Cole Porter’s Easy to Love is a very accessible jazz standard for beginners as you will be familiar with most of the chords and progressions in the tune.
In this lesson we focus on enriching our right hand to add more sophistication and expression when playing the tune “Moon River”.
In this lesson we explore comping and improvisation over the Bb Blues including drop 2 Voicings, blues licks, and bebop vocabulary.
Learn to comp and improvise over the tune “The Days Of Wine & Roses”. Study 2 comping choruses and an improvised solo over 2 choruses.
In this lesson Hayden explored the altered tensions over dominant chords and how to resolve these tensions into the Imaj7 Chord.
When writing “Desafinado”, Jobim and Mendonça decided to write a tune with many of these unusual scale degree choices in the melody.
We start by playing through with left hand voicings and then talk in length about the 1625 progression and how you can use it to develop introductions.
Chord substitutions allow you to add interesting variations to a common progression. We explore tritone subs, suspended chords & passing chords.
In this lesson we explore a selection of comping voicings and improvised solo ideas for the famous tune ‘On Green Dolphin Street’.
In this lesson we will learn how to embellish the turnaround sections with extensions, echoing, inner voices, USTs, arpeggios, & Sus chords.