Jazz piano can seem kind of “mysterious” or “magical” to the uninitiated or untrained, but once you know a few basic tricks, it’s easy to see how to create your own jazz piano arrangement using just a few standard techniques. Find your own voicings.Jazz Piano Lesson: Chords, Inversions and Voice Leading (Video) Listen to lots of different pianists, and “steal” voicings from them. This is just the beginning! You’ll want to add more voicings along the way and start developing your own style. The reason I’ve done so is because you are more likely to see the chord symbol “C7” than “C13” in sheet music. For example, for a C7 voicings I’ve added the 9th and the 13th. It is worth important to note that in many cases I’ve add extensions or alterations to the voicing without labeling all of the extensions or alterations. These voicings mark an evolution in the left-hand comping style of many jazz pianists from the 1950s on.Ī min(b5) (or half-diminished) chord is: 1, b3, b5, b7Ī dim7 (or fully-diminished) chord is: 1, b3, b5, bb7 (bb7 is enharmonically the same as 6 or 13) Jazz pianists in the decades prior to the 1950s generally played more block chords and/or shell voicings (like roots and 7ths) and put the root in their voicings most of the time. These left-hand voicings were largely pioneered in the 1950s by jazz pianists such as Bill Evans. However, MANY chords ARE listed, and this should be a great resource for jazz pianists looking to expand their vocabulary of left-hand voicings. This list does not contain more than two ways of playing any chord, and in many cases there is only one voicing listed for a particular chord.
There are surely chords that are left out. This isn’t an all-encompassing resource, as a resource that truly lists every possibility would be impossible.
This PDF will be a BIG help to many jazz pianists and other instrumentalists who want to get better at voicing chords in their left hand! Many players could benefit from having this reference sheet, which has most of the chords jazz musicians are likely to encounter.
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