There seem to be so many different techniques for voicing melodies that it's hard to find one that will cut through the band and sound clear and powerful. The technique that I occasionally use is one where you voice the melody as an octave in the right hand while also adding a third from the top note down. The left hand could play a regular left handed voicing either with the melody or comping along, depending on your taste and either the wanted or unwanted extra density that both hands playing at the same time will create. Also, the third from the top might change to a fourth, depending on the scale, but for the most part, I stick to a third from the top with sparse comping in my left hand.
There seem to be so many different techniques for voicing melodies that it's hard to find one that will cut through the band and sound clear and powerful. The technique that I occasionally use is one where you voice the melody as an octave in the right hand while also adding a third from the top note down. The left hand could play a regular left handed voicing either with the melody or comping along, depending on your taste and either the wanted or unwanted extra density that both hands playing at the same ...
Volume 1 of this educational jazz piano book contains 15 jazz piano exercises, tricks, and other interesting jazz piano techniques, voicings, grooves, and ideas Scot Ranney enjoys playing.
Volume 2 has 14 jazz piano exercises and tricks of the trade, and quite a bit of it is Calypso jazz piano related material, including some Monty Alexander and Michel Camilo style grooves. Jazz piano education is through the ears, but books like this can help.
Volume 3 contains 12 jazz piano exercises and explorations by the acclaimed jazz piano educator, pianist, author, and recording artist Tim Richards.
Tim wrote the well known "Exploring Jazz Piano" and "Improvising Blues Piano" books and has several others to his name.
Volume 4 is by Jeff Brent, a jazz pianist, composer, teacher, and author of "Modalogy" and other acclaimed jazz theory and education books. In this book Jeff shares detailed analysis of transcriptions of live performances. He covers everything from the shape of the songs to the tricks and licks he uses in improvised lines to the ideas behind his lush chord voicings.
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