The First 10 Jazz Standards You Need To Know

I say this all the time, learn, yes, make music, but of course if you want to make music, you

need

to

know

some songs that you can make music to, so in this video I'm going to go over ten and also create. They're great places if you want to start playing

jazz

, and really, in any case, whether you're just starting out or you're already playing, yeah, these are 10 songs that you want to have in your vocabulary, they're useful, they're common, they're played a lot and there are also very good examples of some very typical things, but yes, when I talk about the songs, of course, I talk about the chords that you have, the scales that you

need

things like that, but I'm also going to talk about the shape of the pieces and That's because

know

ing the form and understanding the form of songs is something that is actually very useful, if you want to learn more songs, it will be very useful for you.

It's easier for you to learn a lot of different songs, think about it like this: if you already know a 12 bar blues, another 12 beats were really easy to learn and the same goes for understanding the form of the standard, another thing I think. I'm also going to talk about how if you're coming from a certain place, then certain monologues will be better places to start because some of them will emphasize certain things and make you feel better about where you're coming from. and it will make the transition to playing

jazz

easier for you if you already know a lot of songs and you're looking at this list and you're thinking well, I actually think this one should have been on there, so leave a video comment because I think it's a really helpful discussion and In fact, it's also very important to have a lot of suggestions for solid beginner tunes that aren't too difficult, also for us who already play, because if there's an easy song that we don't know, then it's good to just take a look at it and have it there and add something. to your vocabulary.

My name is Jen's Lassen. I learned that yes, make music. The

first

standard on the list is to take the old Strayhorn standard. I think this is a great example. from a very basic AABA phone and it's also in a very simple key because you usually play this in C major, there's not as many calls there and most of the time you just stay in key and have to go. a bit to a secondary dominant which is useful for you, the melody is very clear and you can really hear it when the calls change. The most important thing about this is probably that it's an ABA phone, so a lot of jazz styles are actually 32 bars and one way we break down those 32 bars is that we have an 8 bath section that repeats, then we get a bridge and then we get a repeat of section a again.

This way of understanding the standard really means that we only have to learn 16 bars to learn the song, so it's important to notice when something has an ABA. The video I'm using here is Joe Henderson playing the H ring and I think that's a great example of someone taking a really simple song and then really doing a lot with it, he's really good at playing both so that makes sense from one point. Very basic in appearance, but it also adds a lot in addition. I also made a video where I'm reviewing the album version of his song in which he plays to move with drummer Gregory Hutchinson Herbie Hancock's Cantaloupe Island is the only modal piece I have on this list.

I think it's really because it's such a great piece, it's pretty simple. and it's also a piece where you can improvise if you only use pentatonic scales, so if you come from playing a lot and are used to improvising but you don't feel as comfortable playing major scales and improvising diatonic arpeggios, then working with Cantaloupe Island is really good because you're still going to play changes, you have to change scales on the different chords, there aren't that many and you can really play from Island of Sound. to another island of sound which is, of course, what a motor piece is and that way you have some music that you can play while you also start to work on your major scales and learn your imagery and all that other kind of stuff that you need if you want to play some more traditional jazz

standards

and although this is a really simple piece with just three different chords then it's something where you can actually play some really cool solos and the version I'm using here is a Pat Metheny cover, where he plays it in a trio with Steve Swallow, there are also some really great Herbie Hancock covers, especially one where he plays with Noon on Lou Egg and that's really fantastic.

The Blues, of course, the loss of 12 hours is a great experience. important progression in jazz music and anyway loses a large part of jazz. This version I have here is George Benson playing the limits of Billie and that is, of course, a great example of someone improvising on a 12-bar blues when you start playing with a loose rhythm. you probably want to start with two tones, you want to start with F and B flat and you also want to keep in mind that if you're coming from playing rock music and more pentatonic stuff, then it can be quite difficult to make the transition to producing gas.

Because jazz blues is a little different, there won't be a lot of minor pentatonic things going on, and that way it may be a better option to start with another song, so you don't get into the habit of playing in 12-bar blues for the rest, you need to review the 12 hour blues, it's really important, it's a big part of chess and it's something that everyone plays so it will be called and there will be sessions all the time and therefore you will want to do it. When you start working on 12 bar blues, make sure you also learn some tunes and take some tunes that are very clear about the changes because that will really help you if you have a song like Tenor Madness that really tells you.

Okay, now we're on this court, now we're on this call, so that will really help you hear what the difference is between the calls and make it easier for you to improvise on them and really convey the changes in your solo, which is something that can be very difficult at

first

, setting up Doll is another Ellington Strayhorn piece on this list and I think this is a great example of a song that is actually quite traditional and of course is usually played in the key of C major, but it also has some kinds of modal things and that means it's really useful for checking that bridge between where things are tonal and where they're modal, which is maybe a tricky issue.

It is also a composition that actually has a tritone substitution. build the song and that really helps you hear that pretty important progression that is very typical of itself and will be your gateway also to mastering the rest. It's just a great example of a very typical AABA, so a thirty-two bar foam in jazz and it has the typical Ellington bridge, which is actually this version of going to the fourth degree with a cadenza and then using the same kind of cadence to go to fifth grade and back. La balsa is a song you want to have. in your repertoire because it's very common for everyone to know the bosses, so it's really useful for a song if you play with other people a lot.

It's also a great place to start if you want to check out some really basic minor chord progressions in the song. It's usually played in C minor and it's great to have some really basic examples at a not too fast tempo of a minor cadence so you can really get used to playing the harmonica minor in the dominant and really get a taste of what it's like to play in a minor key, Awesome Leaves is another song that is very common and that everyone knows and that alone means that it makes sense to learn it and have it in your repertoire, plus it is not a very difficult June, it is one of the most difficult songs.

This list is also a great example of a song that has most of the different chords you'll find in a key and that way it's a great place to start checking out how you can use more chords because a lot of the other songs I'm looking at here They actually revolve around the same sign most of the time. Order is the last straight Ellingson tune I have on this list. It's not actually written by those two, but of course it is. associated with the Ellington Orchestra and I think maybe it also says something about the importance of Ellington and Strayhorn in Jess's development that on a list like this you have three of their songs, it's a great song, again, it's a BA and I think it's a very simple part and it's really good for biking, some basic cadences that you'll definitely want to have in your 5-1 cadence in the key and another thing it has is that the bridge is a rhythm bridge, which is also something It's really useful check it.

I didn't include rhythm changes in this list and that's mainly because I think it's actually a little trickier to check and at first that's not where you want to start, you want to start with some melodies. That's a little simpler, ironically the first three

standards

I learned are not on this list, but when I learned the first 10 and was checking that at the beginning, no one guided me and I just chose standards that I liked, which of course I also It's important, it's just as important, but you're really motivated to learn them and it's not like you have to learn these ten, they're the first songs, you have to go with what you want to learn, but at the same time, when I.

I did that, I wasn't really helping myself because the first three songs I learned were Green Dolphin Street and Stella by Starlight and There's a Greater Love and they were all quite difficult for me at the time and required a lot of effort to understand. and if I started with something that was a little simpler, it probably would have been a little easier. That's at least what I try to get my students to do, it's another pretty basic standard that is often played in a temple. not too fast and it's also a great place to start if you want to listen to some songs in minor because it has long stretches of minor, especially if you want to hear some melodic minor that you can use in tonic minor chords and also Another reason you want to remove this one is that one of the most famous jazz guitar compositions is Four One Six by Wes Montgomery and it is actually based on summer, so that is also a good reason to learn this song.

This list is, of course, a list of suggestions of songs you should learn, so it's not that you have to learn them, but if you're looking for songs to learn, maybe one of these songs will be right for you if you like it and, for the rest, take all the songs take what you want to learn. It is very important that you stay motivated to keep practicing if you want to learn them, but you should do yourself the favor of learning these songs by heart. Whatever you're learning, make sure you know them. melody by heart, make sure you know the course by heart and use it so you can really internalize it and only worry about playing music when you're improvising, but the rest of course, I'm also very curious if you think there are songs missing from this list, then let a comment on this video.

It is generally attributed to Miles Davis and is also on his tombstone, but in fact it was not written by him, he stole it from Jeff Wayne, an American guitarist who lives in I think New York is mainly associated with Bebop and otherwise , it's not that famous as far as I know, but it's a great tune to listen to and essentially it's a version of a minor Bruce, it's a 12 hour form that you'd normally play. in C minor and the melody is also nice, which really conveys the melodic sound of C minor quite well. It also has a lot of two five ones, two different key emitters, which is something that is somewhat typical of that lake period. bleep where they were starting to ride graves and not just Ryan graves at the top of the standards and so it's pretty typical to hear a good tune without being too complicated and in some ways it's actually less complicated than a normal minor blues and another guitar.

The player who is really associated with solar energy is of course Pat Metheny and the version I have here in this video is of him playing with Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland and Herbie Hancock and that's a really cool version. This is a live recording of Object is the band's unit. I've covered most of the different types of foams that are very common in jazz now because we've had ABA, we have different types of 12-hour shapes and 16-bar shapes, but one shape that's actually very common that I didn't know about . I have some example of foam called BAC or B, which simply divides the foam into two halves, each 16 bars long.

This is an example of all of me is a great example of this. It's pretty simple, I think one of the reasons this is a good song to listen to is it's a little more complicated than the other songs on the list, but the melody is extremely clear so you can really hear the changes in the melody and that makes it a It's a great song to listen to because just by learning the melody, which is easier to listen to than the course at the beginning, you can already start listening to the course and that is a very important aspect; otherwise it's just a great example of this type of shape gypsum is a very common shape in the intake, you will find that with a lot of really common pieces like those that could happen to you and will never be nru anddata wine rows, there are really many of them and it is also good to have some example.

They are usually a little more complicated in terms of course.