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.
October 20 · 2021
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Learn how to play like the jazz pianist Beegie Adair. This listening and transcription session will give you a deeper understanding into Beegie’s playing style.
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Again thank you Hayden! If you could also add the 10 second forward/back options, that would be great!
Hi Celia,
I have added the 10-second forward/rewind buttons and also the chapters.
Cheers,
Hayden
Thank you!!!
Very fine lesson!
Your offering us a bit of homework prior to the seminar was a great idea. It gave me a chance to study and follow more clearly the information as you presented it. And it made me go back and review fundamental points of theory. Maybe you could include a similar focus in future seminars. Thanks!
Thanks Scott.
Rodger that with the homework prior to the session, I agree it’s a nice way for students to prepare and to get the most out of the session.
I have just added November’s seminars. I will be hosting a similar seminar on Beegie Adair’s “My Foolish Heart” and I will post the chord chart and preliminary homework in the forum shortly.
Cheers,
Hayden
Thank you Hayden, for introducing me to Beegie Adair, what a beautiful pianist.
My pleasure Mark.
I agree she is a wonderfully talented player.
In case you missed it, here is another seminar where we analyse Beegie’s playing on the tune “Body & Soul” – https://www.pianogroove.com/live-seminars/body-soul-jazz-standard/
There are lots of useful insights in that video.
Cheers,
Hayden
Thank you so much for the seminar, @Hayden. Unfortunately I was traveling and couldn’t attend live but I’m working my way through it, and although it’s difficult stuff it all makes eminent sense. I’m about half-way through and this is my second session so you can see how slowly it is sinking in. Beegie’s style is, however, the one I’d most like to emulate, so I’m being persistent and hoping that what I learn here can be incorporated into other tunes. Already I’m starting to look for opportunities to put more susVs into my playing to richen the harmonies, trying to analyse pieces the way that you do.
As difficult as it is to follow her playing it must have been so much more difficult to transcribe it !!!!
Aye,
George
Thanks for your feedback George and no problem that you couldn’t make the live session. It’s exactly why we record them.
You will most certainly find that the pieces of harmonic or melodic vocabulary can be applied to other songs.
On the 19th of November we will breakdown Beegie Adair’s “My Foolish Heart” and I will make a point to also reapply some of the material from this session.
I’ll be sending out November’s seminar listings tomorrow.
Cheers,
Hayden
Beautiful Hayden. Thank you!
My pleasure Mark – glad you enjoyed the session.
Be sure to tune into my seminar on the 19th November where we breakdown Beegie Adair’s “My Foolish Heart”.
https://www.pianogroove.com/live-seminars/my-foolish-heart-beegie-adair/
Cheers,
Hayden
Beautiful played. Thanks Hayden. Loved it.
Thanks Karl, I’m glad you enjoyed the seminar.
I have just added November’s seminar listings and we have another Beegie Adair focused seminar on the 19th. This time on the tune “My Foolish Heart”.
You can find the recording in this thread: https://community.pianogroove.com/t/how-to-play-like-beegie-adair/6933
Cheers,
Hayden
I could hardly believe this: Learn to play like Beegie Adair… so exciting. Thanks a million, Hayen.
I’m glad you enjoyed the session Donna.
We are covering another one of Beegie Adair’s renditions – “My Foolish Heart” on the 19th of this month, add to your calendar here: https://www.pianogroove.com/live-seminars/my-foolish-heart-beegie-adair/
And you can find the recording and homework here in the forum: https://community.pianogroove.com/t/how-to-play-like-beegie-adair/6933
See you there!
Cheers,
Hayden
Hayden, thanks so much for the Beegie Adair seminar! That was marvelous! I love her playing and hope to emulate her style in my own. If others loved this too, I hope you’ll do more in the future. Thanks again.
John
My pleasure John, it was a fun seminar topic to teach and yes we are coving more of Beegie Adair in the future.
The next seminar on her style is on the 19th November and we will cover the tune “My Foolish Heart”. See more here and add to your calendar: https://www.pianogroove.com/live-seminars/my-foolish-heart-beegie-adair/
See this forum thread for the recording and homework assignment: https://community.pianogroove.com/t/how-to-play-like-beegie-adair/6933
Cheers,
Hayden
Hi Hayden,
Just joined your site 2 days ago. I live in Ashland, Oregon. I was delighted to see this seminar on Beegie Adair. I enjoy her playing also and would like to incorporate some of her techniques into my playing. I often wondered if she had produced any instructional materials. But thanks so much for doing this. This has inspired me to listen more.
Becky
Hi Becky,
I’m glad you enjoyed the seminar.
To the best of my knowledge Beegie doesn’t have any online educational resources that she has produced. Of course she has an extensive discography which is a wonderful source of inspiration.
We do have 2 other seminars which cover here style, check them out here:
https://www.pianogroove.com/live-seminars/my-foolish-heart-beegie-adair/
https://www.pianogroove.com/live-seminars/body-soul-jazz-standard/
We will also be studying more of her recordings in upcoming seminars.
Enjoy the above seminars and if you have any favourite recordings by Beegie that you would like me to cover, just let me know.
Cheers,
Hayden
Hi Hayden. Can a dominant 7th flat 9 chord also be thought of as a diminished chord?
Hi Lonnie,
Yes that’s right, if we remove the root from any dominant b9 chord, we are left with a diminished chord.
Also every diminished chord can function as 4 different rootless dominant b9 chords, for example Edim7 can function as a rootless C7b9, Gb7b9, A7b9, and Eb7b9 and the roots of these chords create another diminished chord which when combined with the first one, create the whole diminished scale.
Here’s an interesting lesson on diminished chords by Jovino: https://www.pianogroove.com/bossa-nova-lessons/useful-diminished-trick-for-any-251/
Let me know if I can help further here.
Cheers,
Hayden