There Will Never Be Another You, Pt. 2

Dr. Bob Lawrence  0:32  
Welcome to jazz piano skills. I'm Dr. Bob Lawrence, it's time to discover, learn and play jazz piano. I hope everyone enjoyed this past week exploring the harmonic structure of the great Harry Warren jazz standard. There will never be another you. We certainly tackled many, many essential jazz panel skills last week, we looked at the form of there will never be another you the standard chord changes of there will never be another you the harmonic function of there will never be another you. Common harmonic movement found within there will never be another you. And of course, last but certainly not least, my suggested voicings for there will never be another you. Without question. This is a ton of information that, at times, can feel like you're taking a drink from a firehose, but and this is a very big but this process will get easier and easier as we continue to march through this year, and the years to come. Studying jazz standards every month. I mentioned last week that there is a sequential order to learning how to play jazz piano, which indeed there is, and there is also a sequential order to learn how to play tunes. Step one is, is always studied last week. Everything we studied right form changes function harmonic movement voicings step one, all things harmony this week. This week we take step two, and thoroughly study melody. Next week Step Three improvisation, harmony, Melody, improvisation, a sequential order allowing us to discover, learn and play a tune successfully. I love it. I mentioned last week that if you have been a faithful jazz piano skills listener for the past four plus years, you have become intimately familiar with the jazz piano skills needed to successfully begin tune study. I also mentioned last week that if you haven't been grinding along with us over the past four years, no worries. This is a great time to jump on board to begin developing and enhancing your jazz piano skills. The tune study we are going to be doing every month will help you actually help you sift through and prioritize the last four years of podcast episodes so that you can begin maximizing your jazz piano skills immediately. So if you're a jazz piano skills old timer, or if you're a jazz piano skills newbie, you are in the right place at the right time to begin a jazz piano journey that will have a profound impact on your understanding of music, and of course, your jazz piano playing. So today you're going to discover a melodic analysis of the jazz standard there will never be another you you're going to learn melody guide tones fingerings phrases and target notes of there will never be another you and you're going to play three different melodic treatments of there will never be another you. So as I always like to say regardless of where you are in your jazz journey, a beginner intermediate player, an advanced player, or even if you consider yourself an old pro, you will find this jazz panel skills podcast lesson exploring there will never be another you to be very beneficial. But before we get started, I want to as I always do welcome first time listeners to jazz piano skills. If you are new to jazz panel skills, you're a new listener. Then I want to invite you to become a jazz piano skills member. Your membership will grant you access to the premium content for this podcast episode, and every weekly podcast episode premium content will help you thoroughly and correctly discover, learn and play the jazz standard we are currently exploring and as the old saying goes so much more. For example, as a jazz panel skills member, you have access to the past current and future educational weekly podcast packets. 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Answer any questions that you may have and help you in any way that I can. Okay, on to the question of the week. I love this segment. This week's question comes from Liam Reiner of Willesden, Vermont. And Liam writes last week's podcast lesson focusing on the harmonic structure of there will never be another you was truly eye opening for me, especially when you isolated five core progressions found not only in there will never be another you but in countless other jazz standards as well. I have been practicing them as you instructed and can already tell a huge improvement in my ear training. You modeled practicing these progressions using only block voicings, is it okay to use shells or two handed voicings when practicing these harmonic patterns. Thanks as always for your help. Liam so happy to hear you enjoyed last week's podcast lesson and have already improved your ears through practicing the five progressions that are highlighted. Great observation as well I did indeed model practicing these essential core progressions using block voicings and block voicings only and and not only can you practice these progressions using these traditional black boys, you can indeed practice these progressions using traditional contemporary shells, as well as the two handed voicings and you know what, not only can you you absolutely should. Now with that being said, I would like to throw just a little bit of caution to the wind. I would strongly suggest using the block shapes containing the root, third, fifth and seventh of the chords of the sound when initially practicing these common progressions, so you can give your ears as much harmonic information as possible. In doing so, it will expedite your hearing development with regards to these progressions. And once you feel you have these progressions solidly under your fingers, and submitted in your ears, then then I would say to you you can begin using your shell voicings and two handed voicings You'll discover that, even with the transparency of these voicings, your ears will easily fill in the blanks. In other words, your ears will hear what is not being played, for example, the roots for each of the courts. I would also suggest using Play alongs or backing tracks when you begin practicing these progression progressions using shells or two hand voicings, again, it will help your ears hear the notes that are left out of the voicings lamb I would, I would like to close with this thought. With all of the jazz piano skills we will focus on throughout the year, it would be a great goal to play them using all four voicing types that I teach your blacks, the traditional shells, contemporary shells, and two handed five note structures. And if you ever need a refresher with any of these voicing types, I have several courses available and podcast episodes published that explore these voicings in great detail. It's a great question, Liam and as always, if further clarification is needed, or if you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to me. I'm here happy to help and answer any of your questions at any time.

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Okay, let's discover learn and play jazz piano let's discover learn and play. There will never be another you part to a melodic analysis. Last week, I presented my outline for studying and learning any tune and again the genre makes no difference to me. jazz rock pop, country folk r&b Makes no difference. Here's a quick refresher. Number one, listen. Listen to various artists, vocalist, instrumentalist, and of course, pianists. Number two, determine form are we dealing with an a BA form a BA, B, or some other form? Right, every tune has a form. Number three, learn the chord changes and voicings right along with the common harmonic progressions like 251 or 145. And so on. Number four, learn melody. Right single note, play the melody single note vocal like like we're going to do today, right? No improvisation? Not yet. And number five, explore various treatments and improvisation, right? treatments like swaying Basa ballots. That's it, right nothing more, nothing less. Last week we focused on gaining a harmonic familiarity and command of there will never be another view. So we listened, we determined form and explored the chord changes harmonic function and voicings for there will never be another view. Now, this week, we turn our attention to a melodic analysis of there will be another, there will never be another you. Our goal, as always, as always, is to keep things clean and tidy. With our study approach, whether it is a skill study, or tune study makes no difference, right? Our conceptual understanding of all that we do musically must be structured and simple, must be clean and tidy. So that it can be replicated over and over and over again. Now, y'all can attest to the fact that I have said it many times over the past four plus years. If your conceptual understanding of music, or any musical skill is not structured, not simple. If it's not clean and tidy, then it's unorganized and confusing. It's the opposite. And if it is unorganized and confusing conceptually upstairs in your mind, you have absolutely no shot at executing it in your hands on the piano right downstairs. Therefore, it is absolutely essential that we keep our tune steady, clean and tidy. We want it structured, simple, and replicatable. So the educational agenda for today is as follows. Number one We're going to begin part two to discover learn and play there will never be another you a melodic analysis part two. Number two we are going to listen to a definitive recording of there will never be another you. Number three we will dissect the melody of there will never be another you will take a look at diet diatonic versus non diatonic movement, scale versus arpeggio motion. Number four, we will discuss the melodic fingerings for there will never be another you. Number five, we will discover learn and play the melodic phrases found within the will never be another you. Number six we will discover learn and play the melodic target notes of there will never be another you. In number seven. We will discover learn and play melody with voicings. Remember our voicings from last week we're going to use them again today. We'll put it together for there will never be another you. Number eight, we will discover learn and play three different treatments of there will never be another you. Wow. Do we have a ton to get done or what? So if you are a jazz piano skills member, I want you to take a few minutes right now hit the pause button I want you to download and print, the podcast packets, your illustrations, the lead sheets, and the play alongs. Your membership grants you access to premium content for every weekly podcast episode, which of course includes all the educational podcast packets. As I mentioned every week, you should use these podcast packets when listening to this episode to get the most out of it. And of course when practicing. 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You'll see that lead sheet to provide you with the actual melody of there will never be another you lead sheet three provides you with the fingerings use that I use when playing the melody of there will never be another you lead sheet for highlights seven phrases that we'll use for developing the melody of there will never be another you seven phrases. Number five lead sheet five illuminates the target notes used for melodic and improvisational development. And number six lead sheet six combines the melody and voicings for there will never be another use. So no question about it right. Some invaluable tools to discover learn and play today. So we need to get busy. What is the very first thing we should do when studying and learning to tune? We did it last week. And guess what? We're going to do it again today because it's the very first thing we should do when studying and learning a tune. We should always be doing it. Always. I stress last week that listening to various renditions of the tune is not only the first but the most important step again, I can't even imagine attempting to learn a town before spending time becoming familiar with it, spending time absorbing it by listening to various renditions of it. Now I typically listen to vocal renditions first followed by instrumentalists followed by pianist. Bottom line. I listen. And that is what we're going to do right now before going any further last week. If you remember we checked out the one and only Joe Williams sing along with Count Basie 1957 This week, this week, the great Chet Baker 1954 performing there will never be another you It's an iconic recording and rendition that rendition that you you absolutely need to be familiar with. So let's take a few minutes right now. And check it out here it is Chet Baker 1954 performing there will never be another you.

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There will be many other nights like and I'll be standing you with someone there will be other songs to say another fall another spring but there will never be another you. There will be other lips that I'm a kiss. But they won't throw me like yours used to do. Yes, I have a dream and dreams but how can they come true lover of the?

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Yes, dreams, dreams, but how can they come true if there will never, ever be you

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it's a classic indeed, you know so much. So I think it's practically impossible to talk about there will never be another you without referencing Chet Baker, and this recording. I want to encourage you, as I did last week, to listen over and over and over again to the versions of there will never be another you that you are listening to. Right. And I promise I promise you every time you do, every time you listen, you'll hear something new. And it will have a profound impact a profound impact on the development of your treatment of the two. Right that's this is why listening is so, so important. So now let's explore these lead sheets. I want you to grab that lead sheet one. Let's discover how to properly begin In learning the melody of there will never be another you using our ears using our ears. Here we go. Thank you for listening to jazz panel skills. The remaining premium content of this episode is available to jazz piano skills members at jazz piano skills podcast.com Visit jazz piano skills.com To learn more about membership privileges, and become a jazz piano skills member. Thank you