Utilizing Shell Voicings to Represent Piano Chords

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Uploaded by on Dec 20, 2006

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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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  • Tremonti al piano!

  • 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!

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  • nice video

  • Blues in B flat -- this is the style I learned in the 50s - still good today.

  • @jamesmykal a shell voicing is simply the 1 and 7 of any chord. The root and seventh. Any chord, voicing, inversion...etc can be used to comp. This is one of the simpler voicings.

  • does anybody if a shell voicing is another term for comp chord?

  • excellent work!

  • 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.

  • nice.

  • This is what I have been looking for, thanks for that buddy

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