Video course · €27 · Lifetime access
Drop Voicings Decoded.
The chord system every jazz guitarist eventually figures out — shown on the fretboard, in 47 minutes. Five video lessons. Five PDFs with tabs. Seven backing tracks. The cheat sheet that ends up on your music stand for good.
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What you'll do after this course
Forty-seven minutes from now, you'll know:
- How to voice any major 7, minor 7, dominant 7 and half-diminished chord in four inversions across the top four strings.
- When to use Drop 2 and when to use Drop 3 — and why one sounds like a band and the other sounds like solo guitar.
- How to voice-lead a ii–V–I in any key with almost no finger movement.
- How to put four substitutions into eight bars of Autumn Leaves and make a plain progression sound like a record.
Not theory you have to translate later. The shapes go straight into the next tune you sit down to play.
Why I made this
The system was never hidden. Nobody showed it.
Every jazz guitarist figures out drop voicings eventually. Most do it the slow way — pulling apart records, freezing YouTube frames, cornering the piano player after the jam to ask what that chord was.
There is a system underneath. It has been taught in schools for fifty years and written down in every serious harmony book. What was missing is seeing it on the fretboard: the note that drops an octave, the voice-leading line between two chords, the substitution swapping in — while the chord is being played.
This course is that system, shown. Forty-seven minutes of video, then the shapes go into your hands. Put in the practice and you will comp through a standard the way it took me years to learn. Same notes. Faster road.
What you get
Everything inside.
5 video lessons — 47 minutes
Every voicing drawn on the fretboard while it is played. Streams on any device.
5 lesson PDFs with tabs
Every example from the videos, with the timestamp where it happens.
The 4-page cheat sheet
Every Drop 2 and Drop 3 inversion, the minor ii–V–i, the diminished shapes and the traverse table. The course on paper.
7 backing tracks (MP3 + WAV) with charts
ii–V–I in one key and four keys, minor ii–V–i, the 8-bar Autumn Leaves loop plain and with substitutions, and the traverse.
Lifetime access — buy once, come back forever
30-day money-back guarantee — no questions
€27, one time. The price is low because I am building an audience — not because the work is.
The five lessons
What's in each video.
What a drop voicing actually is
9:20The core move — drop the second note from the top an octave. Same notes, playable shapes. Then the ii–V–I in four keys, with the band.
Drop 2 in all four inversions
7:57Own the top four strings. One chord, four areas of the neck, barely moving your hand.
Drop 3 — bigger, deeper voicings
6:17Root on the 6th string, a skipped string in the middle. Band chorus vs. solo chorus.
Autumn Leaves — four ways, then the whole neck
12:54The first eight bars in four registers, then the traverse: every grip in the course in one pass.
Four substitutions every player needs
10:41Tritone, diminished passing, ii–V approach, and the ♭III shimmer — then three choruses in time. Make it sound like a record.
Honest about fit
Who this is for.
This is for you if...
- ✓You can hold basic chords and a barre chord cleanly.
- ✓You have tried jazz tunes and the chord shapes felt arbitrary or weirdly hard.
- ✓You want to understand why jazz guitarists play the chords they play — not memorise 200 shapes by rote.
- ✓You learn faster from seeing it than from reading about it.
This is not for you if...
- ✗You cannot hold a barre chord yet — come back in three months.
- ✗You want licks and solos, not voicings — that is a different course.
- ✗You think theory is for nerds. This course is theory. No apologies.
- ✗You need someone watching you play in real time — that is a future cohort, not this.
About me
Who's teaching.
I'm Romeu Beato. I've taught guitar for over 25 years, to students from 3 to 80, with a degree and a master's in music education. I'm also the developer behind four guitar practice apps. On YouTube I publish short, visual lessons on jazz harmony — the approach I wish someone had used on me at 16.
I am not the most famous jazz guitarist on YouTube, and probably not the best. What I do is show this material cleanly: the note drops an octave on screen, the voice-leading line traces between two chords while you watch.
Vinhais, Portugal.
Honest about where I am
You'd be early.
This is a small channel and a new course. There are no testimonials on this page because nobody has finished it yet — that would be you. What you get for being early: the price, the guarantee, and a direct line to me. Reply to any email I send and I read it personally. The stuck spots you write back about are what I build next.
If it doesn't move your playing, you don't pay.
Try the course for 30 days. If you can't voice-lead a ii–V–I by the end of week two, reply to any email I send you with the word “refund”. Processed within 48 hours, no questions, and your access stays. Refunds tell me what's broken — if you do refund, one sentence about why makes the course better for the next person.
Questions
Frequently asked.
Forty-seven minutes from now.
Five videos. Five PDFs. Seven backing tracks. One cheat sheet. The full drop-voicing system. €27, lifetime access, 30-day refund.
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