A jazz ballad is always good for demontsrating the beauty of jazz voicings.
Here’s my solo piano video of popular jazz standard “The Nearness of You”

DROP 2 VOICINGS

A word by the great Marc Sabatella on drop 2 voicings,

“Drop voicings are formed by taking a close position voicing and dropping one of the notes down an octave. A drop 2 voicing is formed by dropping the second to the top note. Thus, for instance, a C7 chord in root position may be turned into a drop 2 voicing by dropping the G an octave”

Drop 2 voicing technique is applied at 2m22s of the video.

Original chord for these two bars were simply Dm7 to G7

To create some movement between these two chords, these chords were added.

The notes in red are the second note from the top of each chord.

With drop 2 voicings applied, this was what I got

Like always, have fun and enjoy….

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