As we near the end of our learning projects, I started working on my final goal piece, the jazz standard “Autumn Leaves“. This has always been one of my favourites and my earliest introduction to jazz music. After a little bit of analysis, I found that it follows the simple 2-5-1 chord progression I started working on at the beginning of my learning project.
I love that I can start transferring my new skills to different pieces! Here is my progress this week:
What I worked on:
- Using a YouTube tutorial with a suggested paid resource, I went through 5 basic steps to start learning Autumn Leaves
Wins:
- I successfully moved through all 5 steps of the lesson
- Bonus round – tried playing the piece with a drum/bass backing track (from the same YouTuber, David Magyel)
Fails:
- This week was heavy on sheet music use, but I tried to use it as a tool (by analyzing the score) rather than a crutch.
Resources used:
- How to Navigate Autumn Leaves
- How to Learn New Tunes (Autumn Leaves) – Jazz Lesson #32
- Drum/Bass backing track (starting at 5:07)
- Musicnotes paid sheet music – Autumn Leaves (David Magyel lesson)
- My iPad and Musicnotes.com app (save the trees!)
Next week I will continue with Autumn Leaves, but I plan to go back to only using a lead sheet and begin practicing scales for improvising.
Sounding great Catherine! Keep up the great work! I look forward to your final piece.
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Thank you!
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Catherine,
Listening to you play feels like being at a concert. I truly enjoy it!!! Thanks so much for sharing 🙂
Melinda
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Thank you, Melinda!
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