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Modern Voicings.
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Instant Bill Evans.
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Chordal Fragments.
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So you've just played chordal voicings.
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[SOUND] And the pianist Bill Evans
made great use of these.
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And also a thing called chordal fragments.
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Chordal fragment is when you simplify
a four note chord down to three notes and
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cluster two of the notes together.
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So to make things simple,
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look at the middle of the page at
the G minor 9 and the F minor 9.
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Basically what you're gonna do is
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look for a G minor chord
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and then move the root note up
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to the second note, so
should also hold the ninth.
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This is also the second,
one in C, one, two, three,
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four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, which is also the second.
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Look for the G minor.
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Put your finger up onto the ninth.
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Can you hear the nice sound you get?
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If we wanted to make F minor 9.
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Chordal fragment.
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Look for F minor
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Simply move the root up onto the 9th.
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G minor 9 chordal fragment
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F
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[SOUND] So
there's just lovely dissonant sound.
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So again,
you get a nice vague kind of sound.
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[SOUND] So the chordal voice will
give you [SOUND] uncertainty
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about where the tonality is
It's the same with these.
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They're less definite than
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So to improvise over these chords,
you can either use the minor seven scale.
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So G minor seven, the F minor seven
scale for when you change the chord.
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So the good thing is, you're learning
to change the scale with a chord.
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And you can hear changing
quite distinctly.
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Because you can't play one
scale over the other chord.
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So we have to change.
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And it gives a nice change rather than
playing the blues scale repeatedly
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over everything.
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You see how it changes everything?
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If you can hear, the melody
completely changes to the new chord.
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You can also use chord tones.
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So in the G minor nine,
the chord tones are mmm.
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You can simplify the nine to first,
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second, third, fifth and again with.
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Do the same with the F minor.
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First.
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Second.
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Third.
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Fifth.
First.
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Second.
Third.
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Fourth.
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All C's.
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Chordal voicings in the right hand.
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Remember, just keep everything simple for
now.
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Just looking for small patterns.
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So when you're in the G minor line,
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it's this note that's really giving
[SOUND] a difference to that chord.
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Because if it was just, so it's really
this note that's making it unique.
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So with that in.
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And again here
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Just work up and
down the scale, just smoothly.
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Don't try too much