This lesson's coverage is superbly astounding. It will be worth the hours of internalizing the theories, not to mention practicing and applying them to other jazz tunes! Overwhelmed! Deserves tons of thanks! 😁👌💙
I've been scrambling to find a good explanation of drop 2 reharmonizations and this is the best one yet.... beautiful tune to use as well, thanks so much!
I'm watching this explanation even though I know and use the stuff taught and that's because it's just beatiful the way he explains it all. Just so precise and non-clutterly. Props to you sir!
Discovered your channel yesterday and have already spent several hours pouring over your amazing videos. Have learned so much from you already. Thank you!!!
Great lesson! Is the 4-way close description used more often than Diminished 6th? The quartal/4th voicing sounds really good. Also, the Duke Ellington use of the m9 over Dm and Gm in the Coltrane version is a 5th possibility - lots of choices!
Awesome vid. 1 question re the "So What" chords... The stacked P4s are self explanatory, but what is the decision to have a M3 under the top voice? Is this always the case, or just your preference?
They are stacked like that in the song (So What). I have a real book & in it it is notated as "Emin7(add4)" to "Dmin7(add4)" and have the voicing for those chords written out, which is the shape he shows in the video (the stack of P4s with a M3 on top). (Left hand) (Right hand) So, from bottom to top, your voicing is: Root 4(11) b7 b3 5 (the chords are notated as 11th chords in this video, but are the same thing) Hope this helps explain it a bit more!
Do you ever improvise a melody with this kind of voicings underneath ? Or is it easier to just comp chords in the LH and play the improvised melody in the RH ? I want to be able to improvise with a full sound like this.
Very clearcut explanation. Thank you. It is very good, compared to most others. You do not add unneeded complexities to it and that is perfect. You are teaching, not showing off, like most others do. I think you can generate more subscribers by simply upgrade your visual presentation just a little bit so that it is more pleasing to the eye. Not cluttering anything but get it into the aesthetic band. It is now only in the technical band, like a technician would do it. Ask a designer friend?
It's just a voicing. You take the second voice from the top and put it in the bass. e.g. Cmaj7 is C E G B, the second voice from the top is G so drop2 voicing is G C E B
Hi Jason, we have a dedicated course on block chords and drop 2 over at PianoGroove: www.pianogroove.com/jazz-piano-lessons/block-chords-drop-2-voicings/ - this lesson is a brief overview of the topics covered in that course. Cheers! PianoGroove
12 keys x 4 notes = 48 drop 2's.... for each minor/major, dominant or diminished --> 48 x 4 = 196 voicings to memorize. What is the practical method for remembering these so you can go right to them on demand?
After a couple of hours I could see that for the minor ones are you can visualize two stacked intervals making up the chord: For example F minor: F/C is one interval Ab/Eb is the other. Thinking about playing the two intervals stacked is faster than trying to think about 4 notes, at least for me.
Hey Stephen, that's a chord alteration and it's a way to add 'colour' to dominant chords. Check out our course on altered harmony for more information: www.pianogroove.com/jazz-piano-lessons/altered-harmony-upper-structure-triads/ Cheers, PianoGroove
