This is a Chick Corea tune that is haunting and spare. The modal changes interest me the most with this song. His duo with Burton on vibes is amazin...
This is a Chick Corea tune that is haunting and spare. The modal changes interest me the most with this song. His duo with Burton on vibes is amazing. I play it out of time and without swing to maximize the feel, but it is improvised. If I were to do this over, I would not do this as slow and would put more energy into it, but I was thinking “tranquil” at the time.
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This Hancock tune is usually played in a restrained, laid back style, ie with a “west coast cool jazz” feel. The brilliant and unusual chord changes give this piece a floating feeling that does away with the usual dynamic arcs of tension and resolution found in more traditional “I-VI-II-VI” type jazz compositions. In order to make it sound a little bit different, I decided to play it slightly uptempo and to play the changes as if it called for the same dynamic rise and fall of more traditional tunes, even when that is not what the chords changes are calling for, at least from my perspective. Something else I try to do in order to switch it up a bit is to vary my comping between light and dense voicings. I play two or three notes that imply a chord without explicitly stating it, or I try to go really dense, with lots of color tones to obscure the underlying chord. That is pretty much what I was thinking when I played this piece.
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Jazz pianist and educator explains how to use his jazz piano instructional book series titled “That’s Jazz” published by the Neil A. Kjos Music Company.
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Ifyou have a fast connection and want to see this in high quality video to see the notes clearly (and improved audio), add the letters &fmt=18 straight after the existing internet address line above. ‘Gone With The Wind – jazz piano lesson A much better quality video is at web.newsguy.com along with a PDF file of the Transcription and the midi file (if you want to try to do this yourself!). I took a midi file I had created, IMPORTED it into ‘Band in a Box’ as a midi file. The notation and piano views were captured using a screen capture program. I have previously done a lot of annotated midi files, home.wanadoo.nl and because it is quite easy to ‘re-cycle’ them in this video form, I thought that I would convert a few of them into the video format