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    Intermediate Lesson

    Feb 18, 2020 3 minutes
    with Phil Mann

    Welcome back! In my previous column, we looked at an array of chord tones, referenced in conjunction to a coinciding open string. The goal was to give you the ability to deliver triadic double-stops that could act as focus points to identify chord tone vocabulary and neighboring extensions.

    Today we’ll continue with this theme, but focusing more on 10th intervals. To kick things off, let’s review what 10th intervals actually are and how to access them. The third diatonic step of a major or minor scale is the boss! Essentially, it’s

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