They have no standardized names so we will name them with the lowest note of the chord. Pdf quartal harmony voicings for guitar download full. If you want to achieve a more modern sound for your playing, this lesson on how to use quartal harmony on jazz guitar is for you. In this lesson youll learn how to construct quartal. Quartal harmony of the major scale and its modes by gianfranco continenza quartal harmony is a modern and fresh way to approach the harmony that makes you sound more as a pianist or as an orchestra instead of a standard guitar player. In addition to the composerarranger usasge, quartal harmonic language in a jazz context was ushered in largely by the comping, improvising, and compositions of pianists bill evans, mccoy tyner, herbie hancock. Since we get different note groups but still want to use them in situations that we define from a stack of thirds like a cmaj7 or dm7 we need to figure out how to apply them. Like the keyboard, the guitar fretboard can produce harmony and realize. In this lesson i want to demonstrate how i use quartal harmony when i am playing in both modal and moving harmony. Its inevitable that at some point jazz guitarists will want to look for something outside of the standard harmonic repertoire and begin investigating more interesting sounds. In this tutorial learn the quartal voicings you need to know. Quartal harmony deals with guitar chord shapes and chord voicings that are built in 4ths rather than 3rds. Quartal voicings on guitar jazz guitar quartal chords.
In conventional harmony, we use chords that are constructed primarily from stacking 3rds. Chords built with 4ths have a sort of rootless character, making them rather ambiguous in regard to key centers. Most of the guitar chords we use in jazz are constructed by stacking thirds. In funk rhythm guitar, quartal harmony voicings can really jazz up an otherwise standard funk groove. This type of harmony is used by pianists and guitarists alike and utilizes voicings that can be used in many settings. Construct quartal harmony from the mixolydian, dorian, and aeolian modes. Hey, all yall, i finally made a pdf ebook out of chordscale theory and linear harmony for guitar. In quartal harmony, chords are constructed by stacking 4ths. Its a great alternative to the usual jazz chords cycles and progressions. Ill show you how to create quartal voicings jazz guitar. The pdf with examples for this video is available through patreon.
Quartal harmony is created when sonorities or chords are built using. Jazz chord essentials 3 part quartal harmony with jens. In this lesson, well be discussing the fundamentals of these chords and how to use them. If youre having trouble with any of the terminology used here, weve got our covered with our comping 101 course. Quartal harmony for jazz guitar jazz guitar lessons. Click here to download a printable pdf of this lessons notation. There are also chords based on stacking fourths instead of thirds. In this video i am going to show you how you can use quartal voicings on guitar to get a.
Quartal harmony has been used in some twentiethcentury music and in jazz by mccoy tyner of the john coltrane quartet in the 1960s. Download your quartal harmony for jazz guitar pdf here. Experiment with this in your own comping and chord melody playing. Quartal chords have a jazzy sound and work very well in modal music, but can be used on any jazz standard. Jazz guitar harmony and the basics of shell voicing. Quartal harmony on a jazz blues modern jazz guitar. Functional harmony is a great tool if you want to understand how chord progressions flow.