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Voicings for showtunes.
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Your four note left hand seventh chords,
sound okay when played near to middle C.
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But unless you're playing on
an expensive grand piano,
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four note chords can sound rather muddy
the lower you play them on the keyboard
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It's not very distinct,
all the notes are running together.
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So for instance,
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if you wanted to play a four note G seven
chord quite low down on the keyboard,
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cuz maybe your melody line would be
in the way if you're playing there.
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[SOUND] What you'd need to do
is play a voicing of G seven.
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So to make a voicing, you simply play
the root note [SOUND] and the seventh,
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[SOUND] as if you were
playing the four note chord.
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Leave out the third, and the fifth, and
play them in the right hand instead.
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Can you hear the difference?
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Voicing full chord, so it's the same
notes different sound altogether.
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Okay, and you might be playing
a melody line above that.
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And you don't have to play the third,
and the fifth, in the right hand.
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If you're playing a different melody line
that's fine, it'll still sound okay.
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You can play it with it.
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So in the next page, we're going to
voice a classic chord progression.
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You know the progression by now C,
A minor, D minor, G, okay.
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Now, it would be with the full chords C,
A minor, D minor, G.
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[SOUND] And a bit muddy.
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So what you're going to do is play the
voicings, so there's your C major seven.
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[SOUND] Remember one left of
the root is the major seven.
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And you're going to take the third,
and the fifth, and
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play them in the right hand.
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[SOUND] And you're moving everything
down to A minor [SOUND] so
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you can either memorize it by
taking the shift out,or you can
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play the A minor seventh,
number two left of the seventh.
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But remember all your white chords,
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all your C family chords
will look exactly the same.
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There's your A minor, [SOUND] root on
seventh, third, fifth play them up above.
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See I'm at D minor seven,
[SOUND] there's your third, [SOUND] and
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fifth play them up here down to G seven.
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[SOUND] Take right to third and
fifth play it up here.
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[SOUND] And what you're playing is.
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And you can see those voicings fit well
with songs like Blue Moon, Stormy Weather,
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Can't Help Lovin 'Dat Man of Mine.
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Just try it.
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Now you can also use the notes of the
voicing to create rhythmic patterns, so
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instead of just playing
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It sounds okay, but
you can add some rhythm to it.
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And then you can start to bring
in melody on top of that.
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