Friday, December 6, 2013

Quintal Harmony | Advanced Guitar Chords

We played a guitar chord built up in 5ths in a previous post here. Usually chords are constructed from a scale in 3rds: taking every other note, quintal harmony builds chords in 5ths.

quintal guitar chords

With a root note on the 4th fret notes of our chord are: Ab, Eb, Bb, F

guitar chords in 5ths
quintal harmony guitar


Quintal and quartal chords are frequently used in modal music. Rather than playing through chord changes you can improvise taking the quintal voicing through the mode that is being improvised with.

Although this chord is not constructed in a traditional way, we can also think of it as Ab69 (no 3rd).

Add Guitar Chord Of The Day to your daily practice routine and tune in tomorrow for another Guitar Chord of the Day.

We played a guitar chord built up in 5ths in a previous post here. Usually chords are constructed from a scale in 3rds: taking every other note, quintal harmony builds chords in 5ths.

quintal guitar chords

With a root note on the 4th fret notes of our chord are: Ab, Eb, Bb, F

guitar chords in 5ths
quintal harmony guitar


Quintal and quartal chords are frequently used in modal music. Rather than playing through chord changes you can improvise taking the quintal voicing through the mode that is being improvised with.

Although this chord is not constructed in a traditional way, we can also think of it as Ab69 (no 3rd).

Add Guitar Chord Of The Day to your daily practice routine and tune in tomorrow for another Guitar Chord of the Day.

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