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Offline Pennstate.Peniel

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major chords spread out
« on: December 26, 2012, 01:29:10 PM »
I'm looking for ways to play major chords as spreadout as possible. Thanks
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Re: major chords spread out
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2012, 01:27:05 PM »
@Pennstate.Peniel

The first thing to take into consideration when forming any type of chord is to consider voicings, feel, and the tone you want to convey to your audience. I'm your cause you want to take a simple major chord and play them as "open as possible", I think you at looking for open voicings if Im not mistaken. Remember that a chord is formed between two hands that is to say both hands can form a single chord as oppose to looking at what you are playing as two totally different things. For instance let's look at a fairly easy key and I'm going to try and answer your question.

KEY OF Cmaj

I believe you already know your number right ? But if not let me quickly go over them with you.
Each note in the scale has a corresponding number that goes along with it.
C-1
D-2
E-3
F-4
G-5
A-6
B-7
C(8 or 1)
*learn these by heart, should be able to recall the numbers in a split second.
Okay, I digress!
To play your major chords- which consist of the 1-3-5 degrees of the major scales you can add a couple of complementing notes to help fill of your chords and allow you to space them out further.

Example-
CMaj9 chord
(Closed voicing) C-E-G/C-D-E-G
Or for you (open voicing ) C-G-D-E/G-D-E-A
In the open voicing you see I have doubled some notes and I've added the 6th in the right hand to give you a more open voicing there are many other techniques that you can do but this is the most basic IMO.
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Re: major chords spread out
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2012, 09:25:22 AM »
Wow...awesome..thanks a lot Treon, that's what I was looking for. Open Voicings.
I heard some keyboard player playin a simple song but his chords were sounding richer, fuller and melodic. I knew it was the way he was holding down his chords.

I've seen Jamal Hartwell's major sevenths on steroids which are minor 11ths. So I needed something I could play on majors...like you just gave me.

God bless!
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Re: major chords spread out
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2012, 04:59:49 PM »
@Pennstate.Peniel

No problem doc, just remember the best way to learn is to experiment with your chords and chord changes and to figure out what sounds best for you, but after saying all that yes must guys love to use open voicing unless you are playing clusters in you chord progressions.
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