chords in fourths
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Three Note Arpeggios Built In Fourths On Guitar - Quartal Harmony - Guitar Lesson With YouTube Short Video and PDF
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2022-03-24
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Quartal harmony is the way of building chords with intervals of fourths instead of thirds, it's a nice way to modernize and enrich your jazz guitar playing. This post provides an easy exercise for a first approach of quartal playing that is to arpeggiate three-note chords built in fourths, starting on each step of a major scale.
As is the case in many lessons on the website, you'll find a short YouTube video and the link to download the PDF for free, a little further in this article.
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So What Chord - Jazz Rhythm Guitar Lesson - Modal Comping
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2017-01-24
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The origin of the "so what chord" name would be due to its use by the jazz pianist Bill Evans in the modal tune "So what" by Miles Davis.
This is a cool and modern sounding chord voicing often used as an alternative to quartal voicings. It is built with a fourth chord on the bottom (3 perfect fourths stacked) and a major third added on the top.
This particular chord was originally played on a piano, but it is quite interesting to play it on the guitar to support rhythmically and harmonically a soloist over a modal tune.
This jazz guitar rhythm lesson with tabs and diagrams provides you some interesting ideas of comping inspired by McCoy Tyner's playing on "impressions" by John Coltrane.