Ron Worthy is a Music Educator and Performer. He provides online piano instruction for all ages. He specializes in Rock Pop Blues and Smooth Jazz Piano Methods.
If you are like most people, your performance of a piece of music at first sight could probably stand some improvement. Oh, to be able to breeze through a brand new piece without all the stops and starts!
They make use of the root and either the third or the seventh any chord. Sometimes referred to as "shell" voicings, these are commonly used as left-hand accompaniment in the piano stylings of Bud Powell, Horace Silver, Sonny Clark, and others who play primarily in the "be-bop" idiom.
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