I have provided a purchasable lead sheet available if you are interested in playing this melody within your own group or any any other context. The .pdf contains parts in C, Eb, Bb and Bass Clef transpositions
Get it here: "April's Line" Lead Sheet in C, Bb, Eb and Bass Clef
How to practice this jazz piano lesson:
Turn on the metronome at a slow enough tempo where you can play the exercise effortlessly.
1) Play each hand as written while concentrating on hearing the melody in your head.
2) Play the L.H. as written while singing the right hand melody.
2b) An alternative to this step include pantomiming playing the right hand while singing. This helps connect the physical action of playing with your aural memory.
3) Sing the R.H. melody away from your instrument.
Was that not enough of a challenge for you?
1) Consider taking small sections you enjoyed through all 12 keys.
2) Practice displacing each phrase by half a beat, a full beat, or one and one half beats.
3) Practice improvising with the melody by altering the rhythms within each phrase.
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"April's Line" Lead Sheet in C, Bb, Eb and Bass Clef
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Hi im by no means a great reader, and would be most grateful if you could clear up a discrepancy that i am really baffled by. On the sheet music in bars 16 & 20 in particular, the last note is on its own at the end of the bar then the next chord comes is afterwards - is that correct? Thats how im seeing it written. Only in the song you play the last note of the bar at the same time as the NEXT chord (in the next bar). Could you say why that is or am i reading it wrong?
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Bob.
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