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Summary: Learn tips on how to comp chords from our expert in this free music video on chord voicing in D major, E minor, and A7 for piano lessons.

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Tips on the Art of Piano Comping Chords

So now we want to just take a second and really talk about the art of comping, and comping really isn't, it's not just playing the chords and hitting them on time, it's really fitting into a band and fitting into the scenery that is going on, like if you think of a painting, you have a main focus point, and then you have the background behind it, and when you're comping it, your rule isn't the main focus point, you're the background. So, really the trick is how to play enough but not too much. So you want to be there to support the lead player, the saxophonist, or the vocalist, or the horn players, whoever it be, but you want to be in the background, and then maybe when it's time for your solo then you can bring it to the foreground again. But it's really a dance of just the right equalization to just fit up there and really support, and...we really want to reiterate that you have three parts to the music, you have the bass, you have melody, and then you have chords, and really the chords are what we're focusing on today, and the chords are really underlined in the middle. Notice I'm not hitting it hard, I'm not like... I'm just... so it's really the lightness and I'm really following this bass line. So it's really listening in and working as part of a machine.

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