This one was less of a blur, but still a blur. It all made sense, but the time I was there seemed to shoot by just wayyyyy too fast.

This time, it was more focused as well.

We started and ended on Autumn Leaves. To a powerchord heaving, heavy-metal expatriate, this was just mind blowing. A simple thing to you long time jazzers, but the door into a new world for me.

Learned about the Jazz or Real Harmonic minor where I had only met the regular harmonic minor in passing at a bar once in Florida. Can't remember the name of the place. Anyways... it was just something.

What is to be accomplished more immediately with Autumn Leaves in these lessons for me is:

1: Learn the progression and melody first and foremost (of course)

2: Understand how the melody and progression work together.

3: Understand how a chord may seem to suggest one scale but the melody will say another.

4. Forget about 1 through 3 as it is all bullshit (basically his statement), have fun and make it sound good to you. Worry about the hows and whats of it later. haha.

Having just gotten back home, I am comfortable up through E rhm (real harmonic minor) so far. From there, I keep finding myself wandering off the written song instead of doing what is there. I am skipping to step 4 too fast. Possibly cause I have been playing for hours now since the beginning of my lesson.

Pick up there tomorrow where I started to wander.