A jazz piano lesson to help you learn “The Inch Worm,” which was turned into a jazz standard by John Coltrane.

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A first glance at the Real Book leadsheet for “The Inch Worm” 0:00
“The Inch Worm” composed by Frank Loesser 0:31
“The Inch Worm” written for the movie, Hans Christian Andersen 0:54
How “The Inch Worm” became a jazz standard 2:11
Vamping on two chords 3:05
John Coltrane’s use of children’s songs 3:30
Coltrane following up “My Favorite Things” with “Greensleeves” 4:23
Merging with the composer’s original intention of the song 6:38
Altering Coltrane’s vamp to include major 7th chords 6:53
Improvising over the chord changes to Frank Loesser’s “The Inchworm” 7:19
Creating a solo jazz piano introduction 8:00
Beginning the intro with an inversion of the song’s main motif 8:53
Easing into a 2-chord vamp, before stating the melody 9:19
Playing the melody 9:35
Soloing over the tune’s chord progression 10:01
Developing a motif during the solo 10:26
Rhythmic displacement of a motif, a la Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans 11:04
Inverting the melody’s characteristic interval 11:15
“Butterfly fluttering” a la Wayne Shorter 11:20
Modal voicings 11:39
Soloing over the 2-chord vamp 11:16
Using a pentatonic scale 11:47
Arpeggiating modal voicings 12:04
Improvising long melodic lines 12:15
Right hand improv with 2 voices 12:25
Improvising on the tune’s melody 12:50
Polytonality 13:02
Relaxing in the groove 13:20
A gentler rhythmic feel for the recap of the melody 13:29
Emphasizing the jazz waltz rhythm again 13:44
Harmonizing the melody with block chords 14:05
A gentle, slower coda 14:27
Coltrane’s use of long vamps 14:59
Checking out other jazz waltz recordings from the time 15:40
Playing jazz with a healthy musical attitude 16:30

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