• Essential Quartal Triads You Must Know As A Gospel Or Jazz Musician

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    We’re covering everything you need to know about quartal triads and how they can be formed in this lesson.

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    Mastering 2-5-1 Root Progressions On Your Left Hand Using Quartal Triads

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    In this lesson, you’ll be learning another smart way of mastering the 2-5-1 root progression in all twelve keys using the 7sus4 chord.

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    Using Major Fourth Voicings For Harmonic Flexibility

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    Fourth voicings are the arrangement of the notes of a chord in intervals of fourths. In this post, we are delving into fourth voicings of the major chord.

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    Fifth Day Of Christmas: Five Pentatonic Voicings

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    The pentatonic scale is a very useful scale in music and has many uses. Today, we will cover chords and harmony derived from this scale.

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    A Quick & Easy Way To Play Suspended Chords

    In a post last week, I talked about quartal chords — which are chords built off fourth intervals.

    But here’s an interesting discovery with quartal chords. They are actually inverted suspended chords. Yup, suspended chords! Here’s why…

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    The Secret Chords That Work Almost Anywhere… Quartal Chords

    quartersmall.jpgMost people haven’t heard of quartal chords.

    That’s because they are chords built off fourth intervals, whereas the most familiar chords (like major, minor, dominant, diminished, augmented) are built of thirds — aka “tertian chords.”

    Here’s how and where to use them…

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    This will spice up your major chords… guaranteed!

    quartersmall.jpgToday’s post is about something many people haven’t heard of. But it’s something that can really make your progressions sound nice.

    The good news is that you already understand the basics of forming this type of chord — I’ll just point you in the right direction. I’m talking about the quartal chord…

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