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Modern voicings,
instant Bill Evans Peace Piece.
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One of Bill Evans's compositions is
a great tune for beginners to try out.
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It's called Peace Piece and the entire
tune uses the same left hand in every bar.
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So that's it, that goes on through the
entire song, and he plays some beautiful
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music in the right hand, so I recommend
you go download that score somewhere.
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And then try to work out some of
the patterns in the right hand, and
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then just make up your own.
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So it's a great song to practice with,
experiment with.
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Just lazily trying things out.
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You don't have to get everything right,
you can just keep it simple.
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So what you're playing is if you take
out the double beat in the left hand.
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Just start with the C.
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C major 7 fragment.
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There's C major 7, so
put the 7th down there.
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Remember, your cluster chord,
a chord fragment.
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And F backwards.
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It's got a nice light, loose vague sound.
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So and then you just try to
bring something in to the right.
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So there's this C major 7th in there.
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Okay, so down the C major 7th scale.
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And then you can go towards
the second of the scale.
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That was a quartal.
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Back down.
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So, experiment does
the pentatonic scale work.
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What note do you want to finish on?
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Observe the patterns.
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That's C Major 7, and the F backwards.
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The fifth of G.
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You're not trying anything cool or
fancy or strange.
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You're just exploring.
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It doesn't sound right
coming down the scale.
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Too basic.
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How would you change that?
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Double up on notes, see if that works.
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So, you can just keep playing that over
and over and lazily explore the notes.
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You'll discover the black notes won't
work unless you can put them in as
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a passing note somehow or other.
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Whatever suits your style.