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Standards Quartal Harmony is that harmony based upon the interval of a fourth.
Most Western music is based on the interval of a third (tertian
Tablature harmony). Quartal harmony has been used in some twentieth-century
music and in jazz by McCoy Tyner of the John Coltrane Quartet in the
Links 1960s. Quartal voicings result from stacking fourths. The box below
shows the C Major Scale with every fourth note shown in red. If you
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start with C, you create the following harmony: C-F-B-E-A.
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CDEFGABCDE F G A

Guitar fingerings for the C Major Scale harmonized in fourths are

shown below. Notice that most of the notes are located across from the
same fret. These quartal voicings can be used as substitutes in the ii-V-
I Jazz Progression.

On The Top Four Strings

E---1---3---5---7---8---10---12---13---15---17---||
B---1---3---5---6---8---10---12---13---15---17---||
G---0---2---4---5---7---9----10---12---14---16---||
D---0---2---3---5---7---9----10---12---14---15---||
A------------------------------------------------||
E------------------------------------------------||
On The Middle Four Strings
E------------------------------------------------||
B---1---3---5---6---8---10---12---13---15---17---||
G---0---2---4---5---7---9----10---12---14---16---||
D---0---2---3---5---7---9----10---12---14---15---||
A---0---2---3---5---7---8----10---12---14---15---||
E------------------------------------------------||
On Bottom Four Strings
E------------------------------------------------||
B------------------------------------------------||
G---0---2---4---5---7---9----10---12---14---16---||
D---0---2---3---5---7---9----10---12---14---15---||
A---0---2---3---5---7---8----10---12---14---15---||

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E---0---1---3---5---7---8----10---12---13---15---||

Below is a Chord-Melody arrangement of Richard Rodgers' 1935

standard My Romance. The first four bars use quartal voicings. This is
another option to add greater interest to your solo guitar work.

CM7 FM7 Em7 Am7 Dm7 G7

E--------||------------|-----5--7--8--|--8---7--5--|
B--5--6--||--8---5--6--|--8--5--6--8--|--8---6--5--|
G--4--5--||--7---4--5--|--7--4--5--7--|--7---5--4--|
D--3--5--||--7---3--5--|--7--4--5--7--|--7---5--4--|
A--3--5--||--7---3--5--|--7-----------|------------|
E--------||------------|--------------|------------|
1. 2. 3.

CM7 E7 Am Am(M7) Am7 A7 Dm7 G7

E--3---------|--0---------|--0-1--3-5--|--5---3-1--|
B--3---1--3--|--1---1--3--|--1----2----|--6---0----|
G--2---0--2--|--2---1-----|--0----0----|--5---0----|
D--2---0--2--|--2---2-----|--2----2----|--0---3----|
A------0--2--|--0---0-----|--0----0----|------2----|
E------------|------------|------------|------3----|
4. 5. 6. 7.
Click below for the best in free Quartal Harmony lessons available on
the web.
Jazz Guitar Chords in Fourths (jazzguitar.be)
Quartal Harmony (pdf/Blue Train)
Quartal Harmony (Justin Rubin)
Quartal Harmony (pdf/Mark White)
Quartal Harmony (WholeNote)
Stacked Fourths(Liam Alexander)

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