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This document provides guidance on learning Ted Greene's V-System for analyzing jazz chords. It recommends reading all the explanation chapters to fully understand the system. It also suggests having a basic understanding of music theory fundamentals first. For a shorter course, it lists the essential chapters to read, along with taking the included quizzes. It notes that academics may have additional interest in further method chapters. The author aims to explain the concepts as clearly as possible.

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This document provides guidance on learning Ted Greene's V-System for analyzing jazz chords. It recommends reading all the explanation chapters to fully understand the system. It also suggests having a basic understanding of music theory fundamentals first. For a shorter course, it lists the essential chapters to read, along with taking the included quizzes. It notes that academics may have additional interest in further method chapters. The author aims to explain the concepts as clearly as possible.

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Welcome

By James Hober

If you really want to learn Ted Greene’s V-System, I encourage you to read all the explanation
chapters. Just dive in, read them in order, and see how you like it.

Before beginning, you should at least know how jazz chords are constructed with formulas
and other fundamentals of music theory. If you’re unsure about these matters, get Ted’s Chord
Chemistry or another book that explains them. Or see a good music teacher. You can also find
many instructive fundamental music lessons at the tedgreene.com website.

For those who want a shorter V-System course, here are the essential chapters:

2. The V-System Introduction


3. Method 1 – How to Recognize
6. Quiz #1 (on using Method 1 for Recognizing)
8. Method 1 - How to Build
9. Quiz #2 (on using Method 1 for Building)
10. Method 2 – The Chord Tone Gap Method
12. Quiz #3 (on using Method 2 for Recognizing)
13. Quiz #4 (on using Method 2 for Building)
14. The 43 Four-Note Qualities
16. Method 3
20. Conversion
24. The Fixed Soprano Tour
26. About the Rosetta Page
27. How Systematic Inversions Relate to the V-System

It’s best to take the quizzes and then check your solutions against the answer sheets.
However, you can also use the quizzes and answers as additional examples to supplement
those in the explanatory chapters.

If you are an academic, you probably will also be interested in:

11. Method 2 – Further Insights


15. The Mathematics of Four-Note Chords and Beyond

However, if you are seriously interested in the V-System from an academic point of view, you
likely will read all the chapters.

I’ve tried to write as clearly and straightforwardly as possible. You weren’t hoping for a
pedantic, erudite, scholarly writing style, were you? Oh, good. That said, some of the
concepts here are a bit beyond Music Theory 101, but my hope is that I have made them
understandable.

– James

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