He also often played chords as either sus7 or m11. So whether the context is eg C, Cm, C7 or Cm7 try using G minor pentatonic. The result is a sort of modernistic abstract version of the blues - instead of the 3rd being bluesy it's left completely to the imagination.
I've been trying to explore McCoy Tynra's style for 40 years. I am not a professional pianist, thanks for your work and help. I will be even closer to McCoy. Thank you very much, I will be analyzing yours movies on an ongoing basis, greeting from Poland :-)
This is greatly appreciated. You helped me now to explain the groupings or cells to students in a way that will make sense to them. That’s a real service to us. Thank you sincerely.
I discovered you on Instagram a few months ago. Now you just pop up in my recommendations after I have watched some Cory Henry and Jacob Collier videos. I love that! I subscribed and I will go back to my keyboard
THANK DUDE !!! ONE OF THE BEST JAZZ CLASS VIDEO I SEEN .I'M A CLASICAL PIANIST WHO PLAY CHOPIN MOZART RACHMANINOFF ETC BUT I WANT TO UNDERSTAND JAZZ TOO.🤗I INMEDIATLY SUBCRIBE
FANTASTIC VIDEO! So much you can do with 4 notes. Wow. I'm pumped. Thank you for the insight. It"s given my practicing sessions the shot in the arm that it needed. I think these couple of concepts mightbnb enhance my ability to play McCoy Tyner's material and sound effective while doing It. Meaning, instead of having to blindly play note for note transcriptions (nothing against transcribing solos of the greats) but being able to.come up with stuff on my own while staying within that style is something I've been wanting to do for a long time. I hope that guy has a really good paying teaching gig somewhere. Lots of folks can play really well, if not great. Not many can play great and explain what they're doing at the same time .Kudos
Fantastic stuff. If you play it over Gm you get a rootless minor tonality as you say, quite close to a Gypsy Jazz sound. Gypsy Jazzers will tend to use a Gm6 Arpeggio with the 2nd though, so R-2nd-b3rd-5th-6th, avoiding the minor 7.
0:38 - I agree with you that McCoy Tyner developed one of the single most unique styles. This is how I would phrase it. Thelonius Monk is the Absolute GrandFather of originality and uniqueness in all of Jazz Music and McCoy Tyner's style is the most copied piano style in the history of Jazz music and is used by virtually every single Jazz piano player in the World.
Hey dude, thanks so much. I'm guessing this was partly in response to my question the other week regarding pentatonic lines. This was brilliant, super informative. Thanks again from Melbourne, Australia.
Awesome video! For some reason I never liked the sound of the scale degrees one, two, three, five, flat seven But I started messing around with it per your guidance Now I’m integrating it with minor pentatonic, blues scales, mixolydian scale, Harmonic minor etc. You fixed so much in my playing! Thank you!
Was McCoy tyner influenced by that modal scale book that John Coltrane was influenced by - from the flutist - what was his name again? He taught at Hampshire College for awhile and I know someone who studied with him closely. Lateef. Yusef Lateef.
Thanks, excellent really. Got interesting at the end with the E half dim. chord. From that point we start thinking, structure, tonal centre, (I'm in UK) chord charts. These great licks can seem confusingly random without the context of overall form. I keep thinking in terms of 4 bars/8 bars. Very interesting though.
Is there any reason at 2:15 min into your video you skipped the note "C" when starting your phrase on the 2nd degree? As in: D, E, G, Bb and D (no C). Thanks and great video!!!
@@NoahKellman AHHHH sorry i was talking about chords i like jazz but while playing i have difficulty in terms of chords. What are the are the characteristics of jazz chord?
Yep, exactly. You can really get away with moving around the chords in several different ways using the 4th voicings. Try moving them around and experimenting with them!
That's what I was about to say: analyzing right hand is great, but to my ears, the Mc Coy's magic is mostly on the left hand changes ;-) And you have it perfectly nailed down. Kudos!
Great stuff! Has anyone really studies these melodic cells? Have you found different combinations of numbers that sounds great? What are your favorites?
Hey Noah, this is a little bit late. But I have 2 question about your keyboard, would you say that it is relatively portable? 2)Are there any accessories that I should get with my keyboard for maximum usage
Hey Lucas, both good questions. I actually bought mine (Nord Stage 3 HP76) specifically because it was the lightest, high-quality weighted keyboard I could find with good built-in hardware/sounds. Make sure you get a good case, a sustain pedal, and a lightweight bench and keyboard stand for portability! I also like getting a dust cover if I'm going to leave it setup at home. Also man, shoot me an email (jazzpianoconcepts@gmail.com) if you're going to purchase it on Amazon or Reverb and I'll send you an affiliate link!
HI NOA, Like Ever you give great-awsome thangs. A Question, at the 2:16 min the last note you play is D. I have a dubt: Is D or is C? Thanx a lot. Wonderful videos
Hey Enrico, I find it usually sounds good to start with a fourth combo that fits the key pretty decently, with diatonic notes that outline a chord from that key. But, then, I think you can really move it around however you want to create tension.
Thank you, Noah! Are you spelling out open 4th voicings in your left hand on the 5th and 6th scale degrees of the dominant chord here?? I couldn't really see it clearly, but was curious if that was another of McCoy's regular techniques!
Great question, Bobby. What I'm doing is moving the fourths voicings diatonically through the dorian scale. See if you can actually move the voicings up diatonically in your left hand. Make sense?
Nero if you notice well, specifically on the second mode he repetead the D at the end and not used the C which is part of the mode. That was the question!!
Well, he just didn't hit it. It's most likely his choice to not hit it, there is no theoretical reason why he didn't hit the C, because he hit it when he started on the 3rd degree.
Hi Noah, thanks a lot for your work ! Can you tell what scales McCoy Tyner plays on this track from 02:45 to 02:56 in his solo ? I love this sound ua-cam.com/video/4azzupZwiy4/v-deo.html
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I'm a guitarist. This lesson broke my standart pentatonic Am box, turning it into Am5#1. Life will never be the same...
But thank you anyway! ))
He also often played chords as either sus7 or m11. So whether the context is eg C, Cm, C7 or Cm7 try using G minor pentatonic. The result is a sort of modernistic abstract version of the blues - instead of the 3rd being bluesy it's left completely to the imagination.
I've been trying to explore McCoy Tynra's style for 40 years. I am not a professional pianist, thanks for your work and help. I will be even closer to McCoy. Thank you very much, I will be analyzing yours movies on an ongoing basis, greeting from Poland :-)
Thanks, Wojtek. Glad you enjoyed it, and greetings from NY.
This is greatly appreciated. You helped me now to explain the groupings or cells to students in a way that will make sense to them. That’s a real service to us. Thank you sincerely.
“McCoy Tuner - nobody finer!” (Brian Auger).
Best analysis of his style on YT! 👍
Hey, thanks appreciate that!
Another awesome one! Bill Evans next please!
Anton K. Ahhh, Bill Evans! Definitely need to do one of those soon.
Man, amongst tutorialists you are tutorialistic!
Awesome.. have to have a go at this!
Molto grazie
Lucian in London
I discovered you on Instagram a few months ago. Now you just pop up in my recommendations after I have watched some Cory Henry and Jacob Collier videos. I love that! I subscribed and I will go back to my keyboard
Hey, thanks! Glad you're digging the tutorials. Let me know if you ever have any questions.
Genius. Thanks for explaining the complexities of this great music and this great musician!
You're welcome, Eugene! You a big McCoy fan?
This absolutely Floored me!!! Im a big Fan Mr Kellman... Wonderful Material. Thank You!
You’re welcome glad it’s helpful!
coolest jazz lesson ever
Great info made simple and very thanks! As a guitarist,this will help my facility and probably will insert when possible!
wow! best McCoy Pentatonic tutorial I've seen on the web!
Thanks, James! Glad you enjoyed it. Got any questions about anything?
Great lesson!! Thanks .
Fab! Would never have thought of this use of pentatonic scales without this video.. thanks again Noah!
Jezz Noah,is there any style you can't play? Omg, fantastic,thank you!
This is a good, challenging exercise. It seems like it really stimulates creativity. Thanks Noah
So well explain!
Cheers!
Thanks a lot Master
I loved that. Gotta practice in all keys and make it happen. Thanks! :D
Great video! We’ll done
Noah killin it!!! 🎹🔥🔥🔥
F. W. Thanksss!!
Going up half step really sounds great! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Thanks 4 the awesome content!!
Hey, you're welcome Kenneth! Glad you enjoyed it. Got any questions?
WoW..,congratulations...
The most generous man & efficient channel. Thanks again Noah ! Cheers from Brussels
Cheers, Ricardo! Thanks for the comment and happy to hear you're enjoying the content man.
Beautiful stuff! Thanks Noah for keeping this music alive.
Hey Glen, you're quite welcome! Thanks for the comment.
Very cool...Thanks
You're welcome!
Dude, you are awesome !
Thanks appreciate that! 🙏🙏
Greatest lesson so far! Got a lot of practicing to do in this.
Awesome, Doug! Let me know how it goes. Got any questions about it?
Noah Kellman Not yet, but I’m sure I will! Thanks.
@@dougmccutcheon7906 Sounds good, well you know where to find me.
Nice lesson ➗➗ thx you for sharing your gift
My pleasure, Emmett.
THANK DUDE !!! ONE OF THE BEST JAZZ CLASS VIDEO I SEEN .I'M A CLASICAL PIANIST WHO PLAY CHOPIN MOZART RACHMANINOFF ETC BUT I WANT TO UNDERSTAND JAZZ TOO.🤗I INMEDIATLY SUBCRIBE
Thanks, Daniel! That's great man glad to have you as a subscriber. Feel free to let me know in the comments if you ever have any questions!
Just an amazing class.....Thanks Noah for this brilliant explanation.
You're welcome! Glad to hear you enjoyed it. Do you have any questions about any of the material?
@@NoahKellman Still digesting your videos on Pentatonics......lots to absorb.
@@dfaria1000 Yeah for sure! Takes some time to get this stuff down. Let me know if I can be of help.
Great Video !
Well done. Thanks!
You're welcome!
And thanks
Awesome tutorial. I love your explanation/tutoring style as well as lot2learn's analysis of Mc Coy's style. Well done. Thanks!
Hey, you're welcome!
FANTASTIC VIDEO! So much you can do with 4 notes. Wow. I'm pumped. Thank you for the insight. It"s given my practicing sessions the shot in the arm that it needed. I think these couple of concepts mightbnb enhance my ability to play McCoy Tyner's material and sound effective while doing It. Meaning, instead of having to blindly play note for note transcriptions (nothing against transcribing solos of the greats) but being able to.come up with stuff on my own while staying within that style is something I've been wanting to do for a long time. I hope that guy has a really good paying teaching gig somewhere. Lots of folks can play really well, if not great. Not many can play great and explain what they're doing at the same time .Kudos
Fantastic stuff. If you play it over Gm you get a rootless minor tonality as you say, quite close to a Gypsy Jazz sound. Gypsy Jazzers will tend to use a Gm6 Arpeggio with the 2nd though, so R-2nd-b3rd-5th-6th, avoiding the minor 7.
Oh cool, thanks Vlad. That's really interesting- I don't know a ton about Gypsy Jazz, so that's really interesting to hear.
0:38 - I agree with you that McCoy Tyner developed one of the single most unique styles. This is how I would phrase it.
Thelonius Monk is the Absolute GrandFather of originality and uniqueness in all of Jazz Music and McCoy Tyner's style is the most copied piano style in the history of Jazz music and is used by virtually every single Jazz piano player in the World.
Hey dude, thanks so much. I'm guessing this was partly in response to my question the other week regarding pentatonic lines. This was brilliant, super informative.
Thanks again from Melbourne, Australia.
Hey Sean, yeah you helped give me the idea to do this one thank YOU man! Glad to hear you enjoyed it.
I actually sound a bit like McCoy Tyner! Thank you sir...
고마워요♥
Tnk U man!
Thanks a lot! Always AWASOME!
You're welcome, Christianne!
Instant sub, amazing playing!
Thanks, Gavin! Appreciate that.
Awesome video!
For some reason I never liked the sound of the scale degrees one, two, three, five, flat seven
But I started messing around with it per your guidance
Now I’m integrating it with minor pentatonic, blues scales, mixolydian scale, Harmonic minor etc.
You fixed so much in my playing!
Thank you!
Amazing! Thanks for sharing, David. Let me know if you ever have any questions I can help with.
Thank you man! really useful one, keep it up!
Hey Daniel, you're welcome man! Got more on the way.
I think that it might also help with hand independence
G-6, C9th, and E-7b5 are the same chord!
Cool! Thanks a lot!
You’re welcome!
Wow, thanks a intro
Nice
Thanks, Daniel!
Cool ,., very good
Curro Martinez thanks, Curro 🙏🙏
Was McCoy tyner influenced by that modal scale book that John Coltrane was influenced by - from the flutist - what was his name again? He taught at Hampshire College for awhile and I know someone who studied with him closely. Lateef. Yusef Lateef.
Great ! Very amazing tutorial from you man :)
You're welcome, bro! Did everything make sense?
@@NoahKellman Yeah absolutely ! Good work
So basically fourths in the left hand and triad pairs in the right hand? Plus pentatonics. With half step transpositions slipped in.
cool!
Thanks, Tato!
6:41 half step above
Grazie!!!!!
Thanks, excellent really. Got interesting at the end with the E half dim. chord. From that point we start thinking, structure, tonal centre, (I'm in UK) chord charts.
These great licks can seem confusingly random without the context of overall form. I keep thinking in terms of 4 bars/8 bars. Very interesting though.
Hey Ian, glad to hear you enjoyed it and found it helpful. Let me know if you have any questions I can help with.
These are great! I’ve learned so much from your videos. Can you create a video on solo piano textures?
Hey Roger, love that idea. Definitely adding it to my list!
Super..
Thanks, Solomon!
Is there any reason at 2:15 min into your video you skipped the note "C" when starting your phrase on the 2nd degree? As in: D, E, G, Bb and D (no C). Thanks and great video!!!
wahou it's AMAZING
Emmanuel Elende Mombo Thanks, Emmanuel!!
please mister noah , i like jazz but while playing I have difficulty in terms of agreements what are the characteristics of jazz agreements ? thanks
@@emmanuelelendemombo3108 Hey Emmanuel, I'm sorry I think this is lost in translation. What do you mean by "agreements"?
@@NoahKellman AHHHH sorry i was talking about chords
i like jazz but while playing i have difficulty in terms of chords. What are the are the characteristics of jazz chord?
@@emmanuelelendemombo3108 Oh I see! Here you go, this video may help you: ua-cam.com/video/E05IpJlP-P8/v-deo.html
When you improvise in C7 and goes half step to Db you are using the chords in 4ths on the left hand , right? 1-4-7? thanks
Yep, exactly. You can really get away with moving around the chords in several different ways using the 4th voicings. Try moving them around and experimenting with them!
That's what I was about to say: analyzing right hand is great, but to my ears, the Mc Coy's magic is mostly on the left hand changes ;-) And you have it perfectly nailed down. Kudos!
Great stuff! Has anyone really studies these melodic cells? Have you found different combinations of numbers that sounds great? What are your favorites?
www.todosaxos.com.ar/2016/12/jerry-bergonzi-inside-improvisation.html
Thanks for the link, Emilio. Yeah, Bergonzi is the perfect person to point out here. Chad LB also knows a lot about them as well.
@@NoahKellman thank You for the lesson! Already trying it on sax
how to sound like McCoy - f o u r f s
Muy bueno traerar algo parecido wn español
Also an in dept analysis of Infant Eyes would be interesting since there are none on youtube
Cool will keep that in mind!
Hey Noah, this is a little bit late. But I have 2 question about your keyboard, would you say that it is relatively portable? 2)Are there any accessories that I should get with my keyboard for maximum usage
Hey Lucas, both good questions. I actually bought mine (Nord Stage 3 HP76) specifically because it was the lightest, high-quality weighted keyboard I could find with good built-in hardware/sounds. Make sure you get a good case, a sustain pedal, and a lightweight bench and keyboard stand for portability! I also like getting a dust cover if I'm going to leave it setup at home. Also man, shoot me an email (jazzpianoconcepts@gmail.com) if you're going to purchase it on Amazon or Reverb and I'll send you an affiliate link!
HI NOA, Like Ever you give great-awsome thangs. A Question, at the 2:16 min the last note you play is D. I have a dubt: Is D or is C? Thanx a lot. Wonderful videos
Hey Paolo-- Nice catch. I meant to play a C there actually!
De qe paiz ases los videos ?
beautiful lesson noah. I was asking .. with your left hand do you have any limitations? Or can you play all 4ths chord combinations?
Hey Enrico, I find it usually sounds good to start with a fourth combo that fits the key pretty decently, with diatonic notes that outline a chord from that key. But, then, I think you can really move it around however you want to create tension.
Thank you, Noah! Are you spelling out open 4th voicings in your left hand on the 5th and 6th scale degrees of the dominant chord here?? I couldn't really see it clearly, but was curious if that was another of McCoy's regular techniques!
Great question, Bobby. What I'm doing is moving the fourths voicings diatonically through the dorian scale. See if you can actually move the voicings up diatonically in your left hand. Make sense?
Noah Kellman thanks so much! Will start practicing this. Love your channel btw. Excellent stuff!
Hi.. On the 2:17 when you start on "2" you did not play C . you played:D-E-G-Bb-D . Why not playing the C?thanks
Because he started on the second mode of the dominant pentatonic scale...?
Nero but ended on D , not C. This was the question :)
That's a mode, he started on the second degree(D) and ended on the second degree(D) using the notes of a C Dominant Pentatonic scale.
Nero if you notice well, specifically on the second mode he repetead the D at the end and not used the C which is part of the mode. That was the question!!
Well, he just didn't hit it.
It's most likely his choice to not hit it, there is no theoretical reason why he didn't hit the C, because he hit it when he started on the 3rd degree.
Can you play oscar peterson ?
👌
What does it mean to "sound like McCoy Tyner" ?
Another vote for Bill Evans!
Please talk about the left hand of McCoy
Good idea Ricardo will keep that in mind! I think I do go into some of that in this video: ua-cam.com/video/ZB20_kXVD4Q/v-deo.html
Those fourth voicings though
Deeker yeahhh gotta have en under your fingers! Did you check out any of the pentatonic voicing videos?
@@NoahKellman Nope, but my teacher introduced me to them last week so I've been messing with them ever since
Deeker nice that’s awesome! Let me know how it goes
Hi Noah, thanks a lot for your work ! Can you tell what scales McCoy Tyner plays on this track from 02:45 to 02:56 in his solo ? I love this sound ua-cam.com/video/4azzupZwiy4/v-deo.html
Wow I can really hear how Chick Corea was influenced by McCoy Tyner holy cow
It's what I imagine the sound to be if I input a tonne of notes into sibelius and then playback x2 speed.
Do Ahmad Jamal or Thelonious Monk next please
Deeker love that idea. I’ll think about how best to do those!
Need to work on your timing
I saw him once in the seventies and went to another place and I was a rocker, not into jazz!!
Your nord sounds just about as good as your grand. Damn Noah... You scary. XD
Thanks, Percy, much appreciated!
..no hate but, it isn´t that awesome & i wouldn´t call those sweet exercises sick lines actually.. ;)