Piano Jazz Chords and Rootless Voicings

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Piano Jazz Chords and Rootless Voicings

What is a rootless voicing?

In its simplest terms a rootless voicing is just a chord with out a root.

It is common practice for most pianists to omit the root from their voicings because they are usually playing with a bass player.

Another practical reason for for leaving out the root is that with piano jazz chords which often will add 7ths, 9ths, 11ths, and 13ths, if we try an play all the possible notes of the chord we would run out of fingers at least in our left hand.

In the image below we have removed the Roots from some commonly seen Chords (symbols) seen in Jazz Music and elsewhere.

I point this out so you will begin to see that many of the chords you may already know can take on a whole different fuction depending on what the Bass player is doing with the root of the chord.

For a complete lesson with video check out the link below!

Rootless Voicing Jazz Chords

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