![]() ![]() Number two, these tunes teach us so much about harmony. If you're at a jazz jam session anywhere in the world, you should be able to call any of these tunes, and even if you've never met the musicians you're playing with, because you all know these tunes, you can instantly start making music and communicating with each other. Number one, these tunes are the common language that we use to improvise over. ![]() So why do we need to learn all these old tunes? There are a couple of very important reasons. This body of tunes is also commonly reffered to as "The Great American Songbook." I'll be doing another video with a list of 25 important instrumental jazz tunes to learn, where I'll go over that other important body of work, instrumental compositions by jazz musicians, which we also need to know plenty of. These are pop tunes with lyrics, which the general audience at the time would have been familiar with. When I say jazz standards, what I mean is the body of tunes written by non-jazz musician, pop songwriters, generally for either broadway or hollywood musicals, from roughly the 1920s-50s, which were then picked up by jazz musicians as familiar vehicles over which to improvise. I'm also going to give you a brief analysis of the chord progression to each tune.įirst, a definition is in order. I've put together a list of 25 jazz standards you need to learn, ordered roughly from tunes with the simplest harmonic relationships, and getting increasingly harmonically complex, as well as a playlist where I've suggested 5 different recordings of each tuneto check out. MY FUNNY VALENTINE HARMONIC ANALYSIS HOW TOIf you're just starting to learn how to play jazz, the sheer number of tunes you're expected to know how to play can seem a little overwhelming, as can all of the different recordings you need to be aware of of each tune. ![]()
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