Book Review: Triadic Energy by Lenny Carlson

This book published by REH back in 1978 is an interesting document of polytonal thinking. Essentially, it gives ideas for melodic improvisation that go “outside” using a simple concept based around the diatonic triad. There’s also use of octave displacement & mixing inversions of the major triad to create a less obvious pattern in the … Continue reading Book Review: Triadic Energy by Lenny Carlson