http://www.jazzland.eu Free jazz music Area Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:18:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en All The Left Hand positions previously seen,  can be applied on a typical progression II - V - I,  allowing us to carry out little movements in the passage from a chord to the other. We select one of the two positions from which we want to leave and we ... http://www.jazzland.eu/index.php/2011/221/left-hand-voicing-on-turnaround/ This kind of  Voicings, was developped after the bebop era meanwhile the birth of the Modal Jazz, expecially by Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner and many others. The main feature about this kind of voicing is the use of a 4 th interval, giving a very modern sound to a ... http://www.jazzland.eu/index.php/2010/219/quartal-voicings-on-turn-around/ Here’s a nice 2 bars pattern on Dominant 7#11 chord, starting from the 5th of each chord. As seen previously, in order to practice it continuously along the Vths Cycle, there are shown two forms: descending, and ascending on the cycle by transposing by an octave a chord tone (pivoting). http://www.jazzland.eu/index.php/2009/387/2-bars-pattern-from-5th/ The few lines describe how to apply the Bebop Major scale on a II-7b5 - V7b9 progression. As known, these scales use some cromatism between specific diatonic (i.e. notes exclusively taken from a simple major/minor scale) tones, in order to get a simmetric scale (8 notes) that starting from ... http://www.jazzland.eu/index.php/2009/368/the-bebop-major-scale-on-minor-turn-around/ Here's a nice 2 bars pattern on Dominant 7#11 chord, starting from the 3th of each chord. As well, here, in order to practice it continuously along the Vths Cycle, there are shown two forms: the first descending, and the second let you ascend on the cycle by transposing by ... http://www.jazzland.eu/index.php/2009/349/349/ Here's a nice 1 bar pattern on Dominant 7 chord: In order to practice it continuously along the Vths Cycle, there are shown two forms: the first allows to ascend, and the second let you discend on the cycle. ............................................ http://www.jazzland.eu/index.php/2009/342/342/ Once seen how to apply both hands voicings for each kind of chord , we can extend all those frames to the Major & Minor  Turn Around Progressions. A first simple and very effective way which ti start with, is to aplly the drop 2 technique to the left hand voicing ... http://www.jazzland.eu/index.php/2009/246/compin-voicings-turnaround/ Among the styles of compin' by using Voicings, the Quartal Voicings developped after the Bebop era with the birth of the Modal Jazz, and in this sense Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner have been pioneers...   ---> This post will explain the use of quartal intervals for developpins Voicings for ... http://www.jazzland.eu/index.php/2009/231/quartal-voicings/ This post will explain how to developp Voicing using Both hand. Once seen that base criteria for each king of chord we can as well apply all these to the Major and Minor Turn Around Progressions http://www.jazzland.eu/index.php/2009/229/compin-voicing/ As shown, we count 2 basic positions (3rd or 7th to the low) for left hand voicings, to be used to espose a tune or to support a solo. The are only few exception (see below) for some kinds of chords. In order to give a criteria easy to be ... http://www.jazzland.eu/index.php/2009/133/left-hand-voicings/