Sunday, September 19, 2010

Voice Leading Part XX - with chromatic passing tones

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This also applies to minor keys (also all modes).The next examples are with C Harmonic Minor.

Chromatic passing tones are notes outside of the scale - non diatonic.
Adds nice color and tension to voice leading.

Normal Progression:
Find common tone and move other voices scale wise.

First examples will all be in C harmonic minor (3 note chords) using Normal Progressions:
Ascending chord progressions. (notes are written lowest tone on left to highest tone on right)
These chords are all created from the C Harmonic Minor Scale: C, D, Eb, F, G, Ab, B, C.
C, Eb, G (C minor)
C, F, Ab (F minor - second inversion)
C, Gb, Ab (A flat dominant seventh - first inversion) incomplete
D, G, B (G major - second inversion)
Eb, G, C (C minor - first inversion)
i, iv, VI7, V, i progression. (see lesson on partial diatonic replacements see
"Harmonic function of chords - How do we use chords and scales in songs? Part I)

Eb, G, C (C minor - first inversion)
F, Ab, C (F minor)
F#, A, C (D seventh - first inversion) incomplete (also called secondary dominant)
G, B, D (G major)
G, C, Eb (C minor - second inversion)
i,iv, II7, V, i progression.
(see Harmonic function of chords - How do we use chords and scales in songs? Part V)


C, Eb, G (C minor)
Db, Fb, G (D flat diminished)
D, G, B (G major - second inversion)
Eb, G, C (C minor - first inversion)
G, B, D (G major)
G, C, Eb (C minor - second inversion)
i, biio, V, i, V, i progression.



C, Eb, G (C minor)
C, Eb, Ab (A flat augmented - first inversion)
D, G, B (G major - second inversion)
Eb, Ab, C (Ab major - second inversion)
F, Ab, C (F minor)
i, VI+, V, VI, iv, progression.


F, Ab, C (F minor)
G, B, C (G major add eleven)
Ab, C, Eb (Ab major)
Ab, D, F (D diminished - second inversion)
B, D, G (G major - first inversion)
C, Eb, G (C minor)
iv, V/11, VI, iio, V, i progression.


C, Eb, G (C minor)
C, F, Ab (F minor - second inversion)
D, F, Ab (D diminished)
D, G, B (G major - second inversion)
Eb, G, B (E flat augmented)
Eb, Ab, C (Ab major - second inversion)
E, G, C# (A dominant seventh - second inversion) incomplete
F, Ab, C (F minor)
F, Ab, Db (D flat major - first inversion)
G, C, Eb (C minor - second inversion)
i, iv, iio, V, III+, VI, #VI7, iv, bII, i progression.


C, Eb, G (C minor)
C, Eb, Ab (Ab major - first inversion)
D, F, Ab (D diminished)
D, F, B (B diminished - first inversion)
Eb, G, B (E flat augmented)
Eb, G, C (C minor - first inversion)
F, Ab, C (F minor)
F, Ab, D (D diminished - first inversion)
G, B, D (G major)
Ab, B, D (A flat diminished)
G, C, Eb (C minor - second inversion)
i, VI, iio, viio, III+, i, iv, iio, V, vio, i progression.














Now transpose these to each position (register) of your instrument, then to all 15 keys.


















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