FOURTH CHORDS - JAZZ PIANO VOICINGS

Tired of building your chords in 3rds?? Build your chords in 4ths instead.

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[RickyValentineJr]

Tnx, tis was very helpull and finally has mademe understand thes jazzy chords. One question though. At the end you play a chord with a E-tone in it. How does this fit the Cmin scale?

Ric

[jazztutorial]

@RickyValentineJr @RickyValentineJr Good question. The E natural at the end of the video is when I realized the original 'So What' is in D minor, and the ii chord is E minor. So the E came in the E minor voicing. I was no longer playing in C minor. Does that explain?

[rillloudmother]

I learned 4th chords a while ago as chords to use for parallel movements, but I realize that when I use 4th voicings as static chords they do build from the 3rd or the 7th. I also build from the 6th over ii-7, V7 and Imaj7 chords, 4th chords built from the 6th are kind of ambiguous though.

[jazztutorial]

@rillloudmother You can voice a 4th chord however sounds good to your ear. I like building off the 3rd or 7th because I can get the maximum number of 4ths - C major 7 = B E A D G C. Building off the 6th you can only do A D G C, as F sounds odd.

Also it's good to voice the 3rd and 7th low down in the voicing, where they carry more wight, because those 2 notes tell you the character of the chord - major, minor, dominant. All the extension notes - 9 11 13 - sound good higher up just to ad color

[carlospagui]

Thanks for teachme. God bless you

[ROMANTICLOVE09]

Awesome video!! Thanks for breaking it down the way you do!

[PCEINC]

I like what you do, you do it well, you demonstrate and show, that's what's valuable.