m7 Chords - How to use Quartal Harmony in a Solo

Quartal harmony and Quartal arpeggios are a great sound to also have in your vocabulary and especially on m7 chords. They also really fit with the sound you get when you super-impose pentatonic scales on chords, so that's a great way to approach it.

This video is going over some examples, how you can use them in for m7 chords in your own solos drawing from examples of players like Kurt Rosenwinkel, Peter Bernstein, and Allan Holdsworth.

Content:
0:00 Intro
0:19 How You Can Use Quartal Arpeggios, pentatonic scales, odd-note groupings.
0:47 Example 1 - Quartal Harmony = Pentatonic Scales?
0:50 Modal Examples: Am7 Dorian
1:23 Breaking down the lick
1:41 Exercise: Pentatonic scale in Quartal Arpeggios
2:05 Example 1 Slow
2:09 Example 2 - Diatonic Quartal Arpeggios
2:13 Quartal Harmony in a G Major Scale
2:31 Breaking Down The Lick
2:56 Creating A Polyrhythm with the Arpeggios
3:19 Exercise 2 - Diatonic Quartals
3:24 Example 2 Slow
3:28 Example 3 - 3/4 in 4/4
3:34 Breaking down the idea
4:13 Example 3 Slow
4:41 Example 4 - Allan Holdsworths Quartal Arpeggios
4:45 String-skipping idea
5:42 Example 4 Slow
5:47 Example 5 - Kurt Rosenwinkel - 2 Octave Quartal
5:51 Breaking down the idea
6:33 Quintal Arpeggios
7:05 Example 5 Slow
7:09 Like The Video? Check out My Patreon Page!

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Content:
0:00 Intro
0:19 How You Can Use Quartal Arpeggios, pentatonic scales, odd-note groupings.
0:47 Example 1 - Quartal Harmony = Pentatonic Scales?
0:50 Modal Examples: Am7 Dorian
1:23 Breaking down the lick
1:41 Exercise: Pentatonic scale in Quartal Arpeggios
2:05 Example 1 Slow
2:09 Example 2 - Diatonic Quartal Arpeggios
2:13 Quartal Harmony in a G Major Scale
2:31 Breaking Down The Lick
2:56 Creating A Polyrhythm with the Arpeggios
3:19 Exercise 2 - Diatonic Quartals
3:24 Example 2 Slow
3:28 Example 3 - 3/4 in 4/4
3:34 Breaking down the idea
4:13 Example 3 Slow
4:41 Example 4 - Allan Holdsworths Quartal Arpeggios
4:45 String-skipping idea
5:42 Example 4 Slow
5:47 Example 5 - Kurt Rosenwinkel - 2 Octave Quartal
5:51 Breaking down the idea
6:33 Quintal Arpeggios
7:05 Example 5 Slow
7:09 Like The Video? Check out My Patreon Page!

[willyevans]

Wonderful lesson as always Jens. As of right now this video has 158 likes and no dislikes. Just goes to show you how much we appreciate your lessons and how much they help us all.

[adamantoszewski]

I’m late to the video, 4 years old now, but so cool! Thanks for keeping this video up for so long!

[SharpElevenMusic]

Very cool topic Jens! I love fourths on saxophone (Jorre speaking here this time), but I guess it's less self-evident on a guitar because of the strings in fourths. Bob Mintzer has a very cool etude with play-along in his book "14 Jazz & Funk" exercises.

Hope you get all the guitarplayers to play more fourth lines, would make the world a hipper and happier place! :p

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[anthonydemitre]

Thanks, Jens, your videos help me hook back up to my jazz studies plus lots of greater information,

[dkwvt]

A greeat lesson, I just started charting harmonized major and minor quartal 4 note chord shapes. I was not aware of the pentatonic connection and love the triads...! Very modern sound a and the new shapes are not that bad... 😎. Thank You!

[grobertabidbol]

Very interesting Jens, fresh sounds !!

[Pedraforta]

Great. Thank you very much. You are my favourite teacher.

[eternalrainbow-cjiu]

Hi jens also I would highly recommend to include in to your vacabulairy and idiomacy the following: TH IV or more boxes of Tony Winstons teacher(berkeley this is easy adaptable to guitar and a Great for soloing and going outside

[DESIENASHOES]

Ascending quartals in ex.5 challenging for the right hand to play it same speed as you :-)

[TheBobrossmusic]

Definitely guilty of using quartal harmony 😉

[steelcitybudschannel]

I heard that your 3rd appears when you fully understand what holdsworth is doing