Applying Pitch Class Set Chord Voicings to Traditional Harmony A New Approach to playing Modern Chord Voicings
“Applying Pitch Class Set Chord Voicings” to Traditional Harmony” provides a student interested in modernizing their chord playing with four pitch class sets that effective create a new and intriguing sound for playing traditional harmony. Examples of using these pitch class set is shown through common chord progressions. This is a direct application course spending most of the time directly apply these pitch class set chords rather than looking in pitch class set theory or long preparatory work to begin the application of this concept. Common reharmonization principles have also been avoided so the student will find this to be a quick method in applying pitch class sets to traditional harmony and should find with marginal practice that their ability to complete this book will only take a few months.
What is in the “Applying Pitch Class Set Chord Voicings to Traditional Harmony” Course
“Applying Pitch Class Set Chord Voicings to Traditional Harmony” gives you 15 examples of how to change common traditional harmony into modern sounding pitch class set based chord progressions. The thrust of this course is direct application of most two pitch class sets, with occasional use of two other combinations to create a non tertial based sound that is modern yet not intrusive or dissonant.
“Just a few notes on the scope of this book. There are, of course other ways these chords could be voiced and various rhythmic concepts that could be introduced but the goal of this book is a simple application of these pitch class set chords so that you have a functioning alternative to tertial based chord voicings, giving you a modern sound that people will notice and like.
The pitch class sets used in Applying Pitch Class Set Chord Voicings are:
015 which is a half step and a perfect fourth
016 which is a half step and a tritone
027 which is a whole step and a fifth
026 which is a whole step and a tritone
It is not that important that you know the internal interval combinations of these pitch class sets but I’m including it because as you dig deeper this information will become useful. But it is not needed to learn the chords initially.
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