Georgia On My Mind (H. Carmichael) Tutorial & Analysis | The Jazz Pursuit

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Learn Jazz Standards Series: Georgia On My Mind (Hoagy Carmichael)
In this video we look at how to play the common jazz standard Georgia On My Mind, breaking down the structure, harmony and melody, hopefully making it easier to learn and remember. This video also includes jazz harmony tips, jazz piano chords/voicings and a look at recadencing.
Video created by Jacky Naylor
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[@alexsiuwh]

No TH-camr have dissected a piece as you do. Thanks for making it for piano beginners like me. It has brighten my day👍👏🙏

[@TheJazzPursuit]

Thanks for the kind words Alex!

[@colettebonvarlet8511]

très clair et instructif ! merci

[@modernmusicstudio303]

This is such a great tutorial!

[@user-kl7rh7lg4x]

Thanks a lot. ❤❤❤I will promote this channel to all my friends

[@sirrobinhood3409]

Like the way you discuss the numbering relationship between chords!!! Really Awesome! The one jazz legend I had the pleasure of knowing could play a song in any key requested by the vocalist :) Demonstrating that he used the numbering patterns you demonstrate to learn songs.

[@TheJazzPursuit]

Thanks very much! Sounds like a pro to me!

[@Ambrosius50]

Many fine tutorials on TH-cam. But this one fits me and my knowledge / skill base perfectly. Very clear layout. See you have four series of these jazz standards tutorial. Can't wait to check them out. Thank you very much.

[@TheJazzPursuit]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@berniedenhaut4803]

Great explanation. Clear and simple

[@TheJazzPursuit]

Thanks Bernie!

[@FranciscoA.22033]

Hello...Jacky...I'm here Fortaleza, Brazil, watching your vídeo in London.
Very good! Love it!

[@ivangarcia1159]

Beautiful standard!! thanks!

[@TheJazzPursuit]

Thanks Ivan!

[@a.g.m.s_1916]

Came here from Reddit ! Love it !!

[@TheJazzPursuit]

Thanks very much!

[@realcourtois]

Just love this song! But we can hardly see you play the chords on you left hand….you explain it very well but to me it seems that the left hand chords are difficult to see what you do ! Thank you

[@nusstu]

Hi, can someone explain a bit more on recadence. I tried looking it up but didn't find much info on it. Question I have is in the B section in Key Dm the VI and IV aren't dominant and why does it resolve to Dm? Thanks.

[@TheJazzPursuit]

Hey Eugene, thanks for your comment! A recadence is where the harmony cadences back to the same place that it starts. So in this example, rather than just sitting on D minor for the B section, which would make for quite a stagnant bass and harmony part, it instead recadences back to itself. You’re exactly right VI to I isn’t a typical resolution, but in this example, it’s using different chords to recadence - if it just repeated the V - I that too would get a little stagnant. Long story short, the bridge is in D minor and it acts almost like a pedal that it juxtaposes different chords against.

[@nusstu]

@@TheJazzPursuit thanks for your reply. Guess my confusion is also that in the key of Dm the VI and IV are minor chords. In fact, IV to I is quite common known as plagal cadence. But, in this section the IV and VI are dominant chords, are they borrowed from somewhere else?

[@TheBlackTrumpeter]

@@nusstu the IV chord is dominant in melodic minor harmony and that flat VI dominant chord is a tritone substitution of V7… the flat VI dominant is indirectly resolving to the V chord because the i minor sits in between those chords.

[@FranciscoA.22033]

Hey.Jacky...can you insert subtitle in portuguese?

[@TheJazzPursuit]

Hey Pedro, just added the subtitles, I think you have to hit the settings button to change the language - let me know if it doesn't work!

[@FranciscoA.22033]

@@TheJazzPursuit okay Jacky, I'II check now!🤛👍