I love Joey Defrancesco's, the great jazz organ player, saying, "There is no wrong note if you play it with intension!" Cool voicings. An old jazz educator I remember used to also call these "Upper structures".
Absolutely, some of these would certainly be upper structures! The way I look at it in this video, we are coming at this theory from the viewpoint of Triad Paris to see what sounds we can create! Thanks for the comment 🙏
Noah, thank you for these amazing videos. You have a great teaching style. I did Classical piano for many years, at the Music Institute of Chicago. Of course, I love it but when I wasn't practicing that, i was playing by ear and I was playing gigs during holidays, etc. I can go for hours with just about anything but now I'm trying to find a bassist to play Jazz with. It's hard to find the right bassist but I'll find someone. I'm a healthy 75 but Jazz makes me feel like I'm about 15. I need your help, largely because I don't know what I don't know. I love harmony and clever voicing. I live in Portland now and we have an amazing Jazz community here. All Portland's troubles fall away when Jazz begins. So, expect to hear from me. You have the stuff I need to acquire. Whatever you have to say, I'm interested but so are many others. I remember Barry Harris said, "Never think you're the only pianist. There are always great pianists around." I just want to be one of you all. Thanks so much, Noah.
Stevie Wonder used to love using triads as upper structures. For example, E major over G7 in "You Are the Sunshine of My Life". The ii/V/I progression is palpable: Dm7 (F/D), G7 (E/G), C (Em/C).
Dude! I am also a fantasy/sci Fi nerd. ANNND have been exploring this triad pairing thing since the pandemic began essentially. I have been using a sort of formula to learn these chords. Say if you keep a C7 (shell voicing) in your left hand, then I play in the right hand G-, A-, D, and Ab/Eb and then maybe even an F# after that. Then I just transpose this mess to work over all the other dominant 7 chords...lately I have been trying two minor chords a whole step apart. Like E minor over D minor, and transposing that...my favorite is a spread triad in each hand like B- over C spread out in 5ths basically. One of my first exposures to jazz that really charmed me was The Woods off Chick Corea's Mad Hatter record. Fantasy and jazz mixed together! Hey there's Fantasy Metal - why not Fantasy Jazz?
Amazing man! I haven’t heard that record in forever I need to listen to it again. Yeah I love adding in a third triad, you get such interesting sounds. Thanks so much for sharing your ideas here! Going to try some of these out.
ive only been playing (piano) for about six months but your vids are really helpful, thank you. slash and poly chords sound so cool i cant wait to be able to use them in good context. like that Bm/Cm, so tasty.
Inspired by You Noah,I have been trying diminished in combination with other diminished. eg Left. D Dim Right A dim. As an 87 year old pupil I will try anything. Love all Your voicings. Thanks for letting us in to Your GREAT musical brain. Ray
If you alternate between slash voice position, they automatically create tension without necessarily needing a dominant function. For instance C/B creates tension when "home" is B/C. Tried this today with A/Fsus4/C (C13b9). Also Bbm/Cm you can play in modes of Ab Major.
George Garzone has super cool triadic shifting concept. You surely know it. As a saxophonist i like to play a lot of them in a row, build the tension and resolve it just by ear. I like to practise as many triad combinations and patterns with variety of rhythms and than like with everything you can use it anywhere if you can resolve it. The rule of thumb is that you dont double note in a triad pair/hexatonic. My favorite combinations are f/b (tritone away) c/bb, c/b, c/c#(mixolydian b9b13 but works also on major chord, it has a cool spanish sound, stealed it from Kenny Garrett), c/d+, c+/d+(whole tone scale), c+/eb+ (augmented scale) c/eb, c-/eb- (both are from diminished) I also like that cm/d sound (from melodic minor #11 scale) you mentioned in the video.
Thanks Dávid I knew I was forgetting someone! Yes I haven’t checked that stuff out in a long time but I believe my friend Chad LB is an expert on it. George Garzone offered some really amazing concepts that are worth working on. Your suggestions/favorites are awesome!
@@NoahKellman sure, a lot of legends have great triadic concepts. Also Bergonzi and Walt Weiscopf. Chad LB surely teach and use them also. Thank you for this great video as always. Love your content. 👌🤓🙏🔥❤🐕. Another cool one is cm/d for F7 sus4 chord (which is sub for Cm chord) giving that sus4(b9) sound to it. The great thing is to try to play the hexatonic you already know on different chords.
This was timely as I’ve just been thinking about mn6 + major triad a fifth higher for melodic minor voicings. For example C Eb A + B D G = C mn major voicing, or F Bb D + Eb Gb C = an F sus b9 voicing (this time the major triad a fifth higher is on the bottom, in first inversion). One more Db G Bb + C F A = Db Lydian Augmented.
B/C comes from harmonic minor. It’s the maj7#9 chord. There are great triad pairs in that scale. Cool combinations of augmented and diminished triads too. I also like Am/Bb to voice a G-6 chord. I use it as a sub for E-7b5 also. Try this pair when you want to play something interesting instead of the iib5 chord. This one is good too. Bb/Abm. This is a cool alters voicing for Galt. It comes from harmonic major. It combines the backdoor, and altered tensions. I would also recommend using spread triads with these. That’s where they really sound good.
The chords will tell you most of the notes. For example, D/C D F# A and C E G Put those notes in order and you get C D E F# G A you can choose B or Bb both options will work.
I was excited to see this come up as I've recently been experimenting with a similar approach using shell chords. I particularly like C/Em either with your triads or with 1 5 shells. Really any vi chord over the root seems to work.
Noah…great respect to you. I watch 5 minutes of any of your videos and it gives me enough information to explore for the next month or two. A rarity when such a fine player also has great teaching chops! Kind Regards.
Appreciate how you always start your videos with the example of what you’re showing us sounds like. Could you do another video on Blues licks and do it in key of C so I can see your fingerings?
Create a chart, one axis is Cmaj 12 times, then Cminor 12 times, then the other axis is major triads in every key followed by every minor triad, then you would know every possible combo. Maybe omit ones that share notes, or you could triple it for each possible inversion
Noah, you asked for our own experiences with these stacked triads. I find if you leave the root off the bottom, you get really very pure sounding harmonies
I recommend you to read the dark elf trilogy, and I also loved so much the storm light archive! Anyway thank you for your lessons- like these jazz piano secrets and I love your playing!
Cool. But might it be clearer if you wrote these as one chord on top of another separated by a horizontal line? To me, using the / symbol connotes a bass note. C/D to me means a C triad with a D in the bass, not a D triad. Why not write them like polychords, which they (in some cases) are?
Yes, exactly. That's the established convention for guitar players - but perhaps we have to start thinking of them as chords too, unless there's a better way of writing them!
Hallo Noah ! Face melting Intro and Tutorial! Thank you ! Would you mind a request? Could you make a breakdown of Falling Grace from Steve Swallow but with Rudi Wilfer on Piano ? Its such a touching and harmonically rich piece... i stumbled upon IT after seeing the Pat Metheny Interview with Rick Beato. Pat was talking about thus piece, how it opened so many doors for so many people and now im hooked. Would bei glad to see your take on it with all your jazz knowlege. Greetings from germany !
Loving your videos Noah … really helping me improve from basic jazz to understanding how to make it more interesting for the ears !! Also I love fantasy - just finished the stormlight archives for a second time- very good. I recommend Naomi Novik uprooted, also Magician by Raymond E Feist. If you like Sci Fi , check out Iain M Banks ‘culture’ novels. For fantasy the series of books about Druss by David Gemmell are good, also David Eddings, Michael j Sullivan and Katherine Arden books are good. Just a few there are too many great fantasy and Sci Fi books to mention!
You could also try using augmented and diminished chords. I wonder how many combinations there are if you only include those combinations in which no notes are repeated. Of course swapping around which chord is on the bottom and on the top changes the sound as well
Just discovered your channel love your vids. Also since you mentioned fantasy books: I’ve recently gotten into Terry Pratchet. Great writing, hilarious satire, quick reads.
I thought Bbmin/Cmin was amazing! It had a bit of "Tristan chord" flavor to me, with that tritone between the 5 and b9 followed by an 11, which kind of goes with the Tristan chord intervals being a tritone over a perfect fourth? Only maybe inverted. I don't know, I thought it was great haha I was very disappointed that you didn't enjoy it, was expecting to see it being explored a bit more
do not confuse slash chords (chords in inversion or with a different base than the tonic) and polychords (combination of triads or 4 notes chords stacked upon each other)
Do you have a video for fingering? Especially when it comes to right hand, trying to learn to play with a quicker tempo but want to make sure I am reinforcing good habits and correct fingering for playing quickly up and down scales and lines. Thanks
Hey Cristian thanks for your question. I have a voicing mastery series in a playlist here on my channel, doesn’t directly address inversions but has a lot of good techniques for voicing practice.
also Noah do u mind giving us a look at how ur getting ur nice tone (assuming ur on Logic Pro yea?), u sound way nicer than the standard grand piano sampler lol
Good question. In all honesty I just didn’t think of it because I was approaching this very much from the vantage point of Triad Pairs, but it’s true that placing triads on top of seventh chords creates nice upper structures and I should have thought to mention that! Thanks for pointing it out
@@NoahKellman No sorry, not Black Prism, it is okay but it was Brent Weeks first three books The Night Angel Trilogy I was recommending. Dollgirl and the first hundred pages are brutal but it feels like you earn the setup and subliminally absorb the world lore/physics. 01 The Way of Shadows 02 Shadows Edge 03 Beyond the Shadows And if you are liking Brandon Sanderson The Mistborn trilogy and the night Angel trilogy share a similar aesthetic.
@@NMPIN Oh got it, thanks. Yeah I definitely have to check out Mistborn. Will look at The Night Angel Trilogy as well! 🙏 I’m actually reading The Dresden Files now also, you heard of them?
This might be the classical me here but if I were to see D/C I'd imagine it's a D major chord with the C as bass, could you correct me if I should look at it how you mention in lead sheets rather than simly a D major with C as bass with out including the third and fifth of the bass?
So, would you clarify a "slash" chord as you're using it where it is stacked triads apart from a simple chord with a specific note in the bass like in D7/A by using the chole chord name? ("Dmaj/Cmaj" which would be different than "D/C" being just a D major chord with a C note in the bass)
Hey, great question! Yeah, I would specifically call it a poly chord. Whereas I think a slash chord could be anything with the "slash" really. To write poly chords the most clear way, it would be with a straight line underneath rather than a slash actually
Really sick stuff man! I love practicing along your videos. Btw, do you know Lyle Mays? My favortie jazz pianist, by far. I'd be very interested in what you'd have to teach us about his playing. Cheers!
My understanding of a slash chord is that what is written beneath the slash refers to a note in the bass, NOT an entire chord, as you suggest. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this part of your video really confuses me. When you notate the C 6/9 add#11 as C/D, I believe the "D" should only indicate the addition of the single note D in the bass, and not a D major triad.
Hey David, you are correct. Though sometimes I believe poly chords are written this way as well, for clarity these should be written as poly chords with a horizontal line rather than a slash
Restricting it to just major and minor triads without any repeating notes this is all the possible combinations: C C# C D C F# C Bb C B C Dm C Ebm C F#m C Abm C Bbm C Bm Cm C# Cm D Cm F# Cm A Cm Bb Cm C#m Cm Dm Cm F#m Cm Bbm Cm Bm
Hey yeah it can be! People also call them Upper Structures depending on the chords. I like to think of them as simple triad pairs but for harmony (as triad pairs can also be used melodically).
Hi Noah, thanks a lot for your great content. Very informative and inspiring. 🙏🏽 Here is an epic fantasy saga recommendation i loved to read, Terry Goodkind's -The sword of truth- . Check it out. 😉
I love Joey Defrancesco's, the great jazz organ player, saying, "There is no wrong note if you play it with intension!" Cool voicings. An old jazz educator I remember used to also call these "Upper structures".
Absolutely, some of these would certainly be upper structures! The way I look at it in this video, we are coming at this theory from the viewpoint of Triad Paris to see what sounds we can create! Thanks for the comment 🙏
Noah, thank you for these amazing videos. You have a great teaching style. I did Classical piano for many years, at the Music Institute of Chicago. Of course, I love it but when I wasn't practicing that, i was playing by ear and I was playing gigs during holidays, etc. I can go for hours with just about anything but now I'm trying to find a bassist to play Jazz with. It's hard to find the right bassist but I'll find someone. I'm a healthy 75 but Jazz makes me feel like I'm about 15. I need your help, largely because I don't know what I don't know. I love harmony and clever voicing. I live in Portland now and we have an amazing Jazz community here. All Portland's troubles fall away when Jazz begins. So, expect to hear from me. You have the stuff I need to acquire. Whatever you have to say, I'm interested but so are many others. I remember Barry Harris said, "Never think you're the only pianist. There are always great pianists around." I just want to be one of you all. Thanks so much, Noah.
Hey Jim, thanks so much for the kind words, appreciate it! All it takes is some work and I’m sure you’ll get there soon. Keep it up!
Stevie Wonder used to love using triads as upper structures. For example, E major over G7 in "You Are the Sunshine of My Life". The ii/V/I progression is palpable: Dm7 (F/D), G7 (E/G), C (Em/C).
Dude! I am also a fantasy/sci Fi nerd. ANNND have been exploring this triad pairing thing since the pandemic began essentially. I have been using a sort of formula to learn these chords. Say if you keep a C7 (shell voicing) in your left hand, then I play in the right hand G-, A-, D, and Ab/Eb and then maybe even an F# after that. Then I just transpose this mess to work over all the other dominant 7 chords...lately I have been trying two minor chords a whole step apart. Like E minor over D minor, and transposing that...my favorite is a spread triad in each hand like B- over C spread out in 5ths basically. One of my first exposures to jazz that really charmed me was The Woods off Chick Corea's Mad Hatter record. Fantasy and jazz mixed together! Hey there's Fantasy Metal - why not Fantasy Jazz?
Amazing man! I haven’t heard that record in forever I need to listen to it again. Yeah I love adding in a third triad, you get such interesting sounds. Thanks so much for sharing your ideas here! Going to try some of these out.
@@NoahKellman I forgot another cool one is play a C-6 left hand and a B7/A right on top of it. Sorta like Stravinsky-esque
Yo these are some great ideas
gonna try this
@@WhistlebirdInfinity Totally hear that, you are very Stravinsky. Love it thank you for sharing
ive only been playing (piano) for about six months but your vids are really helpful, thank you. slash and poly chords sound so cool i cant wait to be able to use them in good context. like that Bm/Cm, so tasty.
Hey Andrew, thanks for the comment. Really glad to hear they are helpful! Thank you for watching
You just made something so advanced sounding and awesome simplified and easy to understand. i.e. D major over C. - Triad pairs. Thanks
#11 is one of my favorite chords!!! When I’m setting up my gear and turn in my equipment that’s the first chord you’re going to hear me play!!!
Your videos and the information you share has helped me with my vibes and steel pan soloing. Thanks!
Ah you really know what you are talking about and I love it!
Thanks Sir
I NEED THAT CARDIGAN!!! EXCELLENT VIDEO, I HAVEN'T FULLY WATCHED IT YET BUT I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED THAT CARDIGAN
Inspired by You Noah,I have been trying diminished in combination with other diminished. eg Left. D Dim Right A dim. As an 87 year old pupil I will try anything. Love all Your voicings. Thanks for letting us in to Your GREAT musical brain. Ray
Hey Ray, thank you that means a lot. Keep up the good work!
Speechless sir....
You are absolutely the best Jazz Piano teacher on youtube hands down! Make advance concepts easy and digestable :)
Heyyy thanks Deacon. Appreciate that 🙏
Mistborns great too Noah, I finished that before jumping over to stormlight, love the lesson and the demonstrations.
Great lesson thanks!!!! I look forward to the melodic application of triad pairs. Cheers
THANKS!
Wow, your touch is exquisite, absolutely fantastic! Thanks for sharing this!
If you alternate between slash voice position, they automatically create tension without necessarily needing a dominant function. For instance C/B creates tension when "home" is B/C. Tried this today with A/Fsus4/C (C13b9).
Also Bbm/Cm you can play in modes of Ab Major.
This feels like going into open sea and discovering new continents!
Nice sweater Noah!
Always a great video, thanks a lot!
George Garzone has super cool triadic shifting concept. You surely know it.
As a saxophonist i like to play a lot of them in a row, build the tension and resolve it just by ear. I like to practise as many triad combinations and patterns with variety of rhythms and than like with everything you can use it anywhere if you can resolve it. The rule of thumb is that you dont double note in a triad pair/hexatonic.
My favorite combinations are f/b (tritone away) c/bb, c/b, c/c#(mixolydian b9b13 but works also on major chord, it has a cool spanish sound, stealed it from Kenny Garrett), c/d+, c+/d+(whole tone scale), c+/eb+ (augmented scale) c/eb, c-/eb- (both are from diminished)
I also like that cm/d sound (from melodic minor #11 scale) you mentioned in the video.
Thanks Dávid I knew I was forgetting someone! Yes I haven’t checked that stuff out in a long time but I believe my friend Chad LB is an expert on it. George Garzone offered some really amazing concepts that are worth working on. Your suggestions/favorites are awesome!
@@NoahKellman sure, a lot of legends have great triadic concepts. Also Bergonzi and Walt Weiscopf. Chad LB surely teach and use them also. Thank you for this great video as always. Love your content. 👌🤓🙏🔥❤🐕.
Another cool one is cm/d for F7 sus4 chord (which is sub for Cm chord) giving that sus4(b9) sound to it. The great thing is to try to play the hexatonic you already know on different chords.
Pretty pretty good.
Another great video! That anchor sweater is 🔥
Thanks man 😃🙏
Hey check cmin/F# with the cmin in 1st inversion. Definitely my kind of sound!
Thx for the ideas
THese Videos are awesome!!!!
Gave a thumbs up simply with that awesome intro!!
man I love how ur mind work.. fan forever more,. love the CEGDF#A 6/9 #11 tryin to work it into one of my pieces
Thank you, Noah. I've been looking for explanations like this for years
You are welcome!
This was timely as I’ve just been thinking about mn6 + major triad a fifth higher for melodic minor voicings. For example C Eb A + B D G = C mn major voicing, or F Bb D + Eb Gb C = an F sus b9 voicing (this time the major triad a fifth higher is on the bottom, in first inversion). One more Db G Bb + C F A = Db Lydian Augmented.
B/C comes from harmonic minor. It’s the maj7#9 chord. There are great triad pairs in that scale. Cool combinations of augmented and diminished triads too.
I also like Am/Bb to voice a G-6 chord. I use it as a sub for E-7b5 also. Try this pair when you want to play something interesting instead of the iib5 chord.
This one is good too. Bb/Abm. This is a cool alters voicing for Galt. It comes from harmonic major. It combines the backdoor, and altered tensions.
I would also recommend using spread triads with these. That’s where they really sound good.
Would be nice to also add the respective scale for each combination, such as Dmin/Cmin = C-Dorian scale, or Dmaj/Cmaj = C Lydian, etc.
The chords will tell you most of the notes.
For example, D/C
D F# A and C E G
Put those notes in order and you get
C D E F# G A you can choose B or Bb both options will work.
Simple explanation to a mind expanding world of possibilities. Thank you Noah.
You’re very welcome, Russ!
Thank you
Honorable mention to Caug over D from Bill Evans' version of Everything happens to me. It was mindblowing when I worked on its transcription.
Definitely have to give that a listen! Don't know the recording
Thanks for the recommendation
This is enough reason to learn keyboards right here... keys is the best instrument for this.
Thank you Noah!
really cool. thanks !
Bbm/Cm was actually my favorite haha
I was excited to see this come up as I've recently been experimenting with a similar approach using shell chords. I particularly like C/Em either with your triads or with 1 5 shells. Really any vi chord over the root seems to work.
Thank u
Amazing stuff. Really helpful. Thanks Noah!
You’re welcome!
Noah…great respect to you. I watch 5 minutes of any of your videos and it gives me enough information to explore for the next month or two. A rarity when such a fine player also has great teaching chops! Kind Regards.
Appreciate how you always start your videos with the example of what you’re showing us sounds like. Could you do another video on Blues licks and do it in key of C so I can see your fingerings?
Will definitely add that to my list!
If you search Noah Kellman blues licks I think you should find a video or two as well
Create a chart, one axis is Cmaj 12 times, then Cminor 12 times, then the other axis is major triads in every key followed by every minor triad, then you would know every possible combo. Maybe omit ones that share notes, or you could triple it for each possible inversion
Interesting idea, Casey. You should totally make this!
thanks! first time seeing your videos, really good fun explanations
smooth stuff
Thanks its help to understand chords voicing,Jesus Bless
incredible! :D
TY. GBY
Noah, you asked for our own experiences with these stacked triads. I find if you leave the root off the bottom, you get really very pure sounding harmonies
Hey David, awesome, yeah I can see how these would be really pretty turned rootless
Great video 🎹 concepts !!
I am Venezuela but I have many years in Berlín!!!!!!
The hyperion cantos! Dan Simmons. Get back to me when you finish them :)
Good Stuff! "Time Remembered" by Bill Evans is a great one to grasp that concept! Love your channel man! Cheers!
This is amazing🌊🎵.
Thanks a lot!!!
ABSOLUTELY i love the way you play the piano...literally AWESOME✨!!!
Just subscribed...👈🏾🎩!!!!
I have been having fun today with combining different sus chords
great video man thank you
Man this is 🔥
I recommend you to read the dark elf trilogy, and I also loved so much the storm light archive! Anyway thank you for your lessons- like these jazz piano secrets and I love your playing!
lately i've been very into seeing what happens when i do this with sus4 and sus2 triads, i like the sound of it a lot
Cool I’ll have to play with that thanks for the tip
Cool. But might it be clearer if you wrote these as one chord on top of another separated by a horizontal line? To me, using the / symbol connotes a bass note. C/D to me means a C triad with a D in the bass, not a D triad.
Why not write them like polychords, which they (in some cases) are?
Yes, exactly. That's the established convention for guitar players - but perhaps we have to start thinking of them as chords too, unless there's a better way of writing them!
Hallo Noah ! Face melting Intro and Tutorial! Thank you ! Would you mind a request? Could you make a breakdown of Falling Grace from Steve Swallow but with Rudi Wilfer on Piano ? Its such a touching and harmonically rich piece... i stumbled upon IT after seeing the Pat Metheny Interview with Rick Beato. Pat was talking about thus piece, how it opened so many doors for so many people and now im hooked. Would bei glad to see your take on it with all your jazz knowlege. Greetings from germany !
Hey Roman, thank you for the comment and kind words! I will definitely keep this in mind for future videos.
Loving your videos Noah … really helping me improve from basic jazz to understanding how to make it more interesting for the ears !!
Also I love fantasy - just finished the stormlight archives for a second time- very good.
I recommend Naomi Novik uprooted, also Magician by Raymond E Feist. If you like Sci Fi , check out Iain M Banks ‘culture’ novels.
For fantasy the series of books about Druss by David Gemmell are good, also David Eddings, Michael j Sullivan and Katherine Arden books are good. Just a few there are too many great fantasy and Sci Fi books to mention!
You could also try using augmented and diminished chords. I wonder how many combinations there are if you only include those combinations in which no notes are repeated. Of course swapping around which chord is on the bottom and on the top changes the sound as well
and pairing different 7th chords together might create interesting sounds too
Just discovered your channel love your vids. Also since you mentioned fantasy books: I’ve recently gotten into Terry Pratchet. Great writing, hilarious satire, quick reads.
I thought Bbmin/Cmin was amazing! It had a bit of "Tristan chord" flavor to me, with that tritone between the 5 and b9 followed by an 11, which kind of goes with the Tristan chord intervals being a tritone over a perfect fourth? Only maybe inverted. I don't know, I thought it was great haha I was very disappointed that you didn't enjoy it, was expecting to see it being explored a bit more
only thing more dissonant than E/C is that shirt/cardigan combo
Hahaha 😅
i love you
do not confuse slash chords (chords in inversion or with a different base than the tonic) and polychords (combination of triads or 4 notes chords stacked upon each other)
Do you have a video for fingering? Especially when it comes to right hand, trying to learn to play with a quicker tempo but want to make sure I am reinforcing good habits and correct fingering for playing quickly up and down scales and lines.
Thanks
Not yet, but will make one soon!
Huge Fan, What's the best way to practice inversions of voicings?
Hey Cristian thanks for your question. I have a voicing mastery series in a playlist here on my channel, doesn’t directly address inversions but has a lot of good techniques for voicing practice.
also Noah do u mind giving us a look at how ur getting ur nice tone (assuming ur on Logic Pro yea?), u sound way nicer than the standard grand piano sampler lol
Sure thing planning a video on this soon!
How do you think about moving between chords in a chord progression?
I created and excel sheet comfortable theory which is on the cloud I would like to share my notes
Thanks, some cool sounds. Just wondering why you did not mention the idea of upper structure triads in this video.
Good question. In all honesty I just didn’t think of it because I was approaching this very much from the vantage point of Triad Pairs, but it’s true that placing triads on top of seventh chords creates nice upper structures and I should have thought to mention that! Thanks for pointing it out
If you're a fan of fantasy you may already be familiar with Scott Lynch ? His first book is The Lies of Loche L'amore.
Haven’t heard of it!! Thanks will definitely check it out.
Brett Weeks I can't remember the name but his first 3 books are top ten of the genre.
The Black Prism series movie? I read the first one and enjoyed it! Thanks for the recommendation!
@@NoahKellman No sorry, not Black Prism, it is okay but it was Brent Weeks first three books The Night Angel Trilogy I was recommending.
Dollgirl and the first hundred pages are brutal but it feels like you earn the setup and subliminally absorb the world lore/physics.
01 The Way of Shadows
02 Shadows Edge
03 Beyond the Shadows
And if you are liking Brandon Sanderson The Mistborn trilogy and the night Angel trilogy share a similar aesthetic.
@@NMPIN Oh got it, thanks. Yeah I definitely have to check out Mistborn. Will look at The Night Angel Trilogy as well! 🙏
I’m actually reading The Dresden Files now also, you heard of them?
Bbminor /C minor is legit
depends what comes before and after
very legit though
This might be the classical me here but if I were to see D/C I'd imagine it's a D major chord with the C as bass, could you correct me if I should look at it how you mention in lead sheets rather than simly a D major with C as bass with out including the third and fifth of the bass?
What does running through the "full voicing spectrum" mean?
So, would you clarify a "slash" chord as you're using it where it is stacked triads apart from a simple chord with a specific note in the bass like in D7/A by using the chole chord name? ("Dmaj/Cmaj" which would be different than "D/C" being just a D major chord with a C note in the bass)
Hey, great question! Yeah, I would specifically call it a poly chord. Whereas I think a slash chord could be anything with the "slash" really. To write poly chords the most clear way, it would be with a straight line underneath rather than a slash actually
Nohan I´d like to know what is the difference between polychords and pairs triads ?
You could call this video Bill Evans 101 :)
Really sick stuff man! I love practicing along your videos. Btw, do you know Lyle Mays? My favortie jazz pianist, by far. I'd be very interested in what you'd have to teach us about his playing. Cheers!
Yes been working on a video about him actually!!
@@NoahKellman daaaamn cant wait to watch this!!!
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My understanding of a slash chord is that what is written beneath the slash refers to a note in the bass, NOT an entire chord, as you suggest. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this part of your video really confuses me. When you notate the C 6/9 add#11 as C/D, I believe the "D" should only indicate the addition of the single note D in the bass, and not a D major triad.
Hey David, you are correct. Though sometimes I believe poly chords are written this way as well, for clarity these should be written as poly chords with a horizontal line rather than a slash
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How do you apply this to a full band context without getting serious clashes?
Restricting it to just major and minor triads without any repeating notes this is all the possible combinations:
C C#
C D
C F#
C Bb
C B
C Dm
C Ebm
C F#m
C Abm
C Bbm
C Bm
Cm C#
Cm D
Cm F#
Cm A
Cm Bb
Cm C#m
Cm Dm
Cm F#m
Cm Bbm
Cm Bm
Hi Noah! Thanks for the great content, how do I schedule a call with you please
Go in the description of the video my friend!
Is this not called "upper structure"?
Sounds like Debussy sometimes
So a triad pair is just a slash chord?
Hey yeah it can be! People also call them Upper Structures depending on the chords. I like to think of them as simple triad pairs but for harmony (as triad pairs can also be used melodically).
Calude Debussy is that you?
0:40 claire de lune? haha
Hi Noah, thanks a lot for your great content. Very informative and inspiring. 🙏🏽
Here is an epic fantasy saga recommendation i loved to read, Terry Goodkind's -The sword of truth- .
Check it out. 😉
Hey Sidney, thanks so much for the recommendation! Will definitely have to check that out soon
When i'm playing guitar in a two guitar band i do it all the time. Yet i've just begun doing it on piano. Wierd.