Jazz Standards - Vote Now!

That’s awesome thanks Robert :slight_smile:

It really helps when students post their favourite versions of the record so that I can get an idea of the style and feel. It’s also a nice way to share the records with other students.

If you want to improvise over any tune Robert, you need to know the chord changed inside out, completely by muscle memory in your left hand. Then you will be in a position to explore improv.

Looking at a lead sheet and reading chord changes will distract you from your right hand improvised lines and melodic ideas.

I’d recommend playing through with left hand voicings until you can play them at tempo without thinking.

Hope this helps Robert :slight_smile:

Perhaps Girl From Ipanema

September In The Rain

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Thanks for the suggestions Randy.

We will be bringing onboard more tutors in the new year for bossa nova lessons and so “The Girl From Ipanema” will definitely be covered soon.

hi, i woud like some tunes.I remember clifford,joy spring, my song.Thx

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Thanks for recommending these tunes Ana… great suggestions :slight_smile:

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I’ll soon be going through this entire thread and categorizing all submissions by style and feel (bluesy tunes, ballad tunes, up-tempo tunes, Latin tunes etc… )

With 2 new PianoGroove tutors onboard and more to come, we will be able to deliver tune requests much faster moving forwards.

I’d like tutors to deliver the tunes that they know well, and that suit their style of playing.

I’ll post an update in this thread once I have categorised all requests.

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I know there are already tons of suggestions here, but I’ll toss out Dolphin Dance and Wave into the mix!

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Would love a lesson on Wee Small Hours of the morning. Randy Halberstadt plays a great version and just heard a lovely one by Oscar Peterson a few days ago… thanks!

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Good day Hayden,
Thought I would make this request official.

Someone to Watch Over Me

Here are two beautiful and very different versions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvw_s-z5tyI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y92LxyuNFZ0

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That Keith Jarrett track is beautiful, thanks for sharing!

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I am currently working on …… Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.

Would welcome your arrangement.

Thanks

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Hi Don,

Beautiful tune… leave it with me!

A solo piano arrangement will be ready shortly for the tune “Skylark” .

Here’s a few recordings I liked whilst working on the lesson:

Kenny’s lyricism in the melody around 1:40 is brilliant:

And here’s some other great recordings for Spotify Users:

The arrangement and transcription will be ready next week :slight_smile:

I have just published a lesson on SkyLark which has now been crossed off the list: Skylark - Jazz Standard Lesson

Tuomo is working on the following 5 tunes that have been requested by students:

  • On Green Dolhpin Street
  • Everytime We Say Goodbye
  • Emily
  • You Must Believe In Spring
  • Naima

And my upcoming standard lessons are:

  • Just Friends
  • Waltz For Debby
  • What A Difference A Day Makes
  • But Beautiful
  • Yesterdays

With our growing team of teachers, we will be able to move through tune requests much quicker… so keep the suggestions coming.

Soon I will create a new table of standards to vote on. I will start by compiling all of the suggestions in this thread.

Some of you might remember in January when I declared my goal to get all of these tunes recorded this year. An ambitious goal… but I’m feeling confident that we can get there :smile: Cheers!

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Yay for Waltz for Debby!!

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May I suggest ‘let’s face the music and dance’; I believe this would help us all with the swing feel and upbeat accompaniements in the left hand. However, I may be wrong so will leave it to you.

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I suggest a couple of ballads I love: Charles Aznavour’s “She” ( Elvis Costello) and “ You are so beautifull”(Joe Cocker).
Thank you

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One of my all time favourites is Lover Man

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@Charles_Hill , @angel , @Yves

Thanks for these suggestions… we will certainly cover all of these tunes.

I’ll add them again here for quick reference:

  • Let’s Face The Music & Dance
  • Charles Aznavour’s “She” ( Elvis Costello)
  • You Are So Beautiful (Joe Cocker)
  • Lover Man

I’d estimate that within the next month or so, we will be finishing up the table above. We can then add all of the other suggestions in this thread into a new poll, or multiple polls based on style… ballad - uptempo - waltz - latin etc…

We also have more teachers joining us shortly and so I envisage that we will greatly speed up the time from lesson request to the lesson being published.

Unrelated note Charles… my full name is Hayden Charles Hill … so we share a very similar name.

Cheers!

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Ditto ie unrelated note… My wife Jay always refers to you as ‘cousin Hayden’ …

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