👉🏻 Check Out These Great-Sounding Voicings!

This week, I use the blues as a framework to explore five-note jazz piano voicings that sound great and actually make sense under your fingers.

Instead of memorizing isolated shapes, we build everything from the ground up—starting with 3rds and 7ths, then stacking extensions, altered tones, upper structures, and pentatonic colors. Along the way, you’ll see how these voicings move through the form and why certain notes naturally “flip” as the harmony changes.

We also talk about rhythm and feel, using concepts like the Charleston rhythm, anticipations, and off-beat comping to bring these voicings to life.

If voicings have ever felt overwhelming or random, this approach will help you hear them more clearly, understand where they come from, and practice them with purpose.