In this live seminar, Hayden covers 6 techniques for adding creative fills and embellishments to our jazz standard arrangements.
In this Zoom workshop we explore Bill Evans’ interpretations on songs, his soloing, and most importantly, his incredible approach to voicings and harmony. We will be exploring some of his “trademark” chords from drop 2s to quartal harmony.
Block chords and drop 2 style voicings were used extensively by jazz pianists such as George Shearing, Bill Evans, Barry Harris and Red Garland.
The Red Garland voicing has a distinctive ‘block chord’ sound, but compared to previous styles of block chords, it has a much brighter quality.
In this lesson I explain what drop 2 voicings are, how to construct them and how to practice drop 2 so that you are familiar with them in all 12 keys.
Block chords are used for harmonising a melody line by moving the notes of the chord in parallel, following the same rhythm as the melody.
