i am not a pianist. my instrument is guitar but the way you teach is so understandable. i hope you continue and expand your teaching on music and for non piano player that really loves this kind of stuffs. thank you! and give my regards to my alterdominant ego. hehhe
Thank you kent for the beautiful arrangement using Barry Harris technique. So good to study and learn this way in a tune. And a tune for Xmas 🎅 thank you. Merry Christmas 🎄
An amazing rendition, and excellent explanation on how this scale works into this standard. I also love the use of block chords, vis-a-vis -- George Shearing! Thanks Kent for another wonderful video. PLease keep them coming.
Holiday season is the best season for Kent Hewitt vids! Enjoyed the previous holiday-themed lessons and here's to many more! Thanks for the valuable skills that you've taught me over the years, Kent.
Hi K, Thanks for this one, since i discovered Barry harris the past year, the tension and relaese that comes with the 6th diminished scale became one my favorite sounds on piano
Great as usual. You're a great teacher. If I'm ever in you area I would like to visit you. Think you're great fun to hang with. Stay safe. Cheers, from Copenhagen, Denmark
I love how thoughtful your substitutions are here, KH - especially going into the B-sections of the song. Thanks for starting the season so musically - and for all your great videos! ♥♫♥XOXO - M
Oh my !! This was soooo good. There was a time when I would have been lost but I understood it all. It made me look up Barry Harris as well. Wouldn’t you know he was born in Detroit, MI and here I am now in Michigan. ( all the way from England). No, it doesn’t make sense that he had to ask for help with his medical bills. - that’s very sad. The music business is tough though , as you well know. For me, things are gradually sinking in, because of your masterful teaching. There are never enough thanks to send your way. 👩🏻🦰😎👏👏👏🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😊
Welcome to the USA. Back in the 60’s when JFK told us all that we needed single payer as in the U.K., healthcare was reasonably affordable. At this point, it’s sheer insanity what we are doing and what the masses believe about it. It’s indentured survitude, basically. Be well.
Thanks for the videos on Barry Harris approach I played guitar forever and had a general understanding of Barry Harris, but now working on my bucket list and finally learning piano so great to listen to you play and explain Barry's approach. Thank you!
So nice to listen to so beautifully arranged song !!! Music connects. Oceans are like puddles. Thank you for pleasure of listening and learning from a Master. Very Happy Christmas from an impressed student.
Thank you for that arrangement of Have Yourself a Merry. I have to admit I am regarding it as a bit of an early Christmas gift -- so in that spirit -- thank you. I watch your RUclipss and appreciate everything you do, but looking at the actual arrangement is like a little extra insight into your musical mind, more fully fleshing out aspects of your style and approaches to harmony. Great stuff.
Kent Hewitt I bet that was spectacular. I used to enjoy performances of the BSO with Ozawa and the Pops with Fiedler and later John Williams. Love the Grieg! One of the first classical pieces that I was introduced to as a teenager.
Killer arrangement KH. I am for sure about to rob you of those inner voice movements that I heard in your left hand 🤣. I find that the easiest songs to use the 6th dim scale block chords, are the ones with slow moving changes, where you have generally minimal changes in the implied tonic, and most chords last for a full bar line.
Fantastic! oh! That explains a lot. I love every bit of it. Thank so very much. Although, i know Barry's dim 6th but the way you put it together and how it changes systems really expands my knowledge. I will defijitely put it to use. Thanks. Matthew
Another way of approaching the song(and I've pointed this out in one of your other videos) is the use of "borrowed" notes. In that case, while playing the major sixth chords, for instance, you're simultaneously drawing from the adjoining diminished notes. I discovered you in fact did that with several measures of your arrangement of "The Nearness of You."
😊Great example, very illuminating! I especially like your clear illustration of the alternating sound of F#dim7 to G6 and then F#dim7 to G7, those are important details👍👍
Appreciate your tutorials KH!! Would love to hear more about how to use band in a box. Long time supporter and have both your books, thanks for all you share!
That's something I've thought about doing , but I just don't have the technical knowledge to film video off of my computer , and that's the only way I can show BIAB.
Spectacular as always. You have already given us a beautiful present for Christmas. I wonder if you would be willing to comment on the improv beginning at 6:08 or thereabouts. I notice that the chord progression simplifies a bit, but the improv gets a bit opaque (though beautiful of course). Would you take us through a bit of your thinking/theory for the improv including a few tidbits on scale and arpeggio choices? Thank you Mr. Hewitt, and best wishes for a happy holiday season.
Hi Alan, Thanks for the comment. I'm not sure what you mean by opaque, do you mean "not easy to understand?" I thought that the improv was mostly simple lines that would be easy to hear and transcribe. I followed a simpler chord progression, and programed that in the backing track. I appreciate the request, which I'll give some thought to. In the meantime, I have 37 video tutorials on improvisation now, and some of them relate directly to what I play in solos. The one on "A Train" comes from my book and the solo is written out. Go to playlists here: ruclips.net/channel/UCdmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCwplaylists
@@KentHewittpiano88 Wow. Thank you so much for responding; now I know that I have received a very special Christmas present. I never expected a reply. Your musical skills are matched by your kindness. Yes, by "opaque" I did mean not 'easy to understand from a theory standpoint -- meaning why does one choose a particular scale and why does it work?' (and I surely did not mean to be harsh. Your instruction is a gift to us all.) I agree that it is possible to transcribe your improv; I'm trying to understand why something works so well and sounds so beautiful. At the risk of being a bother, let me be concrete: At about 6:35 it looks like you are playing a descending scale over a C7 (leading, logically, to an Fmaj7 with arpeggios pithing that chord). The descending scale to which I refer looks like it is a diminished scale (whole-half descending, though I think there are passing tones). So, why -- if "why" is an appropriate question -- did that scale make sense as opposed, to say, an altered scale. Or maybe it IS an altered scale and I'm just now informed enough to tell the difference. I will most certainly re-look at the improv tutorials you have recorded (I think I have watched a great many of them). In the meantime, please ask altered-dominant man to regale us with some Christmas stories (ADM for President!). I have to believe he has many. A thousand thanks. You bring great joy to my time at the piano.
I don't think so much about scale choices once I have them in my mind and hands. Looking back on that lick it looks like I made a chromatic approach to the #5 of a C7 chord and then play a portion of a super Locrian scale (skipping some of the notes). I look at scales as a means to an end ...more important being how you approach target tones, using passing tones and keep it swinging at the same time. It's a fun challenge. I've tried to cover these points in my improvisation videos... of which there are many.
Are you in the mind reading business too? Because my wife was just talking about Barry Harris' 6th diminished scale and the conversation somehow took a turn to Christmas and I got a notification about your video. The only missing bit now is a party which I have to climb up a tree to escape the anti music police. Great video and greetings from Brazil. You have quite an ardent fan base around here.
I didn't realize that couples talked about the 6th diminished scale. We don't have trees on our lawn so I'd have to climb the roof. Thanks for telling me about the fan base. Swing loose!
Hi Kent! I am a 62 years old beginner writing from Germany and my greatest desire is to play 'here comes Emily Brown' due to very deep familiar reasons. The song is actually published here on RUclips by the channel Prozoot and the tune that this channel provide is named '1930, Here Comes Emily Brown, Henry Thies Orch. Hi Def, 78RPM'. As so far I understand you are a professional piano player and you might pick that up in a couple of minutes. I would do a patreon of course for that special service. No question about this. Looking forward to your response. And I would highly appreciate another one of your phanstasic piano lessons for an old man..... :-) 12.428 Aufrufe•21.08.2009 120 2 TEILEN SPEICHERN '
You're still young compared to me. I really try to do requests... particularly if I can learn something myself from the process. I don't have a Patreon account, and I probably won't do that. I prefer to sell my book and give away free scores. This gives me an element of freedom that is very valuable to me at this stage in my life, and I hope you understand. I'd be glad to listen to your song if you send me a link.
A very special video for me as I finally "get" the B.H. method...thanks to YOU! Don't know why it took me so long to get it? Love this beautiful arrangement Kent. I hope Mr.Ego Man has more exiting stories to come!!🎃🎃🎃
I actually understood what you were doing. I could never do it, but if got through to me that's pretty Dm good. I no AD Man is going to think I meant D minor.
There you can see what you need a musician for, just as badly as a good plumber, if he can make even the corniest song into something really groovy. Great job, there!
Thank you Mr H. I get a real generous vibe from this video. Would I be right in suggesting that the best way to use the three scales would be a sort of ear based trial and error approach. Because, speaking purely theoretically, although some notes (such as the e flat in the opening phrase) only fit into one system/scale many others ( The white notes ) could be harmonised by all three? Also I would love to hear a video which expanded the concepts illustrated here ,in particular how the scales might be used to improvise.? Anyway , thanks again. I and I am sure many other fellow piano nutters, are learning so much from you.
Thanks for the perceptive comment. It's a matter of intellect, but ultimately it has to get into your ears and hands. I have not mastered it like Barry has, but I understand it... and the more I work with it, the better I know how and when to use it.
@@KentHewittpiano88 i have seen him on videos . yes quite a character . not shy and retiring at all . there are many good performances on you tube of echoes of spring . it is almost a victorian art song . very period but with a jazz feeling .
i am not a pianist. my instrument is guitar but the way you teach is so understandable. i hope you continue and expand your teaching on music and for non piano player that really loves this kind of stuffs. thank you! and give my regards to my alterdominant ego. hehhe
Thank you, I will
Thank you kent for the beautiful arrangement using Barry Harris technique. So good to study and learn this way in a tune. And a tune for Xmas 🎅 thank you. Merry Christmas 🎄
You are very welcome
An amazing rendition, and excellent explanation on how this scale works into this standard. I also love the use of block chords, vis-a-vis -- George Shearing! Thanks Kent for another wonderful video. PLease keep them coming.
Thanks to you, Tim, I just added that to the explanation. George Shearing is on my top 5 list.
Holiday season is the best season for Kent Hewitt vids! Enjoyed the previous holiday-themed lessons and here's to many more! Thanks for the valuable skills that you've taught me over the years, Kent.
Thanks....go to my Christmas playlist on my channel page for all my Christmas songs.
Hi K, Thanks for this one, since i discovered Barry harris the past year, the tension and relaese that comes with the 6th diminished scale became one my favorite sounds on piano
I understand what you mean. yes!
Thanks for sharing the news about Barry’s GoFundMe! Found it thanks to you! Great video. Wild expansive concepts!
I appreciate the comment!
Great as usual. You're a great teacher. If I'm ever in you area I would like to visit you. Think you're great fun to hang with. Stay safe. Cheers, from Copenhagen, Denmark
I love how thoughtful your substitutions are here, KH - especially going into the B-sections of the song. Thanks for starting the season so musically - and for all your great videos! ♥♫♥XOXO - M
You're right on me, Marilyn, with another astute comment...thanks! xox
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for the comment.
Oh my !! This was soooo good. There was a time when I would have been lost but I understood it all. It made me look up Barry Harris as well. Wouldn’t you know he was born in Detroit, MI and here I am now in Michigan. ( all the way from England). No, it doesn’t make sense that he had to ask for help with his medical bills. - that’s very sad. The music business is tough though , as you well know. For me, things are gradually sinking in, because of your masterful teaching. There are never enough thanks to send your way. 👩🏻🦰😎👏👏👏🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😊
I don't know what happens to really elderly musicians. According to ADEM, composers never die , they just
de-compose.
Kent Hewitt 😜😎
Welcome to the USA. Back in the 60’s when JFK told us all that we needed single payer as in the U.K., healthcare was reasonably affordable. At this point, it’s sheer insanity what we are doing and what the masses believe about it. It’s indentured survitude, basically. Be well.
I am loving all these Barry Harris 6th diminished videos! Thank you Kent!!
Thanks for telling me!
Hi Kent, also this year you demonstrate that X-mas songs don’t have to be boring. It got me in a good mood. Very inspiring. Thank you! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Thanks, Baldo, your comments are always very special. Swing loose!
Kent, Xmas and Happy New Year!
Wishing this to you!
Thanks for the videos on Barry Harris approach I played guitar forever and had a general understanding of Barry Harris, but now working on my bucket list and finally learning piano so great to listen to you play and explain Barry's approach. Thank you!
I tried guitar once, it seemed too difficult to me, but then all instruments are difficult. Thanks!
Thanks Kent. nice nice :) :D
You are very welcome.
Thank you for sharing White Christmas, I really enjoyed it. God bless you, have a wonderful Christmas!
I wish you the same and thanks for the comment!
Great!!!!
Thanks!
So nice to listen to so beautifully arranged song !!! Music connects. Oceans are like puddles. Thank you for pleasure of listening and learning from a Master. Very Happy Christmas from an impressed student.
You are a valued person in my life. Please write to my email so we can connect.
Lovely arrangement; I've got to dust off the ivories for this one ; a very Merry Christmas from all on this side of the pond.
Whatever pond are you on? Dusting off the keys is very important, although tuning is more so.
This video is awesome. Happy 2020s Kent!!!
Happy 2020 to you, and many thanks!
Thank you for that arrangement of Have Yourself a Merry. I have to admit I am regarding it as a bit of an early Christmas gift -- so in that spirit -- thank you. I watch your RUclipss and appreciate everything you do, but looking at the actual arrangement is like a little extra insight into your musical mind, more fully fleshing out aspects of your style and approaches to harmony. Great stuff.
Thanks, Warren, that's a big comment, and I am grateful to you for the warm encouragement. Have a Merry!
Thanks Kent for sharing this inspiring harmony knowledge!!
Thanks for the cool comment, swung loose!
More great stuff. Like the hat too! : )
New hat, got in a recent Boston trip to hear the BSO play Grieg's piano concerto. That's the real stuff!
Kent Hewitt I bet that was spectacular. I used to enjoy performances of the BSO with Ozawa and the Pops with Fiedler and later John Williams. Love the Grieg! One of the first classical pieces that I was introduced to as a teenager.
For a diminished scale, it sounds pretty good to me.
For a tension chord it does sound pretty good!
Killer arrangement KH. I am for sure about to rob you of those inner voice movements that I heard in your left hand 🤣. I find that the easiest songs to use the 6th dim scale block chords, are the ones with slow moving changes, where you have generally minimal changes in the implied tonic, and most chords last for a full bar line.
Good observation. Also it works well with ascending or descending lines that are stepwise.
Fantastic! oh! That explains a lot. I love every bit of it. Thank so very much. Although, i know Barry's dim 6th but the way you put it together and how it changes systems really expands my knowledge. I will defijitely put it to use. Thanks. Matthew
I'm glad you got my point...now on to practice.
Wonderful lesson Kent ...wishing you and yours a great Christmas and New Year :) Jake
Cool, Dad!
Another way of approaching the song(and I've pointed this out in one of your other videos) is the use of "borrowed" notes. In that case, while playing the major sixth chords, for instance, you're simultaneously drawing from the adjoining diminished notes. I discovered you in fact did that with several measures of your arrangement of "The Nearness of You."
Thanks for pointing that out. See my recent video for more on "borrowed" notes.
😊Great example, very illuminating!
I especially like your clear illustration of the alternating sound of F#dim7 to G6 and then F#dim7 to G7, those are important details👍👍
Thanks a perceptive realization on your part...thanks for the comment.
Appreciate your tutorials KH!! Would love to hear more about how to use band in a box. Long time supporter and have both your books, thanks for all you share!
That's something I've thought about doing , but I just don't have the technical knowledge to film video off of my computer , and that's the only way I can show BIAB.
thank you, I play the guitar but find this very helpful
I love to hear from guitar players.
Spectacular as always. You have already given us a beautiful present for Christmas.
I wonder if you would be willing to comment on the improv beginning at 6:08 or thereabouts. I notice that the chord progression simplifies a bit, but the improv gets a bit opaque (though beautiful of course). Would you take us through a bit of your thinking/theory for the improv including a few tidbits on scale and arpeggio choices? Thank you Mr. Hewitt, and best wishes for a happy holiday season.
Hi Alan,
Thanks for the comment. I'm not sure what you mean by opaque, do you mean "not easy to understand?" I thought that the improv was mostly simple lines that would be easy to hear and transcribe. I followed a simpler chord progression, and programed that in the backing track. I appreciate the request, which I'll give some thought to. In the meantime, I have 37 video tutorials on improvisation now, and some of them relate directly to what I play in solos. The one on "A Train" comes from my book and the solo is written out. Go to playlists here:
ruclips.net/channel/UCdmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCwplaylists
@@KentHewittpiano88 Wow. Thank you so much for responding; now I know that I have received a very special Christmas present. I never expected a reply. Your musical skills are matched by your kindness.
Yes, by "opaque" I did mean not 'easy to understand from a theory standpoint -- meaning why does one choose a particular scale and why does it work?' (and I surely did not mean to be harsh. Your instruction is a gift to us all.) I agree that it is possible to transcribe your improv; I'm trying to understand why something works so well and sounds so beautiful.
At the risk of being a bother, let me be concrete: At about 6:35 it looks like you are playing a descending scale over a C7 (leading, logically, to an Fmaj7 with arpeggios pithing that chord). The descending scale to which I refer looks like it is a diminished scale (whole-half descending, though I think there are passing tones). So, why -- if "why" is an appropriate question -- did that scale make sense as opposed, to say, an altered scale. Or maybe it IS an altered scale and I'm just now informed enough to tell the difference.
I will most certainly re-look at the improv tutorials you have recorded (I think I have watched a great many of them). In the meantime, please ask altered-dominant man to regale us with some Christmas stories (ADM for President!). I have to believe he has many.
A thousand thanks. You bring great joy to my time at the piano.
I don't think so much about scale choices once I have them in my mind and hands. Looking back on that lick it looks like I made a chromatic approach to the #5 of a C7 chord and then play a portion of a super Locrian scale (skipping some of the notes). I look at scales as a means to an end ...more important being how you approach target tones, using passing tones and keep it swinging at the same time. It's a fun challenge. I've tried to cover these points in my improvisation videos... of which there are many.
Are you in the mind reading business too? Because my wife was just talking about Barry Harris' 6th diminished scale and the conversation somehow took a turn to Christmas and I got a notification about your video. The only missing bit now is a party which I have to climb up a tree to escape the anti music police. Great video and greetings from Brazil. You have quite an ardent fan base around here.
I didn't realize that couples talked about the 6th diminished scale. We don't have trees on our lawn so I'd have to climb the roof. Thanks for telling me about the fan base. Swing loose!
Hi Kent! I am a 62 years old beginner writing from Germany and my greatest desire is to play 'here comes Emily Brown' due to very deep familiar reasons. The song is actually published here on RUclips by the channel Prozoot and the tune that this channel provide is named '1930, Here Comes Emily Brown, Henry Thies Orch. Hi Def, 78RPM'. As so far I understand you are a professional piano player and you might pick that up in a couple of minutes. I would do a patreon of course for that special service. No question about this. Looking forward to your response. And I would highly appreciate another one of your phanstasic piano lessons for an old man..... :-)
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You're still young compared to me. I really try to do requests... particularly if I can learn something myself from the process. I don't have a Patreon account, and I probably won't do that. I prefer to sell my book and give away free scores. This gives me an element of freedom that is very valuable to me at this stage in my life, and I hope you understand. I'd be glad to listen to your song if you send me a link.
@@KentHewittpiano88 Hi Kent! I am very grateful for your answer. The link to the song is: ruclips.net/video/vl9lSzXXphc/видео.html
A very special video for me as I finally "get" the B.H. method...thanks to YOU! Don't know why it took me so long to get it? Love this beautiful arrangement Kent. I hope Mr.Ego Man has more exiting stories to come!!🎃🎃🎃
Thank you, Phyllis, I'm glad to hear that this video opened up some new understanding for you. Carry on, and swing loose!
I actually understood what you were doing. I could never do it, but if got through to me that's pretty Dm good. I no AD Man is going to think I meant D minor.
Lol
He will always look for the humor!
There you can see what you need a musician for, just as badly as a good plumber, if he can make even the corniest song into something really groovy. Great job, there!
I've never been mentioned in the same sentence as a good plumber, but I realize how much we need them...swing loose!
Nice hat, Kent :)
You noticed my new hat, thanks!
Thank you Mr H. I get a real generous vibe from this video. Would I be right in suggesting that the best way to use the three scales would be a sort of ear based trial and error approach. Because, speaking purely theoretically, although some notes (such as the e flat in the opening phrase) only fit into one system/scale many others ( The white notes ) could be harmonised by all three? Also I would love to hear a video which expanded the concepts illustrated here ,in particular how the scales might be used to improvise.? Anyway , thanks again. I and I am sure many other fellow piano nutters, are learning so much from you.
Thanks for the perceptive comment. It's a matter of intellect, but ultimately it has to get into your ears and hands. I have not mastered it like Barry has, but I understand it... and the more I work with it, the better I know how and when to use it.
Love it and every video you make! Truly appreciate it!
So kind of you to write, thanks!
a favorite song of mine "echoes of spring " by willie "the lion " smith .have you ever heard it ?
I don't know that song, but I'll look for it. I heard him perform years ago in Newport, quite a character.
@@KentHewittpiano88 i have seen him on videos . yes quite a character . not shy and retiring at all . there are many good performances on you tube of echoes of spring . it is almost a victorian art song . very period but with a jazz feeling .
Mahalo and Mele Kalikimaka to both KH and ADEM.
Thanks ...great to hear from you!
When you mumble while playing you remind me of Eroll Garner :)
Actually I try not to do that, but the mic in the camera is closer to me than to the piano.
Is there sheet music to this version of White Christmas on your website?
Please go to Free Music Downloads on my website and you can find the lead sheet.
If I could, I would give you 700 likes! Thank you so much!
Very generous, much appreaited1