Jazz Voicings in Under an Hour! 

OK. Watched this twice already (in 2 days). It's the whole enchilada - everything! A year's worth of stuff to practice, clearly presented with all the nuances described, reasons given for everything. You leave it feeling you've just heard the lecture on the secret of the universe, then ya forget it 5 minutes later, and sit there realizing how much you still have to learn to get there, but ... wow ... to get the overview and stay up there for an hour is a thrill! THANKS!

0:46 What are Voicings? 1:57 "Rules" 5:40 Type A and B 8:34 Shell Voicings 12:25 Bass Shells 18:03 Thick Bass Shells 22:56 Color Tones (Extensions) 32:49 One handed A/B Voicings 35:59 Shout Voicings 37:48 Shearing Voicings 43:35 Drop 2 Voicings 45:51 Drop 3 Voicings 47:34 Modal Voicings 50:08 So What Voicings 52:57 Quartal Voicings 54:43 Pentatonic Voicings 56:28 Review

This is amazing! I’m just getting started on jazz piano and I feel like I found the cheat code. Thank you!

You are incredible! Today I'm sad because of a bad recovery of a surgery... But your video is what I needed when I was teen (now I'm 49). In a few weeks I will rehearse with a professional jazz quartet for the first time in my life and your video is the best that I've found for the jazz chord voicings basics. When I was teen a friend told me a lot of the things you've said (guide notes, A/B voicings, good sounding note range...) but nobody told it to me with the kindness and pacience like you. And the "Powerpoint-like" slides are great! What a job you've made, I appreciate it very much. Also, you are kind and funny, I've felt like I was with a good friend. And you piano level is outstanding. I bought the Phil DeGreg Jazz Keyboard Harmony book, which people say is very useful, but I think I will buy your books as well. Now I'm going to check them out! Greetings from Barcelona, Spain.

Yes, the magic range... with the 3rd and 7th. Thank you.

Thank you Jeremy especially useful because I was looking for the concept behind left hand quartal voicings for comping pentatonic soloing.

Wow, that's like 4 years of college classes in one hour! Amazing lesson. Thanks 🙏❤

this is exactly what I NEEDED!!

Fantastico 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 THANK YOU SO MUCH SIR 💖 😂😂😂😂😂

Great teacher always...genius

You're a world class teacher. Thank you. 🙏

Amazing! Not as amazing as your meeting Aimee Nolte - 😜 - but what a gift you have given us all. You are phenomenally gifted as artist AND educator. THANK YOU!

Excellent… thank you !

Thank you so very much for this extra useful lesson with great illustrations and explanations ❤ great addition to the book

Amazing, thank you 🙏

Very clear and helpful. Thanks a lot!

Hey Jeremy, thanks so much for this. I would love a video on a deeper dive on what we can do within the Type A/B voicings beyond the 2 or 3 color tones on the RH.

This video is already a classic ！bravo。你是太厉害。

grateful for you sharing the valuable presentation with us!

Great job Jezza, as always. I only recently discovered you. I'm loving your content and organised delivery of it, its filled in a few missing pieces for me for sure. So much knowledge, thanks a lot for your generous time and sharing your gifts.

Thank you so much Sir. Very helpful.. I'm your new follower about playing piano. Done

Your videos have been so helpful for me! Amazing content🙏🙏

This is absolutely superb, i learned so so much in such a short space of time. Thank you!

Thank you! Superb material !

I can always rely and enjoy the Genius of Jeremy Siskind..! Keep up the good work..!!

As usual an intelligent, clear and practical presentation. I have your books. 👍

Meilleure vidéo sur les voicing sur RU-vid !!! Merci

what a GREAT video. So helpful and well taught. Learned so much!

Wow…outstanding. Sure wish I had known about this fantastic video a few years ago!!! What a delight to listen to!!! (I feel guilty for not having had to pay for it! Would easily have been worth a $50 “entrance fee” !!!) I, too, will be watching it again….This video empowers the humble student of jazz to conquer the chaos of jazz voicings with clear classification, allowing clear focus while providing clear context (ie. replacing chaos with creativity). Thanks, Jeremy!

Thanks for taking the time to make this video. To get all this info for free is amazing 👏 people study a long time to learn all this ❤

Amazing stuff ! So valuable. Will try to dive in. My ears are pleased with the sound of these voicings. Thanks so much.

Absolutely amazing video. You are an amazing teacher and i'm just happy for all the young, aspiring pianist that has this ressourcer to learn from! Thanks.

A great tutorial on voicings useful for everybody.Thank you Jeremy.

Thank you for this golden lesson!!!

My "go. to" video to start the day. THANKS - very generous of you to share your presentation with us here.

Thanks, Jeremy. Hope the presentation goes/went well!

Awesome stuff 👏 THANK YOU SO MUCH SIR 🙏 🎉

Your videos are underrate but always appreciated by us , this was quick, clear structured and precise, something I've been struggling to get from any other teacher/tutorial! ❤ I will buy you a big coffee on the 21st of August note it down ;)

This is a great video. I ordered some of your books a couple of days ago and can’t wait for their arrival. I’m a classical (intermediate, possibly) piano student who would love to get away from being tied to a score! 😊

Thank you so much for this, Jeremy. I love all your videos but, for me, this one in particular, offered a comprehensive explanation that just doesn't exist anywhere else. I found it especially helpful that you played voicings that don't work. That was a big one for me, since in experimenting with voicings, I would find things that were either too high or too low but wasn't sure if it was my piano or my ears that were off. The "magic range" idea is genius and so clarifying.

Muy bueno Jeremy! Greetings from Spain

Thank you so much sir ❤️

Thank you

Thank you so much for the wealth of information.. You're a great educator. Is there a pdf format of your books for sale?

Hey Jeremy, I love this video! Thank you for taking the time to create it for us. I have a question: what is your approach behind the left hand in your shout chorus voicings? It looks like you're doing a combination of 4ths, A+B and diminished stuff. Is that right? How did you go about working that out?

Hi Jeremy great video. A quick question almost all of it was review for me (in theory) however I really need systematic way of mastering these voicings to apply them to tunes. Did you say that was covered in book 1 and 2, or 2 and 3 of your Jazz Piano Fundementals

Great work, you are an excellent teacher and I certainly intend to buy your books :) I have a question about how to study chord voicings, in the sense of how to ingrain/organize them in our minds (starting just with the shells). I'm studying the book Metaphors for the Musician and the first solo piano voicings that are presented are what you call bass shells, but with 2 notes in the left hand and 1 in the right hand. After a lot of time, I have all m7, 7 and M7 in my hands and I can play 2-5-1 sequences. However that skill doesn't translate automatically into playing just the shells in one hand, either left or right, which would be my second step (although it translates into playing Bud Powell voicings). That happens because there is a substantial component of muscle and visual memory that is lost or at least needs adaptation. When studying these shell voicings, do you advise putting a lot of effort into learning the names of the 2 notes and seeing them as individual entities? Do you advise the use of some visual aid, like imagine there is a "hidden" chord in the background while selecting notes among the invisible stacked thirds? Or should we treat each new chord like a new word, not fully connected to others, and embrace the muscle memory component? Do you have any tips to practice the harmony vocabulary more efficiently (do you have a video about that?)? Thanks!

Definitive!

Another great video good sir! My wife's getting so sick of hearing your voice haha keep it up...By any chance are you performing in the D.C area anytime??

I like very much the sound of a C triad over B bass (C/B). As I feel it, in this case the b9 interval doesn't sound bad, maybe because the bass B isn't adjacent to C. What do you think? Do you use this voicing? Thanks once more for your wonderful videos!

wow Jeremy! How long did it take you to absorb all that knowledge and then play with such fluidity? I wish I had studied jazz piano years ago, but I'm stuck reading music. Thanks!

This's really hot stuff.

can you use these voicing for other types of music?

What I have discovered with the magic range is that it changes a bit depending on the instrument. I also found I can't do normal piano voicing that low on organ either.

Looking at this you can quickly see how playing melody with the right hand with left hand chords in the "Magic Zone" puts your melodies in the flute range. This is why I prefer stacked keyboard or the organ. You can play right hand down as low as you can reach without bumping into your left hand. Hammond organists do this all the time. Piano is (to say the least) an outdated instrument.

Watched in double speed. Only 30 min!!

Jazz voicing more ....😂😂😂😂 5 hour 😅😅😅

My man didn't mention upper structures 😢

Thanks a lot, Jeremy, I've been looking for such an explanation for months. looks like I've got a looooong way to go but you gave me a start