We create a beautiful ballad arrangement and then we apply upper structure triads and some interesting applications of drop 2 harmony.
This tutorial introduces the ‘locked hands’ technique. This style involves playing left hand voicings simultaneously with an improvised line.
The altered contains every possible altered chord tone and is a great scale choice to improvise over altered dominant chords.
The concepts we’ll be focusing on are target notes, approach patterns and chromaticism. Understanding these principles will give you line structure.
My Romance follows a 32 measure A-B-A-C form and the tonality is primarily major. The tune is played as a ballad or medium swing feel.
One of the most important things to remember is that “Comping” is shorthand for ‘accompanying.” It’s a subordinate role in the band.
Here’s That Rainy Day is a jazz ballad composed by Jimmy Van Heusen. Written in the key of G Major, the tune follows a 32 measure A-B form.
In this lesson we discuss some general improvisation concepts for This Masquerade and also any other jazz standards you are working on.
We apply left hand voicings, two handed voicings and look at ways we can voice the vamp for the intro and outro to the tune.
We start with simple two-handed voicings and then create interest by adding in upper structure triads, block chords & chord substitutions.
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