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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
I use them a huge amount - I almost never play all 6 strings at once.
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Does the Nile Rodgers rhythm part in Let's Dance count as shell chords?
Shell voicings typically refers to 7th chords and only using the root, 3rd and 7th of a chord (often just the 3rd and 7th...), which is why they're associated with Jazz. They give enough info for chord qualities yet are easy to add extensions to etc.
As with anything, I see them as fair game in any style of music providing the situation is right
Also, some nice rhythm chords can be found by missing out the root and playing the lowest note as the 5th, eg for D9, you'd play the D9 'shape, but instead of playing the D on the 5th string as your root note, you play the A on the E string as your root, mute (or not if you don't want to ) the A string and play the 3rd (F#) and 9th (C) above it.
Sorry if that's insulted anyone's intelligence!
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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Of course, you're right. I must have had a 'moment', there!
but yes I use them often in all styles of music that I play..
especially though in funk where I'm keep on staying on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd strings
and example of this would be to play a G maj7 when the bass is playing E
the result between us is Em9
I'd finger the G maj7
1st string 14th fret
2nd and 3rd strings on the 12th fret