HARMONIC /the-sau-rus #8 (Quartal Alignment - Creating Harmonic Tension and Release) Video Masterclass + backing track

HARMONIC /the-sau-rus #8 (Quartal Alignment - Creating Harmonic Tension and Release)

In this harmonic study series I will be presenting some of my favorite voicings for a number of different chord types. Each installment will concentrate on a specific intervallic harmonic structure or chordal concept/technique that I find attractive and interesting to my ears.

Part 8 presents an easy and very interesting concept we can apply in order to create harmonic tension and release using quartal voicings (chords constructed using the interval of a 4th instead of a 3rd).

To illustrate the idea I am selecting the “D Dorian” mode and harmonizing it using quartal harmony.

All resulting harmonic structures will be functioning as Dmin7 chord and will serve as our consonant/inside sound selections. To create tension against them we will implement a number of different techniques which will produce contrasting chord voicings that will then serve as our dissonance/outside sound selections.

In this study I present to you ten of my very favorite ways to create this harmonic tension and release over minor 7 chords. In future studies I will be covering the application of these techniques over other types of harmonies and standard chord progressions.

Once you get familiar with the different concepts you can mix and combine multiple “quartal alignments” together to achieve an even wider and richer harmonic range.

In the accompanying video tutorial I will be covering step-by-step how each one of these “quartal alignments” is produced and the architecture behind it.

Materials Included:

"Harmonic Thesaurus #8" - Quartal Alignment study (PDF file - TAB and Standard Notation).

Backing Track.

40 mins. "HD Video" Tutorial Masterclass.

For more info please e-mail: hristo@hristovitchev.com