This is Adam Menace.

And I'm Peter Martin.

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Daily Jazz Advice coming at you. All right. Now, what are we got today? Today we're going to talk about our seven favorite voicing concepts. Is this going against what we usually preach about with voicing? That there's not really one great voicing. That's why we're saying voicing concepts. Remember we were talking about doing seven of our favorite voics, but that voicings, we always say, are part of a progressive situation, shall we say. Yeah, we don't want to get in the habit of just plunking our hands down. Yeah, we don't have a favorite voice thing, so we have a favorite voicing concept. I like it. Okay, I like it. Okay. Where are we going to start? Why don't we start with root plus shell plus color?

Okay, this is where I start a lot of, you know, my students on this voicing because

not only is it easy to play, but it really kind of helps spell out what the court can be.

So it's interesting because I start a lot of my students with just root. Maybe my students are dumber than yours. No, I mean, root plus shell plus color. I don't take those kind of students. That's good. I need your students. So root plus shell plus color, when I say root plus shell, that's the left hand, right? So if we're going to do a C major 7, we have a C, and then we have the shell.

And the shell is, of course, third and the seventh. So third and the seventh. So C, E, B in the left hand.

And then plus color, these are notes that help to color the chord. The root plus shell,

that tells you all you need to know about the chord.

That defines the chord.

But the color can really help you tell the story that you're trying to tell.

And give you options, give you little variations, right?

Exactly.

The most common color tones that you'll hear are the...

Yellow.

Oh, no.

Well, depending on your synesthesia, this might be yellow, but are the fifth, the ninth, and the

13th, you know, on a major seven.

So you usually would want to add two of these.

So we'll do kind of a three plus two voicing here.

So you have root and shell, and then you can add the 9th, the D, and the 5th.

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