The Perfect Chord Formula?

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One of our most popular teaching concepts at Open Studio Jazz is ROOT + SHELL + PRETTY. Resident piano guru Adam Maness teaches you the ins and outs of this fabulous formula.

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Brilliant!! This explained so many questions for me. I am a saxophone player that does a lot of arranging. I have always struggled with writing out piano parts so I tend to just put chord symbols. NOW, I think I can give the pianist real parts also. Thank you!!

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RSP. I'm here for it. Thanks for sharing!

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Great lesson! You’re a great teacher!

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Great class, I learned alot, many thanks!

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Thank you for this. Love it!

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Excellent lesson. Thank you sir!

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Now finally I've found where did A Bu found these gorgeous resolution in his ballade in E, which are one tone above the A7-Dmaj7 resolving Coltrane's Countdown. A Bu does B7-Emaj7 in the exact same way.

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Omfg this is exacty something I've been slowly realizing in my chart reading studies, and you have a video deep diving head first. Love this channel! And I'm a guitarist lol!

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Beautiful

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It’s a lovely sound.

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Extra thumbs up!

[@atakandurdu6536]

Is there any special treatment for inverted chords in this formula ? Or is it working only for the root position chords?

[@DrSid42]

Too good.

[@izakbou8651]

Hi ! Suppose we just have a melody, how do we find the root of this melody? and how do I know in the shell if my seventh is minor or major, same thing for the third! Thank you for understanding.

[@alfberger3150]

in what situation is the 6 part of the shell voicing? on major 7ths if the melody is the root?

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Do you have an online course?

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I need a piano 😢

[@tmusic99]

Works on guitar too. With some adaption😏

[@josef6904]

How does drop-x voicings relate to this?

[@SilverTheFlame]

Brilliant thumbnail btw…

[@ulob]

What about half diminished? Is the b5 a shell note or a pretty note? Is the b5 mandatory?

[@josdurkstraful]

Shell is always 3 and 7. b5 is also not a pretty note neither mandatory but as it is not a perfect 5 it is kind of an important colour.

[@richiestarks6163]

You down with RSP (Root, Shell, Pretty)? You know me.

[@meaningfulideas]

Could someone explain why the 3rd is more important than the 5th?

[@cicero.vargas]

The fifth is a strong harmonic, so it's kinda implicit already on the root. The third on the other hand is weaker and can be of two types, so it gives more character to the chord

[@meaningfulideas]

@@cicero.vargas Thank you! That's very helpful.

[@e.d.1642]

I thought But not for me started on the II7

[@jzgtr100]

I agree.

[@gtberg]

You start out great...nice and slow, but then you're blasting through this like a college calculus teacher, going faster, and faster, fasterfasterasterastseraster!!!!! To the point where I almost have to slow down the playback to 50% speed to keep up.

[@clockent]

Magic chords, cookie cutter chords, rootless, shell, root + shell + pretty... How am I gonna suppose to digest all this? xD

[@christheother9088]

To digest most effectively, do a lot of chewing first.

[@domsayerr]

​@@christheother9088agreed. take it in one by one. start with root shell pretty because it's really practical

[@davidgerber9317]

THEORY ALERT! The 13th of g# minor should be e#, not f natural. DAMMIT! But even with this "glitch", it was a great lesson (as always!)

[@ulob]

There's no E# or Cb in jazz ;-)

[@djginza]

Theres a Cb in the real book for the song airegin and i dislike it even more than the idea Ab being a G# but it is 2023 and I think its just fine if we let notes be non binary and call themselves whatever they want😅

[@grunntalll]

So basically the formula comes down to; screw fifths, unless they’re pretty

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First time first

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