Quartal Harmony for Guitar

[phil_b]

I have written an article on quartal harmony with examples of chord voicings. If you are not sure what quartal harmony is it may be worth a look.

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[mellowsun]

That's great - instant Bill Frisell! I'd never thought of it this way, I like harmonising in 7ths and with quartal harmony you've basically (it seems to me) got 2 stacked 7ths.

Combining some of these patterns leads to some nice progressions, particularly if you drop out the first 4th and mix in a few m9 chords, e.g.

x x 0 x
x 6 1 x 3
x 5 4 4 5
2 5 x 3
2 5 0 x
1 x x 3

[colski]

A quartal trick I use a lot is to take a voicing such as

x
3
2
2
x
x

or

3
3
2
x
x
x

and play a familiar melody, using the highest of the notes in the chord as the melody note but including the other two, really spices up a chord melody passage, sounding out, yet nicely in.