Jazz Scales to play over Take Five

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  • Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
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    This lesson teaches some scales to use when improvising over Dave Brubeck's Take Five.
    thank you! :)!
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  • @Lucianoq
    @Lucianoq 10 лет назад +2

    Thank you so much! That's the sound I'm looking for and you explained it very well. I'll watch this video over and over, and I'll practice until I get the hang of it. You know, I know the theory of the scales and the modes, but nobody had explained it so well to me on how to apply it. I know I'll make progress soon! And your playing is great! Thanks!

  • @johnbemery7922
    @johnbemery7922 3 года назад +2

    This was too notch instruction, really well done! Thank you.

  • @roddonegan1623
    @roddonegan1623 6 лет назад +1

    Been working on my own compositions of late ironically in the same keys, so was on the right track if only by ear. Now with your help far better understanding a little of the theory so the sounds makes far more sense and have something of some order. Greatly appreciate you taking time to add all this information. Will be parking the laptop on the computer and teasing out all these details again and again, until they are more fully internalised. Thank you for helping me take the next step.

  • @randylazer2894
    @randylazer2894 4 года назад +1

    You truly have great talent and creativity. Your playing reminds me of jazz in the 1950's with maybe a touch of Monk.

  • @johnnysunset2740
    @johnnysunset2740 6 лет назад +1

    This is super awesome content. I have never seen piano teacher like you, thanks.

  • @alexandrawestcott7654
    @alexandrawestcott7654 8 лет назад +51

    'Major- minor scale'... also known as melodic ascending!!

  • @fernandopontes3094
    @fernandopontes3094 9 лет назад +1

    What a beautiful improvisation !!! I wondered why you used the G melodic scale over the chord Ebm7 ... thank you and continue with the videos for all of us

  • @anthonycastellon5734
    @anthonycastellon5734 10 лет назад +11

    Excellent soloing but I also like the chording your left hand plays with the jam track. Well done.

    • @weeklypiano
      @weeklypiano  5 лет назад +1

      thank you!

    • @HernanGnesutta
      @HernanGnesutta 4 года назад

      @@weeklypiano hey can you please explain a little bit the comping??

    • @HernanGnesutta
      @HernanGnesutta 4 года назад

      It's awesome and all the things you play!!! Next level!!! Thank you very much!!!

    • @oleo5213
      @oleo5213 4 года назад +1

      @@HernanGnesutta search up mccoy tyner comping

  • @peterwilson5726
    @peterwilson5726 5 лет назад +2

    Wow after ages of trying to experiment with jazz I couldn’t really do it (didn’t know the theory aha) but this has made it so clear and I can improvise take 5 the way you do 30mins after watching the video and practising thank you so much

    • @blerpp7813
      @blerpp7813 5 лет назад +1

      why u gotta flex tho

    • @peterwilson5726
      @peterwilson5726 5 лет назад

      @@blerpp7813 wasnt trying to show off just showing my appreciation for his help and it's not like I got there without hard work

  • @truetube5190
    @truetube5190 4 года назад +1

    The power of McCoy Tyner is with you sir

  • @tangopaparomeo338
    @tangopaparomeo338 2 года назад

    Awesome video, excellent inputs and fresh ideas for my solo on this piece. TY!

  • @ketchuptheboss2275
    @ketchuptheboss2275 8 лет назад +14

    I would praise you from many things but english is not my strongest language so i'll just put it this way: You are awesome and really talented teacher!

  • @umbertofiorentino3405
    @umbertofiorentino3405 10 лет назад +4

    Well done! Excellent explanation and great soloing!

  • @cora8264
    @cora8264 3 года назад +1

    soo helpful. I love your channel so much. Thank you

  • @JohnMoodyO
    @JohnMoodyO 10 лет назад +2

    Thank you for sharing your knowledge !!

  • @weibowil
    @weibowil 9 лет назад +1

    super.... jazz scales... what a revelation for classical scales me :)

  • @stuartporter7202
    @stuartporter7202 9 месяцев назад

    Nicely explained! Thank you!

  • @anandgodane8022
    @anandgodane8022 4 года назад +1

    Thank you so much sir I like your videos

  • @lancesukhu2869
    @lancesukhu2869 9 лет назад +1

    Thank you so much for making this!

  • @WBUSCH49
    @WBUSCH49 7 лет назад +1

    High Weekly Piano! that was interesting and convincing! could you please show what scale's or whatever to use over it could happen to you or how to approach the soloing with keith jarrets solo in mind? it may last 50 minutes!

    • @weeklypiano
      @weeklypiano  7 лет назад +1

      Gladly - I offer custom videos at www.weeklypiano.com!

  • @MrTheHakim
    @MrTheHakim 7 лет назад +2

    Thank you so much for this great video!
    I was wondering if somebody could tell me what's going on with his left hand. I made a list of the scales he uses; could somebody help me out with the voicings he uses for the chords that go along with these scales?
    Eb Dorian (I could see that his left hand plays Eb Bb and Eb Ab C#)
    F Pentatonic (or F blues)
    Eb minor - major
    B minor - major
    A minor - major
    G minor - major

  • @zaneeeneal
    @zaneeeneal 10 лет назад +1

    Hey man! your Evans improv tutorial was incredible, I'm a jazz pianist doing a bachelor at the moe, would be awesome if you could throw up some more? maybe Art Tatum too? :P

  • @jerryengelbach
    @jerryengelbach 8 лет назад +26

    Nice lesson.
    But "Take Five," while it was made famous by Dave Brubeck's quartet, was written by alto saxophonist Paul Desmond.

    • @aas-fj2xv
      @aas-fj2xv 8 лет назад +1

      Paul desmond plays piano

    • @natasico
      @natasico 6 лет назад

      lol, no

    • @warningchimes24
      @warningchimes24 5 лет назад +1

      True, a lot of people credit Brubeck when it was composed by Desmond

    • @acidset
      @acidset 4 года назад +2

      It was a phrase Desmond was rehearsing with Morello, months later Brubeck asked him to play it again and they worked on this piece from it. People like to whip this fact out, and while true, it was a team effort I'd say :)

  • @ptorralbod
    @ptorralbod 8 лет назад +1

    Thats awesome, but where do you get thise ideas from? I could improvise if you give the scales to improvise with or just with the basic scale from the chord, but I would have never guessed thise ones!

  • @emilioleroux
    @emilioleroux 8 лет назад +1

    Fantastic lesson! thank you!

  • @hedgeclipper418
    @hedgeclipper418 7 лет назад +1

    you're fuckin' blowing my mind mannn.
    There's a minor major scale?? It's like why didn't I ever think of that?

  • @phanjazm
    @phanjazm 4 года назад +1

    Dope video!!!

  • @louispearson8306
    @louispearson8306 7 лет назад +3

    might i Emphasize! these scales only have value if you know how to use them. otherwise your just playing a amalgamation of odd noises. The are hundreds and they are simply a way of formulating types of sounds, e.g in your head you might think of phrygian as being the "Mysterious" sound. You need to be listening and transcribing widely if you want to Learn(LISTEN!) how to use them, make phrases Once and only then that you have trained you ear a little; and discerned can you really use these to improvise.
    In the meanwhile learn these scales : play them in odd ways, play them with fitting LH chords, Arpeggiate them, do little twists and turns, play them in swing play them straight, play them in triplets. To discover your own sounds

  • @jotap97
    @jotap97 9 лет назад +1

    nice lesson!! thanks!! the only thing i didn't understand is why you use the pentatonic of F? you can use the pentatonic of Bb? and why there are more than one pentatonic in a single major scale (Db)? I tried with C and I olny found one pentatonic scale in it. Scuse me for my bad English speaking (I speak spanish), and for my basic knowledge of theory. Nice job :)

  • @jaueaff1476
    @jaueaff1476 9 лет назад +1

    Thanks Dude! Great Video!

  • @raweejr.4693
    @raweejr.4693 7 лет назад +1

    Ultra helpful! Thanks:)

  • @dylancarther9627
    @dylancarther9627 2 года назад +1

    well explained

  • @miretchin
    @miretchin 10 лет назад +2

    I found this video (and all of your more recent teaching-style videos) to be very informative. I was wondering where the AMA on reddit was that you referenced- and also... Please do more theory oriented videos. I would especially be interested in a video explaining the technique of planing in more depth. And anything that has helped you in soloing and improvising (exercises, perhaps?) Would also be greatly appreciated. I just found your videos- very helpful so far! Keep it up. Thanks!

  • @mrbeandip2356
    @mrbeandip2356 6 лет назад +1

    My favorite Scale is the F minor Pentatonic scale. It's sounds the coolest.

  • @thestratocaster
    @thestratocaster 4 года назад +1

    Awesome video! I am a jazz-guitarist and this tutorial explained me more things than a music-lesson at my college! Thaks a lot!!! (:

  • @jazzerson7087
    @jazzerson7087 5 лет назад +1

    Hi. I was wondering if you could give me the notes of a solo you might typically play going from say E flat dorian to A melodic minor and back and then G melodic minor and weaved back into E flat. How many bars would you play out etc. I knew about the scales but I'm still at the stage where I'm working out how to freely improvise using them and just making them sound right and weaving them back in so everything flows.

  • @JuanOspinaKeys
    @JuanOspinaKeys 6 лет назад +1

    AWESOME. THANKS

  • @WigridJE
    @WigridJE 10 лет назад +1

    I love your videos! You kinda make me want to switch from drums to piano. D:
    You sound so much like Mccoy and Herbie, it's ridiculous!

  • @igorvashkov8821
    @igorvashkov8821 4 года назад +1

    A B major-minor over Bb = Bb superlocrian (altered) scale )) But how do you come up with it for soloing over Eb minor??

  • @4scheveningen
    @4scheveningen 8 лет назад +1

    So
    You must know and exercise these basic scales before really playing
    which is a enormous job of years - depending on yr memory
    But most songs contain only " scales
    My question is
    does a list exist of call it CROSS-REFERENCE data base
    so that
    if you can play a certain combination
    you can see which other songs would be easier to learn
    Thanks for answering
    It would realy help me enormously
    because all my life I tried to learn 12 scales
    but the max is F and G and C
    Thanks

    • @louispearson8306
      @louispearson8306 7 лет назад +1

      might i Emphasize! these scales only have value if you know how to use them. otherwise your just playing a amalgamation of odd noises. The arehundreds and they are simply a way of formulating types of sounds, e.g in your head you might think of phrygian as being the "Mysterious" sound. You need to be listening and transcribing widely if you want to Learn(LISTEN!) how to use them, make phrases Once and only then that you have trained you ear a little; and discerned how to make musical phrases, can you really use these to improvise.
      In the meanwhile learn these scales - play them in odd ways, play them with fitting LH chords, Arpeggiate them, do little twists and turns, play them in swing play them straight, play them in triplets. To discover your own sounds

  • @pitullo70
    @pitullo70 9 лет назад +2

    you're a genius!

  • @waseemfrancis1376
    @waseemfrancis1376 8 лет назад +4

    thank you for the Great Tutorial you have good knowledge as we see.
    I have a question though :
    When you play in a show/jazz concert do you intentionally and consciously play these scales ?
    or you play just by ear using your sub-consciously knowledge on these scales ?
    I mean while in a show do think and say I want to play A-MajorMinor now ? or you have it in your sub conscious and play consciously by ear ?

    • @sauliusltcool6902
      @sauliusltcool6902 4 года назад

      he probably plays subconsciously since he improvises and knows the scales

  • @tethercable
    @tethercable 8 лет назад +1

    there is so many awesome jazz impros. I am grade 4. Fm Pena.........waht-now?

  • @CruelLion7
    @CruelLion7 9 лет назад +2

    i love minor major scale! would that mean that C minor major would be C D Eb F G A B?

  • @elconclaveenaccion7949
    @elconclaveenaccion7949 9 лет назад +2

    do you have any pattern for this scales?? or something about chromatic aproach, for this "outside" 's resolution induced for this scales???

  • @atakandurdu6536
    @atakandurdu6536 4 года назад +1

    3:00 you could just say it is possible that playing an altered scale(7th mode of melodic minor) based on fifth-degree of tonic

  • @douglasmccannpiano
    @douglasmccannpiano 9 лет назад +1

    this is amazing... as i know nothing about theory.. your variations on this piece... are really remarkable... what an incredible musician you are... if you have time,,, listen my piece little red...

  • @gunluvS14
    @gunluvS14 Год назад

    this is so cool

  • @vivien1252
    @vivien1252 9 лет назад +1

    awesome.

  • @FrazerGoodman
    @FrazerGoodman 10 лет назад +1

    Very cool

  • @cw9783
    @cw9783 5 лет назад +1

    does he do some improvisation when he plays along with the take five song?

    • @weeklypiano
      @weeklypiano  5 лет назад

      Yes, I improv a little bit on the head :)

  • @etiloyon3681
    @etiloyon3681 2 года назад

    It's way out of my musical possibilities (gt) but it's just beautiful to listen! (At least I share one pbm with you : I have a backing track which seems endless too! :))Thanks

  • @rikimaruhatake
    @rikimaruhatake 10 лет назад +5

    What you wanted to remember about sorrounding the note is called a turn :)

    • @weeklypiano
      @weeklypiano  10 лет назад

      hah, thanks!

    • @cocovi
      @cocovi 9 лет назад

      +weeklypiano or enclosure?

    • @cocovi
      @cocovi 9 лет назад

      +weeklypiano What scale do you use on the bridge?

    • @waseemfrancis1376
      @waseemfrancis1376 8 лет назад

      +cocovi enclosure :P

  • @gottreich
    @gottreich 5 лет назад +2

    Is there a video he talked about 4:44?

    • @weeklypiano
      @weeklypiano  5 лет назад

      i think i do talk about that in some of these other vids but i can't remember where

  • @nhaezer5121
    @nhaezer5121 6 лет назад

    Thanks

  • @MrDemby1
    @MrDemby1 5 лет назад +2

    does this work with other songs?

    • @GregSperoMusic
      @GregSperoMusic 5 лет назад

      Absolutely! For the same individual chords, the same superimpositions should work.

  • @elconclaveenaccion7949
    @elconclaveenaccion7949 9 лет назад +1

    great!!!!!

  • @iamjuya
    @iamjuya 10 лет назад

    Cute the alphabet on the piano!

  • @petewilliams901
    @petewilliams901 9 лет назад +1

    why didn't you say at the end if you want to practice these exercises the backing track is available on bla d bla d bla for X amount as the tutorial was excellent well done

  • @sondresolstrand
    @sondresolstrand 8 лет назад +1

    Why don't you play Eb dorian, rather than F minor pentatonic?

  • @DaveyReynolds
    @DaveyReynolds 10 лет назад +2

    Can anyone explain why f min pentatonic works in eb minor?

    • @mechwarreir2
      @mechwarreir2 10 лет назад +4

      Well he isn't really in Eb minor, he is playing Eb dorian which contains a C rather than a Cb (which is Eb minor). That C is within the F minor pentatonic. Its also one of the scales you can play over Mccoy Tyner voicings in Eb dorian. The "C" works well as it is the major sixth (or thirteenth of Eb7).

    • @DaveyReynolds
      @DaveyReynolds 10 лет назад

      mechwarreir2 Rigghtt, thanks

  • @tethercable
    @tethercable 8 лет назад +5

    holy guacamole this is complicated........ *head explodes*

  • @douglasmccannpiano
    @douglasmccannpiano 9 лет назад

    please do a tutorial of claude bolling's sentimentale...

  • @fendergasm11
    @fendergasm11 10 лет назад +18

    who needs chord tones?

    • @weeklypiano
      @weeklypiano  5 лет назад +7

      not schoenberg that's for sure

  • @lui_lui_lui___
    @lui_lui_lui___ 6 лет назад

    Somebody tell me what to play in the bridge please

  • @Transcriptor
    @Transcriptor 6 лет назад +1

    six flats, only three for the sax, cheers.

  • @ChromadaData
    @ChromadaData 8 лет назад +16

    so basically do a bunch of McCoy shit

  • @kentcrawley
    @kentcrawley 9 лет назад

    So minor- major is basically melodic minor without the descending natural minor...

    • @AlexTerrier
      @AlexTerrier 9 лет назад +1

      Kent Crawley Allow me to jump in. What makes a scale major or minor is the third. So you have multiple major and minor scales. For instance the notes C D E F G A-flat B make the harmonic major scale. Major because the third is major, harmonic because the sixth is lowered, which is the characteristic note from harmonic minor.
      The 3 forms of minor scales are: natural minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor.
      the natural minor is called natural because it uses the exact same notes from its relative major mode: A natural minor is made up with the notes A B C D E F G, take that series and start on C and you get C Major.
      The melodic minor scale has the the sixth and the seventh raised a half step from the natural minor form and become both major. It can be confusing because there is a ascending minor melodic and descending minor melodic. the descending version is just the same thing as the natural minor scale.
      the harmonic minor scale is like the melodic minor scale except the sixth is lowered and is a minor 6, so you have this distinctive interval of an augmented second (NOT a minor third) between the sixth and the seventh. The flat 6 is the characteristic note of the harmonic minor scale.
      I have personally never heard or read of the minor major scale, but although I have read many books and studied for the last 30 years apparently some people use that term instead of MELODIC MINOR. My personal advice would be not to use this term because a scale is EITHER minor OR major, wether the triad based on the tonic is minor OR Major. It cannot be both at the same time.
      The melodic minor scale is also sometimes (idiotically) referred to the Jazz scale. There is no such thing as a jazz scale. The same scales were used by Bach and the same modes were used in Gregorian chants. Nothing new under the sun :)
      My two cents :)

    • @kentcrawley
      @kentcrawley 9 лет назад

      I realize this, I am a jazz musician; you also have augmented or diminished scales as well. I don't remember why I posted on this video honestly it was a long while ago. I will say your two cents is worth a lot to many people, in fact one of my students just had that very realization during a lesson which was great ( we were working on synthetic scales), but I already have a dollar or so haha

  • @brianralph5036
    @brianralph5036 8 лет назад

    you cook man

  • @DoGesterTH
    @DoGesterTH 6 лет назад +1

    5:00 song??

  • @sheilamacdougal4874
    @sheilamacdougal4874 3 года назад

    11:00: enclosure

  • @melodytalks3432
    @melodytalks3432 Год назад +1

    I thought there was a teaching aspect to it!
    Instead, concealed within lots of noises.
    The paith & also lack of clarity in which particular keys was depress in a scale , rendered this video useless for many.
    Hence more showing off than tutorial!

  • @sega62s
    @sega62s 5 лет назад +2

    Am I the only one that gets problem concentrating because of the off tuning

  • @nedohamilli
    @nedohamilli 9 лет назад

    interesting .

  • @user-gi3ro9rm9k
    @user-gi3ro9rm9k 5 лет назад +1

    This method sounds too Tyner-like for me

  • @alcaprone1
    @alcaprone1 3 года назад

    Perchè non ti fai accordare il piano???

  • @azaak_melody
    @azaak_melody 5 лет назад

    Great solo but really i cant see the chords and scales pecause you play too fast speed . thanks

  • @CountKoski
    @CountKoski 5 лет назад

    E and F resonate with some stuff on the piano.
    This is irritating.
    It puzzles me, how all of you could stand it.

    • @weeklypiano
      @weeklypiano  5 лет назад

      +CountKoski sorry...it’s all I had access to at the time :-/

  • @elleondejuda4681
    @elleondejuda4681 8 лет назад

    beutifull bro

  • @LeizeLeize
    @LeizeLeize 5 лет назад

    Pls dude fix this F lmao aha

  • @SimonMilesresearch
    @SimonMilesresearch 3 года назад

    Sorry. what? You've written the notes on the keyboard? Dude. Just no. Never. For any reason. Get them off. Now. No excuses. Post a new video to prove they are gone. Wait this is 2013. This is a shocking breach of the code. I'm notifying the piano authorities.

    • @weeklypiano
      @weeklypiano  3 года назад

      hahaha dude that was for my 8 year old cousin!!!

    • @SimonMilesresearch
      @SimonMilesresearch 3 года назад

      @@weeklypiano Oh dude, you are only digging a deeper hole for yourself! 8 does not need the notes written on the keys! 8 gets it! 8 is the perfect age! They see the patterns. It begins in the patterns. They will see the colors too if they have it. And the letters. And they merge into this seed, this imprint, this template. But it's all within. That's why we must never, ever, under any circumstances of time or place or situation, write the letters on the keys. It is for the inner eye to learn how to blossom, and it begins with the very first step, the very first lesson. Here, see, listen, feel. These are the notes. But never reading the written notes on the keys. Please. Take your 8 year old cousin back to the keyboard, after scrupulously removing the letters, and start them again, with the shapes. Here is C. It's on the left of the two blacks. Show me C. Thanks for listening. :-). It's all good, and I'm tongue in cheek, but also utterly serious. Thanks for your videos, love your channel!

  • @jeanlucchapelon
    @jeanlucchapelon 6 лет назад

    Good but you play too fast and
    we haven’t time to see the chords & scales

  • @FrazerGoodman
    @FrazerGoodman 10 лет назад

    Very cool