A jazz piano lesson to help you learn the standard tune “A Man And A Woman.”
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A wonderful “non-jazz” standard 0:10
Learning tunes from a “place of understanding” 0:25
The song’s history 0:57
The crossover between Bossa Nova and 1960s pop music 1:42
Developing a musical approach 2:20
Harmonizing the opening 3 notes 2:45
Experiencing the rhythmic life of the song 4:28
Playing the melody 4:38
Two sets of major 2nd intervals within the voicing 4:43
Moving the left hand down an octave, to broaden the sound 5:08
A more arpeggiated texture, for contrast 5:33
Chromatic inner-voice motion 5:56
Less rhythm, to end the bridge section 6:00
Rolling the chords 6:03
More rhythmic than before 6:07
A little more rhythmic interplay between the 2 hands 6:31
The tune’s coda, with its chromatic harmonies 7:06
Improvising over the changes 7:23
Soloing over the ii/V/I, 8:13
An altered dominant phrase 8:16
Improvising with 2-note partial voicings 8:22
Semi-bebop 8:30
More lyrical 8:36
Bringing the melody’s rhythmic character into the LH accompaniment 8:43
Leaving a little space between the notes 9:06
Becoming legato again 9:19
Finding yet another way to play the opening 3 chords 9:25
Recapping the melody 9:29
Inspired by Chopin’s “Prelude in Em” 10:16
Varying the accEnts 10:28
A stepwise alto voice under the static melody notes 10:37
Having fun with the major 2nd intervals I’ve used in many of the voicings throughout 10:46
Thinking back on the performance 10:56
The Stravinsky influence 11:15
Finding inspiration in unusual places 11:51
Playing piano with more joy and less stress 12:25
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Ron
23 авг 2024
