Love your videos Kent. I'm a college student that was studying jazz piano but finished my lesson sequence. I've been watching your channel for years but especially now it has served as one of my greatest educational tools since I'm no longer in lessons (or even on campus). I swear every piece you choose to highlight is on my list. I hope you are doing and feeling well during these times. Really appreciate your craft, your teaching, and the time you put in. Thanks 🙏
Excellent comment, Andrew. I'm so glad and appreciative that you told me. You have given me the greatest gift of affirmation, for all the years I studied and paid my dues, and then had the fortune to create this channel. I hope you will connect to me at my email so i can hear more of your story and we can exchange ideas. I want to continue to help you with your growth as a musician...blessings, brother!
21:00 Absolutely agree. The personality, the real emotions are what listeners look for. That is true - to forget to play nice music. Just be yourself and tell your story - not a story of Bill Evans, Herbie or Tatum with voice of Miles and vocabulary of Charlie Parker, but your story, which can be unperfect, strange, primitive as bad love. Personally, style and emotion is the base. Thank you for a cool live tuts!
i heard and read an interview of Alice Coltrane, where she noted that the mixolydian mode is a sort of cheat sheet for playing modal. recently, i was watching that priceless Impressions video with the extended Garrison solo, whereby i heard and read Garrison approaching the song in vibes of G Mixolydian. whereas i had before heard and read Tyner approaching it from a Dm vibe. and so it's continuous and hypnotic on many levels and can go for several hours in a person's mind. R. Hyman describes it that way in his Century of Jazz lectures. the mixolydian is perhaps the hidden retained mysticism in Western Civilization, having an Essene ancient quality.
Thank you Kent for the great lesson and the great advices !! I just have discovered your channel and I'm really happy to have found you. Merry Christmas from Barcelona !
Hi Kent love your lessons. I'm an old dude trying to learn Jazz guitar. I still find your lessons very helpful. I saw all these Jazz artist back in the 60's at the Jazz Workshop, Purple Onion, and other places in the San Francisco Bay Area. Joe Williams was ask why only about 7% of the U.S. public likes Jazz? He answered by saying that "Jazz is a very sufisticated art form and that it just shows that everyone is not sufisticated." I think thats a great answer LOL.
That's pretty cool. I was in San Fran in '69...saw Bill Evans and George Duke at the Jazz Workshop. John Handy was in the audience. Thanks for the comment!
How you mixed quartal chords in the left hand with melody and pentatonic scales in the right hand , then chromaticism (in the opening, playing through the tune)--oh my, what beauty! Now I must reduce the speed in the youtube setting and spend some time seeing exactly what you did here! Beautiful playing and commentary! And very helpful. Thank you!
Thanks Kent. As always, I really liked your explanation of how to play in the modal style, but your insights on striving to connect with your inner spirit (soul) when you are playing will help me even more on the piano and in life.
AMAZING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am a jazz vocalist ... this is so helpful for scatting to modal tunes .... BIG THANKS !!! So fundamental to understanding the break throughs in the 50s and 60s .... Always loved this kind of Jazz music (Modal) but did not know what it was called, till a few years ago. Gravitated towards 'Kind Of Blue' Album forever ... but only now am I understanding how much the modal and pentatonic aspect is a part of this kind of music, and this Album. Love your advice about 'record yourself playing' !!!! I do this with my vocal technique. Very helpful. ALSO -- understand the 'trying tooooo hard' aspect of ART. Very helpful !!! "You Need Both" too quote you. (Technique and SOUL) --- The ZEN of JAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ !!!!!!!!!
Your practicing advice is so true & psychologically unparalleled. Engaging in self pressure promotes levels of energy that diminish wanted results..I know I have been guilty of this! Kent your Impressions performance was exemplary. It gives the listening ear a chance to hear all those wonderful scales & chords as you bring it all together so perfectly. Loved this piece & also ADEM'S hilarious K.H. "minor" story!!😄😄
Another great video Kent! I once heard someone describe great software as being the kind that “gets out of the way of the user.” I think nothing could be more correct and if you think of any software you use that you like, it’s probably true that the best stuff becomes intuitive and you focus on what you are trying to do, not how to turn the knobs. But...to reach that point, soo much intellectual thought and process was put in place by the designers. I think to your point of intellect and “soul”, once the intellectual portion is understood and ingrained, it gets out of the way entirely and frees us to bring out the advanced artistry. It’s the difference between being told to play d-f-g-a-c to sound good, or taking time to learn and absorb what the minor pentatonic means, and recalling it at will in any key. Once you absorb that intellectual concept it becomes intuitive and “goes away” hidden in, reinterpreted and modified in artistic expression. But we can’t modify it without first absorbing it, and therein lies the work. (Sigh)...some of us are still working hard to make those skills “go away” to get to the inner artist, but with your patience, guidance and insight...it’s coming right along. Miss you my friend. I’ll continue to take virtual interaction for now! Stay well! We all need you!! -Mike R
Nice insightful words, Mike. How're doin? Bird once said practice , practice, practice...and then when you're on the bandstand forget all that. (intuition takes over). Thanks for the encouragement...keep watching!
That was great, Kent. I really enjoyed your story at the beginning too. That must have been an amazing experience. I bought your piano books Vol I and II several years ago. Great stuff! I keep them close by for ready reference. Best to you and yours.
Kent, great stuff! I've been working with your "Favorite Things" lesson and studying your solo. It's very interesting to see how you move around the piano; licks, runs, LH comp etc. and fingering. Very valuable. This lesson is another great one. Thanks, man.
Wow Kent! As we say in England- "You really threw the kitchen sink at this performance" that's amazing!!! But, if you get into the tutorial it's not quite as difficult to replicate this as it first seems. That's why it's a good lesson. (in my humble opinion)
Hi Kent. What dramatic energy in that piece! Very McCoy Tyner I felt. I think you are trying to tell us to study, work hard, but above all, to Let Go and feel the sound in your spirit. A lesson that was taken away from many of us when we were kids in traditional piano lessons ( nuns with rulers 😪) But it’s not too late! Thank you for all your help and guidance. You are the best! Your book is great too!!
Thanks for the comment. You want a solo version w/o the backing track?. It's more fun and you can do more w/ the backing track. Watch my earlier videos on improvisation. Go to the improvisation tutorials ...the earlier ones will show you left hand techniques while improvising solo. ua-cam.com/users/KentHewittpiano88playlists?view_as=subscriber
Thx Kent for your reply. Yes it is fun with a backing track and I made many concert with a bass backing track and a drummer, but in the end a backing track is like a dumb musician and you lose spontaneity. In that matter I prefer a solo version.
Hey Kent, love your videos. I couldn't think of any particular way to get ahold of you, so I just picked this video to comment on. If you're interested, I have a particular video request for you: I'm looking for someone to help me find the name of a particular jazz song that I came across in the past but forgot the name of. I've searched everywhere for it but haven't found it yet. If I posted a video of me giving a take on the melody on piano, could you try to recognize it, and if you do recognize/know the song, do a cover of it? It's such a beautiful song and would like to put the name in my memory bank upstairs.
Sure, you can post a private video on UA-cam or you can send videos by MyTransfer. I did that recently and it was very easy and worked great. I know how you feel, because there are songs I've heard that I can't remember or find the title to .
Hey Ken, I’m having problems really mastering the changes to tunes! ....... the forget who said it but, they said if you can play the chords on the piano, then you don’t know them! Well, what would you advise me to do?...... and If it means getting your book, then so be it! I would have done it anyways! Any advise appreciated! Dam great video!😎👊🏾
My videos are all different....some- more playing videos and some- more tutorials. I try to mix it up to satisfy all tastes. Check out my playlists and modal jazz category. I have everything from the basics to the advanced concepts. ua-cam.com/users/KentHewittpiano88playlists
Love your videos Kent. I'm a college student that was studying jazz piano but finished my lesson sequence. I've been watching your channel for years but especially now it has served as one of my greatest educational tools since I'm no longer in lessons (or even on campus). I swear every piece you choose to highlight is on my list. I hope you are doing and feeling well during these times. Really appreciate your craft, your teaching, and the time you put in. Thanks 🙏
Excellent comment, Andrew. I'm so glad and appreciative that you told me. You have given me the greatest gift of affirmation, for all the years I studied and paid my dues, and then had the fortune to create this channel. I hope you will connect to me at my email so i can hear more of your story and we can exchange ideas. I want to continue to help you with your growth as a musician...blessings, brother!
21:00 Absolutely agree. The personality, the real emotions are what listeners look for. That is true - to forget to play nice music. Just be yourself and tell your story - not a story of Bill Evans, Herbie or Tatum with voice of Miles and vocabulary of Charlie Parker, but your story, which can be unperfect, strange, primitive as bad love. Personally, style and emotion is the base. Thank you for a cool live tuts!
Very wise, my friend. That is totally it...we have to believe in ourselves and tell our own unique story. We are all - one of a kind!
Magical tune
Thanks for the comment!
i heard and read an interview of Alice Coltrane, where she noted that the mixolydian mode is a sort of cheat sheet for playing modal. recently, i was watching that priceless Impressions video with the extended Garrison solo, whereby i heard and read Garrison approaching the song in vibes of G Mixolydian. whereas i had before heard and read Tyner approaching it from a Dm vibe. and so it's continuous and hypnotic on many levels and can go for several hours in a person's mind. R. Hyman describes it that way in his Century of Jazz lectures. the mixolydian is perhaps the hidden retained mysticism in Western Civilization, having an Essene ancient quality.
I don't know it from the esoteric side, but the Domino Dorian scale is much the same as G mixolydian scale, ....if that helps.
Hermoso Kent, sos un gran tipo!
Thank you Kent for the great lesson and the great advices !! I just have discovered your channel and I'm really happy to have found you. Merry Christmas from Barcelona !
Thanks much for the information
All my pleasure....thank you!
Great to see Alt Dom again... he is my favorite. He is very black and white yet so full of color!
Cool comment....you know you are officially in the elite club here at the Jazz Ranch.
@@KentHewittpiano88 Happy Holidays to you. Your gifts are appreciated by so many. Thanks for a making it a productive year. Gratefully.
💕I love how COMFORTABLE you sound on all these various sub-genres of jazz, Kent! BRAVO!! 💕
Really nice, Marilyn....that's not easy for me really....but I try.
Hi Kent love your lessons. I'm an old dude trying to learn Jazz guitar. I still find your lessons very helpful. I saw all these Jazz artist back in the 60's at the Jazz Workshop, Purple Onion, and other places in the San Francisco Bay Area. Joe Williams was ask why only about 7% of the U.S. public likes Jazz? He answered by saying that "Jazz is a very sufisticated art form and that it just shows that everyone is not sufisticated." I think thats a great answer LOL.
That's pretty cool. I was in San Fran in '69...saw Bill Evans and George Duke at the Jazz Workshop. John Handy was in the audience. Thanks for the comment!
Thanks Kent!! Amazing approachs and points of view, really appreciate your work!
Glad you enjoyed it!
KENT! I love your videos! How can I buy one of your lesson books? X
Please write to my email address. Thanks!
Man I haven't been here that early！Just keep making videos. Your work is amazing！Congratulations from a Berklee student！
I was there....I taught at Berklee in 1982 ....thanks for the Kudos and I wish you the best with your music!
How you mixed quartal chords in the left hand with melody and pentatonic scales in the right hand , then chromaticism (in the opening, playing through the tune)--oh my, what beauty! Now I must reduce the speed in the youtube setting and spend some time seeing exactly what you did here! Beautiful playing and commentary! And very helpful. Thank you!
Wonderful comment.....Dean ...please write to my email...and I will send you more helpful scores and lessons.
Thanks Kent. As always, I really liked your explanation of how to play in the modal style, but your insights on striving to connect with your inner spirit (soul) when you are playing will help me even more on the piano and in life.
Great comment, Steven, I'm glad I could help out.
Kent u are a super Pianista!Thx 4 the Impression lesson
My pleasure!
Kent, you are the man!!
Cool, bro....thanks!
AMAZING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am a jazz vocalist ... this is so helpful for scatting to modal tunes .... BIG THANKS !!! So fundamental to understanding the break throughs in the 50s and 60s .... Always loved this kind of Jazz music (Modal) but did not know what it was called, till a few years ago. Gravitated towards 'Kind Of Blue' Album forever ... but only now am I understanding how much the modal and pentatonic aspect is a part of this kind of music, and this Album. Love your advice about 'record yourself playing' !!!! I do this with my vocal technique. Very helpful. ALSO -- understand the 'trying tooooo hard' aspect of ART. Very helpful !!! "You Need Both" too quote you. (Technique and SOUL) --- The ZEN of JAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ !!!!!!!!!
Very cool....super hip and groovy chick! Many thanks!!
Excellent tutorial to an amazing classic! Thanks for your analysis! Subbed and notified!
Awesome, thank you!
I'd love to have a copy of your book Mr Kent 🙏
Your practicing advice is so true & psychologically unparalleled. Engaging in self pressure promotes levels of energy that diminish wanted results..I know I have been guilty of this! Kent your Impressions performance was exemplary. It gives the listening ear a chance to hear all those wonderful scales & chords as you bring it all together so perfectly. Loved this piece & also ADEM'S hilarious K.H. "minor" story!!😄😄
Thanks for another wise, perceptive, and flattering comment, Phyllis. I'm amazed how they are always the BEST! (and of course helpful to me).
I love this mister EGO !!!and beautyfull improvisation thanks !
If you like Mr. Ego than you are enlisted in the elite club of the Jazz Ranch!
@@KentHewittpiano88 I guess i love myself enought for that , could you please give me the adress LOL !!!
Smokin’ Kent, Smokin!!!
Cool, man...thanks!
Great Video, Your stuff is the mezz.
Glad you think so!
Another great video Kent!
I once heard someone describe great software as being the kind that “gets out of the way of the user.” I think nothing could be more correct and if you think of any software you use that you like, it’s probably true that the best stuff becomes intuitive and you focus on what you are trying to do, not how to turn the knobs. But...to reach that point, soo much intellectual thought and process was put in place by the designers.
I think to your point of intellect and “soul”, once the intellectual portion is understood and ingrained, it gets out of the way entirely and frees us to bring out the advanced artistry. It’s the difference between being told to play d-f-g-a-c to sound good, or taking time to learn and absorb what the minor pentatonic means, and recalling it at will in any key. Once you absorb that intellectual concept it becomes intuitive and “goes away” hidden in, reinterpreted and modified in artistic expression. But we can’t modify it without first absorbing it, and therein lies the work.
(Sigh)...some of us are still working hard to make those skills “go away” to get to the inner artist, but with your patience, guidance and insight...it’s coming right along.
Miss you my friend. I’ll continue to take virtual interaction for now! Stay well! We all need you!!
-Mike R
Nice insightful words, Mike. How're doin? Bird once said practice , practice, practice...and then when you're on the bandstand forget all that. (intuition takes over). Thanks for the encouragement...keep watching!
Hi Kent enjoyed your video on quatral playing nice to hear what pentatonics work. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
What a good video 👍
That was great, Kent. I really enjoyed your story at the beginning too. That must have been an amazing experience. I bought your piano books Vol I and II several years ago. Great stuff! I keep them close by for ready reference. Best to you and yours.
Wishing you the same...many thanks, Jack.
Kent, great stuff! I've been working with your "Favorite Things" lesson and studying your solo. It's very interesting to see how you move around the piano; licks, runs, LH comp etc. and fingering. Very valuable. This lesson is another great one. Thanks, man.
URA...Fabulous comment...much appreciated ...keeps me going!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us! I learnt a lot from your videos!
And greetings to Mr. Ego - keep the stories coming :)
Thank you! Will do!
your videos are helping me a lot so please Brother keep those videos coming 👍👍👍👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥
Will do!
Wow Kent! As we say in England- "You really threw the kitchen sink at this performance" that's amazing!!! But, if you get into the tutorial it's not quite as difficult to replicate this as it first seems. That's why it's a good lesson. (in my humble opinion)
Great comment, Robin...very helpful to me and appreciated!
Very nice. Thank you, Kent. New subscriber. Just checked out your website. You’re a gem, man. Look forward to purchasing both volumes of your book.
Thanks so much!
Hi Kent. What dramatic energy in that piece! Very McCoy Tyner I felt. I think you are trying to tell us to study, work hard, but above all, to Let Go and feel the sound in your spirit. A lesson that was taken away from many of us when we were kids in traditional piano lessons ( nuns with rulers 😪) But it’s not too late! Thank you for all your help and guidance. You are the best! Your book is great too!!
Wonderful comment, thanks for sharing, Karen. And special thanks for buying my book and liking it! Best to you!
Great solo ! Love it when the KH is on fire ! What about a piano solo version ? Am fighting with my left hand while improvising solo..
Thanks for the comment. You want a solo version w/o the backing track?. It's more fun and you can do more w/ the backing track. Watch my earlier videos on improvisation. Go to the improvisation tutorials ...the earlier ones will show you left hand techniques while improvising solo. ua-cam.com/users/KentHewittpiano88playlists?view_as=subscriber
Thx Kent for your reply. Yes it is fun with a backing track and I made many concert with a bass backing track and a drummer, but in the end a backing track is like a dumb musician and you lose spontaneity. In that matter I prefer a solo version.
Great stuff Ken, Looking sharp!
Thanks so much , and always swing loose!
Very educational
Cool...20!
Hey Kent, love your videos. I couldn't think of any particular way to get ahold of you, so I just picked this video to comment on. If you're interested, I have a particular video request for you: I'm looking for someone to help me find the name of a particular jazz song that I came across in the past but forgot the name of. I've searched everywhere for it but haven't found it yet. If I posted a video of me giving a take on the melody on piano, could you try to recognize it, and if you do recognize/know the song, do a cover of it? It's such a beautiful song and would like to put the name in my memory bank upstairs.
Sure, you can post a private video on UA-cam or you can send videos by MyTransfer. I did that recently and it was very easy and worked great. I know how you feel, because there are songs I've heard that I can't remember or find the title to .
Cool, you are a crack man, good on ya...
Thanks for the comment!
Hey Ken, I’m having problems really mastering the changes to tunes! ....... the forget who said it but, they said if you can play the chords on the piano, then you don’t know them!
Well, what would you advise me to do?...... and If it means getting your book, then so be it! I would have done it anyways! Any advise appreciated!
Dam great video!😎👊🏾
Thanks for writing. Please write to my email, I'll try to give you some tips. Thanks!
whats the price of the book?
Please write to me for prices and deals kenthewitt@hotmail.com
What about the bass player?
Any comments about what you need from the bass player on a tune like impressions?
If you listen to the recording the bass [player is mainly walking in 4 on the minor modal scales (D dorian, Eb dorian).
How do I text you for the book, any email? Ken Hewitt, much love.
Go to my website for contact info, thanks!
you're talking about being in the zone
Exactly, that's what all jazz musicians (or any others) achieve to s do.
You're a beautiful man.
Humble thanks, and God bless.
I know why kent hate alt dominant man. because he didnt wear a mask. I was there and it was very serious.
He'd rather wear a mask because he likes masquerades and Halloween.
its not a tutorial if you dont show us how to play it . its an analysis
My videos are all different....some- more playing videos and some- more tutorials. I try to mix it up to satisfy all tastes. Check out my playlists and modal jazz category. I have everything from the basics to the advanced concepts.
ua-cam.com/users/KentHewittpiano88playlists