Before exploring enclosures, chord tones, arpeggios, licks, and lines, it’s vital to first memorize the melody, harmony, and form of the tune.
Learn to improvise over “Autumn Leaves” with step-by-step lessons on enclosures, arpeggio patterns, major and minor 2-5-1 lines, and melodic solo development.
Learn to incorporate ‘tension and release’ in your improvised melodic vocabulary. We’ll explore the stability of chord tones and how to anticipate chord changes with enclosures and approach patterns.
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.
This lesson features 3 choruses of comping over the tune Autumn Leaves using a selection of voicing techniques and accompaniment principles.
This play-a-long track is sung “freely” without a steady tempo. This exercise trains us to follow the lead of the singer and support the vocals.
Practice accompanying Lyndol on the tune “Autumn Leaves”. The track has 3 repeats giving you an opportunity to solo over the chord changes.
First we discuss how the melody is phrased when playing with a medium swing. We also look at the placement and syncopation of the chords.
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