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Basics

Simple Blues

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Walking Bass

Learning and Left Hands

Reharmonization

Chord Sheets

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Quartals, by 7

He later reflected that it was his love of corndogs that ultimately became his undoing. Those tender

morsels, oh so carefully wrapped in a deep fried golden brown batter mixture- who would have

known the little stick would be rooted so deeply in the dog section?

Exerpt from, "Birks Works". A story of a troubled young man who looks at things a bit differently.

Blues Licks

What's a lick? Licks are part of the language of music. Classical music has licks, rock, country, pop, and jazz

music have licks in them. Licks are like phrases that you hear every day. For example, if you see someone you

know and you say, "How's it going?" or, "Hey, what's up?", you are saying a phrase that has already been said

a million times, but it's still an OK phrase. You just have to know where and when to say it. Same with licks.

Oscar Peterson is the master of the jazz piano lick. He has a library of licks that jazz piano players around the

world have been copying for years, and as long as you play the licks in the right place, they are OK.

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Lick 2

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Lick 3
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Lick 5

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Lick 6
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Newest Files:

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Fascinated, 02/21

On Green Flipper Street, 02/21

Improvisation, Jan 2001, 02/21

Some quick links:

basic blues

advanced blues

Walking bass Quartals

Jazz Piano Exercises

Solo Jazz Piano

Midi File Critiquing

Reharmonization

Salsa and Latin Piano

Jazz Books and Jazz Piano Books

Lots more inside!

The Basics

Are you one of those people who have put down a book on how to learn jazz in disgust because of how difficult it was to deal with

the countless chord inversions, voicings, symbols, and pages of stuff that you were expected to understand before you went to the

bathroom again? It doesn't have to be that difficult, and it shouldn't be that difficult. In this lesson we'll explore:

1. Chord Symbols

2. The Almighty 2-5-1

3. 2-5-1 Exercise

4. Learning a Tune

Now, some of you might say, "But, the BLUES is the root of jazz! Shouldn't that come first?" You would be correct. However,

before we get to the blues you need to know a few basic fundamentals that will be used throughout the journey to jazz.

Chord Symbols

It's important that we are eye to eye on chord symbols. Everyone has their favorite chord symbol style, and I'm no different. Here is

a little graphic that will show you the main symbols we'll be using for now. When you play them, play the chord letter in your left

hand as a bass note.

(midi link)

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Now, those of you with some previous study in jazz or classical harmony will say, "But, those chords have extra notes in them!"

And you know what? You would be right. But here's the thing:

IT DOESN'T MATTER

What matters is how the chord sounds. Professional jazz pianists see chords as if they are shimmering mirages, always changing,

always dynamic. Sometimes a C7 might literally be a C7, and sometimes it might be a C7 with a 13, and sometimes it might be

something altogether different. The choice of what to play at any given time depends on how experienced the player is, what isgoing on in the music, how the player feels that night, and any number of other reasons. It all boils down to, "Does this sound good,

or does this sound BAD?"

When trying out the chords above, keep in mind that you shouldn't play the root(the letter of the chord symbol) in your right hand

because you are either playing it in your left hand already, or if you are in a group the bass player is taking care of that duty.

NO ROOTS IN THE RIGHT HAND

Most of what we work on here should be done in all 12 keys. That will mean practice on your part as you figure out how to play

everything in 12 keys. Yes, that's right, you won't become a real player without heavy practice. Does an hour a day sound like toomuch? If you want to learn, be prepared to put in twice that.

The Almighty 2-5-1

One of the most basic of all chord progressions is the 2-5-1. Take a look at the following graphic.

(midi link)

Play the roots in your left hand, and the chords in your right until the sound you are hearing seems natural. This progression is used

in 99% of all tunes that jazz musicians play, in some way or the other. Here are a few more examples in different keys. You should

play them, learn them, and then learn them in all the keys.

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(midi link)

The first one is in the key of C, the second in F, the third in D, and the last example in Bb. I can not stress how important these basic

2-5-1 progressions are. Please learn them in all keys before continuing on to any other lessons.

2-5-1 Exercise

Here is an exercise to help you learn to play the 2-5-1 chords. It is written with the scale in the right hand and the chords in the left,

but it is a very good idea to try it both ways. Once you learn is as written below, try playing the scale in your left hand and playing

the chords up higher in the right hand. Once again, do it in all 12 keys.

(midi link)

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Learning a Tune

So you are on your way to mastering these wonderful new ideas and wonder what practical application it all has, right? Well, right

now you should think about learning how to play a tune while we are going through these lessons. You can apply the things you

pick up from these lessons in a song that you choose to learn.

Autumn Leaves

All The Things You Are

Lullaby of Birdland On Green Dolphin Street

Speak Low

I don't think I am allowed to have lead sheets available for download due to copyright laws, but I will have chord sheets available so

you can work on these songs with hip chords instead of horrible common fake book chords. Let me know if you need a chord sheet

before they are available on this site.

As far as learning a new tune goes, there are a couple of important steps involved, and none of them involve sheet music:

1. Learn the melody2. Learn the bass

3. Learn to play the melody and bass together

4. Memorize

5. Expand your arrangement as you learn the tune until it so good that you are hired to play in the Starlight Lobby Lounge at

your local Holiday Inn

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Newest Files:

Alice's Wonderland, 02/21

Bluesology, 02/21

Fascinated, 02/21

On Green Flipper Street, 02/21

Improvisation, Jan 2001, 02/21

Some quick links:

basic blues advanced blues

Walking bass

Quartals

Jazz Piano Exercises

Solo Jazz Piano

Midi File Critiquing

Reharmonization

Salsa and Latin Piano

Jazz Books and Jazz Piano Books

Lots more inside!

Simple BluesThe roots of jazz and most other popular music grow deep within the blues tradition. When Africans were kidnapped

and brought here to be sold as slaves, they were accompanied by a deep heritige where music and rhythm were

fundamental to life in their society. A small, simplistic five note scale that didn't even fit into western tonality found

itself as the seed of almost everything we hear.

1. The Blues Scale

2. Blues Chords

3. The Basic 12 Bar Blues Form4. Simple Blues Song

The blues is something you should know in all twelve keys because the blues IS the cornerstone of jazz. Knowing the

blues in 12 keys is such a universal jazz law that people don't even have to mention it.

The Blues Scale

The blues scale, shown here in the key of F, is a rather simple scale, encompassing all of five notes.

(midi link)

Some people might add what is often called the "blues" note, and it would be the B natural in the following example.

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This "blues" note is our attempt at playing a note that doesn't exactly fit into western tonality. It lies somewhere

between the 4th and the flat 5th. Africans didn't know about western tonality back in the 1700's, so they didn't consider

that anything might have been wrong with their music (thank goodness!)

Blues Chords

Before we go on to a simple blues form, you need to know what to do when you see a chord symbol. When you play

these examples, try to learn these chords in all the keys. It may take a while, but learning in all the keys is important.

Keep in mind that the chord voicings are not set in stone- if you come up with something on your own that you like

better, learn it in all the keys and then use it! For this lesson we will be keeping out examples in the key of F blues.

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Play the root in your left hand as you play the chords. Now, as we look at the basic 12 bar blues form, you can play the

chords above wherever they are called for in the following form.


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Blues Song

Now let's play a simple blues song. The tune below shows the usage of the blues scale as well as another very importantaspect of the blues - call and response. You will notice that for the first four bars, a melody is played. In the second

four bars, the melody is repeated. In the last four bars, there is something else, a response. For more information on this

style, you need to listen to some of the old blues guitar masters from the early part of the century. I will try to get some

links in here soon for you to check them out.

One other thing that you will notice when you listen to the midi file is that the notes are "swung". That means that

eighth notes are not played as literally as they are written. If you want to think about swing as being notated, the closest

you can come is by writing triplets and then tying the first two (which is how I notated the music to get the illusion of

"swing" for the midi file). But, it's better just to "feel" swing rather than trying to think logically about it. We'll get into

swing more later on.


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Try to learn this blues song, and then maybe learn it in C and Bb. Ultimately you'd want to know how to play it in all

the keys. In the next lesson we'll explore more blues including a more jazzy sounding blues form with some different

chord changes.

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