When you mentioned how jazz players could meet for the first time and play together, I saw this first hand when I was working as a photographer. I was at a fancy frat party in Berkeley setting up my gear, and saw the hired jazz performing introducing themselves to each other. I thought that was strange. I didn’t know anything about jazz, just pop and classical music. But they discussed which standards they’d play , did a short warm up, and just started playing. It was amazing. Now I know why and how they were able to do that.
Dean's recommendations for jazz music to listen to: Albums 1. Miles Davis, Kind of Blue 2. The Dave Brubeck Quatret, Take Five 3. Chick Corea, Light as a Feather 4. The Georg Benson Cookbook 5. Oz Noy, Ha! 6. Snarky Puppy, We Like It Here Jazz legends to check out 1. Charlie Parker 2. Dizzy Gillespie 3. John Coltrane
What Is Jazz? 1. Extension: Heavy use of extended chords, such as CM7 and Am6. 2. Dissonance: Heavy use of dissonant notes in chords, melodies, and/or the intersection of chords and melodies. 3. Syncopation: Playing lots of notes on the offbeat. 4. Improvisation: Playing novel melodies over the base chords of a song.
Sooo many people say they hate jazz without understanding this beautiful complexity. I took a 101 music theory class in college and the prof was a jazz player so a great deal of our class was devoted to understanding what you just described. He always asked us to describe what improv each player was doing, using only adjectives 😂 It was so difficult but I learned to love it and was hooked. Recently discovered Too Many Zooz “Havana Banana” at a speakeasy in Raleigh, NC. Combo of house music and jazz (mostly brass instruments). It is 🔥
I was being silly and literally searched “please explain jazz” for my friend ... found your video and it actually explained jazz so well!!!! Glad you mentioned Light as a Feather... one of my favorites! Hope you make more videos!
The improvisation aspect actually reminds me a lot of renaissance music. As a recorder player, I'm expected to be able to improvise renaissance divisions around the tune that is actually written down. This is especially useful in dance music, where you're stuck playing the same thing over and over, and you have to make it more interesting so you don't get bored.
All I really knew about jazz before was that improvisation was involved but that was about it. I’ve tried to listen to it but have never really been able to get into it mainly because I didn’t understand what happening. This 7 minute video broke down jazz in way that I’m eager to give it a deeper listen. Thanks
This is very helpful.. I've always felt I never understood how to casually listen to jazz. I'm a guitar player and would love to dive in and learn some things
Amazing video. I learned a lot. Just one more point to add: you mentioned complex harmony but did not mention complicated rhythms (polymeter and rhythms are so much more common in jazz than other genres, perhaps)
A fantastic introduction. I could complain a little that you exclude swing (incl Duke Ellington) and trad jazz (incl Louis Armstrong), but on the whole, you've created a clip with just the right length, presentational tone and some excellent tips for a jazz starter. Gonna file this away.
"we like it here" As a non jazz guitarist.. When I had first heard the keys solo ...I literally felt an alien experience enter my soul.. What a band Snarky Puppy
Excellent video.I googled “ beginner in jazz” and your video came up. I’m glad it did. It was simple enough for the novice to understand and I appreciated the album recommendations and books to start with.
2:04 I sometimes have problem with people explaining jazz… why do you play Dm6-C#7-F#7-Fmaj9 instead of Dbadd6-Gm7add13-C#augadd12-Ddim9? Why? Here, as a classical musician, let me explain for real why Dm6-C#7-F#7-Famj9 works, like no jazz musician can ever make out. Dm6 is not Dm6, but Bdimmaj7 (or Bm7-5). The next chord has nothing to do with C#7, but Fdim+b6. F#7 is F#7. Fmaj9 is Fmaj9. Now instead of what’s written in the video, we have: Bdimmaj7(Bm7-5) -Fdim+b6 - F#7 - Fmaj9. It’s basically a progression from Bdim to F, and then alternates among different form of the F. It is a progression from Dominant Function to Subdominant Function. Bdimmaj7 is just a regular old diminishes VIdim chord with a maj7 A after. Fdim+b6 is not C#7 as the video wants you to believe. Because C#7 makes no sense at all, and yet the harmony itself is sensible, because it makes sense as an Fdim+b6. Why b6? Because of a thing called German Augmented 6th. The relative German augmented 6th chord for F chord is C# chord. And therefore you can play F h chord together with C# chord, and therefore you can play Fdim with a C# chord too. Or just Fdim with a C note. After you played an Fdim, you can play a variation of the IV function -F#(7), and then go back to F(maj9). I really dislike how jazz players explain how they play jazz, as if they know some hidden knowledge about music that you can never have access to. And here we go, what he played is a “Bm7-5 - Fdim+b6 - F#7 - Fmaj9”, instead of “Dm6-C#7-F#7-Famj9”, which would not make any sense.
Thank you, Dean, you’ve just explained why jazz fries my brain and makes me run away screaming. It is just too complex for my dyslexic and autistic brain to process!
I'm autistic and fascinated by jazz. Have you tried focusing on one aspect of jazz? I LOVE the sound of major 7 chords so I started with those, then learned extensions, etc. Once the brain has an solid understanding of a basic concept it becomes less anxious and learning is easier. I wish you the best!
Thanks you so much for these extremely helpful information about jazz! Love the part you explain the difference of composing chords and keys between jazz and other musics!
Great instruction! Thank you I'm trying to learn and this helped me. Please make more. Will someone please point me to a starting point? I have a few years of classical/modern lessons on paino from when I was a kid but it's been years now. What should I start learning on paino?
Hey, some nice clear explanations here. However, intentionally or not, there’s no mention of singing or jazz vocals which are such a rich part of jazz and a unique way of interpreting tunes. Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and others are all worth mentioning in the same breath as Miles, Coltrane and Brubeck.
I am starting and learning to understand and enjoy jazz because of Harry Mack, Harry Mack is a rapper that is a jazz drummer aswell, and is amazing to what jazz can do to a person who plays another genre and has deep knowledge about jazz
@@Lftarded I know, that the samples , but harry mack style heavily influenced by jazz, flows, cadence's, Emceeing.... Other rappers may use many samples from jazz yes, but they did not studied
THIS IS INTERESTING! I've always hated how most of the songs are just major/minor/dim chords. So much stays unused! Okay, what would be a good jazz record for starting for a bass player?
What's the difference between jazz and swing. Is Amy Winehouse's live acoustic music jazz e.g Half Time by Amy Winehouse. Is Etta James always jazz. Billy holiday?? Can just one instrument be jazz e.g just a vocal acapella? Or just an electric guitar??
I really want to like jazz, but most of it sounds like random sounds to me. My brain struggles with the lack of structure I think. Any advice on getting past this, or does this just mean jazz isn’t for me? (I’m being sincere in wishing I could enjoy it.)
Whoa! Learning by ear? I learned by putting the needle in the groove for the first note. then find it. Then go for the second note. Please help me understand learning by ear!
I always knew I like jazz off rip. I never knew why just I get a stank face going because I can hear so changes in the solo. For me if it gets a stank face it means it good.
"one note samba" or "samba de uma nota só" is actually a bossa nova tune despite it's name It's written by tom jobim himself the guy who made the genre
Intro to Jazz? - List of some songs someone asked for a list of top songs for someone new to jazz... Put this together...not, you know, perfectly researched or anything, just give new folks, maybe a gist of jazz, different artists, styles...(I am sure I left out plenty of great songs...like I said, just a gist, overview) 1) Girl from Ipanema (Stan Getz, Astrid Gilberto) 2) Take Five (Dave Brubeck) 3) Summertime (Ella Fitzgerald) 4) I Put a Spell on You (Nina Simone) 5) Strange Fruit (Billie Holiday) 6) Sidewinder (Lee Morgan) 7) My Favorite Things (John Coltrane) 8 - Gil Scott Heron - We Almost Lost Detroit.. 9) Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good... 10) George Benson - Breezin...
Honestly, I think the first thing an average non-musical person thinks of when you say "Jazz" is Free Jazz and bizarre improvisations only professional-level musicians can appreciate in any way. Big Band Jazz and such will probably only be understood as "Swing" with no awareness that Swing is a Jazz genre. At least that's my experience from Germany.
Po krótko Jazz to muzyka "Bitch" kojarzy mi się z prohibicjã. Nuta nieco subtelniejsza. Nieco później Akuratnie , że do mnie Jazz dociera to inna sprawa. Nuta Jazz "
When you mentioned how jazz players could meet for the first time and play together, I saw this first hand when I was working as a photographer. I was at a fancy frat party in Berkeley setting up my gear, and saw the hired jazz performing introducing themselves to each other. I thought that was strange. I didn’t know anything about jazz, just pop and classical music. But they discussed which standards they’d play , did a short warm up, and just started playing. It was amazing. Now I know why and how they were able to do that.
Dean's recommendations for jazz music to listen to:
Albums
1. Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
2. The Dave Brubeck Quatret, Take Five
3. Chick Corea, Light as a Feather
4. The Georg Benson Cookbook
5. Oz Noy, Ha!
6. Snarky Puppy, We Like It Here
Jazz legends to check out
1. Charlie Parker
2. Dizzy Gillespie
3. John Coltrane
What Is Jazz?
1. Extension: Heavy use of extended chords, such as CM7 and Am6.
2. Dissonance: Heavy use of dissonant notes in chords, melodies, and/or the intersection of chords and melodies.
3. Syncopation: Playing lots of notes on the offbeat.
4. Improvisation: Playing novel melodies over the base chords of a song.
Will you be continuing these videos? This was excellent, pretty bummed to see that there are no more.
I couldn't agree more! He explained jazz in such a friendly way. I was looking for the other videos until I found out there were no more :(
never thought that a jazz explained video could be philosophical
Sooo many people say they hate jazz without understanding this beautiful complexity.
I took a 101 music theory class in college and the prof was a jazz player so a great deal of our class was devoted to understanding what you just described. He always asked us to describe what improv each player was doing, using only adjectives 😂
It was so difficult but I learned to love it and was hooked.
Recently discovered Too Many Zooz “Havana Banana” at a speakeasy in Raleigh, NC. Combo of house music and jazz (mostly brass instruments).
It is 🔥
I was being silly and literally searched “please explain jazz” for my friend ... found your video and it actually explained jazz so well!!!!
Glad you mentioned Light as a Feather... one of my favorites!
Hope you make more videos!
The improvisation aspect actually reminds me a lot of renaissance music. As a recorder player, I'm expected to be able to improvise renaissance divisions around the tune that is actually written down. This is especially useful in dance music, where you're stuck playing the same thing over and over, and you have to make it more interesting so you don't get bored.
I play Northumbrian Smallpipes and we also have a tradition of variation dance sets.
I learned more about Jazz here in 7 minutes than over the last 55 years of my life. Thank you for this video.
All I really knew about jazz before was that improvisation was involved but that was about it. I’ve tried to listen to it but have never really been able to get into it mainly because I didn’t understand what happening. This 7 minute video broke down jazz in way that I’m eager to give it a deeper listen. Thanks
Try the brass house genre. It’s a good intro to jazz you can also dance to.
My favorite is “Havana Banana” by Too Many Zooz.
Excellent explanation and piano handwork!
Thank you Dean for the explanations. I want to play jazz and this is where to start by understanding it. Great breakdown thank you again Dean.
I recommend Jens Larsen videos.
This is very helpful.. I've always felt I never understood how to casually listen to jazz. I'm a guitar player and would love to dive in and learn some things
Amazing video. I learned a lot. Just one more point to add: you mentioned complex harmony but did not mention complicated rhythms (polymeter and rhythms are so much more common in jazz than other genres, perhaps)
A fantastic introduction. I could complain a little that you exclude swing (incl Duke Ellington) and trad jazz (incl Louis Armstrong), but on the whole, you've created a clip with just the right length, presentational tone and some excellent tips for a jazz starter. Gonna file this away.
"we like it here"
As a non jazz guitarist.. When I had first heard the keys solo ...I literally felt an alien experience enter my soul.. What a band Snarky Puppy
Reharmonisation, tritone substitution, drop 2 voicings etc etc are some of the tools to communicate in world of jazz!
Excellent video.I googled “ beginner in jazz” and your video came up. I’m glad it did. It was simple enough for the novice to understand and I appreciated the album recommendations and books to start with.
thanks for your video. I know something about jazz music.
2:04 I sometimes have problem with people explaining jazz… why do you play Dm6-C#7-F#7-Fmaj9 instead of Dbadd6-Gm7add13-C#augadd12-Ddim9? Why? Here, as a classical musician, let me explain for real why Dm6-C#7-F#7-Famj9 works, like no jazz musician can ever make out. Dm6 is not Dm6, but Bdimmaj7 (or Bm7-5). The next chord has nothing to do with C#7, but Fdim+b6. F#7 is F#7. Fmaj9 is Fmaj9. Now instead of what’s written in the video, we have: Bdimmaj7(Bm7-5) -Fdim+b6 - F#7 - Fmaj9. It’s basically a progression from Bdim to F, and then alternates among different form of the F. It is a progression from Dominant Function to Subdominant Function. Bdimmaj7 is just a regular old diminishes VIdim chord with a maj7 A after. Fdim+b6 is not C#7 as the video wants you to believe. Because C#7 makes no sense at all, and yet the harmony itself is sensible, because it makes sense as an Fdim+b6. Why b6? Because of a thing called German Augmented 6th. The relative German augmented 6th chord for F chord is C# chord. And therefore you can play F h chord together with C# chord, and therefore you can play Fdim with a C# chord too. Or just Fdim with a C note. After you played an Fdim, you can play a variation of the IV function -F#(7), and then go back to F(maj9). I really dislike how jazz players explain how they play jazz, as if they know some hidden knowledge about music that you can never have access to. And here we go, what he played is a “Bm7-5 - Fdim+b6 - F#7 - Fmaj9”, instead of “Dm6-C#7-F#7-Famj9”, which would not make any sense.
Well explained and very entertaining. I also love your voice
thx again lse even when i wasnt expecting to see you agaim
Well done. Where did I read that the three essentials are swing, improv, and blues-feel?
just what I needed. Thanks.
I love this explanation for my jazz choir kiddos. Know of a good resource for jazz rhythm discussion? or feel?
Great explanation. Thanks.
Thank you! Nice introduction to pass on...and will do!
Absolutel😮y great! Never got too technical, or " for musicians only."
Thank you so much Dean! More videos like these please!
Really good video. Thanks. x
what an excellent presentation. thank you.
Thanks a lot bro , love from India 🇮🇳
Thank you, Dean, you’ve just explained why jazz fries my brain and makes me run away screaming. It is just too complex for my dyslexic and autistic brain to process!
I'm autistic and fascinated by jazz. Have you tried focusing on one aspect of jazz? I LOVE the sound of major 7 chords so I started with those, then learned extensions, etc. Once the brain has an solid understanding of a basic concept it becomes less anxious and learning is easier. I wish you the best!
Thanks Man ❤
I'm so glad you played the jazz types as you said them
Thanks Dean, very understandable explanation with some easy to understand examples.
Thanks you so much for these extremely helpful information about jazz! Love the part you explain the difference of composing chords and keys between jazz and other musics!
Thank you so much for explaining it so well...
Great instruction! Thank you I'm trying to learn and this helped me. Please make more.
Will someone please point me to a starting point? I have a few years of classical/modern lessons on paino from when I was a kid but it's been years now. What should I start learning on paino?
Impressive explanation, well done.
Extremely helpful.
Loved it
Hey, some nice clear explanations here. However, intentionally or not, there’s no mention of singing or jazz vocals which are such a rich part of jazz and a unique way of interpreting tunes. Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and others are all worth mentioning in the same breath as Miles, Coltrane and Brubeck.
Wow this is awesome explanation thank you
I am starting and learning to understand and enjoy jazz because of Harry Mack, Harry Mack is a rapper that is a jazz drummer aswell, and is amazing to what jazz can do to a person who plays another genre and has deep knowledge about jazz
Think about it, most if not all hip hop samples jazz
@@Lftarded I know, that the samples , but harry mack style heavily influenced by jazz, flows, cadence's, Emceeing....
Other rappers may use many samples from jazz yes, but they did not studied
incredible video, thanks! more like this pleaseeee
Great video! Explained really well ;)
really great video
It was helpful, thanks!!
Dude. You are criminally unsubscribed to. Really great video. Please keep ‘em coming. Thank you!
Great analysis, Thank you
THIS IS INTERESTING!
I've always hated how most of the songs are just major/minor/dim chords. So much stays unused!
Okay, what would be a good jazz record for starting for a bass player?
Really brilliant explanation Dean
Great video. Really enjoyed this
Thank you for this ♥️
Love it!!!!
What's the difference between jazz and swing. Is Amy Winehouse's live acoustic music jazz e.g Half Time by Amy Winehouse. Is Etta James always jazz. Billy holiday?? Can just one instrument be jazz e.g just a vocal acapella? Or just an electric guitar??
Thank you!!!
What I always loved about American Jazz was it always sounded like they were talking with each other.
one modern jazz piano song that was kinda what got me into jazz was Ashes of Dreams by Yuri Misumi
I really want to like jazz, but most of it sounds like random sounds to me. My brain struggles with the lack of structure I think. Any advice on getting past this, or does this just mean jazz isn’t for me? (I’m being sincere in wishing I could enjoy it.)
These seem to all be very broad definitions that apply to a lot of bands in every Genre.
Very nice
Whoa! Learning by ear? I learned by putting the needle in the groove for the first note. then find it. Then go for the second note. Please help me understand learning by ear!
Halfway into this video I realized
That's LSE! Lmao
what song is that you were playing in the background when you meantimes bossa nova @ 00:46sec
Great video
Very good explanation
I always knew I like jazz off rip. I never knew why just I get a stank face going because I can hear so changes in the solo. For me if it gets a stank face it means it good.
Thank you for this , can you tell me if BTS Dynamite slow jam remix today's performance is a jazz or not???
I think it sounds more like funk maybe?
I love Gypsy Jazz.
"one note samba" or "samba de uma nota só" is actually a bossa nova tune despite it's name
It's written by tom jobim himself the guy who made the genre
Well done from a non-musician. Thanks for explaining it.
Wdym non-musician he he litrally play guitat and piano
@@ahmadhussein3931 he means himself, not the presenter
i want to make jazz fusion songs mainly with hiphop how should i start?
@Eat Shnitzel okay thank u 👍
Es muy útil todo lo que explicas. Gran video. Saludos.
Very informative
Intro to Jazz? - List of some songs
someone asked for a list of top songs for someone new to jazz...
Put this together...not, you know, perfectly researched or anything, just give new folks, maybe a gist of jazz, different artists, styles...(I am sure I left out plenty of great songs...like I said, just a gist, overview)
1) Girl from Ipanema (Stan Getz, Astrid Gilberto)
2) Take Five (Dave Brubeck)
3) Summertime (Ella Fitzgerald)
4) I Put a Spell on You (Nina Simone)
5) Strange Fruit (Billie Holiday)
6) Sidewinder (Lee Morgan)
7) My Favorite Things (John Coltrane)
8 - Gil Scott Heron - We Almost Lost Detroit..
9) Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good...
10) George Benson - Breezin...
Thank you:)
I like this so I liked it lol
Correction, "Samba Jazz", not just "Samba" because it is a totally different music style.
You like jazz?
so many parallels with what "classical music" was like pre-19th century.
당신은 아름답다 매우 정말로.
Jazz is more than one person all playing a different song at the same time.
Now I knowww 🎶
Superb!! Thank you !
Eita samba como jazz? Kkkkk
And joe Henderson
Honestly, I think the first thing an average non-musical person thinks of when you say "Jazz" is Free Jazz and bizarre improvisations only professional-level musicians can appreciate in any way. Big Band Jazz and such will probably only be understood as "Swing" with no awareness that Swing is a Jazz genre. At least that's my experience from Germany.
check out Sant andreu Jazz band
Just play the right notes, Angela.
You should listen to Django Reinhardt.
My name has a jazz
Mr behan brought me here he’s me music teacher 🪑🪑
One name Wes Montgomery remember him ?
You can play that piano BOY
POLSKAAAAAA!
Charlie Parker all the way, for ever
Oh hehe look how many comments there are
Po krótko Jazz to muzyka "Bitch" kojarzy mi się z prohibicjã.
Nuta nieco subtelniejsza. Nieco później
Akuratnie , że do mnie Jazz dociera to inna sprawa.
Nuta Jazz "
is that chris from mr beast