Easy Piano - "My Funny Valentine" - 3 Versions & Scores
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- "My Funny Valentine" - (Rodgers & Hart) - Piano Tutorial - 3 Versions - 1. Easy, 2. Intermediate , and 3. Advanced. w/ free scores for Easy and Intermediate. Explanation of techniques and theory. Please go to website: www.kenthewitt.com/ for free scores and to view jazz piano book.
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Hi Kent. You are inspirational and you make me want to get back to the keyboard as quickly as I can. A new lease of life for me as I'm picking up my piano lessons, which I gave up at the age of 10, and now I'm 80!. I'm determined to master the easy version. Many thanks
Roger from the UK
roboman437 Congrats on still learning at 80! That makes two of us octogenarians who love Kent and his tutorials!
No good sitting in a rocking chair waiting for God!
Thanks, guys...you do my heart good...I like to think the best years are ahead...there's always more to learn and what an amazing trip it is! ....God bless.
roboman437
I find it so inspirational to hear of people picking up instruments later on in life. I've seen far too many people too afraid to start an instrument just because they never played as a kid
This is really helpful. I took classical piano lessons for quite a while (about 20 years straight) but never learned how to properly improvise or really develop my ear, and instead just followed sheet music which I then forgot when moving onto another piece. These videos are helping me to develop those missing skills, although it feels like a long road ahead before I can "jam".
yea, there is a HUGE difference between "learning" music and just playing it... for me it´s quite the opposite: i just play what i think sounds right, but i´m seriously lacking alot of theory, which is why i´m going through piano tutorials like this... theory and feeling only get you this far without the other i guess...
Thanks for this great demonstration of a great standard. As a guitar player who is trying to learn the piano these types of demos are invaluable. I've played guitar for years and listened to "straight ahead" jazz for years and now I'm trying to actually understand the theory behind what I've been listening to for all these years. Having your explanations of what you are doing as well as the song itself is so informative. It's like a chef showing you how to cook a dish instead of just handing you a piece of paper with a recipe on it. It still amazes me that people like you are willing to take the time to share what seems like your rich knowledge of jazz. I think that must come from a true love of the music. Excellent video.
Thanks so much for a wonderful comment. Yes, you are right, it comes from a love of music, and a humble appreciation of my gifts and advantages, such that I truly feel grateful to be able to pass on the knowledge, particularly to those that have less advantages, or live in impoverished countries. ( I hear from people all over the world every day, many who have no access to teachers) With all the wealth in this world, poverty and disadvantages should not exist.
I must say you put a new fire in my life, I've always had an ear, just never knew the technical aspects of the piano. Thank you so much, you have many great ideas but you have no idea how much of a blessing you are to us. God bless you
AF...Bless you for telling me. This is an honor and privilege for me... and you have just confined it...in a profound and heartfelt way.
1:37 Beginner
13:34 intermediate
21:40 Advanced
Thanks!
@@KentHewittpiano88 Thank YOU!
amazing. one of the best standards of the history. thanks a lot, sir
Thanks!...I agree...one the of greats...can't even imagine how many times it's been recorded. Best wishes!
Another amazing video Kent. You always pick the right tunes and your videos are such high content. Plus you are a great teacher. Thank you
SOul Bwoy Great compliment....keeps me going!
EXCELLENT...always a marvelous way of teaching... thanks.. happy valentine....
Will you be my valentine? As a Jazz singer and pianist, these tutorials have helped me out to the greatest degree. I thank you kindly.
Hello Kent. Another wonderful lesson! The three versions really show the range of possibilities for arranging tunes. Even the simplest version has so much beauty and feeling. I think it's great when you can choose one or combine versions depending on your mood on a given day or in a particular moment. Thanks again for sharing your talent and knowledge with us!
Superb : just what I've been looking for - thanks for posting this.
Many thanks Kent for another great lesson. You really are a generous man sharing you knowledge. Brian, also from the UK.
Love your playing Kent, and generosity with your knowledge. Been working on the intermediate version.. I guess it’ll now have to be 2022 for the unveiling! Thanks for sharing.
Please let me know when you'll be playing at Carnegie Hall!
Great as always. One of my favorite songs. I like each arrangement and enjoying watching and learning!
This is one of my favorite pieces. Thank you for doing this video!
You're the best, Kent! Nice arrangements. Thanks.
This one has been on my list to master for solo gigs. So glad you made a tutorial for it! Making these ballads sound full is difficult
Hey Connor...I hope I helped and that's a good suggestion...how to make your ballads sound full. thanks!
That last arrangement was beautiful! I love your lessons Kent, thank you from Italy!
One of my favorite songs and have been wanting to play it for a long time. I've been working on the intermediate version of your arrangement and enjoying the sound of your spread voicings. You are a fine teacher and arranger. Thank you.
Thanks for the comment...I'm glad you are learning jazz piano from my videos.
Particularly appreciated the last version 3... beautiful Kent. Thanks for sharing. :)
My pleasure!
Thanks Kent. Gorgeous, informative, creative and most of accessible. Keep up the good work. Peace.
Thank you so so much for your lesson! I would just say that from around 13.00 you go very fast through the chords and use terminology beginners may not get. None the less I followed your hands through pausing and got it. Thanks again!
Thanks so much, Kent, for all your videos and downloads. They really help me get a handle on some of this stuff. Very best wishes and you too, please keep swinging!
Thank you! Swing loose...and keep watching!
Thank you very much for your hands and wonderful lessons❤👏👏👏
My hands, sorrily, aren't what they used to be...but thanks for the compliment!
Wow. I thought you couldn't be any cooler. But you just were! Thank you, sir.
man...you are so appreciated! thank you for your clarity!! SALUTE
Explained so very well. Very important details mentioned such as playing with feel as opposed to robotic. Including melodic and harmonic details explained so clearly. Thanks a million, and wishing you absolute best! Thank you for the person and mentor you are.
Great comment and much appreciated...keeps me going!
Thank you for passing your knowledge on to us. Keep up the great work!
again another great lesson !! Thank Kent !!!
this method to show same passages or song in different voicing style is absolutely great.
Thanks Maestro !!
Thank you Kent. Getting back into piano after 25 years and enjoying all your videos. I got your book.
Wonderful! Thanks so much!
Good lesson Kent. Love the counterpoint, being a former Theater Pipe Organist It was a regular part of my performances. The neat thing was on our lower manual we had a thing called 'second touch', where by pressing the key a little harder would bring in another pre-set orchestral voice to your harmony. Very interesting effect.
Thank you! From the sunny UK
Thanks for watching! I was there!
Hello Kent! I cannot thank you enough for this posting!!
Love these videos and how you make such complex themes accessible to us mere amateurs. I adore this tune, having looked at book versions and always being disappointed with parts of them, you have provided brilliant ideas for enhancement in a way I can follow and get a sophisticated sound. So glad I thought "what would Kent suggest?" and boy am I glad I sought out this video! Kent, you have no idea how happy you make some of us!! Thank You from an ecstatic Brit! PS I'm getting your stride All of Me down nicely now (though my left hand wants more money :)!
Wonderful comment, and so helpful to me. You Brits are the best...but then... I came from Brits...so God bless you!
Hi Kent, I am back to piano lessons after 55 years and thoroughly enjoy your videos! Looking forward to exploring the incredible universe of jazz, so many thanks from Switzerland
Thanks for telling me...that does my heart good and keeps me going!
Just gorgeous ... I start to concentrate on the tutorial and then just get lost in your playing 🍀it's such a beautiful song.
Yes, Paul, it really is a classic. Everyone who's interested in jazz should be familiar with the definitive Miles Davis version.
Great tutorial and performance,Always!!I'm glad that I can hear your performance.Thank you for sharing.Have a nice weekend!~~Macky
Thanks for this. I love that you explain what you are doing and WHY you're doing it. Super helpful!
That's very affirming...how else would I know ...unless you told me. Thanks!
Hey, thank you !!! So glad I found your site. Love your teaching method.
Thanks, Ramona , for making it all worthwhile to me, by your affirming comment.
Came back to this post after your valentines 2022 post which was great too. I feel like the more modern sounds there, based on pentatonics and triad pairs, are actually easier for amateurs to pull off than your counterpoint lines in level three here. Super nice, but it hurts my brain. I think it would take me a long time to get good enough to be able to improvise that stuff. Great stuff!
Thanks for listening and the comment. Go to my playlists ...I cover all levels and subject matter.
czcams.com/users/KentHewittpiano88playlists?view=1&sort=dd&shelf_id=0
I've been looking for jazz piano tutorials on youtube for a long time, I've found the best, your explanations are clear and concise and your interpretation fits perfectly with my style and the ability to have the scores is excellent, do not forget to extend your classes and Videos, thanks and congratulations
Thanks, those are very kind words and I appreciate you comments very much. Please keep watching and writing to me. All the best!
fabulous Kent - so much detail in the analysis but still achievable for a must try harder like me
Awesome tutorial!!! My style for sure,,, I’m gonna mess around w this piece for sure !
Good morning, Mr. Hewitt! Thank you for the nice piece...nailed it, as usual! Please give your cat a pat for me.
Perfect, Kent! This will keep me busy for the next month or so.
Thanks, Jim, for telling me that it motivates practicing!
You are so cool for providing this wonderful content and education for free. Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart. Can't wait to learn this.
A million thanks for the comment. Please check out my playlists and my free scores.
czcams.com/channels/dmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCw.htmlplaylists
www.kenthewitt.com/free-music-downloads
This is superb Kent. Fantastic beginner arrangement. Thank you.
Thanks for the comment!
Thanks for another great video! Congratulations on your channel!
Thank you so much! It's amazing how CZcams works and reaches people from everywhere!
Thank you so much Kent! You have such great humor! Once again more of the puzzle clicked for me. I have a long way to go but am having a few “aha” moments here and there. Brilliant teaching on a beautiful tune. All the best to you Herbie the cat and of course the Altered Dominant Ego Man!
Hi April! I'm glad I can help with the "aha" moments. Please keep listening, I appreciate all your support.
Thanks a lot for this amazing tutorial! Superb! And the diminshed scale from the other videos stuff took me to another planet...
That planet may be a better place to be than this one! Thanks!
hi Kent, great lesson as always :)
Beautiful... (as ever) thank you doctor-K!
Thank you, R Garlin...much appreciated!
Man you are awesome!!!! You’re easy to learn and applied videos is great. I’ve gotten into music theory because of you: thanks!!!!
Thanks so much for telling me, Chris. Cheers!
Kent Hewitt thanks Kent.
Thanks Kent once again!
Hi Kent, been trying to get to grips with this! I'm 76 been trying to learn piano for the last 4 years!! not going to be much good but I love it !!!
Keep at it, and check out my playlist. I hope they will help.
czcams.com/users/KentHewittpiano88playlists?view_as=subscriber
Just wanted you to know I watched this again. It helped me enormously this evening. Beautifully played. Thank you Kent. I sang yesterday :-)
I'm glad to hear that, Corinne. This has always been one of my favorites.....also because of Rodgers and Hart.
Thanks very much for making piano tutorials of such high quality available on youtube
I appreciate the kind words...keep watching!
Valentine greetings 💚
Superb tutorial Kent. Inspirational.
Pete...Inspiring is the best word you could give to me to affirm what I try to do...so many, many thanks!
True though Kent. You explain and demonstrate things so well I find I'm able to apply what I learn to other songs Can't tell you how many II - V - Is I've got into "Lover Man" which I've been working on. Could use a little help with "I left my heart..." if you fancied doing anything with that one though! Cheers. Pete
Another great video Kent - - and..... its' in my key :-). Once again, Thanks so much.
Glad to hear it's in your key, Corinne!
Hi Kent. As always the arrangements are full of classy harmony. It is kind of you to cater for the beginners as well as intermediates. If ever you get time to transcribe the advanced version that would be really great as it would clearly show the stepwise development of an arrangement. Using lead sheets will give the melody and chords but it takes innate ability to create what you play and we are very fortunate to have your help.
Wow that was beautiful. Thank you for the lesson
John...Thank you so much!
great explanations, i really learnt a lot !
Thanks so much!
Thank you Kent!
Thank you so much, i just visited your website and oh god than you so much for this.
You're very welcome!
💚 merci pour cette belle leçon Kent
Hi Kent this step by step guide to standards in various versions is exactly what I was looking for! Learning gradually through imitation is the best method thanks! Do you have other similar songs in stepwise arrangements?
Thanks...yes. of course but I will need for you to go to my playlists and find the subjects that are most beneficial to you here: czcams.com/channels/dmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCw.htmlplaylists
Thanks sir. You truly are AWESOME.
Thank you for a most generous compliment, Juan!
Really nice! Thank you.
Thanks for the comment!
Ha, I thought i was the only one who hums when i play. great video!
You and me both!
I am sick of being a dunce with chords and inversions so I started practicing 251s doing two octave arpeggios cycling thru the 12 keys, with min7,dom7 and maj7 and then converting the maj7 to the min7, I'm doing the same with min 251s with 7b5, alt7 and min7, is this a good exercise or does it need tweaking
merci pour cette belle leçon 💚
Hahaha simply love it!!!
Glad you enjoyed!
@@KentHewittpiano88 mr ego is a savage one lol
Looking forward to watching a video about the Counterlines
You want to know more about the counterlines?... okay ...that's involved stuff!
Sweet stuff
thx.. i learned it right away
Beautiful 🎹😎
Thank you!
love your videos, nuff said, where the heck is the beginning of the original song?
ie Behold the way our fine feathered friend,
His virtue doth parade..... It seems to me the genius behind such tunes take one style or seemingly different peice of music and meld it into another
Should one bother with it ? I kinda like it
Thank YOu very much ! But I didnot found on Your website free download of this tune
You can go to the old site for some scores. I'm transferring them slowly over.
old.kenthewitt.com/
Awsome !
Hi Kent, I noticed you were calling the Chords, i.e., I, V, ii, etc., in relation to the Relative Major Scale, even though the song was in a Minor Key. Is that the Short-Cut way of playing tunes in Minor keys? Is it easier to think of the Relative Major, e.g., the C Minor as a 'vi' chord, instead of a 'i' Chord, or did you start thinking Eb Major chord scale, around Measure 30, because of the resolution coming at the end of the song is the Relative Major III chord of the C Minor Scale? Can't find this in your Book...Thanks, Ronald
You are thinking I whenever the progression evolves around the chord. So in part A (the minor part) you usually refer I as C minor. In part B (E flat Major) the progression evolves around E flat Major. So you think I maj7 - II m7 - I maj7 - V7 etc. I would concider 7 bars in E flat as the I. The 8th would be the progression to C minor. Thats debatable ofc :) Hope i could shed some light.
Thanks Franka...
fantastic!
Great! Thank you!
beautiful!
Thank you!
I finally got your new website Kent but I still don't know what to hit to get the free downloads. Please help
Ed, It's listed under the category: Free Music Downloads. They are now in alphabetical order. Here's a link: www.kenthewitt.com/free-music-downloads
2:21 trying to investigate the consequences of that weird a in right hand, that slips to a-flat. all I've got was that it changes for a sec the key from c-minor to some kind of freakin d scale (just checked it: actually major phrygian - semitones at 1-2 and 5-6 )
this is madness...
Really a great lesson, thanks! (P.S.--Has Herbie addressed the mouse issue, or is he still taking payoffs?)
Max, thanks! Herbie and Jinx only catch mice outside the house and bring them in as rewards. There's no payoffs....we would reward them greatly if they could catch mice in the house.... but unfortunately the mice are up in the ceiling walls and the cats can't catch them. (Why did I just tell you that?)
Just a wonderful video. I've been to your website looking for the Intermediate version, but can't seem to find it. Can you help? Bruce Burnham
Found it on your "dot net" site, no reply needed. Lovely arrangement.
Thinks for telling me. A lot of my scores are still on my old website here:old.kenthewitt.com/
How do you make that visual effect for altered dominant man?
He already comes with it built in. (kidding). It's a visual effect called edge detection that is a feature of Windows Movie Maker. As far as I know ....he's the only person crazy enough to use it. Cool, huh?
You should time stamp different versions, i really melted at the third version.
I like that tutorial thanks you are the boss I'm just a student thanks
Emmett, welcome back, it's always great to hear from you...I hope you're doing well...and Happy Valentines!
That's a cool cat.
I dig you, man!
THE BEST
Thank you!
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Hi your videos are very helpful for me please can yo make a video for Ballad of a Thin Man from Bob Dylan I think is a great song for piano, thank you very much from Spain
Thanks for the compliments and I'll have to check out that song and I appreciate the suggestion.
FOR MEMORIZATION PURPOSES: As to numericalizing the changes, do you conceive of this tune as a "relative minor tune" in C minor, as a "major key tune" in Eb Major, or both? This tune vacillates between the relative minor tonal center (A section) and the relative major tonal center (Bridge); in C minor and Eb Major. It ends on the latter., with a flirtation in the Bridge to the former "A 2-5-1 into the 4 chord" @ 13:19; right after the relative minor (C-, Bb-7, TTS A7, Ab Maj. 7). So, as to the all-important tonal center shift to Ab, do you advise always conceiving of it as the "4" chord? Or as the "6" chord in that relative minor, A section? Thanks!
Hey, Jeffrey! How are ya, brother?. We just got back home from Jamaica to snow storm conditions in NE. Whoa... culture shock! Yes, your analysis is perfectly correct. Like Autumn Leaves and My Funny Valentine, we are "vacillating" from the relative minor to relative major perfectly, a technique which all the composers (classical, jazz, everything) have used for centuries.... and makes for a great song. The lesson here, I think, is that if you want to compose a great song in a traditional manner.... write the song melodically in the diatonic scale...and then you have multiple possibilities in the harmonic structure to make the song sound unique and thus you can vacillate or transverse between the major and relative minors scales. The supporting harmony will result in achieving a perfect composition...that is memorable and sing-able. Just take, as an example, ..."Moon River", a perfect song in the diatonic scale with great changes supporting.
I wish my music teachers had explained things as you do, I feel my progress would have been more swift.
That's a great comment. I hope you will watch all my videos and learn a lot. Please go to playlists for categories: czcams.com/channels/dmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCw.htmlplaylists
Love Herby The Jazz Cat!
He sleeps on the piano when we are practicing. Cats know how to "crash".
@@KentHewittpiano88 Thx Kent, Awesome "kittty"!
Brill. !!
Hi, where i can get sheets of 1st version?
It should be on my website, if not, write to me!
@@KentHewittpiano88 Got it, thx from Russia
the sheet music you have for the easy version is different than what you're showing in the video for the bridge. not sure which to follow.
Either will work. I'm not sure why I played differently because I was reading the score. However either the printed version or what I played will work fine.
Kent Hewitt thanks for the response! Ok, I'm still pretty new to reading music so I was trying to learn it that way, but I liked the way you played it better. I'll figure it out though. Any recommendations on how to learn to read music faster? I'm pretty slow at it.
Hi Alex, learning to be a good music reader takes a lot of practice...the more you practice at reading all kinds of scores, the better reader you'll get to be. The key word is "repetitions". Practice sight reading classical scores, jazz scores, big band, transcriptions, lead sheets, etc. This is obvious...but in addition, if you learn theory, scales, chords, ....all that helps. If you read music with chord symbols, and you have chord knowledge it will help you to read the notes better. The pianist has the most difficult job, because we read a lot of notes in both hands. But think about what a violinist or string player has to deal with. I wish there was a faster or easier method.