S’Wonderful – 1

This is a fun song to add to a growing repertoire with the Simple Song series. John takes you through the step by step process of learning the song easily before having to understand much in the way of theory - a great confidence booster for a beginner. After learning a few of these songs, one comes to recognize the basic formula to apply to many other songs.

The Simple Song series makes building a classic jazz standard repertoire not just simple, but also easy. John Proulx's step by step layered approach allows for a fairly quick assimilation of the song's form, progression, fingering and rhythms. For example, the LH features the classic Charleston rhythm as wells a 2-feel. The RH features the melody with some one-note harmonies below. The song sounds great with or without the backing track so you can be ready to play it anywhere. Easy to google the clever lyrics and sing along.