Octatonic Chords
Diatonic Chords for 124 Eight Note Scales
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I recommend working with this course in tandem with the Bebop Scale Courses or the 475 Octatonic Scales book. Learning to hear the harmony for eight note scales in crucial to using them musically. I’ve also included some very useful information on how you might approach using not only the chords but the eight note scales in a musical way and some of the pitfalls that you might encounter.
This course takes a subset of the 495 possible eight note scales and looks at diatonic chords found in 124 octatonic scales. Some of these scales have been chosen because they are commonly used, like the diminished scale. Others are typical Bebop scales while others are scales that I have found interesting, but are also part of other courses I’ve created such as the series of books on Bebop scales.
This course looks at the 3 and 4 note chords derived from these 124 octatonic scales in several ways. The 3 note diatonic chords are grouped by root, 1st and 2nd inversion, while the 4 note chords are grouped by root, 1st, 2nd and 3rd inversion but also include these voicings ascending through each eight note scale. In all of these cases you will find all 3 and 4 note chord voicings in all keys so it’s a quite a large resource that makes it very easy to organize and dig into the chords quickly.
Midi Files are included for all exercises so you can listen to these chord voicings. I would highly recommend singing through these voicings and singing the scale over these voicings as an ear training exercise. This will really help to ingrain the sound of the chords.
Table of Contents:
Composers and Musicians who have used Octatonic Scales
Diatonic Octatonic Chord Voicings
Course Breakdown
Ways to Implement Octatonic Chords
Two Trichords from an Octatonic Scale
Two Tetrads from an Octatonic Scale
29 Octatonic Scales
124 Octatonic scales Used in this Book
Bebop Scales and Chords They Work Over
495 Eight Note Scales with Prime Form
Chords and Available Tensions
Chords Derived from an Eight Note Scales
Conclusion
List of Contents for the Octatonic Chord Course:
ISBN: 978-1-59489-291-2
What people are saying:
Well this is a tour de force if there ever was one. I’ve attempted to write out chords for eight note scales and it is a nightmare to organize. This course takes a very organized and easy to follow look at the practical chord voicings you might use as an improvising musician. Highly Recommend! T. Roland
So I studied octatonics with Bruce a while back and he always pointed out with both his hexatonic courses and his octatonic courses that learning the chord voicings was very important to getting the sound into your head. Finally a oourse where this is made easy. Thanks Bruce! D. Raskin
Obvious this is a unique course and extremely valuable for learning octatonic chord voicings. What I actually found is the most important is a couple of pages where Bruce tells you what works and what doesn’t work. This is like someone giving you the map on how to approach using octatonics. This info will probably save me years of going down the wrong rabbit hole… E. Feldman