A jazz piano lesson to help you learn Paul McCartney’s song “Michelle,” which has become something of a jazz standard over the years.

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Playing every tune in The Real Book 0:09
Why are there 2 Beatles’ songs in The Real Book? 0:21
History of The Real Book 0:29
Each generation prefers certain chord changes 1:16
How the chords to “All of Me” were changed 1:25
What are the “right” chords to jazz standards? 2:23
A snapshot of the early 1970s Boston jazz scene 2:58
“My Future” by Billie Elish 3:33
How “Michelle” relates to the evolution of The Beatles 4:01
Getting to know “Michelle” 5:37
The song’s musical form 6:01
Coming up with an arrangement 6:50
McCartney’s non-musical motivation 7:00
Highlighting Paul McCartney’s jazz influence 7:10
Gaining a broad perspective 7:52
Planning the arrangement 8:13
A rubato introduction 9:35
Full stride under the melody 9:53
LH walking 10ths 10:02
Back to stride 10:05
Holding out the LH chords 10:30
Varying the melody, rhythmically 10:38
Walking the bass 10:50
Bill Evans-style motivic development 11:02
Rhythmic interplay using triplets 11:08
Jazzing up the melody 11:11
Getting further away from the original melody 11:23
Improvising in octaves 11:40
Briefly referring to the melody 11:45
Single-note improv 11:48
Arpeggiating the diminished chord 11:51
Fm9 11:57
Full-out jazz 12:01
A chromatically-descending line within the chords 12:10
Block chords 12:15
Coming back to the main melody 12:18
Cool jazz 12:30
Softening the texture 12:43
George Harrison’s guitar solo 12:51
Improvising on George Harrison’s guitar solo 13:03
Using 3rds 13:06
Alternating between C and Bdim7 chords 13:11
Ending in an unexpected key 13:27
Approaching “Michelle” from a jazz point of view 14:27
Thanks and have fun with your music! 14:52

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