Today, I wanna show you how you take a simple song, like, “You Are My Sunshine”, and turn it into jazz. We’ll take up 4 levels of reharmonization.
Listen to episode 386
In this episode:
1. The basic chord changes of You Are My Sunshine
2. How I play the tune with the basic chord changes
3. Level #1 – How to turn the tune into jazz
4. Level #2 – Spicing it up a little bit
5. Level #3 – How to get rid of redundancy and add twists
6. Level #4 – Use this specific tactic to add more harmonic movement and color
7. A cool thing you can do for endings
Important Links and Resources:
Free Guide to learn standards by ear: Learn Jazz Standards the Smart Way