Lumatone Chord Shapes | HARMONIC TABLE

One of the most powerful features of Lumatone is that you only have to learn a chord shape once, allowing you to use the same shape, no matter what key or tuning you're playing in. For example, a minor chord is the same shape for C minor as it is for F# minor. This makes it far easier to learn Lumatone from scratch when compared with a piano or other instruments, and helps inspiration strike in new and creative ways.
In this episode, Dave explores one of the coolest layouts of the classic western 12-note tuning possible... the Harmonic Table. This layout mixes up those 12 notes we all love into a visual masterpiece, putting intervals like fifths and thirds along different diagonal axis' to inspire you to think differently about melody and chord progression. Once you learn it, you'll be hooked... and learning it is made super easy thanks to Lumatone's banner feature: CHORD SHAPES. 👍
These videos won't be an exhaustive list of every possible chord, but they're a great place to start. In addition, we'll soon be launching our "Chord Shapes" library on our website, www.lumatone.io. You'll be able to use it as a handy, easy to navigate reference no matter what tuning you're playing in to get you playing rapidly.
Remember, most Lumatone layouts (including the one featured in this video) are built much like a traditional piano across the center. Your white notes are white, and your black notes in this case are blue. You can use that familiar piano layout as a way to easily locate your root notes, and then apply these chord shapes and their inversions in all sorts of creative ways. When you get rolling, you'll be blown away at how much more fluid and inspired your playing can be.
Dave and the rest of us here at Lumatone hope you enjoy this new series! Please leave your feedback in the comments about how we can make this even better, and stay tuned for more.
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[@mr88cet]

2:00 - Aha! I like that tip - the _tip_ of the finger in particular!

[@mr88cet]

Admittedly, I’ve only used it a bit so far, but I _absolutely agree_ that the harmonic table is a really fantastic mind bender/opener!
From what I can see so far, “harmonic” is key here: It’s a bit less intuitive melodically. Scale patterns are not too hard to see, but playing arbitrary melodies, such as from a score/part, is a bit less intuitive.

[@camtaylormusic]

Yup, I'd agree. For me Bosanquet is sort of the "melodic table" so to speak, with the most common three melodic steps on each of the axes, and here we have the most common harmonic "steps" or connections.

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

It occurs to me that if you can play triangular chords with 1 finger, you can also play 5, 5, and 6 note chords consisting of 2 triangles with 2 fingers on 1 hand if the triangles are close enough.

[@Gongchime]

So play chord roots on an altered scale such as melodic minor #4 but make alterations to the chords of that scale (primarily non 3rd chords) with a preference toward minor seconds on the inner voices while playing bass notes which disagree with the chord spelling in a modified locked hands technique ala Bill Evans while improvising motivically on the chromatic scale.

[@磁鬼頻率]

Nice thumbnail (not to be confused with thumb-nail).

[@dranorter]

Different layouts make me think of different improvisation. I have a problem where a layout gets "stale" once I train myself too much to do certain things on it.

[@thecringequeen31]

That’s so interesting

[@timothytikker1147]

Thanks for eliminating the background music heard in your other videos... or did you just replace it with a recording of John Cage's 4' 33"?

[@FahlmanCascade]

So this is basically the Neo-Riemannian Tonnetz pattern? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnetz

[@edenasharpie]

i thought they were playing bad apple for a second 😭