Charlie Puth got too much jazz

Short transcription of Charlie Puth playing "34+35" by Ariana Grande
The jazz licks and the modulations he does are real good!
Charlie is one amazing musician
Also, if you'd want the transcription, you can find it here!
bleuorb.gumroad.com/
#jazz #charlieputh

[@bleuorb]

Tiny correction: Bar 6 is Gm11 voiced rootless - Bb C D F

[@daman7387]

Unwatchable

[@Jordarr8994]

Repent for your mistakes

[@boomaz5579]

Unacceptable. I must dislike for this huge mistake

[@eleliotmanuel2060]

no one cares asswise.

[@daman7387]

@@eleliotmanuel2060 it is the original uploader

[@marshallgrey2159]

Oh now you gonna transcribe speech, great

[@LoganOttinger]

even at 0:48 the fact there is a time sig change

[@snargemccoy8813]

Shlagg

[@therealandrew185]

Big guy

[@Omlet221]

@@LoganOttinger Well because the music time sig changed and he was singing along

[@montopunk]

@@Omlet221 he meant what he said at te beginning

[@electronicsandroboticsclub750]

Transcribing the speech is an epic pro gamer move.

[@GHRiz]

Incredible. I gotta admit, I have long underrated Puth, but every time he puts out stuff like this, I get more and more impressed by him. Great transcription.

[@MrHestichs]

He can nail the pitches but his time is lackluster.

[@spitgorge2021]

@@MrHestichs disagreed, he's got the groove on lock

[@MrHestichs]

@@spitgorge2021 Listen to the sequence at 0:28...Yea sometimes his time is there. But there is no groove, no dynamics, no swing.

[@Ajoi1995]

@@MrHestichs how come you can expect all that dynamic things on a Pop Singer? He is not jazz musician and just do it on live instagram while chilling. If Jacob collier do this, then your comment much deserve to be there 😂

[@platypusmusic8843]

@@Ajoi1995 I mean he’s been studying jazz since he was a teenager Of course, he’s just chillin, it’s not the best jazz he’s ever played, and it’s fine

[@p.sandratangkulung6451]

how can Puth be this good, but his songs mostly just hit… idk basic? he deserves more freedom in making music i think

[@g0tst1ngs]

Hes making exactly the music he wants, it's just that he's more focused on making his music marketable with a dash of jazz instead of the other way around

[@rohan8878]

@@g0tst1ngs I can understand that but IDK why he does it. honestly, he's a jacob collier level talent, but you'd never know just by listening to his songs.

[@g0tst1ngs]

@@rohan8878 I think it's fine. We need people in both extremes and everything in between. And if it makes him happy (which it clearly does) who are we to say he should otherwise?

[@g0tst1ngs]

@@rohan8878 fr man, I lived for those livestreams. Learned so much and enjoyed even more!

[@isaipineda8028]

He knows how to put in all these ideas that come from jazz and hide them into "typical pop music". I really like his music personally and I love how he produces all his songs.

[@sethleejazz]

0:53 i love this key modulation so much

[@user-km9bx3gf3z]

I've been noticing a lot of jazz Ariana lately (Jacob, Charlie, Domi and JD Beck, her positions album has a lot of rnb influence) and honestly I'm living for it

[@merna5685]

She’s always had jazz influences even in her previous records

[@user-km9bx3gf3z]

@@merna5685 yeah but i didn't really hear much of that happening. tbh i haven't listened to a lot of ariana bc i dont like the music she puts out but i really like her voice and i wish she would do a jazz album with ppl like thundercat and jacob

[@merna5685]

@@user-km9bx3gf3z mmh i doubt she would do an album with jacob cause she works with relevant people but yeah i hope for something like that too

[@bdstudios6088]

@*Z* that would be great. my fav of her classic R&B tracks are “almost is never enough” and “only 1” which are surprisingly from quite a while ago and I missed them. haven’t listened to the new album yet

[@bdstudios6088]

@merna are you saying jacob is irrelevant haha he did songs with people like Daniel Caesar and Mahalia I say it has potential to happen

[@OdaKa]

Charlie Puth would have fit in well with 80's Jpop where you basically had jazz musicians writing pop music because paycheck

[@michaelnajoan5104]

Why jpop tho? All of 80's city pop in the whole world (read: the ones that I know, which is basically just 80's Indonesia and Japan city pop) are jazz musicians making pop songs, pretty sure that happens in other countries too, right?

[@OdaKa]

@@michaelnajoan5104 I had no idea there was one whole other country that got into the city pop genre. That's cool, lol. I don't know anything about Indonesia's musical history, so now I'm curious. Have you heard of Tomo Fujita? He's a Japanese guitarist on youtube. My comment is based on the story he told of how city pop came to be, and why Japanese pop music is constructed the way it is with such rich harmonic structure even now. Basically in the 80's jazz was losing popularity in Japan, so the jazz musicians got new jobs writing pop music, infusing their rich harmonic knowledge into it, and that has influenced popular music in Japan ever since. I'm sure there are instances of this happening in other countries, but I don't know them off-hand. In America there have been genres of popular music that have been inspired by Jazz, like R&B, Soul, Neo Soul, Hiphop, Take 6, 90s-00s boy bands kind of I guess...? But it's not quite like what happened with city pop. The reason I said jpop was because what he's doing here reminded me of the history that Tomo told. I can't really think of many big 80's pop music acts in my country that grew out of retired jazz musicians looking to pay their bills lol.

[@michaelnajoan5104]

@@OdaKa understandable, still, that's an easy thing to get thought of by anyone, I'm just saying you should've said "...well with 80's *city pop* where you...." I know there's no problem with knowing that it come from Japan, it's just less annoying to hear that not everyone think that those movement comes from *only* japan

[@OdaKa]

@@michaelnajoan5104 Yeah, I understand your annoyance, but I stand by my comment being about the 80s Japanese pop scene, because that's what I know about, and it's what I was talking about. You can be less annoyed knowing that someone knows that Indonesian city pop exists, at least. But when I searched for Indonesian city pop videos, I kept seeing what I assume are older indonesian fans commenting "it's not city pop, silly zoomer kids renaming things" so I don't even know what it's really all about lol. Somone should write some articles about the Indonesian city pop or jazz pop scene, because even when I searched for city pop on Google, it shows as a Japanese genre and doesn't mention anything about Indonesia. Someone should start spreading the word. You could've just said "Indonesia has city pop too" and I could've been like "oh cool" and had a positive feeling about it instead of someone telling me what I should or shouldn't have said. Like how was I supposed to know about it, it's never even been a meme. It does sound pretty cool from what I heard, though.

[@idliketobeagummybear]

@@OdaKa love tomo fujita ! just like how u said jazz musicians writing pop in the 80s has left a mark on modern japanese music, if you’re interested look into kayoukyoku. it’s a weird in between of enka with western pop which is so distinctly identifiable in modern japanese tunes. like anything composed by tsunku for example echoes that kinda sound✌️

[@Masiyooo]

i like the absolutely no reaction from the live chat part

[@michaelnajoan5104]

They're probably like: "this is not Ariana's song😡😡😡 what is happening?"

[@nitronixus9402]

normies too smoothbrained to comprehend j a z z

[@davidcentinoamores4764]

When they're having a hard time musically digesting deep sounds

[@deltaid1439]

they're like oh okay that sounded okay... like bruh

[@jansojele289]

IKR

[@nibyafternight1983]

If Charlie Puth used more of his jazz skills he could literally create a perfect Pop-R&B album.

[@vasorotto19]

he did a little bit on the voicenotes album. now he decided to make ugly tiktok pop songs..

[@rohan8878]

I'll be very honest, I like his IG better than his actual songs. Great talent.

[@kaigainiki9156]

Imagine being able to play the notes you're singing so accurately like at 1:05

[@fdaehbcswcfaqgh576]

He has perfect pitch plus can sing so it probably not as hard

[@edcoma1691]

You ever listened to George Benson?

[@kaigainiki9156]

@@edcoma1691 not familiar. But will give it a listen Edit: turns out I know some of his songs and Im just not familiar with his name lmaoo

[@g0tst1ngs]

@@fdaehbcswcfaqgh576 knowing why Charlie can do it does not make it any easier for the next person to repeat it. Therefore it's still very impressive.

[@zaymax_7]

@@fdaehbcswcfaqgh576 definitely helpful if you have perfect pitch, but trained musicians of any instrument will be able to do this! Just takes a lot of muscle memory and connecting your brain to feel the notes

[@kenzicrafter]

its a ii v i chord progression, he's a well trained jazz musician, it doesn't surprise me that Charlie can solo the shit out of that progression

[@silvabrothersmusic]

You are obviously a jazzer too to know that. What scales is he soloing on the 2-5-1s?

[@kenzicrafter]

@@silvabrothersmusic he first played and the solo the song on the key of F major, then the part at 0:53 he chromatically moved down and up a half step the minor 9 chord, in this case he's doing Abm9 - Gm9 - F#m9 - Gm9 - Abm9 - Am9 - Bbm9 and then go to the Bm9, the ii chord in the key of A major. Im busy at the moment but at 1:04 he played solo in the B harmonic minor scale so there you go i guess...

[@silvabrothersmusic]

@@kenzicrafter Fantastic! I will try that out on the piano. Cheers!

[@kenzicrafter]

@@silvabrothersmusic good luck my bro

[@kenzicrafter]

@@silvabrothersmusic i checked it out already dude, you boys got mad talent man keep up the good work

[@beckst3r]

the instagram live comments are so underwhelming compared to his playing

[@bleuorb]

Ikr

[@shaniageorge962]

They just don't get it

[@beckst3r]

@@shaniageorge962 city folks just don' getit

[@ronelel2109]

i mean would an average pop fan know how to read sheet music?

[@shaniageorge962]

@@ronelel2109 I don't know if you're joking around, but this is just a transcript of what he playing in his live; it wasn't there originally. The fact is that his fans don't even recognise how spicy his playing was during this live - like they don't know and appreciate anything about Jazz.

[@BJTangerine]

0:22 the fill he plays in measure 9 is all i needed to hear to know this guy's a real musician. Casually throwing in an improvised leading melodic idea while comping on left hand is levels above just playing mostly chords

[@idalot6480]

It's a pretty common lick in jazz actually.

[@deannadhif6992]

0:53 charlie goes jacob collier

[@userziocaro]

Not even close...

[@richardplate8255]

No, I mean he only shifts the whole thing chromatically

[@yakshrajsingh8121]

@@userziocaro shut up that bar was brilliant . No one's proving who is better or crap like that.

[@davewillmusic3334]

@@yakshrajsingh8121 I mean Jacob is way, way, way better but this is nice too!

[@yakshrajsingh8121]

@@davewillmusic3334 please you cant say whos better , im not saying anyone better but no one can tell who is "better" as music is never good or bad or better. No ones a "better" musician than anybody else, that would be a childish comment

[@benjaminvroman5553]

0:42 the Bb JEEEEZ

[@wcsah]

This was really well transcribed lmao

[@tigrisardens]

can you imagine if we had a charlie puth jazz album

[@bleuorb]

It'd be a banger!

[@earthboundserafine2972]

I imagine it all the time✨

[@christloen4077]

I almost forgot he is a jazz musicians. I think he need to add jazz on his new albums

[@glenndperson1208]

The fact that I have listened to this about 1000 times, and discovered this yesterday! Thanks algorithm!

[@brainrot7766]

perfect pitch people really just b like “*farts*” ah yes a quarter tone flat of #a3 im not jealous

[@Audrey_23_7]

This is incredible, thank you so much for sharing💙

[@drewneff6221]

WHAT IS THAT MODULATION?! One of the most beautiful transitions I've ever heard 👏.

[@Fyuesiy]

It’s just planing. He’s just moving the same starting chord around chromatically and starting the new progression on that chord. 🤷🏻‍♂️ the theory behind it is basically “it sounds dope”

[@drewneff6221]

@@Fyuesiy Haha yeah there probably isn't a typical theory explanation for it

[@jeremy8473]

thats the power of moving minor 9ths chromatically

[@SamVanoMusic]

I think people don't get how much work this 1m38s video represent, wow. keep it up !!

[@juliafungt]

haha there's no such thing as "too much jazz" 😌👌✨

[@bleuorb]

Indeed it's a real deep emotion

[@antilektuell6826]

Who ever made this must either be a musical genius, or the biggest charlie puth fan in this universe, to put soooo much effort into this!

[@MindlessMegaLawl]

Things like these redeem modern pop music and musicians in my eyes

[@zumbakat37]

If only he would release these progressions without sounding like watered down pop music like what usually comes out on the album.

[@bleuorb]

yes, but sometimes overdoing things could result in a fairly large negative response, hence the best way would be to throw in those motifs in between and keep a consistent theme for all releases. That way both fans and music nerds would be happy

[@gorillathaspinna]

Well to be fair his target audience is teenagers, how many teenagers you know that listen to jazz?

[@the_not_pro_guy7782]

@@gorillathaspinna *laughs nervously* In fact, we don’t exist.

[@shaniageorge962]

@@gorillathaspinna My existence has been erased. Thanks though, this world is totally out of hand 😂

[@Alpha-Andromeda]

@@gorillathaspinna i was 100000% a jazz listening teen. And if pop could just stop being musically watered down we could again get some quality music TODAY on the FM stations. Lol. Does Radio 📻 still exist? Paris 87.7 Jazz station exists. I know cause I listen to it on Uber rides.

[@meanmrmusician9469]

I have to watch this at least twice every time I think of it.

[@em7910]

Thanks for the edit.

[@ロンドン]

Love 'daylight' voice. and thank you so much wrote sheet.

[@myliebiii]

u put literally everything in it lmao, good job

[@JacobCritch]

nice work!

[@disuko]

at 0:54 he sounds like one of those jazz reharm memes

[@gylee6949]

I like how Charlie Puth is playing the song with all the jazzy chords and scales, makin it sound wholesome and Appropriate😂

[@wa7saka]

would love if he made a jazz album

[@GabeWilliams]

I was like wow he’s really reading all that, and then realized you transcribed it 😂

[@emanuelsantos3683]

Te la rifas siempre broo, me llegan tus vídeos😎👏🎶

[@quangdungvu9424]

Even the vocal is fully transcribed. You earned my respect

[@BourdeoixEterno]

Would love to hear him play some standards!

[@pengU1n_pardon]

1:08 ok now we need 34+35 in a latin style

[@JessicaMorgani]

Every time I hear this man play piano I wanna learn it

[@aerodynamic8780]

This sounds so good wtf

[@rdpa1120]

The musician who knows music

[@chrispysaid]

"Charlie Puth got too much jazz" CORRECTION: ONE CANNOT HAVE TOO MUCH JAZZ CHARLIE HAS THE CORRECT AMOUNT OF JAZZ

[@FrancezcoVai]

jazz is the MSG of music, never is too much, hahahhaha if a song is boring, sprinkle Jazz and it will be so much better (uncle Roger reference) hahahha

[@chrispysaid]

They don't call then spicy chords for no reason

[@matthewrogersmusic]

I love musically competent pop musicians, amazing

[@conz2078]

i like this very much

[@johncu7101]

I sometimes forgot Charlie Puth is jazz pianist singer producer composer with perfect pitch

[@kawa1sou]

Such a tasty arrangement! I repeated this for 20 times in row and there's no way to stop vibing with him. Big thanks for the transcription - gotta try it out as soon as I get to piano :)

[@omarg7702]

Imma learn this as something to whip out at any time cause it's cold

[@Daves_PianoAndPipes]

Cool beat.... Makes me wanna have a spontaneous Saturday party, hehe

[@charlieputhofficial9719]

Really But I'm here for all my fans bro🎷🎹

[@Daves_PianoAndPipes]

@@charlieputhofficial9719 Join the pary, then 🎹🤗🤗🤗

[@charlieputhofficial9719]

@@Daves_PianoAndPipes wow 😂 I'm free

[@andrewkellman7332]

My guy caught them microtones..whaaat???

[@andrewkellman7332]

Those half sharps

[@GrumpyStormtrooper]

Where?

[@joe.salcedo]

The fact that you transcribed him saying the song in the beginning got me laughing

[@boonyang1978]

Wouldn’t expect anything else from someone who went to Berklee

[@jeviljuice1633]

Why can't he make more music like this man

[@brepi312]

i like how you transcribed his voice as well lol

[@tapoteunpeucheloue]

That F6b5 chord (bar8) is going to my "trash jazz meme" folder :D

[@wofie9785]

how can so many pop songs contain a ii v i and have it sound boring yet i sometimes don't even recognise a ii v i when a jazz musician plays it because I'm so captivated?

[@danieltriana1937]

Guys, just remember that he's the boy that got a full scholar ship in Berkley. Holy f

[@devinaayona3785]

Addicted to 0:53-0:57

[@bleuorb]

Oh that modulation was amazing

[@thedlomax]

Subscribed

[@6x21]

never too much jazz!

[@briourbi1058]

Ah yes, my two favorite instruments: Vo. And Pno.

[@DA-sy8hd]

He should make a jazz album

[@w9s.]

Am i the only one who amazed by bar 9? I meam, i did not expect that at all from charlie puth. 0:21

[@adidarmawan]

I wish he would incorporate more Jazz into his albums. You can tell he's *slowly* doing that if you compare his newer songs to older ones. But we need more Jazz/R&B/Soul/Funk in his songs!! (not just some short live improv). He's got the heart and the skills/knowledge. He just needs to break out of his pop mold now that he's achieved wealth & fame-back to the Jazz roots, Charlie!! 😆

[@stephenweigel]

Are the arrows for quarter tones?

[@chwthlx]

me still learning sight reading: O-O

[@CristianVasquez_]

Someone's gotta record the vocals on trombone

[@bleuorb]

That'd sound rather interesting

[@WikiBidoz]

Wow that A7b13/Eb is fire

[@nickyduller1617]

ikr after hearing this i played it for like an hour trying to decipher why it actually sounds good

[@WikiBidoz]

@@nickyduller1617 could be a fancy Eb9#11, probably makes more sense to think of that

[@nickyduller1617]

@@WikiBidoz oo could be. My take was that it was essentially an augmented chord (from A) a leading Eb to lead to D

[@WikiBidoz]

@@nickyduller1617 oh yes like a tritone sub but with the original chord in the top

[@alyanna_s_]

"ugh aaah" - charlie puth 2021 (?)

[@CouraTheExplora]

i dont follow charlie puth but damn he knows his jazz

[@elimooremusic]

That's not too much jazz. That is only some jazz

[@Paulbrqfd]

never have too much jazz

[@tfossgh]

At the 7th bar, what is the F# in the C7(b9) chord?

[@leonorquintas2922]

Jazzy 34＋35 time!😊

[@timothybodey9168]

My lord what talent.

[@luisfloresgonzalez2337]

Coming from a singer it's amazing for people

[@lucasfesou]

Too much candy for Real Jazz 🍭🍭🍭

[@tyriqbaker2504]

what’s the outro music of this video?

[@itamarbar9580]

He's a professional jazz pianist

[@trickster33able]

After this a lot of teenage puth fans started listening to jazz

[@jinlongsitu3218]

Thirty four plus thirty five in 7/4?

[@vanderangcan176]

what transcription software you use for the notation?

[@samuel.j.barker]

God the guy's just tryna make me jealous I needs these skills

[@charlieputhofficial9719]

😂

[@theturnertalkshow8334]

It’s time like this where I wish I had perfect pitch

[@JazzClassicMusic]

What’s the name (and/or artist) at the end of the video?

[@arkram_68]

I'm stealing it

[@sebastianoarnoldi2373]

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn

[@EPSON-HP]

WOW

[@LizardDoggo]

The first measure after the 7/4 speaking is a 5/4 measure. It has an extra beat before he plays the 8th note chord downbeat.

[@bengolding1551]

Boy’s got CHOPS.

[@bleuorb]

indeed

[@yamsang0__0]

Where can i get the outro music?

[@surgentpawns2710]

Did you fine it out ? If yes could u please tell me it’s name

[@ozzyrimmer7093]

he is nice wid it

[@michaelzhang4787]

Can anyone tell me what scale he played over the F# dim7 chord? 0:30

[@joseph6786]

D minor scale

[@christianog]

@@joseph6786 No Eb in D minor

[@kelvinresch8939]

@@christianog okay d minor with a flat ninth 🙄

[@nezkeys79]

Bar 16 a better way to write the second chord is Eb13#11.

[@droobers1314]

It's those lessons from Jacob Collier man

[@shaniageorge962]

Nah, he studied Jazz (or Jazz Piano, can't remember) at Berklee. I dunno why he hides most of it away though

[@droobers1314]

Me joke :)

[@shaniageorge962]

@@droobers1314 I figured but I couldn't be too sure 😂

[@rubenvela44]

😍

[@aerodynamic8780]

Is the paid transcription updated with corrections?