderly Fenders, and received a lot of use. But even with his extreme tonal sensitivity he seemed to hear right through the pops. Ultimately they quieted down a bit, and we took his sound direct as well as miked. But he never seemed to notice those sounds! Since he sometimes worked on his own amps (NOT RECOMMENDED), and taught himself electronics (no kidding), I sometimes think he didn’t want to admit that a little bias adjustment might have been needed.

This month we’re extending the discussion of the diminished 7th scale application. We’ll also finish up with Ted’s Solo Guitar Improvisation Recording, and we have another Kevin Griffin lesson. Thanks Kevin! And of course more V-System material from James. Paul will detail the rest below.

Spring is a good time for growing things it seems, so try to introduce this site to some new folks if you can. We have guitarists visiting from every continent (and even on an aircraft carrier), but more would be great. There are many musical folks out there that might enjoy Ted and his material, but haven’t found us yet. That said, there are tens of thousands of visitors to the site every month, and we thank you all for that.

Lastly, we’re still looking for transcribers to help bring Ted’s audio/video performances to the page. This isn’t always an easy task if you’re new to it, but nothing is more important in better understanding Ted’s playing. If you’re thinking about transcribing from video, there is at least one video tool (Video Surgeon) which will slow the audio and video down 50%. I’ve used it. It has the usual audio challenges with seeming reverb and delay, but it is still very useful. It loops as well. If you know of other video tools, please post these in the Forums.

Well, that about wraps it for March. Remember, requests are welcome! We always need your input.

~ Leon and the TedGreene.com Team

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New Lesson Material:

ARRANGEMENTS:
*Just Friends, 1977-06-29 [Ted’s early outline for a chord-melody arrangement. Note: Ted recorded an elaborate version of this song on his Solo Guitar album, but this lesson sheet is a simplified version in a different key.]

AUDIO:
* Solo Guitar Improvisation, tracks 13 – 19.[Seven mp3 files. This is the final installment of this unpublished informal recording.]
* Ted Greene Lesson with Kevin Griffin, 1989, September #2 [An mp3 of Kevin’s lesson #7, (part 2) with Ted. – 46 minutes.]

BLUES & JAZZ:
* Walking Chord Blues, 1986-04-20 [Another one of Ted’s slick blues study for accompaniment – one chord per beat.]

CHORD STUDIES:
* Color Shifts (Changing Tonalities) in One Key at a Time, 1990-11-15 [Progressions and related scales for changing from major to minor tonalities.]

FUNDAMENTALS:
* Triad Spelling, 1975-02-09 [Chord spelling for all triads, grouped according to family.]

SINGLE-NOTE SOLOING:
* Diminished 7th Sounds, 1977-12-14 (part 3) [This is the third part in Ted’s 4-part series on the diminished 7th scale, with fingerings and melodic patterns.]

FROM STUDENTS:
* Just Friends, 1977-06-29 [Ted’s arrangement in notation married with his grid diagrams, compiled by Paul Vachon.]
* Walking Chord Blues, 1986-04-20 [Paul provides the notation to Ted’s lesson page.]

THE V-SYSTEM:
* How Systematic Inversions Relate to the V-System, by James Hober [James’ chapter for systematic inversions and the V-System.]
* V-2, Dominant 7th Inversion Exercises (7 pages) [These are some very useful inversion exercises for application of V-2 dominant 7 chords – no extensions or alterations, just simple 7th chords.]
* V-11 – The Seven Basic Qualities and Their Systematic Inversions
* V-11 - The 43 Four-Note Chord Types, 2000-08-23

OTHER:
* Tuning No.2 - D9 Practice Progressions and Voicings, 1984-04-14 & 15 [We continue posting Ted’s pages from his Personal Music Studies files on his original tunings. This is the last of his pages for the D9 tuning.]

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FEBRUARY 2013 TedGreene.com Newsletter

A hardy “Third Month of Winter” greeting to all Ted Greene fans and students!

February always seems like a quiet month.  It was named after the Latin term februum, which means purification, via the purification ritual Februa held on February 15 (full moon) in the old lunar Roman calendar.  Holidays?  Well, of course there’s the Super Bowl—that’s a sort of holiday if you’re a football fan.*  What about Valentine’s Day, President’s Day, and even Groundhog’s Day?…not to mention Flag Day for Canada and Mexico, Family Day in Canada, and National Day of the Sun in Argentina.  And we certainly don’t want to forget that February is National Bird-Feeding Month!

Okay, on the musical side of things for February it would seem appropriate for us to post Ted’s arrangement of “My Funny Valentine,” but we did that last year so we’ll have to settle for the unseasonal “Autumn in New York.”  Yes, that’ll do just fine.  But beware, it’s a tough one!  By special request we have another one of Ted’s sheets on contrary motion….you get to name the chords (if you dare) since Ted left most of them blank (I try to avoid labeling those 4th stacks unless I have to).  In addition, we continue with our series on Diminished 7th Sounds, Ted’s Original Tuning pages, six more tracks from Ted’s unpublished “Solo Guitar Improvisation” recording, and another Ted audio lesson from Kevin Griffin.  Top it all off with another comping study for “On Green Dolphin Street” using V-2 chords on the middle strings. 

Did I mention the V-System?  Besides the V-10 pages we have a special treat to share with you.  James Hober writes:  “This month we are finally releasing the pièce de résistance of the V-System:  the page where Ted outlines all three methods.  In addition, we are posting my line by line commentary on it:  About the Rosetta Page.  Also coming out this month are the pages describing the chord tone gaps that I wrote and gave to Ted in 1988, complete with his written comments on them.  All of the previous explanation chapters have been leading up in crescendo to this peak moment.  Enjoy!”

This website is for you.  It was Ted’s passion to share his musical knowledge and experience with his students.  We feel privileged to be able to continue his teaching legacy in the spirit of free offerings that he would applaud.  We hope this month will provide you with some musical inspiration, stimulation, and practical application from archives of Ted’s vast teaching vault.

We’re hoping to post later this month the video of Ted’s California Vintage Guitars Seminar from December 14, 2003.  This is a wonderful window into Ted’s playing and thinking process for arranging.  Among other things, Ted goes over his “A Little Bit of Reharmonizing the Front End of the ‘12 Days of Christmas’” sheet (already posted in the “Arrangements” section of this site, and which has just been updated with a better quality version).  You’ll want that page handy as you watch the video.  Special thanks to Leon White, Nick Stasinos, and Dan Sindel for working on this.

We’re happy to report that we now have a registered membership of over 2000 and growing.  Whoo-hoo!  We’d like to extend our thanks to everyone who participates in this site—those who post in the Forums, the contributing monetary donors, those preparing Ted’s lesson pages, those linking this site to other websites, those promoting Ted’s music and teaching, you who share your experiences, lesson tapes and videos of Ted, and even the lurkers out there… Thank you all for your continued support!

So now take a bit of time during this quiet month of February and dig into something from this month’s new items.  There should be something of interest for everyone.  (And please feel free to post requests in the Forums for any areas you’d like us to cover.)  Enjoy!

* Side note:  I recently came across one of Ted’s elaborate pages in his Personal Music Studies folders that had the date listed plus the comment “During the Super Bowl.”  Enjoying the game also meant doing some music study simultaneously.  Never an idle mind, that Ted!

~ Paul and the TedGreene.com Team

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New Lesson Material:

ARRANGEMENTS:
* Autumn in New York, 1986-08-29

AUDIO:
* Ted Greene Solo Guitar Improvisations, 2001, August 24  [Tracks 7 thru 12 (of 19 total).  MP3 files made from Ted’s “Improv. CD” recording.  These are informal and experimental recordings Ted made with his Line 6 POD — they’re pretty raw and were never meant to be produced or published.  Barbara Franklin made this CD available years ago for anyone who requested one, but now we’re posting them as mp3’s (256 kbps).  We’ll post the final tracks in March.]
* Ted Greene Lesson with Kevin Griffin, September 1989 (part 1) [An mp3 of Kevin’s first lesson in September 1989 with Ted. – 45 minutes.]

CHORD STUDIES:
* Contrary Motion with Lots of 4th Chords, 1977-07-22 [More examples of contrary motion from Ted, here using a lot of diatonic 4ths.  Transcription pages with notation included.]

COMPING:
* On Green Dolphin Street, Comping with V-2 voicings, middle strings, key of C, 1984-11-03.

SINGLE-NOTE SOLOING:
* Diminished 7th Sounds, 1977-12-10 [Part 2 of a 4-part series on diminished 7th scales and patterns.]

FROM STUDENTS:
* Autumn in New York, 1986-08-29 [Paul Vachon’s compilation page of Ted’s grid diagrams plus music notation.]
* On Green Dolphin Street, Comping with V-2 voicings, middle strings, key of C, 1984-11-03 [Paul’s notation of Ted’s page, including lead sheet, lyrics, and Ted’s grids.]

THE V-SYSTEM:
* Voicing Systems “Rosetta Page” 1989-05-25 [This is Ted’s main sheet on the V-System that outlines all three methods.  Transcription included.]
* About the Rosetta Page  [James Hober explains Ted’s Rosetta Page and goes over it line-by-line.]
* V-System Chord Tone Gap Method, [The original pages that James Hober wrote back in 1988 when he developed the Gap method, including Ted’s comments written on James’ papers.  Transcriptions included]
* V-10, The Seven Basic Qualities and Their Systematic Inversions.
* V-10, The 35 Four-Note Chord Types, 1986-08-12  [Ted’s grids for all 35 chord types for V-10, with re-drawn grids for easy reading and standard notation of the same, based on Ted’s 2001-06-17 page.]

OTHER:
* Original Tunings:  Tuning #2, Middle String Voicings, 1982-06-26[Five of Ted’s original pages of voicings for major types, altered major types, minor 7 types, altered dominants, regular dominant, sus, #11 types, and diminished types.  Taken from Ted’s Personal Music Studies papers.]

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JANUARY 2013 TedGreene.com Newsletter

New Year’s Greetings!

The new year has arrived and the world apparently did not end, so we’re off to a good start.  The holidays often bring remembrances – especially of those who are no longer with us.  Below I’ve included some things that Barbara wrote around holidays past so that we can carry her influence forward.

“At the passing of another year, perhaps you will find a quiet moment for contemplation.
 I offer these thoughts:”

“First a heart-felt "thank you" for all the contributions to the Forum Section which continues to reflect the spirit of sharing.”

“In honor of Ted, and for the world around us, perhaps we could all try to remember the initial concept:  Caring, peace, common decency.

On Ted and the site she wrote:

“Ted Greene was an extraordinary being (as most of you know), and possessed the capacity to develop, formulate, analyze and retain much more information (musical & otherwise) than is common for most of us merely mortal beings.  Therefore, please take that into consideration when working with the material.  As Ted would suggest to his students, find out what you love and work on that until you feel satisfied you have accomplished the goals you've aspired to in that area.  No one can be "great" at all things.  Choose carefully that one area which you love, work hard and therein lies the potential for success.

This explanation is hoped to give you some perspective.  Please do not try to digest too much at once, for you will surely become daunted and discouraged.  Ted knew this and was quite judicious regarding handing out written material to his students.  His insights into teaching are a result of years of experience and experimentation, thus I am attempting to follow his manner accordingly.”

We have lots of new material coming this year, including more audio and video.  We have additional members transcribing Ted performances, the site continues with high traffic, and the Forums member count is approaching 2000.  We have a great deal to be thankful for, and much to look forward to.  Have a safe New Year and hope for some peace and tranquility.

~ Leon and the TedGreene.com Team

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New Lesson Material:

ARRANGEMENTS:
* Prelude to a Kiss (key of C), 1985-08-14 [Another arrangement from Ted’s “difficult” folder for more advanced students.]

AUDIO:
* Ted Greene Solo Guitar Improvisations, 2001, August 24  [This is the first 6 of 19 mp3 files made from Ted’s “Improv. CD” recording.  These are informal and experimental recordings Ted made with his Line 6 POD — they’re pretty raw and were never meant to be produced or published.  Barbara Franklin made this CD available years ago for anyone who requested one, but now we’re posting them as mp3’s (256 kbps).  We’ll post more in February and March.]

BAROQUE:
* Modulation, (parts 4 and 5) 1975, Oct 4 and 5  [This is the final installment of this series on Modulation.  Applicable information for all music styles.]

COMPING:
* On Green Dolphin Street, key of C, V-2 top 4 strings, 1984-11-02  [Ted’s comping study in the key of C, using V-2 chords on the top strings.]

SINGLE-NOTE SOLOING:
* Diminished 7th Sounds, 1976, 1977, 1978 (part 1)  [The first of Ted’s 4-part series on diminished 7th scales for soloing - he begins with some theory and then moves into melodic patterns.  We’ll be posting more from this series in Feb., March, and April.]

FROM STUDENTS:
* On Green Dolphin Street, Comping (key of C, V-2 top strings), 1984-11-02 [A compilation page of Ted’s grids with standard notation, lead sheet and lyrics, compiled by Paul Vachon]
* Prelude to a Kiss (key of C), 1985-08-14  [Another compilation of Ted’s grid diagrams with music notation and lyrics, from Paul Vachon.]

THE V-SYSTEM:
* The Fixed Soprano Tour [James Hober explains Ted’s overview of the V-System in standard notations with a fixed soprano.]
* The (Early) Fixed Bass Tour  [James Hober explains Ted’s early “Master Sheet” listing of all the voicing groups, and shows how the numbering system relates to Method 1.]
* V-1 thru V-14 Summary…by Soprano, 1986-12-26  [Ted’s grids for a major 7th chord with root in soprano, for all voicing groups.  Transcription page with re-drawn grids included.]
* Master Sheet on Voicing and Fingering Possibilities for All Four-note Chord Types.  [Ted’s early page listing all V-System chord grids and voicing formulas.  Transcription pages included for easy reading.]
* V-9, The Seven Basic Qualities and Their Systematic Inversions 
* V-9, Voicings for the 35 Chord Types (grids), 1985-11-17  [Include are re-drawn grids for easy reading]
* V-9, The 35 Four-Note Chord Types (notation), 2000-08-27  [Includes a notation transcription]
* V-9, Choice Voicings, 1986-12-27  [A compilation of some V-9 chord forms that Ted listed as “choice voicings.”]
* V-9, Gershwinesque V-9ish Diatonic Major Key, 2000-08-27  [Some V-9 chords Ted wrote out as useable chord moves]

OTHER:
* Original Tunings:  Tuning No. 1: R-5-9-3-5-R Major Types - Organized Melodically by String Grouping, 1979-12-03 and 1987-07-16   [Continuing with our posting of Ted’s tuning pages, this is the final sheet for his tuning #1.]

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