Fourth Voicings - Peter Martin | 2 Minute Jazz

Peter demonstrates how to incorporate cool fourth voicings in major seventh chords in your solos and comping!

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What's going on everybody? Peter Martin here for Two-Minute Jazz. I want to talk to you today about fourth voicings. Maybe in a situation that you haven't used them a lot, which is a major seventh chord.

You know over the minor, Dorian kind of sound like C minor, these voicings based on fourths, moving them around diatonically can work really well with some chromatic stuff and all that but over the major, so we take E flat major, I love to move these around diatonically in terms of like spacing on a ballad or even on a medium tempo whatever, you know, a lot of different applications. 

But basically, we're just taking four notes starting on the third

and then we're gonna go up continuing in fourths diatonically over the E flat major and then a lot of times I'll add a fifth note of right around this time so we got three in the right hand to the left. Just cause I like the way it sounds. And then I'll take the fifth note away somewhere around here, when it starts to get a little muddy sounding. Okay? 

So in terms of ballad playing, you got that. But if this is like [faster tempo] 

In the context of like 1-3 -6-2-5:

Because you know, a lot of times we'll have this voicing. Would be all forths. But with the third, which is nice too. And that certainly can be worked in but with the straight fourth, I think it works

nicely. So you know you can kind of learn these in different keys: C major. You know, taking them in all the different keys you have, you have some nice stuff to play 

One thing that you can add in with these to give them a little bit of a, different kind of sound would be some real basic chromatics. So you got:

So we're just going half step below, half step above. Trying to think, there's a.. oh the Bill Evans intro on Love for Sale. That's great fourth voicings over that E-flat. Okay? So check out some fourths. Not just over the Dorian minor sound but over some major sevenths. Happy

practicing! 

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