Hi everyone,
I’d like to start with a bit of my musical background. I grew up in India learning Indian classical music on sitar and tabla. High school and college were rock / pop, then I moved to the US and took (European) classical lessons for a decade+. I started playing some jazz and blues from sheet music, but I had no idea what I was doing, and I knew that wasn’t how this music is supposed to be learnt. Most YouTube lessons were too basic or too advanced. A few months ago I found PianoGroove, and a couple of weeks ago I found Band-in-a-Box, and I’ve been having a lot of fun.
Here’s my recording of Georgia On My Mind. It’s nothing special, and I’ve played many different versions of this before. But this is the first time I’m not playing someone else’s sheet music, and I’m happy about that.
Now on to the feedback part. To me, this still sounds more like classical than jazz 
Here are some things that I think I should work on, I would love to hear others’ feedback.
-
I need to stop playing the roots that low, it’s interfering with the bass. I’ve never played in a jazz band, and I’m adding the drums and bass in a DAW, so it sounds “empty” when I’m recording the piano portion if I don’t play the root notes that way. Plus that’s how I’ve always played. Maybe playing along with iRealPro might help me change that sound?
-
It feels too lilting / lyrical to me, doesn’t really feel like a jazz ballad. Over pedaling? Too many notes / not enough gaps? Something more?