Don Glanden - Analysis of Chick Corea's Solo - 500 Hundred Miles High

Don Glanden analyzes Chick's solo on 500 miles high.

[@skipjamison1015]

Thanks for a journey into what has eluded me for over 30yrs.My guitar teacher was getting me into analyzing jazz tunes the way your approaching it,but he moved far away . I'm glad you took the time to show us this.

[@oldpython]

A masterly presented comprehensive look at design and style presented in great detail with care and precision. Professor Glanden's grasp of this theory expertly answers questions and delivers insight to Corea's soloing style. A wonderful expose from one inspirational pianist about another. Thank you for this generous gift. It is an honor.

[@bluch251]

Ive come back to this video many times.........Thank You for sharing this gem. There is a wealth of information in this solo, and as is his Captain Marvel into and solo. Some of Chicks works could actually be used as a standard curriculum. Chicks Children songs whole works are a good schooling template in of themselves.

[@MightyFLM]

Me too 🙏🏻

[@aquahbeale3289]

WOW. I am blown away by your analysis. You have successfully de-mystified Chick's solo and made it understandable and approachable. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.

[@christophcloren4740]

Thank you for this brillant analysis !👃

[@guenther-fusion]

Fantastic Work !

[@Gusrikh1]

Just amazing. Thank you.

[@BradleySharp]

Thank you, Don. Outstanding work.

[@dadduorp]

Thanks so much for the interesting analysis and for taking the time and effort to explain it to us "jazz theory-challenged" musicians. I can only aspire to play like this, but this helps tremendously!

[@HILARI333]

Excellent and lucid teaching! Thank you. Can you make more videos analyzing other jazz tunes by various composers?

[@FranzLocarno]

Really great ! looking forward for more !

[@santibanks]

Thanks a lot for this! A perfect description of Chick's approach to soloing in general. You see a lot of these concepts in tunes like Song to the pharaoh kings, got a match? and others.

[@PlayBetterJazz]

Thanks for posting this is just great!

[@pusanghalaw]

thanks - one of my favorite songs ever

[@christopherwilson384]

Great Documentation/Presentation/Analysis!!!!

[@Sheilazag]

Just great, thank you so much for your work!

[@jpalawan]

Thanks for sharing this valuable knowledge.

[@nirmendelson2442]

thank you very much please make more analysis videos!

[@paxwallace8324]

His phrasing on Acoustic Piano on the" Now He Sings Now he Sobs" LP 4yrs before seems less mechanical or more precisely has more short utterances framed by space so beautifully framing Roy Haynes beyond hip running commentary.

[@MelodiusThud]

Excellent work, Don! In addition to a scale analysis, I would also be interested to hear your ideas on Chick's thematic (motive, melodic) development during the solo. Thank you for this, it's an excellent and valuable analysis!

[@stevegambino3905]

Thank you for this insightful analysis.

[@Playpianokey]

Thanks for posting. Musicianship at it's finest .

[@jimco47]

Great job. Very informative.

[@christopherwilson384]

it took me forever to memorize the 1st chorus of chick's solo.... you made it every easy for me you reopen and finish learning this solo! thanks

[@monsterjazzlicks]

There's a lot of notes in it!!!

[@MehrSpaamSpaHabenHaben]

Amazing analysis - thank you so much.

[@robertbairdmusic]

Wonderful analysis thanks so much this is incredible!

[@producer4real]

Great class, thank you very much!

[@chickland2]

That music is higher than 500 miles! Amazing stuff!

[@oscarlaredo5035]

Thanks a lot for this video!

[@DieDeej]

Great Don!

[@NapoleoniRosati]

Great job!

[@erikvanzadel]

Inspirational! Thanks.

[@zizoumonk10]

Awesome, thank you!

[@scottmusician]

this is amazing!

[@Guitarist33764]

Thank You! Very Cool.

[@Ocean8881]

Hi Don, I really enjoy your analysis of Chick's solo. It helps me to understand his improvisational concept a lot better. Have you done anything similar on Herbie Hancock. I have a little problem understanding his harmonic approach. I have tried transcribing some of his solos but I run into things like a dimished chord that he would play against a Major chord.. How does one explain that harmonically. could it be that he is using a secondary dominant on the major chord . for example if you have a ! chord such as Cmajor or minor one can use a G7b9 and resolve back to the ! chord......

[@17bobbyboy]

Magnificent

[@drg91884]

"analyzation" is not a word. "analysis" is the word to use is this case. My Jazz theory professor recently enlightened me to this...

[@RicardoBrancowhitesax]

Thank's for the Class!!Good Work!

[@cotip]

this is awesome

[@hectormalotru]

This is so useful !

[@georgecandreva2842]

I love this LP! Great job and thanks for your most insightful commentary. Would you mind sending me a PDF of this tremendous transcription sometime? Or, kindly posting it along with this video as a PDF?

[@monsterjazzlicks]

It's all over the net mate.

[@Gerard_2024]

@@monsterjazzlicks Yeah, maybe now it is, but he asked the question 5 years previous to your reply...

[@LYSHEmusic]

great! thank you!

[@BattManion1979]

Excellent work, Don. You are a patient man. Are you from the Pittsburgh area?

[@JazzKeyboardist1]

thanks

[@davidlis8756]

Chick Corea is a genius. But Mr. Glandon, you are of equal genius to be able to transcribe this solo onto manuscript.

[@simonsmatthew]

The rhythmic precision is incredible! How do you play those repeated notes like that! Would love to hear Chick play the Scarbo by Ravel (another admirer of Flamenco) - those repeated drum notes in the beginning would be a piece of cake!

[@PlayBetterJazz]

Don, where can we get a copy of your transcription of this?? Will pay!

[@luke125]

Exactly

[@jazzykeys872]

im just bown away.... mind is frying... Ab pantatonic against an E7 ? awesome video thank you.

[@Bassfully]

Well if you think about tensions on E7, Ab pentatonic kinda hits them all: Ab is just G#, so the 3rd of E7, Bb is a b5, C is a b13 (or #5 if you spell it like B#), F is a b9. The Eb is a major 7 (D#), and using it in passing against a dominant chord is not an uncommon thing in jazz. All in all, he's just playing a E7alt line!

[@SimonMilesresearch]

@@Bassfully With the b9 and b13 over the E7 chord you can also think of it as the Vth mode of the Harmonic minor scale, or Phrygian Dominant, with an added b5, the Bb. So it's E Phrygian Dominant, based on the scale of A harmonic minor. Omitting the 4th/11th, the A, and adding in the Bb, the scale is E F G# Bb B C D E. This then sets up nicely for the following bar 9 of Am7.

[@monsterjazzlicks]

I have transcribed many similar Corea solos. This is I good video, however, I think the pace may be too quick for many jazz newbies! For one, it would be very helpful if you slowed down the original recording when displaying the very short visual excerpts, as they fly by! Or else perform them yourself on the piano at an accessible tempo, so that the transcription image remains on the screen for a greater amount of time. Thanks, Paul David Seaman

[@esequielbass]

where can i found full pdf transcription

[@monsterjazzlicks]

It's all over the net!!!

[@Hycker123]

please could I ask the scale you refer to will be the major pentatonic or minor pentatonic? thanks again

[@ImCalebRosengard]

Mind if I ask, good sir, where did you buy or find the sheet you used in this video?

[@SFuNk24]

+Caleb Rosengard "transcription and analysis by Don Glanden" I'm pretty sure he wrote that sheet music

[@SWToDi-qc8hb]

In the late 70s, none of any Berklee teacher ( if they did attend their classes ) can teach anything one-tenth as near here as you did! Under the late Mr.Bill Leavitt, the guitar department was the biggest joke in Boston!

[@richiebeirach3671]

sorry ,,light as a feather was NOT a development of NOW HE SINGS it was a REGRESSION ,NOW HE SINGS was totally free of any of the devastating scientology dogma that chick got involved with and by 1972 unfortunately and sadly his music suffererd greatly from the churchs rhetoric and further dumbing down of chicks brilliant innovations ,,this is not just my opinion ,,btw i was there ,,your analysis transcription and presentation is very good ,,just wanted to relate the hard truths about his enormous creative u turn from NOW HE SINGS and THE IS RECORDING and this RETURN TO NOWHERE thing

[@vicmatthias4515]

I do not need analysis, I listen, and enjoy, I am not in music school, however I fully UNDERSTAND the music , no explanation needed

[@gabogc]

thanks, i just missed a more musical entonation in your voice, is very plain and boring