Mick Goodrick's Harmonic Cosmos - the first steps

[@jsb1181]

Great lesson as always, thanks! These exercises remind me of that bonkers section in the middle of Ted Greene's Modern Chord Progressions book where he provides about 100 ways to voice lead from I to IV and then you work each one through the rest of the major scale (I foolishly worked through them all haha). One thing I have never worked out with Mick's stuff is what to do with it though - like if you are playing Body and Soul, how can you utilise all of this? Does it just aim to help you hear good voice leading?

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

No one knows haha…. I’ve found some uses for them… I suppose that could be another vid? Mostly on non functional tunes at the moment. I think there are functional uses too. Tbh I think you have to live with them for ages…

[@jsb1181]

@@JazzGuitarScrapbook Haha interesting! Maybe it opens your ears to different ways to voice lead? Based on some of Lage Lund's online tutorials I have been practicing just voice leading 4 note chords through standards a lot recently to try and learn to hear harmony better, and it has been helping my playing a lot. Will give these excercises a crack at the weekend.

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

Yes that’s something that’s very akin to MG’s cycles but somewhat more practical …

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

Definitely I think it’s about opening the ears, especially w the non triadic stuff. It gives a route with quartals and clusters beyond parallelism.

[@fouroutoffour]

Thanks, really beautiful stuff