25 Jazz Standards You Need To Know (Easiest To Hardest) Chord Analysis & Listening Guide

https://teespring.com/stores/billgrah...   / billgrahammusic   If you want to learn how to play and understand jazz, you need to learn jazz standards. Unfortunately, since there are so many standard tunes to learn, it can be a little overwhelming trying to know which tunes you should work on. This class takes you through the chord progressions of 25 important tunes, functionally analyzing all of the tonal centers and harmonic movements, arranged roughly from easiest to hardest. Learning these standards will teach you about common movements in jazz harmony, and also give you great vehicles to improvise on. With so many recordings of each tune, it can also be intimidating trying to figure out which versions by who to check out. To that end, I’ve put together a playlist of 5 recordings each of all 25 tunes on the list: a “pop” vocal recording, a jazz vocal recording, and 3 instrumental small group jazz recordings of each tune. Since this is such a large quantity of material, feel free to take this video at your own pace. I would recommend pausing the video after each tune is analyzed, and going to the playlist to listen to the 5 versions of that tune before coming back to this video and continuing on to the next song. As always, if you have any questions, please leave them below. 0:00 Introduction 4:06 #1) Autumn Leaves 7:13 #2) Take The A Train 11:21 #3) I've Got Rhythm 17:04 #4) Bye Bye Blackbird 21:03 #5) Oh Lady Be Good 26:15 #6) Indiana 32:32 #7) Alone Together 37:58 #8) Misty 42:24 #9) My Romance 47:32 #10) All Of Me 50:28 #11) The Days Of Wine And Roses 55:06 #12) There Will Never Be Another You 57:39 #13) My Funny Valentine 1:02:29 #14) How High The Moon 1:06:44 #15) Like Someone In Love 1:13:42 #16) Just Friends 1:16:58 #17) What Is This Thing Called Love? 1:19:50 #18) On Green Dolphin Street 1:25:35 #19) Body And Soul 1:33:37 #20) Cherokee 1:38:12 #21) The Song Is You 1:46:55 #22) Someday My Prince Will Come 1:51:22 #23) All The Things You Are 1:57:27 #24) Stella By Starlight 2:03:09 #25) Have You Met Miss Jones 2:10:07 Closing Thoughts Playlist of recordings to check out:    • 25 Important Jazz Standards (Versions To L...   *Sorry for the titles in the first hour rendering incorrectly, and the small audio synchronization issue during a portion of my discussion on Have You Met Miss Jones. I'm not sure what caused those glitches. I tried to hunt them down and re-rendered the video 3 times, and they keep showing up. Gremlins I guess. Donations welcome, my paypal is paypal.me/billgrahammusic, or just use my email address, [email protected] If you're interested in taking lessons over skype or zoom, please feel free to send me an email and we can set something up. You don't have to be a pianist, I'm happy to talk improvisation and harmony with all musicians. My book "Chord Tone Improvisation - A Practical Method For Jazz Improvisation: Volume 1 - Approaching Major And Minor Triads" is available for purchase at https://amzn.to/2UNu9YE It's also available as a PDF on my website http://www.billgrahammusic.com (direct link https://www.powr.io/apps/paypal-butto...) If you want to know more about what's in my book, check out this video    • Chord Tone Improvisation - Arpeggios And A...   Follow me on Instagram   / billgraham_music   My Original Music: https://billgraham.bandcamp.com/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/2j5i8... Please like, subscribe, and share.