The third interval in a minor chord is called a “minor third.” The fifth interval in a minor chord is the same as in a major chord, the interval of a “perfect fifth.” Most rock and pop songs use a mixture of major and minor piano chords. “Comfortably Numb” is an example of a rock song that begins with a minor chord. Minor chords are also very common in rock and pop music. From the third, count two whole-steps (or four half steps) to find the fifth. To play a minor chord, select any root note, then count three half-steps up to the third. I will publish soon in another pages half diminished ,diminished seventh and altered chord voicings.Minor chords, like major chords, contain three basic keyboard notes, a root note, third, and fifth. In this way you play a lighter chord, airy, less heavy. So you do not need to exaggerate in the use of dissonances inside chords, even if you are playing some modern jazz.įor example, I do not like the sound of the sixth on the dominant seventh chord and I do not often use it, replacing it with the fifth or omitting both the sixth one and the fifth.īesides you can often omit the fifth on the minor and major seventh chords, the fifth or the ninth in dominant seventh chords. In music and art the complexity is generally synonym of ugliness, unnatural, difficulty of understanding. How to use jazz piano chords and voicings Therefore you should never miss these two notes in the chord, except if, for example, you need to play a sus4 chord: in this case the third is omitted leaving the place to the fourth note. Remember the most important notes of a chord are the third one and the seventh one that determine the mode (major or minor) and the type of chord. Certainly there are also other chords besides minor seventh, dominant seventh or major seventh: in another pages I will treat about the half diminished, diminished and altered seventh chord voicings (with augmented fifth and ninth or minor ninth). Study all these progressions of II-V-I in major key and practice to play them on famous jazz standards.
Second position (voicings) in jazz piano chords Instead, if it is too much above the central C the right hand can be disturbed. Keep in mind the chord of the left hand must be played as near as around the central C(C4) and it has to contain the central C inside (in virtual way, if the C does not belong to the chord), to avoid cacophony. The first position or the second is used according to the necessity.
You could also play the fundamental with the left and the chord with the right hand to learn to harmonize the melody or to accompany a singer or another musician.
Therefore you have to play the four notes around the central C (C4) with the left hand.You note the fundamental one among parenthesis and you must not play it when you improvise.
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