Autumn Leaves in all 12 Keys – Lesson Three
In lesson three on our Autumn Leaves in all 12 keys course we will take the opening phrase into three more keys.
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Autumn Leaves in all 12 Keys – Lesson Two
In lesson two on our ‘Autumn Leaves in all 12 keys’ course we are moving the melody into two other keys and solidifying our work from lesson one by playing the melody over the backing tracks.
Autumn Leaves in all 12 Keys – Lesson One
In this lesson we are going to be looking at playing the melody in just two different keys – G minor and F minor (concert) so A minor & G minor on tenor, D minor and C minor on Alto. Remember that Autumn Leaves starts with a MAJOR ii V I progression, so sometimes people can wrongly think that it is a ‘major’ tune – it resolves to the minor so it’s said to be in a minor key!
Autumn Leaves in all 12 Keys
The Jazz Standard ‘Autumn Leaves’ was composed by Hungarian composer Joseph Kosma in 1946. Kosma was a native of Hungary who was introduced to Prévert in Paris. They collaborated on the song Les Feuilles mortes (“The Dead Leaves”) for the 1946 film Les Portes de la nuit (Gates of the Night) where it was sung […]
Song #1 Autumn Leaves
The first song in this course is one that many of you will be familiar with already, the great Joseph Kosma standard, ‘Autumn Leaves’.
Autumn Leaves Vs Narragansett Avenue
Greg Fishman’s Narrangansett Avenue is an etude based on Autumn Leaves that Greg wrote for his ‘Jazz Phrasing for Saxophone book 1’ which has been a staple of my teaching syllabus for over four years.