Blues Comping 5: Play with Voicings

In today's installment of Blues Comping we have 12 bar pattern with a swing feel in the key of C. This pattern is moveable and uses no open strings. It begins as a pickup on the "and" of the last 8th note of the previous bar.

It utilizes a technique which I find particularly effective in combo playing which is to use a relatively "thin" texture of voicings to not overlap the other chordal instruments.

Also, I like to make things interesting by adding some extensions to the simpler 7th chords and "jazz up" the rhythm a little.

The first video shows the comping at a normal tempo, the next video shows the voicings a little clearer as they are played slower.

Although I have played the example in a swing feel it can also be played with a straight feel. I personally like to make everything more staccato as it gets faster and straightens out.