How to Voice an Altered Eb Major Chord

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Part of the video series: Chord Voicing in Eb Major, F Minor & Bb7

Summary: Learn tips on how to voice an altered Eb Major chord in this free music video on chord voicing in Eb, F minor, and Bb7 chords for piano lessons.

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How to Voice an Altered Eb Major Chord

Now we're going to go through and show you how to get altered voicings in E flat major. So if we go through, again remember we numbered it one, three, five, seven, nine, eleven, thirteen, so we have one, three, five, seven, nine, eleven, and thirteen. So, say you have an E flat major sharp nine, so we go one, three, five, seven, nine, there it is, right. And I just sharp it, it's that easy. So now, I have a new scale right. There's your E major sharp nine. So you hear how different it sounds from a major chord harmony. Or say you have a D, or E flat major sharp eleven. One, three, five, seven, nine, eleven. There's my eleven, sharp it, and I got this scale. See how nice that sharp eleven sounds? And there's a lot of standards that voice that nine-eleven, or the sharp eleven in the melody. It's a very lush chord. So by going through and finding the appropriate note that needs to be altering it, and altering it, and then playing that new scale, we can go through and find different voicings for a whole arrangement of all different chords and chords out of this one major scale.

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