A jazz piano lesson to help you learn Wayne Shorter’s jazz standard “Iris.”

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A Wayne Shorter story 0:00
Contact with great musicians 0:53
We’re part of the tradition 1:00
The Miles Davis recording of “Iris” 1:24
The medium ‘3’ feel of Wayne Shorter’s “Iris” 1:40
The tune’s unusual chord progression 1:50
Wayne Shorter’s abstraction of the ii/V/I chord progression 1:55
“Old meets new” in the music of Wayne Shorter 3:24
How the 1960’s Miles Davis Quintet played with the groove 3:46
How Wayne Shorter played differently with Art Blakey and Miles Davis 4:56
“Chord symbols vs. voicings” in the music of Wayne Shorter 5:52
Beginning “Iris” out of tempo 7:09
Parallel voicings moving down by whole step over a pedal point 7:46
Playing the melody in tempo 8:01
The improvised solo 8:30
A rhythmic motif 8:47
More expansive right hand lines 8:50
Wayne Shorter-like tremolos 9:17
Improvising with voicings 9:28
Swinging the right hand improv 9:32
A more atmospheric texture 9:53
A bluesy feel 10:09
Varying and embellishing the melody 10:20
Improvising an ending over a Db pedal point 11:20
“Floating” voicings 11:54
Using Real Book tunes as a way to learn more about jazz styles in general 12:26

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