can someone give me examples of both.. how would you voice both in a diotonic structure?/ also, whats a generic block chord??? as you can see im trying to learn my block chords thanks in advance
a block chord george shearing style
is a sixth chord which is a chord with a sixth scale degree contained
alternated with a diminished chord
you basically then can harmonize a major scale, dominant scale, minor scale
by alternating the sixth chord and diminished chord
the double melody
is done by inverting the above chords so that the melody is on top
and then you take your left hand and duplicate the melody note at the bottom of the chord
and you continue with that same alternation of sixth chords and dominant chords
if you were harmonizing a major scale
you would use
a chord with the degrees 1,3,5,6
a dominant scale would have a chord using 1.3.5.b7
a minor scale would use 1.b3.5.b7
but where this style really starts to step up it's game is when you start to drop one or more of the degrees of the chords
an octave
usually the 2 aand or 4
but the 3 and 1 sometimes are dropped
hope this helps
