Mr. PC: Journey Through The Real Book #236 (Jazz Piano Lesson)

A jazz piano lesson to help you learnJohn Coltrane’s jazz standard “Mr. PC.” Take your LH playing to the next level with my free ebook: Jazz Piano Left Hand Techniques: You can find my book, The Inner Game of Piano Improvisation, on Amazon. Learning jazz standards “in context” 0:12 How I get started with jazz 0:37 John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” album 1:10 The bassist Paul Chambers 1:20 The challenging repeated notes in the melody 1:37 Embracing the journey 2:02 A 12-bar minor blues 2:34 Various LH techniques 2:42 Modal improvisation 3:06 Improvising with fourths 3:17 Chromatic improvisation 3:22 Using the blues scale 3:32 Pentatonic scales 3:36 Atmospheric textures 3:42 Thinking “out of the box” 3:47 Starting right away with the melody 3:56 Roots and 5ths in the left hand 4:10 C Minor Pentatonic scale and Dorian mode 4:23 Building upon a short motif 4:36 Paying tribute to C