Advanced Jazz Piano <Fully Tested>

Practice these in all inversions around the circle of fifths. When you can comp a blues using only upper-structure triads, you have arrived.

: Moving away from traditional tertian (thirds-based) harmony to stack fourths. This technique, popularized by McCoy Tyner and evident in the "So What" chord, creates an open, modern sound that is less anchored to a single tonal center. Rootless and Drop-2 Voicings advanced jazz piano

If harmony is the vocabulary, rhythm is the syntax. Intermediate players play eighth notes. Advanced players play , sixteenth note phrases , and hemiolas . Practice these in all inversions around the circle of fifths