Quartal Harmony

Special Thanks to Sherman Sheldon, my guitar teacher. These voicings were in his book 'Inside The Guitar' which is published locally.
Here is a scan :
http://www.members.shaw.ca/jeff16/Sherman's%20Book%20scans/sherman_jazz.jpg

Here is my gp5 version (omits harmonic minor)
http://www.members.shaw.ca/jeff16/

Quartal Pitch Axis.gp5

You will need Guitar Pro to open this, I would highly recommend buying it or at least getting the demo if you play guitar.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Jazz
• Guitar
• Quartal
• Harmony
• Chord
• Voicings
• Bill
• Evans
• 4ths
• Lenny
• Breau

[delpuckett]

this is just "stacking" fourths instead of "stacking" thirds ..right??

[JeffMasonProject]

@delpuckett correct.

[xOnimpulsex]

okay im extremly new to jazz so im probably going to sound stupid when i ask but: How can Dorian be major? I thought when you harmonized a major scale it becomes minor and also when you harmonize a minor? What tonic would a progression have to be in order for a dorian to be major?

[gspsutube1]

Nice presentation! Have you recorded any applications of quartal technique with "straight-ahead" jazz standards? It would be nice to hear the technique in the context of a tune.

[LooMinn]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge Jeff.

I can grasp the mathematical theory behind quartal harmony; but your demonstration of 'how to' use these chords really locks it in place for me.

Thank you!

[MrGuitardudeism]

Pretty cool stuff man! I check some of your other vids too, nice!! i just started doing lessons for peeps after getting lots of questions about Allan Holdsworth types of chords, and other types of inversion and such. I also did part 1 of a lesson on quartal harmony. I did basic 3 note quartal chords, diatonic to C major. Then i did a C F B quartal, and showed how to invert it, which I do a lot. Finally I showed how to use them in a musical example, with an improvised solo. Rock on!!!

[johnnynoirman]

good job!