A jazz piano lesson to help you learn John Coltrane’s standard tune “Moment’s Notice.”

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Get ready for a fast tune! 0:00
Early/middle period Coltrane 0:11
The tune’s shifting key centers 0:44
Honing in on a key center later in the form 1:25
A balance of harmonic approaches 1:35
A relatively short span of time 1:43
Miles Davis’s advice to John Coltrane 2:08
Superimposing various chord progressions over a pedal point 2:18
Coltrane moved on from the approach used in “Moment’s Notice” 2:53
A 4Step Method to practice fast, difficult jazz tunes 3:08
1. Hearing our way through complex chord progressions 3:33
2. Playing slowly, with a steady ballad tempo 3:58
3. Simplifying the right hand improv while swinging at a medium tempo 4:28
4. Gradually building up to a fast tempo 4:57
Fasten your seat belt! 6:29
Starting right away with the tune’s melody 6:44
Accenting the first beat of the solo, for structural clarity 8:05
Improvising lyrically over the shifting key centers 8:07
Becoming a little more rhythmic in the improvised line 8:16
Taking a beboplike motif through the changes 8:21
Longer, more fluid phrases 8:26
Bill Evans 8:29
Using simpler melodic lines again 8:37
Pure bebop! 8:41
Impressionistic 8:46
Single notes in the LH during the solo break 8:53
The 2nd solo chorus 8:56
Playing some 10ths with the left hand, for a fuller sound 8:59
Faster notes in the improvised line 9:11
Returning to the 8thnote flow 9:20
A melodic sequence 9:21
Developing the motif further 9:26
“Grounding” the solo with repeated notes 9:33
Sort of quoting “Surrey With The Fringe On Top” 9:36
Breaking up the rhythm during the solo break 9:44
Beginning the 3rd solo chorus 9:47
Continuous motivic development 9:50
Rhythmic interplay 10:19
A RH technique used by Duke Ellington and McCoy Tyner 10:27
Extending the technique through the solo break 10:35
Going for a 4th solo chorus! 10:37
Playing with various motifs 10:51
Trills 11:17
Aaron Copland during the solo break 11:24
Returning to Coltrane’s melody, up an octave 11:28
Going down the octave 11:31
Extending the ending into a Keith Jarrettlike vamp 12:09
A very pianistic ending 13:52
The fun of performing live 14:00
I meant to say “ending” 14:21
The influence of Keith Jarrett 14:27
Relating it to Coltrane’s musical evolution 14:54
Taking the journey together 15:00
Video course 15:12
Supporting each other as musicians 15:24

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