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Tag: CHORDS AND SCALES

  • Stacked Chords

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    General – about Playing a rather Standard Chord with a Stacked Dissonant Chord together (or Vice Versa) – a Technique to Create Bigger Chords – Try on different Octaves as well – Chords Stacked at the Interval of Major 3rds have a “Moving” Relation between Consonance and Dissonance  – Changing One Note Changes Degree of…

  • Suspended Chords

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    – Major or Minor Triads with an added 2nd or added 4th which replaces the 3rd – a Sus4 is simply Root + Perfect4th + Perfect5th – a Sus2 is simply Root + Major2nd + Perfect5th – have a “Suspended” & “Ambiguous” Sound – as Dom7th kind of “InBetween” Sound without establishing a concrete Feeling…

  • Symmetrical Scales

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    General – Scales Based Off of Repeating Intervallic Patterns  – it is Very Common for Both, Improvisors or Composers to Form Patterns with them (there are Many Interesting Symmetrical Patterns you can Build to Work with them) – Symmetrical Scales can be Transposed to Certain Scale Degrees while Retaining the Same Notes (e.g. a Whole…

  • Transposition (Song / Key)

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    General – Take a Song or a Group of Notes in Whatever Key its In and Put it In Any New Key in the Chromatic Scale – can be to Accommodate the Song to a Key that Works well for the Singers Voice (Tessitura) – or to Express the Emotion of a Song better through…

  • Twelve Tone Split

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    General – means to Split the 12 Chromatic Half Steps Equally between the 2 Hands – this Wild Combination can be Played together, LG then RH or in Various Splits  – Sounds like a Piano Falling Down the Stairs – the Difference to Schoenberg’s Atonal 12 Tone Approach of is to go Quicker through the…