Upper structure triads are complex sounding altered dominant chords. They will add texture and sophistication to your playing.
Upper structure triads are complex altered dominant chord voicings that are widely used in solo jazz piano performance.
Learning and memorising all of the upper structure triads is a daunting task! This lesson introduces the upper structure cheat sheet.
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.
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.
In this lesson we explore some advanced applications of upper structure triads in context of jazz standards we have covered.
We can also achieve some really interesting sounds by applying upper structure triad theory to both major and minor chords.
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.
This lesson applies upper structure triads to the tune Tenderly and also discuss ways to add fills and runs in between the chords of this great tune.
In this lesson, Jovino answers some questions on triads and explores some ideas on how to create complex sonorities from a simple base.
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