Lucky Southern: Journey Through The Real Book #219 (Jazz Piano Lesson)

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A jazz piano lesson to help you learn Keith Jarrett’s jazz standard “Lucky Southern.”

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Learning Keith Jarrett’s “Lucky Southern” 0:00
Understanding jazz 0:15
Getting to know “Lucky Southern” 0:48
Keith Jarrett in the early 1970s 1:20
The development of Jazz Fusion 1:54
The use of “Straight 8ths” in jazz 2:11
The connection between Bossa Nova and light pop rhythms 2:57
The musical form of “Lucky Southern” 3:40
Comparing the tune’s form to the classic ABBA structure 4:10
AABC song structure 4:48
Same structure as “Autumn Leaves” 5:07
Comparing the harmonies to those used in “Take The ‘A’ Train” 5:51
Analyzing the bridge’s chords 8:40
The ‘C’ section’s chords are similar to “All The Things You Are” 10:05
Jarrett’s use of syncopation 10:28
A “hybrid” type of composition 10:50
The stepwise melodic line in the introduction 10:27
Starting with a chromatic melodic line over a bossa nova accompaniment 12:45
The first ‘A’ section 13:03
Playing a lower accompaniment for the 2nd ‘A’ 13:19
Using a folk guitar-like texture on the bridge 13:35
Slightly more rhythmic for the ‘C’ section 13:52
Even more rhythmic for the start of the improvised solo 14:07
Motivic development 14:19
A bebop phrase… 14:31
… followed by a bluesy pop lick 14:34
Colorful left-hand rootless chord voicings 14:39
Latin “quasi-stride” 14:56
A diminished scale… 15:02
… followed by a descending arpeggio 15:05
Concluding the chorus with pentatonic lines 15:07
Billy Taylor’s “trick” of starting the 2nd improvised chorus with 16th notes 15:12
Broken arpeggios 15:18
Bill Evans-like rhythmic displacement 15:26
RH flurries of notes 15:33
Playful syncopation 15:45
Having fun with scales 15:52
Rhythmic interplay between the two hands 16:01
Improvising with trills 16:14
More pentatonics 16:29
Hinting at Jarrett’s melody 16:35
Adding an alto voice under the improvised melody 16:39
Single-note improv again 16:44
An atmospheric texture during the bridge 16:50
Returning to a “typical” bossa groove for the ‘C’ section 17:03
An improvised inner-voice under the melody17:23
A melodic left-hand part 17:40
Going for a fuller sound 17:56
Gradually softening the mood for the ending 18:12
Playing off the final measure 18:28
Gil Evans-inspired voicings 18:33
A great introduction to Keith Jarrett’s compositions 19:10

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