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mr · Post by mr » Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:01 am

I know "basic leading chord rules" Is there somewhere the "Complete guide of leading chords"?
To avoid confusion I am talking about which chords lead to other chords and when.

GHOST19 · Post by **GHOST19** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:31 am

http://www.ravenspiral.com/ravenspiralguide.pdf

Perhaps pages 81 to 89 is what you are looking for ?

Or this ?
http://chordmaps.com/part5.htm

mr · Post by mr » Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:49 am

Thank you very much. This is a great forum. I don't know why it's some times W/O new post.

Regarding the "Chord Maps part 5", can you REALLY go to ANY green "out of scale chord", any time? Some jumps sound very strange to me.

wildbill52280 · Post by **wildbill52280** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 2:49 am

do you mean voice leading?

all that means is to simply stay withing a defined register usually limited to a certain instruments range, in order to avoid to much clashing between instruments within an ensemble. This is achieved through the utilization of all the different ways a chord can be inverted, or different inversions of triads 135 351 513, and sevenths 1357, 7351, 5137 and etc.

So to be better at voice leading is to know those voicings very well on your instrument.

This is my limited understanding of the concept so there may be much more to it then this.

JumpingJackFlash · Post by **JumpingJackFlash** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:40 pm

wildbill52280 wrote:do you mean voice leading?

all that means is to simply stay withing a defined register usually limited to a certain instruments range, in order to avoid to much clashing between instruments within an ensemble. This is achieved through the utilization of all the different ways a chord can be inverted, or different inversions of triads 135 351 513, and sevenths 1357, 7351, 5137 and etc.

So to be better at voice leading is to know those voicings very well on your instrument.

This is my limited understanding of the concept so there may be much more to it then this.

This is not Voice Leading. This is more Orchestration.

Voice leading, also called Part Writing, is the relationship between consecutive notes in parts, or 'voices'. It is an established laying-out of notes such that each individual part is as smooth as possible and sounds pleasing to the ear. (For more info, see here.)

My Introduction to Diatonic Classical Harmony may be of some use to the OP.

Chords leading