- Hi everybody, my name is Jens Larsen.
One of the nice things about jazz
is when you get into jazz comping,
so that means that you're playing small,
melodic statements of fills behind the soloist.
In this video, I'm going to show you
an easy way to start getting into this,
I'm gonna first go over a set of chord voicings,
that are reduced and then I'm gonna talk
about how you easily expand on them
and finally about how you use that
to play some small melodies behind a soloist,
when you're comping.
I'm gonna demonstrate all this on a Blues in B flat
and if you go through the exercises,
you should be able to comp a chorus, something like this.
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The first thing we need to do
is to have some really simple voicings
to play the chords of the Blues,
so the way I'm going to do that
is I'm going to take probably the simplest possible version
and that's just the 3rd and the 7th
of each of the chords.
So for B flat seven, you can look at this
as coming out of the shell voicings,
if you already know shell voicings
and really what I'm doing is I'm playing
a shell voicing like this B flat seven
and then I'm just leaving out the root,
so I'm playing here the 7th,
A flat and the 3rd for a B flat seven,
then on the E flat seven,
it's the 3rd, which is a D
and then the 7th, that's a D flat
and then the next one is a G seven,
that's the 3rd B and the 7th F
and then the C minor, which is B flat and E flat,
that's seven and 3rd, then the F seven,
that's A and E flat,
so now I have two-note voicings,
that I can use to play through the entire progression
and then I can first look at what that sounds like,
because actually we can already play it,
if we just play some nice rhythms with this
and lay down a nice groove, then this will work already,
but we wanna add more to it and we can do that,
once we've checked out how this sounds on the Blues.
This way of playing the chords is pretty easy
and you can probably quickly get that into your system
and find that easy to play through the Blues.
Then the next thing we wanna do
is we're gonna take these two notes as a basic voicing
and then we're gonna add notes on the next string,
so that we have a few more options
for different melody notes,
so that we can just play a few more things with them
and if we take the B flat seven,
so we already have this voicing with the D in the melody,
where D is the highest note,
then we can add on the next string an F and a G,
so that's the 5th and the 13th, so we have,
for the E flat seven, we have the D flat already,
we can add the root, which is an E flat
and the 9th, which is an F, so we have
and then of course, the form goes back to B flat
and then to E flat again and then up to a G seven,
now here we have the 7th in the melody
and then we can add the flat nine and the sharp nine,
on the C minor seven, we have the 3rd,
we can add the 11th or 4th and then the 5th
and then the F seven,
I'm playing the F seven as an F seven alto,
so we have the seven, the flat nine and the sharp nine.
So if you play this through the Blues
just using these different voicings,
then you get this example.
Now we have three different top notes
available for each of the chords,
we can start working on improvising
some small fills using this material.
Probably where you wanna start with this
is just take one of the chords
and get used to playing some small melodies and riffs
and see how that feels and what you can come up with
and for the B flat seven, it can be something like this.
So as you can tell, it's just as important
to think about the rhythms that you're using,
because you're comping, you're also supposed to play
something that's kind of conveying a groove
and that's sitting well with the rest of the rhythm section,
so think a lot about what rhythms you're playing
as well as just what melodies you come up with
and really the melodies are just there
to create a little bit of variation.
So try this out maybe on a few of the chords
and get used to that and then you can,
of course take that to the Blues
and then you could get a chorus like this.
If you wanna check out this example in a bit more detail,
then you can go download the free PDF on my website,
an article that's accompanying this video,
there's a link to that in the description of the video.
The thing that I find is really, really important,
when you start working like this
is that you should realize that we're actually playing
a lot of different types of B flat seven,
but we still have to just think of it as B flat seven,
that's way more practical.
A good thing there is to also start
to sort of link them visually, so we already have that,
we're using the 3rd and the 7th here,
it's somewhat linked to this shell voicing
and you should just realize
that it's pretty much the same thing,
of course, if you add the 5th here,
you know it as a drop three voicing, the same with this 13
and you probably even wanna go a bit further,
so if you're checking out already dropped two voicings,
then
this one or
this one
or even this one are all just B flat voicings,
that you can add in there when you're comping.
Thinking like this is just gonna help you
connect all the different voicings that you have available
and also it's gonna make them
a little bit easier to remember,
because you can see how they are similar,
rather than remembering seperate voicings,
which is gonna help you when you're comping
and then you can just start using all of them.
If you wanna learn more about comping
and if you wanna check out some different ways
of practicing comping,
then you can check out this video that I made,
which is going over some different ways
that you can think about what you wanna achieve
and how you work on comping like this.
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That's about it for this week,
thank you for watching and until next week.
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