Quartal Chords in Diatonic Harmony - stack 4ths, not 3rds!

[@101xaplax101]

A perfect morning…….waking up to a warm cup of coffee, a gentle rain, and a new video of Chris unlocking the secrets of the musical universe for us 🥳

[@timflatus]

Thanks once again Chris! With this recent exploration of quartal voicings, you've brought me home. The difference is I now understand the theory behind it. Nice work 😊

[@ImpliedMusic]

Excellent!

[@edgarsnake2857]

I think you achieve your goal of suggesting and explaining chordal colors and ideas that are useful in both playing and composing. Thanks.

[@ImpliedMusic]

Awesome, thank you!

[@andrewcrow-roberts5286]

Thank you for this lesson and sharing this insight. Thank you for recognizing your audience as well and how we are collectively progressing together with you. This conversation on modes, harmonies and opening up opportunities of various voicing/shapes of sound in 4th has been extremely helpful.

[@ImpliedMusic]

You are so welcome!

[@hugo54758]

4:45 Such a tritone IS a fourth. It's an augmented fourth. F to B is an augmented fourth, whereas B to F in this context would be a diminished fifth, I'd appreciate the credit if you point it out in another video ;)

[@ImpliedMusic]

Definitely points added, thanks.

[@garygimmestad4272]

I really like how you frame this as an exploration of a shape rather than as a set of rules. That’s your MO for all of your presentations; here’s something to play with and come up with your own ideas. Bravo!

[@davidasher22]

Great stuff! I was actually thinking about Joni, specifically 'Woodstock' and how the 4ths are easily accessible in a key like Eb minor where you 're using mainly black keys.

[@davidpetersonharvey]

I missed the earlier video. I need to come back with morning coffee and work both on staff paper or piano roll. Thanks for sharing your technical expertise and for inspiring exploration in this area.

[@anansiackhasone3428]

perfect

[@mwicks1968]

For the guitarists out there, I think Kurt Rosenwinkel put out a video recently (excerpt from his latest tutorial) all about 4ths - SO COOL!!! 😎😎

[@mwicks1968]

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[@ImpliedMusic]

Cool!

[@mwicks1968]

Cool! 😎

[@boriscat1999]

Thanks for making this video. I'm hoping to use these kinds of tips on synthesizer, where I think it could make for some very pleasant ambient that still has some movement to it.

[@gershonwolfe]

Really excellent tutorial.

[@ImpliedMusic]

thanks. that means a lot coming from you.

[@conrad03]

i enjoyed this lesson a lot. thanks!!

[@ImpliedMusic]

You are welcome!

[@MrSiwat]

Loving your channel. Thanks so much.

[@ImpliedMusic]

You are so welcome!

[@rebanelson607]

Excellent lesson - thanks!

[@danle2884]

Chris, nice, very nice. Are you using Kescape for piano? Thanks.

[@ImpliedMusic]

@@danle2884 thanks! pianoteq

[@RafaelSolaPACalsaverini]

Hey, nice video!! Very good and informative. I learned a lot from that and subscribed to the channel immediately. BTW, what's this software you're using to show the chords and sheet music below the midi roll? This looks useful to use when I'm bouncing ideas for composition. I'm not always 100% aware of what I'm playing when doing that and what I do is to save a midi file and spend a lot of time transcribing it on musescore later (musescore don't seem to be able to load correctly the midi files my daw creates). This thing you use looks like it could make my life easier!

[@ImpliedMusic]

thanks! that's "chordie". useful, but sometimes irritating. i'm running it in parallel with Logic. it's not smart about spelling, or ambiguous chord voicings, but it's better than nothing.

[@RafaelSolaPACalsaverini]

@@ImpliedMusic thanks for the tip!! Also I've watched some other videos on your channel and it's fantastic!

[@ShawnBrandon888]

What piano vst and controller do you use ? Thanks for another great lesson.

[@ImpliedMusic]

mostly Pianoteq... this is the U4 yamaha upright model. super expressive sound.

[@dillondaniels5738]

love the way this video started. got a sub from me

[@ImpliedMusic]

Awesome, thank you!