Three Sweet Piano Chords For Ya! - Peter Martin | 2-Minute Jazz

Peter Martin breaks down three useful voicings for minor chords.=======================================================================What's going on, everybody? Peter Martin here for Two Minute Jazz Piano. I want to show you three minor chord voicings that you may not be familiar with that I really like, use a lot, hopefullyyou'll enjoy them, too.So minor, basic and potentially boring, right? (pleasant piano music) So what can we do?Here's the first one. This is a minor 11, just going through chromatically and I really like this voicing. We've got the root, thefifth, the ninth, the third, the seventh and the 11th. It's a minor 11 chord and there's things that you can add, you can double the ninth. The 11th's on top, the root's on bottom. A lot of different ways to do it, but I love it. I just love that openness of that.I actually wrote a tune a few years ago in D minor kind of based upon that voicing and that melodic pattern called La Pregunta.But anyway, it's just great symmetry, the ninths with the fifthsin there stacked up. So that's a minor 11 and then the next one is minor but it's a half diminished and this is something I heardHerbie Hancock do a lot, especially in that, you know, early 60s period when he was playing with the Miles Davis Quintet.It's a half diminished so we've got the flatted fifth, the minor third groove, dominant seventh but we've got the ninth which is a little bit unusual, so it gives you that A flat minor major seven kind of stacked on top.Kind of great, great sound there. So half diminished nineis what I call that one and then the last one we got is another thing inspired by Herbie Hancock which is. And this a diminished,an F fully diminished because we've got the minor third, the minor fifth, we've got the major seventh and the ninth.That's the kind of Herbie-ism that kinda gives it a different feel. Lot of tension in there, right? And so we got the two minor thirds separated by the perfect fourth and it resolves nice into a major.And you got a lot of cool stuff happening in there, that E major triad. Alright, three chords for ya, comin' atcha.Peace, happy practicing!===============================================================For more entire, full length courses with Peter Martin, check us out at Open Studio: https://www.openstudionetwork.com/piano See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.