Holiday Quick Start-Guide To Lead Sheet Arranging

Lesson Run Time: 73 minutes / Release Date: 11/18/2011

In this fun and easy lesson, students of ALL levels can learn the basics of how to approach and arrange a lead sheet. In this lesson we will use the song Baby It’s Cold Outside as our example. You will learn how to create the arrangement through four steps: Roots, Adding 7ths, Motion and Improvisation. The techniques here can easily be moved to any jazz standard and they will also help you to quickly be able to play a lead sheet…just in time for the holidays!

Other Chapters in this Piano Lesson:

Introduction
Step 1 – Roots
Step 1 pt 2
Analysis
Step 2 – Shells
Step 2 pt 2
Step 3 – Motion
Apply to Other Songs pt 1
Apply to Other Songs pt 2
Improvisation pt 1
Improvisation pt 2