Jazz Piano Chord Voicings - Advanced Locked Hands Technique

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This Jazz Piano Tutorial is about the advanced Four Way Close, Locked Hands and Drop 2 Techniques.
In a previous lesson I explained the Locked Hands Chord Voicing Technique (AKA Four Way Close, AKA Drop 2). Locked Hands is a great way to play a melody that moves by step, by harmonising each note with a chord.
The underlying idea of Locked Hand is to create a I-V-I-V-I chord progression
But, there are a number of things you can do to make this technique a bit more complex and interesting and to reach those notes few remaining notes.
The basic Locked Hands idea uses
- a basic Tonic 7th chord;
- a diminished substitute for a V7 chord
But there’s no reason to restrict yourself to these particular chords or substitutions.
In place of a V7 chord you can use the:
- Diminished substitute
- Altered diminished substitute
- Any other G7 alt chord
And we can extend and alter the Tonic Chord with the Locked Hands Technique.
As long as you maintain that underlying I-V-I-V progression, it will sound good.
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[@WalkThatBass]

Cheers, mate. Glad to hear it.

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[@WalkThatBass]

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[@junexx2330]

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[@vinx002]

Good video

[@Tclack]

This is all good. But it seems to be suited mostly when your "background chord" is minor. After all, a dim7 goes well to a minor. But what if you're dealing with major chords? CMaj7 as an example (exempted from your list at around 1:30)

[@dorfman1080]

can you upload the pictures of the possible G7, Cm and C7 chords? I would love to print them

[@WalkThatBass]

I've got them written out here: walkthatbass.wordpress.com/2016/10/22/advanced-locked-hands-technique/ Is that what you were after? Otherwise I'd be happy to email you a copy of the slides I used (as the above webpage does not have the colour coding).

[@dorfman1080]

Walk That Bass thanks!

[@nicholaseb1351]

You played the major chord man ( 9:40)