Publisher: Berklee Press
Using Upper-Structure Triads

Berklee piano professor Suzanna Sifter will teach you to enrich your playing with advanced jazz harmonies. This workbook will help you play with a contemporary jazz sound, interpret lead sheets, and use upper-structure triads to expand your comping palette.
By considering tensions in terms of these triads, you will develop an organized and intuitive means of using more advanced structures in your playing. These practical exercises and concise descriptions will help you develop your sight-comping and create full and colorful voicings for all chord types.
The accompanying audio lets you hear and practice these techniques with a jazz quartet.

You will learn to:

•  Use the tension-substitutions common in contemporary jazz
•  Organize advanced harmonies by using upper-structure triads
•  Develop a modern jazz keyboard sound
•  Build facility in applying jazz harmonies in a way that best supports your expressive goals
•  Apply tension substitutions to all jazz chord types, as well as in the context of jazz progressions

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