How to Analyze Jazz Standards (Step by Step)

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4 жыл бұрын

Being able to analyze jazz standards with Roman numeral analysis can be incredibly helpful when it comes to improvising.
Just understanding how the chord progressions work, how they connect together, and where they are ultimately leading can be really insightful.
So, in today's video, I'm going over a jazz standard from scratch, analyzing it, and showing you how I do it to help us learn together.
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@daisiesofapril8343 Жыл бұрын

I analyze jazz standards in color. I went through the LJS playbook two years ago and it was a breakthrough (Autumn Leaves) to color-code. I just take colored pencils to my sheets from the real book and circle progression (blue circled = major key center; broken blue = minor key center….) brief key changes start with yellow circles for the fairly predictable/mundane…moving to orange for less predictable and red for the way out there key change. Later when I need to recall the progression of a standard I see colors. Really and truly.

@GuitarSongsMasters 4 жыл бұрын

You rock man, thanks a lot. I owe much of my understanding and hearing of jazz to your teachings!

@victoraranedad1885 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. Recently bought your book and now this video makes so much sense. Please make this a series of jazz standards analysis!

@LuneCheung 3 жыл бұрын

This is so good !! It makes it so easier to understand!! Thank you

@peterklo5119 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! It's very well explained and easy to understand for me.

@johnsontrimble7881 4 жыл бұрын

Love Tune UP!! Great tune! Anytime I practice a new major ii V I progression, i use this song and do it in all keys. Highly reccomend

@Learnjazzstandards 4 жыл бұрын

Great practice routine Johnson!

@eamier 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your analyses. Really helpful video.

@stangetz534 4 жыл бұрын

first thing is check to see if one scale fits over the whole tune like summertime and autumn leaves! lol

@Pleasedontsubscribeplease 3 жыл бұрын

This is amazing! Thank you so much

@Rohrerprod. 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome lesson!

@maganda288 9 ай бұрын

Jazz standards simplified 👍

@composer7325 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent, thank you.

@ezrakowadlo 4 жыл бұрын

brilliant, many thanks.

@wilsonliberal5195 Жыл бұрын

Great. Genial simple chord progression

@paulsrandomshit6931 Жыл бұрын

Bar 11-14 there´s a turnaround (i-Vi-ii-V) because it´s a great way to come back to Dmaj from the 5th

@bradfordmasters197 2 жыл бұрын

This was incredibly helpful. Thanks so much.

@Learnjazzstandards 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! Glad it was helpful.

@TonBariton 4 жыл бұрын

Bars 14 and 15 are in fact the III (Fmaj7) and VI (Bbmaj7) from D minor. It's common to use chords from the minor key of the same name. Think of IVm or bVII7. In this case, the III is altered to a dominant 7 chord, which makes the route to the VI more dominant. And if you listen tot the notes you want to play in your improvisation on Bbmaj7, you really want to hear the e (a note in D minor) and not the eb (a note in Bb major)

@pwg8379 Жыл бұрын

Indeed, D minor is parallel to D major. And, important concept that Gary Burton discusses in a clinic---the ear always wants to hear the smallest number of note changes when changing keys and/or there's no note specific to the melody directing analysis otherwise, e.g. your ear wanting to hear the E instead of Eb, although there are no hard and fast rules either esp. as you shift to more outside notes in your solo. Difficult tune to analyze and other ways to analyze that progression too, being Coltrane based changes. Tune Up is based on the tune Countdown, hence the weirder chromatic bass note progression. Using the melody AND key/chord function in your analysis is king.

@jeffreyhunter4545 7 ай бұрын

Actually, Cotrane's Countdown (1960) is a contrafact to Miles' Tune Up (1953). Coltrane performed and recorded Tune Up with Miles.

@JSDJerry 2 жыл бұрын

Great analysis. I’ll try to use the ideas to figure out other tunes on my own. I learn best by videos rather than pdfs. So, if you had a stand-alone video course for 10 or 20 Jazz standards, I would buy it just to see other examples of harmonic analysis.

@GuitarBluesHury 4 жыл бұрын

Great! Thanks!

@beautifullyearth576 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Thanks

@Learnjazzstandards Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@jazzified1 4 жыл бұрын

Hey man!! Great lesson for learning yo analyse standard a!!

@Learnjazzstandards 4 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it helpful Luis!

@loadstone5149 Жыл бұрын

I think in bars 12-16, we modulate to the key of F major, this means Gmin7 would be the ii, the Emin7 would be the vii, F7 would be I, Bbmaj7 would be IV, and A7 sets up the modulation into D major since it is the dominant. The relationship from F major to D major can be seen as modulating to the tonic major because F major is the same as D minor and from the D minor perspective A7 is just the dominant harmonic chord. The chord progression in the perspective of D minor is iv,ii,III,VI,V. So really from D minor’s perspective, this is a very natural chord progression, but our ears hear it as F major because of the context of the repeated ii-V-I cadence sequence. This minor tangent makes the most sense to me.

@MarkFromTaiwan 4 ай бұрын

thank you for making this video, I thought bar 15 use modal interchange , the D major change to D minor so B flat is flat 6 and the F7 is it's 5

@constandinr8260 4 жыл бұрын

in my understading i see Emin to Eb dim to Ddim to C# dim which sounds good... i tested on sax. Great vid btw. Wainting for more!!!!

@curtpiazza1688 2 жыл бұрын

Great lesson....thanx!

@Learnjazzstandards 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@kamsiyonna2372 3 жыл бұрын

usually I would just go through the chords without analyzing. Will definitely be using this in the future!

@brendaboykin3281 2 жыл бұрын

Thanx, Brent🌹🌹🌹🌹

@leodreim 4 жыл бұрын

Great analisys! For me the key is to find the Imaj7, then look back and forward and apply your knowledge and imagination 🤪🤪

@adrianherralgot4071 Жыл бұрын

Amazing video

@Learnjazzstandards Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@armandolopez8726 2 жыл бұрын

Do you have any videos on chord subs?

@JustyStoky 11 ай бұрын

What software are you using to have access to the song? Thanks!

@ivanmoskvin7638 4 жыл бұрын

Bars 12 -15. IIm and IVm are subdomimants for bb and interchangeble. Viib7 and V7 are dominants for bb and are interchangeble too and dominant chord could be sub for i. So if don't go for melody analysys could be this harmony taken as just ii v i as well?

@Learnjazzstandards 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Ivan I think I’m not quite following your analysis. Maybe I’m just not following your line of thinking.