Three Sweet Piano Chords For Ya! - Peter Martin | 2-Minute Jazz

Peter Martin breaks down three useful voicings for minor chords.


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What's going on, everybody? Peter Martin here for Two Minute Jazz
Piano. I want to show you three minor chord voicings that you may
not be familiar with that I really like, use a lot, hopefully


you'll enjoy them, too.


So minor, basic and potentially boring, right? (pleasant piano
music) So what can we do?


Here's the first one. This is a minor 11, just going through
chromatically and I really like this voicing. We've got the root,
the


fifth, the ninth, the third, the seventh and the 11th. It's a
minor 11 chord and there's things that you can add, you can
double the ninth. The 11th's on top, the root's on bottom. A lot
of different ways to do it, but I love it. I just love that
openness of that.


I actually wrote a tune a few years ago in D minor kind of based
upon that voicing and that melodic pattern called La Pregunta.


But anyway, it's just great symmetry, the ninths with the fifths


in there stacked up. So that's a minor 11 and then the next one
is minor but it's a half diminished and this is something I heard


Herbie Hancock do a lot, especially in that, you know, early 60s
period when he was playing with the Miles Davis Quintet.


It's a half diminished so we've got the flatted fifth, the minor
third groove, dominant seventh but we've got the ninth which is a
little bit unusual, so it gives you that A flat minor major seven
kind of stacked on top.


Kind of great, great sound there. So half diminished nine


is what I call that one and then the last one we got is another
thing inspired by Herbie Hancock which is. And this a diminished,


an F fully diminished because we've got the minor third, the
minor fifth, we've got the major seventh and the ninth.


That's the kind of Herbie-ism that kinda gives it a different
feel. Lot of tension in there, right? And so we got the two minor
thirds separated by the perfect fourth and it resolves nice into
a major.


And you got a lot of cool stuff happening in there, that E major
triad. Alright, three chords for ya, comin' atcha.


Peace, happy practicing!


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