I found this excercise quite challenging. More than some other music that I have learned by memory. Because if you think about it, learning by memory is actually quite easy. You just memorize the score and you got it. In this case you are making decisions while you are playing...I definitely have to practice way more my 7 chords. Thanks for sharing!

Hey - just wanted to let you know... watched this video in 2015 when it came out... it is now 2019 and I can FINALLY play it comfortably! Now - ready to move on to your next video from 2015... ;-)

@PianoGroove

5 жыл бұрын

congratulations :-)

@pesto12601

Жыл бұрын

@愚かなパンダ Yup!

@sebastiannicolassantibanez7277

Жыл бұрын

let us know if you mastered the next video

@Felsopk

Жыл бұрын

Ahahaha I watched this video just when was released but never practice, so now I am at the start

This video was insanely helpful. Previously I have only ever played classical music or hundreds of contemporary songs by ear. When I was asked to play jazz for an audition just now I was so confused. Watching this was so fascinating and I felt like it opened a door for me. Thank you

I just wanted to add my thanks to all the others. I have finally got to the end with a lot of practice and now feel ready to play this fabulous melody with your chord patterns. Ready to improvise and take on the entire tune. Beautiful.

I would liken the brilliance of this lesson to a book written by legendary jazz drummer Sonny Igoe named "Get Your Fills Together". Yes this stuff is complex, but when you explain the meat of the subject matter, there is an underlying simplicity that gets uncovered, helping newbies like me to grab on and start practicing in the right direction. Thank you so much.

Out of all online jazz tutorials here in yt, you're the best by far! Even a beginner like me was able to understand the details. Thanks!

@PianoGroove

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Leo. You might like more of Hayden's lessons. There's lots of free ones here: www.pianogroove.com/jazz-piano-lessons/ - click into the various courses and anything without the padlock sign is free to access. Cheers, PianoGroove

Thank You! the extensions give the tune that special feel that soothes the soul.

I’m a Bassplayer and I do understand the importance of the Bassplayer practicing with the use of the piano but I was looking for something else on my lab top and found you, I’m glad I found you enough said 😊

I have learned a lot from this channel, but it was this video more than any other that combined knowledge gained with pure joy in learning to play a song. I have still not conquered the advanced voicings and have much work left to do, but I'm over the hump. That is what led me to go ahead and pay for a year's subscription to the site. A year from now, I know that I will have at least the 8 beginner jazz ballads under my fingers, hopefully much more. The dollar price is trivial in comparison for what I will get.

I love the calm & clear way in which you explain things! 👏👏👌Need to find your 251 chord video first to start I think..but I love your arrangements..Particularly your ‘Autumn leaves’ covered in another video! My favourite but a little too challenging for me just yet! Thanks for helping us all! 😁👍

Mr Piano Groove your lessons are above excellence.

omg I LOVE THIS PROGRESSION SOOOOO MUCH!!!! THANK YOU!!!!111

Thank you so much! This video opens the door for me, and I will learn to play jazz piano!

So great! Coming from a classical background I was doing exactly what you pointed out at the beginning and wondering why there was no jazz in the songs. Time to learn some new chord voicings

THANKS SO MUCH! You're a very talented teacher! And this lesson gives me the desire to learn jazz piano! And I'll do! :-)

i just searched "lead sheet" in hopes to find something new i can learn. i definitely learned something new today!! thank you!

Absolutely perfect lesson! Thank you so very much!

You explain things so well. Thank you.

Your video was very helpful. Shows how to play the melody over the chord. Thanks for sharing

Another mind-shatteringly great tutorial.

YOU ARE AMAZING! YOU HAVE A MAJOR TEACHING GIFT!

@PianoGroove

8 жыл бұрын

+Jonathen Bishop Thanks Jonathen - Awesome.... glad top hear you enjoyed the lesson. You can find more free lessons here if you are interested: bit.ly/get-5-free-lessons Cheers, PianoGroove

@tadeofanti5795

4 жыл бұрын

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@Benny-hq2bk

4 жыл бұрын

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@gogoteca

3 жыл бұрын

Is it a Major teaching gift 7th?

@colour2690

3 жыл бұрын

This was great, been searching for "piano sheet music chords" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across - Nonason Ranincoln Genie - (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now )? It is a great one off guide for discovering how to play the piano like a pro minus the hard work. Ive heard some interesting things about it and my partner got excellent results with it.

This is amazing, you should really do more videos on lead sheets!

Great lesson. Thank you very much!!

Fantastic lesson. Thank you so much!

Brilliantly explained,thank you !!!

Great simple giving... Thanks

thanks. very clear lesson. I will start it immediatly

Love your lessons! :)

You're excellent !

You are a great jazz piano tutor and I thank you.

@PianoGroove

8 жыл бұрын

+Ramon LeBlanc Harts Thanks Ramon. I'm glad you found the lesson useful. Cheers, PianoGroove.

Brilliant teaching. Cheers

Thank you for your time and effort; I'm just getting back to be serious with sheet music & theory and this is great work!

Learning so much! Thanks! How do you practice your chords that you can so easily build them in the left hand?

Thank you kind sir. Your videos help alot. If I could request a video, can you make one on properly interpreting a jazz-blues piece for solo piano. Thanks!

Thanks. I am a beginner and it helps a lot.

finally this video tell me what 251 means.. simple and informative..

Very interesting! Thank you

Great lesson!

Amazing lesson thanks a lot

Thanks million

Brilliant lesson. If this is the easy stuff blimey haha. Great for a beginner jazz pianist. Nice one

You are very good professional

Thank you so much !!

Thanks for this, immensely helpful for someone looking to get into Jazz piano. One question, why does P.C in the real book look so different in the real book to how it’s played? In the book it just says 1 chord for four bars at the start but plays very differently

Love it 😍

Yo, so I just finished learning this (without the chords extensions) and I'm wondering, as this is the first jazz standard I try to learn : how do I go from being able to play what you teach in this video to being able to play what's being played in the recording ? For instance if I want to improvise do I just loop over the progression with my left and play appropriate lines with my right ? Should I learn the walking bassline ? Any tips would be helpful, thanks

Thanks for the subtitles.

The other comments mirror my impression watching this for the first time. We all feel like beginners and a bit overwhelmed @ improvising or pulling it together, and this video opens up the secret pathway. The tune is interesting, not a beaten up war horse, and we see the process - even tho we know it will take much time to work through the steps to get there. But once we push through, we will be on the way - hopefully.....

Thank you kindly.

hey man, the thing is..II wanted to learn how to read notes, however I got so tired midway and just end up coyipng what you're doinf based on your fingers hahahhhahhaha cheers mate! my first time to try piano and I appreciate it more!

Thanks a lot!! 🌼

I've been looking for a lesson that can help me apply chord Voicing, 2-5-1, or whatever I practice to a lead sheet. Which note I should play on LH, which on RH to make them go together smoothly. Hardly anybody show me how or they are too difficult to follow. Finally, I found this one very helpful. Thank you so much.

@PianoGroove

8 жыл бұрын

+Beng OK Hi Beng, no problem. Check out the other free jazz standard lessons for more challenging tunes: bit.ly/jazz-piano-lessons Cheers, PianoGroove.

@PianoGroove Hey man,I've always wondered what are the chords in the intro? Thanks in advance!

Great lesson thanks - is it important that the melody is always on top of the chord? Would you ever play it inside the chord?

THANK YOU !!!

Thank you very much for this. I moved over to jazz (from electronica pop) five years ago. But, I still have the problem that my playing still sounds like 'pop' and not jazz. With your help, I believe I will overcome this.

@PianoGroove

7 жыл бұрын

Hey Anil, my pleasure, glad you're finding the lessons useful. After this lesson I would recommend watching the lesson on Tenderly: www.pianogroove.com/jazz-piano-lessons/tenderly-jazz-standard/ - All the best, PianoGroove

excellent sir .......

Well done. Thanks. What does it mean when you see this? Dm-7 / G9 sus 4-3?

YES! I can finally play boondocks sounding jazz chords! Thank you!

muchas gracias.Bendiciones

could u tell me which the vst or software is using in the video? vmpk?

I feel so lucky to find such helpful tutorial!! Thanks a lot!! Anyway, about the A7 chord at the very last of the tutorial, you said you flat the 9th and the 13th. What is the theory behind this? Could you explain a little bit more when should we use it please?

@PianoGroove

8 жыл бұрын

+Thành Phạm Hi Thanh, Yes this is an altered dominant chord. Possible alterations include b9, #9, #11 and b13. You can add alterations to any dominant chord to create more tension. Check out this lesson for more information: bit.ly/altered-251s Cheers, PianoGroove

Hey :) hope you can answer here. I have the Berkeley jazz standards book and while they have sheet music similar to what I see in the video, they also have a bass clef. How do you read it then?

So the melody note does not have to be on top or the highest pitch note? Or is it? I am having a hard time following which finger is playing the melody?And is the the same technique as playing chord melody?

I watched Whiplash half an hour ago and I'm really interested in Jazz now lol

@EmotionalUnknown0202

2 жыл бұрын

Got interested to get scold by your Music Teacher?

Thank you very much

Great master

I might have missed this in another video but how do you know what notes to omit? For example, in your improved Em7, the B is dropped.

3:36 If I understand correctly, the basic A7=A(C#)EG; A9=A(C#)EGH; A13=A(C#)EGF, if we alter at will F into F# we have A13=A(C#)EG(F#). So, it could be A7 which includes A G B(H) C# and F# that we take from A7,A9 and A13 in the way we want it, right?

Can you make a tutorial for some improvisations on these chords ?

So Lead sheet is used to deliberately make the player improvise? Lead sheet can be used in any genre correct? Like gospel? Or rock? Etc. Thanks.

This is an amazing lesson for beginners. Even intermediates and advanced players can learn something from it. Your explanation and presentation is on point!! Thank you

@PianoGroove

7 жыл бұрын

That's awesome thanks for the comment.... glad to hear it's so useful to so many people. If you're interested in more lessons, you can sign up to get 5 exclusive ones here: bit.ly/get-5-free-lessons - they cover jazz standards, chords, voicings and improvisation :-) Cheers, PianoGroove

Hello I'm a begginer and I just wanted to know, so are the chordd always going to be played with the left hand or can it switch depending on what song and is the right hand always holding the melody

Learning the piano from last week only and watching your video is totally changing the way i should be reading music sheets Thank you so much

Thanks very much!!!

@PianoGroove

7 жыл бұрын

Awesome thanks Henrik! Be sure to sign up for exclusive lessons if you haven't already: bit.ly/get-5-free-lessons

Genial. Gracias

Am also new to the piano and want to learn jazz is there anything here i can learn

As a horn it is easy to voice lead. But on piano idk I feel like my fingering gets all messed up any advice on fingering? It just doesn’t compute with me right now

For me little difficult ...can you please explain personally Will Take membership soon is psbl??

Would you recommend the new fake book for us to purchase?

Can I ask what’s the name of the software which shows what you are playing ?

thank u so much

The best teacher! I would like learn "Georgia on my mind" or "St Louis Blues"... Do you have Twitter?

The Best piano Man in the class. Sacalabailar Joe mella de éste lado del éste

Nice video. But I want to understand how u will improvise on tunes. Eg how autumn leaves sheet music is less how to make it long in my play with improvisation.

Forgive me as I come from a classical background, when you called out around the 3:30 mark "this looks like a 2-5-1 progression", that initially caught me by surprise since the key signature indicates C major and the chords in question weren't in that key (but rather in reference to the key of D major ). Since you identified additional 2-5-1 progressions that followed in other keys, it seems like the key signature doesn't really help as much in identifying chord progressions. Would you say this is true / typical? P.S. I've placed an order for your book recommendation - thanks!

@NaaaChoozQii

5 жыл бұрын

It's very typical in jazz

@pesto12601

5 жыл бұрын

@Spanish Moustache i asked the same thing yesterday... and his reply was spot on - in jazz - throw out the rules and allow for some "flexibility".... you don't need to play all the notes in the provided chord... and often, chords are modified with augments and addon notes. lifetime of learning!!

Is there a reason why you call the notes Db and Gb instead of C# and F#? That’s a little confusing

Thanks ☘️😊❤️🎹🙏 6:04

Thanks a lot for sharing!! It was super useful!! What about the 5ths?? I've seen that sometimes they seem to be avoided in the voicings... What must be done with them?

@adctm

4 жыл бұрын

Same doubt here! Where did the 5ths go?? Please tell me if you have figured it out! edit: found come useful explanation: "Jazz harmonies often contain many notes, thanks to the common practice of extending the harmonies. Oftentimes, it is not desirable that all these notes be given equal weight in your voicing. It’s common to omit some notes when voicing these extended harmonies. The most common note to omit is the fifth of the chord. Because the 5th is an early pitch in the harmonic series (partial 3), it tends to strengthen the root of the chord without adding much character on its own." viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/chapter/jazz-voicings/

@EM-qw7bj

3 жыл бұрын

The fifth is the least important note in the chord , to piggyback on what Matheus said. The root is, well, the root! The third is necessary because it helps you distinguish Major from minor. And the seventh is what makes the chord a seven chord.

I liked this. If you could repeat across the 12 scales - that'd be super.

First thanks so much for these videos! I’m wondering why your lead sheet is different than mine. I also have The Real Book Sixth Edition but Tune Up is on page 418 in my book. The melody and the chord changes are also slightly different. I don’t get it. Any ideas why this would be?

@azersamaali2016

3 жыл бұрын

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The Very Best

How you do two staves

I have a question about chord extensions. why are they notated as 9ths, 11th, and 13ths when they could be 2nds, 4ths, and 6ths? is it about the reason how they're just 3rds built on top of each other?

@PianoGroove

7 жыл бұрын

Hi Trey, we call them 9, 11, and 13 because they are the highest extension in the chord. If the 7th isn't present, then the 13 is always referred to as the '6.' If you said C2, of C4, for example, you are implying that the **7th isn't included**. But you would usually refer to these as Cadd2 or Cadd4 which basically means a C triad with the additional 2 or 4. If you see 9/11/13 it means the 7th of the chord should be in there too. When you keep building up above the 7th, this is when things start to sound jazzy as you have a very rich and lush chord. It can be confusing, hope this explanation help :-) Cheers, PianoGroove

Would you kindly explain what you mean by “two”…FIVE /SEVEN?? I know what a fifth is , as well as what is meant by the dominant/seven, or five/7th. But I thought that the second which is two half steps from the tonic in a scale is called a Ninth in harmony!! Please HELP clarify!!!

how do you know what voicings to use

@joshzing3937

6 жыл бұрын

Strawberry you don't

@EdwardMHadro

6 жыл бұрын

Strawbe

As a classical/jazz pianist I learned that jazz is always additional notes above the tonic chord. In Miles piece here the A note doesn't resolve down to the G but begins as E11, with the scale note of F# added. In the next measure the Eflat is a flat 5th in the A major scale which resolves up to the 5th. The 3rd measure goes straight to D major 7th. Meaning this song is in key of D.

When reading jazz music, do you do all of that thinking with the music in front of you at a gig right then and there or do you take the sheet music home first and study it then figure out how to improv over top of the changes.??? Seems like a lot of thinking to just do it on the fly!!!!

@PianoGroove

8 жыл бұрын

+MLong3524 Hi There, with lots of experience yes, you can do it on the fly. The same chord progressions (like 251s for example) occur over and over again in jazz so learning these progressions inside out will help you do it on the fly. Jazz musicians play the same standards for years so you do become very familiar with them. If you want to improv over a standard you would need to know the chord change and melody by heart so you can focus on improvising! Hope this helps :-) PianoGroove

@MLong3524

8 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

hmm, in my real book vol 1 6th edition the second half is kinda different....what's up with that?

@guillotinedeath

5 жыл бұрын

Yurki same here weird

Nicely done--I have the sheet on this one an love to play it--although not as professionally as you. Good explanation, what 3 chords are you playing post the EbMj7-->>going to EM7 --G-F-E? Great instruction.

@PianoGroove

7 жыл бұрын

Hi there, which part of the lesson are you referring to? Please give me the minute:second

@ttwa5328

7 жыл бұрын

Around the 12:58--13:03 I believe you refer to them as so what chords? What chords are you playing?

@PianoGroove

7 жыл бұрын

I am simply taking the melody note and building a so what chord underneath. This is rehamonising the chord changes. When you move the same chord voicing around (parallel movement) it sounds great. The So What chord is also based on 4ths (which are harmonically ambiguous) and so these chords are great for rehamonising a melody line. Hope this helps and you can find more lessons here: bit.ly/get-5-free-lessons Cheers, PianoGroove