I learned this song earlier today with Online Jam, a new Skool group! After sharing another recording with yall, I realized I needed a backing track video I could share with you so I went and found this one. Here's my improvising with it. See how I spend half of my time playing the melody recognizably and half of the time improvising more and more with it? Reading jazz melodies can be a real challenge rhythmically. Often the way they "feel" is not expressed in the chart. Often notes written as 8th notes are played with the first one longer than the second, "swung." I had the benefit of hearing a singer give a live interpretation of this song today. But I was otherwise not familiar with it. It was fun to explore how my unique voice might take the notes on the page and make them come alive with a new personality for this song. I'd like to hear your interpretation. Will you share it in the 🌊Improv Waterfall too?

Many of the backing tracks you can find in the backing tracks folder are from the app BackTrackIt. I purchased a license so you could use them to improvise from your computer, but the app is really cool! Highly recommend it for visualizing chord changes. It lets you transpose the key and change the speed of any track and even can show you the chords on the piano. Have you tried it yet? Let's start a list of apps for practicing improvisation. Which ones do you like?

I have been working on improving with Thank You Jesus in different keys and did this one in B.

Get your backing tracks here. Will you duet with me in G major?