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• By moving voicings up and down the keyboard we learn how they feel in all of the
key centres so that we can use them on-demand during performance.
• Practice your favourite comping voicings moving chromatically up and down the
keyboard with your right hand.
• When comping the F blues we can sideslip voicings up and down chromatically to
add interest to our comping through the chord changes.
• Practice 25 progressions around the circle of 5ths with half steps in between. Start
with just the 3rds and 7ths and then extend the voicings to include 9ths and 13ths.
• Once you are comfortable with the voicings shapes and bass line contours you can
apply a Charleston Rhythm to the right hand voicings by anticipating the V7 chords.