UST Voicings. Blue in Green Reharm. Guitar Player needed.

[ajrdileva]

Hi,
I've been working on Upper Structure Triads for piano chord voicings.
My goal was to find all possible major and minor triads over IIm7, V7 and a method to practice them individually and over the IIm7 V7 progression for my students, since they are always asking how to comp and arrange songs using USTs.

The method has worked so well that I've decided to publish it and would like to recommend to any students trying to tackle voicings using USTs.
I would also like to find a good Jazz Guitar Player that would like to adapt the method for guitar.

Here's a reharm for Blue in Green I did using USTs and other devices.


To find all the possible USTs, I used the Decoding the Circle of Fifths system. There's a free online software to find and analyze structures and subsets. mCircle

Here's a link for the UST book if you want to read more about it or buy it:
UST Jazz Piano Voicings


PS. I hope this is the place to post this message

[brwnhornet59]

Hey man, that was a cool diagram analyzing the circle of 5ths. I dig your ideas!

[JonnyPac]

Sounds really nice. Good work! I went through Levine's Jazz Piano Book and studied all of the UST voicings and inversions. Unfortunately many are impossible to play exactly like the piano. The upper triads are obviously easy, but the lower structures must be watered down. I really enjoy playing them with a bassist or another chordal instrument that can play shells.

I charted out the quartal, so what, "Bill Evans rootless" clusters, and such here. Jazz Piano Style Guitar Voicings in Music Theory, Guitar Lessons and Song Writing Tools Forum

And some upper structure HW dim dominants here. Dominant Diminished Harmony - Chord Scale Theory in Music Theory, Guitar Lessons and Song Writing Tools Forum

I hope that helps.

[ajrdileva]

thanks. I'll need sometime to read all the info you have there....