👉🏻 Steal These Killer Voicings!

As jazz pianists, we often get caught up in abstract concepts and complex ideas. Sometimes, it’s refreshing to focus on something concrete. Today, I’m sharing 4 beautiful, two-handed jazz piano voicings that will immediately improve your sound and expand your harmonic vocabulary.

These voicings are practical and versatile, perfect for adding richness to your playing. Whether a beginner or a more advanced player, these voicings will help elevate your jazz piano skills.

Tips for Faster Internalization 

1. Focus on the Top Note: Identify the top note’s relationship to the chord. This helps you harmonize melodies and comp more melodically.
2. Learn Using Scale Numbers: Use scale numbers instead of chord names to better navigate voicings in any key. For example, a 6/9 chord from bottom to top is 3 5 6 9.
3. Use the Circle of 4ths: Practice each voicing through the circle of 4ths to solidify it in all keys.

Bonus Practice Techniques 

• Approach each chord a step below or two half steps above.
• Practice with a play-along track, using rhythms like the Charleston, or two rhythms at once.
• Practice these on staccato off-beats