Practicing Jazz Piano Voicings
MidiStickers Pro offers you an unique methodology for mastering Jazz Piano Voicings in all 12 keys
with auto-accompaniment tools using the Voicings Explorer tool.
The Voicings Explorer lets you browse through different types of voicings for each chord type, filtering them by tags. When MIDI is set to On, playing a chord on your MIDI controller will auto-select that chord and display voicings for it. Click the MIDI button to set this behiavor to Off, so you can experiment voicings without changing the currently selected chord.
When you hover a voicing, additional buttons will apear. Clicking the
button will launch the Voicing Viewer tool, transposing it to all 12 keys:
The Voicing Viewer tool displays the voicing in all 12 keys in different patterns (“Chord Order”). The default order is chromatic transposition, which emphatizes moving the chord to nearby positions and will help you getting a feel for the different hand positions of that voicing.
The
button starts the practice session. During your practice, an auto-accompaniment will be generated
in a variety of musical styles and your progress on correctly playing through all the voicing transpositions
will be tracked. During the practice session, you won’t be able to see the music notation before you acuratelly
play the voicing, so that the focus is on hands-on transposition and not note reading.
Once you master moving the voicing chromatically, we suggest using the “Seconds” pattern. Playing by seconds is a greater challenge than playing chromatically and will improve your tactile memory.
At this stage, you might want to try playing the voicing around the Circle of Fifths, by using the “Fifths” pattern. This is the most difficult pattern, as it will require moving your entire hand position and immediate recall of the voicing. For best results in complex voicings, try breaking the voicing in chunks, ie, left hand plays a fifth starting on the root, while right hand plays a fifth starting on the third.
Once you are confortable playing through of the Circle of Fifths, we suggest you to try the “Random” ordem, which will generate a different random order each time it is selected. This mode will be the ultimate recall test!