CHORD HARMONY STUDY

Improvisational solos follow a few well-defined rules of chord harmony. A trained ear, knowledge of chord triads, and a developed sense of rhythmic structure constitutes the bedrock of creative music. Just playing chords will not be enough if you want to create lead lines. To solo, you must come to understand the infrastructure of chords, triads, tonality, and how progressions resolve. One of the greatest assets you can acquire in your study of improvisation is how the scale is harmonized and what chords belong to each key.