IIVI WITH ONLY ONE SHAPE CHORDS: Melodic Minor/Harmonic Minor/Harmonic Major scales

Juampy Juarez teaches II–V–I voicings built from clusters — chords containing at least one 2nd — drawn from the melodic minor, harmonic minor, and harmonic major scales. The core idea is to think in tonality rather than in isolated chords: when "So What" says D-7, think D Dorian, and a whole world beyond D-7 inversions opens up.

What's covered

• Cluster voicings derived from melodic minor, harmonic minor, and harmonic major scales
• Lots of II–V–I progressions harmonized with these clusters
• New harmonic structures such as quartal triads over a bass pedal
• Applying the voicings to comping, auto-comping, chord melody, composing, intros, and arrangements
• The lineage of the sound: Bill Evans and Herbie Hancock on piano; Allan Holdsworth, John Stowell, and some Jim Hall on guitar; roots in Debussy, Ravel, and Satie
• Technique benefits — the stretches these chords require will strengthen your hands

Clusters are essential to the modern jazz vocabulary, and this class will help you better understand the sound of a modern piano on the guitar. A 12-page PDF is included with the roughly one-hour video.