Drop 2 Voicings - How To Make Them Musical Building Blocks

In Jazz, drop 2 voicings are great to have in your vocabulary both for comping and chord melody. In this lesson, I am going to show you how you can get them into your playing and put them to use in a musical context. So we are going a little further than just trying to learn the inversions which is where most students get stuck.

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Content:
0:00 Intro - Drop2 Chords
0:20 Going Further Than Inversions
0:45 II V I in F Major
0:59 Drop2 Inversions
1:32 Using Drop 2 to Create Music
1:48 #1 Adding extensions
1:56 They are all Gm7!
2:31 Rule #1 for adding extensions
3:10 Relating the voicings to other chords
3:51 Rule #2 and #3 for Extensions
4:49 Maj7, Maj6 and Maj7(13)
5:00 #2 Adding Altereations
5:14 Overview of alterations
5:26 2 Examples with altered dominants
6:35 #3 Make Music - Top-note Melodies
6:58 Example 1
7:35 Leaving out notes to create movement
7:45 Example 2
8:22 Making melodies using the voices in the chord
8:41 Example 3
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