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Piano Voicings Part 4: Upper Structure Chords

By on August 5, 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

Upper structure chords consist of a triad-or triad inversions-over a tritone. Here’s a chart of common upper structures:

upper structure voicings
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