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Minor 2-5-1 Rootless Voicings

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Instructor
John Proulx
Course
Intermediate
02:18:19

This comprehensive course covers minor 2-5-1 rootless voicings. We’ll learn these chords with fun exercises in each key, and apply them to short songs in a bossa, swing, ballad, and funk style.

Course Objectives
  • Learn minor 2-5-1 rootless voicings
  • Practice exercises in each key
  • Apply these voicings to short songs in various styles
Learning Focus
  • Chords
  • Reharmonization
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with 2-5-1 in minor and major Jazz harmony starts to make sense to me
Minor 2-5-1 in addition to major helped me a lot to understand jazz harmony and conceptions.....great stuff! - but hard work that is worth it!!
Fun and challenging
I've learnt so much it's fantastic. John is great and gives opportunity to improvise in exercises too. Brilliant as usual
A thorough examination of the Minor 2-5-1 chord progression.
This course made me practice and become familiar with the more “difficult” keys. The exercises force you to become more confident in keys that I wasn’t so confident with -eg C#, B minor, Ab minor etc.
Excellent
I found this much harder than major 251 for some reason
Great exercises
I have found the exercises and the song very well prepared and made learning the content fun.

Course Lessons

1
Minor 2-5-1 Rootless Voicings – Lesson 1
14:34

Definition & Positions

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2
Minor 2-5-1 Rootless Voicings – Lesson 2
14:17

Short “A-B-A” Voicing Exercise

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3
Minor 2-5-1 Rootless Voicings – Lesson 3
12:47

Long “A-B-A” Voicing Exercise

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4
Minor 2-5-1 Rootless Voicings – Lesson 4
19:57

Short “A-B-A” Voicing Exercise

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5
Minor 2-5-1 Rootless Voicings – Lesson 5
13:35

Long “A-B-A” Voicing Exercise

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6
Minor 2-5-1 Rootless Voicings – Lesson 6
08:50

Short “B-A-B” Voicing Exercise

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7
Minor 2-5-1 Rootless Voicings – Lesson 7
07:34

Long “B-A-B” Voicing Exercise

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8
Minor 2-5-1 Rootless Voicings – Lesson 8
10:19

Short “B-A-B” Voicing Exercise

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9
Minor 2-5-1 Rootless Voicings – Lesson 9
07:10

Long “B-A-B” Voicing Exercise

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10
Minor 2-5-1 Rootless Voicings – Lesson 10
29:16

A Song Based on “Alone Together”

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Featured Reviews

View PWJ member reviews of this course!

with 2-5-1 in minor and major Jazz harmony starts to make sense to me
Minor 2-5-1 in addition to major helped me a lot to understand jazz harmony and conceptions.....great stuff! - but hard work that is worth it!!
Fun and challenging
I've learnt so much it's fantastic. John is great and gives opportunity to improvise in exercises too. Brilliant as usual
A thorough examination of the Minor 2-5-1 chord progression.
This course made me practice and become familiar with the more “difficult” keys. The exercises force you to become more confident in keys that I wasn’t so confident with -eg C#, B minor, Ab minor etc.
Excellent
I found this much harder than major 251 for some reason
Great exercises
I have found the exercises and the song very well prepared and made learning the content fun.
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