An essential skill is to play all the Major 7 chords in your left hand in block form (1-3-5-7)…
Doing so frees your right hand to play a melody or improvise…
Homework
Using your ears and knowledge of scales and chord structure, play this Major 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–and preparing your musical mind to be a fluent improviser.
learn more… Jazz School: Major 7 Chord Voicing: 1-7
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