How to play 'My Favorite Things' using Upper Structures (QUARTALS) Jazz Piano Voicings

How to play "My Favorite Things" using Upper Structures (QUARTALS) Jazz Piano Voicings
Entire Upper Structures Triads & Quartals Piano Course available here:

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. This is a piano solo accompaniment of My Favorite Things as played by John Coltrane using upper structure quartals

Watch the intro to season 2 here:

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Watch the introduction to the series:

Perfect quartals challenge:

Altered quartals maj74 challenge:

Altered quartals maj7#4 challenge:

Link to the playlist with the entire series:

Link to the related material:

Link To Tessitura Pro App (Scales, Modes & Upper Structures)

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.

[EslamMakadi]

Beautiful, the material link took me to Blue in Green however! Can you share this arrangement please?

[karenstephens]

This is my favourite thing. What musician are you influenced by here? Who can I listen to to get this going in my head please?

[alanzelicoff]

I realize I am a little late to this discussion, but having worked through all 22 quartal voicings and then working out some of the demo songs on the piano, I have a couple of comments:

1. In "My Favorite Things", it appears that the first two Gmaj7#4 are incorrect and that instead should be Gmaj74 (that is, without the augmented 4), or am I just wrong here?

2. In the same song, might you provide a bit more insight into how you choose the specific quartal voicings. For example, in the standard RealBook chord denotations, an E-7 comes first and then an F#-7. Should it somehow be obvious to the student that the accompanying quartals are F#47 and B47? I realize you comment on the chord chord-scale paring in your presentation of these quartals, so is that how we are to try to remember which quartal voicings to try over various chords?

... and finally

3. How does any normal human remember TWENTY-TWO voicings? Maybe I'm just getting old, but surely there is a trick or two for remembering how to even think of the quartal voicings over various chord types.

Thanks again. Excellent instruction (if a bit daunting in its sheer volume).

[ewokzoom]

Good day to all i would like to ask if there are any differences between these 2 books of (Upper Structures for Piano Voicings & Improvisation, COMPLETE PIANO COURSE ) and the 9 books of (Upper Structures Complete Bundle
1000+ Jazz Standards Progressions, 9 Volumes with Upper Structure Triads, Quartals & Reharmonizations) ? thanks alot Appreciate :)

[TimoMelvin]

Hello. Nicely played. I was just wondering if you break down this standart in any of your materials or somewhere else? And why did you use the key of c minor in the notation? You play in a different key, aren't you?

[Hou]

Really sound like Joey Alexander harmonic progression

[valeriekuhn]

I need to ask a question no one will answer. Where does the melody come from? Is it in the top chord. How do you know. I have asked on several groups and either nobody knows or they all want to keep it a big secret. When there is no melody in the treble clef, but you have a poly chord, how do you know what the melody is? Surely you all don't know EVERY tune ever written! Thanx.