How Does That Work? Drop 2 Voicing

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🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Adam finishes off his How Does That Work? series with an episode on drop 2 voicings, an especially useful tool for anyone interested in arranging.For more lessons at the piano with Adam (and Peter!), check out our brand new course: Jazz Piano Technique. In Volume 1 of this series, you'll get a 4-week bootcamp entirely focused on improving your ability to play pentatonic scales. For more info, go to https://www.openstudiojazz.com/jazz-piano-techniqueLike those You'll Hear It shirts Peter shows off on the podcast? Want some YHI swag of your own? Take a visit to our store! Just go to https://teespring.com/stores/open-studioLet us know what you think by leaving a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, or head over to our YouTube channel and leave a comment for this episode.Interested in more jazz advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram at:https://www.facebook.com/heyopenstudiohttps://twitter.com/heyopenstudiohttps://www.instagram.com/heyopenstudio See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	I'm Adam Manus, and you're listening to the You'll Hear podcast. Daily Jazz Advice is coming at you.
0:16.9	It's my last day here at the piano solo. Pete's coming back, I think, remotely next week. And so we're going to do our last episode here of our series. How does that work? It's a basic jazz theory series. Check them out early in the week. I've done some on altered dominance, diminished chords, chord substitutions and playing out. Today we're talking about drop two and drop two is a voicing concept,
0:38.6	but don't worry, you can use it even if you're not a pianist. It's great for arranging. Anytime you
0:44.2	have four voices, drop two is a very convenient technique to use. I was just doing some orchestral
0:49.8	arrangements the other day and I was using this in the strings because I know that it always
0:53.8	sounds good
0:54.3	if you use it right. So what is drop to mean? Well it actually means exactly what it's called.
1:01.1	You drop the two or the second note from the top. So if we have a C major seven chord,
1:09.2	a four note block chord, C-E-G-B
1:12.6	just a regular
1:14.3	vanilla
1:16.1	wonderbread C-Mager 7
1:18.0	the second note from the top
1:20.1	the G we just take it and we drop it down
1:22.5	an octave we omit it from
1:24.6	where it was literally move it down an octave
1:26.8	and that's what it is.
1:28.3	And for some reason, these voicings sound awesome.
1:30.3	Beautiful. That's it. So any four-note block chord that you have, here's D minor 7, like the 2 of a 2-5 and
1:50.5	C, D-F-A-C, take that A second from the top and drop it down.
1:57.0	These sound great.
2:04.5	And so there's just an incredible amount of things you can do.
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