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Harmonising A Single Note

Harmonising a Single Note

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Harmonising a single note...

Imagine the note C as different degrees of many different chords...

* This 'top down' way of thinking is great for expanding your harmonic awareness.
* If you can sing down from these different points it will hugely expand your aural ability.
* It's a fantastic compositional tool:
- for harmonising melodies
- for deriving harmonic relations that are melody-driven...

These are just some of the possibilities, now go explore for yourself!
Once you get more into inversions and polychords there are many more interesting options...
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As the root of... C% C#11 C7 C13 C7 C7b9 C13b9


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C7 C7#11 C7 C6 C7b13 D#11/C C C


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As the b9 of... B13b9 B7b9 B7 B7 C#11/B


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As the 9 of... B B#11 B+ B7 B13 B7 B7#11


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B7 B7b13 B B9
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As the b3 of... A7 A A B#11/A A7b9 A


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Or the #9 of... A7#9 A7 A


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As the 3 of... A#11 A+ A7 A13 A7 A7b13

As the 11 of... G7 G11 G7b13 G A#11/G


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G#11 G G7#11
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As the #11 of...
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Or the b5 of... F F
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As the 5 of... F F7 F7
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As the #5 of... E+ E7
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Or the b13 of... E7b13 E7 E7


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As the 13 of... C% C#11 C7 C13 C13b9 C7#11 C7b9 C6 C


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As the 7 of... C7 C7 C13b9 C7#11 C7 C7b9


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C7 C7b13 D#11/C C

As the maj7 of... D D+ D D

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