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What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life Part 1

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What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life Part 1

Michel Legrand’s ‘What are you doing the rest of your life’ is a delightful jazz ballad written in the key of C major. This is a challenging tune to learn and contains some difficult to navigate chord changes – particularly in the bridge.

In this lesson we start by playing the melody with left hand voicings to get a good idea of the movement of the chords and the melody. We then add some bigger sounding voicings and more interesting root movements to add interest and dynamics to the arrangement.

We also cover some other interesting voicings options such as sus chords resolving to altered dominant chords . This delays the sense of resolution creates movement and interest when the harmony and melody is stationary.

 

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Major Voicing Variations

We explore the voicing options for major chords under each note of the Lydian Mode which is a common scale to play over major chords.

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Minor Voicing Options

We explore voicings for each note of the dorian mode. Watch this and never again get stuck on what to play for minor chords!

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Practicing Upper Structures

Learning and memorising all of the upper structure triads is a daunting task! This lesson introduces the upper structure cheat sheet.

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Practice Tips

The Bill Evans recordings of this tune are definitely worth checking out. He plays the tune with such depth and maturity and there is a lot of emotion in his arrangement.

  1. Bill Evans Trio Performance Live
  2. Bill Evans Fender & Grand Piano

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