4 Basic Chord Voicings Every Jazz Musician Should Know

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5 жыл бұрын

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1) 2 plus 3/Rooted: 0:58
2) Block chords/Close: 4:56
3) Fourths/So What: 6:34
4) Spread Voicings: 8:11
Today, Adam hosts the first ever solo YHI and shows off some simple voicings you can add to your repertoire. You can get our podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
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@Manzie1000 4 жыл бұрын

So it’s like this... 1) chord shell with left hand, pretty notes on top, try not to repeat any notes in chord. 2) left hand and right hand are closed in an octave, then add sweet/spice within the octave. 3) Chords built by 4ths, sometimes altering the interval of a 4th to a 3rd or the like. 4)Chord shell with the left hand and right hand plays octaves, add an interval between the octaves if you’d like. Awesome man, thanks : )

@pogchamp7983 4 жыл бұрын

Man that locked hand octave thing that's a sound I've heard but never really knew how to get, thanks!

@penguindrum264 4 жыл бұрын

Same! I've always been doing drop2 and drop3 voicings for block chords before watching this video.

@aymebatista6636 2 жыл бұрын

Same felling :)

@cursedswordsman 2 жыл бұрын

5:43 you're welcome

@giocoso4576 11 ай бұрын

1:00 3+3 5:02 Block chord 6:36 Fourth voicing 8:15 Spread voicing

@gerardomoran2923 11 ай бұрын

Was about to do that!! Thanks

@jeffrey322 4 жыл бұрын

2:15: First / 6:13: Second / 7:51: Third / 9:28: Last

@puzzledgamer346 4 жыл бұрын

thank you

@fredschroyer584 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks from me, too! VERY helpful! ALL music videos need these quick-access markers!

@Piskoulis 4 жыл бұрын

thnx

@slapmyfunkybass 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bud

@davidgilbert3589 4 жыл бұрын

I'm a relative beginner jazz theory player... This was extremely helpful!!! Thank you!! It helped that I've never understood voicings before, and this explained how to get into it. It also helped that I've improvised around So What doing the 4ths thing on the white notes... This is a really good easy place to start understanding what he's talking about, and to feel the ease and wonderful thing that happens when you keep your hands exactly the same and bash around the white notes imagining Miles soloing around you trying to keep up.

@jacktrades24 4 жыл бұрын

Made perfect sense to me, too! And there's a difference between a complaint and an observation. Adam covered a WHOLE lot of material in a very short time -- well done! I think Michael Bonner had a point (which might have been more precisely expressed). Without question, Adam knows the content of the block chords he was speaking about, but didn't go into much detail. In fact, a whole 12 minutes could have easily been spoken on each of the voicing types and how each applies to different chord types, progressions, etc. Nonetheless, what he did here is excellent!

@joezeytoonian6883 Жыл бұрын

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@ArthurRosch 2 жыл бұрын

There are dozens of easy permutations from F to B flat. What a rich landscape!

@nardafargotstein31 5 жыл бұрын

This was an awesome lesson! I loved the reading out of the notes and their placement. It was so clear and slow that I could write down the transcription so I could learn this in all keys. I beautiful lesson.

@michaeldunagan8268 3 жыл бұрын

What a Maestro! Giving away all the secrets! I thank him so much because my piano playing is boring and commercial and not jazzy. Also helps me read jazz scores like Vinve Gurauldi's "Christmastime is Here".

@kamhinleong397 4 жыл бұрын

I'm so thankful for this vid! Simple laid out, covers all information needed just enough for me to understand what other techniques I am lacking. Thank you so much!

@CharlesMoore2 4 жыл бұрын

Super informative. Excellent discussion of the concepts, plus relevant details and tips. Many thanks, Adam!

@MattParkerMedia Жыл бұрын

Adam!!!! You are a beast! So glad to see you on here sharing all of this great information. I'm super excited to get these voiceing under my fingers. Thank you

@hernannieto1 5 жыл бұрын

Dude I really like your syle, just a little tip, If you could be more precise about wich notes to play en each voicing, even if that means limiting posibilties, that would be awesome. Mainly cause thats usually how I practice em, just same exact thing over and over. Also if you can get one of those graphic things that show the keybed on screen , thats awesome also. Nice vid ! Cheers

@ryanaudy6533 4 жыл бұрын

This is one of the best KZfaq videos I've watched on jazz piano, thank you!

@joeflowers3570 4 жыл бұрын

Great info. A bit heady for most but the best teaching material that I''ve seen yet. I have to go over it a few times and work on it but these basic movements are exactly what I'm learning. This is probably a bit too advanced for the average player that hasn't studied jazz. You really know your theory and 11's and 13's. I'm still a bit slow on that. Thanks I appreciate the knowledge. Now it's time to digest it.

@martingravel1157 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks Adam/Open Studio!

@stevenschelling8452 5 жыл бұрын

Just branching into jazz piano and this cleared up so many questions. Thanks!

@ementalerlynx4727 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic!

@pereztube2 4 жыл бұрын

This was super helpful, thanks Adam

@leonhardlowenherz4246 3 жыл бұрын

Great!! Everything that's necessary ... covered!

@tritono666 Жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks for such a valuable lesson. This video helped me a lot for a string quartet arrangements project. These voicings sound amazing

@kotu_pnd4 4 жыл бұрын

THIS VIDEO IS GREAT! Can't believe I'm just now seeing this!

@reynaldomadridi7238 4 жыл бұрын

Building from that Fmin7 @ 2:15 - 5:45 is dynamic!

@mongobongo3338 4 жыл бұрын

Hey this video really helped me. I’ve been feeling lost in my music and this really gave me direction so thanks a lot Bruv

@maryanndaugherty1251 2 жыл бұрын

This is amazingly helpful, thank you!!

@youlayos 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this beautiful lesson.

@TylerTripsTunes 4 жыл бұрын

Great videos have to watch about 5 times to get it

@craigkeller Жыл бұрын

Open Studio is The Greatest!

@factamoo 5 жыл бұрын

Great advice thanks

@stln768 2 ай бұрын

Fantastic lesson!

@ngoles 2 жыл бұрын

I love that you mention that these voicings work in ensembles too. R 7 3 is such a hip voicing and there's a lot of purists out there who're only into rootless for ensembles 😁

@hextikwilliams1494 4 жыл бұрын

This channel has been super helpful!

@yakdothan 3 ай бұрын

I am a bass player trying to learn beginner jazz piano, this is very helpful. Thank you!

@johannesmergarten 4 жыл бұрын

second and 4th really helpful for me. excited to try em out in sessions. thanks

@iandodds2195 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Adam, got it.

@mikedavino2400 5 жыл бұрын

now go get it in the other 11 keys and you better have fun doing it.

@iraward2514 4 жыл бұрын

Nice, thanks for sharing!

@gabrielmirandamartinez8451 2 жыл бұрын

Awsome!! Thanx man!!

@louispearson8306 5 жыл бұрын

this is brilliantly useful thanks!

@bmbacchus 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Adam, thanks for the string arrangements on the Brian Owens' project! Beautiful!

@RickCarr 3 жыл бұрын

Great lesson!!

@shanjayaweera3036 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome lesson. The forth voicing sounds a lot like Red Garland (who is one of my favourites

@paulrodberg Жыл бұрын

Wow I’m really impressed. Thanks

@Velykadivchyna 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Adam!

@timstephens3796 Жыл бұрын

Very helpful.

@eduardosposito8052 2 жыл бұрын

Great brother!!

@opndmind 5 жыл бұрын

The best explanation I've ever heard! Crystal clear and to the point. Thank you!

@DarinWilson 5 жыл бұрын

Great job going solo, Adam! 👍

@Baxxbier 5 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! The chordstructure of the first example ( you can look at it as iii over ii7 and iib over V7) was new to me

@mannycepeda1 3 жыл бұрын

I am so glad I bumped into you. Great insights. I am a composer/arranger. I will ask you the same question I ask everyone (still don't have an answer), what are the left hand voicing for improvisation? I can solo with my right hand but I don't know what to do to comp with my left hand. Hope you can either answer my question or maybe do a video on chord prog with right hand simple solos. Thanks in advanced!!

@leomorland 2 жыл бұрын

try transcribing some voicings from a recording :) bud powell liked to use b7th intervals

@ArthurRosch 2 жыл бұрын

Adam, your hands are HUGE! I've been working this vid for a week and I think I"ve got it. I think...

@sheskimusic 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent. Thanks

@JaredDisawesome 3 жыл бұрын

I love this

@ScottMillerGuitar 3 жыл бұрын

Great job 👏

@Chilajuana 4 жыл бұрын

Great sounding chords......

@mikedavino2400 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks again and for doing this alone. Someone is MIA.

@evanmiles2652 4 жыл бұрын

Very helpful

@andrewwright6893 4 жыл бұрын

Great video. Still a bit above me as a beginner jazz pianist but very interesting. Nice one

@lawrencetaylor4101 Жыл бұрын

Merci.

@2002jorgeparr Жыл бұрын

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@romanstudia 2 жыл бұрын

Can you please make a course on spread voicings 🙏 (sort of like the block chords or magic voicings courses). I’d definitely purchase it

@mojooftheg5961 4 жыл бұрын

Easy for you to play.

@jounihelminen6025 5 жыл бұрын

awesome

@reynaldomadridi7238 4 жыл бұрын

Fmin7 to B flat7 @2:15 - 5:45....is dynamic!

@rachelsmename6 3 жыл бұрын

So far, I really like the way that you are explaining the chord voicings. I've gone as far as the first one to write this. Please, you said so yourself, that you have large hands so you can reach the 10th. Can you please show us two ways to do this voicing? One for the large hands and one for the smaller hands? There are many many people who cannot reach a 10th and it would be very considerate to include us. Thank you!

@anthonysilva5312 4 жыл бұрын

Subscribed

@keyofbrink810 5 жыл бұрын

Another dope lesson!! Super clear and concise explanations!

@CharlesAustin 3 жыл бұрын

Bb13b9..Emi/Bb7 nice .. reminds me of the pick up chord to Stompin At The Savoy.. !!

@vanessalouzon 2 жыл бұрын

3:54 "Overtone Reasons" makes a great jazz tune title!

@jasonrsk8 2 жыл бұрын

watched this 3 times in a row

@mosstet 4 жыл бұрын

shell voicings with drop 2 are an absolute bastard to master

@UncleCaptainMidnight 5 ай бұрын

The pretty notes

@peterrowan9955 4 жыл бұрын

As someone called peter I was shook at that intro

@jacktrades24 4 жыл бұрын

You're the man who wasn't there? :)

@peterrowan9955 4 жыл бұрын

jacktrades24 perhaps

@hahabass 4 жыл бұрын

Question: Next up on my KZfaq feed is the tune Never Let Me Go, which Pete covered beautifully on In the PM of course. As I'm crap at harmony I want to know, if you get a moment, what musical devices, if you can call it that, make the tune sound so 'floaty'?

@arneely65 4 жыл бұрын

As a follow up to this wonderful video, I need someone to make a video entitled, "Here's what the hell he just said!"

@rjsphatsoul 4 жыл бұрын

Having some music theory understanding will help you alot.

@eltonparks659 4 жыл бұрын

Funny!

@jcookonbass 5 жыл бұрын

This is rich and creamy knowledge.

@martin5903 3 жыл бұрын

Hello, amazing video. I just have one question. For the voicings where it's just the octave with some notes in between, which note should the octave be? Should it always be the root? Or do other chords work such as the maj7

@Darkness2Maxrocko 9 ай бұрын

Should really do visuals on the piano makes it a lot easier to see. Pretty easy affect also at least on premiere.

@danytalksmusic 4 жыл бұрын

What are you talking about when you say 2+3? Degrees? Extensions? Number of notes? Inversions?

@OpenStudioJazz 4 жыл бұрын

Dany Stasolla 2 notes in the LH, 3 in the RH.

@bassavino 4 жыл бұрын

I'm new to this, not new to music. What is a shell, 1, 3 7 of a chord? And what role does the 5th of a chord play? I had to chuckle at the rp4ths segment, because I remember figuring out is you stack 4ths in the left hand, you create the illusion or delusion that you know what you're doing.

@rodcoombes8711 4 жыл бұрын

Ignore the complainers, all makes perfect sense, thanks.

@paxwallacejazz 4 жыл бұрын

3579=stock in any inversion is still a thing since the 50s.

@pumacaine 4 жыл бұрын

nice, would of been easier for me to understand in C but i get the idea

@hostileporpoise 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, how would you voice that first F-7 if you can't reach a 10th? Thanks for the amazing lessons!

@gustavtomzak-steenberg6187 4 жыл бұрын

Play it with the right hand thumb

@sheilamacdougal4874 3 жыл бұрын

You can crush the flat third and fourth (11th) together with the right thumb. (That's a useful technique to practice anyway). That works for all except A-flat minor, D-flat minor, G minor and C minor. For those four you need both thumb and index finger to crush the flat third and fourth, but any sized hand should be able to reach it. G seems the hardest, but it's feasible.

@jamesmpace396 4 жыл бұрын

Can't thank you folks enough for making these videos. Will I make more money if I learn to do all this ? (joke)But for real these videos are so great.

@SilentAttackTV 2 жыл бұрын

What is the best voicing for normal basic major chords?

@channingchrisco 3 ай бұрын

❤️‍🔥

@tehwinnerz5006 5 жыл бұрын

As a jazz dancer do u think I should learn

@chantreaulouis9873 5 жыл бұрын

best comment

@tehwinnerz5006 5 жыл бұрын

chantreau louis thanks, check out my other comments elsewhere on the KZfaq website

@johnnywednesday2084 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for this posting lesson and providing sheet music for the voicings you talk about. I have a question for you about the block chords voicing -- the first 2 measures you have on the sheet music for that are marked C6. My question is about the note A in those measures -- sometimes you have A-flat and other times A- natural. In a C6 chord isn't the sixth A-natural? So why do you play A-Flat on beats 2 and 4 -- does the flatted- A just sound better to you than A-natural? or is there a music theory reason behind flatting the A? Thanks for your lesson

@je-pq3de 3 жыл бұрын

sounds like the barry harris diminished 6th thing. theres is probably a vid on it, the jist is: you take an octatonic scale, C major plus Ab, and now you have 2 interlocking subsets: C6 and a diminished chord. you can move through the scale voiced in a "dominant" way but still only have to think "diatonically"

@Alic4444 3 жыл бұрын

@@je-pq3de Yep, that's exactly right. He did mention it in the video, but not in a way that people who aren't already familiar with the concept could understand.

@michaelbonner6836 4 жыл бұрын

He needs to show us what he's doing. eg. What are the blocked chords

@rjsphatsoul 4 жыл бұрын

Great stuff, I am self taught and don't read sheet music. It's interesting to see all those complaining. smdh Here he is sharing free content, if it's hard at first find other videos to help you understand the basics and then move forward. Watching one video is not going to make you an advanced or pro player.

@Jantalus 4 жыл бұрын

In the third method, the major third is relative to the root or the last 4th?

@basbakker 4 жыл бұрын

Hi, great video! What do you mean with shell?

@OpenStudioJazz 4 жыл бұрын

The shell is the 3rd and 7th. So for a Cmaj7, the shell is E and B.

@basbakker 4 жыл бұрын

Open Studio thx

@Julian7alejandro 5 жыл бұрын

Helow Master . greeting from Venezuela, Do you have some midi file I could buy you? bebop and modal midi files songs ?

@PotatoeJin 2 жыл бұрын

4:58

@alexandrawestcott7654 4 жыл бұрын

All very well if you can reach a 10th!!

@christophervincent3520 4 жыл бұрын

Agree. A very useful lesson but I only easily get to an octave in my left hand and a less open voicing less good. Appreciate a voicing for small hands!

@OzielAlvesCavalcante 4 жыл бұрын

I'm trying to adapt to 2 + 4 instead

@winterdesert1 4 жыл бұрын

With jazz/blues you don't need to hit all the chord notes at the same time. You arpeggiate the chord from the bottom if its a huge stretch and use the sustain pedal. This even makes it more interesting.

@alexandrawestcott7654 4 жыл бұрын

JohnE.M. Yes of course, thanks. Good point!

@goldenmoleful 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the lesson. Does open studio have a longer more detailed lesson on using block chords? I just don’t get it. Thanks Adam

@baileyayyy5085 2 жыл бұрын

Not sure if anyone will see this cause the video is old but should I be stretching my hands so I can ultimately play 10ths? I am worried about straining them but I strongly prefer the sound to thirds. Any tips for people with small hands?

@thahdeepseadivuh7501 4 жыл бұрын

Where can I listen to the full intro song?

@OpenStudioJazz 4 жыл бұрын

It's "Emotion in Motion" by Peter Martin, and you can check out the full thing right here: open.spotify.com/album/2JGW2LrkEQxXHrzldmXs4K

@bergercg 2 ай бұрын

Need sheets or key press indicators in blue

@Dariocomposer 4 жыл бұрын

Just a quick one: In the So What 1st chord, the F7 built from the 7th, the first interval is actually a major 3rd plus an aug4th, when the rest is built in 4th from the A. Is it an arrangement or I just missed something? Because if I build it in 4th from the 7th I have different notes

@Dariocomposer 4 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I just noticed that it was an example built diatonically :) my bad!