A deep-dive exploration of the tune “My Foolish Heart”. We explore harmony, fills, improvisation, and general arranging principles.
Learn to improvise over common progressions using major and minor 6th voicings. 6th chords can be applied over any chord progression, thus very helpful in improvisation.
Learn common substitutions for the 12 bar blues in C. We explore diminished chords, walk-ups, iv minor chord, backdoor 251s, and chromatic dominants.
Having previously explored the A and B sections of ‘Autumn Leaves’, we now focus on the final 8-bar section of the song: the C section.
In the previous lesson we mastered the two A sections and we now shift our focus and explore the 8-bar B section of “Autumn Leaves”.
After completing the brief harmonic analysis in the previous lesson, we now start arranging the tune “Autumn Leaves” with basic chord voicings.
Understanding the relationship between relative major and minor keys is important for analysing the harmony and structure of jazz standards.
This lesson aims to illustrate the thought process behind choosing voicings and making real-time decisions when playing from lead sheets.
In this lesson we focus on the C section which introduces different harmony and melody and distinguishes it from the A and B sections.
After exploring the A section in our previous lesson, we now focus on the B section to solidify our knowledge of 2-handed spread voicings.