"My Favorite Things" - (Coltrane style) - Modal Jazz Concepts- piano tutorial
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- " My Favorite Things" (Played in tradition of Coltrane)- with piano tutorial on modal jazz concepts. Includes rhythmic styles, chord voicings, and scales (modes). Played using BB backing track for bass and drums. Modal concepts explained and reference to jazz piano book. Free Scores and book available on website: www.kenthewitt.com
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Really great video, Kent!
Thanks, Aimee, coming from you, that's big! Much admiration for all you do...keep swingin'….
Wow
Me impresiona esta comunidad de músicos
@Aimee Nolte music
Yo te sigo en tu canal de CZcams también
Amo tus videos.
Gracias Kent Hewitt
I literally just finished watching your video not even 2 mins ago
My oldest brother introduced me to the world of John Coltrane by playing this song before going to school in the morning. This was back in the early 1960's. We didn't speak as we listened. I was hooked.. immediately!
I had same experience the first time I heard this. Thanks so much!
this is greate, im 23 and i do the same with my 15 yo brother haha😅
Congratulations on living for eternity through these lessons
Great comment and compliment...thanks a million!
Thanks for McCoy Tyner! He's my favorite! I saw him with the Coltrane Quartet in the late 50's in the village in New York in one of the jazz clubs.
And when McCoy did the intro, the crowd went crazy! I still listen to that tune a lot! And I'm 82 years old!!! Thanks and swing loose!!!
I saw them in the 60's at the Village Gate and the Jazz Workshop in Boston. Greatest band I ever heard, and I've heard a lot! Thanks for the comment. Check out my video on McCoy. czcams.com/video/mJXhGQuiglA/video.html
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always a pleasure to get the incites and gifts from you, concise and thoroughly based in harmony
Great comment...much appreciated!
I think as a tiny child I soaked this syle of jazz up into my bones .... (born in 1955) ... So happy to have found you Kent and your instruction. Everything here is a revealation to me as a musician.
Please write to my email so we can communicate...it's very special when a special connection like this happens...we will have an enduring friendship.
tutorial starts at 6:03
Thanks Kent, the way you play on that "cool looking" the piano and the way you dress, that's what jazz is about.
You're a hip cat, Jan, and are now admitted into the Elite Club. Thanks and Congrats!
This is very well done!! You've really captured the feel of the piece as done by McCoy Tyner.
Thank you for choosing my favourite things
All my pleasure...thanks!
Thank you for teaching I am old timer during pandemic taught myself through you tube teachers..
You are very welcome!
Shining tutorial!!! It take years to understand difference in Jazz modes. Younger streamers can not explain well enough. Really appreciate you make this video!
Thanks for telling me!
Bless you pal, these are so instructive; I'm a guitar player so the voicings in the left hand are not always physically possible but because of your method I can see the notes and in trying to replicate I find new voicings of my own - we're all searching but it's great to get a signpost now and again. And isn't it all fun. Thank you.
Hi John! Yes, it's fun. It's also kind of like playing a good gig or concert, when you're glad it's over, you got through it, and felt good about how you played. It doesn't always go that way. But as a guitarist there's so many things that you can do that I can't, and I do envy that. I love guitar music and I enjoy playing in piano/guitar duos a lot.
Hi Kent! This Coltrane lesson reminded me-----several months ago you were traveling and I asked if you might check out the Coltrane with Duke Ellington 1961 recording of 'In a Sentimental Mood' to see if you might do a short tutorial on those haunting, tinkling piano figures Ellington plays as well as the chord progression to this beautiful and unique arrangement.
You told me to remind you----so please could you possibly consider it. It is so very beautiful and I'm sure everyone would love it. 😀
Thanks Chris...where can I get the recording or link to the recording so I can give a listen?
@@KentHewittpiano88 m.czcams.com/video/r594pxUjcz4/video.html. Thank you Kent.
Here it is Duke Ellington and John Coltrane 'In a Sentimental Mood.'
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Please do a video on outside playing!! So happy that you explained this song, there's nothing else on youtube out there for it. Youre the man, Kent!
That's interesting to know....I've had a lot of requests to do this song, so I'm glad I finally did it... and the response has really great. Yes, I have to make a plan about your request. Thanks, Samuel!
Recently i got a piano and My favorite things is something I aspire to learn to play as best as I can. Those vamps are amazings and the solo Tyner does is fantastic - so tasteful.
Thanks for telling me ...I'm glad I could help out!
Excellent
I vividly remember first heariing the Coltrane version. I was in college and we wanted to get to know jazz better and tuned into a radio station that was playing this. Well, we got in a little late and had no idea what we were listening to, just that some madman was going a bit crazy on the saxaphone. Some time into it I kind of stopped and went, hey, that's beginning to sound a bit like...no, it can't be. Yes it was. I fell in love right there. It was years later that I tried to pick out the melody of the song on guitar and for the first time realized, hey, this is in some fucking modal scale. No wonder Coltrane found it fascinating to play with.
Coltrane and McCoy came up with a very original idea for this wonderful tune. I first heard it in Prep School... one of the students had it playing on a hidden turntable in his room, which was not allowed. I was impressed!
Thank you for a new video lesson. Very pretty sounds.
Thanks so much for the compliments!
I don't play piano, but this is so beautiful to watch. Thank you man! You are doing a great job.
Thank you very much!
Nailed it mate. Thanks so much.
Glad you liked it!
Dazzling tutorial, thanks for your enormous generosity !!!
My pleasure!
Great job , thank you for the greek modes and improvise tips !!
I appreciate your comment!
Your generosity has no limits, thank you so much!
You're very welcome!
You are a remarkably generous spirit Kent and a gifted teacher.
Thank you, John, you just made my day!
Excellent as always
Sincere thanks!
I loved it
This is my favorite song!!!
Thanks Kent
The Coltrane version is a revelation!
My favorite recording of this tune!
I have a story about when I first heard the Coltrane version....I should have ADEM tell it sometime. Thanks for the comment!
Kent, this is ETHEREAL! Thank you for this!
I listen to this tune quite often and I need to play it for myself
I hope you will find new ways to express yourself ...it's that kind of song and experience.
How cool, Mr Hewitt. Thanks!
Many thanks!
Fabulous KH! Thanks for share!
Thanks so much for the comment...Daniel!
Excellent! Brilliant performance. And a great quote illustrating a wonderful philosophy.
I'm glad you agree w/ me on that important concept!
Great, thanks a lot Kent.
Very welcome
Really love your chord choices!!!! Really amazing to learn from you!
Chords give us the depth of music's true beauty. You know that. and that's why I give it to you, and you thank me. I give you humble thanks!
A wonderful contribution to human life on earth. Thank you!
Wow, thank you!
Excellent tutorial. Right at my level of understanding.
I appreciate your telling me, Ben, and I'll keep going!
Thank you for sharing all these treasures. I'm waiting for the Outside video. Bless
Thanks so much for the comment and request!
Thanks again for another excellent video! This confirmed one of the suspicions I had and also blew me away with some things that I hadn't thought of.
I'm glad you told me...thanks so much!
What a spectacular lesson, OMG, this one goes in my "book". My own altered dominant has chimed in, "give freely, that way it can't be taken!... 😎
LOVE THIS ONE ! YOU PUT SO MUCH INTO THIS VIDEO THAT SEEMS SO SIMPLE, BUT WHICH IS THE GREATEST SOUND ! WOULDN'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD !
GREAT COMMENT, STEVE, AS ALWAYS. SWING LOOSE, BROTHER!
Wow great job!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Wow That riff at 3.00 ! Amazing Tension and crazy chords.
Thanks for the acknowledgement. Yes...I had to "throw in" a little "out playing" to make it "authentic". !
Deepest thanks for your My Favorite Things posting. Your videos not only show your technical and artistic depth, they also are filled with your heartfelt passion and spirit. John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner’s music is spiritually transcendent. I remember listening to A Love Supreme and Giant Steps and being moved to joyful tears. It was great to see your inspired interpretation of My Favorite Things. One is left with being deeply indebted to your postings and the time that you put into them. I recently purchased a copy of your very instructive and enjoyable book. I can only encourage my fellow viewers to consider buying a copy in solidarity and support of your joyful, informative tutorials and interpretations. Thanks always!
My deepest thanks and appreciation for your kind words, Joe. I'm grateful that I can finally find a worthwhile path in my life, and I could not know that without your words of affirmation and from others who respond. I can only humbly thank the guidance from above that brought me to this place...and I wish the same for you.
My favorite things is my favorite tune- the coltrane/tyner rendition. I have never heard anybody do it that touched me - until now. You got it. you understand it. Your clear selfless expression rings out like the liberty bell. Thank you.
Wonderful comment, Richard. I'm honored, and you words will inspire me to go on. All best wishes.
Dear Kent:
Many thanks for sharing these wonderful chords and modal approach with us. I really appreciate. God bless you
That's very kind of you. May God bless you with beautiful music,
Thanks so much for your lessons Kent, I've learnt the majority of my jazz theory from your lessons. Your way of teaching perfectly fits my (and clearly others) personality/way of learning. Really, really appreciate you and your willingness to share knowledge; and of course your excerpts and stories are great! All the best to you!
Thank so much, Jack, your words and kindness are really helpful to me. Best wishes!
Greetings Kent Hewitt. That was a very interesting tutorial.... Excellent! Thank you Sir.
Thanks for watching and the comment!
You do the best job I've seen with piano instruction. Clear, talking is right with what you're doing, and the perfect pace to follow along but not too slow.
That's a great compliment when I see how much competition there is out there today as compared to when I started 3 years ago. It's helpful to me.
This was a really great video. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for the great class, amazing !! This is too very complex, changing modes in the same vamp, that crazy. Great, great !!!
Glad you like it! This is an iconic performance by Trane and quartet that will live on and inspire all that follows.
very nice Kent!
Thanks for watching
Probably the best explanation of modes and their use that I’ve ever heard thank you
That's a super comment, and helps me to keep going!
As a saxophone player trying to do these modal setups and runs on piano these days, this was excellent. Iconic. Thank you.!
Hey Charles. Thanks so much...particularly because saxophone players go far beyond pianists in what they can do in melodic linear lines (Coltrane, Brecker?)
Wonderful interpretation of one of my favorite Coltrane songs. Don’t forget about us beginners and the two hands together scales. The scale videos are very helpful for me.
Oops I see you’ve already posted it.
Thanks for writing, Steve, and glad you like the video!
Very very tasteful playing Kent. You really rock the modal playing!
A million thanks, Nicholas....thankfully there's so much more to learn.
superb Kent I love this it soothes me Your a great person Kent...
Thanks so muich!
This is so beautiful
I heard Trane play this live...so I know what it is...and it's spiritual.
Omg thank you so much for sharing this, you have changed my music life
Awesome! I'm so glad! Please subscribe!
There’s an integrity about these Ken The Witt Vids…….Like the main focus to help us and in doing so, hopefully, Kent derives some financial benefit. Many of the well known utube channels obviously have this the other way round….
…..So,with these,although there is expertise and some really good information they don’t go anywhere ~ apart from the page where you are asked to pay quite a lot of money. Nothing wrong with making money but Kent’s way is much better - Karma-wise!😊
Thanks for the affirmation. I do these videos for free because I can.
I put a lot of work into them, and I benefit from the practice and effort. Also they help to sell my books, which helps me out tremendously. czcams.com/video/zIewmZ3jThE/video.html
Love you Kent ! This Video has really 're awakened' my fascination with the welter of Modal Colours and Self Expression ... Thank you ... Thank you ..!
Glad you enjoyed it.
You're incredible!!!
Thanks a million!
Great playing
Great to hear from you Joe!
excellent video. bravo
Thank you! Cheers!
Great job.
Thanks!
You are on fire man. Thanks
Wow...that will really inspire me to keep at it!
Why hadn't ever I seen this channel earlier? It's pure gold, I'm mainly a guitarist, but this information will be so useful for my playing.
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As always “God bless u” Mr.Kent..well deserved rendetion of urs : )
Thank you so much, and God bless!
Hi Kent, Absolutely super. You always manage to touch my heart ❤️. Loved this tutorial and before you even said Indian music, I could hear that . Great lesson on Modes. Now I understand how those great jazz players got that sound and was comfortable in maneuvering the keyboard. I still have a long way to go but thank goodness I have you to watch and learn from. Many, many thanks. Corinne😊
Oh Corinne, this is only touching the surface. But you might want to check out my other videos under Modal Playing which is a listed category in my playlists. Thanks!
Your explanation of the use of the particular modal scales on this style of My Favorite Things is so clarifying as to the strategy of improvisation here. Excellent! Used to love The Jazz Workshop in Boston.
Wow, we have that in common. I heard so many great musicians there...my favorites were John Coltrane, the MJQ, Charles Lloyd with Keith Jarrett, Les McCann, and Sonny Rollins. That's just a few.
My favorite was seeing George Benson with his trio plus special guest, a young Earl Klugh. I was sitting about six feet in front of George at a front table. February 27, 1973. Spellbound. The club date was recorded, and there exist decent recordings on line. Even here on YT, but of terrible recording quality not reflective of the great night. Never got to see Coltrane, but I saw many greats at the Newport Jazz Festival over the years. Caught Sonny Rollins in a gorgeous outdoor concert in Italy - fabulous.
This video is extraordinary - love the modal jazz concepts..I have studied them in your book but somehow the brain absorbs them
easier when you play them in this beautiful Coltrane fashion. Also found the Chopra quote very inspiring as it relates to the universe!
I will be doing many repeats of this video....Thanks Kent...
Thank you, Phyllis, you are a faithful friend and I always appreciate your kind words.
This one blows me away.
Good one,,,,thanks so much!
I really enjoy this style. Now I can put a name to it. :) Also, please continue with a tutorial on outside playing. Your tutorials always hit the spot, keep them coming! Thanks always!
Hey Tim! Wow, there's a lot of requests for this...so I just I'd better start planning. I appreciate the support. This video took a lot of work because of the 2 screen detail but interestingly it's received the most amount of comments in the shortest time of any of the 300 videos I've done. How about that?
I'm trying to play a version combining the original and the Coltrane and I just found your video; you made me understand it in a very simple way, considering I don't know much about music theory. Gracias, maestro!🙏🙏 I'm considering to buy your book to learn more.
Awesome expression of a classic recording it man love you moves ...Thank you about to copy for personal pleasure,,,
Write to me and many thanks1
I love this! And it actually seems very approachable. As a beginner piano player of ~8 months, all I have internalized are chords and the major scales in all 12 keys. But my mechanics and sight reading aren't so good to the point where I can learn whole compositions without a lot of intense effort and focus and deferred gratification. I've been hitting a plateau could sense that my classically trained instructor was getting frustrated by my lack of progress. What saved my motivation problem was learning 12 bar blues, where its a simple enough structure that I can vamp I-IV-V chords and improvise with simple scalar motions -- its not really blues, but it sounds good to me, is very fun, and immediately rewarding, while still a learning exercise, at least in ear training, rhythm, and mechanical practice.
This is all to say -- I think modal jazz style can also have a dumb/stripped down version that a beginner like myself can explore, much like blues. Thank you for bringing this moment of inspiration and motivation to me!
I appreciate the comment, it's always good to know that players on all different levels of ability can benefit in certain ways from my videos. Modal jazz (which is often improvising on one or two scales) can offer that, abd can also be fun and challenging.
Same place for me man. And I totally agree. This was a tutorial masterpiece.
an excellent and authentic interpretation of both John Coltrane's AND McCoy Tyner's phrasing styles! Nice
I can't say that I listened to the recording again, but the implant of the music in my memory was strong enough that perhaps I was able to capture the flavor of it. I appreciate your comment!
👍 Many Thanks
great video kent as always, would love to see a video about outside playing, keep it up
Thanks for the comment and request. I'll be working on that.
Send you hugs from Nicaragua, I like the way you explain and teach, so clear and understandable, you got my subscription God bless you!!
Thank you so much...you're comment really helps me to keep going. Blessings!
Hello Kent Thanks a lot for your "Supreme" lesson !!!
Thanks a million...very helpful!
Thank you for your wealth of knowledge sir
So nice of you. Please subscribe!.
Thank you, really great, help me a lot. Greetings from Poland.
Thank you, and I like to have some Polish friends!
Yes please more on outside playing your content is awesome
Many thanks for the comment, Clem!
McCoy Tyner, christened a piano god at 23!
Absolutely!!
Kent you're an inspiring man! Always learn so much from your lessons and they always push me to work harder at the keys
Evan, that's a great comment and compliment to me, because it helps me keep going and motivated...thanks!
Thank you...I tell all my students to come to your site!!!
I really appreciate that, Ron.
Thank you for your analysis sir
Appreciated!
Hi Kent. From Cape Town South Africa. Just discovered your wonderfull gift. Beautiful. Thank you.
Thank you so much...I love hearing from people in distant parts of the world from my home....particularly that my music is heard around the world,
Thanks for all Kent, I'd enjoy a tutorial on the outside playing.
Thank you, and for the request.
Thanks for this great lesson Kent. I actually took some lessons with you back in the late '80s after seeing you perform at a jazz place on Golden St, New London. A couple of ladies in the crowd knew you and we were introduced. At a later date we drove up to Hartford to see you at the former Club 880. Good times.
Hey thanks...that's so cool. Yes, those were the days. The club on Golden St. was called "Aldos". After that it was The Salute Cafe. The 880 was the best jazz club in Hartford from the 70's until it closed it's doors in 2000.
you are a great player
Thanks so much!
Been playing it as dorian for years, Em7 - F#m7, it does sound more like the original with your Phrygian and the Gmaj 7 trick ! Many thanks
That's interesting that you note that. I was going on what I liked as a sound ...I didn't listen to the recording again because I didn't want to imitate it exactly...so that was lucky. Thanks!.
What I see with interest, is that instead of modal, you have a MULTI modal approach. I wish you would develop on how you choose and organise those different chord/modes.
Thanks in Advanced for the Part 2 : )
Okay, and thank you too!
Thank you, Kent! Love it. As usual, you are clear and give solid information in an easily assimilable way. I have been struggling with modes for a while now, and this was a step forward for me. Been playing that song, My Favourite Things for years, and it never occurred to me to go beyond the natural minor scale. I too request that you do a lesson on outside playing! It's all about coming back inside at the appropriate moment, isn't it? I've noticed Oscar Peterson doing that so smoothly, never gets caught outside when he should be in.
I'm glad you enjoyed this video, and it helped to expand your scale knowledge. I have talked about outside playing on a few videos. czcams.com/video/cs_fC4-yXoc/video.html
Also on my playlists go to Modal Jazz. czcams.com/channels/dmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCw.htmlplaylists
Hi Kent,
I love yours explains, always clear and passionate.
It seems you are only brushing touches, hardly, and nevertheless that plays... How do you this ?
By my side, I found a very good jazz pianist in my region and he agreed to teach me jazz piano. I am very happy for this change in my life, now I work but in confidence, with someone who knows jazz and love it, I am not alone any more. We started with "Days of wine and roses", "Night and day", "Blue in green", "Have you met miss Jones", "Satin doll", "How deep is the ocean"... All classic standards.
I told him I felt lost, very close to continue, or to give up. I answered me that I was not too bad as I thought. Good ear, some ideas... He said : "you have just to practice", he reassured me. And more : he does'nt want to be paid.
For me, he is like some musical angel.
I wanted to tell you.
Thank you for your advices and your passion. To be continued, I hope...
Thank you a lot! Much love from Prague jazz piano conservatoryyyyy
Thank you so much...I really appreciate hearing from students and I wish you all the best in your music education. Please keep watching.
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@@KentHewittpiano88 i will! im stucked for so long on same skill and i feel like i really need to learn more so, thank you a lot!
This is a formal request for more on outside playing for a next video! Thanks Kent, great material as always.
We're off to Europe this week...sorry, but I plan to take up that subject soon....thanks so much, Andy, and keep watching!
Kent Hewitt let me know if you drop by Madrid!
Thanks again 😊
Thank you!
Yes! You did it
Did you ask for it, Jorge?
dope!
Done that!
Perfect timing
I'm glad you told me!
Thankyou! I play this everyday now. Could you please do a video on composing songs in this way? how to write more modal progressions/melodies, reflecting on kind of blue etc would be great!
Thanks for the comment and request.