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Voicings for Jazz Keyboard by Frank Mantooth constructs chords with perfect fourths with one exception, the dominant seventh chord includes the 3rd and the 7th in the left hand. The 3rd and 7th of a dominant seventh chord are a tritone apart. | |||
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These voicings may omit a chord tone of the 7th chord, but always include a 9th, 11th or 13th. Examples in the key of C: | |||
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* Keep the right hand thumb in the octave between middle C and the C an octave higher. |