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

A jazz piano lesson to help you learnJohn Coltranes 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 Coltranes 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 12bar 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