How to Start Playing Jazz Standards on Piano!
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- This lesson focuses on how to get started with playing arrangements of jazz standards on the piano. It is based on the first principle taught in Mark Levine's Jazz Piano Book (which I highly recommend as a jazz piano reference book).
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Prerequisites for this lesson - basic knowledge of 7th chords and what 3rds,5ths,7ths etc are. I have a video on how to construct all types of 7th chords here:
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This lesson is broken down into 3 stages - playing through a tune with 3 note voicings, then adding the melody, and then finally adding other notes/extensions to those voicings.
We use John Coltrane's Lady Bird to demonstrate, but you should try applying these methods to other tunes in the Real Book.
I hope you enjoy this lesson and find it helpful, please let me know what you thought of it in the ocmments!
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Hope you guys find this useful, please let me know if anything wasn't clear or any ideas for future jazz piano lessons!
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I have both of these books. Starting with root in the left hand and 3rd and 7th in the right hand is a good way to start.
What an eye opener! This is such an efficient way to start working on jazz standards. Understanding each and every note you construct the chord with. Thank you very much. Greatly appreciated.
Your approach is straightforward and easily understood. Good job Olly!
Thanks John!
Had to quit jazz piano lessons due to my sad covid stricken financial status. This video helped me get to the next step. Thank you for this!
This is incredibly useful! Thanks so much!!!
A great way to begin by following these three steps. Thanks!
What a great bit of teaching Olly, you break it down in a great manner, I have been trying to get my head around this for the past year, especially when to play all the chords or how to pull the melody out, this is exactly what I needed, a great lesson. Thank you, you have made me a happy man
Thanks for the video. I just bought Mark's Jazz Piano Book, thanks to your recommendation.
This is an absolutely brilliant lesson. Well paced and easy to follow. You present a very practical and efficient approach to creating a good jazz piano sound from a lead sheet. This is one of the best lessons for this on RUclips.
Hey, great lessons ! I am new to playing jazz and find it easy to understand all the basics of Lazy Bird ! Thx !
A much needed structured routine to learn new tunes. Thank you, Olly!
Thanks Benjamin, glad you found it useful!
Hi Olly, saw this and realised I was making hard work of arranging a tune. This is a methodical approach that somehow makes it easier. Once again I'm in your debt, love your work!
OMG Wow. Very practical, construction of the extensions as you worked through this lesson with us, plus the essential can-add/can’t-add rules for each chord that you dropped as we listen to you work. - I thought I heard my own voice considering where to find this-or-that tone because I’m sure I am going to construct in this same way.
Thank you! I learned a lot from this video. I'd love to see a video on comping for yourself- splitting up the chords and playing them more rhythmically.
Very helpful! Thanks!
Hi Olly. Thanks for sharing this lesson. It's really useful. One of the best lessons online, not only for piano, but music generally. Cheers!
Thank you Graeme for such a kind comment, and i'm really glad you found it useful!
super great video man thank you!!
Cheers Ziggy!
Thank you,Olly⭐🌹⭐
classical pianist here and thanks for breaking it down. sometimes jazz pianist just say "ok play the Ab7+9 on here and Adim there" as if I know what the hell you're talking about haha. I figured out how to find the 3 and 7 easily now just need to know my keys enough to drill through all 12 keys to be comefortable to "sight read" any song in the fake book
This was great! Hope to get more of these uploads :)
Thanks a lot! 💗
hey man, thanks for sharing your method! Outstanding!!
Great lesson. Immensely helpful. Thank you very much. Cheers.
Thanks Ammi, glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks a lot!! it's really helpful
Thank you so much! It's much clearer for me how to approach leadsheets! Greetings from Peru 🇵🇪 😃 🙌🏼
I am glad that you found it useful, thank you!
Essential lesson! Thank you, Olly!
Thanks Pedro!
Thank you Olly! this step by step tutorial is awesome. A cristal clear system to approach this book. A good way to begin learning. Whats at first seems too difficult to understand becomes easier with this tutorial. Thank you again for sharing. Suscribed at once!
Thanks and glad it was helpful!
Thanks demonstrating a nice and melodic 3-step approach to begin playing jazz standards. Many other systems start off too complicated for intermediate players. I believe that I can teach myself your simpler method.
Thanks Tim, I'm glad you found it useful!
Brilliant video - thanks Olly
Great lesson for a non pianist, explained in a easy way. That's what I'm looking for. Thank You!!
Glad it was helpful!
Wonderful video, gives a clear direction to learn jazz piano. Thank you very much!
Thanks Sandro, glad you found it useful!
Great explanation.LOVE IT!!
Thanks!
Great tutorial a must for beginners, I have been playing for years and I wish I could have started with this lesson ,it has changed the way I am now starting to voice the chords , never been able to catch the fish but now I feel I have got the ‘hook’ to catch the fish thanks Olly hope you can post more lessons on the standards D
I hope you catch plenty of fish now! 🐟
Valuable! Thank you
Great lesson Olly very inspiring Derek
Thanks Derek!
Just bought the book and I found your video extremely helpful. Will you please make more videos like this? Thank you so much!!
Really helpful video Olly and very well explained.
I just got my first real book (Christmas songs :p ) and i love this step by step method. Helps make the 7th chords seem less daunting and i like the gradual build up aspect.
Hey! Glad you found it helpful and great that you got your first real book! Christmas songs are great for learning chords!
Yes thanks wow amazing
Oh yeah I feel you. I think about songs with a lot of changes. If you're good with your harmony then if you just making the changes, that's like a big part of the battle especially if it's fast but however on the flip side of that is good to play songs with less chanes and learn how to voice chords over a simpler possibly as slower harmonic structure
Finally I understand jazz
:D
That’s been very helpful. Thanks. Now I’d like to know how to start messing around with the melody.
Thanks Caroline - I'll try to do a lesson on embellishing melodies at some point
Video is incredible man, love how you go through explaining it and provided actual learning steps, gonna try this out good work man!
Thank you very much, happy you enjoyed it!
That was a great lesson on adding color tones to the already existing 3rd and & 7ths. Very useful indeed. I came upon this video quiet by accident. and am glad I did so! I have many Lead sheets and was kind of juggling with those to find the correct chord structures to sound more jazzy. Thank you. I believe this is open voicing harmony.?
If you can, could you do a lesson on adding upper structures giving a jazz piece more color. Perhaps song like "Wonderful tonight' (sung by Micheal Buble) or 'I ve got you under my skin' (sung by Katherine McPhee or Carly Simon) . Much appreciated.
Thank you for your comment Ajitha! Yes you are right that these can also be referred to as open voicings. An upper structures video would be a great idea, i will try to do one on this soon
thnkq v much.
After hours and hours of private and on-line instruction I find your approach much less restrictive and uncomplicated. I have been drowning in voicing rules, exceptions to 7-3 under melody, open versus closed voicings, rootless, 251AB, major and minor!. Once the essential root, harmony (7-3), and melody are nailed, simply add the extensions that sound good with the voicings that sound good. Very clear instruction and good use of the orange keys. Good method to start a standard. Thanks.
Descobri seu canal hoje meu amigo. Você é extremamente habilidoso e ensina muito bem ! Ganhou um inscrito do Brasil !
Thank you! :)
Can you do a beginners guide to improvisation
hi olly how would u use this method on autumn leaves when there isnt a chord written for the melody note ? THANKS FOR THE VID !!!!
I sing and play so I think this will work. Let me know if I'm incorrect
For 3 note voicings, What determines whether you’re playing the 7th below the 3rd in the right hand? I notice it changes from chord to chord
Thank you. I want to do this. I want to try this with Jazz standard Sunny. Should I always try to make the melody note the highest pitched note? Do you recommend the Real Book or Fake book as a source of song lead sheets?
Hi, thank you for the comment and glad you found it useful. Yes, the melody note should be the highest note (our ears hear the top note as the melody). I'd recommend the Hal Leonard Real Book as pictured in the thumbnail for the most accurate and up to date lead sheets, but really any book with lead sheets is ok for practising this method!
Olly Stevenson Thank you for your reply.
What real book should I get for jazz vibraphone?
Hello Olly and thank you so much for you video. you really helped me a lot.
i have a question, i found a "Chord Symbols Sheet" on the net and i started practicing from it before playing ( wanted to memorize combinations) and there's one problem, in the "Chord Symbols" guide, its using the the Fifth of the chords, but in your playing ( and almost everywhere else) you exclude the fifth. i wanted to know is that an unwritten rule? that everyone knows? Because when i add the fifth it doesn't really sound like jazz.
Hi Nima, thank you for your comment and glad you found it helpful. Yes it's common when voicing jazz chords to leave out the fifth. You can certainly include it if you wish but it's not essential to have it in. The only time I would definitely include the fifth is if it was a chord with a b5 in (for example, a minor 7 flat 5 chord). I hope that helps!
@@ollyonpiano again thank you so much, and yes it helped me a lot :) thank you.
i literally just got an ahhh haaaaaa moment
Could you explain the modulations in the song? what is the harmonic logic? I see some II- V- I or II - V , II - V but what happen in Bm7 Bb7?? or Am7 Bbº7??
Hi Diego - for Bm7 Bb7, the Bb7 is a tritone substitution for an E7, so it is essentially functioning as a II-V. For Am7 Bbo7, The Bbo7 is acting as a passing chord to link to the Bm7 (Bbo7 can be used as a substitute for F#7, which is the V chord of Bm)
So useful thx a lot!. Btw i have a question for you.This playing style only for just 1 person play for? i am confused cuz u re playing also 1. degrees so bass player may gonna be upset about that? so should practise like your style and if i'm playing with a band is a good idea to play 7 instead of 1? thx a lot!
Hey! Yes these voicings are generally for solo playing, but you can simply leave off the root if playing with a bass player, so either have the 3 or the 7 as the lowest note!
What other Jazz Piano books would you recommend?
Hey - some other great ones I like are Exploring Jazz Piano vol 1 And 2(Tim Richards) and the Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method . Hope that helps :)
Can anyone explain why he is playing Am (minor) and not a A major? Same with other chords like the C7. Confuses me
"A-7" is the American way of writing "A minor 7". The dash means minor. "A7" would be dominant7, and Amaj7 would be major7. There's different ways of notating chords
@@ollyonpiano thanks for the super fast and helpful answer!
So the key is G major? There’s a bunch of chords and notes not in the scale.. can anyone explain what’s happening there?
Hi - It is in G major yes, but it moves into different keys throughout the piece. For example when you have Fm7 ,Bb7 , it has moved into the key of Eb major
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Would have been really nice to hear what you did even played through at the end of your video