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An alternative to building chords with thirds is to build them using fourths instead or Quartal Harmony. All the fourth intervals will be either Perfect or Augmented according to the scale they’re built from.

So let’s show you how to play chords built in fourths on the guitar.

In the examples below we’ve used an E major scale to create our quartal chords.

These chords are considered neither major or minor and are most commonly used when Comping or playing rhythms over a modal Vamp of one chord played for an extended period.

Building Chords with Fourths

Let go ahead and give them a try. Mess around with these quartal chord inversions from the key of E major to write a few jams.

If you come up with something you like why not YouTube it and drop the link in the comments below. I’d love to check it out.

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