Online Course
Learn the most important chord voicings used to play your favorite Real Book standards, Great American Songbook and modern jazz.
Rated 4.8 stars
The jazz books and youtube videos will teach you formulas like “3-7-9-5.” These methods aren’t incorrect, but they are an inefficient way to learn, and the voicings are quickly forgotten.
Essential Jazz Piano Voicings approaches chords in a practical way, at the piano, and guides you to play intuitively by feel, not by thinking and applying those formulas.
This course is perfect for beginner to intermediate players, who want to sit and play chords from a lead sheet with confidence, freedom and good voice leading.
Welcome to the Chord Voicings Course
Download the Workbook Building Chords from Scales 5 Key Sounds Chord Inversions How Voicings Work Shell Voicings Chord Extensions Chord Alterations Chord Voicings Best Practices Our Most Important Voicings Left Hand Majors Left Hand Minor Left Hand Dominants Range and Voice Leading Two Hand Majors and Minors Two Hand Half-Diminished Two Hand Dominants + Altered Major 2-5-1's Minor 2-5-1's How 3-Note Rootless Voicings Work 3-Note Left Hand Voicings 3-Note Right Hand Voicings 3-Note Locked Hands Upper Structure Voicings for Altered Dominants When to Use Each Upper Structure Simple Quartal Voicings 4-Note Rootless Voicings (Part 1) 4-Note Rootless Voicings (Part 2) Block Chords Block Chord Movement Drop 2 VoicingsEach time we learn a new voicings, there are 96 permutations of that voicing we have to master. Memorizing formulas, and trying to reconstruct voicings on the fly, felt impossible to truly master.
I was about to give up, but I realized that there were some chords, in some keys, that I could reach for and play completely by feel. Sometimes my hands would move into those chords naturally following my ear.
I set out to learn why those voicings were so intuitive to me, and how to apply those same ideas to all of the chords.
This course is the result of that work. It’s unlike any approach I’ve ever seen taught, and it’s worked for every student I’ve shown it to.
I never thought when I became a member of the Jazz-Library that not only would I learn and understand how to play wonderful jazz but that I would become comfortable playing my piano exercises in front of the other Zoom members…who applaud and cheer me on…mistakes and all!
LonnieI have learned and executed far more with you teaching than any other self-learning or online instruction... Despite being able to play tunes from scores like the Beegie Adair version of My Romance, I have much to learn about Real book comping. But I am on my way, thanks to you.
Wayne LEven though I already improvise on the piano, it was valuable to go back and work step by step. I tend to practice many bits of different skills at once, which sometimes makes my learning feel scattered. This course gave me a clear direction, allowing me to focus on one goal at a time. It was fun, it motivated me, and the challenge provided me with valuable perspective and new ideas... It will push you further without being too much of a struggle. Now my next challenge is to comp with my left hand with my right hand soloing like Wynton Kelly!
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