In this Zoom workshop we explore Bill Evans‘ interpretations on songs, his soloing, and most importantly, his incredible approach to voicings and harmony. We will be exploring some of his “trademark” chords from drop 2s to quartal harmony.
Study the styles of the 7 most influential jazz pianists of all time: Bill Evans, Bud Powell, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, & Wynton Kelly.
This jazzy Christmas song tutorial is based on the chords and changes from the Bill Evans arrangement… check that out if you haven’t already!
In this Zoom workshop we explore the song, melody, and harmony, as well as listening different versions of this brilliant piece. We also examine a transcription of Bill Evans solo piano version.
In this lesson we create a solo piano arrangement of a beautiful ballad ‘Never Let Me Go’, written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.
‘I Fall in Love To Easily’ has a very short form at just 16 measures. It’s a great tune for applying altered and suspended harmony.
Let’s use the notes of the minor blues scale, the major blues scale and the extended blues scale to create different types of blues licks of riffs.
Here’s That Rainy Day is a jazz ballad composed by Jimmy Van Heusen. Written in the key of G Major, the tune follows a 32 measure A-B form.
Time Remembered is unusual tune as is doesn’t contain any dominant 7th or diminished chords. It is a modal composition with interesting changes.
We further develop the idea of harmonising the melody using 3rd intervals, triads, and passing chord progressions based on 251s.
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