Jazz Piano Chord Voicings - Thelonious Monk Voicings
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In this series of videos I cover jazz piano voicings. I'll go through a number of different voicings which will make any jazz song sound strong and professional.
This Jazz Piano Tutorial is about Thelonious Monk style voicings that have a bit of 'bite'. They have a semitone interval at the bottom of the chord which makes them a bit dissonant with a 3rd on top.
In short the Thelonious Monk Chord voicings are:
Tonic: 7th, 1st, 3rd (B, C, E in the key of C Major)
Every other chord in the key: 3rd, 4th, 6th of the key (E, F, A in the key of C Major)
Dominant chords can be altered to give a bit more bite as follows:
C7 = C, Db, E or D#, E, G or F#, G, Bb or A, Bb, Db
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Just had posted on the Tracking Angle site my article on the recordings of Monk.
Thanks so much for all this videos, I studied classic piano and always wanted know how to be able of accompany songs without sound like a dummy, Great job and thank you again
This sounds really fun!
Sensacional!!!
Thank you very much.
+fundorinlive No worries.
This lesson does NOT cover Thelonious Monk chord voicings very well.
I studied Monk Religiously...Agreed...His Chord voicing were more or less, based on open 5ths and open 7ths in the left hand and he would then play crushed notes, flatted 5ths and some time both alterations in the right hand. Flat and Sharp Extension...That is the basics...but there is a whole lot more to it than that
Juston Freeman maybe not
He should have used a Monk tune like "Round Midnight" since that illustrates Monk better than just showing his sort of voicings as this video does.
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Interesting stuff!
Brilliant
very interesting!!!
You left out the sharp 4 or flat 5 which is prominent in "Round Midnight" and which would be used in "How Hight the Moon".
Interesting.
Hello，I‘'ve read your lesson and also read Mark Levine's . I'm confused about the ImM7 in melodic minor scale, Mark Levine said the chords in melodic minor scale are all the same, so CmMaj7's Monk Voicing should also be [D-Eb-G], which is different in your lesson.
These are included in mark levines jazz piano book...Was wondering if a tune is just in one key center, couldn't you reharminize it first so you can use more "monk" voicings on it?
+Jamie Woolaway Yeah, definitely. Once you start getting into reharmonisation you can more or less do whatever you want and insert new monk voicings from other keys.
Hi there, just wondering where in the levine book is this covered? thanks.
Hi, in P147, Mark Levine
Many thanks! Quite a hard book to navigate I found.
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Those voicings are more like Bill Evans than Monk.
Absolutely terrible! Monk is rolling in his grave!
Brrrroooo. Slow down will ya.
Horrible vid
Man, I'm so sorry, but I'm a pianist myself, and I've listened to Monk for years now, and it just isn't his voicings... I guess it wasn't your goal, but you kind of make him sound like a stupid musician who only plays three notes. it's not because it sounds dissonant that it's Monk like. What about a dominant chord with the root and the seventh with the left hand and the third ans #4 with the right ? He used to use it all the time.
+Olivier Valentin I agree. I studied Monk, and this is probably to simply spark interesting for young pianists to listen to Monk I suppose.
+Olivier Valentin I also studied monk for years and am a pianist myself. These are not monk voicing's. An example of a monk voicing would be the cim7 with the 6 in the bass often used by Monk and many of his disciples like Barry Harris and Randy Weston.
Kay Benyarko Or Cminmaj7 with the 6th in the bass (you can see it as Ahalfdim9 as well) that has the top line descending chromatically from B to Bb, then comes Cdim over D (being D7b9) with the A on top, and finally resolving the tiny progression with a Gmaj9. That would be a thing that Monk would do as well. However, I wouldn't necessary regard Barry Harris as a disciple of Monk, yet more for Bud, but nevertheless they were good friends.
Anyway it's a cool progression that could be taken through the circle of fifths quite well. Ahalfdim9, flat 9th > D7b9 > Gmaj9 >
Ghalfdim9, flat 9th > C7b9 > Fmaj9 >
and so on and so forth. Taken through just two cycles will already sound like Monk's kind of progression. However there are various others, and it is more complex than JUST that. I am speaking to other readers who may read.