Did I miss a song, do you have other suggestions? The first 10 Jazz Standards you need to know: [ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1q0BrTKK6gk.html](ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1q0BrTKK6gk.html)
Thank you for your valuable videos. I am fine with your list. My suggestions are to be understood as honorable mentions: Caravan to study the use of dim patterns over C9b, and Afro Blue to study diatonic cord progressions. Both easy.
Oh my god this channel is incredible. I've been missing these pieces that bridge 'basic' music theory and jazz constructions. This is so useful! Thank you! I'm going to literally watch everything you've made now....
Nice list, good to take a look at these songs again. However, the Autumn Leaves you used as example is from the Cannonball Adderly album 'Something Else' . Miles Davis is present on this album but please give credits to this wonderful saxophonist (and band leader on this album).
The reason I say it is Miles' version is that That album was only released under cannonballs name because Miles was stuck in another contract and Miles kept playing that arrangement live for 10 years. Miles is also playing the theme.
Thanks, Jens. Great video as always. One of my favorite minor songs is "Work Song" by Nat Adderly. Yeah, I know, horns. But it is played on guitar as well. There is even a version with lyrics performed by Eric Burden and the Animals!
Nice, really enjoyed it Jens! What is interesting is the neapolitan sub-dom change which I like to see as the VI in cm. I'm trying to get the rhythm on some of the songs listed but Solar has my attention the most for now.
@@JensLarsen Yes, but with a beautifully arranged 16 bar melody. My favorite jazz composition in a minor key by the way is Idle Moments by Grant Green. I could listen to that tune everyday for the rest of my life and not get tired of it.
Yeah in Gypsy Jazz there are a lot more tunes in minor. Although maybe my ear sucks and those are majors hiding in the minor disguise, as Jens mentioned in the beginning...
Night In Tunisia is a fantastic minor tune also! Great for practicing your Tritone substitutions (and keeping time for a 4 bar solo break 😬) Also, your videos are getting so good Jens! There’s so much information and graphics packed into a short package.
@@JensLarsen oh, that’s right, it was supposed to be easy haha. You’re definitely right, it’s not that easy. Maybe after someone has learned all the tunes in this video they’ll be ready for it 😃
I love Tommy Flanagan's 'Minor Mishap'. Just playing the line itself is a step in building some vocabulary. Now that I'm humming it to myself, I'm wondering if it's a major key tune masquerading as minor, but I don't think so. Afraid to leave this and lose my comment while looking it up. Also Dexter Gordon's 'cheesecake', and Jimmy Heath's 'Minority'.
It is better to see once than hear 100 times. A lot of theory, but where is the practice? Why do you have s guitar in your hands? You can chat without it.
If you are watching a video on which Jazz Standards to learn then it is not a huge leap to assume that you know how to learn a Jazz standard. Making a 10+ hour video of how to play the melody, the chords and how to solo over these songs would be completely meaningless. Did you really expect me to teach you all of that in 8 minutes?
Great video! I agree with you regarding So What. It is really a modal tune, and the challenge (for me) is the form. It is easy to get lost soloing over D-7 for 24 bars.
Something slightly out of topic here: You were referring to Barry Harris in several of your videos. Recently I digged into his theory a little bit and was astonished by the underlying beauty and mathematical logic. However I am asking myself what one can take away for applying this theory in playing? How to benefit from the chromatic rules, diminished scales, chord relationships and break this all down in digestable chunks? Just as an idea for upcoming videos...
Hi Jens--- great list. You forgot to add one more thing that I find extremely helpful in learning jazz tunes----- IReal Pro backing tracks. They have a huge list of jazz, pop, country, blues etc. You can play the songs in every key, with chord charts and scale charts. You can use all the instruments on the backing tracks, or you can shut off the ones you don't want and just play with bass and drums, or drums only. You can export to Logic or ProTools or other software and make your own tracks. You can edit the tracks, and make your own backing tracks. IReal Pro is very cheap compared to Band In A Box, and is far superior as far as I'm concerned, especially the sound of the bass. It has sure helped me when I practice!
@@JensLarsen ??? Totally disagree! Are you saying that Band In A Box is better? I've listened to your own backing tracks and they're not much different. Please explain how Ireal is "pretty bad" for my "swing feel" and "inner time" feel. I would seriously like to know. Please give me an example of a backing track that is good for "swing feel" and "inner time".
@@joepalooka2145 It is pretty simple: If you want to learn to feel time internally then use a metronome NOT a backing track when you play songs. If you want to learn to swing then don't use midi algorithms like iReal and Band in a Box. Your ears can tell if you try to listen, it is not that hard to hear.
Hi Jens, Speaking of Miles Davis, could you do a new vid featuring him and some od the more modal 'flavours' that he was so famous for. Thanks for all the great content over the years
Not sure if I would frame it like that, but that could be a good video. Maybe check out this video on some modal stuff: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0kXTlccb3jc.html
Nice list, Jens! I really like these sorts of videos since I don't learn lines or theory from YT (since I study music at university). Just finished Bernies Tune and Mulligans Solo on it from the 1952 recording. Now I figure I gotta work on more minor stuff since I lack good ideas on tonic minor chords. Also I need things to play over minor 2 5 1's to improve my Stella by Starlight. I'll try Softly as in a Morning Sunrise since it I really like listening to it.
Hi, are there any books to get me started with basic jazz guitar? I would like to do some extra reading with some exercises included in the books. Thank you!
@@JensLarsen thank you! I will check it out. I’m only familiar with common jazz chord shapes but I don’t know the scales, technical terms (like diatonic etc) and how to apply them into improvisation. Hoping to learn more from your videos!
@@clarissalee5398 the thing that I am most proud of and would recommend as the best way to learn is my course, but that is a bit more expensive. Maybe start by checking out this post: jenslarsen.nl/how-to-learn-jazz-guitar-suggestions-to-begin-studying/
I was thinking about including Manha de Carnaval but I actually don't consider that an easy standard, or very easy at least. Corcovado is in C major, not in Am :)
Duke Pearson’s Cristo Redentor, Kenny Burrell played on the original recording on Donald Byrd’s “New Perspectives” album. Maybe Blue In Green, not necessarily an easy tune but an essential one in my view.
I like Birk's Works too... great way to introduce students to the blues scale too. I haven't found too many melodies that exclusively are constructed from the blues scale.
I suggest "Exactly Like You" because improvisation can be easy or not ... there is room in this tune to play less or more in solo arpeggios or backing chord progression. It is one of my favorites as style and treatment can be varied and this can be dictated or varied by the vocalist's style...I mean it seems to me an easy piece to back and to solo with much or little skill. I find, in this song - and most others -simple chording and leading notes = less is more.
Hi Jens. Great channel, and I just bought your book which is also really useful. Thanks! I’d love to see a video on how to practice improvisation over changes with two chords per bar. It would be great if you could think about that some time.
Thank you! Essentially you should use this approach (sorry for the old video) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q6TRWFf_WQo.html I might have another video, and I do have a really solid WebStore lesson on it.
I learn now" Body and Soul" by Kenny Burrell,how about it?) in Em flat...(although, maybe D mayor flat right to say)I miss information about harmonic function and modes
Hi Jens. So what: for me the challenge is to keep track of where I am while soloing. I needed endless rehearsals to get it right (most of the time). Same with Sister Sadie, with its AABA form and the single chord A section, and other such songs. These songs help me to become a better musician.
Jens, I'd like to see a similar video on bossa nova tunes - one that highlights that tight voice leading effect that you often hear with nylon strings.
Hey Jens! Do you think it would be possible to do a video on João Bosco’s song Incompatibilidade de genios? I’d really love to hear you break down the chords of the song and explain the chord progressions used as well.
It would be really cool to do So What as a vehicle for teaching some cool model stuff? Maybe something along the lines of how to make some surprising lines out of it? I think I get overwhelmed trying to be inventive sat on a one chord vamp, model or otherwise :)
Just look at the original recording for ideas. Every solo is so different, you don't have to only play notes from the mode, just like how you're not limited to a blues scale on the blues
More jazz standards in minor: My Favorite Things (at least the A section is in E minor) I'm currently working on Fly me to the moon - the chord progression in the first section is *very* similar to that of "Autumn Leaves".
@@JensLarsen Jens - can you elaborate on why you are saying My Favorite Things is not in a minor key (at least as regards the ‘A’ section)? I see that it starts on Em and then has a minor cadence in bars 15 & 16 back to the Em. Just trying to understand… thanks!!
@@hifreq-therapy1058 I think there are more cadences to minor with half diminished and dominant seventh flat 9 but OK, I’ll try again.: My Favorite Things Song for my Father
@@nickrees4706 Yeah I totally get that but the final chord usually is a giveaway for intended tonality. But you could certainly argue that a bigger part of the song happens in a minor realm.
@@JensLarsen is it totally in major? Is major like a dominant gene, that even if a bit is in major and it ends on a major.chord, then it’s definitively major! 😀. If a song starts and ends in minor but has a bridge in major does that make it ‘major’? Is there room for gray area here? BTW enjoyed the Bernie cameo (with mittens) 😀
