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Hello! Welcome to this guide on jazz piano chord voicings. We are so excited to share this guide with you! You probably wonder why jazz chords sound so rich and full? One of the reasons is that jazz has harmonic sounds that feature many rich notes, chords voicings, and note combinations that you don’t often find in many other styles of music. We created this guide as a handy reference for students of jazz like you who are currently exploring the amazing world of jazz piano. If you want to learn some really awesome chord voicings, this guide is definitely for you! There are tons of chord voicings you can discover and learn how to play. We’ve got a bunch of them right here that sounds really good in a lot of tunes. It’s always a great idea to think about how these chords are formed. We came up with this guide to show you how to play cool and awesome piano chord voicings. These chord voicings were derived from works by jazz legends like Bill Evans and Bud Powell. Jazz is such an amazing art form that it has changed the lives of many such as our founder, Steve Nixon himself, and the rest of the team at freejazzlessons.com. We look forward to hearing more about your jazz journey. Thank you for your purchase! We look forward to hearing about your success in your jazz piano journey. We hope that this chord guide would pave the way for that to happen in the future. See you soon!
RESOURCES
We thought it to be useful to include some other resources that will help you build great jazz piano skills and pave the way to success in your jazz piano journey.
The Zero To Jazz Piano Hero Program Are you new to jazz piano? Want a step-by-step program that will take you from zero to playing songs you love in only 30-60 days? Then, this is the program for you! Learn more here → www.freejazzlessons.com/beginner
The Jazz Masters Method
Steve’s Jazz Masters Method is now available on DVD and instant streaming! Learn the jazz improvisation techniques of 9 incredible jazz piano masters.
Learn more here → http://www.freejazzlessons.com/jazzmastersmethod Play like the jazz masters right now!
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Blues Piano Lessons
Steve’s intro course for learning blues basics quickly! Learn and Improvise Blues Piano Course now available on DVD. Take your blues playing to the next level. Study in the comfort of your own home.
Learn more here → http://www.stevenixonmusic.net/learn-blues-dvd Already in 5th printing!
The Christmas Jazz Piano Super System 2 DVD Set
The Christmas Jazz Piano Super System DVD. Over 4 hours of powerful & in depth training on how to play Christmas music in a rich jazz piano style. Best seller.
Learn more here → http://www.freejazzlessons.com/christmas
Premium Jazz Lessons Elite Membership Program
A revolutionary jazz piano training program. Learn amazing jazz piano skill using our world class training system.
The unique 5 library system will having you playing songs, licks, chords, and improvising in no time.
Learn more here → www.freejazzlessons.com/premium
Transcription and Ear Training Software
Transcribe: The best software tool out there for transcribing and learning music off recordings. Slow down recordings without losing pitch. Loop them, analyze notes, transpose recordings, karaoke type functions, and more.
Recommend Recordings
1. The Complete Bill Evans Riverside Recordings A simply amazing collection of Bill Evans music. You will love it and learn a ton from it!
2. The Complete Bud Powell on Verve An incredible collection of 100 of Bud’s best recordings on the legendary Verve record label.
3. Oscar Peterson: Exclusively For My Friends One of the best collections of Oscar Peterson’s music out there. He dedicated it to his friends too! Truly a great collection.
4. Herbie Hancock: The Complete Blue Note 60's sessions What a collection! Blue Note and the genius Herbie Hancock! I listen to this all the time.
Fakebooks
1. The Swing Era - 1936-1947 (Jazz Bible Fake Books) Great collection of well notated and popular jazz standards to learn.
2. Jazz of the 50's (Jazz Bible Fake Book Series) I work from this fake book daily. Tunes from this fake book are called all the time. So many in here are must know.
3. Hal Leonard Jazz of the 60's And Beyond: Bible Fake Book Series Really nice collection of popular jazz tunes from the 60's era. Tunes like Giant Steps, Black Coffee, All Blues and etc.
4. The Real Book: Sixth Edition The industry standard! Definitely a must in your jazz education library.
5. The New Real Book (in C) The other jazz industry standard. For many years this was "the" fakebook. Lead sheets are clearly written. Easy to learn from!
PRACTICE TIPS These awesome chord voicings are in the key of C to provide you with a great start. Before you work on these chords, here are some practice tips:
1. These are chord voicings, split in different categories, in the key of C. 2. By practicing these chord voicings, you’ll learn important jazz vocabulary
for use in various tunes. 3. First, practice the chord voicings in the original key. Practice them slowly
at first, against a metronome or a backing track. 4. Once you get comfortable, practice in several more keys. 5. The final and most important step is to practice inserting these chords into
real jazz tunes. Check out the Premium Jazz Membership Course to get access to step-by-step tutorials on famous jazz standards, jam tracks, improv drills, and much more at www.freejazzlessons.com/premium.
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MORE PRACTICE TIPS
Here are a couple more tips for working with your killer jazz piano chord voicings:
1) Your chords have to be 100% authentic in the jazz style
That means using chords that contain the prettiest notes. If you only play triads and basic chords you’re missing 99% of the style.
You don’t want your playing to sound cheesy right? Great jazz chords must contain notes like the 7th, 9th, 11, and 13th. They should be balanced properly with the right note order too.
2) Learn the 7 most common chord progressions in jazz
Jazz is a style of music that features many of the same chord progressions over and over again.
Instead of looking at every chord individually it’s critical that you start seeing chords as patterns. This will set your playing free. That’s because these 7 jazz patterns are in 99% of jazz tunes. Learn them and watch your playing skyrocket.
3) You must learn how to use these chords and play a killer solo over it
Jazz is a style that’s filled with improvisation. It’s at the very core of the genre of music. So, it’s expected that you should know how to use some of these chords over a tune and play an awesome solo over it.
4) You must use authentic swing rhythms in your playing
Jazz is a very rhythmic style of music. There are classic rhythms that every great
jazz pianist uses in their playing. They’re syncopated and groove like crazy! If you play everything on the downbeat you’re missing a big part of this style.
5) You must substitute your own unique chords into every song you play
If you want to avoid the pain of sounding like a total newbie you should absolutely be changing some of the chords in your songs.
Don’t sound like a million other wannabes. Be you! Audiences love it when you can insert unexpected and hip chords into your songs.
6) Memorize the patterns, chords and melody for every song
If you’re just playing off sheet music you’re missing 99% of this style of music. Playing stock arrangements off sheet music is not really playing jazz. It’s the same thing as you reading someone else’s words and saying that they are your own.
Fortunately, there is a fun course that teaches you how to build your own jazz
arrangements.
7) Model the playing of proven jazz masters
I’m talking about people like Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Oscar Peterson, Diana Krall, Ray Charles, etc. There’s a reason why millions of people LOVE their playing. Success leaves clues.
People who succeed consistently are not lucky; they’re doing something different than anyone else. These legends have a playing strategy that works and if you follow the same proven strategy then you’ll reap the same rewards. That’s why I always recommend people follow a system that teaches how to play the same classic chords, licks, songs, and rhythms that the legends use.
You can check out this powerful jazz piano training system here .
