Beautiful Love with Close & Open Voicings

Practice your close & open voicings with this great standard "Beautiful Love"
Close voicings are often called "rootless voicings", or - when played in the left hand - "left hand voicings".
For maj7 and min7 chords we use 9th chords (maj9 and min9) without the root. For dom7 chords we use guide tones + 9 and 13, again without the root. You can also use these LH voicings to comp behind yourself while soloing in the RH.
Open voicings (or "spread voicings") are the most complete voicings we use in jazz, not only to harmonize a melody, but even to comp behind a singer or soloist.
They consist of root - guide tones (3 & 7) - tensions - melody. Since we use both hands to play these open voicings, we have plenty of space to add extensions or to use alterations and reharmonizations. Notice we only play 2 notes in the LH (1 & 3 or 1 & 7)!
* Free pdf of the sheet music: bit.ly/37DzTrQ
* Free pdf of the sheet music (with annotations): bit.ly/3xAPByt
0:00 Practice the close voicings
2:27 Practice the open voicings
* Pause or slow down the video if necessairy
* Don't forget to apply these voicings and comping exercises to other standards!
* Backing track used in this video: • BEAUTIFUL LOVE chord p...
* For more tutorials and free sheet music visit: jazzpianopracticesessions.com

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This is fantastic! Good to see that it is OK to use closed voicings for comping. I also really like the closed voicings with octaves on top. I use that but wondered if it is acceptable. Great to hear the sound of open voicing comping vs closed voicing comping. Thanks so much.

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Great video! My wife wanted to hear the difference in style and sound of closed vs open voicings using the same song. Accidentally came upon this video. I also like to see the same song played with different techniques - spread, closed LH, walking bass, stride, block chords, etc.

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Just what I have been looking for. I don’t know my chords but I read music well and with the chords in the left hand, I can use my Clavinova piano jazz accompaniment tracks to make it sound really good. Thanks a lot. 👍

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Thank you! You’re very welcome!

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My professional jazz piano-playing instructor and I are jamming all over this nice “set-up” of a classic tune (Bill Evans - Explorations ‘61 with bassist Scott Lafaro and Paul Motian drums) for the next week or so. Thank you for great job you do of stimulating our playing. Never gets old playing this tune, swinging all the way. I think I like comping part as much as simply playing the melody. Note that Victor Young also penned “Stella by Starlight”. Yo, what’s up with the missing solo tips?

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Andrew Parker Thank you for all your wonderful lessons. I wondered where can I find the jazz accompaniments, is it iReal Pro

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Thanks a lot! I often use iReal Pro to make the backing tracks, but for this tutorial I used this backing track: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHLWgKCJibF-ntE It's a great channel!

[@terrykosowick594]

I noticed your open voicing section used all rooted voicings. You can also have open voicings that are rootless, right? I think you did some of those at the very end of the closed voicing section. I looked back; no you didn't - they were closed voicing on the bottom with upper structures in the right hand.

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Great content! What sort of skill level would this be aimed at?

[@StijnWauters]

Hi, I think these voicings (close & open) are quite standard and even basic for an experienced jazz pianist, but if you are new to jazz and have little understanding of jazz harmony, this could be too difficult.. I would say skill level intermediate?.. :-)

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