So What with Annotations
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- Опубликовано: 12 ноя 2024
- Visit my website at www.lot2learn.com for midi files, backing tracks and solo transcriptions.
"So What" is a modal song using D dorian and Eb dorian modes. D dorian was one of the first modes I learned because it was easy to improvise in - just play all white keys. However, as my playing and listening skills advanced, the need for tension and resolve (such as in a II-V-I progression) were not met by sticking with this approach, so my task became finding ways to avoid boredom and repetition during a modal solo. To this end, I followed the lead of so many great players who have thoroughly explored this idiom.
Here are some of the techniques I learned from listening to the greats:
1. Changing rhythms, speed and dynamics throughout the solo.
2. Leave plenty of "breathing room" - 8 measures with nothing but chords.
3. Make your own II-V-I progressions - notice I use E7-A7-D-7
4. Simple repetitive phrases can be taken outside the tonal center and brought back in.
These are just a few of the techniques I use during modal soloing to try and make it interesting for the listener and challenging to the player.
In keeping with the spirit of Doug McKenzie (Jazz2511), who has done more for the advancement of jazz education than anyone on YT, I have added annotations to parts of the solo.
Also, a tip-a-the hat to Volvoxburger and his video of the tune "Invitation" showing me it's all about the blue shirt. ;-)
i watched this almost 10 years ago for the first time, and still love it. great play!
Haha thanks, I appreciate your comment!
Oh god same! So much material to come back to :)
wow, I found this looking for fp4 examples , but spent hours just listening and watching your brilliant playing - well done .
Vos videos sont une mine d'or pour les étudiants en jazz !! (et les eternels etudiants!) Merci encore !! J'apprends beaucoup avec vous !!
Excellent annotations, explaining the chord substitutions, and oh yeah - superb solo!
You are indeed a piano genius.
I've learned alot with your videos.
Thanks.
amazing playing! as a young musician this helps so much in a lesson to aproaching modal jazz even though piano isnt my main instrument. thank you very much!
2:19 The LH voicing is A C# F Ab instead of Ab B E G ...
I think he was too tired while making the video .
This teacher is insane ... Since 10 years . And I'm always realize is greatest.
Thanks a lot ... you've change my life
Ha,ha - good catch!
holy god, this swings so hard. im a guitar player but i still got a whole lot of ideas out of this. thanks for taking the time to make this video
I love those Richard Beirach Lydian Augmented moments a couple of minutes in! I can always count on you to lay it down.
This is great,terrific intro played in two octave with the half step , I particularly love the changes to Gb Maj7.The sound is nice and also the video good worked. Well Done
Brilliant and thanks. As a single note instrument player, I now know what I have *not* been doing for the last 15 years
Brilliant playing, some of those runs remind me of McCoy on A Love Supreme, especially your stacked 4th parallel melodies. Beautiful and energetic.
man every time I hear it i like it more than the previous time..
I just discovered your channel. What a wonderful experience. Thank you so much. I hope you make enough money (doing what you love) to have a big house on every continent.
Lots of McCoy-type ideas. Thanks for the instructional tips in the text. Similar to Doug McKenzie here too, who is unbelievable.. Cool...
Thanks for sharing your great ideas!
watching it in 2019 :) im obsessed with the idea of learning about modal jazz functions and this helps ! nice improv
Thanks Nick, I try to do one like this every so often.
OK... U have JUST encouraged me to learn this!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
Thanks man cause you got me appreciating some MD's amazing tunes and cause I can jam and study your amazing lines (though I play bass). Great you are a Musician (capital M). Keep the good job up!
Killer!! Great switch ups. You keep these two repeating chords interesting by using rhythmic switch ups and going inside and outside the modal structure. *****
I appreciate your comment, thanks!
Very good. It helps a lot 👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you!
Soloing in white keys is hard! Im still learning anyways....I gotta practice more!!
again great job,awesome playing
LOVE this !!!!!
Thank you very much for your comment, it is appreciated and I am glad you can benefit from posts like this.
genius! that was totally amazing!
keep on the great work dude
greetz ;)
Thanks, yeah that Eb- is one of my faves too.
I'll check out Windows when I get a chance.
Fabulous Thanks for sharing
Thanks, I appreciate your comment. McCoy is one of my favorites.
Thanks for the comment. FP-4 is going directly into M-Audio soundcard in computer.
Nice.. inspires my saxophone play...
Love it! Love this album, so chilled out. Thanks for the chord tips. I can't as yet play jazz, although I can play by ear (and apparently from music!). Any tips on getting started much appreciated!
the song shifts between the D dorian mode (the white keys from d to d) for the first 16 bars to the Eb dorian mode (basically the black keys) for the middle 8, and then back to d dorian again for the last 8.
ditto man great job
i think this will help me get to the next level..
Mesmerizing. I'll post a version of So What just for you. Give me a couple of weeks.
Man, this is too good! Makes me wanna quit trying to learn piano.
this is great
@gospelkeys07 Yes you are right. When soloing over this VERY basic chord progression, we are forced to play very fast. We end up not knowing what we are saying. The problem is the repetition of the D minor7 chord.
Miles does a very simple solo but we knows what he's doing. Such a good musician would control himself, be cool, patient and construct a very simple solo over a very simple progression in order to make a jazz standard.
Thanks for your comment.
Thanks Britt.
The scales mentioned, like dorian, are formally called church modes.
Out Tynering Tyner !
Thanks for your comment!
@tcy160 Ha,ha. Thanks for the comment. ;-)
This is great!
Thanks for the comment.
I appreciate the comment.
oh cool this one....
Ha, ha thanks, I'll have to check it out. ;-)
outstanding, I'll never play it again !
I now can't imagen that I will ever come to this level of playing.. put I still think it is possible if I just keep at it
Just keep at it!!
When a composer, in this case Davis, allows modes to governs solos instead of chords, the song is modal. If you've ever seen lead sheets for modal jazz they're always sparse with chords. So What has very few: the focus is the melodic universe in which the solos occur, not the harmonic.
@Modes9 Thanks Eric!
thanks heaps man
@paxandrews I appreciate your comment.
@simonmedlicott Thanks for your comment.
Your left hand is so strong and the right hand is running up and down the register like an olympic sprinter. 🙃
Thanks so much for the very nice comment Petar, it is greatly appreciated!!
super mais dur à déchiffrer d'oreille.pourriez vous m'adresser la partition de l'impro?
merci
@nametakenuse Hilarious comment, thanks!
First of all I'd like to say awesome video and much thanks for everything you do for the youtube community.
With that said, I feel like you are misleading us with your annotations, haha. It sounds and looks like you do a descending line starting with E flat, D flat, C, B flat at 2:33 but you say E flat, C, A flat, and F. Also the chord at 2:20 you say is Aflat, B, E, G looks and sounds like an A, C sharp, E sharp, G sharp.
Sneaky...very sneaky.
@CYisThelonius Oh I'm sure you've got something to say - keep pluggin' away!
Good impro
Thank you!
how mccoy tyner-esque of you!
God...I am sooo jealous....
So What!
@needlove12 Thanks.
Wow! Very smooth...you have just motivated me to practice more. Could you tell me how you were able to get such a clear sound on RUclips? Did you use a regular recorder or did you hook the fp-7 up to a computer? Thanks for any help.
ok so your amazing, how bout a tutorial?
@Lot2learn if you listen closely to the record, Chambers actually plays D, not D flat, when he moves up half a tone
i stole your Eb minor lick from 1:05 to 1:16, hope you don't mind :)
i really like your quartal voicings, mccoy would be very proud
any chance you could post a solo of Windows (its on Aebersold Volume 95), i've been working on it and am getting owned, i'd like to hear your interpretation
thanks
2020?
owned ?
+1
omggggggggggggg
I know but what makes something "modal" ?
Could you say what is the Key please ?
Do you have the partiture?
transcribe it yourself
lmao responding to a one year old comment
i did that already in comments from 10 years ago
Why is it called "modal"?
why so fast?
Bill Evans did it faster. :)
I appreciate the comment.