27-09-2021, 05:12
I know very little about jazz but are you expected to do this by ear alone without sitting down at the piano? Your teacher is busy teaching you the structure of harmony. In jazz this can be complex. In fact it is one of it's strengths. As for a system I don't know of any as such but I am guessing that your teacher wants to train your ear to recognize the chord underpinning the melodic note at any given time. A very good way to teach the student to appreciate and recognize harmonic structure which is very different to popular/rock music or even classical at times.
Somewhere between right and wrong there is a garden. I will meet you there - Rumi