[MC5C]

I watched a you-tube video of Ed Bickert talking about his approach to harmony the other day, he said he rarely played the root, fifth, and liked to play with the upper partials of the chords. So he was less playing the chords than improvising a multi-voice accompaniment. You can hear that a lot in his work with Paul Desmond. He was being interviewed by his son, who said "a lot of guitarists said you were playing impossible chords, that physically could not be played on the instrument". He looked kind of taken aback, and said "I played them, so I guess they can be played". That got me searching about Ed and chords, and found a guy who transcribed a lot of his stuff. That guy said "there are impossible chords there, but when you really break it down, Ed isn't actually playing all the notes. He implies some of the notes so well that you hear them, but he doesn't actually play them..."