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Index So What chord

In jazz harmony, a So What chord is a particular 5-note chord voicing.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 29 relations: Bill Evans, Call and response (music), Chick Corea, Chord (music), Comping (jazz), Eleventh chord, Expansions (McCoy Tyner album), Figure (music), Frank Mantooth, Gary Burton, Guitar, Head (music), Jazz harmony, Major scale, Major third, Mark Levine (musician), McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis, Minor scale, Mixolydian mode, Now He Sings, Now He Sobs, Parallel harmony, Perfect fourth, Quartal and quintal harmony, Semitone, So What (Miles Davis composition), Tertian, The Jazz Piano Book, Voicing (music).

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Bill Evans

William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio.

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Call and response (music)

In music, call and response is a compositional technique, often a succession of two distinct phrases that works like a conversation in music. So What chord and call and response (music) are jazz techniques and jazz terminology.

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Chick Corea

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and occasional percussionist.

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Chord (music)

In music, a chord is a group of two or more notes played simultaneously, typically consisting of a root note, a third, and a fifth. So What chord and chord (music) are chords.

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Comping (jazz)

In jazz, comping (an abbreviation of accompaniment; or possibly from the verb, to "complement") is the chords, rhythms, and countermelodies that keyboard players (piano or organ), guitar players, or drummers use to support a musician's improvised solo or melody lines. So What chord and comping (jazz) are jazz terminology.

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Eleventh chord

In music theory, an eleventh chord is a chord that contains the tertian extension of the eleventh.

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Expansions (McCoy Tyner album)

Expansions is the tenth album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner and his fourth released on the Blue Note label.

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Figure (music)

A musical figure or figuration is the shortest idea in music; a short succession of notes, often recurring.

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Frank Mantooth

Frank Mantooth (April 11, 1947 in Tulsa, Oklahoma – January 30, 2004 in Garden City, Kansas) was an American jazz pianist and arranger.

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Gary Burton

Gary Burton (born January 23, 1943) is an American jazz vibraphonist, composer, and educator.

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Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.

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Head (music)

In its broadest sense, the head of a piece of music is its main theme, particularly in jazz, where the term takes on a more specific set of innovation. So What chord and head (music) are jazz techniques and jazz terminology.

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Jazz harmony

Jazz harmony is the theory and practice of how chords are used in jazz music. So What chord and jazz harmony are jazz techniques.

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Major scale

The major scale (or Ionian mode) is one of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music.

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Major third

In classical music, a third is a musical interval encompassing three staff positions (see Interval number for more details), and the major third is a third spanning four half steps or two whole steps. Along with the minor third, the major third is one of two commonly occurring thirds.

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Mark Levine (musician)

Mark Jay Levine (October 4, 1938 – January 27, 2022) was an American jazz pianist, trombonist, composer, author and educator.

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McCoy Tyner

Alfred McCoy Tyner (December 11, 1938March 6, 2020) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet (from 1960 to 1965) and his long solo career afterwards.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Minor scale

In western classical music theory, the minor scale refers to three scale patterns – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending).

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Mixolydian mode

Mixolydian mode may refer to one of three things: the name applied to one of the ancient Greek harmoniai or tonoi, based on a particular octave species or scale; one of the medieval church modes; or a modern musical mode or diatonic scale, related to the medieval mode.

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Now He Sings, Now He Sobs

Now He Sings, Now He Sobs is the second studio album by Chick Corea, released in December 1968 on Solid State Records.

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Parallel harmony

In music, parallel harmony, also known as harmonic parallelism, harmonic planing or parallel voice leading, is the parallel movement of two or more melodies (see voice leading).

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Perfect fourth

A fourth is a musical interval encompassing four staff positions in the music notation of Western culture, and a perfect fourth is the fourth spanning five semitones (half steps, or half tones).

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Quartal and quintal harmony

In music, quartal harmony is the building of harmonic structures built from the intervals of the perfect fourth, the augmented fourth and the diminished fourth.

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Semitone

A semitone, also called a minor second, half step, or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically.

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So What (Miles Davis composition)

"So What" is the first track on the 1959 album Kind of Blue by American trumpeter Miles Davis.

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Tertian

In music theory, tertian (tertianus, "of or concerning thirds") describes any piece, chord, counterpoint etc. So What chord and tertian are chords.

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The Jazz Piano Book

The Jazz Piano Book is a method book written by Mark Levine.

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Voicing (music)

In music theory, voicing refers to two closely related concepts.

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See also

Jazz techniques

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_What_chord