An essential skill is to play the basic voicing for a C Dominant 7th chord in your left hand in block form…
Doing so free frees your right hand to play a melody or improvise.
Homework
Using your ears and knowledge of scales and chord structure, play this Dominant 7 chord voicing in the big 12 spellings chromatically ascending…
Listen to an example at 120 beats per minute…
Play-along Tracks
Of the score above with a two bar count off at 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, & 180 beats per minute…
Playing along at a variety of tempos is a highly effective way to discover and tighten up every loose screw in your thinking, technique, and rhythm. As you do so, you are automatically internalizing an enormous chord vocabulary by ear, intellect, eye, and muscle.
learn more… Jazz School: Chord Voicings: Dominant 7: 1-b7
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