QUARTAL VOICINGS ON GUITAR - Jazz Guitar Quartal Chords

Detailed explanation on QUARTAL HARMONY on GUITAR. How to build and use Quartal Guitar Chords. + examples + TAB

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If you want to achieve a more modern sound for your playing, this lesson on How to use Quartal harmony on Jazz Guitar is for you. I'll show you how to create Quartal voicings jazz guitar and how to use these new Quartal Chords.

We'll go up the dorian scale and build a Quartal Voicing on each scale degree. Then I'll show you which of those Quartal Guitar Chords is a good targeting chord, or as I like to call it a good "landing zone". Knowing where to land is vital to incorporate these modern sounds into your playing. If you land on the wrong Quartal Chords, it will sound odd, not modern. We usually have a set of three Jazz guitar Quartal Chords which two of them are good to land on and one is weaker and used as a passing chord.

There is so much more than just the regular jazz chords. So if you want that modern jazz sound you should definetly check out Guitar Quartal Harmony.

All the great jazz guitarists of our time use them, like Pat Metheny, Allan Holdsworth, Mike Stern, Frank Gambale, Scott Henderson, Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Larry Carlton.

But the sound of Quartal Harmony started in the 60s already. The innovators of moderns jazz and fusion, like Miles Davis, Herbie Hankcock, Joe Zawinul all used Quartal Chords in Jazz.

Learning Quartal Voicings Guitar is therefore a somewhat basic skill, if you want to dig deeper into that genre.
In this tutorial I'm giving you an in depth explanation of Quartal Vocings Jazz. I'll explain the theory behind Quartal Harmony and we'll also play through three examples using Quartal Voicings on guitar. I'll show you note for note, slow and easy. There is a slow and a fast playthrough of each of the Jazz Guitar Quartal Chords examples in this lesson.

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Quartal Guitar Chords - Dorian - Chord Comping Guitar Lesson:
0:00 start
0:56 How to Construct Quartal Voicings on Guitar
6:45 Target Voicing's (“Landing Zones”)
11:33 Examples: "Comping Using Dorian Quartal Voicing's
11:36 Example 1 (Demonstration)
11:54 Example 1 (Breakdown)
13:11 Example 2 (Demonstration)
13:32 Example 2 (Breakdown)
15:19 Example 3 (Demonstration)
15:40 Example 3 (Breakdown)

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Lesson Time Stamps :-
0:56 How to Construct Quartal Voicings on Guitar
6:45 Target Voicing's  (“Landing Zones”)
11:33 Examples: "Comping Using Dorian Quartal Voicing's 
11:36 Example 1 (Demonstration)
11:54 Example 1 (Breakdown)
13:11 Example 2 (Demonstration)
13:32 Example 2 (Breakdown)
15:19 Example 3 (Demonstration)
15:40 Example 3 (Breakdown)

[dkwvt]

Another great lesson, the beauty of quartiles is their combination of a modern or outside sound while still being a very comfortable fourth for the ear. Thank You...! B-)

[SirAndyDee]

Excellent explanation on a difficult topic.

[waynehicks]

I was working through your video on "There Will Never be Another You", and you used some quartal voicings which has opened up this whole subject for me. Thanks!

[gerdvanjuuten]

What a great tutorial! I've been searching for that sound for years. Thanks for your precise explanations. Well done!

[jamesmargulis]

You made my day! Absolutely awesome lesson. Can't wait to get home and get some of those voicings under my findgers.

[willydeangelis]

Love the way you explain things! Very clear and pleasant to listen to :) Keep doing this great content, it's really helpful!

[thewordnerds]

Very helpful. This explained clearly and simply a concept that I have rather successfully applied to my piano playing, but hadn’t figured really how to make it work on guitar. Thanks!

[tombola]

great lesson, explanation well done - even for a simple mind like me, thank you, Sandra

[FredVineBlues]

Thank you so much, Sandra, for your enlightening videos! Goes to show it's never to late to learn something new. You and some other online jazz maestros have opened my eyes to so many things, like realizing to harmonize other scales as well, harmonic minor, melodic minor, etc...Please continue!

[zenmode]

Fantastic video! Super useful and well explained

[bills]

I'm using some of this on "Footprints" for comping.

[davidzimmerman]

Helpful insight into the topic. Thanks Sandra

[HarryBarry]

Hi sandra! could you explain why to use these quartal chords and not just diffrent min7 vocings? please consider make a video on how to start improvising chord melody. The theory and some chord lick examples would be great!

[barrysebastian]

Great lunch today! 😉 This is an extremely valuable lesson, Sandra. Contrary to popular opinion, we guitarists comp waaay more than anything else. Quartal harmony makes it fun and interesting and allows the soloist a lot of creative opportunities👍. Of course, I love example three😉, I use a lot of chromatic quartal movement and feel it moves the music along in a nice way. Great job on a great subject! (And nice target video “chapter” times!)

[jteichma]

Thanks Sandra for the great lesson. Why are some notes avoid notes in quartiles?

[justdipa]

Greetings from Indonesia, Miss Sandra... I'm your new subscriber... 😊🙏🏻
Thanks for the lesson, but i still learn it... cause i learn guitar bymyself/youtube, i have no teacher/instructur... 😔🙏🏻

[WebPanama]

I'm not sure I understand why the 6th is an avoid note in Dorian when it is the one note that really differentiates it from every other minor. I'm listening though. As I play arond with it I might understand what you said.

[minorracket]

cool lesson but why is b the avoid note in d dorian? isnt the b the note that makes d dorian different than a straight d minor ?

[proximact]

woooow I love this kind of sounds, tomorrow you have another coffee .;). all modal escales have their chords quartal?