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So how to piano and guitar players learn to comp

like jazz pros? Well, today I'm going to show you three things that you need to be practicing

in order to get there. Let's do this thing. What's up, Brent, here from Learn Jazz Standards,

where we help musicians just like you learn how to play jazz all while shortening

the learning curve no matter what instrument you play. Welcome to another quick win episode of the

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here. So regardless of whether you're a piano player or a guitar player, you're going to have to

comp for other instrumentalists, for singers, and it's a really

important part of being a jazz player on our instruments, and there's a lot of work to be done.

Now, comping simply means accompanying, meaning that we are supporting or backing up the soloist

or the singer, whatever it be. So we need to work really hard on playing that role. And I find that there are three main areas that we need to be studying in order to accomplish this. But of course, make sure you stick around to the very end of the video where I'm going to give you the number one tip I have for improving your comping and really taking it to the next level. The very first thing you need to be working on is voicings. Voicings, voicings, voicings. You need to be able to play a lot of different kinds of voicing on your piano or on your guitar. And the first kind of voicing that you need to know is your stock voicings. Now, what are stock voicings? Stock voicings are what I would call your bread and butter voicings.

These are voicings that everybody uses.

These are the ones you're most often going to go to to get through a jazz standard and to accompany somebody else.

So, for example, for piano, great stock voicings to be working on are what we call shell voicings,

which is basically just playing the thirds and the sevenths. And also you can play the root as well. Be able to play your shell voicings

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