Reference

Jazz progressions

A chart tells you the chords. These pages tell you where the fingers go — an octave-specific left hand and right hand, wherever the source separates them.

There are 27 progressions here and 118 hand positions between them, drawn from the harmony bible inside the app. Turnarounds and endings are written in C; each blues form sits in the key the source gives it.

None of this is a tune. These are the devices tunes are made of — the two bars that send a chorus back to the top, the cadence that stops it, the twelve bars a jam session is most likely to call. What the app adds to them, and what a chord chart never does, is the octaves: a left hand and a right hand, transcribed, drawn on a keyboard wherever the transcription separates the hands. Where it does not — a bar carrying two chords at once — the chords are printed and the page says why nothing is drawn.

Turnarounds

The last two bars, sending the form back to the top.

Endings

How the tune stops — the cadence everybody in the band is waiting for.

Blues forms

Full twelve-bar choruses, plus the intros, turnarounds and fragments that surround them.

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The Jazz Voicing Cheat Sheet

One page. The rootless voicings working pianists actually use, in every key, with the fingerings. Free.

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