This gives us a jazzy sound (because of the tensions) while not being too crowded (you only ever play 4 notes because we drop the root).Įven though we are allowed to omit the root note in a chord, if you’re playing in a band often the bass player will play the root note. Instead of the root (and sometimes the 5th) we play chord tensions. As the name suggests, these chord voicings exclude the root note. Specifically, it’s possible to omit the less important notes (root & 5th). Well, using this same idea, we can create rootless voicings.Ī smooth and popular type of chord voicing are called (Bill Evans style) Rootless Chord Voicings. In previous lessons (specifically the one on Shell Chords) we established that in Jazz we don’t need to play every single note in a chord. Playing appropriate chord voicings can make a song sound very jazzy and very professional. So instead of playing CMaj7 as a block chord (C E G B) we could reorder the notes and play C B E G. A chord voicing is just a way of altering the order of and intervals between the notes in a chord. This is a very important part of playing Jazz piano. In this series of lessons we will be discussing how chords are actually played in practice.
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