Dorian Quartal Harmony (Stacked 4ths) Lesson

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- fire14th August 2008
  great way to improvise - 100% new to me
  
  and: ehhe first one
- botoxfox14th August 2008
  Nice lesson
- seagull14th August 2008
  VERY nice Nick! I especially like the way you actually illustrate the explanation with you guitar, it makes it so much easier to understand in comparison to just reading a text and having to comprehend it solely by the written word.
  So please continue that!
  
  Thumbs up!
- Joe Kataldo14th August 2008
  You are the master! Great Lesson and Backing Track
- Ivan Milenkovic14th August 2008
  Great lesson, sounds very interesting.
- Marcus Siepen14th August 2008
  very interesting lesson Nick
- Toni Suominen14th August 2008
  Great lesson Nick!
- Gabriel Leopardi14th August 2008
  Very interesting lesson Nick! I'll explore this!
  thank you.
- Muris Varajic14th August 2008
  4ths rule,great stuff Nick!!!!
- ItsMe14th August 2008
  yeah, I love that lesson. Just great. Thanks
- Hisham Al-Sanea14th August 2008
  awesome lesson Nick.
- kaznie_NL14th August 2008
  Thanks Nick!!
- Nazgul14th August 2008
  Master of improvisation! Sounds chilly (Chill Out)! Thank you!
- Pablo Vazquez14th August 2008
  Great lesson Man!!
- Nemanja Filipovic14th August 2008
  Grat lesson,and backing as well.
  Thanks Nick.
- Andrew Cockburn14th August 2008
  Good stuff Nick - really weird and edgy yet effective sound with 4ths, especially in Dorian mode I'll give this a try!
- Gerardo Siere14th August 2008
  Nice lesson.
- Carlos Carrillo15th August 2008
  Stranger.. but great!!Very good improvisation!
- Danilo Capezzuto15th August 2008
  Awesome lesson from a great guitarist!
- Alex8715th August 2008
  Nice lesson Nick. Love the 4ths
- Kristofer Dahl16th August 2008
  Very creative use of 4ths Nick - cool!
- Juan M. Valero16th August 2008
  excellent topic mate !!! really helpful, I'll try to incorporate it to my playing, it's really interesting
- Bogdan Radovic16th August 2008
  Really good and useful lesson!
- Vinod Saranga17th August 2008
  Great lesson Nick.
  May I ask how did you produce the tone?
  I like your tone very much
- Nick32517th August 2008
  cool
- Nick Kellie17th August 2008
  Thanks guys - glad you like the lesson....
  Vinod - I really cant remember to be honest.... I just plugged into garage band for this lesson and added some chorus I believe - nothing special really. Most of the other lessons have been done in logic.
  
  thanks,
  nick

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- Tags: Dorian, Chords, Improvisation
Welcome to my lesson on chords. Improvisation is something that doesn't have to be performed solely with single notes - its also possible to improvise with chords. In this lesson, we focus on what is termed "Quartal harmony" - that is the stacking of 4th intervals within a scale or mode. In this case, we are stacking 4ths within C Dorian mode.

I start by finding the lowest note within the C dorian mode on a string of my choice, for example, the D string - the lowest note within the mode is the open string itself - the note of D is the 2nd degree of C dorian. Then we find the 4th up from that note (again within the C dorian mode) the diatonic 4th of D is G which happens to be the Open string adjacent. Next we find the 4th up from that and so on.

We end up with a chord built of stacked 4ths, then we figure out how this chord will move up to the next scale degree.

Have fun and be sure to learn the shapes well before improvising with them.

Good luck!

Nick

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