5 Comping Examples With The "So What" Voicing

[@neilsaunders9309]

The most useful jazz piano instructional material on KZbin!

[@StijnWauters]

Thanks a lot! I appreciated it, Neil

[@williammaestre9318]

Fantástico estro WAUTERS, tremenda compilación

[@lluisrafalessole-classical5068]

Great Song my friend 🎹🎶 Beautiful Jazz Music 🎶

[@lluisrafalessole-classical5068]

Great tutorial 🎹

[@IN2music2]

I learned this voicing a while ago but didn't know how to connect it and apply it to other chord types. Thank you very much for this wealth of info!

[@StijnWauters]

My pleasure! Glad you like the content!

[@femiadebayo2819]

Thank you sir, much appreciated

[@carlosgonzalez2077]

AMAZING!

[@alecaird2966]

Thx much Stijn!; This helps much because it enables me to stay out of the bass player’s way! 🎼

[@jakubwysocki1375]

I love your lessons. Hope to See You doing lesson about route 66 tune someday 😁

[@blancablancanievesnieves9822]

I have been waiting for this video since time ago

[@kalospiano9470]

great as always, thank you!

[@terenciojazzpiano7794]

Excellent lesson, guidance, and analysis. The first example sounded like Bill Evans' "Peri's Scop," or adptable to I mean ? On "My Little Blue Suede SAhoes, " these voicings n your hahds sound terriffic. MUCH THanks !

[@StijnWauters]

Thanks a lot! And you’re right about Peri’s Scope, very similar chords!

[@blancablancanievesnieves9822]

Estaba esperando este video desde hace mucho

[@snoopy_next_door]

you're the best! thanks

[@andrazlasic9577]

This is very helpful, thank you very much!

[@hughiejames7865]

Brilliant!

[@HonkyMonky]

great job bro!

[@blancablancanievesnieves9822]

Gracias

[@flamingfive3893]

Maybe this is nitpicky, but I prefer (and find it's much easier) to put 3 notes in the left hand and 2 in the right, as opposed to 2 in the left and 3 in the right. This way, when you solo, you already have a 3 note shape in your left hand to use.

[@StijnWauters]

Great suggestion! That's indeed a very good idea to practice these voicings with 3 notes in the LH. When I first learned "So What" I learned the voicing with 2 notes in the LH, and since there are also a lot of other comping voicings with 2 notes in the LH (for example: guide tones), I automatically play these voicings with 2 notes in the LH.. But thanks a lot for the input!

[@dannuttle9005]

My ear tells me that everything you do works wonderfully, but my brain struggles to understand how an F-7 So What voicing acts as a G7 (at 1:13). The Bb and the C imply heavily that it's a G-7, not a dominant. Is this a case where a minor chord is substituted for the dominant? One of the tenets I've heard repeated many times is that a minor V (in a minor ii-v-i for example) just doesn't resolve as well as a dominant chord; seems like it's even more true in a major ii-V-I. Or maybe the point is that you're actually skipping the G7 entirely?

[@StijnWauters]

Hi, I think there are multiple answers to your question: 1) playing the F-7 instead of G7 actually is a common reharmonization. It's called "backdoor resolution" and is often used in standards: instead of Dm7 / G7 / Cmaj7 you would play Dm7 / Fm7 Bb7 / Cmaj7 (the Fm7 = minor subdominant). 2) playing an F-7 voicing on G sounds like G phrygian: the Ab, Bb, and Eb in the F- voicing are the 3 flats in the G phrygian scale. It is also a "common" reharm technique (changing the collor of the chord) 3) in the actual example I more or less ignored the G7 and played the Fm So What voicing as a chromatic approach to the Em So What voicing on Cmaj7. 4) we can use the So What voicing as a "constant structure" randomly moving up and down (in that case you would ignore the actual II V I, but keep the form). The top notes will then sound as a "melody", even though the chords wouldn't match the II V I you are playing.. Hope this was of help!

[@senorpaolo4722]

Thank you for the video Stijn.. please where can I get that backing track?

[@StijnWauters]

Thank you! The backing track is made with iReal Pro, but I added a link in description where you can download the backing track (in C): bit.ly/3vljy6Q