A Piano Reharmonization of Imagine (John Lennon)

https://youtu.be/GysDOQGohHY We wrote an easy piano arrangement of Imagine by John Lennon using some of the essential Reharmonization Techniques we usually talk on our mDecks Music Youtube Channel Things like: Modal Interchange (a.k.a. Borrowing from minor) • Secondary Dominants • Considering the Target and others. You can gain access to the sheet music by joining... Continue Reading →

Upper Structures over complete Jazz Standards Progressions

There are many ways to expand and develop a chord-voicings vocabulary. A standard approach is to stack simple structures (triads, quartals, dyads) on top of other simple ones, thus creating a richer color palette for your voicings. These structures are usually called Upper Structures. In the Upper Structures over complete Jazz Standards Progressions book collection... Continue Reading →

How to play chords using Upper Structure Triads. “An original approach by mDecks Music”

For a piano player, knowing how to voice chords is an essential skill, not only for comping (accompanying or laying the chord progression for others player to improvise over), but also to use those voicings as an improvisational aid. All piano players get many melodic ideas or lines from their voicings. Other instrumentalists also take... Continue Reading →

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