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Quartal (McCoy Tyner)

Dm11 'So What' Voicing — jazz piano voicing

Classic 'So What' chord - three stacked 4ths topped by a major 3rd. Written in C. Below it, 23 transcribed voicings from the pianist it defines, both hands, note by note.

The shape

Classic 'So What' chord - three stacked 4ths topped by a major 3rd

Quartal (McCoy Tyner)

Stored in C so it moves to any key; each note carries its role and its name.

Chick Corea, in full

23 transcriptions, both hands, as the app teaches them.

Fusion era still life for Chick Corea: an electric-piano tine and tonebar in extreme macro, raking light along the metal.

Chick Corea

1941–2021

Latin Fire + Quartal · Quartal + UST

Quartal architecture + Latin fire with tritone chains

D13 (rootless)

Standard rootless 3-note D13 (b7-3-13) documented in 'A Week with Chick Corea' (Prigodich) — a voicing-class example of his open, colour-on-top approach over an implied root.

C-F#-B = b7, 3, 13 of D13

Rootless Dominant

C7sus → C7altsequence

Iberian sus→alt transformation, mix USTs

RH F–A–D–E → E–Ab–B–Db

Sus/Alt

Lydian Steps

Lydian modal steps with quartal top

Lydian

Children's Song sus

Modal planing with sus chords

Modal Quartal

Cmaj9 → A7#11 → Dm9 → G13sequence

Use A-form shells, RH quartal top lines

Rootless A

Cmaj9#11 Lydian pad

La Fiesta-style Lydian pad - root/5th LH, 3-7-9-#11 RH

Bright Lydian color through #11 top voice

Lydian

Cmaj7 Children's Songs

Children's Songs simplicity - root/5th LH, triad + maj7 + double 3rd top

Triadic

Cmaj7 ECM open spread

ECM-style wide spread - 3 LH notes (root/5/3), 4 RH notes leaping high

Wide registral gap LH→RH for ECM transparency

Open Spread

Dm7 percussive shell

Percussive Latin m7 - root/5 LH, 3-5-root-11 RH for clave punch

Latin Percussive

Dm9 Latin shell

Senor Mouse Latin shell - root/5th LH, b3-5-b7-9 RH

Latin

Em7 Phrygian (Spain)

Spanish Phrygian m7 - root/5 LH, b3-5-b7-b9 (F instead of F#) RH

Phrygian b9 (F natural) gives the Iberian flavor

Phrygian

G7alt Spanish phrygian (Spain m4)

Spain intro alt - tritone shell LH, b13-b9-3-5 cluster RH

Bb (#9) vs B (3) tension is the Spanish phrygian color

Spanish Altered

C7sus13 modal (Crystal Silence)

Crystal Silence sus13 - root/5 LH, 4-b7-9-13 RH

Modal Sus

G13 Latin clave (La Fiesta)

La Fiesta G13 - shell + ascending 3-13-9-5 for Latin clave punch

Latin Dominant

Bm7b5 Phrygian half-dim

Phrygian half-dim - root/b5 LH, b7-b3-b5-b7 RH (doubled b7)

Phrygian Half-Dim

Dm7b5 minor II (500 Miles High)

Minor II of Cm - shell LH (b3 + b7), b5-root-b3 RH

Half-Diminished

F#m7b5 modal half-dim

Modal half-dim with stacked 4ths - root/b5 LH, b7-b3-b5-b7 RH

Modal Half-Dim

C#dim7 chromatic connector

Chromatic passing dim7 - root/b5 LH, b3-b5-bb7-b3 RH

Passing Diminished

Bdim7 leading-tone

Leading-tone dim7 to C - root/b5 LH, bb7-b3-b5 RH

Leading-Tone Diminished

Fdim7 Latin passing

Latin passing dim7 between Em7 and Em7 - root/b5 LH

Latin Diminished

C7sus → C7alt resolutionsequence

Crystal Silence sus→alt - root/b7 LH, 3-b13-#9-b9 cluster RH

Cluster of 3-b13-#9-b9 has all four altered tensions

Altered Cluster

G7alt bVI UST percussive

bVI UST altered - 3 + b7 LH, Eb minor triad RH

bVI UST Altered

F7alt Spanish phrygian

Spanish phrygian alt - root/b7 LH, #9-b9-3-b13 spread

Spanish Altered

Also in their vocabulary

11 more reach for it. Their notes are printed on the rarer grip each one plays.

Take it to the key you are working in

Everything above is in C, and nothing is held back — the notes are the notes. What a page cannot do is move the shape into the key of the tune on your stand, or run your own progression through it and play the result. That is what the Reharmonization Engine in the app is for.

Built from the app's own data: the grip from masterVoicingGrips, who plays it from pianistVoicingStyles, and every transcription frompianistExactVoicings. Nothing on this page was written about these pianists for the website.