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Piano Voicings Part 2: So What Chords

By on August 3, 2006 in Instruments, Music Theory

Table of contents for Piano Voicings

  1. Piano Voicings Part 1: Left Hand Voicings
  2. Piano Voicings Part 2: So What Chords
  3. Piano Voicings Part 3: Fourth Chords
  4. Piano Voicings Part 4: Upper Structure Chords
  5. Piano Voicings Part 5: Kenny Barron Voicings
  6. Piano Voicings Part 6: Clusters

So what chords get their name from the song of the same title on Miles Davis’ record, Kind Of Blue. This voicing consists of a series of three perfect fourths with a third on top:

so what voicings

So what chords can be moved up and down all scale degrees of all modes very successfully. Try harmonizing melodies using so what chords:

so what chords
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3 Responses to Piano Voicings Part 2: So What Chords

  1. Tomás Tomás September 28, 2007 at 7:09 pm #

    nice, thanks.

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