Hayden Hill
Hayden founded PianoGroove in 2015 with the goal of making the world a more musical place. He shares his love for jazz piano through his online courses and manages the community area of PianoGroove.
June 13 · 2023
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Take a deep dive into this classic tune. We explore the unusual form, chord voicings, reharmonisations, and improv tips and principles.
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Really enjoyed the seminar today. Thanks for sharing your Playlist. I was surprised that the Brad Mehldau version wasn’t there. It has been on pretty constant rotation here over the last week or so. Would I be correct in thinking that at 4:50, Mehldau creates a motif out of the first 4 notes of the melody and plays around with it for most of the rest of the solo?
If so, could you or @Tuomo (not sure if the @ notifications work here) explain a bit of what he is doing with that motif in relation to the harmony? (I hope my question makes sense as I am not exactly sure how to frame it).
https://open.spotify.com/track/7kdPpPFzjLo8piKWbuQ0e4?si=FyxWRsLeQi6YmeuH5z_JLw&utm_source=copy-link
I guess I was wondering if he is using the same pattern of scale degrees over the sequence of chords or if he is switching things up further and maintaining the pattern of intervals but moving it around in relation to the chords.
Hi James,
Apologies for the late reply, I’ve been on vacation the last week and I missed this comment notification.
I have added the Brad Meldhau version to the playlist – thanks for the sharing this.
I just took a quick listen to the recording and yes that’s a really great example of motif development using the melody of the tune. I will be back at my piano in a couple of days and so I can give you some more detailed information on exactly what he’s doing there in terms of the notes he is playing in relation to the chords.
It’s a nice motif because it has the same rhythmic placement as the original melody, and he is also using small intervals so it heavily mimics the original melody.
Another interesting point is that he then starts to develop the motif around 5m12s, this time with an ascending motif, and then returns to the previous motif around 5m33s.
When I’m back at my piano I will analyse this in more detail for you.
Talk soon, cheers,
Hayden
ps. no the @ tags do not work here on the website, just in the forum area. Let’s start a new forum thread on this topic as I think it would be really useful to have a list of recordings where motif development is employed like this. We can also use the forum thread to discuss the theory and share notation etc…
Thanks Hayden. Great idea!! Lots to learn around this topic!! I will have to give the solo another listen as I missed the switch to an ascending motif.
Hope you had a refreshing holiday.
Best,
James
Excellent seminar. At end of seminar you said that you created a separate course on the intro. I cannot find it. Could you forward its address? Thanks, Ed
Hi Edwin,
Sorry for the late reply here, yes here is the related lesson:
https://www.pianogroove.com/jazz-piano-lessons/eb-major-diatonic-workout/
This is a detailed breakdown the exact same voicings and introduction that I play in this seminar and it also ties into the harmonic analysis for this tune.
I’m glad you enjoyed the seminar and talk soon!
Cheers,
Hayden
one of my all time favourites…wonderful lesson…check out Martin Taylors guitar solo…