Jazz Piano Chord Voicings - Four Way Close, Locked Hands & Drop 2
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In this series of videos I cover jazz piano voicings. I'll go through a number of different voicings which will make any jazz song sound strong and professional.
This Jazz Piano Tutorial is about Four way close, locked hands and drop two jazz chord voicings.
The most basic and strongest possible sounding chord progression is a V-I (e.g. G7 to C). And a common Chord Substitution for Dominant chord is a diminished chord 1 semitone up from the root (Abo7 = Rootless G7b9).
Now if you superimpose Abo7 over C6 and play all the notes in the form of a scale you get - C D E F G Ab A B = C Major Scale + Ab (AKA C Bebop Scale).
Now, you can do something interesting with this:
You can alternate between the two chords, changing inversions, to create a little run
This creates a V-I progression which sounds really smooth and really strong
You can do the same with Cm6, C7 and Cm7 chords (though not CMaj7)
Chord - Notes
Abo - Ab B D F
C6 - C E G A
Cm6 - C Eb G A
C7 - C E G Bb
Cm7 - C Eb G Bb
This is called four way close - Playing a 4 note chord in closed harmony (i.e. as close together as possible).
This is a great technique to employ when you’re playing a song where the melody moves in steps, such as:
Blue Bossa
There will never be another you
Fly me to the Moon
This technique can be modified in a couple of ways to get two other widely used techniques
If you use your Left Hand to double the top melody note an octave lower this gives you a technique called Locked Hand
If you omit the second highest note in Right Hand and play it with your Left Hand an octave lower this gives you a technique called Drop 2. A couple of point about Drop 2:
Always drop second highest note - regardless of what degree it is. This will change with the inversion of chord
Root – second highest note = 5th
2nd inversion – second highest note = root
Drop 2 – literally means you ‘drop the second highest note’. There is also ‘Drop 3’ or ‘Drop 4’ or ‘Drop 2 & 3’ voicings – which follow the same logic, but Drop 2 is the most widely used
And it of course can be applied in any context where there is a run of chords
If you enjoyed this Jazz Piano Tutorial, please subscribe
For more information check out my website: https://www.thejazzpianosite.com/jazz...
In this series of videos I cover jazz piano voicings. I'll go through a number of different voicings which will make any jazz song sound strong and professional.
This Jazz Piano Tutorial is about Four way close, locked hands and drop two jazz chord voicings.
The most basic and strongest possible sounding chord progression is a V-I (e.g. G7 to C). And a common Chord Substitution for Dominant chord is a diminished chord 1 semitone up from the root (Abo7 = Rootless G7b9).
Now if you superimpose Abo7 over C6 and play all the notes in the form of a scale you get - C D E F G Ab A B = C Major Scale + Ab (AKA C Bebop Scale).
Now, you can do something interesting with this:
You can alternate between the two chords, changing inversions, to create a little run
This creates a V-I progression which sounds really smooth and really strong
You can do the same with Cm6, C7 and Cm7 chords (though not CMaj7)
Chord - Notes
Abo - Ab B D F
C6 - C E G A
Cm6 - C Eb G A
C7 - C E G Bb
Cm7 - C Eb G Bb
This is called four way close - Playing a 4 note chord in closed harmony (i.e. as close together as possible).
This is a great technique to employ when you’re playing a song where the melody moves in steps, such as:
Blue Bossa
There will never be another you
Fly me to the Moon
This technique can be modified in a couple of ways to get two other widely used techniques
If you use your Left Hand to double the top melody note an octave lower this gives you a technique called Locked Hand
If you omit the second highest note in Right Hand and play it with your Left Hand an octave lower this gives you a technique called Drop 2. A couple of point about Drop 2:
Always drop second highest note - regardless of what degree it is. This will change with the inversion of chord
Root – second highest note = 5th
2nd inversion – second highest note = root
Drop 2 – literally means you ‘drop the second highest note’. There is also ‘Drop 3’ or ‘Drop 4’ or ‘Drop 2 & 3’ voicings – which follow the same logic, but Drop 2 is the most widely used
And it of course can be applied in any context where there is a run of chords
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