Georgia On My Mind Tutorial: Beginner's Guide to Lead Sheets

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How to Read Lead Sheets: “Georgia”
Welcome to this beginner jazz piano tutorial on the tune “Georgia On My Mind”. In this lesson we will learn how to arrange lead sheets using spread voicings, we will then introduce a stride style in our left hand, and towards the end of the tutorial we will touch upon some more advanced arranging techniques and principles.

Georgia In The Key Of F Major
Georgia is written in the key of F Major and so we start with a quick recap of the diatonic 7th chords and the common chord progressions in the key of F such as the 251 and the 36251 progressions. Having an understanding of F major diatonic harmony is very useful when arranging Georgia and other tunes written in F major.

How To Play Spread Voicings
The most basic technique to arrange a lead sheets is to use spread voicings. To construct a spread voicing, we take the notes of the any 7th chord, we play the root note of the chord in our left hand in the lower registers of the piano, we play the melody with our right hand, and we ‘voice’ the 3rd and 7th of the chord in between.

The 3rd and 7th can be played in either hand, often this role will be shared between both hands to achieve an even spread of notes on the piano and balanced sound in our voicings.

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