Utilizing Shell Voicings to Represent Piano Chords
Study music online with Berklee: www.berkleemusic.com Check out this video from Berkleemusic.com and watch as Berklee professor Paul Schmeling expla...
Study music online with Berklee: www.berkleemusic.com Check out this video from Berkleemusic.com and watch as Berklee professor Paul Schmeling explains how to master the toughest jazz standard with ease and improve your left hand technique by utilizing shell voicings to represent chords in the left hand.
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Shell voicing eh? I don’t play much Jazz but it sounds useful, I’ll have to look it up.
In other circles this is called Tri-Tones
absolutely sick! u may have changed my style compltely
Nice lesson.. who is the teacher?
This is what I have been looking for, thanks for that buddy
nice.
Sifu, are these not also called Bud Powell voicings because of the R3 and R7/b7 tones? Unlike tri-tones, these shells have a Root (R) and third (3rd) or seventh (7th), but is it adviseable to have back to back shells of the same quality and/or color tone? Are they not supposed to be alternated? Thanks for your time!
Actually, a tritone is an interval of 6 half steps; shell voicings are R3 and R7 which can be 3 or 4 half steps for 3rds, and 10 or 11 half steps for 7ths (with an occasional dim7 at 9 half steps). You are probably thinking about the distance between the 3rd and 7th of a dominant 7th chord, indeed an interval of a tritone.
excellent work!
does anybody if a shell voicing is another term for comp chord?
Hi James,
Shell voicings are just one particular type of comp chords. There are many types of chords you can comp with though. Here’s an article with written examples and audio that explains the chords much more in depth.
http://www.freejazzlessons.com/2011/11/08/shell-voicings-lesson-super-simple-yet-powerful-jazz-chords/