Tritone Applications

[minofmusic]

Hey Everyone just wanted to get some chord ideas to play over Tritones

Below are some common Tritones that i know of. Please post what chords you would play in your right hand using the below tritone. just trying improve and help others who are learning


Tritones for every note in the scale
   
   
Bass/     Left hand       Right Hand
   
C   E Bb------------
C#   F B-------------
D   F# C-----------
Eb   G C#-----------
E    Ab D-----------
F   A Eb-----------
F#   Bb E-----------
G   B F------------
Ab   C F#-----------
A    C# G-----------
Bb   D Ab-----------
B    Eb A-----------

[dereknae]

I think it's a matter of where you're going next..Let's take c   C in the bass-E-Bb in the left ,If I'm staying on the 1(C) I'll put a cm in the right or C Diminished...If I'm going to the 4 I might play FAD in the right..I don't know,Like I said,"It depends where you want to go next"

[jonesl78]

Your ears and your listening audience are factors that determine if  tritone sounds good or not. I tend to look at tritones as dominate chords. Dominate chords are usually used as a means to get to some other chord. (i.e. G7 -->CMaj7) I would suggest you look at jazz standards. Every jazz standard I have played showed various uses of tritones/ dominate chords. For instance,  "misty" which is in Eb, uses an Eb7 (Eb7 uses the tritone G and Db) to get to the Abmaj7. It also uses the Db7 ( Db uses the tritone F and B) to get to the Ebmaj7.  This is only one use of tritones.

Another way to use tritones is to implement substitutions. You can change any major chord into a a dominate chord. Just make sure it sounds good to your ears and it fits your particular chord progression.

In regards to what i would play based on your list:

The first chord you have is a C7. Since the important notes of the chord are covered, I would simply play some inversion of a "A triad" to enhance the chord and probably use it to transition to some type of F chord.  The C7 would then become a C13b9