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Cmaj9#11 (Lydian Pad) — jazz piano voicing

Lydian #11 pad - bright modern sound. Written in C. Below it, 3 transcribed voicings from the pianist it defines, both hands, note by note.

The shape

Lydian #11 pad - bright modern sound

Pop-Lydian

Stored in C so it moves to any key; each note carries its role and its name.

Kenny Barron, in full

3 transcriptions, both hands, as the app teaches them.

Hard Bop era still life for Kenny Barron: a brass sustain pedal worn bright at its centre.

Kenny Barron

b. 1943

Modern Mainstream · Modern Rootless + Spread

Modern mainstream elegance - hybrid rootless/quartal approach, signature spread voicings

Cmaj9 modern rootless

Modern mainstream rootless: LH has 3-7-9, RH adds 5th and root on top

Hybrid Bud Powell/Bill Evans - rootless LH with melodic RH extensions

Modern Rootless

Cm11 quartal

Extended quartal clusters: LH octave+5th foundation, RH stacked 4ths (F-Bb-Eb)

Modern quartal harmony - all intervals are 4ths or 5ths, no 3rds

Quartal Clusters

Cmaj9 spread

Signature spread voicing: deep bass root, RH stacks 3rd-6th-9th-5th in wide intervals

Wide-interval contemporary sound - each note in its own register for clarity

Spread Voicing

Also reaches for Dm11 'So What' Voicing, Dom7 Rootless A and Maj7 Rootless A.

Also in their vocabulary

5 more reach for it. Their notes are printed on the rarer grip each one plays.

Take it to the key you are working in

Everything above is in C, and nothing is held back — the notes are the notes. What a page cannot do is move the shape into the key of the tune on your stand, or run your own progression through it and play the result. That is what the Reharmonization Engine in the app is for.

Built from the app's own data: the grip from masterVoicingGrips, who plays it from pianistVoicingStyles, and every transcription frompianistExactVoicings. Nothing on this page was written about these pianists for the website.