Great lesson Kent! I always come back to your channel and learn so much!!!! Appreciate you & bestowing your wealth of knowledge on the music community!..All the best!!
Thanks Ken , i was always useless at maths when i was a kid , but after 20 years of piano, ( am now 69) it becomes clear that jazz " improv " ( piano without music score ) is a game of numbers , so i think with this exercise it helps to think of the shapes as a NUMBER sequences so 1 ,7 3 going to 1,3 7 ,,, of course this ASSUMES 😂😂😂 you have spent MANY years learning how the numbers relate to the notes on the piano AND you know the circle of fourths without even having to THINK about it ,, big thanks for helping us guys climb up this very challenging and very hi jazz mountain.
I'm sold Maestro, thanks for making my retirement decision to buy an electric Piano a wonderful and heartfelt experience. Thanks and Respect from Port Coquitlam British Columbia Canada.
Now that's a good investment. Should consider his books maybe, I have them couple of years, still using them. Together with all his gems on UA-cam and his website, perfect lifelong tourney.
Thank you so much for sharing, Kent! It became so much fun when you started playing around with that technique! I think I could even see the smile on your face from the fun you had! 😊
WOW!!!, love this exercise. don't like playing left hand alone but can't improv, so just made something up for the right hand, 5431 (so, fa, mi, do) with some swing, then the 1 becomes the 5 for the next chord, then up an octave, repeat, repeat repeat. here's another one I like, 5679, and in the next chord the 5 becomes the 2 so stay on that note (ie don't move your right hand) and play 2345. hope that makes sense, love playing around with it !!!
So glad to see content still coming from you Kent. I had an unwanted 2 year break from my piano but so good to be back! Thanks for this lesson, love getting my left hand moving.
@@KentHewittpiano88 HI Kent ! i come back on this exercise, it will help me i think for "Moaning" !I guess it is never to late to tell you what's going on!
Great video Kent ,very useful ! When i was studying music at the university in PR nobody teach me that ,i'm working very hard to learn those things ,there was no Google, no UA-cam in those days !
I’ve finally drilled my rootless voicings in common progressions until I got those down and was thinking about what to tackle next. These spread voicings seem like a good choice.
Hey Kent! Thank you for doing what you do. I may not watch you as much as I should. Maybe once or twice here and there and usually because I have a technique playing problem. But it's always your videos I click on, because you're always there with a solution. Never stop!!!! I need you!!! Haha. Happy Halloween!
hi Kent i am recently studing My Romance trying to use the Dim accord and making it independant in the four mediant options so A7 going to Dm Fm Ab minor or Bminor of course seen as C7 when going to Fminor but I remeber that A7 Fminor or in Blue Bossa E7 to Cminor is a situation that exists in the Literature? where?? in Along Came Betty is E7 going to Cmi7 I remeber that such a case is also seen as Phrygian Dominant but nit so often used I believe Herbie Hancock came up with this one....
Hi Kent , great content ,as always. On all your new videos with reference to your appendix, it would be really useful to cross reference the Appendix and page number to find the two things, video and place in the book. Keep swinging! Rick
I always thought you were a dinosaur. I always thought you were a dinosaur. I see your technology has really gone up still waiting for that fakebook with your voice in an arrangement along with everybody else long time no see.
I only have two words to describe this video lesson…. “Absolute Genius”!! 😊😊😊
Such a great comment....thank you so much!
Great lesson Kent! I always come back to your channel and learn so much!!!! Appreciate you & bestowing your wealth of knowledge on the music community!..All the best!!
I appreciate that so much!
Thanks Ken , i was always useless at maths when i was a kid , but after 20 years of piano, ( am now 69) it becomes clear that jazz " improv " ( piano without music score ) is a game of numbers , so i think with this exercise it helps to think of the shapes as a NUMBER sequences so 1 ,7 3 going to 1,3 7 ,,, of course this ASSUMES 😂😂😂 you have spent MANY years learning how the numbers relate to the notes on the piano AND you know the circle of fourths without even having to THINK about it ,, big thanks for helping us guys climb up this very challenging and very hi jazz mountain.
Great comment...I can see you understand the concept and how music relates to math principles. Swing on!
Your music is great sir. Thank you sir, I have learned a lot from you.
Glad to hear that!
I'm sold Maestro,
thanks for making my retirement decision to buy an electric Piano a wonderful and heartfelt experience.
Thanks and Respect from Port Coquitlam British Columbia Canada.
Now that's a good investment. Should consider his books maybe, I have them couple of years, still using them. Together with all his gems on UA-cam and his website, perfect lifelong tourney.
Thanks so much!
Thank you so much for sharing, Kent!
It became so much fun when you started playing around with that technique! I think I could even see the smile on your face from the fun you had! 😊
Yes, I do enjoy it. Thanks for the comment!
Thank you !
I apprecaite it!
WOW!!!, love this exercise. don't like playing left hand alone but can't improv, so just made something up for the right hand, 5431 (so, fa, mi, do) with some swing, then the 1 becomes the 5 for the next chord, then up an octave, repeat, repeat repeat. here's another one I like, 5679, and in the next chord the 5 becomes the 2 so stay on that note (ie don't move your right hand) and play 2345. hope that makes sense, love playing around with it !!!
That's cool...so you're naturally creative....that's a very good thing!
@@KentHewittpiano88 now if you'd just relocate to the S.F. Bay Area I'd be set 🙂 !!!
How fun! I recognized this left hand method in Bill Evans "Danny Boy"
So cool...I'll check that out. I did a video on that:
ua-cam.com/video/r2id26pm53I/v-deo.html
Thumbs Up 👍
Thank you!
I have the book, really recommend it!
Thanks so much for the endorsement.!
Hi Kent, as usual very useful. Thanks a lot!
You are very welcome!
Another great lesson Kent. Any help with the left hand is always appreciated. I can't wait to try this technique. Thank you
Thanks for watching I thought I did a good one!
Thanks, mr Kent....👍🙂
My pleasure!
So glad to see content still coming from you Kent. I had an unwanted 2 year break from my piano but so good to be back! Thanks for this lesson, love getting my left hand moving.
Welocone back...and thanks for writing!
Merci.
Thank you!
Hello Kent. Excelent ideas!
Thanks for telling me!
Kent you’re the man!!! Thank you for everything ❤
Allo my pleasure...thanks!
Nice!
Appreciated!
Thank you Kent ,i think i am Gona spend a couple of months on this until i get it! maybe to be left hand helps a little bit !🎹
That should help...my left hand is now better than my right!
@@KentHewittpiano88 HI Kent ! i come back on this exercise, it will help me i think for "Moaning" !I guess it is never to late to tell you what's going on!
Kent, Love that view out to the lake. That would never get old. Thanks for the lesson. Just subscribed to your channel.
You dig my pad...cool, man!
Very good lesson. My piano teach used to drill me to death on 2-5. Very nice use drill in songs. In fact I am going to practice it right now.
Glad you liked it!
I always love your videos (and your book)! Thank you!
Thanks for telling me!
Great video Kent ,very useful ! When i was studying music at the university in PR nobody teach me that ,i'm working very hard to learn those things ,there was no Google, no UA-cam in those days !
I understand...it was the same for me...I'm glad you found me!
Great.
Thank you!
I’ve finally drilled my rootless voicings in common progressions until I got those down and was thinking about what to tackle next. These spread voicings seem like a good choice.
Ah the eternal battle of figuring out what to tackle next. So many choices, so little time...
Check out my playlists for Spread Voicings!
So little time...so many choices!
Hey Kent! Thank you for doing what you do. I may not watch you as much as I should. Maybe once or twice here and there and usually because I have a technique playing problem. But it's always your videos I click on, because you're always there with a solution. Never stop!!!! I need you!!! Haha. Happy Halloween!
Thanks so much for the awesome comment!
Great master-class! Where can I write to obtain the sheet of your arrangement of Summertime?
kenthewitt@hotmail.com
hi Kent i am recently studing My Romance trying to use the Dim accord and making it independant in the four mediant options so A7 going to Dm Fm Ab minor or Bminor of course seen as C7 when going to Fminor but I remeber that A7 Fminor or in Blue Bossa E7 to Cminor is a situation that exists in the Literature? where?? in Along Came Betty is E7 going to Cmi7 I remeber that such a case is also seen as Phrygian Dominant but nit so often used I believe Herbie Hancock came up with this one....
Hi Kent , great content ,as always. On all your new videos with reference to your appendix, it would be really useful to cross reference the Appendix and page number to find the two things, video and place in the book. Keep swinging! Rick
Thanks for a good suggestion. I have a video on the Appendix that shows you everything in the book:
ua-cam.com/video/sWvSUw6hEA8/v-deo.html
I always thought you were a dinosaur.
I always thought you were a dinosaur.
I see your technology has really gone up
still waiting for that fakebook
with your voice in an arrangement
along with everybody else
long time no see.
?
Thanks for coming back for a visit, Carlton!