"All The Way", Spread Voicings explained, Piano Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2015
- Piano Tutorial; explaining the Spread Voicing technique for the song "All The Way", by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen,. made popular by Frank Sinatra and many others.
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I really like your playing style, those crazy chords and the way you share information and explain so clearly!! Please keep them coming!
+skittles tonton Thanks again for the nice comments!
You are the BEST teacher in all RUclips Kent, long time student here
Wow, thanks
I remember this song in the 50s when I first heard this song came out as a kid. Right the way, I immediately fell in love with this song. So thank you for showing us how to spread out the chord voicing for I only know triad chords. So it is much appreciated. Thank you, Kent.
Thanks for telling me your connection with this song. you made my day!
Beautiful tune and awesome voicings!
This is awesome. A great demo of left hand shell technique.
Glad you liked it!
I’ve been following you for years man. I wish you’d make a slow jazz album of spread voicings like this one.
Such a beautiful song. I love the way Steve Lawrence sang it. You make it sound so lovely.
Thank you so much!!
Thank you very much for this lesson. It's very clear, and very helpfull as usual.
absolutely beautiful
Many thanks! You can learn this arrangement on my website.
Thank you, Kent, for showing us all of my favourite song chords voicing.
Thanks!
A very helpful Tutorial - you showed in a clear and uncomplicated
way how Spread Voicings add beauty and fullness to a song.
Many thanks
Salt Air Thank you! I appreciated your comments and positive feedback. I hope to have clarity in what I'm explaining. Feel free to ask questions or make suggestions for future tutorials. Also please subscribe and give a thumbs up.
Wow! Beautiful!
Thanks for the comment!
Whoa, you make it look so simple and easy to understand! Thanks a lot for this video, it's exactly what I was looking for. With this technique and the tetrachord substitution, I feel like i've just figured out the rules of the universe. :)
Thanks for telling me you've had a breakthrough...that is very helpful for those of us who teach!
Thanks for a great lesson!
Jon Szpak Thanks, Jon, I really appreciate the positive feedback!
Pretty As Ol' Hell--Like The Spread Harmony!
+carmen d scrimalli Thanks for the comment; I'm glad you like it. I'm not sure that RUclips forwards responses to Linked Comments. Please let me know.
so nice!
Appreciated!
Very nice
Thanks
Beautiful arrangement! I’m surprised this song isn’t in The New Real Book. Thank you for posting your arrangement.
Surprising that it's not in any of the fakebooks. It's a great tune, I agree!
Yes, the inner voices is the subject. 3:30 to 6:00 for example, and also in the "Someone to Watch Over Me" video for the first bar especially, in the "drop 2" section. My ear wants to play ninths but that doesn't work. For that tune, 4ths between the melody and the next lowest not, with the "drop 2" being a tenth below the melody, seems to work (Eb, Bb, D; F, C, D, etc.).
I'm trying to figure out if there is an easy rule to follow. Sixths between the melody note and the next lowest note also seem to work well.
So the question might be two part, now that I think more about it: (1) what your return question was; about which inner voices to pick and (2) a general rule for picking the top harmony note out of the available choices (4th, 5th, 3rd,?). As to the inner voices, I like the color tones (9ths 11ths, 13ths) but sometimes I'm getting shifts to other tonal centers that don't work when I use those tones). I'm used to playing one note at a time (on saxophone), so this is a different trip!
FWIW, I have extremely large hands and can reach those tenths easily. I can reach 11ths as well. A twelfth is possible but it's a real stretch, e.g. C, Eb, G, Bb and G. This is not an advantage on saxophone at all!
+Jeffrey Newton Did you see my other vids on the Drop 2? I got pretty specific with it on a couple of them esp. But Not For Me, which has a download that you can study. There's one video where I played all the different inversions for the drop 2 and what notes to use. I can find it and let you know if you want to check it out.
A very tasteful rendition of that song.
Thanks...the scores is free on my website.
Kent, I really love this song and would like to sing it while accompanying myself on the piano. Please tell how would you change this version you have done, how would you take out the melody, basically what would you change with this perfect version to make it an accompaniment for singing?
+skittles tonton I'll put your request on my TO-DO list which is huge now. But your request is something I'd like to prioritize because I work with a lot of singers. Also I have in the past done a lot of singing/playing gigs.
Great tutorial on a subject I really want to know. I play solo piano and want to fill out my sound. Lets see if I can download the music now. Thanks SOOOoooo much!
Thank you, Priscilla, if you can't download I'll send it to you in an email.
Where do I find it on your website?
Oh, my Norton security program says your site is not safe. But your tutorial is wonderful, not to worry.
Hello Mr.Hewitt. Thanks a lot for your generous contributions and I have a question. As far as I can tell in your arrangements you often split the voicings "across the measure" so that your inner parts of the harmony are spread in time and that way you provide constant movement to otherwise static harmonic sound. Is that correct? I'm no expert to pick it up from you playing so sorry if I overcomplicate the matter.
Adroit and concise! Do you have any "rules of thumb" for the intervals within the voicings? How do you arrive at them, by intervalic relationship, by subtraction from block chords, or by some other method? Thanks, Jeff Newton (veteran saxophonist, nascent pianist).
+Jeffrey Newton Thanks for the astute comment and question. Are you asking about inner harmonic lines and/or the slight adjustment of a voicing as in an inner movement of a 13--b13 or #9- b9? Maybe if you give me an example in the video (just indicate the time setting in the lower panel) I can address the specific situation.
Nice voicing
Thank you!
Thanks! Please tell me the sheet music for this will be on your site?! I find that extremely helpful in your other videos :) Rene
RRTheN00bPwner The lead sheet arrangement is now available on my website as a free download. www.kenthewitt.com Thanks for asking and let me know if there is any problem downloading. If you like the videos please click the thumbs up!
Kent Hewitt thank you ever so much! Downloaded it without problem! Made my day... cheers
RRTheN00bPwner Great!...glad it worked out.
I am getting a better concept Kent thank you
+Emmett House I'm glad to hear that and thanks for letting me know!
Any chance you could talk about rootless voicings on this song?
I'll keep you request in mind. In the meantime you can learn a lot about rootless voicing by going to my playlists.
Go to the category called Rootless Voicings and click on the title VIEW FULL LIST.
ruclips.net/channel/UCdmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCwplaylists?view_as=subscriber
are there scores available for that performance?
www.kenthewitt.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/alltheway2.pdfAll available scores are on my website under heading Free Music Downloads.
+Kent Hewitt thanks. awesome
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