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episode 386: Quick Win: Turn ANY Song Into JAZZ (Reharmonization 101)
Today, I wanna show you how you take a simple song, like, "You Are My Sunshine", and turn it into jazz. We'll take up 4 levels of reharmonization.
In this episode:
1. The basic chord changes of You Are My Sunshine
2. How I play the tune with the basic chord changes
3. Level #1 - How to turn the tune into jazz
4. Level #2 - Spicing it up a little bit
5. Level #3 - How to get rid of redundancy and add twists
6. Level #4 - Use this specific tactic to add more harmonic movement and color
7. A cool thing you can do for endings
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