THE ELUSIVE LOCRIAN SCALE- "The Shadow of Your Smile"- Jazz Tutorial
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- THE ELUSIVE LOCRIAN SCALE- "The Shadow of Your Smile"- Jazz Tutorial. exploring the Half-Diminished Chord and related Locrian Scale (mode). As used in the song: "The Shadow of Your Smile". also known as "Love Theme from The Sandpiper" The arrangement is a bossa Nova using a backing track. The music was written by Johnny Mandel with the lyrics written by Paul Francis Webster. A tune in G major relative to E minor. Free Locrian scale drill available on website. See website for info on Jazz Piano Book. https;//www.kenthewitt.com/
Astonishingly, I can always understand your explanation of music theory (why notes relate, or don’t relate to each other). No one else seems to be able to explain theory to me AND have it stick . As a non site-reader, with no music theory education , you somehow manage to articulate your message and have it resonate. By no means am I saying it’s easy, as this is some tough stuff...but it is, at least, understandable.
Thank you for sharing. Love your videos!!!
That's a great comment for me, because it tells me I'm on the right track. These videos are unscripted....I tried that...and it just didn't sound right. So I just ad lib. Thanks Gary!
La inprovizacion tambien se puede hacer con las notas arpegiadas de los acordes.
So great to hear you play some of these standards Ken. The way you keep stretching the melody across the rhythm to create tension is amazing.
Thanks for listening and the great comment!
It's good to see you again, I confess that I was amazed by your transcription of "not like this", incredible, it's perfect
Thank you very much!
I love the way you play that song! It reminds me of my early days of dating my husband, we always danced to that song. Your fabulous! Thank you!
This is such a beautiful comment....certain songs bring back memories of when you first heard them and the events...thanks!
Thank you for Your Smile!
Keep smiling...it's infectious.
Very practical lesson without a lot of confusing theory !
Great comment. thanks!
I remember this fantastic song right in the middle of mid 60s when rock and roll dominate but this stood out so strongly and refreshing. Thank you for helping us to understand how this tune works.
That's a great comment,.... thanks, Sunny. JM is one of my favorite composers. He also has arranged and conducted for Diana Kral.)
« Motif » in french. A nod to my country, thank you Sir.
I'm glad you helped me out with that!
Kent you are the man!
Thanks for the affirmation...I'll try to live up to it!
For the past year I keep returning from time to time to your recording because of this hauntingly beautiful chord that you play on the start of the second minute of the video. It's a dominant chord with a major 7th, but the way you played it here is such a little gem that it makes my heart warm every time I listen to your recording. I just felt a need to say that after numerous times of listening this recording through the past year. Thank you so much for everything Kent :)
That comment is So cool! I love those kind of chords. It's like playing a Gb chord against a D7, it is a haunting sound....makes it a Maj7 #5.....thanks for hearing it and commenting.
Kent, yet again another excellent harmonic explanation of a popular tune. You have a very good knack of demonstrating and explanation of modes and minor7b5 chords, unique I believe on the internet. Keep going buddy, these videos of yours are just wonderful. Thankyou so much. Always enjoyable to watch, I have definitely learnt so much from this video (as your others). And your comments on life and humour are inspirational. I will always attempt to "Swing Loose!" Cheers!
That's great, Dave....you are a cat! The positive feedback and affirmations are important to me; without that, there's no purpose to this (except that I learn from the process and every video I do there's study involved).
What a great song and excellent analysis! I immediately loved this song the moment I heard it. way back in 1965. Like a time capsule to my misspent youth. Mad magazine, that pretty strawberry blond haired girl I had a crush on...
Oh yes.... I remember it well, but for me it was Dreamsville, from Peter Gunn, by Mancini. Thanks, Jay!
@@KentHewittpiano88 I can't think of a single song that you cannot render beautifully. I am a great Mancini fan as well. Two For The Road.
Timeline: Jeff gets email from "Interesting Facts" about Cleopatra... Jeff reads it, Googles Elizabeth Taylor (who played her in 1963), Liz's movies pop up, "The Sandpiper" pops up, Jeff pushes it on Wikipedia and reads about "The Shadow...", and now my UA-cam is full of "Shadow..." stuff! They are watching, all the time....! My dad had this record (circa 1965), with the "Seagull" (Sandpiper) cover. It always fascinated me for some reason.... way before I started playing music in 1969. I had the record cover in my mind but didn't know what song / movie, etc. it was attached to... until decades later! So, this reminds me of my dad, who died in 1969, shortly after getting me my first instrument - an E-112 Hammond Organ.
Great story, Jeff. Thanks for telling me. 1969 was the year I drove across country, trying to make a new life for myself....saying goodbye to banking and hello to music and jazz piano. That's why I'm here. This is a wonderful song!
@@KentHewittpiano88 What - you were a banker on the West coast?
I noticed that he changes the chords in the repeated sections at the end. The first time he uses the half diminished 7, the second and third repetition he uses a minor 7. Also right at the end he changes fron a minor 7 to a dominant 7. It has the effect of brightening the mood at the end.
He's one of the great masters of composition....absolutely!
Thank you for this tutorial, great explanation!
Glad it was helpful!
Really beautiful Jazz Bossa nova style. I love it! Beautiful Chords & Soprano melodies
The Brazilians think I can't play Bossa Nova!
@@KentHewittpiano88 they are wrong ^^
Mr. Hewitt- Sir, You Are A Jazz Tour De Force !
You Are Jazzification Personified.
Thank You For The Great Lessons !
What can I say? All I can do is put your comment into the "Best All Time" comments box. Swing loose, Casper!
Sometimes i feel like i can put scales in both hands and play any tune i desire as long as i know the tune. I feel like i can just sing or hum while i play and it translate through my fingers and my playing sounds a lot solid. I also play the trumpet and when i sing the tune through the brass , things really come alive. Thanks Kent for helping me swing. Most of the time just wacthing you play puts the fire and inspiration under my feet .
That's a great compliment, Rome. To be able to inspire someone is a blessing.... and I'm glad you told me...it makes everything I do worth working at.
Замечательно! Огромное спасибо за видео!
Amazing! Many thanks for this video!
I'm glad you liked it and thanks for the comment!
I first learned this in g and then in d when I heard Sara Vaughn and Bob James. James is fantastic. Your version is also very nice and give me some ideas. I love that chord change from the half dimineished to the Tritone dominant sharp 11. I'm getting James version down pretty good.
Great song....I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Lovely 🌹!
Thank you! Cheers!
Thanks you are the best teacher! Awesome piano player!!!
Many thanks...in a time when we all need something uplifting!
You are always a joy to listen to and your playing sends me somewhere heavenly, Thank you.
Thank you Kent for everything, you’re the best teacher!! Have a wonderful year!
Wishing you the same, and thanks for the kind words.
You have lightened my heart with your quotes and even more you playing of the tune
":Lightened my heart"....I can't think of any words you might say that would top that. Bless you, brother!
One of my all time favorite songs Kent! 👍
Absolutely! yes....many thanks!
Hard to stop watching this video..the song & lyrics are beautiful & your performance is magic!! You made the scales sound so very interesting....your "shadow" will be next to me Kent as I try to sound like you!!! Beautiful video & a gem of a teacher!!🎹😎 xox
Phyllis...why are your comments so unique and unlike any others? It's because you are a higher level soul ...and someone whom I admire very much. All your comments will be cherished, until I "check out". and beyond.
@@KentHewittpiano88 you certainly give back beautiful responses to my comments...just want you to know I'm honored to receive them & I equally admire YOU!!😚😚😎😎
brilliant tutorial...very helpful ..thanks!
Thanks so much, Kent. Always great stuff!!! Have a wonderful year.
Wishing you the same, Bruce , and thanks for all the great comments!
Precisely the tutorial I needed. Thank you, Kent! Fantastic as ever
Much appreciated...your comment keeps me going!
You are STUPENDOUS!! Really enjoy this and how you explain it!! LOVE IT JUST LOVE IT!!!
Thanks so much for the affirmation,. Carol!
Fantastic!!
Thanks!
A great lesson as always. Your books are indispensable.
Thanks for telling me, Marie...much appreciated!
Listening to you play this beautiful song is a luxury! As usual Kent...your teaching & playing music is "awesome" & I feel very blessed to be learning so much from you...😎😚
Luxury!....blessed!....you always know just the perfect flattering words to write, Phyllis. God bless you, my sister!
(as us jazz cats say..."you are a groovy chick".)
This one was really well explained. Thank again for sharing with us.
I really appreciate the comment!
Love the "Fountain of Joy" quote. Needed to hear that today ;)
I'm glad I can find good quotes, and if they're helpful to anyone, that is a joy to me.
Great constructive deconstruction lesson. Thanks for the inspiration, will be printing out that section from the Jazz Piano Book for more practice. Swing loose!
Thanks for the comment, Dan, I dig you man, you're on the case.
Beautiful song, definitely one of my favorites. Love the Astrud Gilberto version...
Great comment!
Very nice, Kent. You had some great ideas on this one. More great stuff!
I appreciate the affirmation and all your comments, Jack.
Kent Hewitt My pleasure Kent. Watching and listening to your videos, your books and experimenting with all the possibilities inherent in your arrangements has helped me immensely. There is a welcomed new horizon everyday!
one of my favorite songs is by johnny mandel and dave frishburg "you are there " i still remember the first time i heard the song i had to stop the record player and take the lp off to see who wrote it . later in life i met davis frisburg and was able to tell him what a beautiful poem his lyric was . the melody is almost chinese.
I have played that song with singers in the past. It brings to mind Roseanna Vitro. You can find anything on UA-cam. This is one of those "goosebumps" songs
ua-cam.com/video/ZScfz65CrQc/v-deo.html
Lovely
Thank you!
I learned this song from my uncle, Tony Pacheco, back in 67, when I was about 16. He was a Django Reinhardt aficiondo guitarist who could Wow people with expertise and improvise endlessly. He recorded an album called ...
"I'll Remember Reinhardt" but out of the many covers he did his own take on "The Shadow Of Your Smile" in a Gypsy Jazz slow swing tempo. It became a favorite instantly. Many of us locals of the greater New Bedford area of Massachusetts who were Tony's students were all trying our best to emulate what he did with this incredible beautiful song. Gypsy Jazzers Shred!!! Thanks for your great take....I always learn something from your explanations.
😎👍🏽🎶🔥♥️🔥🎶
What a great story, Jambo....thanks for sharing! 67 and 68 were great years. I have a framed photo of Django in my bedroom.Also a friend of mine, bassist Brian Torff played in a Django tribute band on the road. You have a special heritage that makes you a compadre.... and I always love to hear from you, ...swing loose!
Its gonna be a roaring 20s, Kent! Count on it. Thanks for the tune!
I'll take it....as long as we take what was good out of it! Long live the Jazz Age.
Class act
Thanks so much!
Bravissimo maestro !)
Humble thanks for your generous compliment!
Thank you for your analysis of this song. Really just starting to work through the exercise, but am learning much through the journey. I have your book and there is a lifetime worth of information there. BTW, your explanation to the Barry Harris dim scale was great. Lol, I understand intuitively, but it's going to a "minute" to get it under my fingers where I don't have to think about.
It will take a good deal of work to be able to play those concepts automatically. It needs to be in your mind and ears, as well as your hands. Thanks for buying my book!
I'm reminded of The Buena Vista Socal Club ... Nice
That was a great movie and fantastic music....thanks!
This man 👨 is great 👍 musician mr Kent 2020 is your year
I wish you the same, Emmett, and thanks for all the comments.
The pronunciation is (mO-tEEf). I've played this song ever since it was composed Kent but never understood the structure. Thanks for another great lesson!
Someone from France told me that was the correct pronunciation. But there's 2 spellings motive and motif. Can you clarify the difference? Thanks!
This is the most beautiful version I’ve ever heard! Thank you for the practice runs. Great for practice. I’ve been watching this video on rerun many time. Still can’t play like U tho. Lol.
Great comment, thanks so much, Diana. (BTW, I'm a Smith...mother's side.)
Thank you for doing a video on this classic Kent. I'm not sure where to put requests but I'm shocked you haven't done the Gershwin standard I Loves You Porgy. I would love to see a video on it and your version of the song. Thanks
I'm shocked too!
Bellissime lezioni.
Thanks!
Here's what I got from you. Take the Bm7b5 - E7. I hear harmonic minor on that (and I love that tonality. Bach is my boy). But you showed me how to had the Bb from the diminished scale as a juicy tone. Thanks, again. That's jazz.
I see you think of it as as Locrian #2. And referring to that same Bm7b5, I think you probably know, it has become popular to refer to that by another of its mode names, D Jazz Minor,
FWIW, the song is special to me, in part, because these II-Vs either start or resolve on a tonality that is often a half-step different than what you might expect. The melody only leave G-major for the D# in the relative minor, simple and predictable as Auden say - but the chords are all over the place, cycling around until finally reach back home in an orderly and beautiful way.
I agree it's one of Mandel's most clever, and inventive creations. Thanks for all your knowledge sharing, and I agree totally. The video speaks for itself, but your affirmation helps me.
@@KentHewittpiano88 I am trying to improve on one song each week.
FWIW, I just don't like blues over a bossa. It's seems non-authentic. This lady does it I wonder what you think about that. .
ua-cam.com/video/EqpAwqdHLGc/v-deo.html
Nice explanation of this tune Sir, thank you!
Wondered if you could maybe do video on Errol Garner and possibly explain what it is about his playing that you like him so much.
Thanks, keep up the great work!
You really got me there, brother. I love Erroll (note spelling) more than you know...but to try to play like him?...it's like trying to play like Monk. I would only be copying. His style is so personal and unique...no one comes close to sounding like him ever. He's just one of the greatest piano geniuses I ever heard and he plays everything perfectly, amazing chops, sense of melody, incredible rhythm, dynamics, phenomenal improvisation, everything that makes jazz the very best music, and he does it effortlessly, while smiling at his audience. What a guy!! He may very well be the greatest musician that ever lived, to me he's as great as Bach. I was privileged to see him live in Boston many years ago.
I'm glad you talked about the b9 and the 9 , it reminds me of when I was always taught the b9 in the locrian scale but the 9 seemed to sound better sometimes especially in a min7b5 chord, guess Stravinsky was right, have to know the rules before you can break them...
Exactly correct. and Stravinsky was always right. (Rite) no pun intended. This song is so clever in the way it uses both...thanks so much for a great comment.
Elusive scale indeed! I needed it last week when a vocalist called September in the Rain (in Ab, no less!). The half dim. chord falls between the IV and the V of the verse. After more studying of your lesson here, I will be able to get some good things going next time I play it. Thank you, Mr. H.; and your playing is beautiful, as always.
Ab is soooooo rich! 😀😎
Oh, interesting, I'll have to check out the verse. Usually you can only find it in the original sheet music or in transcription books. Of course you can learn it from recordings, but they had to get from somewhere.
Kent Hewitt I misspoke, guess I used wrong terminology, not the Verse that introduces the song. I mean the part “ the leaves of brown came... “. etc., I’m calling that a verse...
Boykin Boykin Yes, I’m getting better at it, the more I practice...
I am always amazed by your choice of songs and melodies, there are never any that I do not like and few I don't remember, "The Shadow of Your Smile" is a killer melody.
I play around with the locrian scale and land on most of the chords mentioned in my own compositions but not jazz takes, with mixed results,
I just hummed the melody to one of my musical mates and he automatically knew it, from a different discipline. If I broke it down the way you do he would be lost :)
There are all manner of showtunes that used the locrian scale, its hardly the norm these days
I get bored easily, and I go to extremes to make mundane melodies kind of sound better or different at least, More theory helps a great deal, (this is not one of those melodies)
tnx for a decent explaination of the locrian scale, I have much to digest
I sometimes get asked what sort of keyboard should one buy? I ask the same thing about guitars? Just me I tend to like keyboards that emulate everything well, but even a decent Yamaha weighted keys electonic piano is great just a p45 or 115 feels great
It would take me weeks now to use a propper acoustic piano
Yes, it's a killer melody. and such a clever chord progression. Can't improve on a JM song. Try out the Roland RD300 and listen to a video I made using it while in NC. Here: ua-cam.com/video/hjnMeU_wDdQ/v-deo.html
I remember hearing that song in that Movie.
Great song and equally great movie.
Hi Kent, reviewing this great session over again. Great session. What was that classic outtro piece in this episode? Gratefully.
The Brazilian song "Little Boat" from my album "Time on My Hands".
Great Video. Very good quality. I am following this through. Really like the graphics. Pythagoras was the inventor of the Pentatonic Scale. Read an article on it from the University of Connecticut. Super fascinating. I'll try to get the
link and send it to you.
I'd like to read that. I do have a book that talks about the Music of the Spheres and goes into Pythagoras' theories.
@@KentHewittpiano88 I will try to send you the link. Pythagoras started with strings. He took one string and found that by doubling the length the frequency was doubled. I think he found the perfect fifth next. by subtraction he found the fourth. I'm looking ☝ the.link. Hopefully
very shortly.
@@KentHewittpiano88 This should be part of the article. www.phys.uconn.edu/~gibson/Notes/Section3_4/Sec3_4.htm
@@KentHewittpiano88 Sent you the link. The first part is missing. I followed the math..but the part I sent you is missing how they derived and the were figured. They didn't have any to go by. Still working on finding the first part.that is needed to understand section 3.4..I see the link has 3.4 in it. I suspect I can copy it and 3.0. Just guessing.
I think this is the right link. www.phys.uconn.edu/~gibson/Notes/Section3_2/Sec3_2.htm
Beautifully done, Jazz Brother. 😁😎
Humble thanks! Stay well and swing loose, brother!
curious where I can get the backing track you used. I love this song!
The backing track is Band In A Box.
Is there somewhere I can buy and/or download that backing track? Thx! @@KentHewittpiano88
Рояль стоит не правильно: 2 окна плюс отопление!!!Срочно переставить,а так все Супер брависсимо!!!
I cannot find a chord chart for Ron Carter's version of The Shadow of Your Smile, so in what key is Ron Carter playing on Shadow of Your Smile? Thanks
Please send me a link!
Say Kent, I am not finding the Locrian exercise for this tune on your website.. :(
(few hours later) I found a work-around. Now transcribing to all keys.
Did you find it... in Free Music Downloads under" Locrian"?
@@KentHewittpiano88 I see "The Last Date" under Locrian scale drills. Seems The Last Date is in there twice.
there are not so much Women who Love Jazz but there lot of them who love guys who love jazz...
I dig you!
The infamous Tristan chord
(Used by Bach 200 years earlier)
Isn't "Tristan und Isolde" by Wagner, approx 100 years earlier?
Thanks for the expertise!
♥♫𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺delightful!!♫♥THANKS!!
You're always the best, Marilyn!
That’s deeper that French fry grease...
Cool...….and aren't we glad the French created les pommes de terre frites?
you were right. not the roaring 20's 😅
Yup!
You refer to locrian..why is the super locrian named that way.
The super Locrian is exactly like the Locrian but with the perfect 4th flatted. That means that there's a minor 3rd and major 3rd in the scale. You can call the minor 3rd a #9. So that scale fits a major dominant 7th w/ a #9. So the super Locrian is a major scale and Locrian is minor.
@@KentHewittpiano88 I'll chew on that.
Confusing. He jumps around too much and too fast. Difficult to follow and absorb. Not helpful.
If I go slow, people write to me asking me to speed up. I have 500 videos now...for all levels...you have to find the right ones for you. Try going here..
ua-cam.com/play/PLFuMibnl_h5Y81iBkdAM_Z6rxzbm9-pXH.html