20 steps to jazz keyboard harmony

A logical framework for building and using jazz chords

  

Step 0
 Conventions
 

Step 7
The lydian concept

Step 14
Bebop and the blues


Step 1
Basics


Step 8
Lydian minor and dominant forms


Step 15
The diminished cycle


Step 2
Introducing sevenths


Step 9
Diminished (and augmented) scales


Step 16
The augmented cycle


Step 3
More about sevenths
 


Step 10
Chords without roots


Step 17
Clusters


Step 4
Even more about sevenths
 


Step 11
Chords in fourths


Step 18
More about clusters


Step 5
Augmented and diminished chords


Step 12
Minor chords in fourths


Step 19
Getting in register


Step 6
Suspensions


Step 13
Dominant chords in fourths


Step 20
The Chromatic Universe