Autumn Leaves - chord chart tutorial for alto sax

How to improvise over Autumn Leaves on alto saxophone

In this video we take a deep dive into all of the chords for the classic jazz standard -'Autumn Leaves'.

We look at all of the chords, making sure we understand each one and the relationship they have with each other. Wow, that sounds heavy! But it isn’t, it's beautiful and fun and I carefully and clearly explain not only the chords but exactly how I’m making a (hopefully) lovely solo over the entire tune.

I’m aiming to explain things in a way that everyone gets so please do let me know what you think.

It would probably help you if you understand major 251’s which you can find here: Improvising over the 251 chord progression

...and minor 251’s which you can find here: How to improvise over a minor 251 for alto sax

...and knowing about the incredibly beautiful harmonic minor scale will help too: Harmonic minors scales for the saxophone.