I Tortured Myself Playing Autumn Leaves

[@qncn]

Doing this and making a checklist of mistakes is really such a great idea for ironing things out in the less familiar keys. Thanks so much!

[@pablo80955]

Just discovered your channel man, awesome videos very helpful you deserve 1000x more subscribers !

[@JoshWalshMusic]

Thanks Paul! Tell all your jazz friends 🤣

[@martynramsden]

I'm a Gm guy. This is a good challenge for me to try out! Thanks for the inspiration Josh. 😁👍🎹

[@JoshWalshMusic]

Let me know how it goes!

[@DojoOfCool]

Excellent video and good things to do in my own practice

[@JoshWalshMusic]

Let me know if you survive. 😵

[@proteus1]

I was advised to make a claw shape for playing piano.

[@abath07]

The metronome on 2 and on 4 is self-inflicted torture. The greats tapped their foot on all 4 beats or just 1 and 3.

[@JoshWalshMusic]

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[@abath07]

​@@JoshWalshMusic the audience claps on 2 and 4. Jazz musicians tap their foot on all 4 beats or just 1 and 3.

[@HaniyaRae]

god this is reminding me of childhood trauma with my piano teacher 😭 putting stuff together musically

[@JoshWalshMusic]

I’ll take that as a compliment. Haha

[@dhodges00]

Great advice, as always, thank you, Josh! I had just started to ‘analyze’ this song yesterday having played it for years in Gm only. Sorry that this question doesn’t pertain to your main topic; it goes more to my lack of analytical skills. After the first 2-5-1 you called the next chord a IV. Makes sense - now. However I had decided in my analysis that next chord must be the start of a VI-ii-V-i. Can that be correct? Am I way off? Or is there even such a named progression?

[@JoshWalshMusic]

I mean, whatever works for you is fine. It would be a bVI-ii-V-i though, right? In Gm, what I called the IV (Eb) would be the bVI in Gm. Either way, this chord is the pivot point between the major and minor tonality, so while I think of it from the perspective of leaving the major key, you could totally think about it from the perspective of where you are heading. Perhaps easier than what both of us are doing is just to think of this as a diatonic circle of 5ths.

[@markbra]

I've been doing this . G minor is the key I first learned.😅😂 One other thing, I was confused with just C but, you mean Cmin.

[@TheRealSandleford]

cool, Im a guitar player and maybe easier to do for me (maybe haha). Well the trade off is probably worth it in ways! I asked a guy I respect as a player what is a good starting tune and he says Blue Bossa and Satin Doll. Have not got to satin doll but Blue bossa pretty easy and short and has both maj and minor 251s but a twist with a key change. Will give this a go after getting better and going through the keys on those ones. Would be cool if there was a way to make it transfer over to the other key and not sound like it is.... blue bossa pulls it over pretty good I guess there must be a way to figure out how to go through and have it sound less that way

[@JoshWalshMusic]

Blue Bossa is another great option. Good call. I don’t understand what you mean about “sounding like it does.” Do you mean between each key change? I’ll tell you a secret. I actually did the exercise chromatically and then edited it into the circle of fifths because I thought it was easier to follow. It sounds weird to do chromatically. Haha

[@TheRealSandleford]

@@JoshWalshMusic Yes some kind of slick transfer. That though I guess is a way to not focus on the task. That was one one of the things the guy talked about. Easy to jump around and learn licks and stuff to avoid the work that will get more results.

[@jolygod]

Hi, thanks for sharing this excellent workout. Yeah, it's a torture, but feels so good to complete 🤩 Since the A section of Autumn Leaves is already kind of a cycle of fifths, a diatonic cycle except for the final secondary dominant V/vi before the end, and maybe the final minor major 7, it's a complete and fun way to go over *all of the diatonic chords of every major scale* (unless the specific exercise is playing some sub or something) which I label the "cycle of fifths of cycle of fifths" exercise, aka #CoFoCoF 😊

[@yannicklambrecht1634]

Ahhh... musical masochism at it's finest. Keep it up!

[@mil3ston3s]

Can I ask what software you're using doing to do the smooth morph edits between cuts? It's a little uncanny but not totally distracting. Good video btw!

[@JoshWalshMusic]

Hey Miles. I’m a Final Cut Pro user. (Switching to Davinci, actually) The little morph transition you see to smooth the jump cuts is the Flow transition under Dissolves category. It would be a lot less obvious if a) I knew what I was doing, and b) I didn’t flail my right hand around so much! Haha. But hey, this is KZbin, not HBO. 😄

[@francisrichard5282]

A very good one! I can’t move away from the keyboard before nailing down the chord analysis and discover the melody is coming out so nicely to the 3rd. Autumn leaves is the perfect tune for this exercice. I dare not imagine the torture using another more complex tune! Thank you so much Josh!

[@JoshWalshMusic]

You saw my lush life video… I may have tortured myself much more painfully this week. Haha.

[@Marklar3]

One way to make the test harder: instead of going around the circle of 5ths, use a 12 tone row generator for your key order.

[@JoshWalshMusic]

Oh that’s a good idea. I actually took the test moving chromatically and then changed it to 5ths in the edit because it felt better. Love your idea. Make a friend shout a key at you in the last 2 bars. Lol

[@Marklar3]

@@JoshWalshMusic You could also use a 12 sided die, and a pencil and paper to keep track of keys you've done, if you want to get away from the distractions of technology.