I thought you would use "I Should Care" as the example tune, given the title of the video, but this works too! Excellent and logical teaching style, with a great focus on basics that seems to often be lacking in jazz education. Thank you!
@JazzSkills2 ай бұрын
Glad it helped you and I wish you well with your playing!
@scruffyleon73832 ай бұрын
Great video. Jazz is a beautiful art form. It's like painting with sounds. Thanks.
@JazzSkills2 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@apowellintheweeds2 ай бұрын
Love this! Freedom to play is exactly why I want to learn jazz. I'm a terrific sight reader on several instruments, but take the dots away and I'm lost. This kind of approach is exactly what I'm lacking. Thanks!
@JazzSkills2 ай бұрын
With the right work, you'll get there!
@treforparry40542 ай бұрын
I have just finished watching the video for the second time and learnt so much more as a result. A great video. I am one of those people who is stuck to the piano sheet and really want to wean myself off it, so learning the language and understanding why chords go where they do will help me a lot. Many thanks.
@JazzSkills2 ай бұрын
Wonderful! With the right work and a little persistence, you will get there!
@gazicj2 ай бұрын
that was super clear, to the point, and helpful to me--thank you much:)
@JazzSkills2 ай бұрын
You're very welcome!
@JAYDUBYAH292 ай бұрын
Excellent
@harryleblanc49392 ай бұрын
Super insightful, especially about that move from the diminished to the sixth. I've heard that a million times, but now it makes more sense.
@JazzSkills2 ай бұрын
Great! Glad it helped and happy practicing!
@chachaman49802 ай бұрын
If it wasn’t for KZbin, how would we come across such great lessons? Thank you!
@JazzSkills2 ай бұрын
My pleasure!
@thijs1992 ай бұрын
Yeah probably gotta watch more of these videos. Good that you say what is required knowledge every now and then. It helps connect rudiments to playing
@CaveMonJones2 ай бұрын
Well taught!
@eekamak2 ай бұрын
Always good stuff! 👌
@JazzSkills2 ай бұрын
Thank you so much. Appreciate it!
@romanzkv42 ай бұрын
very interesting, thanks
@jeff97912 ай бұрын
I would give an arm and a leg for some more in-depth videos, especially on the kind of thing that appears at around 8:35. I've watched the majority of the videos on you channel, and a bit of information on getting that kind of 'feel' seems to be the missing link in video form!
@kzeich2 ай бұрын
Beautiful lesson and thank you for sharing your knowledge. My question is about diminished chords. I'm used to resolving them 1/2 step above any tone in the diminished chord... I guess it's a Barry Harris school of thought. Why does the third diminished resolved so nicely to the ii chord?
@JazzSkills2 ай бұрын
There are a couple of ideas about that. If you're looking for a dominant explanation, it's a bit like B7 rto Em7 (Em7 is much like CMaj7)
@thijs1992 ай бұрын
And I do kinda like to cooy songs exactly just to see how close I can get it haha. Good memory training
@marshwetland3808Ай бұрын
Copying or transcribing is a worthwhile activity, just completely different than this one.
@thijs1992 ай бұрын
I do feel that understanding songs, or rather I should say tunes, for a large part goes for jazz playing and improv. I dont feel like it would make sense to know about the chord progressions of the song I cocered yesterday as the song is so skill dependant. You just gotta work it and it doesnt really apply anywhere else, other than the fingerpicking part. Id say the strategy is somewhat genre dependant
@thijs1992 ай бұрын
And also, when I listened to a song too much, any alteration I do on vocals will quickly sound weird to me. So what to do? Not listen too much, what if there is only one solid rendition available? That also is different for a lot of songs. Jazz standards just have a lot of room for places to go, and lots of inspiration to draw from. And many later songs just dont
@garyspencer915413 күн бұрын
Talk a little bit more about the language of the music that helps me a lot. Thank you to reflection of Barry Harris....
@JazzSkills13 күн бұрын
Thank you! I wish you well with your playing.
@thijs1992 ай бұрын
And besides, take a guy, I dont know, Sinatra, or in fact Bublé. These guys got guidance. Even if they do a rendition that is unique. It doesnt mean that they dont have a team of guys like you behind them serving them with some sweet notation aye. Its unhealthy to have it all come down to one person, its an excuse. But its a pretty valid one
@robgrenville14322 ай бұрын
Left brain nightmare, to me. Personally I play the changes for a singer (me and others) in many ways - and I don’t play these these changes to this song, btw. I ignore them all when soloing. In soloing I play what I sing in my head. The changes work for me, I don’t work for them. If I can’t sing it, I don’t play it. This stuff is a dead end to me. I’ve spent the last 50 years shutting my left brain down. SING IT. Singing what you play is a path to playing what you sing. All the rest is the journey. To me, personally, this kind of analytical path is interesting, but fraught with danger. Inspired playing is sung in your right brain, not calculated in your left brain - in my humble opinion.
@thijs1992 ай бұрын
But if I would cover “all of me” and do it exactly like Bublé sang it, yeah sure, feel free to come at me. But a cowboy song remains a cowboy song 😂
@tomcasey59722 ай бұрын
I like your teaching and explanation very much.However when you say it doesn’t matter what it sounds like, it stops me in my tracks. If you don’t attend to what it sounds like, it’s not music. I can’t believe you really mean that.Do you?