After having a look at the fundamentals of chord voicings in Part 1, we’ll have a look at other important factors for good chord voicings.
Another basic element of effective chord voicings are so called “Low Interval Limits” (Lil). The lower you get on the piano, for example, the more tricky it is to find chords that don’t sound muddy. Many people trust their ear on these things, which is basically a good idea. However sometimes you might be mislead by the sound texture, for example of your piano that you compose on, to believe something does sound fine when it actually translates into muddyness on real instruments. For every two notes that sound together in a certain interval, there is a limit how low you can go with them without them sounding muddy. Basically you can dissect every voicing with these limits into every internal interval.
You’ll...
Another basic element of effective chord voicings are so called “Low Interval Limits” (Lil). The lower you get on the piano, for example, the more tricky it is to find chords that don’t sound muddy. Many people trust their ear on these things, which is basically a good idea. However sometimes you might be mislead by the sound texture, for example of your piano that you compose on, to believe something does sound fine when it actually translates into muddyness on real instruments. For every two notes that sound together in a certain interval, there is a limit how low you can go with them without them sounding muddy. Basically you can dissect every voicing with these limits into every internal interval.
You’ll...
- 9/24/2012
- by Robin Hoffmann
- SCOREcastOnline.com
There are nearly endless possibilities of how to make the same chord sound, and while some of them sound quite disastrous others have a stellar resonance and are reason for scrolling back in an audio file to listen once again. There seem to be endless parameters that define a chord sound, and often people end up in working their way to their desired sound by trial and error.
This tutorial series tries to shed some light on the reasons that make a difference in a chord voicing and why.
But first of all: what is the difference between a chord and a voicing? While the term chord only defines which notes sound together, a voicing specifies exactly How they sound together. A voicing is the specific structure of how the notes of the chord are spread out over the register.
To understand how voicings work it is necessary to have a basic knowledge of acoustics.
This tutorial series tries to shed some light on the reasons that make a difference in a chord voicing and why.
But first of all: what is the difference between a chord and a voicing? While the term chord only defines which notes sound together, a voicing specifies exactly How they sound together. A voicing is the specific structure of how the notes of the chord are spread out over the register.
To understand how voicings work it is necessary to have a basic knowledge of acoustics.
- 6/18/2012
- by Robin Hoffmann
- SCOREcastOnline.com
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