“It Might As Well Be Spring” - a great song by Rodgers and Hammerstein written for the 1945 film State Fair. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year. I was reminded of the song listening to the superb recording Last Dance by Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden. They play a beautiful version of the song. I’m using my signature mallets (M39) from Vic Firth. Very happy with how they sound in terms of clarity, fullness and the ability to extract nuance from the instrument at all dynamic levels.

Links from past posts.

https://youtu.be/OZSJv0enGU4

https://youtu.be/q8qMnDp3Lo0

https://youtu.be/MwRE-9N308Y

https://youtu.be/Gq0IZ94YS5o

Me playing Bag's Groove.

There are other songs on my youtube channel at

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt3BdE9H18n59kyeoLZevzg?view_as=subscr…

Enjoy!

Kurt Schleunes

Here's what you do with this.

write in the chord names with the alterations.

memorize the voicings.

play them, add rhythm.

start changing the inversions of some of the voicings.

make a solo based off of the chord tones of the voicings on the sheet.

what notes would you stick in between as passing notes?

I think I have a few posts on this on the site. Here's 1 more.

"How My Heart Sings" composed by Earl Zindars and played by pianist Bill Evans on his 1964 recording titled the same name. Bill and Earl were good friends and Bill played quite a few songs composed by Earl. I first learned this song way back when I was studying with Gary Burton in the 70s. It was played quite a lot around Berklee back then. There's another great version from pianist Mulgrew Miller on the recording Young At Heart from drummer Tony Williams. My fantastic student/vibist Lucas Amorim and I have been working on this song in the past few lessons.

Cole Porter’s “I Love You” - using a variety of improv techniques from my improv series The Complete Guide To Improvisation (available from Amazon, www:edsaindon.com and the Berklee College of Music bookstore in Boston). I used this song in Volume Two in the Four Note Grouping chapter. I listed the groupings used for each chord and wrote out a solo based upon the concept. For copyright reasons I named the song “I Loathe You”.