How Neo Soul Builds Chords From Fourths

Warm Neo Soul studio scene with hands playing a Rhodes-style keyboard while glowing note markers show chords built by stacking fourths, illustrating how Neo Soul uses quartal voicings to create open, spacious harmony.

Most of the chords musicians first learn are built in thirds. Take a note. Skip one. Add another. Keep repeating that process and you get the familiar structure behind major chords, minor chords, 7ths, 9ths and many of the extended voicings used in R&B and Neo Soul. But there is another way of organising notes. […]

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