Fourth Voicings - Peter Martin | 2 Minute Jazz

Peter demonstrates how to incorporate cool fourth voicings in
major seventh chords in your solos and comping!


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What's going on everybody? Peter Martin here for Two-Minute Jazz.
I want to talk to you today about fourth voicings. Maybe in a
situation that you haven't used them a lot, which is a major
seventh chord.


You know over the minor, Dorian kind of sound like C minor, these
voicings based on fourths, moving them around diatonically can
work really well with some chromatic stuff and all that but over
the major, so we take E flat major, I love to move these around
diatonically in terms of like spacing on a ballad or even on a
medium tempo whatever, you know, a lot of different
applications. 


But basically, we're just taking four notes starting on the third


and then we're gonna go up continuing in fourths diatonically
over the E flat major and then a lot of times I'll add a fifth
note of right around this time so we got three in the right hand
to the left. Just cause I like the way it sounds. And then I'll
take the fifth note away somewhere around here, when it starts to
get a little muddy sounding. Okay? 


So in terms of ballad playing, you got that. But if this is like
[faster tempo] 


 


In the context of like 1-3 -6-2-5:


Because you know, a lot of times we'll have this voicing. Would
be all forths. But with the third, which is nice too. And that
certainly can be worked in but with the straight fourth, I think
it works


nicely. So you know you can kind of learn these in different
keys: C major. You know, taking them in all the different
keys you have, you have some nice stuff to play 





One thing that you can add in with these to give them a little
bit of a, different kind of sound would be some real basic
chromatics. So you got:


So we're just going half step below, half step above. Trying to
think, there's a.. oh the Bill Evans intro on Love for Sale.
That's great fourth voicings over that E-flat. Okay? So
check out some fourths. Not just over the Dorian minor sound but
over some major sevenths. Happy


practicing! 


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