I'm Adam Manus, and you're listening to the You'll Hear podcast, Jazz Explained.

So today we're going to do something a little different. We're going to

listen to an entire lesson from our brand new course called Jazz Piano Essentials from the

brilliant Jeffrey Keeser. This is a brilliant lesson. It's all about comping. Jeffrey starts out

with comping with one note, which I was like, wait, where's, what's going on?

How is he?

And then he comps with two notes, and then three and four and so on.

And he also talks about range and comping.

This features are very own Bob Dubu on bass, and Bob accompanies Jeffrey, and then Bob will

solo and Jeffrey will accompany his solo with some comping.

Like everything that Jeffrey is recorded for us here at Open Studio, this lesson completely changed

the way that I've been thinking about comping and practicing comping.

Ever since I saw him record it, I was there at the session.

Really, really incredible stuff from one of our favorites around here. So please

enjoy Jeffrey Keiser and comping. Okay, so I get a lot of questions about comping in lessons that

come up. And quite often, piano players will go to the biggest possibilities for comping playing these big sort

of, you know, on B flat, you know, the...

Something like that, right? You know, you got your seven, you got your three, you

get your 13, you know, something big up on top, octaves with some notes in the middle.

You know, which is fine, but you don't want to do that all the time.

It's not always appropriate to play the big, giant voicings like that.

And so I wanted to give you some ideas in a really methodical way to develop comping voicings.

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