“Exactly Like You” was written by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields in 1930 and has since become one of the most played jazz standards, with memorable recorded versions by Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, Danish jazz violinist Svend Asmussen, and many others. It’s in the key of C and has a distinctive melody, featuring a phrase of descending parallel fourths over the I chord and then the II7. In this video, Aaron takes you phrase-by-phrase through a solo for “Exactly Like You.” At each step, he explains how the solo relates to the melody, chords, rhythm, and other improvisational devices you learned in earlier lessons.
