Those most excellent keys voicings in Syntorial
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As I've been going through Syntorial, I'm always awe-struck as a beginning piano player how often Joe throws in these beautiful spread voicings for demo'ing off poly patches. Many times I just pause the video to figure out what the chord is, and determine why I like it, but I just wanted to say:
- They're amazing, and help the patches sing when making a point.
- How did you learn to express these kinds of two-handed voicings? Were there any resources (books, songs, theory, etc.) that helped with this? Is any of this covered in Building Blocks? I'm constantly trying to extend my vocabulary and as a guitarist who primarily gets voicings for free across the strings, I'd love to get out of just basic inversions and using more of the range of the keyboard between both of my hands.
Anyways, this is all to say, thanks!
Johnny Goodnow
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Hi Johnny
I'm glad to hear you're enjoying the voicings! Building Blocks covers chord inversions, and briefly touches upon the concept of spreading the individual notes out to create open voicings when experimenting.
Personally, I've learned these voicings through years of piano study and experimentation, and when I came upon voicings I liked, added them to my arsenal. I'm partial to open voicings that spread a chord out over intervals of 4ths, 5ths, and 6ths. I find those intervals to be close enough to create rich interactions between pitches, while far enough to create that wonderful "open" sound. Then I'll sometimes throw an additional chord tone in there like a 9 (2), 11, or 13 (6) to add an inner level of richness.
As I say in Building Blocks it often just boils down to exploring how other artstis make their voicings as well as experimenting on your own. In both cases when you come across a voicing approach you love, go deep into it, create your own songs and voicings with them, and they gradually become part of your sound.
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