Diatonic Fourth Shapes - Peter Martin | 2 Minute Jazz

Tired of using the same old piano voicings when playing ballads?
Peter Martin shows you some new shapes to shake things up.


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What's going on everybody? Peter Martin here for Two Minute Jazz.
Hope you're doing well. Got a quick tip to you today on diatonic
fourth voicings. Just playing around a little on "If I Should
Lose You" and I was just thinking about the uses for this on
ballads. 


But even if we take the tempo up. If we look at like a basic
fourth voicing over G minor. Three notes in the right hand, two
in the left hand. If you have the ability to move through this
and really all the different scales with this shape diatonically,
you're gonna have some nice things that can happen. For your
comping, for your soloing, for a lot of things.


So, these are all fourths on the Dorian, right? Starting on the
root. So, you wanna have that in all the different keys. And kind
of understand them, like that's over F minor. But it works in
fourths over E flat major. 


So, if you're on like a ballad. You're moving in and out of them
but that's the foundation is that diatonic. If you combine that
with an understanding of a chromatic, you're really getting
somewhere.


And you can think about these melodically as shapes too. But you
gotta have a handle on all those, right? In all your different
keys so that you can do that.


All right, have fun with that. Diatonic fourths. Peace. Happy
practicing.


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