Peter Martin's Jazz Piano Lessons

In this lesson, Peter continues with part two of Autumn Leaves  

A study of techniques to use for the tune Autumn Leaves, focusing on the head with techniques for solo piano and trio playing.

This lesson covers approaches to learning new tunes by focusing in on reference recordings instead of the fake book chart. Peter uses the song “Have You Met Miss Jones” as an example, and refers to the Frank Sinatra recording of the tune. Did you know you can download an audio version of all lessons to [...]

All about how to play over Rhythm Changes. In this lesson, I discuss: AABA Form, blues scale, diminished scales, dominant chord, Miles Davis, Oleo, rhythm changes, scales, tri-tome substitution, vocabulary, voicing.