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- Quartal Harmony - Dorian Scale SoloLEVEL 5In this lesson we are stacking 4ths within C Dorian mode to create some nice modern sounding arpeggios.
- Quartal HarmonyLEVEL 4The C dorian mode harmonized in 4ths to create interesting comping lines and improv. First part in a series.
- Interval Series - Riffing with 4thsLEVEL 5This lesson demonstrates how to play riffs (inversions of power chords) using perfect 4th intervals. Hybrid picking is applied along with constant down stroke accents.
- 4ths & 5thsLEVEL 5In this BASIC ROCK GUITAR series we take a look at 4ths & 5ths intervals.
- In HarmonyLEVEL 2A short series of phrases designed to help you understand and create your own harmonies
- The Beauty of HarmonyLEVEL 5This simple melodic piece will help you understand how to use harmonized melodies to add depth to your compositions.
- Pentatonic Guitar HarmonyLEVEL 3I'll show you an easy and effective way to create harmony guitar parts in 4ths and 5ths with pentatonic.
- Static Rock SoloLEVEL 5Let's get adventurous over a Bm7 groove - using modes, pentatonic substitutions and various arpeggio ideas.
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Nick Kellie17th August 2008Thanks 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
Nick32517th August 2008cool
Vinod Saranga17th August 2008Great lesson Nick.
May I ask how did you produce the tone?
I like your tone very much
Bogdan Radovic16th August 2008Really good and useful lesson!
Juan M. Valero16th August 2008excellent topic mate !!! really helpful, I'll try to incorporate it to my playing, it's really interesting
Kristofer Dahl16th August 2008Very creative use of 4ths Nick - cool!
Alex8715th August 2008Nice lesson Nick. Love the 4ths
Danilo Capezzuto15th August 2008Awesome lesson from a great guitarist!
Carlos Carrillo14th August 2008Stranger.. but great!!Very good improvisation!
Gerardo Siere14th August 2008Nice lesson.
Andrew Cockburn14th August 2008Good stuff Nick - really weird and edgy yet effective sound with 4ths, especially in Dorian mode
I'll give this a try!
Nemanja Filipovic14th August 2008Grat lesson,and backing as well.
Thanks Nick.
Pablo Vazquez14th August 2008Great lesson Man!!
Nazgul14th August 2008Master of improvisation! Sounds chilly (Chill Out)!
Thank you!
kaznie_NL14th August 2008Thanks Nick!!
Hisham Al-Sanea14th August 2008awesome lesson Nick.
ItsMe14th August 2008yeah, I love that lesson. Just great. Thanks
Muris Varajic14th August 20084ths rule,great stuff Nick!!!!
Gabriel Leopardi14th August 2008Very interesting lesson Nick! I'll explore this!
thank you.
Toni Suominen14th August 2008Great lesson Nick!
Marcus Siepen14th August 2008very interesting lesson Nick
Ivan Milenkovic14th August 2008Great lesson, sounds very interesting.
Joe Kataldo14th August 2008You are the master! Great Lesson and Backing Track
seagull14th August 2008VERY 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!
botoxfox14th August 2008Nice lesson
- fire14th August 2008
great way to improvise - 100% new to me
and: ehhe first one
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- My notes
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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