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    Freddie Green Chords

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    This document provides chord diagrams and descriptions for using "Freddie Green style" bass guitar chords. It includes two categories of chords - those with the root note on the 6th string and those with the root on the 5th string. These chord types allow a guitarist to play any chord in an arrangement while avoiding fifths in the fingerings. The document also provides a brief biography of guitarist Freddie Green, who developed this chordal style and was known for his rhythmic playing in Count Basie's band from the 1930s to the 1980s.

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    This document provides chord diagrams and descriptions for using "Freddie Green style" bass guitar chords. It includes two categories of chords - those with the root note on the 6th string and those with the root on the 5th string. These chord types allow a guitarist to play any chord in an arrangement while avoiding fifths in the fingerings. The document also provides a brief biography of guitarist Freddie Green, who developed this chordal style and was known for his rhythmic playing in Count Basie's band from the 1930s to the 1980s.

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    This document provides chord diagrams and descriptions for using "Freddie Green style" bass guitar chords. It includes two categories of chords - those with the root note on the 6th string and those with the root on the 5th string. These chord types allow a guitarist to play any chord in an arrangement while avoiding fifths in the fingerings. The document also provides a brief biography of guitarist Freddie Green, who developed this chordal style and was known for his rhythmic playing in Count Basie's band from the 1930s to the 1980s.

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    This document provides chord diagrams and descriptions for using "Freddie Green style" bass guitar chords. It includes two categories of chords - those with the root note on the 6th string and those with the root on the 5th string. These chord types allow a guitarist to play any chord in an arrangement while avoiding fifths in the fingerings. The document also provides a brief biography of guitarist Freddie Green, who developed this chordal style and was known for his rhythmic playing in Count Basie's band from the 1930s to the 1980s.

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    Bass string chords

    Freddie Green Style


    Category 1, 6th string roots

    7
    X
    1

    m7
    X

    X
    3

    dim
    X

    m6
    X

    aug
    X

    X
    1

    maj7
    X

    Freddie Green style chords can be used when a steady


    rythm is needed, as in comping in a big band. In every
    chord in the first category the root note is found on the 6th
    string, and in the second category on the 5th.
    Using these two categories of chords you can play any
    chord in an arrangement, since there are no fifths in the
    fingerings. Just play major or minor and the 6, 7 or maj 7.
    Use dim and aug on diminished and augmented (#5)
    chords.

    Bass string chords


    Freddie Green Style
    Category 2, 5th string roots

    7
    X

    m7
    X

    dim
    X

    aug
    X

    maj7
    X

    X
    1

    m6
    X

    Guitarist Freddie Green is perhaps best known as the strumming,


    rhythmic anchor to one of Count Basie's strongest bands. Born in
    Charleston, S.C., on March 31, 1911, Green moved to New York as
    a teenager. Talent scout John Hammond heard him one day and
    recommended him to Count Basie. While Basie wasn't
    immediately impressed, Green hung in there and won him over,
    staying for 13 years.
    That "All-American Rhythm Section" of Basie's also included bassist
    Walter Page and drummer Jo Jones. In 1950, Green was left out of
    the small-group configuration by Basie. Green essentially invited
    himself back into Basie's group. He stayed with Basie until the
    leader died 35 years later. Green continued to record himself
    close to the end of his own life. He died on March 1, 1987, in Las

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