What Are Crunchy Quartals?

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  • Опубліковано 22 гру 2022
  • Finally...Cap'n Crunch is in the house! Peter Martin explains how to get that crunchy, left-hand 4th voicing sound.
    Free PDF worksheet: openstudiojazz.link/CrunchyPDF
    Full transcription available exclusively for Open Studio Pro members: openstudiojazz.link/pro-yt1
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 207

  • @JohnPaulRiger
    @JohnPaulRiger Рік тому +133

    THAT is the very best twenty minutes of vocational jazz piano instruction I’ve ever seen. So incredibly simple and so perfectly explained. Quartels have always been fleeting, passing moves for me. This tutorial gives me something to latch onto, to put me into the throws of something broader, ultimately giving birth to both new voice and new rhythm! A watershed moment here and I thank you!!!!

    • @strat1227
      @strat1227 Рік тому +9

      The other 12 minutes must have been practicing at the keyboard 😂

    • @JohnPaulRiger
      @JohnPaulRiger Рік тому +10

      Well I had to watch it several times and stop it occasionally to make notes. This is now part of my regular practice routines! ❤️

    • @hectorhernandez215
      @hectorhernandez215 Рік тому +1

      Bravo, maestro...!!!

    • @dpwaldman3145
      @dpwaldman3145 Рік тому +8

      This is what I consider brilliant educational instruction. He’s always gonna make me work, but with loads of energy, inspiration, and value. That’s Peter Martin. Thanks, brother!

    • @MAYNOR82
      @MAYNOR82 5 місяців тому +1

      Wow! Now I hear it and understand it! When he said he wasn’t really playing “out” but it sounds like it while sticking to the minor pentatonic I was like 🤯🤯

  • @grigoridj
    @grigoridj Рік тому +209

    I think I just broke a tooth

  • @AnandaGBrady
    @AnandaGBrady Рік тому +22

    At last - Some detailed left-hand "McCoy Tyner" voicings! I've been practicing, last three days, Peter Martin's 60 second short on Pentatonics (Open Studio) and had started cracking the left hand movements by repeated viewings; but now here it is, all precisely laid out. Everything in this video works with the Eb (or C-) Pent scale, making this the perfect foundation for study in all keys. Thank you Peter!

  • @jkl.guitar
    @jkl.guitar Рік тому +62

    as a guitarist ive been trying to wrap my head around the logic of this sound for a while, thank you!! best jazz channel ever!!

    • @michaelhenry1167
      @michaelhenry1167 Рік тому +4

      Same exact experience as you (as a guitar player). I could hear it but had no idea what was happening. This was awesome.

    • @beeson5450
      @beeson5450 Рік тому

      Man, I know the feeling, this kind of stuff is like magic from another realm as a guitar player. We have an advantage that we can bend, trill and slur to taste but the voicing and substitution aspect is a challenge.

    • @santibanks
      @santibanks 8 місяців тому +1

      But the nice thing is that these chords come so easy to the guitar as tuning of at least the bottom 4 strings are fourths (or well, if you use a standard tuning that is). The regular quartal voicings can be done with just one finger on those strings. When using the D-string as the starting point it's either 2 fingers (incorporating the B-string) or just three (using the E-string). The crunchy derivatives are not difficult either.

  • @trombonemunroe
    @trombonemunroe День тому

    Thank you for explaining a sound I've been hearing for years but never quite been able to put my finger on.

  • @ethancooper4154
    @ethancooper4154 Рік тому +8

    Great production value! Shoutout to whatever intern is animating the transcription hahaha

  • @danyanfish8850
    @danyanfish8850 7 місяців тому +1

    THIS IS THE SOUND IVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR FOR YEARS AND IT IS SO SIMPLE THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS TO THE LIGHT GOD BLESS YOUR SOUL

  • @DecidedlyDusty
    @DecidedlyDusty 9 місяців тому +2

    Masterful teaching. As a horn player I’ve only ever recognized that sound. Now I understand it.

  • @PianoLandscapes4film
    @PianoLandscapes4film 11 місяців тому +6

    I feel like I reached the promised Land!!!!! I have been searching for someone to explain Quartal Harmony to me for years - and more so, how it works. Thank you so much!! I am an Open Studio member and have been doing your courses. Now I have what to work on. Thanks a gazillion!

  • @AriHoenig
    @AriHoenig Рік тому +3

    Peter. I could talk for days about how great this is. Love the Crunch o meter! Thank you!

  • @takingstock8717
    @takingstock8717 8 місяців тому +3

    Wow this video makes me feel so light and hopeful. I have been breaking my head for years trying to understand that “sound”, that modern jazz piano hip sound. Now after watching this, so many things have come to my comprehension. Can’t thank Peter and open studios enough for this content!

  • @blakeangelos
    @blakeangelos Рік тому +17

    Man, you are so masterful at this. A great player and wonderful teacher. So grateful for you. 🙏🏻

  • @danieltoledano9098
    @danieltoledano9098 Рік тому +10

    I never thought I'd be able to understand the basics of this jazz style. Thanks for that! Happy holidays from Marbella, Spain.

  • @CWBella
    @CWBella Рік тому +20

    Wow, these are GREAT! I think I usually play them by accident; really helpful to have some structure for practicing more intentionally.

  • @LennyPrice
    @LennyPrice Рік тому +5

    Gonna send you the cleaning bill, Peter... my mind was blown by this lesson! A simple explanation of next-level material! Bravo!
    🎹

  • @brad724p
    @brad724p Рік тому +5

    Works great on guitar too; very cool. Thanks.

    • @rolandmueller7218
      @rolandmueller7218 9 місяців тому +1

      It works great on any harmonic instrument.

  • @teeteejay
    @teeteejay 4 місяці тому +1

    5 crunchy quartals
    1. 4:17 2nd, lowering root
    Db G C
    2. 5:25 4th, lowering root
    Fb Bb Eb
    3. 6:00 5th, lowering root
    Gb C F
    4. 6:28 6th, lowering root & 4th
    Ab Db G
    5. 7:22 Root, lowering root
    Cb F, Bb (aka G7#9)
    Naturally occurring mini crunchy quartals in Cm dorian
    1. 2:51 3rd, Eb A D
    2. 3:15 7th, Bb Eb A

    • @teeteejay
      @teeteejay 4 місяці тому

      My theory of how these alterations come to be is that they are highlighting Gb7 and its chord scale Gb mixolydian. It doesn't matter if you play C or Cb because C would imply Gb lydian scale

  • @CharlesAustin
    @CharlesAustin Рік тому +13

    Hip insider stuff !! Thanks a lot !! All the “crunchy” 4ths appear to act as the original 4ths dominant. So functional and cool. A whole world of possibilities opens !! Great inspiring playing there..!!

    • @rubenski_415
      @rubenski_415 Рік тому +7

      Yup, it's great because they are the same voicings as the shell for the #9 chord (a lot of them), and since the #9 is in both that chord and the scale of the tonal center, it makes total sense as a sub. So logical while deriving something still inspired-sounding, creative and hip! Which I think are the cross streets jazz lives at

    • @garfd2
      @garfd2 Рік тому +5

      Like Db-G-C is a rootless Eb7(13) which is a sibling of C7b9, and even that C dominant sound gets along with Cmin/Ebmaj pentatonic, because Eb is a blue note to C.

    • @joegold1001
      @joegold1001 8 місяців тому +1

      Just had an ah ha experience. Thanks.

  • @jajackso18
    @jajackso18 Рік тому +3

    Great Christmas present! Thank you!!

  • @chriswright2553
    @chriswright2553 Рік тому +3

    Absolute gold Peter. You never cease to amaze me. Working on the transcription now....(update 25 years later...still working on it...)

  • @idnemgk
    @idnemgk Рік тому +3

    Wonderful, Peter! I wanted to understand this stuff, this McCoy Tyner language, for a long time. You present it clearly and beautifully - you own it!
    Thank you for this!

  • @HankusMaximus
    @HankusMaximus Рік тому +13

    Great lesson as always. Also your production has gotten so good! I’m happy for your success

  • @fingerstyling
    @fingerstyling Рік тому +11

    Well that is cool. The newly included non - diatonic notes (C# E F# G# B) spell a C#- pentatonic scale which, being up a semitone, account for the chord's 'crunch'.

    • @JeffCogswell
      @JeffCogswell Рік тому +1

      Good observation!!

    • @spareplanet
      @spareplanet Рік тому +3

      Good observation!
      I think that may relate to why he made “crunchies” only on select positions (the 2, 4, 5 and 6 I think it was)

    • @sheilamacdougal4874
      @sheilamacdougal4874 8 місяців тому +1

      Accounting for the crunch isn't the problem. Accounting for why they should be played with C minor pentatonic IS.

    • @teeteejay
      @teeteejay 8 місяців тому

      They're also implying the c altered scale (except B which implies c harmonic minor scale)

  • @michaeldusso6882
    @michaeldusso6882 2 місяці тому

    GRooVY / crunchy sound dude !!!

  • @Domingojazz
    @Domingojazz Рік тому +1

    Great lesson...!

  • @revoltanhero2610
    @revoltanhero2610 8 місяців тому +1

    Thanks for this. Sounds a lot like the great McCoy Tyner!

  • @marswabisabi8918
    @marswabisabi8918 Рік тому +2

    Great instructional video ! Straight to the point ! It reminds me of Dave Grusin's soundtrack for the movie "The firm".

  • @winstonmacmahon9735
    @winstonmacmahon9735 Рік тому +2

    Great One Peter!
    This is definitely an "Oops All Berries!" Episode

  • @stumpshot70
    @stumpshot70 Рік тому +4

    The crunch meter says guitarist approved!

  • @PJRII
    @PJRII 3 місяці тому

    Wow, thanks so much for that lesson, bravo!

  • @gustav1296
    @gustav1296 Рік тому +4

    Very informative and clear!

  • @luxexp981
    @luxexp981 Рік тому +1

    So good! Thank you!

  • @chappahx
    @chappahx Рік тому +1

    I wish this wasn't above me! You're such an excellent teacher.

  • @magnusbangolsen2765
    @magnusbangolsen2765 Рік тому

    Absolutely amazing lesson. Just what I needed

  • @jazzrengue
    @jazzrengue 6 місяців тому

    This is the BEST short lesson I’ve seen. Will definitely get my fingers working on this.😁

  • @RahibAmin
    @RahibAmin 6 місяців тому

    noone ever talks about cool ways to move between these voicings thanks for this Peter !

  • @gr8tbigtreehugger
    @gr8tbigtreehugger Рік тому +2

    Great insights and well presented concepts! Many thanks for the lesson!

  • @kingsleychan2233
    @kingsleychan2233 Рік тому +1

    Thank you so much for the lesson! Quartals have been a mystery to me until now, can’t wait to practice these crunchy quartals!

  • @_gilmusica
    @_gilmusica Рік тому +1

    Great great video! simple and straight to the point and that's a beautiful way to use those 4th's sonorities. So simple yet sounds excellent, even just this without playing or changing the positions and voicings of the quartal chords.
    Thanks very much for sharing

  • @FrancisFurtak
    @FrancisFurtak Місяць тому

    Thanks so much. I learn a lot in just one video! Keep up the good work. FF

  • @Diego-Desde-Argentina
    @Diego-Desde-Argentina 3 місяці тому

    Excellent! Very useful and very well explained. Thank you Cap'n Crunch!

  • @Jamster365
    @Jamster365 Рік тому +5

    So you can drop the bottom note a half step if it doesn’t land you on another note in the Dorian scale. Neat!

    • @ALF8892
      @ALF8892 Місяць тому

      Thank you, I was wondering why that was what they where playing

  • @p0indexter624
    @p0indexter624 Рік тому +1

    thank you !
    and happy hollidays !

  • @AbrEvig
    @AbrEvig 3 місяці тому

    Extremely good lesson! Sitting here with a big smile on my face. And what a great piano player you are!!!

  • @chakuseki
    @chakuseki Рік тому

    This is absolutely amazing. Hope to apply to my bass playing!

  • @golafs
    @golafs Рік тому +1

    ok, best jazz piano lesson I´ve ever seen:)

  • @TheHarmonacker
    @TheHarmonacker Місяць тому

    Your music is great! Nice improvization.

  • @brucesstreet8204
    @brucesstreet8204 8 місяців тому +1

    Wow you could feel the heat🔥🔥🔥

  • @prohorkarpenko8623
    @prohorkarpenko8623 Рік тому +2

    Great teaching style, thank you! Could you reveal how you play an actual grand piano but have the keyboard on your video with the played notes highlighted?

  • @woodbassguitars
    @woodbassguitars Рік тому +1

    So useful,thank you.

  • @sergiomendozav
    @sergiomendozav Рік тому +1

    I can't stop thinking on GRP All Star Big Band Live In Japan (My Man's gone now), you should make a video on that version!

  • @hectorhernandez215
    @hectorhernandez215 Рік тому +1

    God answer prayers....thanks for your teachings ...great stuff.........

  • @strat1227
    @strat1227 Рік тому

    Wow instantly applicable, rare for something so hip to require such little practice to internalize, good stuff!

  • @jackgalloway8314
    @jackgalloway8314 3 місяці тому

    Great stuff. Interested in the fourth voicings. Polkadots in play 👍

  • @loubartolomucci7573
    @loubartolomucci7573 Рік тому

    Peter great stuff , you’ve unlocked a long mystery for me ..many thanks

  • @JonnyLipshamStudios
    @JonnyLipshamStudios 5 місяців тому

    This is really great! I now more fully understand what I have been doing instinctively. This will help me apply it more knowledgeably. Thanks!

  • @omnidawnstudios8247
    @omnidawnstudios8247 Рік тому +1

    Love this video. Thank you!!

  • @borispetkov8580
    @borispetkov8580 Рік тому +1

    Amazingly usefull!!!! Thanks!

  • @maple-school
    @maple-school 4 місяці тому

    Love the contect you guys. keep it up, aweosme stuff

  • @psull7
    @psull7 Рік тому +1

    Such a great tutorial...
    Understandable .. The Mysteries now Lie in Quartal's/4th's Spirit

  • @JoelPurnell
    @JoelPurnell 8 місяців тому

    Great stuff!! 👍🏼

  • @judsonclinton3790
    @judsonclinton3790 Рік тому +1

    💗🎶 Perfect Force in the Sea of Dorian! Great delivery on this info nice and upbeat, succinct

  • @edbernardmusic3599
    @edbernardmusic3599 5 місяців тому

    Great stuff!

  • @edzielinski
    @edzielinski 8 місяців тому

    Super useful and straight up legit. Thanks!

  • @gabrielmirandamartinez8451
    @gabrielmirandamartinez8451 Рік тому +1

    Nice stuff!!

  • @brendaboykin3281
    @brendaboykin3281 Рік тому +1

    Thank you, Brother of Grooves.🌹🌹🔥🌲🌹🌹

  • @carnivaltym
    @carnivaltym 2 місяці тому

    So good!

  • @olumideosatuyi342
    @olumideosatuyi342 8 місяців тому

    Good stuff ...thankx

  • @WhistlebirdInfinity
    @WhistlebirdInfinity 2 місяці тому

    Gahhhhh my head exploded in the best possible way YAYYYY I say to the YAYYYYE. Thank you Peter. By the way, I love when you say doppio, are you ever gonna do a segment about the whacky grand piano that has the pedals with the second grand piano underneath you play with your feet? Pleeeeeez? That would be dope yo.

  • @zachyopchick5649
    @zachyopchick5649 Місяць тому

    This was probably my favorite music lesson UA-cam. Thank you haha Please live in Boston and let me study

  • @JohnHorneGuitar
    @JohnHorneGuitar Рік тому +1

    Fantastic!

  • @fattmusiek5452
    @fattmusiek5452 Рік тому +1

    Love it

  • @lawrencelogan7085
    @lawrencelogan7085 9 місяців тому

    Thanks!

  • @emery1057
    @emery1057 Рік тому

    Wow! That’s a nice way to breakout of the limbo of P4 to add tension with the tritone using the Dorian scale

  • @tommarko9983
    @tommarko9983 Рік тому +1

    this is awesome

  • @ergiovalente1536
    @ergiovalente1536 Рік тому +1

    Merry Christmas 🤩🔥

  • @patrickhajjar4643
    @patrickhajjar4643 8 місяців тому

    Thank you !!!.awsome !!!!

  • @paulrodger8692
    @paulrodger8692 Рік тому +1

    Yikes! Love it!

  • @JohnnyJazzFreak
    @JohnnyJazzFreak Рік тому +4

    That was great, Peter. Great lesson on the inside quartals. Meaty and crunchy. What I'd love to see next from you is the same lesson but for the eyes-rolling-back-in-the-head outside quartals, -the insane McCoy stuff. I knew there was a structure to the inside quartals, but is there a similar theoretical framework for the eye-rolling demonic possession outside quartals that you can make sense of?

  • @tmyoshimura621
    @tmyoshimura621 Рік тому +1

    New to music studies and curious to learn more at my own pace. Great to be here to learn from this content, and not build relationships or engage in dialogue.

  • @benzonex
    @benzonex 9 місяців тому

    Thank you Mc Coy Tyner!

  • @Zalento
    @Zalento Рік тому +1

    Very Cool video!
    It makes me wanna go to the storage, take out that grand piano, bring it home and start doing scales again.
    If it wasn’t because every time I see the piano it scares me so much I can’t even open the lid.
    Oh well…
    I did enjoy this video a lot
    Thank you 🙏

  • @johnharrisjr.351
    @johnharrisjr.351 Рік тому +1

    Yes. To everything that is happening here, I say yes!
    I’ll be transcribing this for the next month at least to get all the marrow out of it.

    • @chriswright2553
      @chriswright2553 Рік тому

      Get the transcription, it's fantastic. If you're not a Pro member, I bet they will send it to you if you ask nicely. They're good like that.

  • @joeog5862
    @joeog5862 Рік тому +2

    CRUNCHY!🔥

  • @Zoco101
    @Zoco101 Рік тому +6

    It's interesting, and very useful to some pianists, I'm sure. It fits into straight ahead playing and maybe into some other styles, but it is not for every jazz pianist - there are so many styles!

    • @pgroove163
      @pgroove163 Рік тому +4

      just another color in the crayon box..

  • @MrVyrtuoso
    @MrVyrtuoso Рік тому

    Man, that's so spicy! Luv it!

  • @DeyquanBowens
    @DeyquanBowens Рік тому +2

    Crazy good!

  • @jasonwhatley3211
    @jasonwhatley3211 Рік тому

    CRUNCHY baby!!!

  • @davidrosen9711
    @davidrosen9711 Рік тому +1

    Absolutely killing

  • @milestranet
    @milestranet 9 місяців тому

    Gràcies!

  • @nobutternotes
    @nobutternotes 11 місяців тому

    This is spectacular! I love these lessons, they are so helpful to discovering new ideas and theory with jazz. Didn't McCoy Tyner use this in Contemplation?

  • @lepistanuda
    @lepistanuda Рік тому +2

    There’s almost a flavour of shifting around different Phrygian roots going on

  • @RemyLeBoeuf
    @RemyLeBoeuf Рік тому +1

    Love this. 👏

  • @normantran2011
    @normantran2011 Рік тому +2

    I think of these as rootless hendrix chords, or sharp 9 chords. But I like how you show the relation to the quartal diatonic voicings as alterations.
    For the A D G variant, why do you move the D to C# instead of keeping it at D and just lowering A to G#?

  • @chinua000
    @chinua000 Рік тому

    Man, got that hack I've been hungry for. So simple and digestible, but output is sophisticated and elevating to my playing. Got it immediately thanks to clear concise teaching and a great break down. How do you do it? Working through the keys..

  • @d.c.i.fraterdzwogchenvovi2031
    @d.c.i.fraterdzwogchenvovi2031 9 місяців тому

    Best Lesson ever this was what i heard McCoy do

  • @dr.brianjudedelimaphd743
    @dr.brianjudedelimaphd743 Рік тому +1

    I don’t like the modal McCoy, Callderazo, Coltrane thing, but you really are amazing at teaching and playing it …

  • @ColleenKitchen
    @ColleenKitchen Рік тому

    Awesoome Thank yu!

  • @ronaskew
    @ronaskew Рік тому +3

    Is there a theoretical basis for the alterations?

  • @robbiethomas6589
    @robbiethomas6589 5 місяців тому

    I love this guy.