Comping For Beginners | Playing 2+2 | Jazz Piano: Short Practice Ideas
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- Опубликовано: 18 апр 2023
- Often times beginning pianists can feel lost when they start playing in their school big band. This video will give some pointers on how to play appropriate, clean and simple voicings when you need to comp your own chords and changes! Happy practicing y'all!
Cheers,
Mack 
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Your short practice idea videos are real nuggets, Mack!! They are challenging but never overwhelming and fun too. Thanks for sharing!!! 🙏
My pleasure, glad you enjoy them!
very good! thank you!
Great teacher always
great lesson!!
Hi! I've been playing the piano for 13 years, but I never played jazz on the piano. When I started playing jazz, it was on woodwinds, so I never learnt to comp. This sounds like exactly the sort of practice I need, so thank you!
However, I feel like it's still a bit too hard for me on most tunes. I tried it on All Blues and Autumn Leaves, and there I kinda just settled into certain shapes and inversions that I didn't switch around, and I didn't employ any sort of voice leading, so I was often jumping from place to place, just to get to the chord shape I had learnt. I tried it on Misty and In a Sentimental Mood, where I really struggled and almost never managed to hit the right chord.
What I'm trying to ask is, do you have any tips for exercises for absolute beginners into comping? People who only ever knew the piano keyboard as something to memorise tunes set in stone on? Maybe exercises to learn to read chords?
Anyway, thank you so much for this exercise!
Hey hey! I would say this is a relatively difficult way to comp compared to what we might call 'upper structure' style. Upper structure style we play a stock voicing (left hand rootless chord) and just try to play octaves in the right hand to start, then maybe octave spliced with a third down from the top, then maybe four stacks.
I think that two handed comping is one of the more difficult things we do on the piano, especially at first when learning because most of the time we practice by ourselves. What I would do is make sure to just learn to spot these 2+2 voicings on any tune that you are working on and get fast at finding these.
First big fundamental thing that I make all my jazz piano students do is memorize and master the rootless major 2-5's and 2-5-1's. Play the first chord as a rootless minor nine chord, then drop the 7th of the chord a half step to make the chord become a dominant 13 voicing for the five chord. We see lots of 2-5-1's, but more importantly when you practice all the 2-5-1's you are practicing each dominant, minor, and major chord! Whoa!
Hope that helps, sorry I dont have the time to go into more detail!
Cheers,
Mack
@@mackgrout Thanks a lot! :D
Bebop jazz piano.. please