Oscar Peterson's Cool Chords: Altered Dominant 7th Chords - Diminished Pattern, Jazz Ranch Tutorial.

Super Cool" chord pattern using altered dominant 7th chords in diminished intervals. (Advanced concepts video) V- I progressions as played by great pianists Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly, Bill Charlap, etc. How to use this chord pattern on II-V-I progressions and in tunes. The modern sound. Scores to this video available on my website under the heading My Appendix. www.kenthewitt.com/

[@zakfoster1]

Kent, this is absolutely killer! Explanation was spot on for my mind and opened my mind to understand the function of diminished chords in a way i never knew possible!! Cheers!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

So cool...thanks so much for telling me!

[@JudyK1]

Thanks Kent. Really interesting and fun to learn.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I appreciate your telling me!

[@markbra]

Advanced concepts, love it. Big thanks

[@KentHewittpiano88]

You are welcome!

[@lpmac11]

Dr. Hewitt, you are da man! You are incredibly artful, skilled and prolific beyond belief. This is a great lesson, playing off of the principles described in your book. Thanks for all that you are doing to keep us all moving along the path! Be well, friend.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I appreciate your perceptive and very complimentary comment...keep up the good work!

[@ddgyt50]

I think I've watched every OP video I could find on YT. There was also a nice interview by Michael Reichmann, not about OP's music but his 2nd love, photography. I'm so thankful to my father who introduced me to OP, as well as many other great jazz artists of his era.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks for sharing that info.....no one can say enough about the greatests pianists...esp. OP.

[@KellanFluckiger]

Thanks for these great videos!!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I apprecaite the comment!

[@bobbygadourymusic5476]

Yes! Great lesson. Thank you, Kent! Love OP.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@carolsteffens9261]

Another superb lesson. Thank you so much.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

My pleasure...thanks!

[@irawardofficial]

Kent you are the real deal man! Thanks for sharing!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks for saying so....much appreciated!

[@petewilliams4965]

Good stuff as always - thanks man!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thank you!

[@humblemai2211]

Great teacher always

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Glad you think so!

[@marilynharris4118]

❤these may have been OP's chords at some point - but now they're YOURS, KH! Masterful!! ❤

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks, Marilyn,....I just figured them out...maybe the first to describe them in detail here.

[@HenrikHanssonMusic]

10:19 The Misty Sun Will Never Set ;) These are beautiful voicings, great stuff as always!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks so much for the comment!

[@joseortiz-fw7by]

Thanks! I been practicing with a lot of diminished chords and I needed to switch it up

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I'm glad to hear that...thanks for telling me!

[@song4night]

this is such an amazing lesson, Kent! I think I heard it on Bill Evans playing.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

You might be right...thanks for the comment!

[@jonathanlafrance8643]

Pretty Cool stuff brother!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Much appreciated!

[@anderkeyboard]

❤ thank you so much 🎹 amén 🙌 GOD bless you 🙏

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks for listening!

[@anderkeyboard]

thank you!! for his great work

[@spaziojobim]

Kent you are THE Master for me. Let me tell you what I really think: I really think that this lessons, as other many jazz piano lessons in general, would lead to a more understandable result if we talk about _upper structures_ or _chord on chord,_ and actually this is one of the cases when the upper structure can not be more clear (I bet even Oscar Peterson was thinking in terms of upper structures more than altered chords). You have triads that move up on a diminished seven chord structure. So you have Db/Bb (you can hide the F in Bb because is repeated in Db), E/Db, G/E and Bb/G. This is what the left hand is actually doing: Bb Db E G. And this is what right hand is actually doing: Db E G Bb at the same time with the left hand. It's a nice thing to have a pedal of G when it is played. I think you know upper structures and Oscar Peterson too. So let's teach simplier. Let's play simplier. Let us learn simplier when there is the opportunity of doing it. Love you immensely.

[@GizzyDillespee]

That's how I often think, too. It's specific to keyboard playing - fingerings on other instruments don't usually split the lower and upper structures so cleanly between hands... and even on piano, often you're going to play sparser in the LH than the RH, rather than playing it as 2 root position triads, 1 per hand. But your right that many of us think about it this way, even when we're playing an inversion or open voicing.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks...I get your point, and I have made a few videos on upper stucture chords and "stacked chords and stacked triads". However for this one I learned it the way I teach it. Perhaps it would have been better to teach it the other way, but that's how I conceptualized it ...so that's the best way I could teach it...more like the way I felt it in my hands...but I appreciate a constructive bit of advice....thanks so much for watching and the comment!

[@dereknolin5986]

This was fascinating, especially once it clicked that there's really only three versions of this lick that you have to learn. It seems to me that one shortcut way to think about those chords is as a slash chord, with a Major Triad over a bass note a half step higher, so Db/D, E/F, A/Ab, etc. That's a shortcut for my hands to "see" the patterns, even if that's not technically the correct nomenclature.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Any way that's helpful for you to get the sound and execution ...is a good idea. I tried to teach it a way to understand the meaning of the chords and the movement and how to apply them. Your idea is very good.

[@naninwardhani]

Hi, I couldn't find the score to this video on your website.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

It's in the Appendix to my book...or you can write to me.

[@TheRealSandleford]

Im still with you.... Was thinking the other day, that with those 4 dominants roots, it seems like quite a few tunes change their key centers and use at least a couple of those roots as key centers...at least when I looked at girl from epanema... but im sure more do that I was thinking about the saying...3 chords and the truth.... if those chords are say, A Ab and G, you could kind of have all the keys cause the Gb is just a repeat of the A in a way? Each of the 3 could be the 5 for 4 different key... in that sense

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I undeerstand what you're saying....and I believe you get it and the concept of the 3 families.

[@rickrocketts183]

Howdy Kent! Did you do Summerkeys? Hoping you’re still doing that, I hope to go next year.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I did Summerkeys....please come up next year.