So What by Miles Davis (using Upper Structure Quartals) | Jazz Piano S2E17
45Jazz piano chords usually contain upper structure triads. In this season we are studying upper structure quartals. This is one of our favorite things friday: USQ (Upper Structure Quartals)
Every episode we take a specific upper structure quartal voicing and show you how and when to play it on the piano. You can download the course as an interactive PDF with video lessons, demos and much more following this link:
https://mdecks.com/piano.phtml
There's also a Workbook PDF with piano exercises to study upper structures:
Upper Structures Workbooks: https://mdecks.com/ust.phtml
0:00 Intro
0:38 Perfect Quartal VI47 | m7
2:34 Dorian Modal Tunes (So What)
4:50 Challenge of the day
6:14 Demo
And if you want the complete jazz standards repertoire with the entire songs showing upper structures on every chord you can get:
The Complete Jazz Standards with Upper Structures: https://mdecks.com/upperstructuresjazz.phtml
Upper Structure Fridays is a series where we show interesting upper structures you can use over different types of chords. How to use them and how to think about them for comping and improvisation.
Watch the intro to season 2 here:
https://youtu.be/72QL32HbwfE
#pianovoicings #jazzchords #upperstructures
Watch the introduction to the series:
https://youtu.be/J8NmmG08M-k
Perfect quartals challenge:
https://youtu.be/3eC7pQeVcxQ
Altered quartals maj74 challenge:
https://youtu.be/Yw2JuxtVk5E
Altered quartals maj7#4 challenge:
https://youtu.be/qz6kbaaSQJ4
Link to the playlist with the entire series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8NmmG08M-k&list=PLt-Oh3MSFwB_ba9QaJ6sF3tkYVcjOx-as
Link to the related material:
https://mdecksforum.com/piano-voicings-using-upper-structures/video-1-introduction-to-the-series/#post-13
Link To Tessitura Pro App (Scales, Modes & Upper Structures)
https://mdecks.com/tessituramac.phtml
Upper Structure Piano Voicings for Piano Voicings and Improvisation is a unique, unprecedented piano method with comic strips teaching one upper structure a lesson. Learn how to play upper structures, how they work and how to use them in actual songs.
Sound like a professional piano player using this incredible technique to build chords with colors you did not think possible.
It includes all major and minor upper structure triads over dominant chords, major sevenths chords and minor seventh flat five chords, lesson challenges to practice each upper structure over a backing track and complete song charts of well-known jazz standards using only upper structure voicings throughout. Each song is also demoed by a seasoned piano player.
You know how to play chords, now take your playing to a grand level by learning how to use upper structure triads the right way.
This course was designed by piano players with years of experience. You will not find a course like this anywhere else.
And it’s fun. Who else has a comic book that teaches music at this level?
For a piano player, knowing how to voice chords is an essential skill, not only for comping (accompanying or laying the chord progression for others player to improvise over), but also to use those voicings as an improvisational aid. All piano players get many melodic ideas or lines from their voicings.
There are many ways of practicing and developing a piano voicings vocabulary.
A standard approach is to stack simple structures (triads, quartals, dyads) on top of other simple ones, thus creating a richer color palette for your voicings. These structures are usually called Upper Structures.