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Coloring Dominant Chords With Upper Structures

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Instructor
Jonny May
Workshop
Advanced
00:58:21

Discover 5 Upper Structure Triads that you can use to harmonize any dominant.  This course is a must if you want to comp (accompany) in a jazz style.

Course Objectives
  • Learn extensions and alterations
  • Use the chord progression with different resolutions
  • Learn 5 Upper Structure Triads
  • Explore ways to combine and resolve each Upper Structures
Learning Focus
  • Analysis
  • Chords
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Helps to reinforce the lessons on Chord Alterations
Getting chord extensions and alterations firmly into my head and hands will take a while (of course!). This workshop on using upper structures is helping to reinforce the previous lessons by giving another way of thinking about forming altered chords. Thank you!
Great course so informative
The course makes it's so easy to make the chords
Discovery!
This Is a Great course To Learn how all 12 notes get to be used.
A Whole New World
Talk about a magic lamp! This course was super helpful! My head was swimming with extensions and alterations (and still is), but this course helped me make sense of all that information both sonically and melodically. While I'm not ready to rush out and and book a solo piano gig (yet) I am ready - nay, eager! - to apply these techniques to my compositions. That is exactly what I wanted to do with these courses - improve my keyboard "chops" to better play my ideas and to expand my palette as a composer to enrich those same ideas. Thanks again!
Concise and fun
Great info, and incredibly practical. Jonny is always a great and enthusiastic teacher and super fun to listen to (even when he maybe didn’t get a ton of sleep the night before? :) ). This site has been the best thing (next to practice) for my piano-playing in four decades, quite literally.

Course Lessons

1
Coloring Dominant Chords – Upper Structures 2 – Lesson 1
13:30

Extensions, Alterations, The Progression, Left Hand 3-7 Guide Tones

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2
Coloring Dominant Chords – Upper Structures 2 – Lesson 2
14:04

Upper Structure Triad 1

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3
Coloring Dominant Chords – Upper Structures 2 – Lesson 3
11:19

Upper Structure Triad 2

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4
Coloring Dominant Chords – Upper Structures 2 – Lesson 4
06:58

Upper Structure Triad 3

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5
Coloring Dominant Chords – Upper Structures 2 – Lesson 5
12:30

Upper Structure Triads 4 & 5

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Featured Reviews

View PWJ member reviews of this course!

Helps to reinforce the lessons on Chord Alterations
Getting chord extensions and alterations firmly into my head and hands will take a while (of course!). This workshop on using upper structures is helping to reinforce the previous lessons by giving another way of thinking about forming altered chords. Thank you!
Great course so informative
The course makes it's so easy to make the chords
Discovery!
This Is a Great course To Learn how all 12 notes get to be used.
A Whole New World
Talk about a magic lamp! This course was super helpful! My head was swimming with extensions and alterations (and still is), but this course helped me make sense of all that information both sonically and melodically. While I'm not ready to rush out and and book a solo piano gig (yet) I am ready - nay, eager! - to apply these techniques to my compositions. That is exactly what I wanted to do with these courses - improve my keyboard "chops" to better play my ideas and to expand my palette as a composer to enrich those same ideas. Thanks again!
Concise and fun
Great info, and incredibly practical. Jonny is always a great and enthusiastic teacher and super fun to listen to (even when he maybe didn’t get a ton of sleep the night before? :) ). This site has been the best thing (next to practice) for my piano-playing in four decades, quite literally.
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