McCoy Tyner Left Hand Pentatonic Chord Voicings EXPLAINED

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  • @NoahKellman
    @NoahKellman  2 роки тому +6

    Watch out for give-a-way scammers everyone! The give-a-way does NOT end until the channel hits 100k. You will receive a comment from MY official YT channel and when we communicate through email, it will be with an email address that is directly connected to my website jazzpianoconcepts dot com. I will not be communicating with you through Telegram or Whatsapp. Do not give away your information easily, be careful, and stay safe everyone!

    • @mscherer1586
      @mscherer1586 2 роки тому

      Thanks for letting us know. I just saw that the guy that replied to my comment was actually a scammer.

  • @belindadrake5487
    @belindadrake5487 2 роки тому +14

    My DAD WAS MY BEST FRIEND. He would listen to jazz ( no trad!): he taught me so much . I miss sitting with him, listening together. Mum would go outside! My 1st gig l went too, l was 3yrs old , & DAVE BRUBECK was playing. I remember it. Dads ‘gone home’ now, & he left me these priceless jazz records, & CDs. ( about 20 thousand, no joke! ) We actually loved vinyl; the wow & flutter on some records, kinda sounded cool. 😉 Now l’m a broke muso, coz in OZSTRALYA, there’s lots of places you can’t play at; coz of COVID. Anyhoo, can’t wait until l play live again. Thanx for your perceptive on how you explain jazz. Stay Safe!! 🎹👊🏾 😃

    • @johntrojan9653
      @johntrojan9653 2 роки тому +2

      WOW ! Fantastic story ! 😄 😄 👊

    • @NoahKellman
      @NoahKellman  2 роки тому +1

      Wow Belinda, that's a beautiful story. Dave Brubeck was a huge inspiration to me and a wonderful person. You stay safe too!

  • @chrisbigred1
    @chrisbigred1 2 роки тому +2

    I love how it's actually so simple. And yet it sounds very complex.

  • @dreonthekeys88
    @dreonthekeys88 2 роки тому +2

    This opens alot of possibilities when begin to apply it to different modes!

  • @saxyrobert
    @saxyrobert 2 роки тому +2

    nice general overview of McCoy LH voicings

  • @johnjellison3689
    @johnjellison3689 2 роки тому +2

    This lesson is a great compliment to last week's video

  • @otvicious6296
    @otvicious6296 2 роки тому +2

    damn these chord are too smooth .
    with the right hand playing , it really a vibe

  • @SamuelDike-fe1li
    @SamuelDike-fe1li 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks a lot Sir
    Your videos have been helping me a lot since my journey in playing piano

  • @mauricioperez5390
    @mauricioperez5390 2 роки тому +1

    very interesting, thanks for the contribution, I realize that it is a valuable tool and gives that particular color to the improvisation...
    I remember the rector of my school, when I was studying, he told us... "don't go to bed with the same ignorance you got up with"...
    every day, it is a blessing to learn, I say this because of these resources.
    Thank you.

  • @2pac2k8
    @2pac2k8 2 роки тому

    I have been following you for years dude! You took me from 0-100. I’m tuned in every week. Practicing everyday

  • @jbozo9999
    @jbozo9999 2 роки тому +1

    Great vid as always noah, commenting to tell u i like this pace of vid

  • @gregoryjeshurunjacobs1688
    @gregoryjeshurunjacobs1688 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks Sir 🙏
    Love this🥰🔥
    God bless you

  • @markroyeppen8922
    @markroyeppen8922 2 роки тому +1

    Love and appreciate your content Noah, thanks for sharing your knowledge, a labour of love. Greetings from Durban, South Africa

  • @Danny-tg2ev
    @Danny-tg2ev 2 роки тому +1

    Interesting, thanks for your consistency man

  • @nrggoblen2851
    @nrggoblen2851 2 роки тому

    I can’t even say anything all the lessons you give helped me out this entire journey that I’ve been doing especially playing on gigs. It’s all of you

  • @SnuffyWuffles
    @SnuffyWuffles 2 роки тому +1

    This is eye-opening. Thank you.

  • @gayleprevatt5292
    @gayleprevatt5292 2 роки тому

    Love the switching from F4 to Gflat and then with the right hand pentatonic scale it forms really nice sound color! Thank you so much!

  • @leq1414
    @leq1414 2 роки тому

    I always liked McCoy Tyner's playing. And exactly THIS is what I love about his style!

  • @eliaskauffman4353
    @eliaskauffman4353 2 роки тому +1

    Mccoy Tyner is the GOAT! Was waiting for John Coltrane to make an entrance once you really got going there. Any chance you could make a video about Thelonious Monk voicings?

  • @michaelmayberry7078
    @michaelmayberry7078 2 роки тому +1

    That keyboard looks INTERESTING

  • @chisomokaposa103
    @chisomokaposa103 2 роки тому +1

    This is what I've been looking for

  • @jorrit_trickz
    @jorrit_trickz 2 роки тому

    You are my life saver, I'm actually starting to watch all your videos from the beginning onwards, got a lot of videos to slowly go through but you've got everything I'll need to get so so much ❤️

  • @ephriamspraggins43
    @ephriamspraggins43 2 роки тому

    I have followed you through the years, and have heard and seen how you have grown into a alsome. Teacher, musician and a incredible man. Keep up the brilliants that lead to greatness.

  • @tecluchi
    @tecluchi 2 роки тому

    Amazing introduction to pentatonic in jazz, I been searching for this for a while and you explained it super clear. Thank you !

  • @justice9940
    @justice9940 2 роки тому +1

    Great video, can't wait to practice this.

  • @stefanjazzpiano
    @stefanjazzpiano 2 роки тому

    I keep coming back to this video. Extremely effective lesson for us that want to broaden our minds and start the journey towards more free minded improvisation. Also a great foundation for developing my own musical language based on quartal vocings and the McCoy Tyner sound. I´ve wanted this knowledge since I was eighteen. Now I'm 65 and this was really a jump start for my free improvisation.

  • @phly23
    @phly23 2 роки тому +1

    Great Job Noah

  • @AngryPhotoGuy
    @AngryPhotoGuy 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks for the vid. Relatively simple explanation.

  • @kiing76bb
    @kiing76bb 2 роки тому +1

    Also, watching your videos helps me with my theory

  • @goksinozkoray9168
    @goksinozkoray9168 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks for these last two videos that explain the basics of my favorite pianistes language and contribution to pianism and harmony. Not only you elucidate McCoy's approach, but also that of all those influenced by him. If you don't know your Bud, McCoy and Herbie, you are not playing jazz yet.

  • @geedorah7860
    @geedorah7860 2 роки тому +1

    great video! cant wait to practice

  • @thekennedykj
    @thekennedykj 2 роки тому

    I love this style, fourths seem to open everything up! Thanks for explaining so well, as always!

  • @haroldsayers1972
    @haroldsayers1972 2 роки тому

    Wow!!!! Thank you for your great knowledge and sharing this with all of us.You've managed to pack hours and tons of information into just a few minutes and presented it in such a very understandable way thank you so very much

  • @jonrussell7998
    @jonrussell7998 2 роки тому

    Hi Noah, I just want to extend my appreciation to you for all you've done for the world of jazz. McCoy Tyner was always someone my Dad and I were able to listen to and enjoy together, he's been thrilled to see my progress in piano and you played a huge part in part 🙏🏿

  • @gabrielmojica4361
    @gabrielmojica4361 2 роки тому

    To take “this voicing” just talks to me about the beauty of moving your hands to create and compose. And thanks to you for spreading the voice of piano and jazz 🎇

  • @tejumoldnewton9557
    @tejumoldnewton9557 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks for this lesson

  • @donniediago
    @donniediago 2 роки тому +1

    Another great video and learning

  • @lennie1998
    @lennie1998 2 роки тому

    Hi Noah, I really feel like you have the best tutorial channel here on youtube right now. On top of the fact that the videos are very relaxed en useful to learn. Especially the fact that you use different pianists in your video as examples helps me since I can start listening and use that to improve my own improv!

  • @liebeskunstnetzwerk
    @liebeskunstnetzwerk 2 роки тому +1

    Great video!

  • @oviangstudio
    @oviangstudio 2 роки тому

    This voicings makes playing outside the key easier... Thank you

  • @lrucest
    @lrucest 2 роки тому

    Learned so much from the video. Really love the voicing.

  • @tempgig
    @tempgig 2 роки тому +1

    The clarity I’ve seen attacking McCoy’s left hand in a short lesson!

  • @isoEH
    @isoEH 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks! I didn't know that there were so many 7su4's in the dominant scale. That's a lot of 7su4's.

  • @katharsis1st
    @katharsis1st 2 роки тому +1

    Great job!

  • @jackhenshaw2555
    @jackhenshaw2555 2 роки тому +1

    Love these videos! You always manage to teach advanced concepts in such a succinct and digestible way. The diatonic movement of the fourths in the left hand combined with the modulations offers a really spectral sound. It also gives the left hand a rather active role. Looks like I have something new to practice!

  • @alexanderolsen3831
    @alexanderolsen3831 2 роки тому

    great work and explanations, really nice productions. You're in the top 3 "must subscribe" youtubers I give my students when they start asking about jazz

  • @jedzulaybar8761
    @jedzulaybar8761 2 роки тому

    Thank you so much for your lessons! Very thoughtful and well organized! Hope you reach 100k subs soon!

  • @randyzaucha8745
    @randyzaucha8745 2 роки тому +1

    Wow, that was a lot easier than I thought it would be. I love his sound. Saw him live from the third row in the eighties and he took me somewhere I have never been. I mentally left the room! (and I was a rocker, not a jazz guy!) Many thanks Noah. I just retired and this is on my "to do" list.

  • @bobsmitj5136
    @bobsmitj5136 2 роки тому

    Noah thank you so much for these videos. As a newer player, its easier for me to pick up on what youre showing. I feel like I'm playing real jazz! One of the only creators today doing what you're doing. Keep up the high quality content!

  • @felixbastow9416
    @felixbastow9416 2 роки тому

    I picked up the piano during covid, and before discovering your channel I was just finding song tutorials. Your channel is a game changer, it's the reason I started practicing more jazz/improv piano - Thanks so much! It's been super useful for being more systematic and being able to give a name to a "cool" chord and understand why it sounds good, and also for unblocking new arrangements I wouldn't have thought of trying. That chord voicing in Fourths sounds amazing btw! Can't wait to incorporate it more!

  • @onepointofview
    @onepointofview 2 роки тому

    Hi, Noah - great job! I’ve been playing guitar for 40 years and this is exactly what I was looking for. Can’t wait to apply it to my studies!

  • @kenjones3442
    @kenjones3442 2 роки тому

    I love that your followed up on your previous video with another one on McCoy Tyner. I love his sound and I want to incorporate elements of his style into my playing. Thank you!

  • @jounihelminen6025
    @jounihelminen6025 2 роки тому +1

    nailed the mccoy quartal / pentatonic style. Any tips on playing "out" tastefully with this?

  • @jeffreydavid6794
    @jeffreydavid6794 Рік тому +3

    For the first 24 years of my life I did nothing but eat, drink, breathe, sleep Piano. I started playing by ear when I was 2 years old. When I was 24 while I was paying out of pocket to put myself through college to get a Music Performance Degree, my index finger on my right hand (dominant hand) was crushed off of my hand by a 5,000 lb piece of machinery. I had 5 surgeries and almost a decade of physical therapy. My entire life was ruined and my whole future was taken away in a split second. The attorney I hired was a criminal and I received nothing for the injury. I have gone many many months as a homeless person. I am now 39 and left with a right hand that has the dexterity of a lobster claw. My only hope to get back into playing seriously again is to work on my Left hand. This video was very helpful as always Noah. I hope you make more like it soon.

  • @sheakokaua4322
    @sheakokaua4322 2 роки тому

    Wow thank you for sharing those keys 🔑 on the keys 🎹 A mature sounding concept made simple.
    I look forward to learning more from you!

  • @magnusbangolsen2765
    @magnusbangolsen2765 2 роки тому

    Man, i pray to god that I can get on top of just a few of the awesome concepts you are sharing.
    And just to win one fourth of that cool foldable piano.
    Keep up the good work, always love to watch your videos; they make me practice more.

  • @toddoliver168
    @toddoliver168 2 роки тому

    Great video love learning about McCoy tyner's concepts

  • @creamabdul-jabbar
    @creamabdul-jabbar 2 роки тому +3

    Fourths do such a great job imparting airiness and space to a sound, especially when compared to closer voicings. It's an immediately recognizable sound from Tyner and the pianists who came after him (I've always associated the sound with 70s herbie.)
    Something I really enjoy doing with quartal voicings is combining them with a tense right hand voicing, preferably with a minor 2nd in there somewhere. You can balance out a lot of dissonance with a counterweight of consonance, especially in the bass.

    • @NoahKellman
      @NoahKellman  2 роки тому +2

      Love that thought, Ian. Going to experiment with that tonight! Agree with you on quartal voicings- though I might like 5ths in voicings even more. What are those, quintal voicings? haha!

  • @neo124
    @neo124 2 роки тому +1

    Love the content! Have been looking for this kind of thoughtful breakdown of Tyner's left hand voicings for forever. Thanks again for another gem Noah!

  • @sxipshirey
    @sxipshirey 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you, this just opened up possibilities on the composition I am working on.

  • @jamesmomo2258
    @jamesmomo2258 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks for the video Noah. Always very educational.

  • @adolcy1962
    @adolcy1962 2 роки тому +1

    Very informative & interesting

  • @cpoppa3875
    @cpoppa3875 2 роки тому +1

    I love your content I’m new to piano but I just play what you do and try to figure out the rest

  • @tobiasschenk3821
    @tobiasschenk3821 2 роки тому

    For anyone interested in the McCoy dominant sound I would suggest listening to Benito Gonzalez. He has taken McCoys dominant sound even further. He's a great modern pianist following McCoy's footsteps.
    Insightful video as always. Thanks Noah!

  • @drcool56
    @drcool56 2 роки тому +1

    I love this keyboard

  • @richoneplanet7561
    @richoneplanet7561 2 роки тому

    Wow thank you so much - I've wondered about that for a long time - excellent as usual 👍🏼

  • @AprilRoxStudios
    @AprilRoxStudios 2 роки тому

    Congratulations on nearing 100,000 subscribers! Love the openness from the tritones. Thanks for your great videos and information. I’m a piano teacher who loves learning from your videos and the sharing with my students.

  • @ji6664
    @ji6664 2 роки тому

    Jacob Collier was part of the reason i tried exploring jazz. Ever since then, I've been constantly discovering a variety of different artists and bands to take inspiration from. I wasn't really familiar of McCoy Tyner until now so I'd definitely take a listen to his old releases. I hope you can cover more jazz legends and their techniques in your future videos. Thanks!

  • @johnnynoirman
    @johnnynoirman 2 роки тому

    I really like the way you lay out your materials and it gives me a better
    understanding of McCoy Tyler. I first learned about Tyler thru another great
    pianist Eddie Palmieri who uses fourths and various Avant Garde devices in his style of playing.

  • @maxmason60
    @maxmason60 2 роки тому

    Another brilliant lesson. Amazing how you continue to uncover these new concepts week after week. You've basically been my piano teacher the last year or so! I've learned so much about the instrument and just music in general. Constantly discovering new harmonies, chords and ideas for working with the keyboard. This pentatonic voicing has me recalling your stride lesson and how I can use these shapes to leap around with my left hand. This lesson has really planted some improvisational seeds. I wonder, what other kind of rhythmic patterns could you use in the left hand? I come from a drumming background and would be curious to see how less conventional rhythms could be incorporated around these chords, or accompanying melodic lines.

  • @not_jafar
    @not_jafar 2 роки тому

    Great video, you're videos have been really helpful!

  • @chrisharrison809
    @chrisharrison809 2 роки тому +1

    This is great man. I appreciate you putting time into this. I’m a strings teacher in Atlanta for elementary students and I also compose and play bass. I’ve been learning a lot from your videos about harmony, and I commend you for your commitment to educating us. Cool to think this resource will be there forever!
    I teach between 3 schools on trailers and none have a piano. It would be dope to be able to have a keyboard in the class room and move it between the schools. I used to teach on a nice big room with a piano, and I definitely miss accompanying my students.
    Keep it up bro. ❤️

    • @NoahKellman
      @NoahKellman  2 роки тому

      Hey thanks so much for the comment Chris. Makes me really happy to hear you are finding the videos useful. Thanks for your commitment to educating students as well. The work you are doing is so important. 🙏🙏

    • @MisterYeti
      @MisterYeti 2 роки тому

      @@NoahKellman give this person the piano de voyage! Our schools need good music education!

  • @ezzeldakroryable
    @ezzeldakroryable 2 роки тому

    fantastic concept for sure i like how you explain it a lot of work to master it

  • @QobelD
    @QobelD 2 роки тому

    These quartal voicings with those fifths in the bass are perfect for getting a cool sound a lot of people love. I would love to have a keyboard. My upright is out of tune again and I'd like to play for people again. I love your content. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

    • @NoahKellman
      @NoahKellman  2 роки тому

      Thanks, Robert! Appreciate your comment 🙏

  • @ewaryks
    @ewaryks 2 роки тому +1

    I understood this concept, and at last, it is logical to use two scales half step apart to make this dominant chord interesting. I am not that fast on the piano, and I wonder when to use this idea when the tempo is fast and your dominant chord lasts no more than a bar or even half a bar.

  • @stal_keys
    @stal_keys 2 роки тому +1

    I think that the patent to use 4th voicings is to take the minor pentatonic of a some key and omit every other degree then it produces patterns for ex: 1-4-7-b3-5 and so on from different degrees

  • @kiing76bb
    @kiing76bb 2 роки тому

    Your videos are very inspiring. I have to learn how to run properly because I always find myself getting too nervous to execute it for some reason

  • @EduBerigo
    @EduBerigo 2 роки тому

    Thanks man! This gives me so much ideas to work on the piano! Cheers!

  • @marvellouseyube6376
    @marvellouseyube6376 2 роки тому

    You are Amazing Sir Noah!
    This is awesome as always...🤗❤

  • @mateiland9989
    @mateiland9989 2 роки тому +2

    Great lesson, what software program do you use as the note display?

  • @Firetracks
    @Firetracks 2 роки тому

    This is 🔥🔥

  • @Sic4ce
    @Sic4ce 2 роки тому

    If I heard something like this at a jazz club I would think, Damn! this guy sounds legit! great job McCoy also did this stuff chromatically because once you do 2 stacked 4th it covers 6 tones and one 4 are played in a row it covers all 12 kind of a cool concept.

  • @KlaviersAnthology
    @KlaviersAnthology 2 роки тому +1

    In order to actually learn manauvering with these voices does it help to think of them with patterns and not triad build ups? Cause i think it becomes more complicated when you actually play them like that :/ but in terms of harmonic relationships it always helps , especcially if you pay attention to the notes that guide the harmony, or so i think...

  • @michaelhunt7657
    @michaelhunt7657 2 роки тому +1

    Love this content! Will you be preparing a packet on this lesson?

  • @hocheelin5599
    @hocheelin5599 2 роки тому

    Thanks, that just explained something I had struggled to understand that I had heard going on in a lot of jazz tunes. Not easy to reproduce but now at least I have an approach to work on.

  • @tacobenny695
    @tacobenny695 2 роки тому +1

    Do you have any advice on how to be unique while using pentatonics/fourths? It seems like I create the same exact vibe every time I use these concepts, I wanna change the color up

  • @juampsmusic
    @juampsmusic 2 роки тому

    dig the content man! just right to the thing. as a continuation of the series you could try on how to comp different kind of tunes using fourths voicings.

  • @Photologistic
    @Photologistic 2 роки тому +1

    This reminds me, when off by only a step, sometimes the sheet sounds good even if you play four flats for four sharps, etc.

  • @phillipbrown6089
    @phillipbrown6089 2 роки тому

    Fantastic!! He’s the man

  • @Marcalos963
    @Marcalos963 2 роки тому

    I like the sound of this voicing. It has a cool layed back sound. It sounds like the way a cool jazz musician would talk like if everyone spoke in music instead of words. All the other young musicians coming to listen to this guy play want to sound like him too. They'd all go home after the gig and practice in front of the mirror talking to themselves, jamming like he did.

  • @mscherer1586
    @mscherer1586 2 роки тому +1

    Hi Noah, would you approach in the same way with other chords that are not dominant? Like for example in an F Blues, while playing over the ii - V - I what would you play over the ii (Dorian sound)? Would you play the G minor chord, like F - Bb - D on the left and D Minor Pentatonic (F Major Pentatonic) on the right hand (or maybe a G minor Pentatonic maybe?)?

  • @ikeekwukoma3226
    @ikeekwukoma3226 2 роки тому

    Concise and illuminating, thank you Noah 🙏🏽

  • @conner53
    @conner53 2 роки тому

    Hello, I love your content and teaching. Outstanding!!

  • @adamsalinas82
    @adamsalinas82 2 роки тому

    Excellent content especially on McCoy never seen an entire piano spilt in three

  • @sakushey
    @sakushey 2 роки тому +1

    how exactly does the movement to Gb work? So you just go in one direction chromatically and do it the same way right? Anyway, thanks for the video

  • @adriangormley1366
    @adriangormley1366 2 роки тому

    Oh man, I want this piano so bad I can‘t see straight. I‘ll say anything to get it! But all that aside, I have gotten SO MUCH out of your videos. My practice list has become so big that I spend hours shedding on your material. What‘s gotten me most, lately, are the chord arpeggios. I particularly like the One with the Tritone in the right hand. And the licks are great too. I‘m rather anti lick on the gig, but believe they are good for the learning process. I tend to break them down into rudiments, in the hope that they flow out naturally on the gig, so their not forced. Also the stride vid has been extremely helpful. Thanks!

  • @alexwilson3543
    @alexwilson3543 2 роки тому +1

    Great stuff man, I’m interested in trying these things in other modes now, maybe different scales too like harmonic minor, harmonic major, melodic minor, and major

  • @kylemoyo2224
    @kylemoyo2224 2 роки тому

    thank you for this video!! i’ve been looking for a good breakdown of more complex harmonic techniques inspired by some of the greats like Tyner that i can incorporate into my own compositions. I’ve been struggling with falling into the same harmonic patterns while improvising but this concept of quartal left-hand voicings and dominant pentatonic motion is sure to spice up my playing.
    my only question is, how could I tastefully put my own spin on these voicings in context of more contemporary, neo-jazz sounding pieces? it would be great if you did video on how to synthesize the “old” and the “new” in terms of jazz harmony.

  • @bohdanm5244
    @bohdanm5244 2 роки тому

    Thank you for great explanation. I always wanted to learn this “spicy” left hand voicing

  • @dlxinfinite7098
    @dlxinfinite7098 2 роки тому +1

    🎹Great video.