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On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Jim Dufresne and I'm here to tell you about jazz
guitar. Jazz has a tendency to use extended chords; you know, here's an E chord that we're
all familiar with and is usually the first chord we learn. And here is an Emaj7. It sounds
totally different but there's only one note difference that major7, right5 there. And
it rubs against that open string right there, those two tones are right next to each other,
but used in context it sounds great. Same thing with C and Cmaj7 (plays.) Jazz, we tend
to mix things together that aren't usually mixed together. Rock and roll deals with pure
sounds, when you run your electric guitar into a distortion box or an amplifier with
distortion, you've got to keep those tones like roots and fifths (plays).