Cantaloupe Island Tutorial - Herbie Hancock Jazz Funk Piano Lesson
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Jazz piano lesson on Herbie Hancock's Cantaloupe Island. In this lesson I show you how to play Herbie's iconic piano riff, and some ideas for improvising over the chord sequence. I've listed the scales mentioned below for quick reference.
Fm7 - F blues, F dorian
Db7 - Db mixolydian, Db mixolydian #4
Dm11 - D dorian, D minor pentatonic
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I hope you find this lesson useful and fun to practice! I will invest in a proper microphone soon for clearer voice audio! Thanks, Olly
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The amount of "the licc" this guy's solo had is astounding
Hello, my dear friend! Thanks for sharing this wonderful video! 🎹🎼🎵🎶💜Very nice! Always be healthy and happy! Have a nice day!
Thank you very much!
I love your style!!! And you reaally got me on shore...of Cantaloupe Island.
Thanks, great lesson. I would recommend playing a section of the final piece at the start, so people know what's coming up.
Thanks Gordon, yes that's probably a good idea!
Wonderful lesson! Like👍.
Thank you very much! 💗
Have a great day! 🌅
Nice tutorial. This was just enough to give his guitarist something fun to work on piano improvisation with. Thanks!
Thanks! Appreciate the laid back back instruction without over explaining. You have a new fan.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks!
Hi Olly, thanks a lot for this excellent piano tutorial. From my research on Cantaloupe Island, it is by far the best video, I could find. I very much appreciate your way explaining and showing the riffs. From my point of view, you hit the proper balance of sequences between playing as a master and how a beginner should start. As a second keybord is shawn, there is no problem to see, which notes you play. Go ahead and again, thank you very much. Well done. Cheers Heinz, Germany
Thank you so much Hein, and really glad you found it useful!
Beautiful breakdown of the song with example rifs. I've been searching the internet for some one like yourself for guidance and you've got me hooked. Brilliant and cheers
Thanks and happy you found it useful!
Such a concise and well explained tutorial! You are amazing bro!
Thank you! Glad you found it helpful 😁
IN the Db section (bars 4-8) your right hand is a third too low. The top notes should be Cb, Db, Eb. It's a common mistake 🙂
Can you explain more details?
Learned many things from this lesson with some exercise ideas .. thanks!
Great lesson. You played it very well. Thank you.
Love your Tutorials. Thank you 😊
Amazing lesson. Thank you very much my friend.
Thanks Ederson, glad it was useful :)
Very helpful Olly. Thank you so much! God bless.
I love this!
Congrats, so clear! Just a mention: I observe that in your interpretation, and similarly in some transcriptions, the riff is different from the original record of Hancock. In his version, the right hand doesn't play the last quaver in each measure (notes Ab + C in the first one, for example). In this last quaver the only sound is the bass F. Maybe it's kind of a "mental sound effect" that your ear listens to F and re-build the Fmin chord, but it you pay attention, there is no right hand in that quaver. Even in some variations of the riff in live concerts, Hancock repeats at the last quaver time the previous one in the right hand(Bb + D), but never Ab + C...
Yes you are totally correct - it's more of a habit that I play this last quaver now since I learned it this way years ago
Yep, I bet that F Ab C is in the head of many. It's almost as if it was harmonically suggested.
I found easier to learn the rythmic pattern with it.
Good call!
super awesome class love it.thank you so much
Hahaaaa that headphone cable got me chuckling. i've just found you on here, good lessons thank you sir.
Haha, I have bought some new headphones now :)
Thanks!
Thank you Olly , for sharing yogur ideas. I love this song a lot, and how you trasmit them...
Thank you for your comment, I'm happy you found it useful!
Excellent lesson. Thank you for taking your time to help other people learn this.
You're welcome Michael :)
Very nice, clear breakdown. I really liked the pace of the tutorial, and the fact that you specifically called out the scales you were using for improv. Question, when you modulated from playing the Dsus chord in the left hand to the Ebsus chord, did you move to the Eb dorian in the right hand, or something else? Thanks!
great!!!!
That L I C C tho.
thanks Olly, clear and precise, so easy to follow when you break the riffs down
Great lesson. Very easy to understand and follow. Thanks for posting.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it
Excelente thank you
Really well paced and clear tutorial, thank you so much! Looking forward to spending some time with this and looking through your other videos
Thank you Sam, happy that you enjoyed the video!
That was great Olly! I came here looking for the basic Cantaloupe and it's relation to Watermelon man and learned a lot about how scales change with the chord changes and which scale to pick for improv. Your ideas are cool. Lots to work on! Cheers
well done! i been trying to improve my improv and this is right up my alley.
Nice lesson, thanks
Thank you for the comment, happy that you enjoyed it
Lovely
Beautiful! Thank you for this lesson. Very clear and nice!
You're very welcome!
Excellent lesson, thank you Olly for posting this.
Great jazz knowledge and ability
Great tutorial. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much for this lesson Olly!
So good! Thanks very much.
Great lesson.Great visual.Obrigado(Thanks).
Thanks! 😃
Great tutorial, you explain the basics really well. Learnt heaps.
Thanks Anne, happy that you enjoyed it :)
@@ollyonpiano The idea for the simplefied bassline was particularly useful for keeping the groove while working on improvising in the RH. Thanks again.
Thanks so much! Very helpful!
Really great well explained videos - thanks!
Thanks I was looking for this one
Thank you verry much sir, a step too fast for me, but also verry instructif....nice to listen to☀️
You're welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Great tutorial thanks Olly! Very clear explanation of the basic riff and improv side of things. Just wondering if you might consider doing a follow up where you show how to combine the melody with the riff for solo piano?
So helpful. Thanks!
Very good lesson. Start following you now. Greetings from buenos aires!!!
Thank you!
Thanks man very clear explanation !
You're welcome, glad you liked it :)
thank you gracias loco! muy bien explain
Thank you thank you!!
super cool . . .nice work man!
Nice tutorial mate! Just try to separate the audio from your voice from the rest. The microphone pics up quite a bit of noise when you're pressing/releasing the keys.
Thank you, yes I was using the camera mic here as I didn't have a proper microphone, but have one now. Appreciate your feedback 😊
Hi Olly great video, If you were playing with a bass player, what chords would you play with your left hand while soloing? or would you just keep the riff going? thanks Simon
thank you so much for the tutorial. ! picked up so much from it
have a ncie day
Thanks Daniel, happy that you learned something from it!
Pog moment :D !!
Repeating the F blues scale fits perfectly over the Db chord too. In fact you could play it over the Dm11 too if you want to be a weirdo 🤪
Great tutorial, very in depth. I’m now committed. to learning both the piano and this awesome piece.
I’ve always loved this funky, hard bop piece since I saw Herbie on TV demonstrating the Yamaha MIDI grand piano (I think this may have been filmed at the Sydney Opera House). He did an interpretation of the original, I think a bit different than this which is like the original tune. Anyone else remember this?
Nice thanks!
the sheet music was missing in PDF friend.
Great - please keep posting
wow - sounds terrible
Thank you for this video! :)))
I didn't know that Rob scallon had a second channel
wondeful
cheers mate
You're welcome :)
Ty for the tutorial. I was wondering how you developed patters you use in your improvisations? hope you have a good rest of your life
Thank You Olly. Wish I’d found you much earlier
Ah thank you!
Something doesn't seem right about the Db chord. It's missing the 9th it should be Db9 maybe you're playing the thirds all a third down?
Maybe I'm wrong tho haven't played it in years
When to use pedal ???????
9:50
you are wrong, the first part when you fall to Db is not that
0:26
0:29
10:22
8:56 Improv
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lol nice headphone dread
Thanks!
great!