Drop2 Bundle – Build Your Voicing Vocabulary

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When you play jazz guitar you need to be able to comp. You need the chord vocabulary and the knowledge of the chords to play in a musical way through a Jazz Progression like a jazz standard.

With this lesson bundle, you can check out how to use Drop2 voicings on the Blues and common standards. Going over this material will give you vocabulary and ideas that you can apply to any song. It will also help you learn these songs if you are not yet familiar with them.

 

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F Blues Drop2 Workout

How to really use Drop2 voicings

We can spend hours practicing inversions without being able to use jazz chords on a real piece of music.

If you have worked on studying and practicing jazz chords and want to seek them put to use then this lesson is what you are looking for.

  • Solid comping rhythms and melodies on an F blues 
  • Voicing techniques to open up more possibilities 
  • How to comp clearly and beautifully with Drop2 chords.

Drop 2 & Chromatic Passing Chords - Take The A-Train

This Lesson will give you an overview Drop 2 voicings for this standard progression and exercises and examples of how to comp with chromatic passing chords.

I made this lesson to give you a way into adding chromatic passing chords to your Drop 2 comping. The package will give you a good work through Drop2 voicings for this standard progression and also several exercises and examples of how to add chromatic passing chords to this progression and of course to your comping in general.

Drop2 voicings on There will never be another you

In this lesson I set out to try and demonstrate how I use drop2 voicings in my comping and also pass on some general thoughts on playing in a rhythm section and backing up a soloist.

The lesson is built around a 3 chorus improvised performance that I did where I am comping with drop2 voicings on the changes of the standard "There will never be another you"

It is not that difficult to play, and is a good realistic version of how you can comp behind a soloist without getting in the way but still make the harmony clear and play some interesting things.

Drop2 voicings on the chords of All The Things You Are

This lesson consists of 2 examples, each a chorus long. The lesson tries to demonstrate how to use the material from my free drop2 lessons on a standard.

The download includes 37 minutes HD video, PDF + GuitarPro sheet music and mp3 backing track and examples,

Drop2 Creativity - Solar

The goal of this lesson is to teach you how to use Drop2 voicings, it is built around two etudes on the famous jazz song Solar. Using the chord voicings that we practice is often much more mysterious than it has to be, and this lesson is helping you get more out of the time you spent practicing drop2 inversions.

The etudes are demonstrating a basic use of the Drop2 voicings but still will show you how to:

- Combine chords to phrases not just blocks

- Use simple easy-to-play rhythms

- Connect chords with melody

- Play phrases and make comping sound like music

This part of the lesson contains a short analysis of the chords of Solar, some exercises and analysis of a few of the things from the etudes.

From Chords to Comping with Rhythm & Melody

In Jazz, you play chords play as a part of an improvisation and therefore they must be flexible and not static blocks.

Another important aspect of comping is that you want to create musical statements with the chords. The easiest way to do this is to learn to think of them as melodies.

That is what these exercises will help you develop:

– Make Chord voicings flexible blocks for improvisation
– Thinking melodies when comping
– Connecting chords across the progression in a musical statement

Description

When you play jazz guitar you need to be able to comp and you need the chord vocabulary. Drop2 voicings is a great place to build that foundation if you want to play Bebop or Hardbop!

With this lesson bundle, you can check out how to use Drop2 voicings on the Blues and common standards. Going over this material will give you vocabulary and ideas that you can apply to any song. It will also help you learn these songs if you are not yet familiar with them. They are both flexible and versatile enough to play anything and also stay playable.  They are also the primary type of voicing being used both in bebop piano and by Wes Montgomery.

Working on your Drop2 vocabulary will help you develop:

  • A vocabulary of important jazz voicings
  • Prepare you for playing chord solos
  • Make it easier to get started using block harmony for chord melody
  • Learn some of the voice-leading and embellishment habits of Bebop comping

The repertoire covered in the bundle is very useful Jazz standard repertoire. Famous (and great) jazz standards like “Take The A-Train” and “All The Things You Are” are a must in any Jazz repertoire and will teach you important things about form and harmony.

If you want to develop further ideas on comping I can recommend that you check out:

Autumn Leaves Chord Solo Etudes

and combine the drop2 voicings with your other chord voicings in Bb Blues Comping