How about starting jazz piano lessons with "Blue Monk" in C?

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"Blue Monk" by Thelonious Monk, one of the greatest jazz pianist and composer in the history of jazz, is very well known and favourite tune among jazz fans worldwide.

Although many of  Monk's music may sound a little weird,  the characteristics is actually his charm. "Blue Monk" itself uses very straightforward notes in terms of jazz music, i.e., the major scale plus the blue note scale.
So today it occurred to me that the tune might be a good example when starting jazz piano lessons even for first time learners of the piano.

However, by listening to the tune professionals play, we notice two difficulties playing the tune.
The first one is the rhythm. The original Monk's tune is played with is his distinctive rhythm and we only use the simple "shuffle" or "swing" rhythm.
The other one is the key. The original key is Bb (B-flat), which the first time learners would not be familiar to. But we can easily transpose the music sheet into any key by using a computer program if you have a MIDI file.

Now we dare to get rid of Monk's original sense of "time" and transpose the tune into C.
Here is the sheet.