What Is The Difference Between Jazz and Classical Harmony?

Learn Jazz Standards Podcast

Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur

Music Commentary, Jazz, Jazz Improvisation, Jazz Saxophone, Jazz Theory, Jazz Bass, Jazz Piano, Education, Music, Jazz Guitar, Jazz Solo, Jazz Standards, Jazz Trumpet, How To

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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In this engaging episode, Brent explores into the intriguing differences between classical and jazz harmony. He begins by acknowledging that while he's an expert in jazz harmony, his knowledge of classical harmony is more limited. He explains that classical harmony varies across different eras and styles, making it difficult to pinpoint exact differences. However, he highlights that classical music often relies on composed chords that are melodically driven and precisely notated, whereas jazz...

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0:52.6	Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, my friends, what's going on? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards.
0:55.7	Welcome to another episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast.
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1:08.8	We have another great question here on the show. This one is from René Perrault,
1:13.6	and let's give it a listen. The main difference between the classic harmony and the jazz harmony.
1:21.4	Thank you so much from René Perra from Montreal. Bye-bye.
1:27.6	All right.
1:28.2	So what is the difference between classical harmony and jazz harmony?
1:32.8	I want to kind of just start off with answering this question by simply pointing out that I am
1:39.7	not an expert on classical harmony.
1:42.3	I'm definitely an expert at jazz harmony. Um, so I know that there's a lot
1:47.0	of nuances that, um, I definitely can't speak to you about classical harmony. Um, what I do know about
1:52.9	classical harmony is A, that it is not all the same, right? I mean, there's a lot of different eras. Like, we use the term classical,
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