How to Play Jazz- "A Foggy Day", Piano Tutorial, Improvisation
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2015
- George Gershwin's "A Foggy Day" played w/ solo. Includes short analysis of Techniques and improvisational concepts. Solo transcription is available on website: www.kenthewitt.com
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I love how you bring a song to life versus the black and white notes on the chord chart! Thank you!
Very cool comment. Thanks so much, Debbie!
Thank you very much for sharing this video!!! It's an excellent tutorial and you are so generous by sharing the transcription of your solos. Glad to have met your great videos!!
Welcome, and thanks for the support!
so helpful thanks - I'm off to play on a ship and this tutorial is gold dust!
Good luck and thanks!
What an honor to be your newest subscriber. My maternal grandfather was a violinist and his brother was a concert pianist. My childhood home valued music from Bach to Broadway and Beyond. Thanks for all your efforts to help your students. I'm not very good at playing the piano.
+jsbach15 Thanks so much for the nice comment. Comments like yours are very encouraging. You were fortunate to have a musical family, my folks were not sophisticated music appreciators, although my mother played piano and started me out on it at a young age.
Hi Kent,
I love the rhythm that your left hand brings to this piece. Have you ever made a video that talks about this way of doing things?
Thanks again for all your advice!
I have some videos on comping in a playlist here:
ruclips.net/p/PLFuMibnl_h5abmY90whS2VekI4jABbFUo
Here's one on left hand comping:
ruclips.net/video/vuvDmOekoAo/видео.html
I also cover left hand comping in my book:
kenthewitt.com/book/
thanks and keep them coming!
I'll keep at it and thanks for the encouragement!
Great Tutorial Kent! I have been really enjoying learning the solo you've put together and am hoping to adapt these features you have used into my own improvisation! Thanks
+Jake Baynie Thanks for the great feedback. I'm going to have more solos transcribed on future videos, with free scores on my website.
Kent Hewitt please keep on doing tutorials, I'm so glad that I just found your channel. :)
super !
Super!
I love it
Thanks so much for telling me!
What a fantastic performance Kent! Applause and thumbs up! Have a great weekend! Reit from Canada
+Reit Fans Thanks so much....I appreciate the positive feedback and thumbs up. I go to Canada every summer when I teach at SummerKeys in Maine. I have some pictures of Canada at the end of a video I did here: ruclips.net/video/SqRxP6K8jVY/видео.html
+Reit Fans Thanks so much....I appreciate the positive feedback and thumbs up. I go to Canada every summer when I teach at SummerKeys in Maine. I have some pictures of Canada at the end of a video I did here: ruclips.net/video/SqRxP6K8jVY/видео.html
Watching in 2018! Incredible
Funny how the years creep up on us!
You are the GOAT
Smokin' cool, brother, like diggin' into a solo!
Great Playing Ken i wish i could play like you I'm really new to jazz as I'm more into John Lennon and The Beatles.
***** Hi Paul, Thanks for writing. I'm glad you like the video. I'm a big Beatles fan too. I'm glad that you are getting into jazz, it's really fun to play and improvise. Please check out all my videos and leave me more comments and questions, thanks!
+Paul Allen I did a little something on a John Lennon song at the end of this video: ruclips.net/user/edit?o=U&video_id=4caQ_JmM-RU
I can't find the transcription on your homepage. Is it up yet? Anyway, have a great weekend!
RRTheN00bPwner The score and solo is available on my website now: www.kenthewitt.com/ Look under Music Downloads. Let me know if you can't find it. Thanks for asking!
Ah, now it's there! Thank you!
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Hi Kent - I've played this tune a million times on tenor, but not on piano. LOL..
Your playing of the head nicely illustrates how you create "pulse" or ""forward motion" without a walking bass line. It appears that you utilize the "inner" fingers (sometimes the right hand, sometimes the left...) for this.
Can you elaborate on this technique? It's been a puzzle for me for quite some time on how to do this.
Thanks,
- Jeff
+Jeffrey Newton Hey Jeff, you are the best! Thanks so much for you comments and questions. Please give me some time to analyze exactly what I'm doing on this video and I will answer your question or maybe even better, put out another tutorial on the subject. Your questions are so important and perceptive, that it requires a certain amount of thought and preparation. You dig?
+Kent Hewitt Hey Kent, thanks for the high compliment! It's really cool, especially coming from such an accomplished player such as yourself. My goal is partly to pose questions that other viewers might benefit from. The sequence at about 48-52 seconds seems to indicate that the pulse is split between the hands - almost a third melody, or fill.
I vote for a separate tutorial. It seems to me that the interplay (or whatever name might fit) really makes the piano sing with an implied rhythm. My own playing is too static, or mimics what a comping pianist would do when a bass player is laying down the pulse. With you, it's as if the inner fingers have their own implied groove that interrelates with both the melody and the bass notes to keep the whole thing swinging.
I am getting some ideas. You might call it an approach tones, but you used the lydian note twice in the first four bars in a triplet figure - the B natural against F, and the F# against the C. You also used the lydian note with stress in Satin Doll. I have been mistakenly locking myself into one tonality or the other becoming a slave to the chords. Like on Foggy, I was play lydian sounds in measures 12 and 28 on Bbm6 and Eb9.
But you have showed how to "brighten" up phrase on a song that stays pretty "dark" for a while with if you use those min7b5 chord and with that signature m3 skip in the melody.
Thanks for your enlightenment on how to brighten up your sound, and that you have learned something from me, and your expertise. Bless you, brother.
I use this technic very often. just love it.
+Claiton tesch Thanks for letting me know!