“Spain” is a tune composed by Chick Corea that was originally released on the 1971 album Light As A Feather by Chick’s band Return To Forever. This recording and arrangement is the most widely known, check it out here…

Since its initial release, Spain has become one of the most recently composed tunes to be considered a Jazz Standard. This means that it’s been a go-to tune for jazz bands and jazz jams, one of the many reasons why it’s beneficial to learn this tune.

Spain has been covered countell times and can most often be heard with its original Latin style groove, or a more modern rock/fusion grove as demonstrated by Tom Quayle below…

In this course we are going to look at the changes for the solo sections of the tune, scale choices, and some essential exercises to help you improvise over it.