MODAL JAZZ; PLAY MODERN concepts; Summertime, Jazz Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 20 янв 2023
- Learn modal jazz lesson; detailing use of quartal harmony, fourth voicings and pentatonic scales for improvisation. Performing the song Summertime, by George Gershwin. D dorian scale explained. Various functions of 4th voicings are detailed. Go to link for score:
kenthewitt.com/wp-content/upl...
Go to link to view book: JAZZ PIANO- METHODS AND SONGBOOK which covers these concepts in detail.
kenthewitt.com/book/
Also go to website to view New Appedix with over 140 pages of exercises and drills to develop skills in jazz piano and dimprovisation. www.kenthewitt.com/ 
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Fantastic lesson. Thank you Kent, you MODE my day.
Cooool, man!
best answer
Jaw dropping demonstration. My dream sound.
Very cool...thanks!
Very fascinating subject. I would not mind the extended 30 minutes tutorial on fourth voicings.
i second this
Noted!
You're still taking me further than I ever imagined, thank you Kent
So cool....thanks!
Great stuff! Power to the modal!
Yes, sir...power to modal jazz!
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture ....
.... but we get the point - great video, THANK YOU :)
That's a good one....thanks for that comment!
I am definitely with you. And swinging loose. It is very good to get this piano-side demonstration and explanation. I am a guitarist and songwriter exploring jazz that puts one in awe.
Great comment...thanks!
Kent, You are great teacher. tnx
You are very welcome
Hello Kent, Great video!
I don't know if you're even going to see my comment being that this video is a year in the past now. However, I've learned quit a bit from this and I definitely think you should continue to make videos based on what you think is important to share. It's important and helpful to more people than you probably realize. Your playing is fantastic, thank you for sharing with us!
Thanks for the great comment...I'll keep making them...keep following.
Thank you very much Kent
You are very welcome
You are up there with the best - truly great playing
Cool and modern - thanks so much.
Unbelieveable that this is still modern!...thanks!
Hey Kent! You could not have picked a more memorable Jazz standard in my opinion. I first heard this played by my father on Trombone and of course I wanted to be like him, so when he gave me his trombone, manufactured in the year before my birth in Fullerton, CA, this was the piece I learned first. Thank you for bringing back my family musical heritage to me. I really appreciate it! Music sometimes is a time capsule paying it forward to future generations. Cheers!
Great comment...thanks for telling me your story. Keep swingin!
I'm frightened of those GLASSES you're sportin', KH!!! 👀LOVE this lesson, tho! 🎵🎶 Beautiful playing, as always! XOXO - M
Always want cool glasses!
Great, Mr Hewitt, you make accesible a very difficult subject, thank you! A lot of info there... but very useful!
You are very welcome and thanks for telling me!
Super helpful lesson - thank you!
Thanks!
Just continue that 👍 it's very interesting, partially I use it ,interesting, partially use the root on the pedals in the organ., very good presentation,👍
Much apprecaited!
You're a gem
Thank you, sincerely. If I knew you, I'm sure I'd say the same to you!
Superb.Thank you !
Thank you too!
As a - still! - "Jazz Beginner" I would struggle to play like that. But I LOVE these sorts of videos, they are SO well presented, full of enthusiam. I always learn something and I know it's the sort of thing I can come back to in due course. Thank you for your generosity.
Glad you like them! Please watch more of my videos...loved the comment!
good lesson.look forward to learning all application of4th chords
Great playing and eduction! Greetings from The Netherlands and thanks for your advice last year!
Hey, thanks!
Love it. Right where I want to go.
Glad you told me!
Always amazing Kent!
Thanks!
Hi, I must tell you I'm really gratefull for your videos. I've learn and understand so much of information simplified that here near me in my place, I doesn't see it. Thanks you!! In this video I could finally see and understend the direccions of the 4th voicing, I must write it and continious studying. Greetings from north of Argentina
I'm glad I could help out...and thanks for telling me!
Great lesson
Thank you!
Great video Kent! I appreciate your approach and how much information you share in such a clear and concise way!
Very helpful to me...thanks!
@@KentHewittpiano88 You're welcome sir! Many thanks for your excellent videos!
Amazing video. And very complex, I'll take this week to try to understand and follow your thoughts !!
Thanks for telling me!
Kent, great stuff! Thank you. Looking forward to more.
I apprecaite the comment!
Amazing...love it..❤
I’ve been interested in learning to play in all twelve keys, and found that an arrangement based on fourths was a much easier way of doing this, as I could think of the chords more in terms of hand shapes, which made it easier to move from key to key.
This is true, and that's a good comment and observation.
Great stuff to help me understand the relationship between the modes and quartal voicings. I look forward to the next instalment.
Glad it was helpful!
Everything you said is why I tune my guitar in fourths. Massive lesson, merci 🙏
Wonderful!
Great lesson ! Thanks ! Great modern sound !
Glad you like it!
Thanks Kent. I'm a bit late, but wanted you to know that I enjoyed that. I will go get the sheet. Swing loose and hang low. Or something like that. Peace and love, Baby. Catch you on the flip side.😉
Cool...I dig you, man!
SO beautyfull ! When we love the pianiste we love the personne in front the piano ! Thank's Mister Hewitt and Respect !
Many thanks!
Thank You Sir
Most welcome!
Fantastic Kent. Thank you very much
My pleasure!
I'm with you, Kent. Great lesson. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for watching!
Great content
Thanks so much!
Never really thought about it that deeply before, Kent, but your explanations make a lot of sense. Superb lesson!
This video made an impression...and I made it years ago...but now more people are ready for it...thanks!
I'm a solid follower. I have your books(which is an absolute plus with further clarification), and I love your work!
Awesome, thank you!
Brilliant Kent, can't wait for the next part - thank you as always
You can learn more about modal jazz ...go here:
ruclips.net/p/PLFuMibnl_h5b7S_N16zn1cmE7R1udYjxL
Fenomenal!! 🤠🎹🎹🤠
Thank you!
Thank you Kent I think you're crystal clear I learn a lot God bless and happy new year🎉
Wishing you the same!
Thank you Kent! Great video. I’m working on SO What right now with my piano instructor and this video fits right in! I learn so much from your videos.
Wonderful!
Thank you so much. This is great. Dig in deep don't hold back. Do another and really scramble my brains. So appreciate what you are doing.
You are so welcome!
Thank you for the video, Kent! First time I see someone showing how to use fourth chords in practice, made it easier to understand for me
Thanks for telling me and please watch my videos on this subject. Go to playl;ists:
www.youtube.com/@KentHewittpiano88/playlists?view=1
Hi, Kent. Thank you once again! I love your videos. I'm not a musician, I just love playing around on the keyboard . But I find your videos are packed with great ideas that I can play with. They make my amateur efforts so much more enjoyable.
Thanks for telling me, David...You made me happy to know that!
Very hip Kent. Love your videos. I love how your left hand grabs bass notes and comps sus chords at the same time. I've been playing for a while so I have to skip some parts but you always give something I didn't know in all your videos. I actually wish you would get more complex in the explanations. I'm a theory nerd. I have a strong grasp on jazz theory. It's always a pleasure to hear your opinion, method, and your sound. I look up to you man. 👍👍👍(Also, thanks so much for your score, it makes things so clear. I can see how you enhance the rhythm and add melody into the head.)
Hi, It's always great to hear from a fellow musician...we are compadres. So nice of you to write and share your thoughts...much apprecaited and please watch and keep in touch. K
Many might not initially understand the significance of what you just presented here. Hope they do. Great job! Ya know Kent I always thought of the Aug. 4th voicings as #9 voicings and then of course the many ambiguous uses with just changing the root note. That's really a nice way of thinking quartal voicings. I think if you gave a more definitive circumstance for using the Aug 4th voicing vs. the regular quartal voicing that might clear up alot of things.
Look fwd to your next Ambiguous quartal Video Play Modern #2. I'm really interested in all the different ways/options you use them. Cheers.
David, I think this will be more clear if you watch all the videos I've made on this subject, or at least more of them. Go to my playlist here:
ruclips.net/p/PLFuMibnl_h5b7S_N16zn1cmE7R1udYjxL
I follow you all the way! I like the variety of sounds I'm hearing! Thank you! Oh, and BTW, I can play it with quartal harmony, and is it ever fun. I must confess I'm playing your solo for now just to see how you're using the dorian mode, but I am learning so much. This does indeed remind me of the 1960s. It took a lot to get there.
Very cool comment...thanks!
Lot of work to do still with you
Keep at it...and good luck!
Cool glasses!
Always cool!
I love it. I'm actually a guitar player, but I love piano (its a whole orchestra) and I watch a great many of your videos. I always learn something. Thanks for what you do. Don't stop!
I'll keep going and thanks for the encouragement!
Marvilhoso!!!
Many thanks!
Kent, I'm with you all the way! Although I am not at the point to incorporate these voicings in my playing, this is great information and there is much we can learn Even from these more advanced concepts. Keep it coming.
I appreciate that!
The first time I heard McCoy Tyner's Expansions album I could not wrap my head around the modal playing he was doing. I enjoyed the breakdown of how it works. Also you touched All the Things You Are, which I'm currently working on, so I hope to hear you give that song the 'modern' treatment. Thanks.
BTW. I have your book but I don't read music so I'm looking for ways to convert the sheet music to MIDI so it's not such a struggle to learn from it. Thanks again!
Thank you Kent for sharing ALL you have learned - in a most-understandable manner too, about "the Divinely Created Circle" !! SUMMERTIME was my vocal audition choice - while trying earnestly to accompany myself, for our music college. I think the jury looked past my playing...cause I was accepted into the program... They even complimented a "beautiful" vocal... Self-studying jazz chordals now, ... My understanding & performance of SUMMERTIME is leaping forward..I think I love you, my friend💘. I looked at all the wonderful tunes you so generously offered on your website... The problem for me, being a late-comer to the piano, is there are no lyrics.... Unfortunately the puzzle thus appears overwhelming. 😔 If possible for you to offer your piano wisdom on standard jazz tunes, "With Lyrics",. that would be, (besides hearing you in concert, in person,) would be just the best!
Thanks for the comment. If you go to Google search and type in the name of a standard song and the word LYRICS you'll get a print out of the lyrics. I have put the lyrics on a couple videos I made. But the search method will work for you.
Cool stuff. I’m a guitar player, but I’m looking to expand my sound a bit. Learning about the possibilities with 4th voicings was pretty eye opening.
Glad to help out...and love hearing from guitarists!
Thanks for the video. Just keep in mind that the camera cut's off some of the notes you're playing on the Left hand.
Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for lesson. I had been working on reharmonizing this tune a while back. I'll go back to it with some of your ideas. I was also going to mention this to a few years ago when I checked out one of your great trio recordings. I noticed Matt Gordy was on drums. I was studing with Banacos about 30 years ago and Matt was the student before me. I said "Matt, thought you were a drummer". He told me that was how he made a living but his real instrument was piano. Take care, Bill
Hi Bill, Thanks for telling me this story. I loved Matt's playing on my recording.
Many thanks Kent, this is such a great lesson and inspiration, this will bring me into exploring this without complicated reading of notes. Many many thanks for this!! I have your book, but it is actually much easier for me to see you explaining the concepts. Still I love to have your book! Did you know that 6 perfect fourths starting on the D is the core tune of Kraftwerks Trans Europe Express? Can't wait for your next lesson!
Thanks for hipping me about KTEE. That progression was used by many musicians including George Shearing in ending some of his songs. Keep swinging!
thank you.
Actually it's very interesting because we can see the great pianist you are be confused by modal approach with your chords approach.
The fourth's is a way to take the train of fifths by reverse.
It's like an other language, but, in a way it's closer to the reality of sound than the Tonal approach in wich you have always to make exceptions if you don't want to make a boring music.
I am not a pianist, but, when i try to understand the music I don't need the "chord" notion. I promise it's not a fake.
Key, the train of fifths, and keyboard topography are sufficient to play things I like, which is often calles "modal".
I only learn how to name chords for understanding what people with this approach (99.99%) are saying.
For me, out of the "chord / tonal" approach, the music is just following trains of fourths and shifting trains (half tone by half tone)
Translating this in chords will be a mess.
Sorry, I cannot explain this in a comment, but I just wanted to thank you, because you play modal far far far better than me but you seem to remain confused when you have to explain it with your chordal / tonal language. That's very touching, but also educationnal.
(sorry for my very bad english)
It would be nice to have a conversation to exchange ideas. But I would ask you to watch more of my videos , and theory videos in particular, because if I am confused, I want to correct that as soon as tangible....with your help.
Please go here: www.youtube.com/@KentHewittpiano88/playlists?view=1
👍👏
Hooray Kent. Do you still have your There is no Greater Love Pentatonic handout? That was my favorite
Hi Brian...I checked my Encore and Sibelius files and couldn't find it. It must have been a hand written score and is filed somewhere hidden in the library. If I come across it , I'll remember you asked..thanks!
No prob Kent it was way before Sibelius and handwritten :) I’ll look for it too
no worries I'm with you :)
maybe if you talk bit more about the extra notes you choose, and why.. even if that be like "because i like that chord" or "because the I need tension here" or "because it is warmer and fits the lyrics" .. like leave a bit the overall modal theory, and talk more about the personal details
Thanks...I'll keep your suggestion iin mind. For now, please check out more of my videos on this subject.
ruclips.net/p/PLFuMibnl_h5b7S_N16zn1cmE7R1udYjxL
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Thank yoooooou!
So awesome Kent!!! Do you have sheets with your chord changes?
Here's a score kenthewitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Summertime-Modal-Concepts.pdf
Great video! Are you going to make “all the things you are” using this modal sound?
That's a unique idea...thanks!
Mcoy Tyners brain.. wow👍
Yes, agreed...it's a revelation. Please watch my other McCoy Tyner videos here:
ruclips.net/p/PLFuMibnl_h5ao7RLyfettFLfyndrrGr59
Many thanks for yet another brilliant video Ken!
Your Books: I found summertime listed under chapter 26 in volume two. But this version doesn’t cover your modal approach and is in a different key compared to the RUclips one.
Which chapter do I need to read concerning modal Jazz understanding ? And have you also listed your model (Dm Dorian) summertime in-depth version in the book too? Which book and which chapter? All the best Ray
The book is different than the videos, ....they were created at different times....you have to use both and compare them.
hello Ken could you do a tutorial on Why Did I Choose You by Bill Evans please?
That's a beautiful song...thanks for this!
Kent, I am looking at the (WIP) music chart that you linked and I have a question about minor chord sus4. There are some examples of Dm(sus4) or Gm(sus4). Do you think you can elaborate on this? Is this something that can be spotted in music/jazz literature often? How shall the reader understand this notation? Is it a direction that tells the improviser that the melody line should follow a minor tonality? For example bar no.11. Dm(sus4) where the second half of the bar uses f natural in the left hand.
Lukas, Thanks for the question. The msus4 is just a way of writing that the scale of the chord has a minor 3rd and a perfect 4th. A D7sus 4 would have replaced the major 3rd with a perfect 4th. The important thing is to understand that it's a D dorian scale (a C major scale starting on D and the underlying chord isa perfect 4th (quartal harmony) which moves ascending using the notes of the C major scale.
Thanks@@KentHewittpiano88
Interesting. I would basically try to avoid the 3rd scale degree (be it minor or major) in tercial harmony on SUS chords, but here you are saying that in quartal harmony the SUS chords can include the 3rd degree (and hence we need to know if it is minor or major). Is that correct interpretation?
Hey! There is a broadway jazz musical called "Bandstand" I think you'd enjoy it. Could you check out one of the sons on your channel?/
Thanks for telling me about it...I'll try to check it out!
This man's value is inestimable..
Thanks!
To quote the altered dominant man, You are correct, Sir! ☝️
Wow what a clever and generous man and teacher we love you God bless you thanks
So nice of you!