Jazz school audition question

[TWSS]

So I'm looking at audition stuff for the University of Louisville and I've got a question about one of the requirements for the audition and I'm sure one of you will know.

 

It says:

 

 

Guitar   Scales - all 12 keys in at least two octaves   1.   Major 2.   Dominant 3.   Minor (Dorian preferred) 4.   Blues scales   One Hand voicings   1.   Right hand guide tones / Left hand root 2.   Three and/or four notes rootless voicings (guides and one or two color tones) in either Right or Left hand   Play the following - all selections can be found on Aebersold Volume 54 -

[Jawbreakerr]

seems like a mistake to me. they are talking about piano playing. "usually" you play the roots in the left hand, and the guide tones in the right; which is what they are describing in the bold text.

seems like a weird error to me.

 

or maybe University of Louisville is revolutionizing the world of two handed jazz tapping!

 

so either they also want their guitar players to know some basic jazz piano voicings, or its just a mixup.

[Poparad]

So I'm looking at audition stuff for the University of Louisville and I've got a question about one of the requirements for the audition and I'm sure one of you will know. It says: My question of where is says One Note voicings. What do they mean by playing different things with different hands?

 

Do you mean "One Hand" voicings? I don't see "One Note" voicings anywhere (one note wouldn't make a chord anyway, unless they were voicings for "One Note Samba" )

 

That info is pretty clearly talking about piano voicings (I'm assuming you play guitar, which then I can see why you'd be scratching your head.)

 

Whether on guitar or piano, these are all standard types of chord voicings:

 

One Hand voicings 1.Right hand guide tones / Left hand root

 

'Guide tones' are the 3rd and 7th of a chord. On piano, they'd want you to play the root on the bottom with the left hand and the guide tones above with the right hand. On guitar, you can easily play them on the lowest four strings. These voicings (Root, 3rd, 7th) are frequently called 'shell voicings' or sometimes "Freddy Green" voicings (although he didn't necessarily play these specific voicings all the time, but he did play very simple, stripped down ones).

 

The most common voicings for guitar would be like so:

 

(low to high)

 

R x 7 3 x x

 

x R 3 7 x x

 

 

 

2. Three and/or four notes rootless voicings (guides and one or two color tones) in either Right or Left hand

 

Also very common and simple. Keep the 3rd and the 7th from the above voicings, and on top add chord extensions, which are almost always some kind of 9th and/or 13th.

 

I recently described them in this thread:

 

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2433354

 

But to summarize, the 3rd and 7th would be played on either the 3rd and 4th strings or the 4th and 5th strings, and on one or two of the strings above, the 9th and 13th can easily be added (as can the 11th or the 5th).

 

Some examples:

 

x x 3 7 9 13

 

x x 7 3 13 9

 

(Those are chord tones, not fret numbers)

 

Cmaj13 in both cases would be:

 

x x 2 4 3 5

 

x x 9 9 10 10

 

G7(#9 b13) would be:

 

x x 9 10 11 11

 

x x 3 4 4 6

 

(Those four are fret numbers)

[TWSS]

Thanks for the lesson, but I probably should have been more specific. I understand all those voicings and all that jazz (ha) I was just curious what they meant by two hand voicings. It sounds like the mixed up the guitar and the piano somehow.

[Virgman]

I guess if you already know all that stuff you probably don't need to go there.

 

You might be better off just learning a whole bunch of jazz tunes in your spare time and while you're doing that, get into the Business program so you can get a job after graduation..

 

[meganutt7]

They probably require every instrumentalist to play basic piano. That is my guess.

[lollygag]

?? doesn't "one-hand voicings" refer to piano players

[[Animals2]]

I guess if you already know all that stuff you probably don't need to go there. You might be better off just learning a whole bunch of jazz tunes in your spare time and while you're doing that, get into the Business program so you can get a job after graduation..

 

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