"Embraceable You", Gershwin's Most Romantic Song, Piano Tutorial, 9 min.
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2015
- Short performance of George Gershwin's 'Embraceable You", with analysis of chord voicings, substitute chords, reharmonization, chord progression and stylistic techniques. It also shows how to modulate (change key) in the middle of the song. Check out my method book for more explanations and details. www.kenthewitt.com
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I love your arrangement - modulation and style change from "small" to "big" sound is amazing! Thank you very much Kent for the great tutorial!
Thanks for listening!
OMG.... Gershwin was truly amazing. The music, the lyrics, makes you want to fall in love and never leave that moment.
I hear you, Charles. We musicians have been given a great gift from composers like Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, Kern, and so many geniuses. Those w/ ears to hear it are also blessed.
BIG YES to the question "Hope you enjoyed this?", I'm studying this standard in G, F, Eb (now), and I'm still finding my way...Playing the original arrangement is helping, but im a bit lost with the rest....
I'd suggest watching my playlist on reharmonization, to learn more on how to take sheet music to the next level. Thanks! ruclips.net/p/PLFuMibnl_h5bnxJceNIZGkHICl-NoFLwY
Masterpiece of a melody made glorious by your artistry - Mr.George and Mr.Kent: as good as it gets!
+Dreadnaught Great comment! I'm not in a league w/ George but we're all privileged to have his great music. Thank you so much ...I really appreciate your support.
Amazing Kent! Thank you!
Very welcome!
I got IT!!!! Thanks Kent!
Thank you!
Great Lesson
Great song
Thanks. A lot
Glad you like it!
Always something to learn and benefit from your tutor age,sir. Thank you.
So nice of you!
Magnificent Kent, as usual! And revelatory. Thanks
Masterful!!
Lovely! And I love you talking about some of the work you're doing with chords.
Thanks again for a perceptive comment!
It is a pleasure to listen your playing. Great musician, teacher and entertainer. Best wishes
Very happy to have found this video. Mr. Hewitt brings out the best of this wonderful Gershwin tune with his harmonic arrangement. Look forward to more!
Many thanks and blessings to you, sir.
"Hope you enjoyed this!" A resounding "Yes!" Beautiful performance of a timeless tune and great insights into building the song arrangement. Be well, Kent!
Great comment, Jay, thanks for writing...and welcome back! Are you subscribed to my channel?
@@KentHewittpiano88 Subscribed? You bet - I never left!
Nice stuff!!! Reharmonization can be so much fun and you definitely got a knack for it. Beautiful stuff and well articulated!
Fascinating
Once again thanks for this tutorial. Have played this ballad for yrs. & this is enhancing the playing. Great cause I can apply these ideas to other tunes. Watching your piano & hearing it all at the same time completes the puzzle.
+Lewis Martiniello Thanks for the nice comment. Glad it's working for you. In case you missed it check here: ruclips.net/channel/UCdmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCwplaylists
Great and wonderful
Thank you for this!
Thanks for the comment...Thomas,!!
Thanks for the chords! I'm arranging this song for my sax with orchestra (Mood style), and I will be using many of the chords that you presented. Excellent work!!!
That's great to know, Pepper, and I appreciate your writing to me. All the best with your work!
Thank you very much Kent. Very beautiful!!!
You are very welcome!
I love your breakdown and tempo of the lesson. You're playing and explaining at a good rate of speed as opposed to other videos where the explanation takes foreeeeeever. This was great. I love your substitutions, use of the number system, scales and left hand comping. Well done, sir.
Thanks so much for the positive feedback ...very helpful to me!
Qué bonita es esa pieza!!! Yo ví la vida de Jane Fromman varias veces en la tele y esa la cantaba en sus presentaciones. Qué bonito la tocaste Kent 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻!
A new follower! Thank you so much for this lesson Mr Hewitt. I love listening to you play - you are such a master of the piano. And I love your humor too! You are the best
Daniel, thanks for the great comment...much appreciated!
Fantástica interpretación! The best! Tks!
Thanks so much!
You are amazing with what you have anchieved ! I'm sending you personal blessing my friend. Thank you for the inspiration and for the time to be so dedicated to what you do to upload these unique videos.
Much love!
-looperman
Bulgaria
You honor me, sir, and for that I am very grateful. I'm happy to pass on the knowledge and your comment is a motivation for me to keep at it. Thank you!
Hi Kent,
Your videos pull together a lot of things I didn't quite have a grasp on. Embraceable You and Somewhere Over the Rainbow have been a big help in a short period of time. Thanks for all your help. You have a great group of subscribers as well.
+logiclab1 You're right...they are a great group. Sometimes they send me an email and tell me their story, which I'm very interested to hear. Thanks!
Yes I learn a lot from you Kent altered upperstructure fx and tritone substitution very good Kent thanks
Thanks for telling me!
brilliant playing and good explanation. An all-time great tune.
Glad you liked it!
I did enjoy it very much 🙏🏼
Glad to hear!
Great lesson! Thanks.
Thank you!
Just love this! Any chance you could put the sheet music up - have tried watching over and over but not quick enough to note all the chords. 🤪
You are playing so beautiful Mr!
Many thanks!
genius 🙌
Thanks!
cool I learn a lot from these vids ... knowing enough theory and ear recognition to just try and apply :)
Thanks for the affirmation. You can slow down the videos using the wheel settings button. Also here's a list of my videos in categories:ruclips.net/channel/UCdmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCwplaylists
Wow that was beautifully played as always 💜
Thanks for listening!
you got the skills!!
Thank you...a little inspiration and a lot of practice.
Thank you so much, these are wonderful tips. I love especially your super locrian scale at 1:50. This is delightful jazz. Greats from Antwerp in Belgium.
Thanks very much for the comment.
Yes!
Thanks!
So lovely to listen too Kent.
***** I'm glad you liked it, and thanks for the comment!
your very welcome.
Beautifully played.Thank you so much .I’m trying to follow how you play it but I know I won’t be able play the way you do it🥰
Thanks for the positive feedback!
beautiful
Eye of the beholder!
Waohhh ...
you are amazing
Because your wrote this: If I knew you, I would say the same to you, I'm sure.
nice how you switch keys before the B part I don't play the tune that way but might do in the future though ). Definitely one of my favorites balades and part of my repertoire.
Cool, thanks!
Johnny Costa's version of this song is one of the most beautiful things ever
I'm sure I would agree, but I haven't heard it, but I know his playing and artistry.
@@KentHewittpiano88 I can highly recommend checking it out. Btw, thanks for all your tutorials they are super helpful and I really appreciate what you have done for all us jazz lovers!
Really enjoyed this Kent. You play it so beautifully. I understand but not quite there yet. Loved the intro which I’m trying to emulate in my key but I mustn’t get the cart before the horse ! Back to your book now for more studying 👏😊
Sometimes the cart after the horse works!
Kent Hewitt Funny ! I think I just got it ! 😂👏👏👏👏👏
WOW! Nothing written. Everything from the top of the head. Thank you, sir, for the tutorial.
Thanks so much!
This is a beautiful version. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. It is very useful for my playing. Greatings from Paris
Thank you from Paris. I played there years ago...a fond memory. I appreciate the compliment.
Hello, Mr. Hewitt. Its seems to me that in the intro after you play Eb to C7b9 to fmin7 to Bb7b9, you then don’t exactly repeat the same progression, you play Eb to C Diminished to fminor7, to Bb7b9. It still sounds great, why? Can the 6 chord in 1625 not only be VI7b9 but also a plain diminished chord? Thank you so much.
Right at 0:46 is the C Diminished
This is an interesting comment because I improvised the introduction and haven't analyzed it until now. You can interpret the progression as I -VI-II-V-with a Bb pedal tone....or a better interpretation, because of the Bb pedal tone: Bb6-Bbo-Bb9sus-Bb13b9. The next progression continues using the Bb pedal and is I/V then F--#o-- approaches the ii chord - Fm7- from 1/2 step above and then Bb7b9. Remember that diminished chords also function as dominant 7 b9 chords. Dbo can also function as a C7b9. Also the F#o is in the same family as Co. In the right hand you really want to see the voice leading melodically (top note) down the Eb major scale, and the significance of the movement of the bottom note in the right hand. Thanks for the question! THE CROSS OUT IS NOT MINE and words are omitted...weird glitch....please write to my email for my complete response...thanks.
I am a venezuelan in BERLÍN
All the best to you!
A little bit late to the party... But at 2:56 he is explaining that he is playing a C7 flat 9, resolving to the F minor seven, and repeating it then afterwards. However the diminished chord in the repetition is different, do you still consider it to behave as a C7 (but with just different notes? Because the second dim doesn't feel like a C7)? Awesome piece btw, big fan :)
I was just interested in the musical theory behind it (trying to learn as much as I can on pieces that I practice)
Good question. The 2 examples are different inversions so the approach chords to the Fm are diminished chords. The 1st one is Dbo7 approaching from half step above ( functions like a C7). The repeated section the Fm is approached by a Gbo7 from half step above. These 2 approaches are different because of the inversions, but the effect is the same. Good subject for a new video. Thanks!
@@KentHewittpiano88 Thank you kindly for the reply!! A video about this topic would be incredibly helpful, these approaches seem to be applicable in a lot of pieces :). Thanks again and keep up the good work!
MAestro, I really wonder, WHY you are so nice ,to teach US your secrets, We'll never .
know .............May the FORCE be with you !!!!.
Like I have written many times, I have the time and motivation to do this. I learn a lot from the process and I enjoy doing it. It is challenging for me and I hope I can grow from it. This is all besides the "giving /receiving" aspect and your kind words which help me.
Well Maestro, as I said The force be with you!
Heartfelt thanks!
I really need to learn chord progression. Any sheet music for this for us sight readers?
I don't have the score but it's available in fake books and transcription books on Gershwin. Go to Hal Leonard music.
is there a sheet music for that song on your website? I could not find any?
thanks.
I probably didn't use or write a lead sheet for this one. However there's many other scores there . Go Here: ...www.kenthewitt.com/id38.html
+Kent Hewitt thanks. I am enjoying every single piece
I enjoy and appreciate very much your way of teaching, with competence, clarity, simplicity and in a humorous way and also your generosity. Thanks a lot ! I will, sure, buy your books!
Fantastic! Any sheet music for this one? Would be much appreciated!
This month’s goal: be able to keep up with what you are teaching here without having to pause every 3 seconds to catch up.
Please go to instructional video on how to use my channel and RUclips to best advantage. You can slow down the speed to %50 , stop and re-run, or move forward using all these tips. ruclips.net/video/07Qlhd_-p0s/видео.html
@2:48 ya playing a Bb6 (and not a major 7 as ya telling) So it's
(I) VI II V
Bb6 C7/b9 Fm7 Bb7/b9
Anyway great tutorial. Thanks Kentt for making it.
Well just some secs at that 'locked hand' thing I'm got out of this tutorial.
Guess I need much more practice.
Anyway here's a sheet of 'Embraceable You' that is in Eb:
www.hvar.komerce.cz/fakebook/089.gif
(to only I found in Eb; most others are G like the on in the Realbook.)
Great Tune! Could you do Chelsea Bridge one day?
+andy m Thanks for the comment ...I'll give that some thought. Please subscribe and check out my videos.'
+Kent Hewitt Cheer's Mate! Thanks for the Teaching's, more power to you.
George Gershwin wrote in in E, for you to master it in C !!!! that's Great.
I did not realize he wrote it in E. In most books it's written in G major. I played the first 3 sections in Eb major and then modulated to G for the last section. Thanks!
Well . I go for what my Old Legal fake book says, You must be absolutely correct.
I `just love the way you play it and everybody agrees that.
If you were able to get a copy of the original sheet music, that would be the key that the composer wrote it in. Otherwise, you rely on recordings or transcription books.
Great ! Still a bit too fast though : (
Kurt Diedericks IThanks! I tried to get a lot of overview into 8 minutes...not really breaking it down...maybe I can do another video a little slower if it would be helpful. My other videos are a lot slower.
George's brother Ira wrote the wonderful lyrics.
That's correct, they were an amazing team. But how about Rodgers and Hammerstein II?
@@KentHewittpiano88 most certainly!
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useless gibberish for anyone who isn't all too familiar with their d flat seventh chords and c minor and dominant in b flat; the 2 five into the four, playing the g 7th altered etc. How about showing Gershwin's music and playing that very well instead of this bullshit. He says this is where "I" modulate, -- man just play the Gershwin if you can, who forgot more than you ever knew
If you want a concert...there's plenty of that on RUclips. This is a jazz tutorial channel.
Sad John...Please realize this is for an audience of more than 1