Endings

Quartal Stack Ending (Modern)

Modern jazz ending with quartal harmony. Open and spacious.

Key
C
Level
advanced
Where
Modern jazz, open sound

The changes

  1. Dm11
  2. G13sus
  3. Cmaj9add13

The hands

Left hand then right, as the source writes them. A pianist's voicing routinely carries a colour the chord symbol does not spell — a flat ninth over a dominant, a ninth on top of a seventh chord — so the notes printed under each keyboard are what is actually played, rather than what the symbol alone would predict.

Dm11

chord 1

LH D2 A2RH G4 C5 F5

G13sus

chord 2

LH G2 D3RH C4 F4 A4 E5

Cmaj9add13

chord 3

LH C1 G2RH E4 A4 D5 G5

Open quartal voicing, let ring

Associated players

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