Two handed comping archives page 6 of 6 free jazz lessons. In that context, comping is what the other instruments, especially piano, guitar, bass and drums do when a solo is being played. In this score, i include image files for both pages of the original key of b transcription, as well as pdf for the transposedtob flat version. Blues duo comping jazz rhythm guitar lesson wes theobald. Basic fingerstyle comping lesson comping fingerstyle 1 will teach you a valuable rhythm technique that can be used on an acoustic guitar. One of the approaches that i use all the time is feeding off the rhythm section. I began creating music transcriptions of piano recordings in 1977. We serve students in newton, waltham, cambridge, and the surrounding areas. Secondary dominant chords after working with altering the rhythm, the next step is to take a deeper look at whats going on harmonically. A study of 9 legendary jazz piano players and the zero to jazz piano hero program.
But broadly, there are three different comping styles or approaches you can employ. Thanks for checking out my first youtube guitar lesson. Theres loads more we will be looking at for comping but this is a great bag of ideas to get started with. I came up with a comping handout for the students to help them learn about lefthanded voicings. With a piano player i dont try to follow up with the whole chord just using one or two of the lowest notes. I want run through these six essential chord voicings you really must know for solid and interesting blues comping. How to comp enliven your accompaniments with comping. Learn to play the f jazz blues using the hammond organ. As a member of the music workshop, you can now request a custom lesson that you would like to learn, we strive to be the very best online piano lessons in the world and we figured that the best way to make sure you learn everything you want is to simply let you choose the lessons. Being able to outline chords in a blues progression using triads is what separates the good guitarists from the great ones, and will also probably land you more gigs. In the jazz field, comping has generally taken on a more.
He is a world touring jazz and blues keyboard player and educator. Welcome to our lesson on comping the f blues on the hammond organ. It is relatively easy to play a chord in the left hand, hold it down, and improvise with the right hand. Mar 06, 2015 in this article were going to take a look at some blues comping voicings that the pro piano players know and use. Basic chord cycles for jazz guitarists diatonic and chromatic cycling for comping. Jazz piano comping how to comp the jazz piano site. That cd has many tracks with just a rhythm section playing. Blues piano improvisation lesson lets improvise with the blues scale. Jazz educations purpose is to give you the basics you need in learning to play jazz or to improvise. The ukulele like the guitar and piano is one such instruments.
F jazz blues comping jazz chords and concepts guitar lesson playing the chords on a jazz blues is a great way to start your journey into jazz guitar. When comping the f blues we can sideslip voicings up and down chromatically to add interest to our comping. It is especially common as a term in jazz and blues. Cindy moorhead continuing our exploration of cool things to do with a jazzblues chord progression in a rhythm section, id now like to demonstrate an accompaniment, or comping, technique favored by jazz guitarists, pianists and organists alike over a swingstyle walking bass line provided by a bassist, second guitarist or keyboardists left hand that provides. That is the best way for me to improve my lessons and make thme fit what you want to hear. Here, we will provide you with lead sheets, basic chord melodies, chords and single note solos that you can begin applying over some of the most popular standards right away. Comping over a minor blues tune is an essential skill for any jazz guitarist, as minor blues tunes are some of the most commonly called songs on jam sessions. Its the chords and the style rhythm that you play the chords that comprise comping. Lenny breau is sometime deriving shapes from pentatonic scale. Unlock the world of blues piano and open the door to a world of creativity.
Mustknow blues comping play blues piano with willie myette. Blues comping i dont really see soloing and comping as two distinctly different things. How to play jazz blues the first ten steps blues piano. Blues scale in general it can be used on every chord but above all on min7 th and dominant 7th chord. F blues comping etude 3 choruses if you have any questions, comments or suggestions for topics or how i can make the lessons better then please feel free to leave on the video or send me an email. We were playing a blues, a count basie arrangement, and i. Heres some other shapes lenny is also using when doing his particular piano comping. By joining the patreon community you are in the company of 200 others supporting and helping shape the content on my youtube channel. The comping rhythms, melodies, and voicings of the greatest jazz guitarists are delightful to listen to, with or without a soloist present. I have a lot of lessons on melodic aspects of playing voicings and on different times of voicings you can check out. You are comping for the soloist, youre playing behind the head. Learn blues piano with willie myette play blues piano. Again, you can copy mine if you are a beginner and need some ideas or create your own. Swingin the blues chord comping this is the third lesson of duke robillards swingin the blues series of swing guitar lessons.
These piano comping practice tips are meant to give you specific exercises to practices that will improve your harmonic understanding and help you learn the chords to a bunch of jazz tunes. Chord voicings to get started with chord voicings for any jazz standard at the piano, you must first learn how to form rootless chord voicings. Piano transcriptions by dave ratcliffe piano lessons with. Go from complete beginner to playing blues piano in 9 lessons. From comping to soloing, youll learn the theory, the tools, and even the tricks that the pros use. He is also the author of the the jazz masters method dvd. Typically a term used by jazz musicians and done by the musicians playing an instrument capable of playing chords, harmonically, ie.
Oct 01, 2018 pianist eli yamin shows you how, by first starting your comping by playing the ones, you can then develop rhythmic variety in your comping by working closely with the drummer. As pianists we need to be ready to accept 2 different roles. Apr 06, 2016 these piano comping practice tips are meant to give you specific exercises to practices that will improve your harmonic understanding and help you learn the chords to a bunch of jazz tunes. Heres a free jazz piano lesson featuring the awesome jazz chords of bill evans. You can check how i am using them in my blues comping lesson. Introduction to blues piano lesson 3 adding the right hand comping exercise 1, two hands together, right hand comping on the beat. When you play behind a soloist, whether he or she is playing the melody or an improvised solo, you are comping. Prior to this i had picked out songs by ear like the beatles lady madonna and martha my dear, memorizing them as i went, and thus bypassing the process of attempting to notate what i was hearing. Volume 3 contains 12 jazz piano exercises and explorations by the acclaimed jazz piano educator, pianist, author, and recording artist tim richards. When you create or follow my improvisation etude, you are. How to comp chords comping chords on the piano this is definitely one of the more complicated aspects of playing the piano. Paddy will also introduce the concepts that will enable you to benefit from the more advanced courses. I play each example 3 times, so you can either use it as inspiration for your own practice or even use the video as a play along and comp together with me.
Youre job here is to support the soloist by providing a rich harmonic background for them to play or to sing over. Introduction to jazz guitar chords and comping styles. If theyre playing on the 1 im trying to play right after. This chord splitting technique will be looked at in depth later in the lesson. In this video, i am going to go over 10 examples of comping rhythms to check out. Comping short for accompaniment is simply the music and instruments that are accompanying the melody. F jazz blues comping jazz chords and concepts jens larsen. Listen to the piano player on the recording and try to identify the rhythmic patterns he is using. Jazz blues comping heres a short lesson i made to give you the tools to play the chords for a jazz blues in bb and a few directions on how to learn to approach playing chords in a jazz context. Sometimes the greatest lessons come at unexpected times.
The first example is the basic charleston rhythm through a 12 bar blues in c. Includes subjects like chord substitution and superimposition, melodic phrases, and walking bass lines. Jim hall chords and comping techniques jazz guitar comping is an art form in its own right. This scale is much used above all in blues,pop,jazz,soul,funk,rhythm and blues,rock. In this video i will go over a 3 step process where you learn some basic jazz blues comping and turn them into tools that you can use to comp more freely and develop your own chord vocabulary. If you look closely at the jim hall comping excerpt youll notice that both chords are based o. Comping is an art, and there is no right or wrong way to do it. The basic ingredients in music are scales, chords, melody, rhythm, and harmony. Jazz standards for jazz guitar pdf sheet music, tabs, chords and soloing with audio examples welcome to our archive of some of the most popular jazz standards for jazz guitar. You can use these drills to strengthen your right hand comping both on hammond organ and on piano. If you want to check out an example for comping on an f blues i wrote a lesson with two choruses using different types of voicings. The goal for this series is to transition a player familiar with standard 12 bar blues to more melodic and complex jazzy blues swing guitar chords, comping and soloing. Blues duo comping jazz rhythm guitar lesson this lesson will show you a few different ways to approach playing jazz rhythm guitar over a 12 bar blues in a duo setting. If the bass player plays a note im playing right after them.
Before we can get into piano comping, we need to learn the chord voicings for the song. Comping on blues learning to comp and improvise on blues is an extremely valuable tool for understanding and mastering harmony on the guitar. One of the most important things to remember is that comping is shorthand for accompanying. In the 12bar blues form, these three chords are almost always dominant chords. Start with the lesson core chords the big six building a solid chord foundation for building your 4part contemporary chord foundation and the modular phonetic rhythm, the foundation and. Dec 04, 2015 theres loads more we will be looking at for comping but this is a great bag of ideas to get started with. This particular lesson features a iiviiv 2514 chord progression in a minor key.
I was a freshman in college playing piano in one of the music departments big bands. The ray charles 12bar blues piano lick piano lesson. Look at it like this, you cant do any piano comping. In this video i take a brief look at some alternative jazz chords to spice up a blues in g. Jim hall chords and comping techniques terence wright. Play rock n roll piano like its the 50s piano lesson pianote. Since i am concerned with rhythm in this lesson and not the voicings ill leave the discussion of the voicings out.
Purchase this individual lesson as a download and get the same content as what members see. Blues piano will teach you the basic skills you need. Building a solid vocabulary of great jazz comping rhythms is difficult. That is a pretty simple definition of comping chords, but it works. Learn blues piano with willie myette play blues piano with. Cindy moorhead continuing our exploration of cool things to do with a jazz blues chord progression in a rhythm section, id now like to demonstrate an accompaniment, or comping, technique favored by jazz guitarists, pianists and organists alike over a swingstyle walking bass line provided by a bassist, second guitarist or keyboardists left hand that provides. F jazz blues comping jazz chords and concepts guitar. Tim wrote the well known exploring jazz piano and improvising blues piano books and has several others to his name. Welcome to this lesson on comping drills and exercises. The comping lesson of your dreams a thorough lesson on the use of rootless chord voicings over a blues form. In this lesson we will explore some useful voicings, patterns, and rhythmic ideas for right hand comping over the 12 bar blues. Just the blues scale can be considered a basis for a particular key blues.
In just the 4 bars of the original jim hall comping example, a number of musical devices are used that you can incorporate into your comping. You can comp sparsely and delicately listen to count basie or aggressively and busily listen to mccoy tyner. A foggy day v1 chords, mostly middle strings key of f. Very basic left hand comping handout for piano learn. Some basic ideas for chordal playing in a 12 bar blues format, utilizing minimalistic chord shapes and double stops. The i iv v chords are all related through the circle of 5ths which creates a natural sense of tension and release in the blues progression. Ill never forget how i learned the chords i am about to show you. How my heart sings by peter pettinger yale university press, 1998, the liner notes from the 1992 mastersound edition of kind of blue state.
These beautiful chords are very useful because you can use them in solo jazz piano arrangements and you can also use them to play behind other instrumentalists. With a membership to playbluespiano, you get unlimited 24hour access to our piano lesson library. Part one of two, created to tie in with my book, how to really. Common jazz comping rhythms once you feel comfortable with step 5, add some rhythm to your voicings. Blues comping with two notes lesson 3831 guitar lessons. With online lessons, you can learn on your schedule be it at 6am or 11pm.
With a bit of music theory, you can learn to insert triad chord shapes in. Jazz blues comping chords with chord boxes youtube. The following lessons introduce some of the basics of jazz guitar chords. Visit our blog for free piano lessons, sheet music and video tutorials. You should transpose these two voicings into all 12 keys after you learn them. I will give a more detailed description of left hand comp at a later date. But how is it that some players manage to create such captivating comping ideas, while others fade into the. They are providing the support, or accompaniment for the solo. Piano comping practice tips cocktail piano lessons. Consider the 12bar blues, which we know is based primarily on three chords the i, iv, and v chords. See our blues section here for our selection of recommended blues tunes. Jazz blues guitar comping exercise free jazz guitar lessons. The pdf for this lesson is available through patreon in the patreon fb group.
Otherwise you can purchase this lesson as a download, or become a member and access this lesson plus hundreds more. Your job is to support the soloist, outline the changes and add a rhythmic propulsion to the music. In the previous lessons we explored walking bass lines and in this lesson we will apply right hand comping voicings to accompany our own solos or the solo of someone else in the band. Steve is the author of premium jazz elite membership a comprehensive allinone online jazz piano course. You actually spend most of your time on a jazz gig playing behind others. In this practice session by peter vogl, you will learn how to use the thumb, index, middle, and ring finger of your right hand to play the strings in a rhythmic pattern comping.
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