The Secrets of Monk's Chord Voicings...Revealed!
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Pianist, composer, author Jeremy Siskind guides you through Thelonious Monk's recording of "Don't Blame Me" and shares crucial elements of Monk's concept of chord voicings.
explaining Monk's work as "exposed structure" is perfect.
Awesome! In retrospect, I hate this title - so click-baity for my taste. But hopefully you enjoyed the content!
As a man of few words, Monk's ability and insistence on essential voicings resonates deeply with me. I'm certain he only embarked on that minimalist path after fully mastering the traditional "full" voicings. All of the masters really exercised so much discipline and intentionality. As always thanks immensely for this insight and teaching. Love love your content.
Thanks so much for the comment! I feel a little bit less confident than you that Monk only pulled back after studying bigger voices - somehow it’s hard for me to imagine? But i *totally* agree with you that his playing is incredibly intentional. Some people describe him as playing “wrong” notes but there are tapes of him practicing in which he practices playing those “wrong” notes repeatedly.
This is great content that other teachers would tuck away in a special area for access by patrons only. Thanks for this insightful and generous lesson.
My pleasure, Scott! It's all part of my plan for World Domination. 😂
Your breakdown of Monk's style is like seeing the undersides of old 20th century buildings once their remodeled veneers are removed...travelling backwards to the original intention
Whoa, did you just write poetry there? Thanks for watching!
Wonderful. Thanks for all your hard work. Always helpful.
Thanks for watching, Lance! I hope you enjoy playing around with these ideas.
Fascinating dive into one of the most enigmatic pianists for me...I haven't really seen anyone else break down his harmonic approach before like this, and I have always wondered what many of his mysterious sounds are! Interesting point too about his use of the 6th interval. Like "Misterioso," for example is a blues that primarily uses sixths in its melody. Also, isn't it great how he would insert snippets of his own compositions into other songs? Don't think he did this is this rendition of "Don't Blame Me," but I have certainly heard it a lot...thank you!
Absolutely right about Misterioso. I don't necessarily hear bits of other songs, but his style is all "of a piece," so there are lots of similarities across the board. His approach to the bridge reminds me a little bit of the bridge of "Monk's Mood," perhaps.
Wow! Incredibly detailed and precise! Thanks so much for this. And…..your ears are extraordinary.
A most interesting analysis and demonstration, Jeremy. I found that very helpful. Thank you.
Great! I'm glad you liked it, Stuart!
Great analysis of a unique sounding pianist. I don't know much about him or if he had much formal training in music. I get the feeling that he was not concerned with breaking the rules as such but rather did what made sense to him. Like all great artists it came from within and was not contrived. Brilliant.
I don't think Monk was at all concerned by "rules." I don't think that word would really make any sense to him. Which is one of the reasons he's so great to listen to!
So wonderful. Thank you Jeremy. It seems remarkable that he gets such a mysterious and kaleidoscopic sound by removing notes.
Great video of one of my favorite thelonious recordings as well!!
Yes - it’s so gooood!!!
Great lesson, and also nice to see your are putting the artist and the title of the song in the description so that we can come back later to this lesson!
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is gold
Nice - I'm glad you found something valuable here!
Thank you, so much, Jeremy, for your great variety of topics. Always interesting. Glad you're recovering. Is this from the "Solo Monk" album? Great discussion of a difficult topic that we needed your mastery to guide us through. Mucho Thanxo. 🌹😎🌹
This one is actually off of "Criss-Cross." I think it's the only solo tune on that album.
@@JeremySiskind thank you, Maestro.
This deserves billions of views and likes.
Aw, thanks, Francisco! I'm glad you liked it. Spread the word! 😉
I've been enjoying your videos. Subscribed.
Woohoo! Thanks! Let me know if there is ever a particular subject that you want me to make a video about!
Famous British comedians Morecombe and Wise did a sketch with the conductor Andre Previn and an orchestra (you get the gist of it here ( th-cam.com/video/uMPEUcVyJsc/w-d-xo.html ) The punch line is "I'm playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order" which is a long way around to say that in your video you demonstrate that Monk is playing the "right notes" just "not necessarily all of them"! Thank you .
what software is able to display the notes in real time from your midi controller? this is such a helpful teaching tool in your videos alongside your commentary thank you
I use the Chordie App. Actually, it's cooler than that, though. I'm playing an acoustic piano and I have a OnePiano HiLite going across the keys to send signals to Chordie.
good!
Why thank you, Wolfgang!
First! Yes! 🥳 Great job, as always!
You did it! 🏆 Thanks for checking it out, George!
Great lesson
One Question.
at th-cam.com/video/BxZbjPTXE9k/w-d-xo.html
Is it possible that we accept that b9 on what SHOULD be a Gø7 because the voicing IMPLIES a G7 (b9#9) chord?
After all the natural overtone series of a G bass note are G-G-D-G-*B*-D.
And if one thought of that chord at
th-cam.com/video/BxZbjPTXE9k/w-d-xo.html
as "let's substitute a G7 altered chord for the Gø7, and OMIT the 3rd"
just as Monk omits other 3rds that would explain why we don't mind the sound?
In fact if we put the B natural below the Db it actually has a very similar quality to the chord without the B and sounds almost like that's the sound as compared to Gø7.
Just thinking out loud here.
Agree with you apart from the overtone thing. The natural B would still be an overtone on the Gø7 so unless you wanna argue all m7b5 chords are actually dominant 7 chords I think it’s irrelevant
yep
Thanks. Maybe AZ more people watch this I can stop hearing from people that Monk had no pianob technique lol
So… you have perfect pitch?
I’ll never tell.
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What the hell? Do you have perfect pitch?