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hArMoNy HoMeWorK...V/I movement
Robert Strait
(6459)
Theory Forum
12/31/2007 10:56:44 AM · 39 Views
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Happy New Year WNers!
Howsabout another installment of harmony homework, just to
give this place a kick in the pants!
Alright...so far we have covered harmonizing a single melody
note with any type of chord you like (we learned that there are
almost infinite possibilities, and that a melody note can function
within a chord as a primary chord tone or an upper
tension/color note). When we last left off, we were harmonizing
a single melody note with a dominant 7th chord. The essence of
that lesson was to illustrate that 11 of the 12 possible chromatic
tones can function over a dom7 chord, either as a primary chord
tone, and upper tension, or and altered tension (b9, #9, b5, #5).
Okay...here is the next excersise. Using only two chords...a V7
and a I chord (maj, min, or dom), harmonize these two melody
notes with a V7/I chord movement:
As always, keep the melody notes as the highest notes in your
voicings, and please provide any pertinent analysis. Feel free to
share some of your favorite voicings.
As an additional note, I encourage people to pay attention to
their "voice-leading", which means watching how each note in
one chord flows to the next. In general, smooth voice leading
leads to smooth sounding chord movements, and to accomplish
this, try to keep the interval movements between notes as small
as possible. The less you have big interval jumps between notes,
the smoother your chord changes will sound. The smoothest
voice leading should result in multiple melodies that can stand
on their own. Here is my example:
If you look closely, you will see four independent melodies.
good luck, thanks for playing, happy holidays, and....
Keep pickin'!
Rob
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Re: hArMoNy HoMeWorK...V/I movement
1/2/2008 8:03:25 AM
Paul Joseph
(755) wrote:
Hi Rob,
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Re: hArMoNy HoMeWorK...V/I movement
1/5/2008 9:52:37 PM
Billy Bob
(38) wrote:
I dont know the names but it sounds like it works right |
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Re: hArMoNy HoMeWorK...V/I movement
1/5/2008 11:07:13 PM
Billy Bob
(38) wrote:
My last post was just off the top-but After thinking and doing some homework I came up with this enjoyable simple thing.
I fooled around awhile and these sound great for those two notes, try decending and ascending alternating like so
Moving around a little with fingerpicking or even double stops seems to work well too.
I may have cheated Im not sure, there may not be a V7 but I think it could work if we used one of the chords as a sub
In analyzing the 2 chords we can see the C# has the root in the bass followed by the 3,#5, and 7. The F# chord is an inversion spelled from low to high b6,1,3,5. We'll let the bass player catch the low F#.
I think we could get away with using it as a I-V with the aug chord as a substitution but it should probably go back to a plain 7th quickly.
This definetly works well for a I-IV.
Improvisations over this can be drawn from the usual if we say it is in the key of C# but it gets a bit hairy if its in seen as slightly minor key of F# as a I-V so it is easier to look at it as a I-IV in C#. |
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