In The Wee Small Hours: Journey Through The Real Book

In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning: Journey Through The Real Book #179 (Jazz Piano Lesson)

A jazz piano lesson to help you learn the jazz standard “In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning,” which was Frank Sinatra’s “comeback” song in 1955.

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Getting “beyond the notes” when learning jazz standards on piano 0:00
The early 1950s as a transitional period between the Swing Era and Rock and Roll 0:38
“In The Wee Small Hours” as Frank Sinatra’s 1955 “comeback” song 2:35
“In The Wee Small Hours” as a classic “torch song” 3:41
Letting a song’s lyrics influence our jazz piano playing 4:21
Using inner-voice melodic motion in jazz piano ballads 4:58
Using the song’s ending as an intro 7:36
An altered V7 chord 7:52
Beginning the melody 7:55
Continuing with the inner-voice motion 8:16
Putting in a iii/VI/ii/V chord progression 8:31
Adding 8th note motion 8:35
Syncopating the chord, to break up the steady rhythm 9:00
Using a pedal point on the turnaround 9:11
Beginning the solo by improvising around the melody 9:22
Motivic development, with rhythmic variety 9:49
Using altered dominant 7th chords 9:57
Using more complex rhythms in solo 10:05
Having fun with repeated phrases 10:41
Longer and more expansive melodic lines 10:57
Incorporating broken arpeggios into the melodic line 11:22
Embellishing and varying the tune’s melody 11:37
Slowing down while heading towards a subdued conclusion12:52
Extending the last ending with chromatic innervoice movement 3:17

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