Herbie Hancock's "Greatest Lick"- (from): Dolphin Dance, w/ analysis and tutorial.
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2017
- (ADVANCED CONCEPTS): Herbie Hancock's greatest lick. Dolphin Dance solo, from the album Maiden Voyage. Breakdown and analysis of an extraordinary solo lick played by Herbie Hancock on his solo on Dolphin Dance... from the historical album: Maiden Voyage. Free download of score is available now on website. www.kenthewitt.com
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Really interesting lick from Herbie Hancock's Dolphin Dance solo. Your analysis is very impressive and helpful in understanding the theory. This would be a huge challenge for me to perform but I believe students should try to punch above their weight and try to climb that mountain. Another interesting point so germane to Herbie Hancock's musical gifts. Herbie Hancock belongs to the same lay Buddhist organization as I do: Soka Gakkai. SGI International.
LA Weekly (USA)/August 21, 2017/Herbie Hancock Is a Jazz Legend - and He Once Beat Miles Davis in a Street Race/Scott Timberg
Timberg interviewed Grammy winning Jazz Pianist Herbie Hancock. As he answered the questions, he shared his view on SGI Buddhism as follows: “Buddhism helps me see things more clearly. It kind of wipes away the cobwebs. Helps you understand the external world in relation to you as a human being, and you understand how the world, as you see it, is a reflection of your own life conditions. And as you change, it appears that the world changes - but what actually changes is how you perceive it. This affects how you act, how you see other people, how you treat people. Nichiren Buddhism is about respect for every single human being. We believe that everybody has the potential for enlightenment, or that Buddha condition, that they’re born with it. But it’s covered up by a lot of crap. And the practice of Buddhism is to remove all the crap.”
www.laweekly.com/music/herbie-hancock-headlines-the-hollywood-bowl-and-recalls-street-racing-with-miles-davis-8552265.
Thought you might like to know this about Herbie.
I really enjoy your tutorials. Many thanks.
Thanks, Neal, for the great comment. I knew that he was a lay Buddhist...so I'm glad to know that the organization is the same as yours. Keep in touch!
i agree with you, herbie is the top and that's great playing, one of my favourite too.
and at 5.13 of the recording there's my favourite rhythmic pattern with accented triplets shifted one forward in groups of four. really amazing, has always been my favourite.
thanks, your teaching is really fantastic!
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Thanks so much for the comment....and for sharing your observation. I'm glad we feel the same about HH's amazing playing on this album.
Hi Kent. I realize that we're all 5 years older than we were when you did this video, but I am notoriously late to the party, always. It comes with old age and retirement, I guess, but I wanted to agree with you. I too believe that Maiden Voyage is a great album, up there with Kind of Blue. There's not a month that goes by when I don't pop it into the disk player. I met Herbie, by the way, and he is the sweetest man -- usually had that big smile on his face for everyone. I bought the LP of Maiden Voyage in the late 60s even though my tastes were in the Rock and Roll music of the time, but I grew up with jazz at home. My Dad was a professional musician and we usually had jazz on the stereo, unless he felt wild and would blast the 1812 Overture and yell "listen to those cannons!"
FM radio was terrific in the late 50s and the early 1960s, when programming was experimental, and you heard everything from Folk Music to Classical and Jazz, and my ears were learning to listen in those years.
When I first moved to California in 1975 and got my own place, I started buying a record or two every week on Hollywood Blvd from the $2 bins, supplementing my collection of Beatles, Cream, Allman Brothers, etc. with Nonsuch records of the giants like the Bach 2 and 3 part Inventions, Brahms piano works, Mozart Symphonies, Beethoven String Quartets and Piano Concerti, and a host of other Classical stuff I had heard on the great FM radio stations of the 1960s and liked, but never had a chance to explore.
That's also when I first bought Kind of Blue and Maiden Voyage, though they weren't then in the $2 bins. Maiden Voyage, the tune was on the radio often in the 1960s -- I owned a Blood Sweat and Tears album that included it, or covered it as they say today, and those guys could play.
Later when I started to learn jazz formally, I worked through the great Mark Levine Jazz Piano Book, which has an example of the arpeggios that build up to that falling lick. I now have a CD, of course, a Best of Herbie compilation from Verve that includes both Maiden Voyage and Dolphin Dance, as well as other Herbie favorites like Cantaloupe Island and Watermelon Man -- both demonstrating the Gospel/Blues side of his playing.
Thanks for showing us those stacked chords, Kent. I once tried working it out from the recording, but I don't have the ability to transcribe anymore. I'll got to your website and get the music, and thank you very much.
Probably snowy at the ranch today? We've had a system move through here a few days ago and today is the first warm day we've had in weeks. What ever the weather, don't forget to care for the horses!
Hey kwgm!! Thanks for the great compliment, and telling me your story. You are now an official member of the elite club at the Jazz Ranch. You're invited anytime. We just got back for the Jazz Cruise, but it's great to be back at the ranch. We are compadres....and the altered dominant man wants to meet you too. Swing loose always!
Thank you very much, Mr. Hewitt, for opening up our ears to the beauty of this piece, and for explaining this lick so wonderfully.
Great comment, Mark. I really loved doing this video...but it was very difficult to play the lick perfectly....but rewarding to understand it.
Love how succinctly you explained this! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
So cool. Thank you for breaking this down, and showing how it's played, and the concept behind the motif.
Thanks for the great comment!
Hey Kent... It was good to hear you praise Maiden Voyage and Kind of Blue... And it got me thinking... How about an episode where you just talk about your 10 favorite albums? Your Desert Island discs. (Or just list 'em right here! 😉👍 )
To start: Bill Evans Portrait in Jazz, Ahmad Jamal- Live At The Pershing, Oscar Peterson: Live in Chicago, Dave Brubeck- Time Out, Chick Corea- Light As A Feather, Miles- Kind of Blue, .Keith Jarrett- Live at Deer Head Inn.
It’s my favorite album too !
Yes ...it's one of the greatest!
@@KentHewittpiano88 I play alto but I love George Coleman and Freddie Hubbard’s work
Thanks so much for sharing this Kent! As you say, it's fascinating and beautiful
I just love to listen to Kent at the end of a hard day. Thanks so much. Jennifer.
Sorry they are hard...we need to work on that! Thanks!
Thanks again Kent. You should hear this on bass.
I just love this. You're a great teacher (and pianist).
Many thanks for the affirmation.
Great stuff, as always! "Maiden Voyage" and "Speak Like A Child" are my favorite Herbie Hancock albums.
I agree totally....thanks for the support!
IF ! You are as patient and cool in real live setting then you"er ok in my book. I enjoy your approach very thanks
I apprecaite the compliment!
Thank you Kent, great video! We can learn a lot from a master like Herbie.
Frank, you are exactly right...and bless those that we can learn from.
I heard it. Thanks for sharing. I appreciate that the lick you heard struck you as being so great that you wanted to share it. I get it. The whole tune is fabulous. I'm watching the chords using Chordify. There is a point before this where, by my listening intently, I can hear the drummer speeding up a little on the cymbal, pushing it. Said to be "playing ahead?" What happens in great jazz can be so inspirational. You sharing this lick helps me understand that I'm not the only one who hears these things. By the way, the bass during the lick you mention, well, it's just out of this world good stuff. Today I was able to get through the lick on bass -- well, somewhat, say, in my own crude way. Thanks for sharing this, sir.
Can't tell you how 'right on" your comment is to me, and how much I appreciate it!
Thank you dear Kent. I hope you're doin' well. God bless you. Very useful lesson....
Thanks for the support and God bless!
Love this video as always Kent!
This was a real challenge,....thanks!
That link is beautifull master Kent, and excellent explanation
Great comment...thanks!
Thank you Kent. Really helpful, as always.
Thanks so much!
Beautifully explained. Thanks!
Thanks so much for this. Extremely helpful
I appreciate your compliments!
Thankyou for your very informative, enthusiastic and clear analysis.
Recently watched Jaco Pastorious 1985 Belgium TV show concert on' you tube' wth 'Dolphin Dance ' first tune up.
Then been working out original and analysing Herbie's chord voicing.
Your excellent study is the icing on the cake. Many thanks. i
Thanks! Please check out my recording of the complete song. :
ruclips.net/video/4dIhY3p_ZCQ/видео.html
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Thankyou for kindly sending link of your excellent recording of 'Dolphin Dance'.
You are certainly the' coolest of cats'.
With modern recording quality, it's that much more mind-bending. It just sort of sounds good when it flows by in context, but when you sit down and hear every note. Wow.
I'm low tech, so my visual and audio quality is limited. I've tried to upgrade...it just made everything more complicated.
@@KentHewittpiano88 Still, I can hear a lot more clearly than I can on a 50-year-old record! I heard so much I never heard before. Slowing it down too...
Great video as always!
Thanks, Kay, always great to hear from you!
Thanks very much for this video!
kent, you are my mentor. thanks a lot!!! :)
I'll be here until the end...you can count on that!
Just beautiful- Herbie is so intelligent- this is his only album I own- but there's a trio album from 19812 I really like too. There's a reason Billy Taylor's radio show on WRVR was called Maiden Voyage! Also, Dolphin Dance was supposedly inspired by Frank Foster's Shiny Stockings.
I hope you will listen to my version of Dolphin Dance on my trio CD. Herbie has a big influence on me to this day.
ruclips.net/video/4h-0rNdb0Mk/видео.html leave a comment...it will be first.
3:10 I wouldn't call this a 'lick", but rather a "figure", since he was playing basically moving chords, stated in sixteenth notes. It was so flowingly beautiful, and it mirrored the harmonic transitions of the tune perfectly. This entire album was very organic. The playing from all the musicians was not forced, not showy. They were not trying to impress each other at all, but rather complimented each other in their unified sound and their solos. Most solos on this album were less about improvisation and more about re-composition, meaning they created new melodies and phrases within the music, not just impressive scales which showed off their chops. Beautiful album, as fresh and artistic today as it was when it was born.
That's fine, Jennifer, call it a figure if you prefer, I don't disagree. The term lick is more commonly used and understood by students of jazz. I'll compliment you on your statement, and I agree...this album was Herbie's masterpiece and the combination of musicians was perfect, as was the personnel on Kind Of Blue. (I had the fortune of playing a gig w/ George Coleman back in the days when name artists were featured with house- trios in Hartford. More stories on that one later!)
Thanks Kent, you,re the best
Many thanks for watching and commenting.
Thank you Kent I really appreciate iit!
Thank you!
Thanks again, Kent!
Thank you!
My head hurts.. It's on my list. Just got finished with Irealpro backing track..and I'm on electric guitar. Also I've been working on the jazz versions of Georgia on my mind and there are several ways to play it. The best..I very been busy.
Thanks for the great analysis....by the way I've got the same hat and wore it at last night's gig!
Very cool! Thanks!
Must be quite a relief getting a break from Altered Dominant Man. AC - my home town - hope the home
crowd can hold out.
I enjoy it when he's away, and then I don't mind it when he's around. I hope there's some comic relief there.
@@KentHewittpiano88 He's hilarious.
Inspiring!! Thanks!
It is a great inspiration....thank you!
Great video!
Thumbs up!
Kent, I went to your website to look for the PDF of the licks you describe but I couldn't find it. There's a Dolphin Dance transcription but not the Herbie lick. Could you please send me a link? Thanks. I love you Jazz Ranch and have learned several new things by watching you. Wayne
Please write to my email...and I'll send you the link. Or you can try here:
old.kenthewitt.com/
Thank you very much I guess that thanks to the pedal Eb on the Bb7b9 13 makes it sound pretty deep and bizar at the same time Real original and Classical!!!
Yes, Herbie has a most unique concept of harmony. Check out his Inventions and Dimensions trio recording.
Nice video Kent,i always liked his HeadHunters Album.
Like most of the greats...I like his earlier period. Same for Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Ahmad Jamal.
I liked his early records...same for Bill Evans, Chick Corea, MyCoy Tyner, and Ahmad Jamal. In a way, too bad.
Kent, I deserve a wacking! Herbie was in my town (Ghent/Belgium) this summer and I forgot to buy a ticket in time, so I missed him! Shame on me!
Sorry you missed Herbie, Frank. He's my all time greatest...but like Bill Evans, I liked his earlier work, rather than later.
Well, as it happens this was the exact tone of the comments in the press afterwards. Herbie Hancock plays too funky these days, in Ghent it seems to have been a very long "jam session" instead of a well-balanced show. For the fans there were Water Melons and Cantaloupe fragments....but you know Kent, that is often the case: musicians go their ways and often it is not the way their early admirers would have liked it te be....I have it with Ella Fitzgerald (don't like that scatting thing) and the Beatles (where they go psychedelic)
Yes, exactly right, Frank. I always loved the early periods of artists like Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Ahmad Jamal, John Coltrane...however we can't critique them for finding their musical path...as geniuses they innovated in ways that was meaningful to their path... not compromising to the publics demands. They didn't "sell out"....however they had to pay economically.....that was their choice. Miles was the exception...because he changed with the times, and ultimately was rich. Depends how much wealth is important to you. To me money is only good if it gives you security from worries.
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Thanks for sharing your inspiring lick but, and you said something to the effect in the video that you’re not sure if he worked this out before hand? I mean you’re saying he’s stacking chords? Maybe you could annunciate those for us? I’m not a pianist but surely Herbie Hancock did not randomly select those notes because they are arpeggio notes. To play an arpeggio you have to practice the arpeggio and study it and stack it to a different chord you must’ve practiced that or tried that idea before so that it wouldn’t sound completely wrong.
Oh I believe he improvised the lick but it all came from a very studied concept of stacking chords. Herbie never played anything that was not thought out in some way, but then he used it in improvisation in a very free way, meaning he was a genius creating something in the moment that was inspired. That is true art.
Kent Hewitt OK so what were the chords he was stacking on top? I mean you have basically outlined them in your right hand I could see that? The reason I’m interested is because I play guitar and I play with piano sometimes and they sometimes sound a little bit like Herbie Hancock they will hit a major chord or the tune will have a major chord and they’ll play it and it won’t sound like a major chord and it’s not a major minor chord either. One of the pianist I played with I think he mentioned something like we were playing in G minor . The chord was G minor he told me that he played like a B-flat with an altered fifth note or something close to that.
Hey kent! I wanna buy your book, how do i get them? :)
Here's the link: www.kenthewitt.com/my-bookThanks!
fantastic! any tips to reading music?
Like any skill...the more you practice it (smartly), the better you will be at it. You really have to enjoy practicing.
I know this is a while ago, but I have some suggestions about reading music.
@@KentHewittpiano88 The more times we do things the more we notice little details. Case in point. I was working on your lead sheet for Donna Lee and I had got about half of the head of FL, and realized I had a note wrong...I went back to first postings and watched me describe a Dminor7 D F A C and not a D diminished 7. Went back corrected the videos. It sounded better with D F Ab C by far.
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1965 was the absolute height of Modern Jazz. It was cool, beautiful, organic, sophisticated, listenable, extremely evolved music which invited the listener in even when the listener didn't recognize the music, it sounded and felt so good. Unlike Bebop which attacked the listener, the cool, artistic sophistication of Herbie, Miles and other players was gorgeous. Full of moods, visualizations, emotions and mystery. After this brief period, Jazz descended into technology, and it strayed from
being influenced by true art, as it turned its head toward fads, and other forms of lesser music the same way painting changed from the magic of Cubism into depicting soup cans on canvas. Today, much of Jazz has returned to some of this artistic sophistication, and many young painters have also returned to painting the portraits and landscapes of history's great masters.
I agree again, Jennifer. The 50's and 60's I would call the "Golden Age" of jazz. The great trios like Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, were coming to the peak of their success and popularity. You might argue that Herbie and Miles became more popular in the 70's with the advent of electronic instruments and effects, and the fusion of funk, rock, and Latin influences on jazz. I was more of a modernist in the 60's-70's and led a fusion jazz group in the 80's in Hartford...now I like to listen to the earlier straight ahead music and West Coast easy swing style combined with their clever arranging.
Kent, you are awesome! Thanks for your lessons. Herbie Hancock is my favorite piano/keyboard player for the last 38 years. Can I request a lesson on Horace Silver Lonely Woman ? Thanks.
Thanks for the request...Horace is also one of my all time favorites!
Here is THE tutorial for piano: ruclips.net/video/Olc78R64VJ0/видео.html
Thanks for sharing the link!
What is the intro tune ?
I'll Remember April
I love that when people respond to other's comments!
The video was removed?
Tell me if it's not there!?
It was removed, sir!
Could you kindly reload it?
Best wishes!!!
It's not removed on my end. However it might have been removed because of copyright laws. Although that makes no sense because I'm actually promoting the record.
"This video is not available".
Anyway, thanks a lot. You are such a great teacher and I love your sound. Your book is also great!