He left out the video showing the 1,000's of hours of practice needed to run up 4 octaves and 5 notes in stride in each one. But certainly one of the most relaxing videos ever posted!! I was sorry I couldn't leave him a tip!
Yes, there will be some practice required to master playing this style. The best way to leave a tip is to share the video with someone else 👍🏼 Thank you ;)
🤣🤣🤣.... So true... takes a lot of.. what he calls.. “Focus..” More like.. having a life and or alot of time.. to devote to your craft.. I disagree with “Ben,” unless you really gifted.. a very fast learner.. For most of us.. It takes hours.. Yrs.. of practice, practice.. and “C” Consistence- & practice over “a thousand times 😂😂 to get it right.. The best teachers will tell you.. Just to learn-master.. all of your chords and scales takes a few yrs.. unfortunately so.. but the rewards.. are WELL worth the effort, time, patience and devotion.. Me..? im that hobby player (Described on his web pg) that hates theory-the technical stuff.. the practice and the many hours it takes just to master just one principle.. 🥴 im like Mr Gjermund says.. i got tons of practice material.. that.. its just become overwhelming.. So.. i just play.. by ear.. 🤔 No.. that lacks definition.. over the many years ive just learned how to interpret what ever im feeling inside musically.. When i play in public.. to my surprise i get complements and the kids just love the way i play.. Its a mystery to me because i dont think i can really play 🎹🥴 My thing.. My feel.. Its a Latin, Jazz, R&B Thing with everything in between Like trying to play the song by Purple-“Sweet child in time..” 😁 Sometimes i burn.. i just relax, dont think and let my feelings and of course my fingers do the walking.. In my own way.. “Being me..” Lol Works.. 😆Not to say.. that i dont need to do some technical and study-work.. seriously in order to “Master..” Thing is.. is not to start as a beginner.. make sure you know your scales, chords, all inversions as well as the modes-The ii iv or v i and in ever key.. Plus the chord extensions 9ths, 11, 13 at a mastery level.. etc before you begin payed lessons.. other can be very costly-expensive over time (a couple of years of the basics) and no guarantee you will stay with it-if you quit-thats money wasted.. 😒 my advice to all watching.. Yes i agree with “Naime B” Its not easy and it does take many hours and years of practice to get “payed or even to be considered as a Cocktail Gigging musician.. 🧐😏🙄😉🎹🎶🎶 Either way if you choose to start from the beginning and or intermediate level.. 🤓 Good luck-Best wishes ✌🏼
Good to see someone sharing teaching something so wonderful for free rather than trying to charge for a course which only a select few could ever access, you're a true musician, one who doesn't claim a style and restrict others. Well done
that's absolutely the most appreciable kind of sound you want to hear while talking among friends and cool people are doing the same around you... i'll say the tipic music we italians need in our fuking boring places in order to escape, at least with the mid. thank you and greetings from Roma, Italia.
Wow! This channel is exactly what I've been looking for. I've been teaching myself piano with the help of online resources for 3 years now. I can't wait to go through all of your videos in more depth. I hope your channel gets more subscribers as it deserves!
Beautiful job! And yes keep this alive. It’s magical. I can’t do it but watched my late uncle play like this. There’s something about the human hand utilizing those intervals. Hooked me into a life of music.
Hi Guys - I'm piano teacher and aspiring jazz pianist - signed up to the full PopJazzOnline course as thought it might fill in the gaps of some knowledge - I don't normally bother with reviews (!) BUT so far very impressed....better that I was expecting. Really great content, and a great teacher and jazz pianist willing to share his skills. Easily best jazz pianist tutor online - I've tried a few over the years. Would recommend for any aspiring jazz pianist - good job Gertmund!
I have first seen this video over a year ago, when I started studying jazz with a teacher in Paris. Now with Christmas coming, I'm currently trying to arrange the "Christmas Song" by Mel Torme (sung by Nat King Cole and, of course Michael Bublé) in a nice version and I remembered this free course so I just watched it again, and gave it a quick shot on my keyboard : I'm going to have to practice more, of course, but it's working so perfectly that it's going to be a lot of fun ! I have to admit that this 2-part course is pure gold, because it's summarizing a really cool set of tricks to arrange ballads and it's not just the regular snake-oil ("5 top-notch tricks the pros DON'T WANT you to know !!!"), these tricks make it very clear that you must know how to choose superstructures and scales to fit the harmony, so the video makes a pretty solid program for students : "if I know enough theory to choose scales to play, and if I practice harmonizing scales in thirds and sixths, then I'll be able to play basically anything that way, effortlessly". This is a very clever teaching technique, and it is so generous of you to give it away for free on youtube. I've already said it last year but I don't mind repeating myself : thank you very much, Gjermund and all of you guys at PopJazzOnline, for those lessons you give away on youtube. This is brillant teaching work.
Such a great video. As someone who hopes to adapt existing melodies to a lounge style (covers) this is exactly what I was looking for. Thankyou for making this content available for everyone online
Wow... Now I know what is cocktail jazz, lounge piano jazz etc.... I must to be hard learn to do this especially my left hand, but many Thanks. I will always watching your others video. Great channel...
I am speechless at your proficiency on the piano and your very generous spirit. That you are willing to share your talent with whomever is amazing but then you top all of that by offering it free of charge. I have always wanted to play jazz but now that I am retired, perhaps along with your excellent videos I can finally see that come to pass. Do you think that mid 60's is too old to learn? Thanks for your kindness of heart and benevolence. By the way you do quite well with your English. Thanks again for everything.
Amazing, I've been toying with more complex (jazzy) chords lately and adding even a 3 note arpeggio up the keyboard immediately adds a new dimension to the music...in 5 minutes. I suppose it was just never explained this plainly - thanks for the video.
Very helpful! And I love that you can use this with any lead sheet. A guy at my work has asked if I would be willing to play some piano at the up coming Christmas party and I intend to use this style. :)
I have been wanting to learn lounge piano since I was a child and there simply was no way to learn it back then. Thank you so much for this, it is so wonderfully made!
Thank you! Agree, I also wanted to learn this as a child. Standing at the shopping mall observing the pianist for hours. However, this is absolutely possible to learn !
Hi Gjermund, you're absolutely amazing! The teaching is very well rounded, and I find it contains information lots of jazz piano teacher might have missed as well. This is useful for both beginners, advanced players, and professionals working as a jazz musician as well. Ps: I can't believe you even put the lounge sound in the background too, it's very thoughtful of you. Great stuffs!
Well done video courses, very nice, you are professional. I am more of a concert pianist and I 've been playing piano on cruise ships since for over 18 years, I am tired of that job, but with information and tutorials like your is good to refresh and learn more about this style which is not my favorite and I am not the best at it. You are really good at this style and I am sure people like you succeed more than me when playing in these settings. On ships I try to be a concert pianist and a cocktail jazz lounge at the same time, but I know and I've been told that I am best at concert piano performances, and for this reason I hate the job as a pianist, and I've been criticized and it affected my reputation and jobs on ships for not putting everything in this style. I had an evolution of self-improvement and other interests as well in my career, and now I believe being a musician is not the best job in the world, is frustrating and boring at time, lots of musicians don't want to be there at their instruments, especially if they are playing what they don't like; I love great composers and art music and concert-style piano arrangments most of the time, then I would play jazz lounge style for 15%, but it seems that in those lounge settings people and management prefer the jazz cocktail lounge and I understand. Thank you for these tutorials.
Here you go. He probably misses this comment. Such a generous heart to share his knowledge with us. www.dropbox.com/s/rio8qnwky7l24md/Cocktail%20For%20Lounge.pdf?dl=0
Awesome tutorials! Maybe it would be nice if you could provide midi files as well for these tutorials, so people who cant really read notes can learn as well :)!
I love the voicings you use. Your playing touches my soul. I am excited to study with you. You get back to me immediately and that makes me feel like you really care. Thank You. I am a Vocalist. I want to sing with you.
Great video, great teaching! Thank you! How do you create your videos?? The 3 cameras, that’s useful and nice! Maybe you could a tutorial about that . Thank you
Your voicing touch my soul. I am excited to be studying with you. You respond immediately and that makes me feel like you really care about me as a student. I want to sing with you one day. You really talk to me as a pianist.
2:57 Beautiful and graceful fingers, I can not put my fingers in the same way my hands hurt me >>> Try to slow down playing until we learn from you more
I actually have usual number but my piano playing is just at 2 finger level at moment BUT improving every day . Harpo Marx often played piano in films using only 2 fingers : but, in real life he was a very accomplished player . ! Thanks again for brilliant tutorials and Good Xmas .!
JAZZ QUESTION! Hi Gjermund,I have a question I hope you would respond regarding adding the thirds while playing melody in octaves...as you show in the Cocktail Jazz Tutorials. When playing a melody adding thirds from the top, on some occasions, the note to be added is an uncomfortable one. For example: Skylark. The first chord is Fmaj6 (or F6, directly), and the first note in me melody is a D, the sixth. So when adding the third from the top, you would get a B. But, if you use Bb, it would destroy the Harmony since a 11th is not admitted in a maj7 chord since it would create an unpleasant minor 9th between the major third and the 11th. And, if you choose the B natural, it would be a #11, that is admitted in maj7 chords, but it does not correspond to the first degree, rather it belongs to the fourth diatonic chord (in this case, Bbmaj7#11). This happens all the time while adding the thirds to the melody, from the top or from the bottom, with different types of chords and not-available tensions. So the question is... 1) You add the "bad note" to the chord and you don't care 2) You make the note right by using the alteration that allows the available tension, even though it does not correspond to that degree 3) You change the interval, and play a fourth in that case in stead of a third. Hope you can liberate me from this existencial doubt!! Your channel it's amazing...hard to find genuine jazz tips on the net. Thank you. Kind regards from Uruguay
very very good .....it will take me long time to learn....by the way would you change the of left hand color like green or blue instead of red for both hands ....?
I really enjoy learning from your channel! Please, what software do you use for your on-screen keyboard? I like the look of that more than classroom maestro.
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He left out the video showing the 1,000's of hours of practice needed to run up 4 octaves and 5 notes in stride in each one. But certainly one of the most relaxing videos ever posted!! I was sorry I couldn't leave him a tip!
Yes, there will be some practice required to master playing this style. The best way to leave a tip is to share the video with someone else 👍🏼 Thank you ;)
Yes you do
🤣🤣🤣.... So true... takes a lot of.. what he calls.. “Focus..” More like.. having a life and or alot of time.. to devote to your craft.. I disagree with “Ben,” unless you really gifted.. a very fast learner.. For most of us.. It takes hours.. Yrs.. of practice, practice.. and “C” Consistence- & practice over “a thousand times 😂😂 to get it right.. The best teachers will tell you.. Just to learn-master.. all of your chords and scales takes a few yrs.. unfortunately so.. but the rewards.. are WELL worth the effort, time, patience and devotion.. Me..? im that hobby player (Described on his web pg) that hates theory-the technical stuff.. the practice and the many hours it takes just to master just one principle.. 🥴 im like Mr Gjermund says.. i got tons of practice material.. that.. its just become overwhelming.. So.. i just play.. by ear.. 🤔 No.. that lacks definition.. over the many years ive just learned how to interpret what ever im feeling inside musically.. When i play in public.. to my surprise i get complements and the kids just love the way i play.. Its a mystery to me because i dont think i can really play 🎹🥴 My thing.. My feel.. Its a Latin, Jazz, R&B Thing with everything in between Like trying to play the song by Purple-“Sweet child in time..” 😁 Sometimes i burn.. i just relax, dont think and let my feelings and of course my fingers do the walking.. In my own way.. “Being me..” Lol Works.. 😆Not to say.. that i dont need to do some technical and study-work.. seriously in order to “Master..” Thing is.. is not to start as a beginner.. make sure you know your scales, chords, all inversions as well as the modes-The ii iv or v i and in ever key.. Plus the chord extensions 9ths, 11, 13 at a mastery level.. etc before you begin payed lessons.. other can be very costly-expensive over time (a couple of years of the basics) and no guarantee you will stay with it-if you quit-thats money wasted.. 😒 my advice to all watching.. Yes i agree with “Naime B” Its not easy and it does take many hours and years of practice to get “payed or even to be considered as a Cocktail Gigging musician.. 🧐😏🙄😉🎹🎶🎶 Either way if you choose to start from the beginning and or intermediate level.. 🤓 Good luck-Best wishes ✌🏼
link the video?
So, it's difficult.
Good to see someone sharing teaching something so wonderful for free rather than trying to charge for a course which only a select few could ever access, you're a true musician, one who doesn't claim a style and restrict others. Well done
Thanks, Louis. Sharing is a part of nature, just like jazz.
"It's very fun, if you make it"
You got me there
Merci for this. While this was out of my pay grade, I listened and watched.
You are really great! Generous musician, good pianist and very, very good teacher. Simply thank you!
Thank you Sandro! Warms my heart :) Take care!
that's absolutely the most appreciable kind of sound you want to hear while talking among friends and cool people are doing the same around you... i'll say the tipic music we italians need in our fuking boring places in order to escape, at least with the mid. thank you and greetings from Roma, Italia.
Thanks! There is not so much music like this to be found anywhere anymore. Maybe, if we all learn some more lounge style, it can change at some point!
@@Gjermund-Sivertsen absolutely right!!!!
Wow! This channel is exactly what I've been looking for. I've been teaching myself piano with the help of online resources for 3 years now. I can't wait to go through all of your videos in more depth. I hope your channel gets more subscribers as it deserves!
Thanks, Collin! Glad you like it! More to come ;)
This was the first video I saw on your channel, and I subscribed right after! Great video-
Thanks, Andrew!
same!!
Beautiful job! And yes keep this alive. It’s magical. I can’t do it but watched my late uncle play like this. There’s something about the human hand utilizing those intervals. Hooked me into a life of music.
Those chords got my knees weak! Great stuff!!
The essence in 0:23 "this is fun IF YOU MAKE IT"
LOL.
Everything Jazz just oozes sophistication.
Man, your just amazing. Very nice.
Hi Guys - I'm piano teacher and aspiring jazz pianist - signed up to the full PopJazzOnline course as thought it might fill in the gaps of some knowledge - I don't normally bother with reviews (!) BUT so far very impressed....better that I was expecting. Really great content, and a great teacher and jazz pianist willing to share his skills. Easily best jazz pianist tutor online - I've tried a few over the years. Would recommend for any aspiring jazz pianist - good job Gertmund!
I have first seen this video over a year ago, when I started studying jazz with a teacher in Paris. Now with Christmas coming, I'm currently trying to arrange the "Christmas Song" by Mel Torme (sung by Nat King Cole and, of course Michael Bublé) in a nice version and I remembered this free course so I just watched it again, and gave it a quick shot on my keyboard : I'm going to have to practice more, of course, but it's working so perfectly that it's going to be a lot of fun ! I have to admit that this 2-part course is pure gold, because it's summarizing a really cool set of tricks to arrange ballads and it's not just the regular snake-oil ("5 top-notch tricks the pros DON'T WANT you to know !!!"), these tricks make it very clear that you must know how to choose superstructures and scales to fit the harmony, so the video makes a pretty solid program for students : "if I know enough theory to choose scales to play, and if I practice harmonizing scales in thirds and sixths, then I'll be able to play basically anything that way, effortlessly". This is a very clever teaching technique, and it is so generous of you to give it away for free on youtube.
I've already said it last year but I don't mind repeating myself : thank you very much, Gjermund and all of you guys at PopJazzOnline, for those lessons you give away on youtube. This is brillant teaching work.
Such a great video. As someone who hopes to adapt existing melodies to a lounge style (covers) this is exactly what I was looking for. Thankyou for making this content available for everyone online
You are very welcome! 😀
Thanks
🙏
great tutorial!
This is very helpful. Exactly what I was looking for after all these times. Thanks for sharing!
This just makes me smile
Thanks anyway, so beautiful
Wooow! Very nice playing. I play more than 10 years in restaurants, hotels etc. Your video really inspired me! Thank you a lot!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed!
Your playing is awesome!
awesome!!! thank u very much!!!!!!
Wow... Now I know what is cocktail jazz, lounge piano jazz etc.... I must to be hard learn to do this especially my left hand, but many Thanks. I will always watching your others video. Great channel...
I am speechless at your proficiency on the piano and your very generous spirit. That you are willing to share your talent with whomever is amazing but then you top all of that by offering it free of charge. I have always wanted to play jazz but now that I am retired, perhaps along with your excellent videos I can finally see that come to pass. Do you think that mid 60's is too old to learn? Thanks for your kindness of heart and benevolence. By the way you do quite well with your English. Thanks again for everything.
Thank you for your generous feedback! Mid 60's is just fine! I've got several students that are both mid 70's and 80's :)
Amazing, I've been toying with more complex (jazzy) chords lately and adding even a 3 note arpeggio up the keyboard immediately adds a new dimension to the music...in 5 minutes. I suppose it was just never explained this plainly - thanks for the video.
Thank you so much! Finally playing music makes money...and practice time is worth it. ...
Great!
Good for you, Karen!
0:24 "it's really fun... if you make it"
Me: *closes video*
Haha. Then you'll miss the good part 😃
PopJazzOnline.com - Piano Courses Online trueee
Very helpful! And I love that you can use this with any lead sheet.
A guy at my work has asked if I would be willing to play some piano at the up coming Christmas party and I intend to use this style. :)
Great! Yes, the principles works over many songs!
oh how beautiful. I could listen to you play for hours.
I have been wanting to learn lounge piano since I was a child and there simply was no way to learn it back then. Thank you so much for this, it is so wonderfully made!
Thank you! Agree, I also wanted to learn this as a child. Standing at the shopping mall observing the pianist for hours. However, this is absolutely possible to learn !
Unexpected Etude Op 25 no 12 in 4:18
Chopin inspirations, yes.
Great piano tutorial ❤
Thank you! 😃
Just Fantastic playing thanks for sharing i love the cocktail sound.
Cheers! Thanks
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this is super super helpful. thank you so much !
Hi Gjermund, you're absolutely amazing! The teaching is very well rounded, and I find it contains information lots of jazz piano teacher might have missed as well. This is useful for both beginners, advanced players, and professionals working as a jazz musician as well.
Ps: I can't believe you even put the lounge sound in the background too, it's very thoughtful of you.
Great stuffs!
Well done video courses, very nice, you are professional. I am more of a concert pianist and I 've been playing piano on cruise ships since for over 18 years, I am tired of that job, but with information and tutorials like your is good to refresh and learn more about this style which is not my favorite and I am not the best at it. You are really good at this style and I am sure people like you succeed more than me when playing in these settings. On ships I try to be a concert pianist and a cocktail jazz lounge at the same time, but I know and I've been told that I am best at concert piano performances, and for this reason I hate the job as a pianist, and I've been criticized and it affected my reputation and jobs on ships for not putting everything in this style. I had an evolution of self-improvement and other interests as well in my career, and now I believe being a musician is not the best job in the world, is frustrating and boring at time, lots of musicians don't want to be there at their instruments, especially if they are playing what they don't like; I love great composers and art music and concert-style piano arrangments most of the time, then I would play jazz lounge style for 15%, but it seems that in those lounge settings people and management prefer the jazz cocktail lounge and I understand. Thank you for these tutorials.
My lord I need sheets for this standard it's beautiful.
Did the lord fix them for you?
Here you go. He probably misses this comment. Such a generous heart to share his knowledge with us.
www.dropbox.com/s/rio8qnwky7l24md/Cocktail%20For%20Lounge.pdf?dl=0
@@abdc-yk4ey hi is this the free course that u need to register and leave a email to get from his website? Is this all? Just three pages?
@@perfectfff3950 very probably not, this is just a lead sheet.
Amazing!
Would you consider making a video about bebop style piano?
Thanks. Yes, in case you missed it: th-cam.com/video/40erpHREw2k/w-d-xo.html
Enjoy 😀
Very beautiful
Thanks a lot!
Awesome tutorials! Maybe it would be nice if you could provide midi files as well for these tutorials, so people who cant really read notes can learn as well :)!
Thanks! MIDI files are included in the Lounge Jazz Piano Masters Course
great :)! I already signed up for it, i cant wait :D!
PopJazzOnline.com - Piano Courses Online Great tutorial..awesome
awesome!!!
ok, i found your channel right now , i subscribed instantly and i HAVE TO watch all your videos as soon as possible. great job!
Thanks, Enrico 😀
this was so beautiful. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and skill with us. :)
Thank you, Michael for your comment
This channel is amazing!! Im learning how to play jazz piano already
I love the voicings you use. Your playing touches my soul. I am excited to study with you. You get back to me immediately and that makes me feel like you really care. Thank You. I am a Vocalist. I want to sing with you.
Very explicative, nice how it was broken down! I'm not at that level yet (self taught beginner) but I'll certainly start aiming this way.
Great, Raymond. Thanks for your feedback and good luck with your progress!
Great video, great teaching! Thank you! How do you create your videos?? The 3 cameras, that’s useful and nice! Maybe you could a tutorial about that . Thank you
Nice performance
This is exactly what I want to learn to play.
That sounds so good! great teacher you make it simple! Thank you for taking the time to share!
beautiful
i do love your playing & your teaching jazz piano.Keep it up!
good job,dude!
This was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be
Your voicing touch my soul. I am excited to be studying with you. You respond immediately and that makes me feel like you really care about me as a student. I want to sing with you one day. You really talk to me as a pianist.
Wow, this is so good, thanks for sharing, really enjoyed your playing.
+CARL FITZGERALD - Thanks, Carl!
What i needed. I need to learn and master this from you
Très intéressant comme approche, j'aime vraiment.
Merci pour le partage.
Eddy Cesar translation: Such an interesting approach, I really like it. Thanks for sharing.
love this series!
wow! simply brilliant!
Thank you for this wonderful video!
Perfect
My, this is lovely...
Thanks for your warm comment 😊
Wonderful lesson...thanks
Thank you very much for sharing.
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Same here, first video I saw from you, after a few seconds I hit subscribe - awesome thank you so much!
Wow. a great channel, wishes from Germany, Bobby
Hello, Bobby. Thanks for your feedback! 🎹😃
Thanks for this video! i have been trying to learn piano jazz myself and your videos are very helpful!!
Hey, Brandon! Thanks. Glad it helped :)
This is effin great!
Very inspiring lesson, thank you so much !
0:24 if you make it, bloody gold.
Cool
Priceless content... and damn, that piano sounds amazing.
Thanks for all your support!
2:57 Beautiful and graceful fingers, I can not put my fingers in the same way my hands hurt me >>> Try to slow down playing until we learn from you more
uh man this so awesome
great tutorial! thank you!
excelente explicacion ¡¡
Thanks a lot!
Thanks ! (2:23 ; 3:09🎵) ❤️🎹🎵😊
👍Supррer 👍 This is what I need !!!))👍 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
You are amazing
Brilliant ! Unfortunately I can only use 2 fingers at moment .
I'll get back to you in few years time .....
Lounge Piano rocks !!
Two fingers? What happened to you?
I actually have usual number but
my piano playing is just at 2 finger
level at moment BUT improving
every day . Harpo Marx often played piano in films using only 2 fingers : but, in real life he was a very accomplished player . !
Thanks again for brilliant tutorials
and Good Xmas .!
❤❤❤
How To Play Lounge Jazz by Jason Statham
Haha. Taken as a compliment
very good
thank you
Thank you!
This is a loaded stuff. wants to learn more. Thanks a lot.
Glad you liked!
thank you sir
This is amazing. I can't sign up for the course yet because leaving town for three weeks, but come Oct. 3rd I'm in.
Thanks. You're welcome ;)
You're so amazing
Excelente gracias,!!!
Thanks!
Hey really nice vids, you're doing a great job , keep it up ! Cheers
Excellent !
Even though that's already advanced stuff. :p and the right hand is nothing without that solid left hand ;)
+Samy Samos - You're right! It's what's left :)
Sounds so easy, you are like piano Bob Ross.
Thanks for your compliment.
Thanks!!!
Great Thanks
Thank you too!
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You are Dope, keep it up
JAZZ QUESTION!
Hi Gjermund,I have a question I hope you would respond regarding adding the thirds while playing melody in octaves...as you show in the Cocktail Jazz Tutorials.
When playing a melody adding thirds from the top, on some occasions, the note to be added is an uncomfortable one.
For example: Skylark.
The first chord is Fmaj6 (or F6, directly), and the first note in me melody is a D, the sixth. So when adding the third from the top, you would get a B. But, if you use Bb, it would destroy the Harmony since a 11th is not admitted in a maj7 chord since it would create an unpleasant minor 9th between the major third and the 11th. And, if you choose the B natural, it would be a #11, that is admitted in maj7 chords, but it does not correspond to the first degree, rather it belongs to the fourth diatonic chord (in this case, Bbmaj7#11).
This happens all the time while adding the thirds to the melody, from the top or from the bottom, with different types of chords and not-available tensions.
So the question is...
1) You add the "bad note" to the chord and you don't care
2) You make the note right by using the alteration that allows the available tension, even though it does not correspond to that degree
3) You change the interval, and play a fourth in that case in stead of a third.
Hope you can liberate me from this existencial doubt!!
Your channel it's amazing...hard to find genuine jazz tips on the net. Thank you. Kind regards from Uruguay
very good teaching Vdo
very very good .....it will take me long time to learn....by the way would you change the of left hand color like green or blue instead of red for both hands ....?
I really enjoy learning from your channel! Please, what software do you use for your on-screen keyboard? I like the look of that more than classroom maestro.