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Pop

  • Voicing basic pattern check
  • Open Voicing Basic Pattern Check
  • Using Arpeggios with Purpose and Meaning
  • The ratio of voicings and arpeggios (still VS motion)

Functional Chord Changes (Pop)

1) Pop Approach

2) Base flow and line changing

3) Dividing Dominant Chords

4) Tritone Sub matching training and tension finding in pop

5) Voice leading (Major, Minor)

6) Line clichés and positions in various directions (introversion/externality)

7) Borrowed Diminished Chords in pop

8) Gospel-like approach

9) Ending (tonic) chord voicing embellishments

10) Sycopation and R&B style

Training using single tension and good combinations of tensions

Non functional Chord Change training and Melodies

How to make minor progressions

Essential Chord Progressions that you must memorize

Jazz Ballad

  • example 1

1) Dominant Upperstructure

2) Minor Upperstructure

3) Major Upperstructure

4) Diminished Upperstructure

5) Diminished Drop2

6) Half-diminishied Drop2

7) Tips to easily apply Block Chord to voicing

8) Borrowed Diminished

9) Jazz ballad using Two Handed Voicing

10) Jazz ballad using Rootless Voicing

  • example 2

1) Minor Two-Five Reharmonization and Left Hand Deformation Line from Bill Evans

2) Major Two-Five Reharmonization and Tritone Sub + Training of Tritone sub Dom with Tentions

  • example 3

1) Minor Chord Drop2

2) Minor Major Chord Drop2

3) Major Chord Drop2

4) How to practice half-diminished chords using Lokrian #2 mode

5) How to easily practice (fill in Scale when you play ballads)

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