I say it all the time: Learn Jazz – Make Music, and to do that you need to know some songs, so in this video, I am going to go over 10 jazz standards that you want in your repertoire and are great places to start learning jazz. This is In terms of playing changes and knowing all the chords and scale but also about the form that you want to know which is going to make it easier to learn more complicated standards.
When talking about the songs I will try to reference great versions of them, and also talk about whether this song may be a good place to start for you if you are looking for songs to learn.
If you already know a lot of songs and have some other suggestions for this list then let me know about that in the comments to this video. Sharing information like that is really useful for everybody checking it out! I’ll talk about the first standards I learned later in the video, none of those are on the list.
Get started learning some of these standards: Learn Easy Jazz Standards
For example Blue Bossa or Autumn Leaves
If you want to check out some of the important progressions that make up Jazz Standards then check out this video: Chord Progressions as Building Blocks
Want to learn how to analyze standards? Then see how I do that in this playlist of videos on Jazz Standards and music theory: How To Analyze Jazz Standards
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Content:
0:00 Intro – Learn Jazz Make – Music!
0:24 10 Typical Standards and Forms
0:36 The Form Of Songs is Important!
0:56 Where are you coming from?
1:12 Something missing?
1:37 #1 Take The A train
2:04 AABA forms
2:52 #2 Cantaloupe Island – Modal Jazz
4:03 #3 Blues
5:28 #4 Satin Doll
6:12 The Ellington Bridge
6:23 #5 Blue Bossa
6:54 #6 Autumn Leaves
7:25 #7 Perdido – Rhythm Changes Bridge
8:02 No Rhythm Changes?
8:15 The First 3 Standards I learned
8:57 #8 Summertime – Four On Six
9:27 How To Use the list
10:00 Did I leave out a Song?
10:05 #9 Solar – Not by Miles Davis
11:23 #10 All Of Me – ABAC Form
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