This video shows the comping voice-leading for Autumn Leaves. This blog post is for my new piano student, Tremaine, so it also has some other material that I didn’t have time to copy before the lesson was over.
Other material: hannon exercise 1 through 4. These will help work on the strength of the ring-finger (which is naturally one of the weakest fingers for playing piano). Click on the pages below to view the full-size image (you should be able to print the pages if you’d like).
Hanon page 1:
Hanon page 2:
Hanon Page 3:
Hanon Page 4:
And lastly, i’ve uploaded Cannonball’s version of Autumn Leaves…if you’re very ambitious, I’d recommend trying to learn Cannonball’s solo from this track. It’s incredibly deep. Download it here:
http://web.me.com/gns13/autumnleaves-canonball.mp3
You can use Transcribe (it costs like $50) to slow it down if it goes by too quickly. I think there’s a free trial though so you can download it and just use it for this. http://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/download.html
Have fun!
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