How To Set Up A Tune

[@Bati_]

It's been a while since I got affected by a piece of art this sentimentally. I love when the folk songs and jazz intersect! Adam, you're one of the greatest teachers I've ever had in life and I don't know if you are aware of this but you're touching many people's lives very meaningfully through your unique and humane teaching style! Every video I watched from you and everything I learned through your invaluable teachings, they are just a treat... We cannot thank you enough but thank you for everything, really...

[@adammaness]

This made my year. Thank you for the kindness. 💛🙌✌️

[@bobblues1158]

Now you talking about what separates the musicians who can communicate and control the art form from the rest. A great ending is important because that is the last thing the audience hears. A great intro draws the listener into the adventure. Thank you for covering this subject!

[@romainbertrand253]

At 7:38 min : there is a lot of chords here 😀 When thinking in the Barry Harris system, I think it's easier to undertstand the firts 2 bars. Even the diminished is part of the system (beautiful isn't it ?). So basically the 1 2 bars are Bb7. Last bar is alternating between F7 family (on the guitar, there is an Ab7 shape) and Bb chord. Bb7 is the final chord and leads to the Eb tonality. Beautiful intro choice. I didn't know that record. Thanks for the great videos.

[@maciek_d]

Adam, your lessons are the best. Everything I could ask for from a jazz teacher. I can understand and follow easily.

[@imanihekima1659]

Enjoyed your in-depth look into Hank's playing. He and Tommy Flanagan really knew how to set up a song.

[@Tovify]

Pretty strong choice of material here ! Well done explaining this.

[@justinlaboy6837]

i was on a clinic that Charlie Haden was teaching on the Reno jazz festival way back, and he was telling us that his mom used to sing to him when he was a baby and by two years old he was singing harmony to what she was singing 🤯

[@jonasaras]

I’ve transcribed a LOT of Hank Jones. His playing sounds easy. It’s not until you try to duplicate it that you realize how impossible it is.

[@bluemonk9480]

What helped you get through improvising these impossible lines? Any specific techniques or methods you can recall using?

[@jonasaras]

@@bluemonk9480 Transcribing the notes was doable. I was primarily an accordionist when I was younger, so I just wrote out the right hand part and the correct changes. You just have to play the parts that lay easier and smile when some parts breeze by. My hands are considerably smaller than Hank’s, so as I play piano now, all those smooth walking 10th things aren’t playable. I just play single bass notes, or open 6ths and 7ths. Hank did a lot of slick things like superimposing 3/4 phrases over 4/4, and some really cool things with chromatic and whole-tone scales. His reharmonizations could be really “out”, but his touch was always so smooth that it was inaccurately dismissed as “cocktail piano”.

[@jonasaras]

@@bluemonk9480 Here’s a great example of Hank at the peak of his powers. It’s his unique mix of Teddy Wilson, Art Tatum and Bud Powell. It’s an encyclopedia of blues changes variations. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqeUZZykiK5jh6s

[@Bati_]

@@jonasaras Wow! Thanks for this great further explanation! Actually this reminded me of Ahmad Jamal in some ways, his style was also inaccurately described as “cocktail piano”. Do you think there are some parallels between Jamal and Jones as well?

[@jonasaras]

@@Bati_ In my semi-educated opinion there isn’t much stylistic overlap between Ahmad and Jones. Ahmad was never a bebop player, but his playing stands on its own merits. He played the FULL range of the piano, from whisper quiet to a roar; a very orchestral concept. His ostinatos and unpredictable harmonic substitutions influenced McCoy Tyner and Keith Jarrett. He was also one of the first guys to play straight eighths in jazz (Poinciana), so you could credit him with starting jazz fusion. They’re both musical giants worth checking out and stealing from. I never had the physical musculature to pound the piano for extended periods of time, and the guys I stole from the modtbfit into that category.

[@federicomelo1853]

Short cut: while holding the V on the bass, I play descending triads on first inversions of the major of I. Not as classy but does the trick. I start on Bb and end on the Dm7 b5 over Bb.

[@jasonmeyermusic5639]

Just fantastic, I'm swooning on every other chord. I'm hooked ! Thanx Adam.

[@malcolmzackery3099]

Great stuff for every striving musician! Great job as always Adam!

[@josegonzales2018]

11:49- Haha! Thanks for G13#11b9 gift box. Just what I always wanted! 🙏🏽🤣❤️

[@OpenStudioJazz]

You’re welcome 😊

[@robertpowell9618]

I really like this idea because it gave me some new ideas to work with in my writing. I do not think I will use his harmonies but I will implement some ideas with this basic premise. I do not like the idea of using his I, IV, V approach because it sounds too Classical. Those great BeBop guys were great. I am starting to think that there is an awful lot of knowledge in 5 particular ones e.g. Errol Garner, Bud Powell, George Shearing, Hank Jones, and Thelonius Monk. I am becoming a huge fan of Bobby Floyd and Barry Harris. You sound awesome by the way. I wonder what you work on. People seem to take this music for granted. It is very difficult in my opinion and you are a tremendous talent.

[@musical_lolu4811]

Pedal point intros, never gets old!

[@anthonysilva5312]

Top tier jazz piano (and any instrument for that matter) instruction on KZbin.

[@zqa12swx]

great video and concepts; i've always loved Duke Jordan's intros with Bird. Highly underrated stuff. Part of what made those tunes so interesting are the intros.

[@andrewcouper404]

Thanks a lot for this dive! Not a rocket science technically, but so gentle and tasty excitement of the theme!

[@benwinstanleymusic]

Thanks Adam, love this!!

[@morejazzplz5746]

Hey Adam great lesson! I did want to suggest maybe discussing the theoretical basis of whats happening before just going into having people play it. Things are much easier to remember and execute that way. Cheers.

[@IntelligentsiaUS]

Is the left hand E in bar 2 beat 4 missing a flat?

[@seheyt]

it is indeed

[@ChipTheMusicMan]

Sounds amazing!

[@flober1970]

Thanks, I love Hank.

[@MichaelMcCabeGuitarist]

That was truly awesome, thank you!

[@dominiccastillo9677]

Big thanks for this one!

[@jarbasgoulartdecastro9104]

Thanks a lot,Adam!

[@vincescuderi]

Huntington Station, NY

[@cgtspl]

Please is there any chance you could let us know what Patch (VST) you use, I just love that tone.

[@OpenStudioJazz]

Keyscape!

[@cgtspl]

Sorry Adam, I'm relatively new to your channel and then today found this episode back in July last year that explains everything. Thanks for the response though. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGaunpJ9fN18qKs

[@zachlightcap2179]

Well - Everett, WA...

[@RomanKosins]

That was awesome:)

[@insidejazzguitar8112]

So cool

[@giampierogirolamo7134]

Bravo man super nice youtube thing saving lifes!!:)

[@andrewkorbel9883]

As a bass player, it sounds like Hank adapted his “how are things in Glocca Morra” intro.

[@joyceglasgow2356]

❤️

[@ewallt]

You skipped over what I thought was the most interesting and unexpected chord, the last chord of the second bar. It’s a Bb + E on bottom with Ab C F over that. What’s that F doing there?! Wild. It’s like a Lydian Dominat chord, missing the third, but with the fifth above the sharp 11, not something I’d ever have thought of, but magnificent. Really nice. Thanks.

[@chandlerisbell5686]

I think you may have misread the chord? It looks like a Bb9sus. Not trying to be “that guy”, just curious as to what you’re talking about. Edit: Oh, Adam forgot the accidental on the Eb. That’s probably where the #11 came from, right?

[@ulob]

@@chandlerisbell5686 precisely, a flat is missing on E in the music

[@ulob]

the chord is still great with an E but that's not what Hank plays

[@janetheffernan5565]

Isn't it just a different inversion of the previous chord, Ab6 over the Bb pedal (needs the Eb, obviously)?

[@ewallt]

@@ulob I suspected that.

[@eugenestockstill7162]

Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi...

[@sarahlovessweden]

Just outside Stockholm Sweden

[@EricHarlandFan]

lol. Music For Airports intro.

[@giampierogirolamo7134]

Den haag

[@almendratlilkouatl]

This guy criticizing the masters, like he was better than them... Jeez

[@barryo5158]

Too much nonsense in these videos. Literally 1/3 is useless.