Litha: Journey Through The Real Book #213 (Jazz Piano Lesson)

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A jazz piano lesson to help you learn Chick Corea’s jazz standard “Litha.”

Take your LH playing to the next level with my free ebook: Jazz Piano Left Hand Techniques: https://keyboardimprov.com/jazz-left-hand-techniques-ebook/

Going through The Real Book, tune-by-tune 0:00
An 8-year musical project! 0:29
Approaching jazz standards in historical and musical contexts 0:41
Learning from previous generations of jazz musicians 1:08
An overview of Chick Corea’s musical journey 2:06
The Jazz Fusion/Progressive Rock parallel 2:10
Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Herbie Hancock 3:40
Getting started with “Litha” 5:27
Analyzing Chick Corea’s chord progressions 6:46
Playing jazz tunes with varying degrees of intensity 10:02
Beginning right away with the tune’s melody 10:52
Improvising rhythmic fills 11:01
Echoing the right hand, with the left 11:04
Exploring various textures 11:07
Diminished voicings 11:21
4/4 Swing! 11:25
Improvising around the melody 12:04
Stravinsky-influenced modal voicings 12:51
Continuous motivic development 12:58
Going “outside the changes” 13:09
Starting a new chorus, in 6/8 time 13:16
Staying with one motif for a while 13:22
Bringing a lighter and playful feeling to the music 13:28

Chick! 13:32
Building intensity with arpeggios 13:35
Using chromatics 13:47
Swinging in 4/4 time again 13:51
Trilling! 14:02
Lyrical phrases 14:06
Rhythmic interplay between the hands 14:12
Chromatically-descending chords 14:22
Single-note improv 14:25
Improvising with broken arpeggios 14:42
Changing textures with the change in harmony 14:47
Emphasizing the 6/8 rhythm 14:52
A “shimmering” texture, with LH melodic line 14:56
Back to straight-ahead jazz 15:05
A more tender feeling 15:31
The Ravel influence shines through 16:08
Quartal chord voicings 16:12
A independent left hand part 16:31
Gil Evans-type harmonies 16:38
Returning to Chick’s melody 17:01
Improvising an extended ending, over the Em harmony 17:35
Absorbing our musical influences over time 17:59

Here are some more Free Jazz Piano Lessons for you at the KeyboardImprov website: https://keyboardimprov.com/free-beginning-jazz-piano-lessons/

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Thanks for joining me on this musical adventure, and please LIKE, COMMENT and SHARE this video with your musical friends.

If you'd like to start my full video course, you'll find it here: https://keyboardimprov.com/get-started/videocourse/

For Zoom and Skype lessons, please email me at rondrotos@keyboardimprov.com.

Enjoy the journey, and "let the music flow!"
Ron
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