How To Play Upper Structure Triads In Jazz Piano 

Of all the UST primers on the tube, this is far and away the most explanatory and visually palatable. As soon as I become an employed musician again, will be signing up for the course. Thanks.

awesome Sir!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I swear, when I first heard the progression at 9:11 I thought "Now that is INCREDIBLY cocktail pian-y!" and although it looked impossibly hard to play-and it was, at the time-I got it down, after many listenings. The other day, I listened to this video so many times, my laptop perched on top of my Nord 2 on top of my Kurzweil Mark 10, my headphones strapped on so as not to annoy my wife and son, that the next morning I had that three chords, exactly the way you played it, note for note, going round and round-and round-in my head, in what I think they call an "earworm." Well, from my perspective of now, maybe three or four months after I first discovered this video, I can happily say that I can play those chords with some casual lounge-y-ness, although that arpeggio you do with that upper structure triad is still well out of my range of about 140Bpm . . . but I'll get there! Now, about those Lower-Structure Tetrads . . .

Thanks for the excellent lesson, very very good

Excellent tutorial. Thank you so much.

Merci beaucoup Brenden! Very clear and extremely helpful Thanks :-)

HEY REALLY NICE LESSON ! THANKS !

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Thank you for the excellent lesson. Only one request: is it possible to add the extensions or triads used over min 251 movements- especially min7b5

Damn, this was well explained! I learned a lot!

Is it still considered an upper structure triad if for example you played a cmaj7#11 chord, but voiced it as a b minor chord an octave over a c major? Would this be considered a poly chord, upper structure triad, or just a different inversion?

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I'm obsessed by that arpeggio at 9:21 . . . I clock it at about 160bps. How do you GET IT that fast? You must have once upon a time sat there and practiced that arpeggio over . . . and over . . . and over . . . AAAAARRRGGGGH!

Excellent ....Only one request....please speak a little slower. I had to slow down the playback speed.