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What is an Upper Structure Triad?Upper Structure Triads are a style of chord voicing used by Jazz pianists.Upper Structures are large voicings, consisting of 5-7 notes, and require two hands to play.In the left hand, the pianist plays the chord's root, 3rd, and 7th.And in the right hand, the p…
What is Side-Slipping?Side-slipping is a technique used by Jazz pianists. It works by transposing the chord voicing you're playing up or down by a step (either a half-step or whole-step).By transposing the chord voicing like this, ' in parallel',  you almost always move out of the ke…
What is an Open Voicing?Open voicings are when you take an ordinary 7th chord (that would normally be built in thirds), and you spread out its notes so that they span a wider range.Most open voicings span at least a 10th, if not a 12th, or even a two octave span.What are some types of Open Voicing …
What is a Fourth Voicing?Fourth voicings are when you take an ordinary chord (that would normally be built in thirds), and you spread out its notes in fourths, instead of thirds.For example, C major 7 would normally be played C E G B, each note plays a third above the note below it.But you could pl…
What is Jazz Reharmonization? Reharmonization is when a Jazz musician changes the original chords of a song, and  plays a different chord or chords of their own choosing.Reharmonization is a subtle form of composition, where the Jazz musician adds their own take to a well known Jazz standard.Reharm…
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