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From the manuscript “Jazz for the Lazy Man” by permission
Perhaps first I should try to explain what is meant by Chameleon Chords.
They are chords that blend and become a different chord depending on the key or progression somewhat like a Chameleon Lizard changes color to match its surroundings.
This is only regarding 2 grips using A&B pedals having the 9th string of the 10 string E9 Emmons in common.
Jpeg 1 shows how the same grip progression becomes a Major, Minor or Dominant 7th chord.
Jpeg 2 shows the last 8 bars of a simple common 16 bar 1 2m 5 1 jazz progression and how these grips can be used as substitutions.
Jpeg 3 shows blues progression substitution possibilities even if you confine your use to just one grip.
The bottom line is that you can start on any given chord and progress to another given chord and play these grip progressions on any fret in between and progress to the given chord. Try it with a little practice you’ll hear it. At the very least I think you’ll have a lot of fun with it.

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Thanks for posting these Bo.
Really nicely prepared tabs.

Thanks, Bo; very useful. stevet

Bo: Thanks so much for this. Clears some things up for me. Very helpful.

I was ask to bring back Chameleon Chords from Stuart's "Jazz for the Lazy".

Thanks Bo, complete as usual.

Hey Bo, fix those tabs so we can save them to copy to our printers, if we copy them the way they are we copy all the posts with them. Don't mean to be any inconvenience to you. Thanks

Ray these are all jpegs. Right click on the tab and save as picture to your PC. Then click on the saved jpeg and print. They are pretty big pictures so you may have to do a little tweaking in your printer settings.
I’ve found it just as easy as PDF files.
But if this is not working for you I’ll put them up in printable pages and you can download from my storage files.

That's a wrap , Thanks Bo.................That was cool as a Moose