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Tutorial on jazz improv for the song 'Spain' by Chick Corea.
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[@6stringstorulethemall967]

Hands down most comprehensive lesson I've found for this tune

[@edpaulmin2016]

So thank you

[@ajfrench806]

A tritone, away then play that pentatonic. How cool!!! I will work on this. In all keys. This is so fun. Thank you!

[@jameslewis7370]

Hello sir. I've been watching your video for about a week. I am enjoying all the different colors you represent in this video. I've been an jazz organist for about 40 years and I seem to have gotten to a place where I am bored. This video has put a spark in me, thank you!

[@novellmusicmedia6895]

your tone is so vivid yet warm. Beautiful. The improv is so musical. Talented!

[@Choadeymcgriff]

Never stop, these are great. Perfect for my level. Nice progression.

[@jeuxdeau2009]

i love how you put Chopin into your improvisation. Makees me want to open up my Chopin books!

[@marcoonesa6935]

Daaaaaaaaammmn! Thanks Tony! I've been dying to learn how to do improvs on jazz songs especially on spain and you have explained it so good and so detailed that I finally understand how to improv! Thanks Tony!

[@ishta]

I was playing saxophone with my band the other day and I applied like 25% of the concepts you gave here and it just expanded my solos greatly. Piano player was impressed. Those diminished scales and pentatonic and alt chord arpeggios just brought it to another level. Usually I just railroad through with D ionian. Thanks again

[@tonyfarina1310]

For a song I have been playing for close to 50 years,you gave me some insight into the progressions I never thought of.Thanks for the great tutorial.

[@anthonynardini4295]

A genius player and teacher in one! Thank You.

[@amchoong]

I may have missed this when you released the video 5 years ago, but this is an utterly brilliant video. I’ve been wanting to learn this tune for a while and having spent a good year or so, working up to it, started this week. This resource is a goldmine. Thank you so much! PS, this is from a guitar player!!!

[@robertzullo8707]

Another great lesson Tony. Tons of ideas to explore. Thank you!!

[@1970piano]

I can just repeat, what many here wrote before: This is the most helpful instructional video for this tune. Thank you very much!

[@ajfrench806]

So much in this tutorial. All understandable. I just need to practice applying it. You make everything so manageable. Thank you!

[@barbarapowrie1540]

This is the most helpful instructional video on improvising this tune. I get it now. Thanks!

[@PJYisDBK]

THIS WAS SO HELPFUL! Thank you so much!

[@eligarf2433]

Very helpful tips presented in an easily understandable format. Superb!

[@livingpiano]

This video changed the way I think and play ....AMAZING !!! thanks from India

[@scivalesmusicbooks1977]

Beautiful and very useful lesson. Thank you, Maestro Tony!

[@jacquelamontharenberg]

Anytime I have performed this song, I struggled with the improvisation. This gives me some great ideas to use and to internalize in all 12 keys. Great tutorial. Thank you very much.

[@paulclarkson2614]

really brill your lessons Tony - with a laid back style. best online.

[@erzloh]

Thank you so much for this! It helps so much, absolutely awesome content!

[@EE-hu9zx]

fffffffrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiccckkken awesome. I've been trying to do all this with Spain by ear for 20 years now, although a lot of that was learning the tune and a lot of the jazz chords in 12 keys, but still you lay it out and play it so clearly and beautifully I'm sure I won't have any trouble putting it in action right away, thanks. First time I saw you here so I'll look for more.

[@rcbennett6592]

A brilliant & thorough breakdown of Spain, Tony. You've given me a lot to work with and have taught me more about different scales and modes to use, thanks much!

[@TonyWinston]

R C Bennett thanks, it's a great tune to study.

[@imuzikworkstation3530]

thank you very much toni..your guide helps me alot on spain soloing n improvisations..

[@MrPapahen1]

Just love the song - and you have a great way to teach it - many thanks - must get practicing!!

[@TonyWinston]

John Henshaw thanks.

[@alexanderdelacruz9249]

Thank You so much Mr Winston 👏🏻👏🏻

[@antonioagavemendez9048]

Thank you teacher, good explanation.

[@Wiliam_Silva]

Muito bom! Gostei do vídeo e principalmente da didática! Ganhou um Fan!!!

[@zeinselzer2897]

thanks for sharing your talent, great ideas indeed.

[@mikereali6215]

Great as usual! Thanks again!

[@aostensv]

Absolutely love that sound Tony. Great video!

[@pianojazztustin5811]

I’m really happy to have found this. One of the more helpful instructors for self study.

[@shanghainightflow3039]

You are great master. God bless you all time. hugs from Shanghai..

[@ren30703]

Thanks! I learn a lot.

[@reznormike1]

this was so good.thank you sir.

[@jazzerson7087]

Meat, vegetables, spice with some Ionian seasoning to smarten it up haha! Love that Chopin line, some great ideas here Tony conveyed in a very clear way.

[@nevanyaafi1990]

this is very helpful, thanks a lot for this!

[@bonksmusic1]

great video, I found it easy to follow

[@jedrzejkosmowski1487]

its so beautifull

[@ryanmooncat3949]

Yeah man! I loved the explanations.

[@juancamacholeon9444]

Very good. Thank you

[@rgarlinyc]

Wonderful, thanks a ton!

[@armengharibian1850]

This a really good video!

[@iuriidudar5283]

Great lesson 👍 Thank you so much )

Thank You!

[@douglaswatkins277]

Good approach in balancing theory, technique and enjoyment in playing the instrument. Glad you didn't use a time meter. Cheers!

[@billyschannel]

Thank you Sir🙏🏽

[@britishandamericanlightpia1047]

Very helpful, thank you

[@ethancooper4154]

This man said “box voicing” and I was like ah interesting Bach’s voicings

[@MV-in8xs]

I learned so much. Thanks

[@glenrose7925]

Nice tony

[@sirensoundlabel]

Very inspiring for a flute player too !

[@TheRealSandleford]

James Moody!

[@christophcloren4740]

Thank you very much again for your helpful tutorials !! is there a chance to get an example for a kind of this improvisation at the end written in notes... ??

[@larsbrix2835]

This is absolutely fabulous and most instructive. Addding to the fine experience is the fact that Tony's voice has some resemblance to Larry David's, so this becomes like the uttermost relaxed but very instructive mixture of jazz lesson and 'Curb your enthusiasm'. Great!

[@TonyWinston]

Larry David, That's a new one, I like him, hope I don't sound too much like him!

[@larsbrix2835]

@@TonyWinston No, don't worry, it's just a slight resemblance ;-) I really like your video on 'Spain' improvisations and watch it over and over. I am preparing for a rehearsal with a group and would like to improvise. I play a soprano sax in Bb, so I guess I shall have to improvise over an E major scale with four sharps (a little troublesome on a sax). Would you have a suggestions to a good and somewhat simple scale to use? I am not a very good improviser, but played classical oboe for nearly forty years, so my technique is ok. All the best, Lars

[@TonyWinston]

@@larsbrix2835 Throw in the C# blues scale - I'm thinking in your key now - C# E F# G G# B C# E etc.

[@larsbrix2835]

​@@TonyWinston Thank you very much for this fine advice - I'll definitely try this scale 🙂

[@jasoncharles9481]

Great video

[@ishta]

Diminished scaled is the key along with tritone substitution. But the best part of this video is your pants change color many times. Must be a magical piano :D

[@TheRealSandleford]

Ah not Bach's voicing... Thanks for this, cool sheet too! That root 4th 5th into 3/6/7 too. Tried figuring out the F#7 with that myself and I seemed to just get a whole tone scale chopped a bit. Will have to read what you got on the sheet. Oh Hmm... That 4 minor is the F#s melodic minor so I can play also the diminished on the 4 minor! Discovered a very nice playing young italian guitarist that played this with Al Dimeola .... Matteo Mancuso ... most players in the genre dont use his pick technique. More common in classical

[@yepihendramaya4203]

Thank you..

[@yepihendramaya4203]

Thx a lot, it's mean for me

[@Painx7]

hello can you make a tutorial on buliding jazz phrases or jus phrases when soloing?

[@JeremiahCarter-ot1su]

Nice placed chords

[@Marunius]

When you comp with just the fifths, everything is going to sound consonant :P

[@VMsiDolanescu1]

I love you !!!

[@guitarandknivesetc4219]

Sweet!

[@pomatomapo]

I would marry your sound

[@Fghjk-hs9zd]

very nice =)

[@dantesalamante9987]

I can't thank you enough. This is a million dollar lesson

[@AllIn1Studio]

True!! It’s a sign of a great musician when one is so open-hearted and generous with harmonic knowledge accumulated over decades and given away in 10 minutes on a smorgsbord platter! Thank you Tony 🎶💛🎶Blessings to you!

[@AllIn1Studio]

True!! It’s a sign of a great musician when one is so open-hearted and generous with harmonic knowledge accumulated over decades and given away in 10 minutes on a smorgsbord platter! Thank you Tony 🎶💛🎶Blessings to you!

[@user-ow9tc7qi7q]

BRAVO !!!! BISS

[@jameslewis7370]

Sir. What do you warm up with when you practice? and what is box voicing?

[@garygeller6177]

Marvelous video. Glad I found you. Have you done something like this for Waltz for Debbie? I love the tune but for some reason improve on it has always been a problem. Thanks!

[@TonyWinston]

I'm still working on improv on that tune also. here's my video kzbin.info/www/bejne/mV6QZ2t-fJmrbbM

[@bobblues1158]

Yeah Tony! Barry Harris would smile!

[@eternalrainbow-cj3iu]

Hi you could have used Box chord on Gmaj7#11: G-B-C#-F# or in your improvisationn! A# D E A(I knew this theory and called it modal approach(because and and the same shape oof a chord that could have any function...But your teachings are helping me so much!1 because I am more a theorist than Piano player yet...I am working hard to come over that aspect, that's why I went to two piano teachers, the last one could tell me a few ne things the minor upperstructures but in fact that here the same as the octatonictriad#9's...so I knew them without knowing..I hadn''t realy been focuusing on the Minor Triads 4 of them on the dominants yet (whil;e studying jazz guitar, I also studied to less and a bit to less standards, but still I studied what I could..))

[@williambeldamlkke8054]

This is a lot of information for someone kinda new to the piano, so I was wondering if I should just try and master one technique at a time or focus on multiple at once.

[@laminebaazi4376]

chick would tell you to practice and tackle it one thing at a time but as sparse and diverse as could be . just go learn each thing you dont get.

[@sheilamacdougal4874]

Lovely video. Additional comments on rhythm would be welcome.

[@domenicoiandoli1855]

Hi Tony, thanks a lot, a very useful and pratical tutorial, also so general to be used everywhere. I've got a question on box chord. On left hand I often use ring finger, I see you use it too, someone told me it is a wrong choice. What do You think about it? Many thanks, Domenico

[@TonyWinston]

Sometimes that 4th finger feels very comfortable. It might mean that you have to switch fingers more often to get to the next chord but that usually isn't a problem.

[@wilsoncosta5822]

Muito Bom. show 1000

[@jamesjaques3112]

Why does that B7 chord at the end pull so hard back to the Gmaj at the start? It’s not III to I, not V to I so why does the Gmaj feel like a resolution???

[@petertarsio7168]

Chopin had some real lines to consider on his music. Modal, pentatonic are all there along with major and minor scales. Liszt utilized the diminished scale. 🎉❤🎉

[@calebmatthews4644]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/poXJloeAgqpqY6s I'm not aware of any modal music by chopin

[@sheilamacdougal4874]

Everyone used the diminished, certainly by the 19th century. You can also see, in Chopin among others, what jazz musicians think of as Barry Harris movements to vary a major chord (alternating inversions of maj 6ths and diminished).

[@danwaldis4553]

Peter, adding to what you commented, there are many who don't have any idea what a profound influence some of the earlier music had on jazz, and then what brilliant things the jazzers did with it. Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Lizst, Debussy, Scriabin, and believe it or not, John Philip Sousa all had a great influence. Scott Joplin, took the form for his Ragtime pieces from Sousa's marches. And let's not forget the great master, J. S. Bach, who had an incalculable influence. Bach's brilliance even made it all the way to Keith Jarrett.

[@danwaldis4553]

Oops... I left out Ravel. :)

[@raphaelhudson]

Wonderful video, now I have to go back and try to figure out what the hell "box voicings" are again :D

[@TonyWinston]

Rootless voicings F A B E is box 1. Can be used for G7, Db7 alt ; Dm6/9; Bm7b5. B E F A is box 2, same usage. Flat the A for box 3 - use as G7, Bb7, Db7, E7 (with various alterations)

[@raphaelhudson]

@@TonyWinston by F rootless (a c E g)? Or are you literally meaning the notes fabe? What would help even more is if you could do a video where you slowed down those runs you use and show your fingering . Practically no jazz piano videos on KZbin give any fingering advice, the best I have ever found on this is the right hand according to art Tatum book. But it's a specific style of runs

[@dallasstiles118]

5 times! You're a soldier man

[@ndumisongqobe1306]

Hope this had a sheet to sight read on

[@terrisemrau4351]

Hello! Have been working on 'Spain'---saw your suggestion for using D Maj. throughout - cool! I have been using the 'Spanish Scale F# ' = H W+ H W H W W . But not quite sure if it all fits together with Bassplayer! Any input?

[@terrisemrau4351]

PS meaning the solo-impro on section C of the piece as well as the Intro (in addtition to the classic "Concerto de Aranjuez by Joaquin Rodrigo " Your advice appreciated!!

[@TonyWinston]

not sure what the spanish scale is - give me the notes. the bass is mostly on roots and 5ths unless you have a very adventurous bass player.

[@terrisemrau4351]

@@TonyWinston Spanish Scale F# with the notes: F# G Bb B C# D E F# - In Section C solo sounds good with all the chords - however using C#7 -5 and ending with B7sus. Bass player might have to be watchful at C# . Wondering if I missed something...? Thank you!

[@terrisemrau4351]

Correction - note Bb should be A# for the Spanish Scale F# - F# G A# B C# D E F# .

[@FrogTonic]

I am just getting into jazz playing. Would learning this be ok for a beginner or should I try something else first?

[@TonyWinston]

Go for it. The chords don't change quickly and improvising can be reduce to just a few scales - mostly D major - good luck!

[@FrogTonic]

Tony Winston Alright I’ll give it a try then, thanks!

[@jacobsmithjr]

So what you're saying is Chick Corea punked all of us with D major scale lol

[@abaaba1509]

CHOPIN

[@thomasgore2687]

Why is it G major if it has 2 sharps? Shouldn't that be B minor which would go with the D major improv?

[@TonyWinston]

G major is not the key. Key is D or b minor depending on your mood.

[@harrisonrichter9414]

B minor - not an arbitrary difference either :)

[@TonyWinston]

Thanks Vinko. Good analysis.

[@pomatomapo]

This is the best example of "you're right but you're wrong" I love it

[@cyanhallows7809]

@@harrisonrichter9414 it is

11:38 crazy

[@GregoryGuay]

Why did you play A B C#.... and call that an A pentatonic? (as opposed to ABC...)

[@TonyWinston]

Pentatonic scales are basically the 1,2,3,5,and 6 of a major scale. C# is the 3 in an A major scale

[@gerritveldhuisen7748]

After C#7 i take C7 ( Bb E G - Bass C ) B sus4+5 - single note F# - B _ Thank for that Video

[@robertciccone6399]

RIP Chick Corea

[@jameslewis7370]

which Chopin waltz in a minor?

[@TonyWinston]

Op 34 No 2

[@gustavotoro8]

Mmm... spice.

[@nicolasperez4443]

please refrain from using the term "Bach voicing" as that implies that Bach created and implemented those harmonies into music but a more proper term would be Figured Bass Voice Leading as that was very common even before Bachs time due to the nature of composing using figured bass and the corresponding voice leading techniques

[@TonyWinston]

I am saying 'BOX' voicing - that is another term for 'shape' or 'rootless' voicings. I no longer use the term BOX voicing. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqDUo3uJdtZro7s

[@jayrose-ham8834]

Nice socks

[@carloforti236]

Very interesting but you go too fast, lots of information. When you play the impro it would be useful to indicate at which point of the score you are. If you want to be understood by non-english (us) people it would be good to speak a little bit slowlier. Thanks !

[@TonyWinston]

Thanks for your comment.