Awesome. Some 30 years ago my teacher gave me a book by Frank Mantooth called Voicings for Jazz Keyboard. Mantooth beautifully codified construction of five note quartal “generic” major and minor voicings, and used a clever device called polychord fractions as a shorthand for voicing suspended and altered dominants. I still remember the first time I unraveled the Dmi11 “So What” chord and discovered its five harmonic functions. Mantooth called them “Miracle Voicings”: D G C F A Strong Major BbMA9 (3rd, 7th present) Weak Major: F69 Minor: Dmi11 Sus. Dominant: G9sus Lydian: Eb MA9#11 You guys nailed ‘em all! 😀
The best and widest ranging videos I’ve found on UA-cam. I could listen to you guys all day. I do find that with the overhead camera it is sometimes difficult to tell what keys are depressed when your fingers are laying dormant on a key, Because the perfectly overhead cam position obscures the telltale darker side of the keys that make it easy to what keys are activated. So It is always helpful when you say what the notes are, or lift the fingers a little so we can see that they are not being used. I am a guitarist so some of what happens is not as easily perceived visually. Especially liked the voice leading videos.
This may be just me, but I would like to strongly advocate for also practicing these as 3 note in LH and 2 in RH. Mainly because it's always good to have options, but also because the 3 notes in the LH can transfer easily to comping voicings for soloing or trio playing. Just sayin'... GREAT STUFF GUYS! Thanks for all the hard work and wonderful info.
This is just superb, I have been researching "easiest way to learn piano chords" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Nonason Ranincoln Genie - (just google it )? It is a good exclusive product for discovering how to play the piano like a pro minus the hard work. Ive heard some decent things about it and my colleague got amazing results with it.
You guys are great! Thanks so much for what you're sharing with us, both here, 2 Minute Jazz, and the You'll Hear it Podcast. Just wondering if the 5-Note Voicings lesson by Adam from February 20, 2017 is still around. When I visit the blog, I can't get the PDF to download and am really curious about the method he came up with. Thanks again!
Thanks so much, Adam! This is a fantastic pdf and I really like that it's not always in parallel motion; you've got a few where the top voice ascends and the lowest voice descends. Favorite voicing is Eb-G-C-F-A for Cm7 or the series of melodic minor sounds! Great stuff and much appreciated!
Learned again from you guys!! Could you do a movie about maj7+5 on each chord where also pentatonici are adapted? for instance on on green doplhin street autumn leaves all the things??
Some of those voicings you demonstrate around 6:00-7:00 would work well with the tune "But Not for Me." BTW, I liked the Open Jazz course a lot but unfortunately had to stop.
Ever check out Bill Dobbin's book on jazz harmony? He comes up with incredibly complex voicings based on combinations or permutations of four notes(major 6ths or 7ths, raised or flatted fifths within them and altered dominants) in conjunction with Drop 2 voicings? He felt he was getting bogged down by too much "predictable" playing so he invented this approach.
You can play six note quartals with the exception that there has to be a major third in there somewhere- it doesn't matter where. The two outer notes will be the same.
Mark Ologban -Keys are hard to follow. You can’t really see which keys are being hit without the lights above the overhead cam- that’s what you are calling midi keys I think. Or, for those that read music, it’s always good to mention the chords. They do a lot of the time of course. Some sites even post sheet music. So great to have access to so many great channels, and so much variety these days.
I can sing interval do re mi fa sol la ti do but i can't play a melody or transcribe it unless it is also an ascending do -ti or ti-do (descending) Ear training hacks plz
There both playing the same theoretical concepts here, And I Love Peters sound, hate Adams’ sound nothing he plays ever resonates with at all; actually repulses me! love the theory hate his voicings!!!! Get a solo podcast Peter, Please!
I find quartal voicings personally a bit boring. I find they're a bit too ambiguous, and "cool" for my liking. Especially when utilizing jazz vocab and harmony in r'nb and pop music contexts, you're not going to get very far with that Mccoy Tyner type of sound.
Awesome. Some 30 years ago my teacher gave me a book by Frank Mantooth called Voicings for Jazz Keyboard. Mantooth beautifully codified construction of five note quartal “generic” major and minor voicings, and used a clever device called polychord fractions as a shorthand for voicing suspended and altered dominants.
I still remember the first time I unraveled the Dmi11 “So What” chord and discovered its five harmonic functions. Mantooth called them “Miracle Voicings”:
D G C F A
Strong Major BbMA9 (3rd, 7th present)
Weak Major: F69
Minor: Dmi11
Sus. Dominant: G9sus
Lydian: Eb MA9#11
You guys nailed ‘em all! 😀
Yeess!!:) That's the greatest Quartal Voicing manifesto. The Polychord section p.28 made my day. M.v.I ♭VI/ I7(or V7?) M.v.II RIP Mr Mantooth
The best and widest ranging videos I’ve found on UA-cam. I could listen to you guys all day. I do find that with the overhead camera it is sometimes difficult to tell what keys are depressed when your fingers are laying dormant on a key, Because the perfectly overhead cam position obscures the telltale darker side of the keys that make it easy to what keys are activated. So It is always helpful when you say what the notes are, or lift the fingers a little so we can see that they are not being used. I am a guitarist so some of what happens is not as easily perceived visually. Especially liked the voice leading videos.
love this piano episodes, straightforward stuff to work on! 2+3 stars!
Thanks for watching! #happypracticing
Absolutely essential keyboard-harmony material for jazz musicians.
This may be just me, but I would like to strongly advocate for also practicing these as 3 note in LH and 2 in RH. Mainly because it's always good to have options, but also because the 3 notes in the LH can transfer easily to comping voicings for soloing or trio playing. Just sayin'... GREAT STUFF GUYS! Thanks for all the hard work and wonderful info.
Thanks for your suggestion! #happypracticing
Another fan of voicing 3 +2. Especially with rootles voicings. Fair warning; I'm not a real pianist but I play one when I'm comping for my students.
This is just superb, I have been researching "easiest way to learn piano chords" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Nonason Ranincoln Genie - (just google it )?
It is a good exclusive product for discovering how to play the piano like a pro minus the hard work. Ive heard some decent things about it and my colleague got amazing results with it.
Love Peter's surprise at the overhead cam. Great stuff.
Best jazz teacher ever appear in UA-cam !
Always great content! I am so glad I purchased some of your online courses- I’ve refined my playing quite a bit in a few months!!! Thank u
Love them 4th's...Thanks Guys...Keep 'em comin'
great stuff as usual! And Adam with the Super Mario moustache is a exceptional view! :D
You guys are great! Thanks so much for what you're sharing with us, both here, 2 Minute Jazz, and the You'll Hear it Podcast. Just wondering if the 5-Note Voicings lesson by Adam from February 20, 2017 is still around. When I visit the blog, I can't get the PDF to download and am really curious about the method he came up with. Thanks again!
Hey Michael. I fixed the broken link on that blog post. Here's the pdf, directly: www.openstudionetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/5-Note-pdf.pdf
Thanks so much, Adam! This is a fantastic pdf and I really like that it's not always in parallel motion; you've got a few where the top voice ascends and the lowest voice descends. Favorite voicing is Eb-G-C-F-A for Cm7 or the series of melodic minor sounds! Great stuff and much appreciated!
As a guitarist, theses are a lot of notes.
Learned again from you guys!! Could you do a movie about maj7+5 on each chord where also pentatonici are adapted? for instance on on green doplhin street autumn leaves all the things??
Some of those voicings you demonstrate around 6:00-7:00 would work well with the tune "But Not for Me." BTW, I liked the Open Jazz course a lot but unfortunately had to stop.
Ever check out Bill Dobbin's book on jazz harmony? He comes up with incredibly complex voicings based on combinations or permutations of four notes(major 6ths or 7ths, raised or flatted fifths within them and altered dominants) in conjunction with Drop 2 voicings? He felt he was getting bogged down by too much "predictable" playing so he invented this approach.
Thank you so much! This is great!
You can play six note quartals with the exception that there has to be a major third in there somewhere- it doesn't matter where.
The two outer notes will be the same.
Bring back the stash Adam!
It WAS a good stache!
Noticed those fourths augment when played diatonically for example C major.
MAN GOOD STUFF BUT CAN U PLZ GET SOME MIDI KEYS SO WE CAN FURTHER UNDERSTAND WHAT U ARE PLAYING THANK YOU YALL ARE AWESOME!!!!
Mark Ologban -Keys are hard to follow. You can’t really see which keys are being hit without the lights above the overhead cam- that’s what you are calling midi keys I think. Or, for those that read music, it’s always good to mention the chords. They do a lot of the time of course. Some sites even post sheet music. So great to have access to so many great channels, and so much variety these days.
I can sing interval do re mi fa sol la ti do but i can't play a melody or transcribe it unless it is also an ascending do -ti or ti-do (descending)
Ear training hacks plz
You should really start with Pentatonic melodies like I Got Rhythm/Liza and see how song writers add notes for color and interest.
If you play six notes of quartals and lower the bottom note a half step you have a 13th chord named after the top note
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Needs a pdf, or else show notes. Can’t follow hands as easily.
Let's hope Adam didn't pay for the haircut! Might add, same for Peter
Love Adam, but this is the worst haircut ever
There both playing the same theoretical concepts here, And I
Love Peters sound, hate Adams’ sound nothing he plays ever resonates with at all; actually repulses me!
love the theory hate his voicings!!!!
Get a solo podcast Peter, Please!
I find quartal voicings personally a bit boring. I find they're a bit too ambiguous, and "cool" for my liking. Especially when utilizing jazz vocab and harmony in r'nb and pop music contexts, you're not going to get very far with that Mccoy Tyner type of sound.