Jazz Piano for Beginners: Quartal Voicings (Lesson 10)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- Course Playlist: • Jazz Piano for Complet...
In this Jazz Piano online course I will bring you from the level of a complete jazz beginner up to the level of an intermediate/advanced pianist. We will talk about both theory and applications, and cover concepts ranging from chords and scales, to diatonic harmony, voicings, substitutions, soloing, tensions, and much more.
In the tenth lesson I will cover voicings in fourths, aka quartal harmony/voicings. This type of sound was popularized by jazz pianists from the 60s and 70s, most famously by Bill Evans and later on McCoy Tyner. However, you can hear this kind of playing all around - even in the playing of pianists like Joe Hisaishi, who composed a lot of the music for Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli films. We'll cover So-What chords, voicings in perfect fourths, sus chords, chromatic approaches, voicing in interlocked fifths, practicing in minor thirds, and more!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Introduction
0:22 Demo
0:46 Breaking it down
1:02 Sustained chords
2:26 So-What Chords
5:23 The Associated Scale
6:29 Voicing in pure fourths
8:14 Chromatic motion
8:43 Interlocked fifths
9:55 Practice ideas
10:26 Using minor thirds
11:58 Practicing 251s
These lessons are great! Humbling too, since it lays out all the stuff you need to know to be really fluent.
Well this was mind-bending. That progression, in all keys, is getting woven into my practice routine. This video is an example of things I used to see on this channel that left me inspired but also a bit frustrated. I was in the foothills looking up. at, maybe not the summit, but something far over my head. Now I know exactly what I need to do.
Awesome. I'd argue that likely both of us have changed: I've learned to make better videos, and you've learned to be a better player.
Oh I'm definitely going to use this, especially for a trip I'm going to at the end of this month. Thank you so much!
Awesome. Not sure how it's related to taking a trip, but I hope it helps you out!
This is so interesting. Much of it is over my head but it gives me something to reach for. Thank you!
Another great lesson from this awesome series!. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
Gorgeous chords. Thanks!
A familiar and friendly face, always good to see you dropping by to say hello. Thanks!
Very inspirational.
Gracias Assaf!
My pleasure!
Hisashi vibes :)
Interesting. Its symmetrical just like how the dim7 chird uses perfect thirds.
this beginner serie ended ?
Second
The early bird gets the worm, but second mouse gets the cheese.
It's 4 a.m in india
Hey, it's 1 am in Israel. :)
First
At the end when you describe practicing using 2, 5, 1 and playing the so what chord as the 5, it will be interesting to see/hear the scales applicable; such as the Mixolydian, HW-diminished, Aeolian Dominant. Very cool. All this is going to keep me busy for weeks and weeks/months.
That's very difficult to answer without knowing something about the melody. The So-What chord, used as a m11 chord, fixes the following degrees (relative to the major scale): 1, 4 (or 11), b7, b3, 5 (or, in order: 1, b3, 4, 5, b7). Without knowing anything in addition, you could in theory use any scale that doesn't clash with these degrees, so you wouldn't use the harmonic minor, but, e.g., Dorian and Aeolian would both work. To make a concrete decision you would need to know more about the melody, the preceding/subsequent chords, and the "mood" of the piece.
@@MangoldProjectThank you. If you are ever motivated to put this entire lesson series into PDF/digital form, complete with relevant scores, videos etc., I have no doubt that there would be many of us that would be more than happy to contribute monetarily to its production. In my case, I have downloaded all the lessons to my hard drive and have numerous screenshots saved as references. My personal goal is to be able to simply play as if a lounge musician wandering through medleys and the circle of fifths improvising as I play and just getting lost in the music wherever it takes me. I am confident that with your help I’m going to accomplish my goals.