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Chords Basics - Book 1 MUSIC STUDIO Ear tests : Intervals and Tetrachords Ear tests : Triad chords and Cadences Ear tests : Seventh chords Chord Practice Songs Sheet music for all instruments Corrected Comping Pattern 1 (p.25) Links to Jazclass Bookmark this page now !

ChBk 1.1 - Intervals and Tetrachords (Ear tests)

Each interval on the Demos and Ear tests is played three times :

1. one note after the other in ascending order,
2. repeat of above
3. then once both notes together.

Demo 2 plays the four tetrachords from the Chords book page 5.
Each tetrachord is played three times. First twice slowly, then once at double the speed.

Ear tests 1 - 6

Ear test	Description	Book	Answers
Ear test 1	10 tones and semitones	p.3	ET 1
Ear test 2	12 tetrachords (each played 2x)	p.5	ET 2
Ear test 3	12 perfect intervals	p.8	ET 3
Ear test 4	12 perfect and major intervals	p.9	ET 4
Ear test 5	12 intervals : minor and diminished	p.12	ET 5
Ear test 6	12 intervals : p - M - m - o5 qualities	p.12	ET 6

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ChBk 1.2 - Triad Chords and Cadences (Ear tests)

Each triad chord on the Demos and Ear tests is played three times :

1. one note after the other (as an 'arpeggio') in ascending order,
2. repeat of above
3. then all notes together as a solid chord.

Demo 6 - Triad chord qualities : major (M), minor (m), diminished (o), augmented (+)

Demo 7 - Major and minor triads

Major triad - Michael row the Boat

minor triad - Midnight in Moscow

Demo 8 - Triad chord qualities (M, m, o, +) in root position, 1st. and 2nd inversion.

Demo 9 - Major triad :

root position - Michael row the Boat

1st inversion - In the Mood

2nd iversion - Amazing Grace

Demo 10 - Cadences (each one played 2x) :

Perfect : V - I

Perfect : V7 - 1

Plagal : IV - I

Deceptive : V - IV (or V - VIm : not played)

Imperfect : I - V7

ChBk 1.3 - Seventh Chords (Ear tests)

Each seventh chord on the Demo and Ear tests is played three times :

1. one note after the other (as an 'arpeggio') in ascending order,
2. repeat of above
3. then all notes together as a solid chord.

Demo 11 - Seventh chord qualities.

major 7th : 1 - 3 - 5 - 7

dominant 7th : 1 - 3 - 5 - b7

minor 7th : 1 - b3 - 5 - b7

half diminished : 1 - b3 - b5 - b7

diminished 7th : 1 - b3 - b5 - 6

ChBk 1.4 - Chord Practice

ChBk 1.5 - Songs

ChBk 1.6 - Sheet music for all instruments

The backing tracks provided are for C- instruments using the music printed in my Chords Basic book.
Bb- instruments and Eb- instruments can of course use the scores in the book, but they do not match the key of the Play-a-Long tracks.

I have matching music scores for all songs as gif files. They can be viewed and printed through your web browser. These scores are available free of charge. Just send me an email with the following information : Your Name Email address you want the files sent to Specify Eb scores or Bb scores or Bass Clef Within a few days you will receive the specified files as attachments to an email message.

All instruments can play a long with the chord exercises on pages 56 and 58 :

• C- instruments start from the A or Amaj.7 chord at top of the page.

• Bb- instruments start from the B or Bmaj.7 chord, then follow the music down the pages (along the Circle of Fifths).

• Eb- instruments start from the F# or F#maj.7 chord, then follow the music down the pages (along the Circle of Fifths).

For the Circle of Fifths exercises on page 37 : C- instruments start on C, Bb- instruments start on D and Eb- instruments start on A.

Here a list of the most common instruments.

ChBk 1.7 - Corrected Comping Pattern 1 (p.25)

Suddenly I noticed (1 year after printing) that Comping Pattern 1 on page 25 is incorrect. The right hand chords are for the blues in C while the left hand boogie bass is for the blues in F. Not a crash hot combination, sorry about that.

Here is the corrected version (Blues in F).

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