In this jazz piano harmony lesson I'm going to show you a special kind of chord voicing: quartal voicing or voicing by fourths, also often called "quartal harmony". These so-called fourth chords have a very atonal sound, and can be used to give a modern sound to any chord or chord progression you play on the piano! You're going to learn five absolutely essential voicings which will spice up your harmonic vocabulary considerably - two for major chords, two for dominant chords and one for minor chords.
First, download the reference sheet (in PDF format) which clearly shows the different fourth voicings used throughout the current video:
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Here's what's going to happen in this piano lesson:
1. First, I'm going to start by playing a Cm11 chord, made out of the notes C, Eb, G, Bb, D and F. I'm going to play this chord using two different voicings, and show you how, simply by moving notes around, you can get this "modern" atonal chord voicing which uses a lot of perfect 4th intervals.
2. Then I'm going to present you with five quartal voicing ideas: two for major chords, two for dominant 7th chords, and one for minor chords. All of these ideas are encapsulated in the harmony "cheat sheet" in the link above, so be sure to download it! Any time you see, say, a major chord, you can try playing one of the two quartal voicings in the cheat sheet to see if they fit (assuming you're after the open, modern sound that voicing in fourths offers).
3. Finally, I'm going to talk a bit about the five different piano voicings suggested in the PDF, and walk you through the reasonings of some of the examples, trying to "convince" you they are actually what I say they are (e.g. that the voicing of C major is really a C major chord, etc ... ).
I'm going to keep things simple by sticking to one chord note, C, but you should transpose the voicings presented in this video to all 12 keys. Since there are 5 chord voicings, this amounts to 12*5=60 patterns to memorize. Quite a bit, but not that bad! These voicings really expand your harmonic palette, allowing you much greater freedom when playing your chord progressions.
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