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Although not technically a 7th chord, this colorful, less dissonant alternative to a Minor 7th Chord sometimes serves a similar function... Minor 6,9 Chord Voicing The minor 6,9 chord sounds and feels just right as the tonic (I) chord in some jazz ballads and slow Latin tunes... Homework Using your ears and knowledge of scales … Continue reading Jazz School: Chord Voicings: Minor 6,9
For a full, simple, and open sound, voice the Minor 7th Chord as a 1 and 5 in the left hand and the definitive tones b3 and b7 in the right… Minor 7 Chord Definitive Tones Over Perfect 5th Voicing Notice that both hands are playing perfect 5ths... Homework Using your ears and knowledge of scales and … Continue reading Jazz School: Chord Voicings: Minor 7 “Definitive Tones Over Perfect 5th”
A standard way to get a jazzier sound is to add “color tones” to the basic 7th chord. A commonly-used color tone is "the 9”… Minor 7 Chord add 9 Voicing It is customary to drop the most expendable note "1" from the right hand and replace it with the 9 as follows... Minor 7 Chord … Continue reading Jazz School: Chord Voicings: Minor 7, add 9
Playing the root plus the two definitive tones (b3, b7) as an arpeggio in the left hand makes for a nice accompaniment pattern for ballads... Minor 7 Chord Root Plus Definitive Tones Voicing The 1-b3-b7 Pattern The 1-b7-b3 Pattern Homework Using your ears and knowledge of scales and chord structure, “transpose” this voicing to all spellings … Continue reading Jazz School: Chord Voicings: Minor 7 “Root Plus Definitive Tones”
A commonly-used voicing for the Minor 7th Chord is to play the root in your left hand and the triad formed by the b3, 5, and b7 in your right... Minor 7 Chord "Triad over Root" Voicing It's useful to think of this as as Eb/C... Homework Using your ears and knowledge of scales and … Continue reading Jazz School: Chord Voicings: Minor 7 “Triad Over Root”
A sparse, light, open texture is achieved by simply playing the root and 7th of the chord in your left hand... Minor 7 Chord Shell Voicing Called a shell voicing, this approach provides lots of space and freedom for your right hand to add other chord tones, to play the melody, or improvise without being hamstrung … Continue reading Jazz School: Chord Voicings: Minor 7 Left Hand Shell
An essential skills is to play the basic voicing for a C Minor 7th chord in your left hand in block form... Minor 7 Chord Left Hand Block Voicing Giving your left hand full responsibility for the harmony frees your right hand to play a melody or improvise. Homework Using your ears and knowledge of … Continue reading Jazz School: Chord Voicings: Minor 7 Left Hand Block
Let’s begin our exploration of commonly-used chord voicings for a C Minor 7th chord with the most basic arrangement of notes... Minor 7 Chord Basic Voicing Root (1) in the left hand and stacked thirds (1-b3-5-b7) in the right… Homework Using your ears and knowledge of scales and chord structure, “transpose” this voicing to all spellings in … Continue reading Jazz School: Chord Voicings: Minor 7 Basic