Jazz Chord Essentials . I also want to talk a bit about how you approach playing chords in terms of interpretation of chord extensions, substitutes, connecting or voice- leading the chords. Hopefully it can help you learn and construct some new chords, and I hope it also helps you find new ways to play songs you already know and expand your ability to play chords freely. What is. Lot’s of Wes Montgomery solos use drop. To explain why drop. You should quickly notice that these basic inversions of an Am. Mainly because they are very stretchy to play. The term Drop. 2 comes from taking the 2nd higest note in each one and drop it down an octave. This makes it possible to get the notes together in one position and yields the 4 voicings in the 2nd bar of example 1. As you can tell these voicings are much easier to play and much more flexible so that we can change notes in them (that will prove essential in later lessons.)Basic Exercises. I chose to keep it simple and only work with the top set of strings. In the long run it can be very useful to also check out the middle set of strings and possibly the lowest set. A complete overview of the drop. Scale charts and chord voicings. If you have checked out my lesson: . Here are the voicings for those 4 types of chords on the top string set: To get used to the sound of these chords and to get the voicings in to your fingers you should of course practice example 2 in all keys, but it can also be very useful to check out all cadences like I’ve written out in example 3: This way of grouping the chords together in the order you are very likely to use them is of course also very handy. And important part of the cadences is also that I chose vocings that have correct voiceleading which in this case means that you just stay in the neighbourhood whenever changing to the next chord.
You could consider doing the minor cadences too. Another very useful exercise is to take the different drop. I have done in example 4. I only did two of the inversions, maybe try to figure out the last 2 by yourself. It should help getting to know major scales on the strings besides training the voicings themselves. Putting it to use. As soon as you have a basic understanding and ability to play these voicings it is just as important to start working towards using them in real music. Below I’ve written out how I play the first 1. Autumn Leaves with drop. UST Jazz Piano Chord Voicings. Jazz Music Books for Music Teachers and Students.3 Acknowledgments Since the earliest days of my teaching career at UMass Lowell, I had thought about writing a book on jazz theory. I had developed a detailed set of. You should try to do this with a few songs as well. Autumn Leaves, Fly Me To The Moon and All The Things You Are could be good tunes to try because they cover a lot of chords from the same key(and some in more keys as well.)You could with this exercise of course try starting with each of the Cm. In the next part of the drop. I’ll start working on how to add extensions and alterations to the voicings. I’ll also give some more practical advice on how to use the voicings. I hope you can use the exercises to get started working on Drop. As always you can download the examples as a PDF here: Jazz Chord Essentials – Drop 2 voicings part 1. Check out how I use Drop. Drop. 2 voicings on There will never be another you. I hope that you liked the lesson. If you have any questions or comments then feel free to leave them here or on the video. Please subscribe to my You. Tube channel and feel free to connect with me via Facebook, Google+ or Twitter to keep up to date with new lessons, concerts and releases.
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