7 Left Hand Voicing Shapes

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🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Don't let your left hand be boring - Peter and Adam show some voicings to help keep things interesting.

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0:00.0	Hey, Peter.
0:02.5	Yo.
0:02.9	It's Monday.
0:03.5	Yep.
0:03.8	It's time for some more classic.
0:04.8	You'll hear it.
0:05.1	You ready?
0:05.6	Let's do it.
0:37.5	I'm Adam Manus. And you're listening to the You'll Hear a podcast. Music, advice, learning, inspiration. Coming at you. Would that be something you might be interested in? Indeed, it would be. Thank you very much. You can ask and answered, self-asked and self-answer. We are brought to you today by Open Studio. Go to Open studio, go to open studio, jazz.com. For more information, go to you'll hear it.com to check out all things with the podcast, including leaving us a speak pipe. And don't forget to leave us a nice rating and review. Peter, today we've got a classic list of seven. Yes. Straight out of the You'll Hear It playbook here. This is seven left-hand voicing shapes. Shall we get to it? Let's do it.
1:28.6	All right. So we're going to talk about seven really specific shapes, a couple of general ideas, two in there. So first we're going to talk about fourths. Then we're going to talk about the minor triadopio herbie especial. I like that one. Just name that. We're going to talk about Shell Pretty. just name that we're going to talk about shell pretty yeah then we're going to talk about the just change one inner voice voicing we're going to talk about shell double pretty yeah we're going to talk about the standards force but with the ninth also and then we're going to end with the shoegays cluster yeah that i'm i'm, because I know about 17 different shoe gaze clusters. Oh, that's excited to see.
1:29.6	It's all about the five.
1:29.6	So let's go straight away with number one, fourths. Now, this is like the perfect way to get started with voicings. Let's say you're playing an F blues. Okay. You know, something we know a lot about around here. Yeah. And we start here with this basic F7 voicing, E flat, A, and D.
1:30.0	Yes.
1:47.4	Right. and we know a lot about around here. And we start here with this basic F7 voicing, E flat, A, and D.
1:47.8	Yes.
1:50.1	Right. Now, that's fourths on an F dominant scale, right?
1:51.8	If you start on that seven, fourth,
1:53.9	13th. It's all in fourth. Now, did
1:56.0	you know, Peter, that you can move that
1:57.9	around diatonically? Yes. In fourths.
2:01.6	Yes. And you get these great voicing.
2:03.6	You can literally do this on any chord.
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