Exploring Modern Ideas for Jazz Standards: Pt. 1
“What I do is download the lesson and play it inside VLC Player, which has a compressor in it, which brings John's spoken word and music closer together.”
3 Standards:
- "Days of Wine and Roses"
- "On Green Dolphin Street"
- "Like Someone in Love"
Sub-topics:
- Modulations as part of an arrangement of a familiar standard
- Odd meter interpretations of standards
- Melodic minor mode applications to introduce tensions over dominant chords
Expected Outcome:
New ideas for soloing, adding new chords for comping and solo ideas, improving ability to internalize and memorize chord progressions.
Course Content
Lessons
- 1: Intro and "Days of Wine and Roses"419
- 2: Soloing and Comping Ideas411
- 3: Open String Voicing Ideas202
- 4: "Green Dolphin Street" Discussion359
- 5: Minor 3rd Modulation on Wine and Roses183
- 6: "Like Someone in Love" Discussion340
Reviews & Ratings
"AUDIO PROBLEM SOLVED"
What I do is download the lesson and play it inside VLC Player, which has a compressor in it, which brings John's spoken word and music closer together.
"John's great! Production lacks."
John’s classes a great! He provides very clear details and instruction. However, I would agree with the comment above. There needs to be notation provided in order to study such complex material. Also, the sound quality is horrible. This seems to be a problem with most of the videos Mike’s Master Classes offers. It is quite a shame to have such amazing musicians and teachers with such poor sound quality. I think teenagers on youtube are getting way better sound quality. Love the material. Disappointed with the production quality and lack of study materials.
"audio is a bit quiet / hissy"
The content contains brilliant concepts, but is let down by the low audio volume / high hiss when John speaks.
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