Re: Ted Greene, I don't think you'll learn chords well that way, especially not the basic "guts".
So, there's an Em11 chord in your sheet. Which one out of Mr. Greene's book are you choosing? And which note is the 11th anyway? And are you gonna play the 9th as well? And to which A7/b9 will it move to most elegantly?
This is not meant to dismiss Ted Greene by any means. Especially given the year it was written, it's an enormous attempt. But it's more like a kind of thesaurus for folks already pretty fluent with all the basics. Something to look through and say "oh, yeah, that might be an interesting choice for an Em11 that I haven't played before".
From what I remember from my lessons with him 1, ♭3, 5, ♭7, 11 he called m7/11 chords and more often than not ditched the 5.
m11 incl. The 9.
But yeah chord misery as he called it iirc is not something I'd throw at some one just tackling 7th chords.
That said I'm a big fan of how he does go about building voicings.
And speaking of which a drop 2 °7 voicing is a lovely way to use for figuring out all inversions of other drop 2 chords.
Like...
G♯°7 (B°7, D°7, F°7 since it's symmetrical)
You can also think.of it as a rootless G7. B♭7, D♭7, E7
G♯ D F B (1 ♭3 ♭5 ♭♭7)
On any consecutive 4 strings
x x 6 7 6 7
x 11 12 10 12 x
4 5 3 4 x x (obviously that's one octave down)
If you lower any one note a half step it becomes the root of a dom7th chord.
As in...
x x 6 7 6 7
becomes
x x 5 7 6 7 G7
x x 6 6 6 7 Db7
x x 6 7 5 7 E7
x x 6 7 6 6 Bb7
This gives you the root position, but moving the shape in ♭3 it gives all inversions
x x 3 4 3 4
becomes
x x 3 4 3 3 G7
x x 9 10 9 10
becomes
x x 9 10 8 10 G7
x x 12 13 12 13
Becomes
x x 12 12 12!13 G7
Raise a single note a half step
It becomes the ♭7 of a ø (m7♭5)
the 5th of a m6
The 9th of a rootless dom9
The ♯5 of a rootless 7♭9♯5
x x 4 5 4 5 (F♯°7 C°7 E♭°7 A°7)
x x 5 5 4 5 (Aø C-6 F9 B7♭9♯5)
x x 4 6 4 5 (F♯-6 E♭ø B9 F7♭9♯5)
x x 4 5 5 5 (F♯ø A-6 D9 A♭7♭9♯5)
x x 4 5 4 6 (Cø E♭-6 A♭9 D7♭9♯5)
Move 2 consecutive notes (F♯+E♭, F♯+A, A+C, C+E♭) down a half step the become root and 6 of a 6 chord (same as ♭3 and root of a -7)
x x 4 5 4 5 F°7
x x 3 5 3 5 F6 D-7
x x 3 5 4 4 F-7 Ab6
x x 4 4 4 4 F♯-7 B6
x x 4 4 3 5 B-7 D6
up a half step they become the ♭7+5 of a -7, same as the 5+3 if a 6 chord.
Which is the same as last one a half step up
xx 4 5 4 5 F♯°7
Becomes
x x 4 6 4 6 F♯6
Etc....