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Summary: Learn from our expert how to play Db (flat) in altered chord voicings in this free music video on chord voicing and piano lessons.
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Ryan Larson Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all twelve keys. When applying his 12 key technique to ... read more
Now we're going to show you that we have the D flat major scale down we're going to show you how to alter the D flat major scale. So, say you see something and it says like D flat major sharp 11 or flat nine. What you're going to do is we got through, right, we have one, three, five, seven, nine, eleven, thirteen. We just go to the appropriate note. So, here's nine and we just flat it, take it down a notch. So now we have this chord. Or say you have a sharp eleventh. That's used a lot on major, major sharp eleventh. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to make sure I take this eleven, sharp eleven and put it somewhere in my voicing. Again, the other notes I play around it don't really matter as long as I have that sharp eleven in there. So what you're really doing is adding that extra tension and making sure you have it in there. Here's a D flat seventh flat nine. And what that is, it actually outlines a diminished chord within the major scale. So it gives it that little tinge to it that's really hot.