Unbelievable, the whole thing...the outfits (so jazz man style), the sophisticated sense of humor, the gorgeous piano, and, of course, “the man” himself who has become my new idol (it used to be Jon Bon Jovi!) haha lol !
Wow, Sally, you figured me out to a "T". Just kidding...with all humility...I have more fun when I put more personality into this whole piano instruction bit...and you get it. so thanks!! (also for the JBJ ...wish (or don't) I could be famous).
My piano teacher once quoted Stravinsky when he said "Good composers borrow, Great ones steal,” This was a master class in modulating theory. And I was looking for a simple way to go from Ab to Eb in a song that I was working on. This video just opened my mind to all kinds of possibilities.
I have been taught this in a non-jazz perspective. My music theory IV professor showed me how to go to any key possible, major or minor. They are non-jazz because they do not induce the ii-V-I technique. Now...here is an extra modulation tip for the other viewers if they want to try something out for fun. I am not adding to the video or being rude, and if so, you can delete my comment. Modulate a tritone up/down [C Major to F# Major] by going up a 1/2 step (C to C#7 to F#). Next, try modulating a whole step up [C Major or D Major] using the 1st method in the video but a minor third down instead of a major third down (C to A7 to D). Other than that, great video!
Always an inspiration and great teacher. Your playing keeps the music worth learning, I find new appreciation for the songs whenever I hear your lessons
Yes ! you did it again Kent...I'm having so much education listening to you...and what a nice suit - shows you have excellent taste not only in music but in "jazz finery"...so grateful!
Many thanks for all your wonderful work putting these videos together. It's great to hear how you're thinking about the harmonies as you play the examples, but it's even more inspiring to hear and see how fluently you execute all the subtle voicings and fills. Again, many thanks. P.S. The outfit is also very cool!
Kent.. I never really thought about this but now I see how this 2 5 1 works to get you to a different key. Great examples you have given which makes it really clear. Thanks once again!
My compliments to your tailor..and this was an awesome lesson, too! Btw, I think it would be an interesting study to take one song and modulate into all twelve keys. Think of all the possibilities!
Signor Marinduque...I wish I could visit you in the Philippines, but since that is not likely...this is the next best thing ...to share our friendship through the music we love.
Looking very stylish! I love the outfit. I've also been admiring the beautiful wooden grain of your piano. The modulations in the excerpt from "The Song Is You" blew my mind. Your explanations are concise and thorough as always. You say so much with such efficiency, a masterful communicator in several ways! My deepest gratitude for your great videos and insights. I really dig your sometimes excessive sense of humor; if a skit takes seven minutes of absurdity to get a point across, it can very well be worth it. Some people are probably just not your level yet, they might need deeper levels of understanding before they really get it. Your humour is tasteful & top notch to me; keep it coming when it feels right! Cheers from snowy Canada, brother! Keep singin' and swingin'!
I have learned quite a bit from your videos in the 6 months since I've been viewing them. A lot of things were over my head for a while, but they are slowly coming more into focus. You are arguably the best instructor of these types of videos on all of YT. One thing I wish you did more, is do examples with regular block chords so that things are easier to see what's happening as far as notes go, then going back into your regular style of playing to demo after. Thanks again, Kent
It´s always a pleasure for me to follow your video essons. In a rather short time you are explaining and showing so many useful jazz piano techniques and tricks that are really helpful. And I like your pointed introductions and endings. Thank´s Kent.You have a fan from Austria.
Thank you! I was there in "**" My 1st trip to Europe. Great country to start with. So beautiful...wish I could return. I played in jam sessions in Vienna and Innsbruck.
This is a great lesson in harmony. Is it just me or do you think the best and most knowledgeable composers tend to modulate in their songs? No boundarys between classical music and jazz.. so true.
Listening again, after nearly 3 years, this is as fresh as next years spring! Great explanations of modulatory process. I also loved the Manilow reference - so true!
Thanks so much for the comment...and I'm glad it's still fresh to you. I love to hear comments that are about older videos....I think they are important....but I will never know. Swing loose!
God, I had to stop before Mack The Knife started just to talk about how floored I am. I've been taking theory more seriously the past 2 years, and I've learned A LOT. But I only just realized how much I've learned. Truly...it's hard to gauge progress for skills you learn alone. But I know this: 2 years ago, I wouldn't have been interested in what you were saying because I wouldn't have been able to understand it...any of it. About 5 minutes into this video, I had a moment of realization. A genuine full jaw drop and a wide eyed "woah. holy.... SHIT. I understand this!?". And that's when I realized...my god. This is an incredible musician and a genuine master of his craft. It felt like the moment in an old school karate film when the protag is "finally" able to "see" the movements of his teacher lmao. And it wasn't even that I understood the intracacies of it all. It was like watching a show you've seen a hundred times but now in Russian. You miss the finer points, but you know the message lmao. This guy speaks and plays music as effortlessly as he does English, and he does it in a god damn black suit, sunglasses and a hat....indoors. I fucking love humans.
I came here to learn rudimentary key change methods for my rudimentary guitar playing and became entranced at the brilliance of your explanations [and marvelous examples]. Appreciation of effective changes is like a golden key, thank you.
This video just shows me how far behind I am from where I want to be, but it is the first time in months that I actually see modulation happening in real time and I finally see it!. Great content Kent. Cheers
@@ConservativeAnthem maybe a little all over the place, but it's the first time I got the concept in action, even though I've seen countless videos for the definition of it. I never understood how to ACTUALLY make the choice in using them
Please see my Beginner Series if you need a simpler explanation of techniques. I try to relate to all levels of ability, and that's not an easy thing to do, in every video. I appreciate the verbal exchange. ruclips.net/channel/UCdmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCwplaylists
Another avalanche of jaw dropping harmonic theory and it’s practical application, illustrated through the use of classic songs. There is so much to learn here, even the choice of songs and composers deserve serious study, and I mean before sitting down at the piano and trying to tackle them. You are truly the generous professor of jazz, Kent!Have you considered writing a second book that is a roadmap of how to practice and digest all the material in your first book and your videos? For instance, when you talk about making up for practice time you lost during your banking career, what was your practice regimen? How did you approach absorbing that huge sea of musical knowledge that needed to be learned? I’ve been working on your ii-v-i exercises for over a month and I still haven’t hit the 3rd inversions yet.A video on “how to practice” might be pretty valuable if you ever feel so inclined. In the meantime, sincere thanks for all the lessons and inspiration!
Very cool, sir. I'm trying to answer 100 comments in 2 days, but I want to seriously consider your suggestions. Please write to me at my email address so I can give some serious study to your ideas...and thank you! kenthewit@hotmail.com
I love you and your musical wisdom more. Thank you ever so much for your great teaching. I'm a Newby in Jazz, the plan is to incorporate your gems into my songwriting. You also dress the part .
Thando...you are so kind. Please check out my playlists and select the categories that are best for your situation. Here: ruclips.net/channel/UCdmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCwplaylistsI now have 190 videos , so just there's a lot there.
Hahaha I Adore your sense of humour, your are full of art and have great spirit, you respire and also inspire art with your delightful playing and your subtil and inestimable knowledge you give to us !!! Your channel is one of the best of the universe and beyond !!! mil gracias por tu dedicacion y generosidad, you made me happy when I learn to you !!!! a friendly jazzy hug from Paris, chapeau l'artiste !!! :) (sorry for my froggy english)
You've just been admitted into the "Elite Club". Without humor ...what do we have?....in this world that we're born into.... without alternative choices. Jazzy hugs!!
People who communicate well turns a complex idea into a simple one and Kent Hewitt is such a person. Put up your Paypal email and I will gladly show my gratitude.
tnx Kent! I will be watching this a few times. You are a great teacher, I really didnt know what modulation was exactly, your explaination techniques and great example songs are making sense. All the things you are still confuses me still with so many key changes, I end up landing on the wrong key at the end of the song. I have a little peformance in just over a week for 3 radio plays. Not much jazz so much but small improvisations on some familiar classical motifs. I have to move the tonal center for drama, to create sometimes a sense of urgency or resolution whatever, it all helps big time
Thanks, William....I'm glad if I could shed some light on modulation. All The Things You Are is Kern's tour de force for changing tonal centers throughout the song, for usually periods of 2 to 4 measures. It especially uses the common tone technique to move from one tonal center to another...extremely clever. Thanks for all your support and good luck with your radio play performance...I'm sure you'll be a "hit"! Tell me how it goes.
KH: I wish to tell the Alter Ego Man what a great lesson we all had while he was gone up north. Maybe he'll be around when you do the sequel on how to return or modulate back to the original key. Thumbs up to you and the Alter Ego Man. You guys, sre great!
I'm taking notes on this. It's like a mini composer class. . As I thought about this.l; I see this as going to the sharp 5 dominant to get back to 5 of the the key we want to modulate 2..And that makes sense when we move the g chord up a semitone or half step, we just did a sharp 5 chord.. I have to internalize things.. that way I'll remember it longterm..
Great, great info! Another song that just slams into the new key without a five chord is “Night and Day” by Cole Porter - although very brief, I still hear it as a new key. These American Songbook composers were on the genius level for sure. Thanks for sharing and teaching!
That's a good point about Night and Day. Another great one is All the things You Are, the modulation at the end of the bridge. Another great one by Kern: The Song Is You (end of bridge).
Thanks again, Mr. H. The Song Is You... so very difficult to learn and play. Oscar Peterson and Charlie Parker prevail for virtuosity, but my brain can follow more easily the vocal versions like Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. Whew! What a tune!
Really cool vid. In my experience tertial modulations seem to be especially popular in the bridges of ballads. To name a few, Nightingale in Berkeley Square, Polkadots & Moonbeams, Detour Ahead, What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life...
Often the bridge will modulate in Great American Songbook standards, then they have to figure out a clever way to get back to the original key, for the last section.
Love the leading tone concept to modulate. Now to get my intuition to be ready for the transposition to a new key then "YIKES" two bars in we're in yet another key!!!! "Hey Kent....Gotta chart???? My ears are turning into cauliflower."😨
Hey Kent ~ This is absolutely "Fantastic" and I don't even play piano. Amazing,,, Theory- Love this~ Thank you!! Tuning hammer on the upper "G" please The "third" string is flat -
Wonderful wonderful. Thank you very much for all of your ever so helpful tutorials. It's because of people like you that I've started liking jazz music very much. Do you possibly have any recommendations for songs to learn to add to my jazz collection? I am a relatively advanced pianist with a classical background. Thanks for the help, and keep up the excellent videos!
Where is the jazz ranch and how do I get there?. Lol. Would love to be able to study with you personally, and by no means would be the best candidate, but I would love it more than most. This is the next best thing and I just can't tell you how much this means to people like me. Thank you for sharing this.
Aaron, you are a cool cat. It was my jazz buddies, (who dressed cool and talked jive) when I was in my 20's, that taught me how to imitate a hip cat, because it didn't come naturally.... although Dizzy and Monk were my heroes and I wanted to be like them. However I'm sure I could give you tips on that... altho I can't say that would work as far as lessons are concerned..., because that's very personal, and only time will tell. Write to me at kenthewitt@hotmail.com. Blessing, brother!
This is beautiful stuff. Thanks, I can't really digest how exactly you're doing it, but at least I have a general idea of what's going on. Thing is I'm not sure which ii and V we're using. BUT it's okay I'm doing my due diligence right now. Awesome vid, and thanks for all the new music recommendations (except fly me to the moon, which was the only one I knew).
Starting from the old key, you use the ii and V of the NEW key, which leads you to the I of the new key. Example--C major to D major: C Major > e minor (ii of D) > A Major (V of D) > D Major. If you make the A major into an A7 (V7), it is more powerful. Additionally, making the e minor into an e minor 7 is also very effective.
Hi - I want to download all your videos so they are not lost - do you have back ups ? I have been playing blues for 30 years and never understood how to transition technically into jazz - you have saved my life. Literally - this is the greatest gift to music- kind imaginable. Thanks my man.
Thanks so much for the compliment. I don't know how to tell you the process for downloading videos from RUclips. Please tell me if you know. I have saved most of my videos in files, but some of them have been lost, so they only exist on RUclips.
I have built software which allows you to use youtube-dl which lets you down load them. However I see you have a website - you might be able to incorporate youtube-dl into that if you know how to code ? However there are graphical user interfaces which let you do it. Google -> youtube-dl Your videos are so helpful - I have two boys under 8 and they are now starting to learn - ALL THE SCALES - not just bloody classical.
Great video, Kent! As I listen and try humbly to play along, I reflect that the piano are the keys to your musical universe. (Pardon the poor pun and alliteration.) But it makes me wonder what instrument you would like to play if the piano was not your mistress and muse?
I love the violin and the acoustic guitar, but I wouldn't be good at them. I have played the sax, bass, and vibes in the past, as well as trombone and trumpet in school bands.
@@KentHewittpiano88 The vibes are a cool instrument for sure, and the acoustic bass can be amazing as well. It doesn't surprise me that you have experience with multiple instruments given the way you voice your solo piano playing. So subtle and nuanced. When you play a standard, the interplay of the voices is beautiful. I have my father's violin but have never attempted to play it. He was a concert level violinist with a scholarship to Italy to study as a teenager, but he elected to become a surgeon The second of nine in a poor family he used to play for the elites in Newport as a youngster to help put food on the table.
In „Fly me to the Moon“, I like to play ...Dm G7 Amaj/E (the third=C# played with the left hand as tenor voice) F#m Dm G7 C and then turnaround B7b5 Ealt Am 😊 try it out!
Thanks for the answer :) you can go for a regular swing and just use one bar for one chord, Amaj/E and F#m (which can also be played as F# Alt, but it doesn't sound so natural anymore) are just the replacements for Cmaj Am7b5 :) try it out!
Kent.. when we get to the key, we should not be thinking dominant, right? I would think this would set up a new f I've to one.. Of course in 12 bar blues it would be a dominant, I would think. .
This is an excellent video, but I wish you would have gone slower. Chords and progressions and modulations have always been a mystery to me. Maybe you could take a simple song like Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star or Mary had a Little Lamb and modulate those tunes, but slowly. Again, this is a great video, but it's difficult for me to follow.
Louis, please watch this video. it will help you learn how to slow down the videos and stop and rewind, to review sections at a time. ruclips.net/video/07Qlhd_-p0s/видео.html
I believe I was referring to Jerome Kern , and specifically: "All The Things You Are" which has multiple key centers. But also Barry Manilow, often modulated up a half step on his out chorus, to make a big finish, .
3:41 - "check out Barry Manilow..." with the notable exception of "I Write The Songs" :-) I always thought Jerome Kern went "all over the place" because HE was the original Star Trek captain (where no one had gone before!) :-) XO - M
Hi! Im a beginner and only know the basics of piano theory but Im very interested in jazz piano. What should I be learning so that I can understand the theory in your videos? Thanks!
Hi, go to my playlists. Start with the Theory lessons. Also start with the Beginner Jazz Series and Easy Jazz Lessons. Once you cover those and understand everything you can move onto other subjects. Click on the title under the video (not the video) to see the list of videos in each category. Go here: ruclips.net/channel/UCdmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCwplaylists
This is theory in practical use. This is confusing to beginners and others.. When Kent is playing in key of c instead of having an abrupt c to db he changes from the dominant chord g7 g b d f (13 5 b7) of g, to ab key. ab c eb. this seems to make no sense at first blush. I write things out when learning. I want to go up to db but I use a half step five chord (ab) to get to the db.. It seems out of place. Look at the notes g7 g b d f, now look at ab7 notes. They are ab c eb gb.. Now you are only concerned with transition the ab7 to db. We are not concerned with c scale.. We are modulating up to db. We are working with the db scale. (db eb f gb ab bb c db. That is the ( 1 2 3 etc) In real life this takes a microsecond. Ultimately you are trying to go to db.We are now in db by coming from r the five.. Another way to do this..is let there be a relative silence for a measure hit the ab and go to db key. It's the same idea but there are many ways to modulate..I know you are a beginner. We were all beginners. It will take time and practice. Often what doesn't make sense one day, will make sense another day..
Perhaps useful for advanced players but I always find Kent's videos quite confused and confusing, and the pdfs doesn't help much a modest player to understand jazz piano. A lot of information for sure but perhaps too much and too fast to be really used and understood. That said we all love Kent.
You've obviously missed viewing my Beginner Jazz Series and Easy Jazz Tutorials. Also my beginner Improvisation video's . Check my playlists on my channel page here: ruclips.net/channel/UCdmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCwplaylists I have over 300 videos and easily 25% are geared specifically to beginner or modest levels. Thanks.
The V chord is usually dominant in quality, so it is a major triad with added minor 7th (b7) . So V of Am would be E7. It's an altered chord in the key of C...relative major to Am.
Hi, great video! Can you please tell me where the hard copy of instructions for modulating is that you spoke of? I went to your website, but didn't see anything to click on for this. Thank you.
The sheet is under the heading Modulations on my free scores page. storage.googleapis.com/wzukusers/user-26455100/documents/5a15b710204f5kbszgvS/Modulations3.pdf
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Unbelievable, the whole thing...the outfits (so jazz man style), the sophisticated sense of humor, the gorgeous piano, and, of course, “the man” himself who has become my new idol (it used to be Jon Bon Jovi!) haha lol !
Wow, Sally, you figured me out to a "T". Just kidding...with all humility...I have more fun when I put more personality into this whole piano instruction bit...and you get it. so thanks!! (also for the JBJ ...wish (or don't) I could be famous).
My piano teacher once quoted Stravinsky when he said "Good composers borrow, Great ones steal,” This was a master class in modulating theory. And I was looking for a simple way to go from Ab to Eb in a song that I was working on. This video just opened my mind to all kinds of possibilities.
I'm glad to hear that, Ric...and thanks for the quote, I love that!
What do u mewn by steal??
@@jojo-fj7lw to observe, imitate and to put into your repertoire. What's hard to understand about that?
I have been taught this in a non-jazz perspective. My music theory IV professor showed me how to go to any key possible, major or minor. They are non-jazz because they do not induce the ii-V-I technique. Now...here is an extra modulation tip for the other viewers if they want to try something out for fun. I am not adding to the video or being rude, and if so, you can delete my comment. Modulate a tritone up/down [C Major to F# Major] by going up a 1/2 step (C to C#7 to F#). Next, try modulating a whole step up [C Major or D Major] using the 1st method in the video but a minor third down instead of a major third down (C to A7 to D). Other than that, great video!
Beautiful playing, combined with a great lesson on modulating.
Thanks for telling me!
Always an inspiration and great teacher. Your playing keeps the music worth learning, I find new appreciation for the songs whenever I hear your lessons
Yes ! you did it again Kent...I'm having so much education listening to you...and what a nice suit - shows you have excellent taste not only in music but in "jazz finery"...so grateful!
This is one of the best lessons I’ve ever seen. Thank you
Wow, thank you!
Many thanks for all your wonderful work putting these videos together. It's great to hear how you're thinking about the harmonies as you play the examples, but it's even more inspiring to hear and see how fluently you execute all the subtle voicings and fills. Again, many thanks. P.S. The outfit is also very cool!
Excellent comment....very helpful to me....thanks so much!
i love your choice of style
Thank you!
@@KentHewittpiano88 oh and do you have any ideas on how I can modulate from G to E?
Kent.. I never really thought about this but now I see how this 2 5 1 works to get you to a different key. Great examples you have given which makes it really clear. Thanks once again!
My compliments to your tailor..and this was an awesome lesson, too! Btw, I think it would be an interesting study to take one song and modulate into all twelve keys. Think of all the possibilities!
Your lessons are something to look forward to... and is fast becoming a wondrous habit! Thank you, Signor Kent 😃
Signor Marinduque...I wish I could visit you in the Philippines, but since that is not likely...this is the next best thing ...to share our friendship through the music we love.
Best video on the topic that I've seen. Thanks.
Wow, thanks!
Marvellous, exactly what I needed. Thanks so much.
Thanks for the comment!
Looking very stylish! I love the outfit. I've also been admiring the beautiful wooden grain of your piano.
The modulations in the excerpt from "The Song Is You" blew my mind. Your explanations are concise and thorough as always. You say so much with such efficiency, a masterful communicator in several ways! My deepest gratitude for your great videos and insights.
I really dig your sometimes excessive sense of humor; if a skit takes seven minutes of absurdity to get a point across, it can very well be worth it. Some people are probably just not your level yet, they might need deeper levels of understanding before they really get it. Your humour is tasteful & top notch to me; keep it coming when it feels right!
Cheers from snowy Canada, brother! Keep singin' and swingin'!
I have learned quite a bit from your videos in the 6 months since I've been viewing them. A lot of things were over my head for a while, but they are slowly coming more into focus. You are arguably the best instructor of these types of videos on all of YT. One thing I wish you did more, is do examples with regular block chords so that things are easier to see what's happening as far as notes go, then going back into your regular style of playing to demo after. Thanks again, Kent
Kent, Thank you for this and you many other videos. You are changing the lives of everyone who hears your music and listens.
That comment is very affirming and greatly appreciated....keeps me going!
It´s always a pleasure for me to follow your video essons. In a rather short time you are explaining and showing so many useful jazz piano techniques and tricks that are really helpful. And I like your pointed introductions and endings. Thank´s Kent.You have a fan from Austria.
Thank you! I was there in "**" My 1st trip to Europe. Great country to start with. So beautiful...wish I could return. I played in jam sessions in Vienna and Innsbruck.
This is a great lesson in harmony. Is it just me or do you think the best and most knowledgeable composers tend to modulate in their songs? No boundarys between classical music and jazz.. so true.
Listening again, after nearly 3 years, this is as fresh as next years spring! Great explanations of modulatory process. I also loved the Manilow reference - so true!
Thanks so much for the comment...and I'm glad it's still fresh to you. I love to hear comments that are about older videos....I think they are important....but I will never know. Swing loose!
rooting for you to get to 100k subs very soon. Seriouly my favorite Jazz channel.You personality keeps us coming back.Thanks!
Kay, Thank you!...It's always great to hear from you... and I send my highest respect! Peace and love, brother.
I agree with you Bro.But I must add that you compliment him so well with your youtube channel.
Sello Moeketsi thank you!
Just a wonderful lesson. Using examples helps make it soooo much clearer. I think you found a good lesson style here. Thanks.
God, I had to stop before Mack The Knife started just to talk about how floored I am.
I've been taking theory more seriously the past 2 years, and I've learned A LOT. But I only just realized how much I've learned. Truly...it's hard to gauge progress for skills you learn alone.
But I know this: 2 years ago, I wouldn't have been interested in what you were saying because I wouldn't have been able to understand it...any of it.
About 5 minutes into this video, I had a moment of realization. A genuine full jaw drop and a wide eyed "woah. holy.... SHIT. I understand this!?".
And that's when I realized...my god. This is an incredible musician and a genuine master of his craft. It felt like the moment in an old school karate film when the protag is "finally" able to "see" the movements of his teacher lmao.
And it wasn't even that I understood the intracacies of it all. It was like watching a show you've seen a hundred times but now in Russian. You miss the finer points, but you know the message lmao.
This guy speaks and plays music as effortlessly as he does English, and he does it in a god damn black suit, sunglasses and a hat....indoors.
I fucking love humans.
What can I say?..incredible comment...I'm so happy for you...and appreciate that you told me....like a shot in the arm...thanks!
@@KentHewittpiano88 (:
I came here to learn rudimentary key change methods for my rudimentary guitar playing and became entranced at the brilliance of your explanations [and marvelous examples]. Appreciation of effective changes is like a golden key, thank you.
That's a great comment, sir, you honor me, and this kind of support keeps me going. Blessings!
Great lesson Kent (i know this is old but hey..) I have to say there are a lot of nice ideas here. Thank you.
I'm very happy you wrote a comment...I think a lot of my early videos are valuable but hardly watched anymore.
Fantastic, Maestro KH:for songwriting and for arranging and analysis. Very inspiring and imm useful. BREAKTHROUGH"! 😎❤️🌹
Thanks for listening! Please subscribe.
@@KentHewittpiano88 Already a subbie😎
This video just shows me how far behind I am from where I want to be, but it is the first time in months that I actually see modulation happening in real time and I finally see it!. Great content Kent. Cheers
Or maybe he over complicates what could be better explained simply.
@@ConservativeAnthem maybe a little all over the place, but it's the first time I got the concept in action, even though I've seen countless videos for the definition of it. I never understood how to ACTUALLY make the choice in using them
@@kinito992 Maybe I'm just looking for a simpler explanation. It seems so many music instructionals are needlessly complicated.
Please see my Beginner Series if you need a simpler explanation of techniques. I try to relate to all levels of ability, and that's not an easy thing to do, in every video. I appreciate the verbal exchange.
ruclips.net/channel/UCdmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCwplaylists
Thanks from Spain!!
You're welcome!
Very well done video. I understood pretty much everything and was able to replicate the teachings *thumb up*.
I apprecaite the comment!
This is incredible. Thank you Master Kent, I view you as my teacher
Student=Teacher=Repore! I'm here for YOU!
Another avalanche of jaw dropping harmonic theory and it’s practical application, illustrated through the use of classic songs. There is so much to learn here, even the choice of songs and composers deserve serious study, and I mean before sitting down at the piano and trying to tackle them. You are truly the generous professor of jazz, Kent!Have you considered writing a second book that is a roadmap of how to practice and digest all the material in your first book and your videos? For instance, when you talk about making up for practice time you lost during your banking career, what was your practice regimen? How did you approach absorbing that huge sea of musical knowledge that needed to be learned? I’ve been working on your ii-v-i exercises for over a month and I still haven’t hit the 3rd inversions yet.A video on “how to practice” might be pretty valuable if you ever feel so inclined. In the meantime, sincere thanks for all the lessons and inspiration!
Very cool, sir. I'm trying to answer 100 comments in 2 days, but I want to seriously consider your suggestions. Please write to me at my email address so I can give some serious study to your ideas...and thank you! kenthewit@hotmail.com
And thank you for writing out the modulations examples and making them available. Much appreciated.
as per usual….great! thank you for all you do
Thank you too!
Thank you very much Master Jazz Pianist 🙏🏼
With your help and encouragement ...I have no limits...more to come and gratitude.
I love you and your musical wisdom more. Thank you ever so much for your great teaching. I'm a Newby in Jazz, the plan is to incorporate your gems into my songwriting. You also dress the part .
Thando...you are so kind. Please check out my playlists and select the categories that are best for your situation. Here: ruclips.net/channel/UCdmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCwplaylistsI now have 190 videos , so just there's a lot there.
Hahaha I Adore your sense of humour, your are full of art and have great spirit, you respire and also inspire art with your delightful playing and your subtil and inestimable knowledge you give to us !!! Your channel is one of the best of the universe and beyond !!! mil gracias por tu dedicacion y generosidad, you made me happy when I learn to you !!!! a friendly jazzy hug from Paris, chapeau l'artiste !!! :) (sorry for my froggy english)
You've just been admitted into the "Elite Club". Without humor ...what do we have?....in this world that we're born into.... without alternative choices. Jazzy hugs!!
Great tutorial. I appreciate the musical applications, thanks
Great comment...thanks!
Fantastico, the best tuto for modulation I have seen.
Great kesson! Thank you.
Thankyou!
What a brilliant video Kent. Your channel is one of the most amazing things on the internet!
Great comment. Why don't more people realize that?.... It must take a perceptive person like yourself...ha!
All the best to you Kent. Jazz theory at it's finest. Thank you.
Great comment. thanks so much!
thanks.. I learned a lot.. as usual with you. You are very kind to put all this out there
My pleasure!
People who communicate well turns a complex idea into a simple one and Kent Hewitt is such a person. Put up your Paypal email and I will gladly show my gratitude.
Great comment and so helpful. Best thing you can do is to buy my book...you can pay whatever you can afford ...you will help me and
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tnx Kent! I will be watching this a few times. You are a great teacher, I really didnt know what modulation was exactly, your explaination techniques and great example songs are making sense. All the things you are still confuses me still with so many key changes, I end up landing on the wrong key at the end of the song. I have a little peformance in just over a week for 3 radio plays. Not much jazz so much but small improvisations on some familiar classical motifs. I have to move the tonal center for drama, to create sometimes a sense of urgency or resolution whatever, it all helps big time
Thanks, William....I'm glad if I could shed some light on modulation. All The Things You Are is Kern's tour de force for changing tonal centers throughout the song, for usually periods of 2 to 4 measures. It especially uses the common tone technique to move from one tonal center to another...extremely clever. Thanks for all your support and good luck with your radio play performance...I'm sure you'll be a "hit"! Tell me how it goes.
Kent Hewitt... A great teacher, great man , amazing videos overall...
Thats FANTASTIC !!! Simply the best !! I'll have to digest this for at least one month ! Thank you Kent
I appreciate your comment and enthusiasm..... thanks so much, Marcos!
KH: I wish to tell the Alter Ego Man what a great lesson we all had while he was gone up north. Maybe he'll be around when you do the sequel on how to return or modulate back to the original key.
Thumbs up to you and the Alter Ego Man. You guys, sre great!
Your acknowledgement of the Alter Ego man is much appreciated!
I'm taking notes on this. It's like a
mini composer class. . As I thought about this.l; I see this as going to the sharp 5 dominant to get back to 5 of the the key we want to modulate 2..And that makes sense when we move the g chord up a semitone or half step, we just did a sharp 5 chord.. I have to internalize things.. that way I'll remember it longterm..
Kent has to be one of the coolest people on the planet
I only wish...but I appreciate your saying so.
Great, great info! Another song that just slams into the new key without a five chord is “Night and Day” by Cole Porter - although very brief, I still hear it as a new key. These American Songbook composers were on the genius level for sure. Thanks for sharing and teaching!
That's a good point about Night and Day. Another great one is All the things You Are, the modulation at the end of the bridge. Another great one by Kern: The Song Is You (end of bridge).
Thanks again, Mr. H. The Song Is You... so very difficult to learn and play. Oscar Peterson and Charlie Parker prevail for virtuosity, but my brain can follow more easily the vocal versions like Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. Whew! What a tune!
Super generous of you, thanks a lot!
My pleasure!
thanks for sharing, really well explained
Love the affirmation...thanks!
So awesome! I look forward to all your videos. And, I love the jazz quotes!
absolute gold
Thank you!
you the man, man
Thank you so much for the free scores page! You do great work!
Thanks for the comment and I'm glad you enjoy the scores.
The video is great and all but DANG do you look spiffy in that suit!
Thanks for the great video on modulation. You are a great teacher. And a cool cat.
You're pretty cool too, for telling me! Thanks!
Really cool vid. In my experience tertial modulations seem to be especially popular in the bridges of ballads. To name a few, Nightingale in Berkeley Square, Polkadots & Moonbeams, Detour Ahead, What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life...
Often the bridge will modulate in Great American Songbook standards, then they have to figure out a clever way to get back to the original key, for the last section.
Love the leading tone concept to modulate. Now to get my intuition to be ready for the transposition to a new key then "YIKES" two bars in we're in yet another key!!!!
"Hey Kent....Gotta chart???? My ears are turning into cauliflower."😨
I don't have a chart...but thanks for digging the video!
Thanks Kent. Yet another great lesson 💛
Thanks for the comment, Corinne!
Thank you sir!
You are welcome!
Thanks to you, too!
Hey Kent ~
This is absolutely "Fantastic"
and I don't even play piano.
Amazing,,, Theory- Love this~
Thank you!!
Tuning hammer on the upper "G" please
The "third" string is flat -
Yes. we live on the shore and the piano always goes out of tune. That's the price we pay for living on the shore. Swing loose, brother!
Wonderful wonderful. Thank you very much for all of your ever so helpful tutorials. It's because of people like you that I've started liking jazz music very much.
Do you possibly have any recommendations for songs to learn to add to my jazz collection?
I am a relatively advanced pianist with a classical background.
Thanks for the help, and keep up the excellent videos!
THANKS! Please write to me at my email address....it's so much more personal...here; kenthewitt@hotmail.com
You are the best kent ♥️ from 🇮🇳 india
Thanks for a great comment!
Thanks 😎
Welcome 😊
Thank you so much for great lesson!!
You're the best Kent. This was amazing.
great lesson - thanks
Wow, this is super handy , thanks for the info !!
great video thanks co much Patrick
Thank you!
smooth man..smooth!
Coool...thanks!
Where is the jazz ranch and how do I get there?. Lol. Would love to be able to study with you personally, and by no means would be the best candidate, but I would love it more than most. This is the next best thing and I just can't tell you how much this means to people like me. Thank you for sharing this.
Aaron, you are a cool cat. It was my jazz buddies, (who dressed cool and talked jive) when I was in my 20's, that taught me how to imitate a hip cat, because it didn't come naturally.... although Dizzy and Monk were my heroes and I wanted to be like them. However I'm sure I could give you tips on that... altho I can't say that would work as far as lessons are concerned..., because that's very personal, and only time will tell. Write to me at kenthewitt@hotmail.com. Blessing, brother!
Very beautiful ! Thanks !
ditto!
This is wonderful. Thank you
Thanks for the comment!
Always very helpful.
damn good video man!thank you broo
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This is beautiful stuff. Thanks, I can't really digest how exactly you're doing it, but at least I have a general idea of what's going on. Thing is I'm not sure which ii and V we're using. BUT it's okay I'm doing my due diligence right now. Awesome vid, and thanks for all the new music recommendations (except fly me to the moon, which was the only one I knew).
Starting from the old key, you use the ii and V of the NEW key, which leads you to the I of the new key.
Example--C major to D major: C Major > e minor (ii of D) > A Major (V of D) > D Major. If you make the A major into an A7 (V7), it is more powerful. Additionally, making the e minor into an e minor 7 is also very effective.
I believe you have it right, thanks for the comment!
Hi - I want to download all your videos so they are not lost - do you have back ups ?
I have been playing blues for 30 years and never understood how to transition technically into jazz - you have saved my life.
Literally - this is the greatest gift to music- kind imaginable.
Thanks my man.
Thanks so much for the compliment. I don't know how to tell you the process for downloading videos from RUclips. Please tell me if you know. I have saved most of my videos in files, but some of them have been lost, so they only exist on RUclips.
I have built software which allows you to use youtube-dl which lets you down load them. However I see you have a website - you might be able to incorporate youtube-dl into that if you know how to code ? However there are graphical user interfaces which let you do it. Google -> youtube-dl
Your videos are so helpful - I have two boys under 8 and they are now starting to learn - ALL THE SCALES - not just bloody classical.
Forgot to mention - let me know the videos you want downloaded and I can grab em for you.
Thank you for this! Do you have a sheet copy of this sir?
No, sorry. Glad you liked it.
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You are truly Awesome!
Says it all Cool 😎 Daddy!
Thanks, cool cat. Swing Loose!
God, you really know your stuff!
God Bless You
Wishing you the same, thanks!
AWESOME !
with some of these longer videos is it possible that you could add a list of contents and timestamps in the description?
I'll get on that right away...thanks for the tip....I just had 100 comments to answer in 1 day.
Thanks a lot. Yo r awesome :")
Great video, Kent! As I listen and try humbly to play along, I reflect that the piano are the keys to your musical universe. (Pardon the poor pun and alliteration.) But it makes me wonder what instrument you would like to play if the piano was not your mistress and muse?
I love the violin and the acoustic guitar, but I wouldn't be good at them. I have played the sax, bass, and vibes in the past, as well as trombone and trumpet in school bands.
@@KentHewittpiano88 The vibes are a cool instrument for sure, and the acoustic bass can be amazing as well. It doesn't surprise me that you have experience with multiple instruments given the way you voice your solo piano playing. So subtle and nuanced. When you play a standard, the interplay of the voices is beautiful. I have my father's violin but have never attempted to play it. He was a concert level violinist with a scholarship to Italy to study as a teenager, but he elected to become a surgeon The second of nine in a poor family he used to play for the elites in Newport as a youngster to help put food on the table.
In „Fly me to the Moon“, I like to play ...Dm G7 Amaj/E (the third=C# played with the left hand as tenor voice) F#m Dm G7 C and then turnaround B7b5 Ealt Am 😊 try it out!
I don't know how you fit those chords, timing wise, unless you use more measures. It's an interesting progression...thanks for the comment!
Thanks for the answer :) you can go for a regular swing and just use one bar for one chord, Amaj/E and F#m (which can also be played as F# Alt, but it doesn't sound so natural anymore) are just the replacements for Cmaj Am7b5 :) try it out!
Kent.. when we get to the key, we should not be thinking dominant, right? I would think this would set up a new f I've to one.. Of course in 12 bar blues it would be a dominant, I would think.
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This is an excellent video, but I wish you would have gone slower. Chords and progressions and modulations have always been a mystery to me. Maybe you could take a simple song like Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star or Mary had a Little Lamb and modulate those tunes, but slowly. Again, this is a great video, but it's difficult for me to follow.
Louis, please watch this video. it will help you learn how to slow down the videos and stop and rewind, to review sections at a time. ruclips.net/video/07Qlhd_-p0s/видео.html
Who did you say was the king of modulations at 20:19
I believe I was referring to Jerome Kern , and specifically: "All The Things You Are" which has multiple key centers. But also Barry Manilow, often modulated up a half step on his out chorus, to make a big finish, .
@@KentHewittpiano88 ok thank you! What other songs are similar to those if you don't mind (multiple tonal centers)?
wonderful lesson once again ....i got one question but ill send u a msg
Thanks for the comment!
3:41 - "check out Barry Manilow..." with the notable exception of "I Write The Songs" :-) I always thought Jerome Kern went "all over the place" because HE was the original Star Trek captain (where no one had gone before!) :-) XO - M
Hi! Im a beginner and only know the basics of piano theory but Im very interested in jazz piano. What should I be learning so that I can understand the theory in your videos? Thanks!
Hi, go to my playlists. Start with the Theory lessons. Also start with the Beginner Jazz Series and Easy Jazz Lessons. Once you cover those and understand everything you can move onto other subjects. Click on the title under the video (not the video) to see the list of videos in each category. Go here: ruclips.net/channel/UCdmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCwplaylists
This is theory in practical use. This is confusing to beginners and others.. When Kent is playing in key of c instead of having an abrupt c to db he changes from the dominant chord g7 g b d f (13 5 b7) of g, to ab key. ab c eb. this seems to make no sense at first blush. I write things out when learning. I want to go up to db but I use a half step five chord (ab) to get to the db.. It seems out of place. Look at the notes g7 g b d f, now look at ab7 notes. They are ab c eb gb.. Now you are only concerned with transition the ab7 to db. We are not concerned with c scale.. We are modulating up to db. We are working with the db scale. (db eb f gb ab bb c db. That is the ( 1 2 3 etc) In real life this takes a microsecond. Ultimately you are trying to go to db.We are now in db by coming from r the five.. Another way to do this..is let there be a relative silence for a measure hit the ab and go to db key. It's the same idea but there are many ways to modulate..I know you are a beginner. We were all beginners. It will take time and practice. Often what doesn't make sense one day, will make sense another day..
Perhaps useful for advanced players but I always find Kent's videos quite confused and confusing, and the pdfs doesn't help much a modest player to understand jazz piano. A lot of information for sure but perhaps too much and too fast to be really used and understood. That said we all love Kent.
You've obviously missed viewing my Beginner Jazz Series and Easy Jazz Tutorials. Also my beginner Improvisation video's . Check my playlists on my channel page here: ruclips.net/channel/UCdmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCwplaylists
I have over 300 videos and easily 25% are geared specifically to beginner or modest levels. Thanks.
I literally can't tell what key a song is in.
Watch this one: ruclips.net/video/ECHVRrHvkwQ/видео.html
I should do another vid on that issue...thanks!
why do you play an e major instead of a e minor in fly me to the moon isnt e minor the five of the relative 1 of a minor
The V chord is usually dominant in quality, so it is a major triad with added minor 7th (b7) . So V of Am would be E7. It's an altered chord in the key of C...relative major to Am.
@@KentHewittpiano88 its an altered chord!
@@KentHewittpiano88 Thank you
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The modulation up a minor 3rd right!...thanks!
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t^HAnks!
Hi, great video! Can you please tell me where the hard copy of instructions for modulating is that you spoke of? I went to your website, but didn't see anything to click on for this. Thank you.
The sheet is under the heading Modulations on my free scores page. storage.googleapis.com/wzukusers/user-26455100/documents/5a15b710204f5kbszgvS/Modulations3.pdf