Jazz Standard #1 - Autumn Leaves

 About the song

Outlining the components 

1. Feeling the swing

2. Getting the chords and voicing

Jared’s

Ahim Kohl’s voicing

Chris Whiteman’s Approach

3. Comping

Sandra Sherman’s Jazz Rhythm Patterns

In the lecture she give 4 basic rhythms and tell where we can break it. 

a. 1 2 & 3 4 

b. 1 & 2 3 4 - break rhythm - more notes than main rhythm or time shifted if same number of notes. 

c. 1 2 3 4 & 1 2 3 & 4

d. 1 & 2 & 3 4 - break rhythm ( coz 3 notes) 

Then when combining these we have to thinking either in terms of 2 or 4 bars. For eg 2 bars then we play 'a' in bar 1 and 'b' in bar 2. We played b in 2nd bar or 4th bar coz it is a break rhythm. We can begin with b in 1st but then we have to use even bigger break in 2nd and 4th bars.

Some combination eg - 

1. a + b

2. a + d

3. b + d

4. c + d

4. Scales and Song Melody 

Jared’s

Example

5. Improvisation