Take The A Train with Close Voicings

Practice your close voicings with this famous jazz standard "Take The A Train"!
Close voicings are often called "rootless voicings", or - when played in the left hand - "left hand voicings".
For maj7 and min7 chords we use 9th chords (maj9 and min9) without the root. For dom7 chords we use guide tones + 9 and 13, again without the root.
You can also use these left hand voicings to comp, so a backing track can be helpful to practice along!
* Free pdf of the sheet music: bit.ly/3yI9C7B
* Free pdf of the sheet music (with annotations): bit.ly/3shPkj1
0:00 Practice the close voicings in the LH
1:15 Theme with close voicings in the LH
1:56 Comping with close voicings
3:54 Close voicings in the RH with a walking bass
* Pause or slow down the video if necessairy
* Don't forget to apply these close voicings and comping exercises to other standards!
* Backing track used in this video: • TAKE THE "A" TRAIN cho...
* For more tutorials and free sheet music visit: jazzpianopracticesessions.com

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Thanks a lot! Glad you like the videos and the concept! And a tutorial on walking bass is also on my to do list.. :-)

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I am so grateful to you for this. I grew up playing classical and always have had trouble making up good voicings, I am such an overdoer and I always try to voice the flat five of the d, but your voicing are so easy-going and sound INCREDIBLE! I need to learn from that

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Been trying to practice comping on this tune and this is just what I needed to get the rhythm down right. Thanks for a great video... and for the helpful PDFs as well!

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How can I learn the left hand rythm?

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