If you spend enough time listening to and studying jazz, you’ll eventually encounter quartal harmony. Quartal harmony sounds ambiguous, consonant, and more “open” because the constituent intervals within the chords are perfect fourths, not thirds, like in traditional tertiary harmony. Jazz guitarists and pianists often use quartal harmony to infuse their chord progressions with ambiguity […] The post What Is Quartal Harmony? Your Easy Guide To Quartal Chords appeared first on Learn Jazz Standards.

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