Thursday, March 1, 2012

The Tritone Formula Revealed

Welcome to March, I have been receiving a lot of emails from musicians who play the organ or keyboard asking me to reveal the tritone formula. Unforunately, that's in the e-book that will be coming out later in March. We will let you know when that becomes available. However, I since I can't deny the readers I am going to reveal a portion of this hidden secret. Be sure to stay tune for updates for the e-book. If you play keyboard or organ this is one post that you need to bookmark.

The Tritone Formula is one of the most guarded secrets in gospel music, jazz music and rock music. The history behind the tritone is that is was used in church and was made up of the 3rd and 7th note. It was a tone that was allowed in the church. The tritone is now heard in all different types of music.

After that short history lesson, let's get to the meat of the matter.

When you play the tritone here are the key things to remember:

-The tritone MUST be played with a major chord in the RIGHT hand
-The tritone can be used as passing chord (there are exceptions to the rule)
-The tritone can be used as a substition chord
-Finally, you can play ANY song using the tritone

For this example, we will use a 7-3-6 progression:

In the key of Ab

Here is the tritone chord for the 7th chord

Left Hand- F and B (tritone)
Right Hand- E-A-Db(chord)

Here is the tritone chord for the 3 chord

Left Hand- E and Bb(tritone)
Right Hand-Eb-Ab-C(chord)

Here is just a chord to use a for the 6th

Left Hand- F-C-F
Right Hand-Ab-C-Eb-G

Next Week, I am going to talk about how guitar players and bass players can use the tritone in their playing.

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