Amazing improv at the beginning of this lesson! A friend of mine, a professional musician, said I should copy out one of your solos and then analyse it so I showed him your improv at the start of this!! 😂 Great lesson and as usual some really valuable insights.
A great and very useful tutorial of one of the most important jazz songs (and one of my own favorites too)! I love the economical yet very effective way you state the theme, and your fabulous improvisation on it! Your explanations are FANTASTIC to say the least! Thank you!
Tony, your lesson about scales with diminished 7th chord I liked. I'm a guitarist but found using the chromatic scale and starting and finishing on😅 two target notes of that chord that are, say, a minor 3rd apart is another good way of generating countless melodic sequences for that chord type. By the way your piano here swings and sounds fresh as always. Thankyou.
Yeah, great song and great tempo. It would have been nice for you to reference the melody more in interesting ways as well as you reference the harmonic progression to avoid too much doodlin.
what a tune and lovely tempo you've choosen Tony! I really can't begin to explain how useful your insight and knowledge is to improve my understanding of jazz and music theory. Thanks today and everyday, you are a really cool cat man! oh and by the way, please always add a 3 minutes performance of every standard you play, if possible! Would love to hear some of the big names again. all the things, my funny valentine (maybe fast tempo as in bill evans and jim hall duo), some monk. I don't know, I'm overextending here. Thanks a lot Tony
Hey Tony! Thank you for all your tutorials, your channel is one of the best on yt, ive already watched lots of your videos and found them very usefull and interesting!. I´d like to ask you if you could make one tutorial of lover man if its possible. Thaks a lot from Argentina :)
I was just playing with the harmonic minor (maj scale w/#5) and I thought what if I use the b5... what is that? its like a blues scale kind of.. you still have that minor 3rd interval.. sounds kind of cool...
I once read somewhere that during jazz jams with several people the piano player can leave the bass notes scarce and open for the bass player but also at any point suddenly come in with a walking bassline to "scare the hell" out of the bass player. They said that this part of the fun of playing with other jazz players sometimes was trying to see how you can troll the other players and get them to slip up. I think this is one of the magical things about jazz compared to the surgical precision of other genres such as classical
