Improvisation on Locrian Mode: Warren Cohen piano

[@AlanIanke]

Beautiful!

[@EscalasMusicales]

6:38 An entity appear in the room because of this Locrian Summoning xD

[@barryguerrero6480]

Cool! Sounds like something half-way between Debussy and Scriabin. I noticed if you break Locrian into its two tetrachords, the first tetrachord is 'Phyrigian mode' sounding because of the flatted second and third degrees: C#,D,E,F#. In contrast to that, The upper tetrachord is entirely whole tone (no half steps): G,A,B,C#. I think you were 'hanging' a bit in the upper tetrachord, which helped to lend that Debussy sound to your improvisation . . . . I would like to take Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" and try transposing it into Locrian. First I need to learn "Take Five" as it exists. I think it's mostly in minor (Dorian?), while the bridge section is greatly in major. I would like to play around with whole tones (no half steps) in the ascending scale that's within the bridge section. Wish me luck.

[@warrencohen8246]

Actually I think the Debussy association is the use of pedal in the same rhythm as that used in ""Les collines d'Anacapri", which, until you mentioned Debussy, I had not thought about, but it must of been subconsciously going on in my head . I was hanging a bit in the upper tetrachord, but my main technical focus was to make sure that I emphasized the C# enough that it sounded like a tonic and that I did not shy away from the G natural. And yeah, good luck on that Locrian Take Five!

[@tomjung1067]

beautiful thank you

[@warrencohen8246]

Here's the link to Adam Neeley's video that inspired this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m52Ui5uhg51og8U