'In A Sentimental Mood' Piano Tutorial: Minor Chords & Progressions

In this lesson you will learn how to play minor chords like a jazz piano pro using the tune "In A Sentimental Mood". "In A Sentimental Mood" is a beautiful tune composed by the great Duke Ellington. The tune contains common minor chord progressions that you must understand as a jazz piano player.

The 'minor line cliche' is a common harmonic movement found in jazz music. You will find this minor chord sequence in countless jazz standards so it makes sense to understand how the progression is constructed.

In this lesson we explore the different ways that we can navigate the minor line cliche using bass lines, two-handed chords and inner voices.

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[chrismoy]

I truly love this voicing and progression. I want to learn every part of this arrangement. Excellent display.
Chris Moy

[linean]

I've been wanting to learn these sorts of chords for ages. Brilliantly done and I hope you keep up with the amazing work!

[jazileimi]

Wowww, so emotional.amazing like always, thanks master, appreciated

[maloneycraig]

Great tutorial as always! Just the right level of complexity for those inner voice movements.

[tehedx]

Just wonderful how calm you bring these great sounding sophisticated voicings and giving us new options on how to play this or apply it to another piece. I doubt playing around will ever start to bore me. Thanks!!

[areag]

Another great tutorial, beautiful arrangement and some great tips on inner movement and open voicing's ;-)

[milagrosgrau]

Lovely to listen your piano and and your voice! Thank you to listen my favorite songs!

[Mrisjon]

Absolute goldmine. Thank you, thank you so much for what you’re doing.

[denixor]

Thank you! I immediately applied this techniques to Summertime )

[BuyNLarge_]

Merci pour ce tutoriel, une série d'accord tour simplement magnifique !

[cuiszt]

Hi Bro, One Year gone, I cant sleep without your update

[cybercab]

lol! This is exactly what I needed. Very understandable. I'm trying to use jazz chord progressions in electronic music.

[OutNaboutwithSwiift]

Please do a tutorial on Ridin 86’-Classic from Harold and Kumar!💙

[TheJohndenhaag]

I'm really very jealous, you play and explain very professionally..

[epserps]

Beautiful but why hurry when you got so sentimental, emocional in Dm7?

[johnbenjamin]

Please would you me some insight into the chords George shearing uses in
Wave I will pay if needed

[jeremycrocker]

Great tutorial but I can’t download the pdf it never arrives?👍

[clairey]

What's the name of this song it's very beautiful

[stevie]

Learning how to dissect these progressions is so freaking difficult lol.. Knowing what notes to leave out, knowing when to drop the root instead of adding the extra note, playing a D7 but the C isn't C# (isn't D7 = D Major 7, doesn't D Major have C#?) I'm still new to theory but maaaan lol.

[RiversideInsight]

You could make it easier in your explanation