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Live Lesson: March 31st - Learning a Jazz Standard


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Topic: Learning a Jazz Standard

Ever wanted to learn Jazz but weren't sure where to start?

Jazz has a standard repertoire, or group of songs, called "standards".

This lesson shows you how to learn a Jazz standard - starting with the melody, the chords to use, and then how to approach soloing.

I'll show you the exact process I go through when I'm learning a new song.

We will be using the standard "All the Things You Are" as our sample tune. 

You can download that here... All the Things You Are(2).pdf

Learn all you can! - Steve

 

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pdf for this lesson

All the Things You Are.pdf

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Wow, That was a great lesson.

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That was a really rough way to finish such an awesome lesson... Content wise, this is one of those to watch again and again.

I hope you're ok now, Steve. You should consider having something to drink and hydrate your throat during the lessons.

Thank you so much for all the great content and knowledge you share with all of us, many times at the expense of your own well-being.

Please, take care and stay safe!

Looking forward to the next live lesson, while I keep preparing something to share with the Guitar Gathering community. :) 

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@Joao Peneda Welcome. Thank you for your kind commets and we look forward to hearing more from you,  Stay well;

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Great lesson. Although it moved quickly over some things it was really interesting and made me think musically  and get trying things on my guitar. It's great when Steve gives us the "trade secrets".  In particular, the jazzy arpeggios over chords using the 3rd. Just to make sure I got it right, say over C major was it Em, over C minor Emajor, and over C7 was is it Em b5?

It was so interesting to see the flattened 5th of the minor third chord was the 7th of the dominant chord. Never really understood why and how flattened 5ths worked before. 

Am I right? 

Brian 

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