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The Quartal Chord Voicing Book for Guitar: A complete guide to harmony in fourths
Paperback
Music Instruction: GuitarMusic Theory
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 6 2022
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.32 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
A systematic study of quartal voicings and fourth-based harmony on the guitar.
The Quartal Chord Voicing Book for Guitar examines the construction, organization, and practical use of chords built primarily from fourths.
Rather than presenting quartal voicings as a collection of isolated shapes, the book develops a framework for understanding how these structures are generated across the fretboard, how they relate to tonal and modal harmony, and how they can be applied to comping, chord-melody playing, arranging, composition, and improvisation.
- Three-part and four-part quartal voicings organized across multiple string sets
- A systematic examination of quartal chord construction on the guitar
- Comparisons between tertian and quartal harmony and their respective harmonic functions
- Four-part quartal structures derived from Major, Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor, and Harmonic Major
- Exercises for internalizing and navigating quartal forms across the fretboard
- Five- and six-part quartal voicings
- Neighbor-tone and related voice-leading techniques
- Quartal structures as a basis for linear improvisation
- Techniques for harmonizing modal melodies with fourth-based structures
- Practical applications in accompaniment, chord melody, and harmonic development
Standard notation, TAB, fretboard diagrams, exercises, and reference charts are included throughout.
The aim is to develop a working understanding of fourth-based harmony: how quartal voicings are constructed, how they relate to more familiar tertian structures, and how they can be used as part of a broader harmonic vocabulary rather than as an isolated stylistic effect.
For further study in harmony and voice-leading, see The Drop Voicing Book for Guitar and the Voice-Leading Atlas for Guitar series by Dan Cosley.
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