Jazz Standards 101 – Autumn Leaves
Price: $49
Online course + printable PDF eBook (243 pages) | Tabs, notation, audio & backing tracks | Instant access | Works on all devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets, mobile phones, Apple, Linux, and Android
Autumn Leaves is more than just a beautiful jazz standard and in this course, you will be using the song as a guide to learn about the essential elements of jazz guitar and improvisation.
As you dive into this classic tune, you’ll learn that it encapsulates many fundamental aspects of jazz music, making it the perfect starting point for your journey into the world of jazz guitar.
What Will You Learn in This Course?
- Harmony - You will start by breaking down the music theory behind Autumn Leaves, including concepts like substitution, secondary dominants, and modal interchange.
- Melody - You will learn how to play the song's melody, beginning with the basics and gradually making it more interesting.
- Chords - You'll start with simple chords and work your way up to more complex ones, learning shell chords, drop chords, and common chord patterns. This will help you accompany the song effectively.
- Eva Cassidy's Twist - Explore Eva Cassidy's beautiful version of Autumn Leaves and break down the unique chord arrangement she used.
- Chord Melody Arrangements - You'll learn how to play Autumn Leaves as a solo guitar piece, starting with an easy-to-follow arrangement and progressing to the more advanced style of Barney Kessel.
- Arpeggio Studies - You'll dive into arpeggios, breaking them down in a way that's easy to understand. You will learn various arpeggio patterns and substitutions to add variety to your playing.
- Scale Studies - Explore the scales that work well with Autumn Leaves and practice exercises to make them second nature.
- Solo Studies - Explore a solo study that will ignite your improvisational abilities, rooted in classic jazz guitar patterns and vocabulary.
- Real-life Examples - Gain insights and vocabulary from jazz legends such as Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Barney Kessel, Jim Hall, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, and Paul Desmond. Learn from their techniques and borrow their musical language.
- And more!
What You Get With Jazz Standards 101 - Autumn Leaves
- A step-by-step system to play and improvise over Autumn Leaves with confidence.
- Online course environment (lifetime access) with the ability to ask questions, add bookmarks, play video and audio.
- Printable PDF (243 pages)
- Video examples (online player and downloadable) with adjustable tempo.
- 63 audio examples (online player and downloadable) with adjustable tempo.
- 12 backing tracks (online player and downloadable) with adjustable tempo.
- Standard notation and guitar tabs with annotations.
- Guitar Pro 8 files of all examples.
Price: $49
6 reviews for Jazz Standards 101 – Autumn Leaves
Massimo Monetti –
Excellent course!
MATTHEW DEROSBY (verified owner) –
Excellent course!! I love the included tab and chord charts with finger placement – so helpful!!
Jeff Pratt (verified owner) –
Brilliantly organized course! It is great fun to both learn to play the beautiful Autumn Leaves standard, AND, methodically learn to see and appreciate the depth and wonder of jazz music. Fantastic!
Bobi –
The course created by Dirk is really phenomenal, I think it is well thought out and the methodology that Dirk uses is top of the line. It’s not just one song, you’ll learn with the help of it so much and there is a lot of material. It is presented in a form so that all the potential answers are already there, as good as Dirk’s site is, this method is even better. You get tablature, videos and mp3s and everything is designed in step by step that it’s easy to follow.
It’s nice to see which scale is used in which part, with detailed explanation, the same goes for the arpeggios, and the theory is explained in an easy to understand and clear way, and the best of all is that you can easily apply everything tomorrow in your playing. I would recommend this course, as well as other courses made by Dirk, to anyone who cannot travel to the jazz academy or cannot enroll in one.
Moreover, if you like jazz but also you like some other styles of playing, still you can learn a lot about phrases, theory, implementation of scales and arpeggios. In the end there are about 10 solos in the style of the best jazz musicians.
I’ve seen a fair number of jazz books and a some methods in my life but this is really the best. I know it’s an old rule that you need a professor in order to study a jazz guitar, but this method is designed so that you can learn by yourself at a pace that suits you, and Dirk is always there to help. For me, this is a dream come true and I feel like I’m going to a real jazz academy, that all the secrets are one click away in the comfort of my home.
I respect all the authors and their efforts, but this here is something special and it’s really better than anything you can find, so thank you maestro Dirk for creating this method !
Miquel (verified owner) –
This is an excellent course to learn the principles of jazz harmony. And it’s also fun, because it allows you to find your own variations in improvisation. Thank you!
Claude Légaré (verified owner) –
Excellent cours! Allant des études d’arpèges aux formes d’accords en passant par l’analyse harmonique. Bravo très intéressant!