Hayden Hill
Hayden founded PianoGroove in 2015 with the goal of making the world a more musical place. He shares his love for jazz piano through his online courses and manages the community area of PianoGroove.
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- I'll Be Home For Christmas - C Major
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- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
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- The Christmas Song
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- I'll Be Home For Christmas - Db Major
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With the holidays approaching, now is the time to brush the dust off your jazzy Xmas tunes. We explore 3 jazzy arrangements of Xmas classics.
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Hi Hayden.
Loved the lesson. Are there any chapters coming for this.
Thanks in advance.
Karl
Hi Karl 👋
Yes I have just added the final video which includes notation for all of the tunes and also blue highlights. Apologies for the delay – it took a little longer than expected to edit the recording.
I have also added the chapter markings.
Enjoy working on this medley and talk soon!
Cheers,
Hayden
Such a great exercise at the start of this seminar – thank you! I’m barely even interested in the carols…
Consider doing a seminar on just this exercise at the beginning in a few of the common jazz keys – F, Bb, and Eb. Maybe throw G in there just to mix it up. It’s just fun to play around with these.
Hi Marla 👋
I’m glad you like the exercise and yes we can certainly cover this in a few keys – it’s a great suggestion for an upcoming seminar.
The interesting thing when taking this drill into different keys is that we naturally find different voicings that are ’embedded in our muscle memory’ from playing a tune(s) in that key. It’s important to then take these ideas (voicings, melodic ideas etc…) to the other keys which ‘opens up pathways’ that we didn’t visualise before (this happens for me at least). Completing this drill in multiple keys does exactly that which why I think your suggestion is such a great idea for a full seminar.
The keys of F, Eb, Bb, and G are a nice mixture of keys, and also common ones in terms of the jazz standard repertoire, so let’s do those ones.
I’ll start playing around with this and working out the best way to teach/demonstrate the concepts, and then we will get a seminar scheduled for December, or perhaps January at the latest.
Talk soon,
Hayden