Upper structure triads are complex sounding altered dominant chords. They will add texture and sophistication to your playing.
Learning and memorising all of the upper structure triads is a daunting task! This lesson introduces the upper structure cheat sheet.
Upper structure triads are complex altered dominant chord voicings that are widely used in solo jazz piano performance.
Blue in Green by Miles Davis contains a lot of upper extensions and alterations in the melody which makes it a perfect tune for applying upper structure triads.
This course explores the altered chord tones: b9s, #9s, #11s, and #5s / b13s. We then create upper structure triads and apply to 4 famous jazz standards.
We can also achieve some really interesting sounds by applying upper structure triad theory to both major and minor chords.
In this lesson we explore some advanced applications of upper structure triads in context of jazz standards we have covered.
In this lesson we will combine quartals and upper structures to create some quartal upper structure voicings that are well suited to a comping setting.
We use this final practice slot to drill around all 12 minor 251 voicings with the b9#11 and the #5#9 upper structure triads.
In this lesson we will explore the interesting colours & textures that can be accessed over dominant chords using upper structure triads.
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