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A jazz piano lesson to help you learn jazz standard “My Funny Valentine,” by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
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Yesterday’s Broadway songs are today’s jazz standards 0:12
The evolution of composer Richard Rodgers 0:24
The 1937 Broadway show “Babes In Arms” 0:52
Popular music in The Great Depression 1:24
The song’s lyrics 2:41
A Richard Rodgers song that sounds like it was composed by Cole Porter 3:12
The genius of the last ‘A’ section 4:16
AABA songs with “extra” measures 4:36
Recordings by Miles Davis and Gerry Mulligan 5:15
Beginning with an atmospheric texture 5:30
A “pro tip” when learning “My Funny Valentine” 5:39
The classical impressionist influence on jazz 6:24
Starting the performance way out in “left field” 6:52
Beginning to play the melody, still rubato 7:21
A flurry of contrary motion… 7:49
… followed by stillness 7:54
The 2nd ‘A’ section, with melodic embellishment 8:04
An F minor chord, with both the 6th and 7th 8:24
Gil Evans-influenced voicings 8:31
Close voicings at the start of the bridge 8:38
A gradually descending, stepwise bass line 8:43
Returning to the original bass line 8:58
A melodic fill under the sustained melody note 9:05
Herbie 9:08
The final ‘A’ section of the melody 9:12
Altering the written countermelody 9:17
A slightly lush texture 9:28
Bringing the 1st chorus to a conclusion 9:40
The 2nd chorus - beginning the improvisation like the intro 10:02
Continuing with the repeated-note motif, which was originally from the melody’s bridge 10:08
Letting the motif morph into melodic 5ths 10:25
Flowing into a trill-based texture 10:32
The trills become arpeggios 10:48
Hinting at the bridge’s melody with the LH 11:07
The RH run ends on the high point of the bridge’s melody, during the improv 11:38
Bringing in chords, for a different sound 11:41
Faster repeated notes, with chords and harmonic intervals 11:43
Bringing back the melody, with arpeggiated voicings underneath 12:01
A softer feeling for the conclusion of the 2nd chorus 12:07
Starting the 3rd chorus by referencing the melody 12:36
This is almost like French Baroque-era harpsichord music 12:46
A Middle Eastern-influenced descending motif 13:04
A highly embellished rendering of the tune’s melody 13:12
Bringing back the descending motif 13:26
Playing the bridge with a more chordal texture 13:42
A voicing like those played in the intro 14:10
A sparser texture, leaving space 14:14
The final ‘A’ section 14:18
Widely spaced upper grace notes 14:39
Repeated high tones 14:44
Playing very slowly for the ending 14:54
Extending the ending with a I/IV vamp 15:05
Quoting Red Garland’s piano intro from the Miles Davis recording 15:23
Ending with the repeated-note motif 15:35
Personalizing how we play jazz standards15:46
Being influenced by The John Coltrane Quartet’s sound 16:04
Assimilating our musical influences 16:17
“My Funny Valentine” is a “must-know” tune! 16:33
Essential jazz ballads 16:41
Thanks for joining me here! 17:05
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