Why Study Music Transcriptions?- Keith Jarrett- "Danny Boy" - w/ tutorial
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- Jazz Tutorial: Keith Jarrett's interpretation of "Danny Boy" traditional Irish song a study in harmonization and counterpoint. Jazz piano tutorial. Includes link to free score and Jazz Piano Book on website: www.kenthewitt.com/
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Exactly what I was looking for: a thoughtful, detailed analysis of Jarret’s choices and harmonizations on Danny Boy. You have a great vibe, my friend, and you’re a great teacher. Thank you!
Thanks so much for the kind words and compliments!
Wooowwww 🤩🤩
The Eb chord against Db chord at 10.55 are Amazingly Genius..!!!
Thank You So Much Master Hewitt and Master Jarret👏👏🏆🎼🎹👍👍🥇❤️🙏
This only comes from experience in hearing harmony. You can always create alternative harmony under a melody note if it sounds good... if makes sense with what came before and is after it. Just experiment with that and see what you will discover.!
Thank you dear Kent, for your lovely support
You are very welcome
Kent , Thank you for the time you put into these Videos!
Thank you so much, sir...you understand... and that means a lot to me!
I wish more Keith Jarret vídeos like this!!! Thank you!
Thank you! I have more ...go to my playlsits:
czcams.com/users/KentHewittpiano88playlists
You can devote an entire life to studying Keith and Bill who are my two favorites. I find what you do to be incredibly valuable. You are doing God's work by keeping this music alive and fresh with your insights. Just keep doing it.
Thanks so much for telling me...it's very helpful to me.
Dear Maestro Kent, I am so thankful for your Keith Jarrett transcription of Danny Boy, and your words around Keith Jarrett classical, contrapunto style, dissonance, This is literally music to my ears. I’ve always wanted to start discovering the secerets of his sublime character. He is my favorite of all times, I agree with you. I hope you’re doing well in quarantine!! Greetings from Buenos Aires.
Thank you for the kind words from Buenos Aires. I believe Keith to be the greatest living jazz pianist.
Beautiful. Nice job translating Keith Jarrett's rendition of this song. You got it right, too, it's about style and touch and soul and inspiration, as well as technical and harmonic brilliance! Thank you.
Great comment and perceptions...thanks so much!
Kent ,you are a generous man ,what you say make a lot of sense......bravo we need more people like you...... yes......
Thanks you so much for your kind words and generosity...keeps me going!
You knocked my socks off with this one Kent. Great arrangement.
Yeah, man...thanks for telling me!
I absolutely love this lesson. Great analysis and so helpful. The last week of videos will keep me busy for a long time. Thank you
Always great to hear from you, Dr. S! Thank you!
Thank you! An excellent "guide" to the a superb live performance by Keith Jarrett. And to be shown in such perfect detail and nuance, my hat off to you, Kent as well. Very well done.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you Kent for sharing your insights and explanations of Keith’s treatment of this beautiful tune. Very inspirational!
Your video is very clear, respectful and so helpful. I can now go to my piano and learn the transcription.
Thank you.
Mike, Surrey, UK
Those are very kind words and I'm glad you told me...thanks!
Absolutely fantastic song. And fantastically played! 👏
Greatest comment yet...many thanks!
You're a great mentor and one with a huge passion on teaching! And also you have you're own way yo see that every individual approach is unique, and has their own time. Thank you for sharing this in such a communicative way. Greets from Argentina!
Thanks for such a splendid and generous comment, Juan. Thar helps me to keep going.
Great tutorial! A lot of great insight into Keith Jarrett’s playing. Thanks Kent
Great comment...thanks so much!
So many cool details to notice, and you seem to notice them all. Nice video!
Thank you very much!
Thank you for all Kent, great feeling and emotion and deep intelligence at the same time, as always, you're the best teacher :)
Thank you for another thoughtful and generous compliment...I'm grateful, Emmanuel.
Great video, Kent. Thanks.
Much appreciated!
i've been waiting for this!!
thank you mr. kent..
Thanks for telling me!
Great video! So kind of you to bring knowledge to the masses!
It's written in my stars...and I'm grateful. Blessings!
I loved this discussion. Because I am a good reader, it was absolutely perfect for me as I could instantly follow along with your commentary, playing as you played.
Perfect comment...and so much appreciated! There can be a union between the eyes, the ears, and the hands.
Love your great work and your book, thank you so much!!!!
I appreciate the comment and thanks for buying my book!
Wonderful!
Many thanks!
OMG!! I can hardly wait to do this!.. Keith Jarret is close to heavens.. Thank you Kent!
He's a genius with a great soul...and I don't mind his self- indulgence. He inspires others. Thanks, Vivi.
he is my favorite of all times, Kent. I was lucky to listen to him live three times years ago...
Nice! Thank you, so much, for transcribing this rendition.
You're very welcome!
Thanks Kent for the video! I'm studying this transcript and your video helps a lot. Have a good weekend!
I appreciate the comment!
Both versions it’s so impressive as yours Kent I always love this song greeting from Brazil
Thanks for the support and comment!
and three weeks ago I worked on a blues 2 choruses but my7 teacher didn't like it(to complex for me) so I brought your score the moment he saw it he said that looks good(because of the spaces of the RH)I had to play it A vie, of course at home I had proficiently enough studied it so I went through it slowly but better then expected...so here you are , Sir My Gratiutde and the little fruits in my World....if you want to see me playing that is Green Jazz Apple on youtube...don't expect something special but the bass player everybody likes a lot(he is special ) so any way I wish you a Beatiful continuing of inspiring Tutorials...
Hey, ER, thanks for all the good comments, and for sharing your thoughts about your music. I'm glad to help out, please subscribe, if you haven't yet.
Awesome !! Thank you for sharing!
My pleasure!
Thank you for opening to us the wonderful world of harmony and contrapunctal style of Keith Jarret!! Your tutorials are a real treasure!! You can transmit your great love for music in its deepest details and nouances, in such a way that it produces a tremendous respect for its beauty and its illimited expression possibilities!
That's a great comment and affirmation. I wish I could write a response equal to the quality of your words, but I can only offer my humble thanks, and the rest is there for you in my videos. Love and respect, KH
As ever, loving learning about beautiful voicings in your transcriptions like this one and, my favorite thus far, Bill Evans's 'A Time for Love.' Many thanks for your labor of love here, Kent~
Great comment, Robert, and so much appreciated!
Thats amazing analysis, havent noticed so many little things, thank you!
The little things count...thanks!
Thanks Kent!
Thanks for the comment!
I enjoyed it and find it very helpful.
A million thanks!
Thanx, Kent.
You are very welcome
Amazing man
Awesome comment, man!
Great Kent! I appreciate very much your work. Greetings from italy.
Thanks for telling me!
@@KentHewittpiano88 grazie a te!
Passionant !
Thank you!
Appreciated!
Thank you
thank you sir!
Thanks for the comment, Mohamed!
You are just tremendous !
Thanks!
Kent, just came back to this video after a couple years because I've been playing this one recently. I know you weren't going for a complete note for note transcription, but I wanted to point one thing out. In measure two, the first chord Keith plays I think is voiced with the 9 on top of the left hand (F-C-G left, A-E-A right). That particular voicing of an Fmaj7 is just gorgeous and I've been using it a lot when playing ballads. Tiniest little subtle thing, but the 9 sounds so good in that voicing I thought I'd point it out. Love the channel!
Thanks for tip and for sharing!
I rate this video of yours A+. One of yours best. Still, your videos on harmonic minor and on diminished 7th are two I value so much I use them as part of my notebook of practice exercises to cycle through regularly. A subject of supreme importance which is underserved is how to transpose. An accompanist must master this skill in major markets such as NYC--even the ability to transpose classical music is required at the top level. You would serve we, your appreciative students well, to devote a SERIES of videos to the complex but essential topic of how to transpose on a professional level of competency.
You read my mind...I've been thinking about a lesson in transposing recently. I'm heading for Maine this week for a 2 week jazz course...but I'll give some thought to your request and how to organize a lesson, when I get back...and thanks!
Thank you for sharing, grate inspiration for understaning jazz pianists inner heart. I have downloaded and bought several copies of Danny Boy, the beautiful harmonies is one thing but playing it with the feeling that Keith Jarrett as made avalable in his concert from Tokio shows the value of interpretation. Hope you are doing well. Thanks again.
I agree....Keith's interpretation is uncanny...just a gem and great work of beauty and art.
Thank you Ken Hewitt
Very beautifull
Thank you, Patricia...keep watching!
Yes i will, i am learning Some day your prince will come.
Your both vidéos are so great, i can listen a lot of Bill Evans way.
You are playing really very hight and very very well, Kent, i don't stop to feel it when you play.
Merci
Hi Kent. Great analysis. & most of all I really love this comment, at 11:31 "You have to find...You want to find your personality within how you harmonize a song, how you alter it to your own taste, and your individual taste"
Thanks for quoting me....you just entered the elite club. I need to do more of that. Great one, Vic.
The elite club!!! Woohoo! 😃 am so excited. Thanks Kent 👍
Thanks very nice
So nice of you!
Thanks a lot
Most welcome!
Thanks Kent, I would like to get a hard copy of your book.
Thank you again, an intermediate lesson with a clear explanation, and a good keyboard view, to me you are a great teacher.
Means a lot to me...thank you!
Hi Kent, yet again, another great video. Getting back to the pain after so many years, I love your book, your tutorials, your humour, your quotations.... Really enjoyed this tutorial. Have you thought of doing one on Keith's rendition of "Somewhere over the rainbow"? Would be a nice extension to the other tutorials you did on the song. Have a great summer!
that is supposed to read piano... not pain!! :) the piano is pure enjoyment!
Thanks for the comment...I just put up a video on Over The Rainbow. Check my Playlists for more on Keith Jarrett.
Kent! Thanks so much for your inspiring video and transcription. I must be honest. I have felt like a traitor to Bill Evans, at times. You see, I have never had all the notes of a Bill Evans' arrangement stuck in my head. However, I have had three standards by Keith Jarrett stuck for up to two years each -- no, not on a loop or continuously, but in grocery lines, drives, and dreams. Now, back to my padded cell. Best to you, Kent. ( When I Fall In Love, I Remember Clifford, and My Wild Irish Rose. lol.).
Bruce...it really doesn't matter...whoever you prefer...the most important thing is that a famous jazz musician's music resonates with you and inspires you...that's all that counts.
Excellent video Kent! I had a question. The stacked chord you refered to, first as an Ebmajor over an Db and F, secondly as an Eb over Ab and F. What would you call these chords, and how exactly are they functioning?
SUPER ! have fun in Maine (had hoped to be there this summer but your classes were full ! ).
Jess in NC......
10 best....? consider OPs long intro to C JAM....many riffs......
Thanks for the tip...obviousl;y I have to include OP...but I have to pick favorite lick...but I will check out your suggestion.
I liked Bill Evans when he played on the kind of blue album with miles, but after miles he just didn’t have that edge and that quiet intensity in his trios he had later on. Keith Jarrett is way beyond bill or anyone else I’ve ever heard. His trio was just monstrous and he was the head monster, and of course that’s meant as a compliment. His ballad playing is just so beautiful, when he plays he makes it sound so romantic. He is pure genius.
Keith is the greatest living jazz pianist, but he learned a huge amount from Bill Evans. Keith is the Ferrari, but Evans is the Rolls Royce of pianists.
Kent Hewitt I really don’t know how much Keith was influenced by bill Evans, but no one comes even close to Jarrett. To me Keith is the F14 Tomcat and Bill was the P51 Mustang. Jarrett is just a f---g monster.
Just discovered your channel, Kent, and really enjoying. I'm waaay amateur--self-taught, terrible at reading music, especially bass clef--but to my great surprise, learning the hell out of stuff watching you jam. Even picking up some chord terms. Can't wait to try your other Jarrett toot-torials. Btw, is that a Masin Hamlin 6'-10"?
Thanks for writing and telling me your story. I'm glad that I could help out. Our piano is a 1905 Mason & Hamlin Double A, 6'2" ....it's a beauty and we are very fortunate to have it. Because it's re-built ...that makes it great.
Very detailed explanation of Keith Jarrett transcription. I have a transcription of this song and over the rainbow by Keith and I’ve learned a lot from them
Thanks for telling me!
Oh!! Well miss you!! Good luck in Maine.!
And Thanks for the transcription, another dream come true, as I love Keith Jarret's version of it!!!
Thank you Vivi, for the good wishes on our trip to Maine...it will be a challenge and an adventure...you are a peach!
about his solo pieces I did play his Blaim it on my youth, I liked his Tritone diminished voicings, and is huge chords were killing my hands that I remember most!
Keith is amazing! Good work for studying his playing.
Ken, loved the Keith Jarrett transcription review of Danny Boy. I’m teaching myself a Bill Evans transcription of Reflections in D and am learning so much about the value of other musicians perspectives. I’d love to see the Keith Jarrett transcription of Danny Boy. Will you put it on your website? Thanks.
Thanks, Lynn, the score is on my website. If you can't find it, please write to me.
Wonderful, thank you for this analysis! I enjoy studying transcriptions and I’m always looking for more to add to my repertoire. I wish my hands were big enough to reach those 10ths, though. Just not the same when I have to roll them, or modify the voicing. Maybe you have some suggestions for those of us with smaller hands? Some acceptable alternatives? Looking forward to the next video.
Just roll them using the sustain pedal to make them smooth and legato. It's practically just as good...and I do that all the time. Thanks!
Keith Jarrett has it all. Man can he milk a ballad for all it's worth!
Exactly right...greatest living pianist!
nice job on this one Kent :)
I appreciate the compliment, Jake!
@@KentHewittpiano88 you're welcome
I wanted to play this for my recently passed grandfather, who loved this song. I know you might not see this, but can I have the link for the sheet music you were playing? thanks so much.
Please write to my email on my website for the score!
Thanks! I think the transcript is spot on. Thanks for this tutorial. I tried to play another transcription but it did not work (and I think there were mistakes, which i could not correct).
I appreciate your telling me this!
I envy you your M&H. Beautiful instrument!
We're fortunate...it's a 1905 AA which was the golden age of piano building. It's as pretty as it is great sounding....thanks!
Hey Kent - love your vids! You mentioned teaching in Maine. I’m interested in attending intensive jazz piano “camps.” Can you suggest a few? I’m in North Carolina, but I can travel for a great experience. Thanks!
Please check out Summerkeys. It's a wonderful environment; people come from all over the country and Europe. I had a student come in from Japan last year. It's located on the beautiful coast of Northern Maine. Just google Summerkeys.
thanks Kent ... have learned lots of your videos, one question only, have just watched a clip on youtube where the guy plays an F7 as the third chord if i 'm not mistaking me, you play C7sus, i think...I'm sending the link, which is right? kind regards M.
Hi M, thanks for the comment and compliment. After watching both videos, I believe that we're both playing an F7 but I'm voicing it with the C in the bass. The previous chord looks like an F7sus but can also be looked at as a C7sus. (same voicing). Correct doesn't really matter, it's always up to one's personal interpretation. I can't play like Keith Jarrett, so I can only interpret what he played. The important distinction is that I'm playing an acoustic piano (not digital) and I'm explaining what I'm doing, so I'm trying to teach, explain, and share my take on it. All my best, K.
@@KentHewittpiano88 thanks Kent! yuo are Fantastico!
Amazing. So lush. Here you mention he's a master of suspension... Any chance you have a video that talks further on how he uses them? There's a bit of a sense in your analysis here, but I'm a lil greedy.
I love what he does with that. If you listen to his playing you will hear a lot of suspensions. It's coming from his classical knowledge and free interpretation of jazz. He's one of the most extraordinary musicians...so much depth, but with an uncanny sense of freedom. His playing is like a stream of consciousness and he's totally in touch with his feelings and soul. His technical abilities are finely tuned and in control. It's so rare ...only the most extraordinary artists do it that well. To me, he's the greatest living jazz pianist. Check out this earlier video I did on his playing :
czcams.com/video/POyjj33etQU/video.html The lead sheet with his reharm is written out for you on my website, but especially interesting is the interlude.
@@KentHewittpiano88 can do! He really does play with such expression. Beyond resolved to the 3, what would you say is the biggest difference between a classical and jazz conception of a sus chord?
Спасибо огромное за урок
Hey Kent, live your work and effort you put into this channel.
I was wondering: would you mind doing a little series about the most important traditional Blues/ Jazz Pianists and the stylistic differences between them? And give examples in their trademark Recordings for listening examples. Fats Waller and guys like him...
I’m personally interested in the playing styles of Nina Simone, Fats Waller, Or easy living from Bessie Smith, learning that style and what to listen to and practice.
Would love to hear your reply
God bless you
That's a huge challenge....because I don't listen to that music a whole lot... other than Fats Waller. I appreciate all those artists...but I'm not really qualified to do an in- depth video.
Kent Hewitt Thanks for your reply. OK then I just have to keep searching for more sophisticated blues and swing pianists teachers here on CZcams. Keep up the good work I’ll be watching you😄
I know this is random but can you do a version of "In a Sentimental Mood" Using the 6th diminished? I figured it would be easier in the key of Cmajor. Even if you dont find the time to do it, I love the content!!!!!
Thanks for the comment...I love that song so I appreciate the suggestion!
genius
Humble thanks!
Have you listened to his rendition of I Loves You Porgy from The Melody at Night, with You? It's one of my favorites.
Interesting...have you compared the Bill Evans version and the Keith Jarrett one? Which one do you prefer?
I've listened to a solo version of Bill Evans playing it. To be honest they're so different from one another that I can't say that I prefer one over the other. Bill has a more impressionist vibe, while Keith has a more classical feel.
I agree that's a good and accurate assessment! You are a cool cat.
Hello Mr. Hewitt. Could you please accept a request for one of your future Jazz Ranch episodes? I'm sure it would be helpful for many of us to learn from you specifics of harmonic approach to minor progressions, the notorious ii-V-i being the basis of course. What are the most common Jazz-way options for colorising the chords in minor? For instance you may favour iim7b5 - V7b9#5 - im 6/9 or your preferred version maybe something different. Of course the context is important. Maybe you could take Autumn Leaves as a working example or any other standard containing minor cadences.
Thanks, John...I did a tutorial on minor II-V-I progressions. Please check out my playlists:
czcams.com/video/e6MXZLVyUko/video.html
Thank you very much for pointing me to it! I thought it was more about scales and didn't know the harmony was also addressed.
Hi sir,
It's kind of weird writing this but, here, I have a request, that you can easily fulfill if you have the time.
After watching this video I realized I had done something very similar, in a way, to what Keith Jarrett did here (not to his level, of course), on "Someday My Prince Will Come", and as naive of a request as it may seem, i'd like to have your opinion on it, and ask you a few questions. Again, if you don't have the time, or you just don't want to, no harm done, i'll take no for an answer. But if you could it would be absolutely amazing. Thank you anyway, thank you for all.
Hi Kent sorry for so much lail But I came up with this idea Why don't you play Keith especially not on the electric Piano Yamaha??? there is a digital Bosendorfer or Steinway in it....it will come close that way....
Most of my playing is on the Mason and Hamlin. I have a Kurzweil PC88 for gigs, and I've made a couple videos on my Roland RD300 digital.
About Keith Jarret i am still stuck by his solo on It Could happen to You, almost the best I ever heard...
Keith the best living jazz pianist today.
❤
Kent, have you heard about a pianist called Ben Paterson? Great sound, he plays in the traditional way, as you and he sings very well
I have not....is he on You Tube, or recordings?
@@KentHewittpiano88 the link is below. Very talented young man
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A law school classmate and fine pianist recently said to me (about KJ) "how DOES he come up with this stuff"? I play C# --> A (1st inversion) as well, and have been wondering how to incorporate inversions into the "spread voicings." I also use "weird" / not normal harmonies (you heard at least one instance of that and duly noted it) sometimes. KJ's "Standards / Tokyo" trio stuff shows his linear, saxophone-like melodic sense. This DB is exquisite (and well played by the KH!). I'll have to actually try to learn it. We tenor saxophone players struggle with bass clef, however...
I hear you, brother. As you can see by Keith's performance (and I'm sure transcription) that the left hand is equally as important as the right hand) , even though the right hand has the melody, because of the contrapuntal aspect, which allows the left hand to have melodic significance as well as the right hand. I love that concept ….and KJ is getting it from his Bach chops. I'm sure you dig..... (stay in touch).
I've been working on this and also on your "Moon River," and I notice that you use some of the same voicing concepts (e.g., 2nd inversion triad over root and third a 2nd below). This is solving a mystery for me. Since I play saxophone, a "melody only" instrument, I've been somewhat befuddled regarding left hand voicings and how to create melodic movement with the left hand. So I see that (at least one) answer is: play melody in the left hand. And to celebrate, I am actually working on some EASY classical pieces, including JS Bach and his progeny.
2:03 i think i can hear Keith Jarrett sqeeking in the background hahaha
Ha...maybe that was the cat...or the piano stool!.
Hi My Dear Friend Kent How are yu? i restudied Alice in WL and added a few voicings of your arr..I did also in our band play your arr of moanin after studying it for me not that simple...I looked up the barry harris solo on Hot House and used some licks of his...Next Saturday I have a piano lesson from Alexandru Coti...he studied with Mike del Ferrel..who is quit well known I studied hard this two weeks and I had to do a classical piece so I choose the 5th Eng Suite Prelude JS Evans sorry JS B
ach of course the invention 13 I learned it by heart in three days using the tactic what I used in my classical guitar competitions time: staying the last bar + metronome+ by heart then the fore last + the last up to the end for me this is the fastest way to learn classical stuff. the 5th English suite is tough afterthis study I have now at last the 2/3 of the piece the exposition+ the Coda...the Durchwirkung about 1/4th so Saturday is the moment of truth I want to play it by heart(it will be very slowly, and a bit boring for my teacher I am afraid he wanted me to do "more for him " so.....
Thanks for sharing your story of all your hard work. I always say that practicing is like "money in the bank"
Mr. Hewitt, I like all your Videos, some of them I do really love and hear them often. This video is one of your best. I prefere to hear you playing on an acoustic piano, but sometimes your piano is out of tune, espacially in the higher range. You are doing such A GREAT work, but your videos have not the best possible quality because of your sometimes not well tuned piano. (Sorry for my english, I'm german and learned 2 years english in the scool 40 years ago)
Thanks for the comment ...we tune the piano regularly but we live on the shore, so that factors in.
i bet one day we'll play "kenny boy", a happy song, this time
ADEM would love that, thanks!
please give the video a choice in Indonesian, sir. thanks
So where's the transcription?
old.kenthewitt.com/
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@@KentHewittpiano88 It's only the 1st page, but thanks.
There's 2 pages. I only transcribed the 1st chorus...but that's the most important information.
@@KentHewittpiano88 Ok thanks
sometimes it seems that arrengements of Keith jarret are really also with much Bill EVANS in mind Bill Evans was always striving for counterpoint
Jarrett learned a lot from Bill Evans, not vice-versa.
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