Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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In this episode of Chord of the Month, I show you how to play a gorgeous major 13 voicing.

This particular voicing is great for straight-ahead jazz and modern genres such as Neo-soul and R&B.

It's a 5 note voicing, so is fairly easy to remember. It consists of the chord tones 1-5-13-7-3.

To practice it properly, I recommend learning it in a few keys (all 12 if possible). Then mess around with it and try incorporating it into a jazz standard or neo-soul progression.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

00:00 - Intro
00:46 - Learn The Voicing
01:17 - Hear It In Context
02:03 - Learn It In a Few Other Keys
03:21 - Summary