Autumn Leaves, Part 1 - Peter Martin | 2 Minute Jazz

Peter Martin gives you some quick tips to playing the standard
"Autumn Leaves."


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What's going on everybody? Peter Martin here for 2 Minute Jazz
Piano. I want to go through the tune, Autumn Leaves, give you a
brief tutorial on playing the head with some real simple and
pretty


voicings. 


We're going to think about it in three zones. You've got the
melody:


and then you've got the middle zone, and these are going to be
triads. Three-note voicings with nice resolutions. Some fourths.
Just some good sounding stuff and then you can have the root at
the bottom.


Okay, so you got melody, voices which are split up between the
two hands at different times and the root, okay? One, two, a one
two (pleasant piano playing)


Okay so you saw we had a lot of triads in that middle zone. We
had some nice little kind of clusters there, like over the G
minor.


So a little bit of a variety. but I really tried to put those
voicings in


based on voice leading, good resolutions really fitting nicely to
that tenor range. But that's sort of the foundation and you know,
when you start to extend beyond that, you'll find those same
voicings in the middle, in that middle zone will serve you well
for your left-hand voices. But that's for later. All right? So
have fun. Autumn Leaves.


Happy practicing.


See Part 2:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH1Je51_qGE


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