Help! My Comping Is Boring!

Pianist, author, and Jazzercise advocate Jeremy Siskind shares some ways to use the voicings you already know to create more interesting comping behind a horn player or singer.

[pastafarian]

Thank god for this video, answers so many of my questions. Everytime I watched your videos it makes me want to practice, this time it's no different. Just want to put the appreciation out there. Thank you Jeremy, I really appreciate what you are doing here.

[sheilamacdougal]

This is lovely, thank you. Very basic, yet useful to hear and to focus on instead of relying solely on intuition and hearing.

[willzang]

you make this sound a LOT easier than it is mate !!! well done <3

[joesauvage]

No joshing here…this is an awesome lesson! Deepest thanks Jeremy!

[javilalima]

Josh is lucky to have you as a teacher!

[dangfd]

Thanks Jeremy! Fingerings seem first like just a practical concern, but it also informs the voicings and how they move.

[alphaomega]

You joshin' me bro? It's that simple!

[BusyCasual]

Hello, thanks for this video! Can I ask what you are using to write this out? I've been looking for a good alternative to manuscript paper for sooo long but everything I have found people say is not really that great.

[davidmiller]

Yup. You lost me! But that's OK. I am at the beginning of book 1. It is all about the journey. Someday I will understand this lesson. 🙂

[javilalima]

Quick question: for sude-stepping, do you recommend different fingers for the chromatic chords, or the same fingers that you use in the diatonic chords?

[AnotherMomentWithDave]

Hi Jeremy! In your lesson you took the 4 note voicing of a CMaj9 7 3 9 5 and converted into an Em7 first and then you created the normal 3 inversions of that Em7 to find the 3 other vocings which when the chord is arranged in 3rds I understand. This is what hangs me up.... If you had a 4 note F7 voicing like Eb A D G (b7 3 13 9) how would I find the other 3 vocings? I cannot think of a way to arrange those notes in thirds to invert it? Do you have a section in one of your books that teaches how to do that or am I missing something?

[MarkEisenman]

FOLKS this is gold.

OMG, this is a lesson that is very similar to what I do,  
FINGERING is crucial, and you are the only other person I've seen who addresses this - what seems to be big "secret".