So, in this course we teach how to play chord voicings without the root
and these are essential voicings and an excellent way to get a "jazzy" sound. All the voicings use
four notes and can be played with one hand. If you transcribe any of the masters like Bill Evans or
Oscar Peterson or Keith Jarrett you're gonna see how often they play these voicings.
The course is for any piano player who wants to sound within the genre
when playing songs. You just need to know the four basic seventh chords: major seven, minor seven,
minor seven flat five, and dominant chords. You actually don't need to know much more than that;
just those four types of seventh chords. And if you're a more advanced player
our method will give you the opportunity to clean up your jazz piano voicings
in every key and maintain them by just practicing the included 5-minute workouts
By design this course taps into one of the most fundamental and crucial aspects of learning
repetition. We see the importance of this every day as it relates to our own practice routine.
We have merely applied this vital element of repetition to our course. Every lesson has
the same structure and the same execution. Each concept is presented in a very consistent and
predictable format that encourages a fundamental understanding of rootless voicings. "Lesson one:
C major. This is the key signature for C major. Let's first start by playing the scale."
"Lesson two: F major. This is the key signature for F major so, let's play the scale first."
"Lesson four: Eb major. This is the key signature for Eb major. Let's start by playing the scale."
Every lesson focuses on a specific key and we present the same concepts
and techniques across all 12 lessons it is this consistent and predictable approach
that creates both an ease of use and familiarity that effortlessly reinforces the concepts
being taught throughout this course so yes we are kind of hitting you over the head again
and again with the same ideas to the point that by the time you've completed all 12
lessons you'll have no other choice than to have learned these rootless voicings inside and out
the interactive pdf format is awesome because you can study these voicings at your own pace
and find the information that you need from anywhere within the book let me show you let's
say i open the pdf on my laptop first thing that i do is switch to single page view in order to make
my experience with the pdf more consistent and enjoyable now you can tap on any of these buttons
here so here's the introduction with all the theory explaining how and why these voicings work
and if i click on the qr code i get to the web page with the three introductory videos so you
may want to watch these three videos first while reading the introductory chapters as you can see
every page has a back to main button let's choose the lessons index and there you have all of the
lessons one for each key let's try c major and again you have the qr code for the web page
with two videos the lesson and the workout and you can click on it or you can point your other device
at it and follow the lesson while viewing the pdf on two devices so this is the info card
for the lesson in the video i'll guide you step by step through the key we will play the scale
and study all the chords in that key which by the way uses the same harmonic progression
in all lessons i will also show you how to play the four note rootless voicings for every chord
the g7 is a dominant chord in major as you'll see throughout this course dominant chords require
two substitutions the root with the ninth and the fifth with the thirteenth if you tap on score
you can see the entire progression for the workout written out as music notation
and you can tap on any chord to view a picture of the voicing being played
on an actual piano this is pretty cool because if i've moved between pages i can see step
by step how to play the entire progression using these voicings so i can go back to the score
and then to the info card there's also a harmony map with a condensed lead sheet so when you get
more advanced you just load the map and play the entire workout by just looking at the progression
or the map and if you get really good at it you can just load the functional map and lead sheet
which has no chords and play it from there we've also included a few jazz standards with four
note rootless voicings throughout and of course there's a demo video so you can see how the piano
player plays these voicings on the left hand and then adds some embellishments on the right hand
and as a bonus for mapping tonal harmony pro users
we've included the entire workout as an xml file that you can load into mapping tonal harmony pro
and practice at different tempos in any key or using different styles
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