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Scott McGill-The Chord Book II/Quartal Harmony Doublings Pt 2 McCoy Tyner Jazz Vocabulary for Guitar

Scott McGill Guitarist 313 7 months ago
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This is the second video which deals with Quartal Harmony for the Guitar using McCoy Tyner style vocabulary as a model. Now, each tone of traditional Quartal Chords is doubled to produce some very interesting and resonant chords which and colour and enrich our existing Quartal Vocabulary on the Guitar. The voicings and moves can be challenging and can help with the technical development aspect of playing as well as becoming more adept at moving all voices of a chord melodically producing so many useful "grips". The video focusses on doublings of Quartal Chords within an E Major #11 or Lydian Major sound and the related Pentatonic Scales demonstrating the inversions of the Quartal Chords for practical use within the general style of McCoy Tyner adapted from the Guitar. The vocabulary is informed by years of transcribing Tyner's work and adapting it for the Guitar. It also introduces Fifths type Chordal forms with doublings found in Tyner's work which are already a part of Guitar vocabulary but sometimes omitted in Jazz Guitar. The Fifths type Chords are now dealt with here in more depth but will be expanded even further in upcoming videos on the topic. If you find this content useful please subscribe to my channel below and I would look forward to hearing from you. Scott #chordmelodyguitar #jazzguitar #mccoytyner #jazztheory #johncoltrane

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