How I Can Play Hundreds of Jazz Songs from Memory

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00:00 Intro 01:55 1. Turnaround Progression 02:27 Chords/Formula 04:08 2. Cycle of 5ths 05:02 Chords/Formula 08:15 3. Extended Turnaround 08:56 Chords/Formula 11:02 4. Minor Turnaround 11:36 Chords/Formula 13:57 5. Sentimental Progression 14:38 Chords/Formula 17:34 6. Misty Progression 18:08 Chords/Formula 20:19 7. Chromatic Walkup 20:56 Chords/Formula 22:43 8. Blues Progression 23:44 Chords/Formula 25:43 Conclusion

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Thanks for this video Johnny. How can solo instruments play over these chord progressions. Thanks

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I’m a guitarist too. And this really helped me.

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trumpet player here. Same admiration for these very clear harmony lessons. Thank you Jonny!

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WOW So inspiring and playing the stuff I WANT TO PLAY! (not interested in Rachmaninoff, Bach etc.) I will be 71 in September and been taking lessons for the past 4 year, a little messed up because of COVID but OK otherwise. I understand the theory well but my fingers don't :-(

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this is probably the most basic of 251 , but the most important lesson that took me a long time to understand , thanks for the lesson to explore the progression of Jazz

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Best piano teacher I've ever seen🙂 Jonny thanks a lot for this video. Since I met you and your platform I have improved my playing significantly. I made a huge step forward, or, to use a quotation: "My progress is a small step for mankind but a huge step for a single player."

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Everything on point! Not just talk, talk, talk.

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Your ad preceding this lesson is spot on. So many of us took lessons for years and still can't play fluently. It's a tribute to the power and beauty of the piano that we still have a passionate desire to learn.

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Jonny, first time visitor. I'm a trumpet player. I've more or less learned some of these devices by trial and error, but it helps to have it all explained in "8 Steps." This will really help my confidence level when I get asked on a gig and have to play "new" tunes, which really aren't that "new if you break them down the way you have here. Mega thanks!

[@brucejeric6701]

One of the best videos!!!!! I recommend internalizing ALL these progressions over time. I find playing melodies by ear pretty easy. But chord progressions are much harder for me. So this seems the way to learn ing to play chord progressions by ear Thank you Jonny!!!

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Amazing!!!! One thing I want to do before my father pass (many years from now 🤞🏾) is to go to his house and show him I'm learning to play the piano. My Grandfather played, and my father currently plays. I've started young and fell off. I've been back and forth. I got a new keyboard this Christmas and I've been listening to a lot of theories and practice when I can. I do love Jazz. And listening to you play these songs and talk about the chords being used is the upmost motivation. It sounds really great and this is what I want to present to him. Really appreciate this.

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So glad you enjoyed this!

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[@Ralphjons]

I went to college to learn jazz as a guitarist and came out a jazz pianist. The course was over-subscribed with guitarists and no pianist. Third week I left my guitar at home and started travelling light. The course tutor couldn't understand at first why had jumped down onto piano. I explained "jazz starts with piano trio and after that bolt on what you like". We were looking like the Gypsy Kings and thats not a good look for jazz. As a guitarist I thought chordally and used patterns. I did know pop piano but the Tutor said that I needed to buy a book. "Jamie Abersolds Jazz Chords for Non-Pianists" Armed with this I learned all the rootless chords, open and closed and all the alt-dom7 shapes. I now know over a hundred standards using fake books. Adding bass and appegiations gives me a cool cocktail sound. I play cocktail piano professionally and still tell people I'm a guitarist for the surprise element. Jazz chord voicings are extremely important. I've seen younger pianists playing jazz and they are all over the keyboard adding 11ths 9ths 13ths. If you do that you will run out of fingers quickly. All these chords can be implied efficiently with just four notes. Think chord shapes not chords this is the trick. Quickly you will see Emaj9 and Gm7 are the same for improvisation and that F7#5b9 (F7alt) is the same as B9. Just the bass is different. This is the tri-tone substitution idea. Think shapes and patterns like a guitarist and jazz piano will become unlocked.

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Johnny, this lesson is loaded...great theory...Thanks

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So lovely and beautiful melodies as you play ....................thanksss

[@sweetoldetc]

IMO, the best way to do this is to pick a tune, and just listen to a whole bunch of different versions of it. You will naturally be working them in different keys since singers tend to sing them in different keys anyways. You'll also start to notice that different recordings may have different variations of chord changes while keeping the fundamental structure intact(i.e going circle of fifth, approaching from half step up, or diatonic/chromatic walk-up like you mentioned in the video). After a while, you will start to be able to sus out the fundamental structure, and recognize the finite patterns of chord progression that happens on a jazz standard, and eventually, you will get to the point where you aren't thinking chord by chord and theory but rather, your inner ear is guiding you and you are just reacting to what you are hearing... at least that's why I try to strive for when learing tunes.

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[@skaterdude7277]

So clear its unreal, lit all the theory you need to start, then just learning actual songs to see how it applies and then see how artists put their own spin on these progressions, or even make new ideas outside of theory to leave you more confused than when you started.

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I don’t play piano, only guitar and can read music. I thought this lesson was extremely helpful for being involved in “Great American Songbook”type music! A great presentation of these standard chord progressions. Even if they are written out in bass clef. I’m enjoying this approach very much!!

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So glad you enjoyed this!

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Thank you. This is awesome. been struggling memorizing changes and this makes so much sense. Im a clarinet/saxophone player by the way. More power!

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I am a bassplayer. This lesson is valuable for playing behind singers who sometimes sing in various keys. Knowing the appropriate chord progression by hearing it is very useful. Thanks

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I checked this with several songs to find out, how true and helpful this video is. It reduces complexity a lot and can structure exercises in many ways.

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I'm a jazz guitar player that wants to get a better understanding of the keyboard and to memorize more tunes. This lesson was perfect! The piano is more visual than the guitar so this will be very useful. Explaining everything relating to scale degrees really helps. Thanks.

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Great lessons! I find it fascinating when I discover chords could be looked at as inversions of other chords, I suppose the name would depend on moreso on context. Like a i/6 (Cm/6) (A C Eb G) could be seem as an inversion of a vi7b5 (Am7b5) (A C Eb G). Or how a regular I/6 C/6 (A C E G) is just a vi7 (Am7) (A C E G). Or how extensions can be seen as simply stacking chords: Cmaj9 (C E G B D) is like a C chord (C E G) and G chord (G B D) stacked on top of each other, sharing the G. Anyway, thanks for your videos and clear explanations. One thing I really need to do when practicing these exercises and getting my hands used to the shapes and my brain wrapped around the concepts, is go and play/practice it on EVERY key. I might like playing something in A minor, but a singer sings it on Gb minor, or another player prefers playing it in E minor. Or if I want to do a key change org temporarily modulate to another key. As a piano and guitar player, these videos really help.

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You're very organized and the video is very informative. This was fun. Thanks for sharing...

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[@shfite]

I play fly me to the moon and never associated it with the cycle of fifths - now it is easier to understand. I am also playing Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas and the turn-around in the music is not to my liking. Your turnaround I believe can fit better. Thank you

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Thanks so much!

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If you play a lot with singers, you'll wind up playing tunes that are almost only major and minor turnarounds all night either as ballads or medium up in only a handful of keys. To alleviate the boredom I used to modulate through different keys during my solo - always returning and putting the singer clearly back in at the end.

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Love it!

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Love this, I'm a guitarist but this is very insightful !!! Is there somewhere to get a list of more songs with these progressions ?

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Thank you for making this video I've learned your lesson

[@davivify]

Very cool, Jonny. Occurred to me that Chim Chim Cheree also has the 'sentimental' pattern. Oh, and another example of the 'chromatic walkup' might be Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered.

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Wow Wow Wow ! I learned sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much in this one. It is like you are unlocking well-known secrets and sending them out to the masses for free ! Thanks so very much Jonny for this one, it is a treasure trove for sure !

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Fabulous tutorial. Thankyou !