Upper Structures
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they are added for color. they do not change the quality of the chord (major, minor, dominant, diminished, half-diminished).
9ths can be natural, raised or lowered.
11ths can be natural (perfect), or raised (augmented).
13ths can be natural or lowered.
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could be defined as any major or minor triad on top of a tritone. except those triads that contain notes 1/2 above the tritone.
so for example i was trying to transcribe aebersold on autumn leaves. you know how it goes gm7 then sometimes g7. i couldn't make sense of what he played. turned out to be
f b eb ab b
which is an ab- triad over f-b tritone.
the rest of the a section he was playing more or less standard rootless voicings. i guess he added this for color.
https://pianologist.com/2007/10/30/learn-how-to-play-solo-piano-version-of-on-green-dolphin-street/
here's an article on upper structure
https://www.humboldt1.com/~jazz/us.html
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