How do you make pop songs into jazz?

How to turn any Song into a Jazz Song

1. Play 7th Chords.
2. Extend the chords (play 9th and 13th chords)
3. Alter the chords.
4. Add Passing Chords.
5. Choose appropriate Jazz Chord Voicings.
6. Embellish the melody (add in a little improvisation and a few ornamentals)
7. Reharmonization (see below)

How pop songs are converted to jazz?

How do you Reharm a song?

A common way to reharmonize with relative chords is to swap the (I) chord for the relative minor (vi) chord (or vice versa). For example, in the key of C major, the (I) chord is C major, and the (vi) chord is A minor.

How do you turn any song into a jazz song?

In this lesson and the below video, we will explore how you can turn any song into a Jazz song by using a number of techniques, including Reharmonization (or with an ‘s’). Many of the concepts we learned in previous lessons can be applied to any song to make it sound ‘jazzy’. For example, we can take any old song and apply the following techniques:

Is there a simple jazz style for a pop song?

Quite often there are pop songs wich get covered in a jazz style. These covers are seen from youtube to tv. Now I tried doing something like this, with for example Bad Day by Daniel Powter. It’s basically a D-G-A chord progression (1-4-5), wich is quite simple.

What makes a song easy to turn into a piano arrangement?

This is an easy song to turn into a piano arrangement because the chord structure is so simple. The bass line and melody move sequentially with each other. The first three notes of the bass D flat, C, and B flat. Then it moves up an interval of a second to E flat, D flat, and C.

How do I reharmonize a jazz song?

Learn jazz reharmonization techniques. You might pick up a book like “Reharmonization” by Randy Felts, or even “Harmonic Foundation for Jazz and popular music” by Jimmy Amadie. You got to reharmonize it using chords that are outside the key, or at a minimum chord tensions that are not in the key of the song. Use secondary dominants.