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Jazz Blues Shells

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Key
F major
Style
Studies
Level
Level 9
Roughly
RCM 9 · ABRSM 8 · Trinity 8 · Henle 5–6
Lesson
Musicianship
Focus
Voice the changes with thirds and sevenths and aim the melody inside its own notes.

What its lesson teaches

9.2 Leave space in a chord voicing

Study Jazz Blues Shells, an original twelve-bar jazz blues in F. Its left hand uses sparse two-note voicings, mostly root and seventh, with the third–seventh pair A–E flat in bar 4 and the diminished-seventh span E–D flat in bar 6. Keep those voicings light and even under the tune. At the keyboard: play shell and rootless ii–V–I voicings; those are separate models, not the accompaniment printed throughout this piece.

Technique
  • F major scale, hands separately, 2 octaves

Edition and licence

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