The "Ins and Outs" of Modal Playing: "Nardis" by Miles Davis, Short Jazz Tutorial
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- Classic Tune by Miles Davis...used as a vehical for modal playing, using the Phrygian mode and Aeolian mode. Modal techniques explained. Short explanation. Free scores and book on website: www.kenthewitt.com/
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Great explanations, not only for pianists...
Thanks so much!
Those quotes at the beginning are heavy! Thank you.
Sir you are a very humble man and a fantastic musician
Thanks for a great compliment, and I'm sure I'd say the same to you. As ADEM says..."modestly is for those who have no talent".
Kent Hewitt That's beautiful comment from a Beautiful person.
Was learning this tune as a possible(?) recital piece and stumbled on your video. Thanks for the excellent knowledge 👍🏻
Don't know what it is but I feel compelled to learn this. Thanks.
This is not an easy tune....but a fascinating one....and good for playing modal style.
wow great. I understand and learn so much from Mr. Hewitt ever time that I watch one of his videos. his theory instructions are great!!!!
Thanks for the great comment, Ron...this was one that didn't get into it too deep, so I'm glad you still got something from it. Best wishes!
Such a great lesson, Kent! I’m always trying to play Nardis and getting stuck - now I understand why.
Great song...but not easy to play and get into your ears and fingers. Keep it up.
This tutorial is just stunning
Awesome comment...what's better than stunning?
Awesome playing 👏 and an awesome lesson too! Thank you
Thanks...I'm glad you liked it!
Bumped into this strolling with Nardis, Great Lesson, cuts right to the chase. Thank You...! ;-)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks a whole lot for this! I'm not too sure I understand much of what you're talking about, but it sure is motivating to figure out
very good content. I really appreciate the work. please keep em comin!
With your comments, it inspires me to keep going.
It remainds me of Dave Brubecks' 'Kyoto's’ song' from his Japan tour in the 60s. I heard him play it here in Stockholm and one lick you played in this tutorial was exactly what I remember Dave B playing. Great! Thanks!
Great comment....I'm a big Brubeck fan (met him once), I have lots of his vinyl, but not that recording....must check it out.
Thank for your appreciation!.
I was there in Stockholm in 1967 and heard him play on a Jazz festival there. It was broadcasted in the Swedish Radio, and I taped it (50 years ago(!). Recently I digitized all my tapes - the Swedish Radio has "archived" i.e. thrown away almost every old tapes they had.
The result of my digitizing is a 57 Mb mp3 file. The quality is excellent, it's also still in the right pitch. Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond and Joe Morello (forgot the name of the bass player) played these songs: Take the A Train, Take five, S.t Louis Blues, and Kyoto' song.
Dave Brubeck presents all titles himself. I remember they came in late at night, they were very tired and one of them was carrying a little baby on stage.
I would be happy to send it to you via Sprend (permits up to 2 Gb files) but I think I need an email address. Please send a msg to me:
jurlinder@gmail.com,
and I'll return the Brubeck session to you. I am almost shure I am the only person on the world who has this recording. Keep swingin'
Jurgen from Stockholm, Sweden
I wish I could’ve heard a full trio with you in the beginning performance very well done
You can find all the songs from that recording on TH-cam. Just write to me for more info.
Great sounds, Kent
Thanks so much, Rick!
Great performance ✌🏼👏🏻👏🏻thanks
Many thanks!
I'm glad you didn't do this in my favorite key: Gb. Excellent lesson and a great introduction to modal playing.
Thanks, Max...this is just an introduction, as you say...lots more to do.
Wow great suit. Gonna sound groovy got to look it. Thanks again.
Appreciate the compliment...esp. on the vintage suit.
King 👑
Nat King Cool!
I knew it from Bill Evans recording, a little bit diferent. Thanks for sharing !
No one compares to Bill Evans, not Herbie, Chick, Keith...no one.
@@KentHewittpiano88 be careful with Dave Frank hahaha
He thinks Keith is the best of all time.
this is Aaamazing!!! tnx tnx tnx,grazie :)
Much appreciation!
Excellent
Thank you! Cheers!
Great performance
Appreciated!
Thanks man!!!
cool, man!
Hey Kent are you using stock changes for this one? I think Bill Evans altered these from what I hear. But I am using Em,Fmaj7, B7, CMaj7, Fmaj7, Emajto Em. Bridge - Am7, FMaj7 (twice) Dm7, G7, Cmaj7, FMaj7. Messing around with the E double harmonic minor, which kind of follows the head. Mike Stern does a cool version of this where he gets really outside but comes back in strong. Any thought on some harmony for this one?
Hi Bruce, I changed a few things putting the B melody note on the B7 and carrying over to the Cmaj7#5. That's not in the original version but I heard Richie Beirach do that. He loves those maj 7#5 chords. Whatever happened to him? Did you see my video on a Mike Stern tune?
frkn excellent !
Many thanks!
Good job
Thanks!
Dang...wish you'd been my piano prof in college...I would have stuck with it!!!
I wish I could have been there...and I'd love to hear from former students (not likely).
Such a good lesson - please tell me what the song at the end is called as I want to learn it - thanks
Thanks for the video! Will you please tell us your improv scales choices?
Please see darina below.
Thanks for the always inspiring videos! Don't forget to put some water into your damp chaser, the light is blinking :-)
Thanks for the reminder...we try to keep an eye on it, now that the dry heat is on!
Hi Kent.It is probably a dumb question, but I like to know what the bassist play if the pianist is playing modals.Would he play modals too or just the normal harmonic changes of the tune?Thanks.
I would say for the most part the bass is going to lock down the roots and chord tones. If there's an important shift in harmony, he might go with it. But the tension between the out chords and in grounding is what makes it interesting and special.
Hi - please please can you tell me how I can learn what your playing in the beginning of this video in the opening credits - is it a varient of nardis?
Excelllent! I've been listening to Bill Evan's recording and I think that on the solos he neve plays a E major on bar 7, he always plays E minor. On the head, however, he does play that major chord. If anyone has some insights or thoughts about this, I would like to hear them.
I haven't studied his version, so I'm sure you are right. I was more influenced by the Richie Beirach version.
@@KentHewittpiano88 Oh, ok, great. Thank you for answering!
@@germansozzi2187 He treats the solo section much more like an E minor blues rather than sticking strictly to the form. Even the F major is treated like a B7 alt.
@@samuelwilson818 i agree. It is strange, isn't it? Because it takes away what makes this tune so particular. However, I've seen many great musicians doing this.
Kent, you do some wonderful stuff and we all appreciate you share it but can please get your piano tuned.
The tuner is coming tomorrow. We tune the piano 4 times a year. Your comment came in during the change of weather when winter is approaching and it's cold outside and inside the heat comes on...which causes the piano to start to go out of tune. Otherwise we are sticklers....and as a rule we don't need reminders.
What is the piece in the intro?
That's me playing a vamp that I recorded as an intro to this video.
Kent, does the 2-5-1 progression for key changes apply in the various modes?
You might be referring to something more like "secondary dominants", to move from one tonal center to another, maybe just temporary rather than modulations.
Yes that's what I'm talking about. Thanks.
I've talked about that in some videos and it's covered extensively in my book. I'd have to research the videos to see. Go to Playlists.
Okay, will do. Cheers.
Thank you for the video and I am also wondering about the same question as Spero, can we introduce Dorian mode?
Not Dorian. More like Aeolian because I don't want a C#. I use a 2nd mode D pentatonic which has an F#. There's also a G# at the end of the melody so I add a G# to the Phrygian mode and to the Cmaj7 chord(#5). The B7 has a 13 and b9 which matches up with the Cmaj7#5 nicely. This really needs another tutorial on scales and alterations. Scales/modes are just ways to use approach and target tones. (I could say chromatic scale, but grounded in E Phrygian.)
Thank you very much for your advice.I am looking forward to watching the: Scales and Alterations Tutorial!
At 6:47 you talk about an E Phrygian. Then I need to think about a flat nine at the bass, right? It's a new voicing for me. Do you think it's a good idea to learn it in all twelve keys or this modal playing is mainly used for "C major" scale (white keys)?
Ok, thank you.
Like I showed, play 4th voicings built on C major scale w/ E the root. Learn Phrygian scale in all keys...but for this one you only need white notes in the scale. More important are approach and target tones (see darina below).
Hey there , I have an idea for you. You can buy “band in a box” for $79 for the basic version. This app with play the bass and drums for you. Just use a bass amp for this. You will sound like you have a drummer and bass player. It will help you in your instruction videos. Us musicians have to stick together. 👍
Thanks, Rob, I thought about doing that, so I appreciate the tip. I've mastered the art of procrastination and should do a tutorial on it.
that left hand melody in a beginning... 1:02 ...
Thanks! I learned that concept from Bill Evans.
Can someone tell me the exact chords played at 6:46!?!?
Am7 with the 11th and F maj 7 with #11
@@theflyinggoldfish4439 thank you!!!!
It would be nice if you wrote out something that clearly explained what you're talking about. The video was a rambling jumble of ideas, in quick succession. I went through it a half dozen times and managed to work out the main points. I only heard 2 Modes listed - E Minor Phrygian and a very quick reference to Lydian. You obviously know your stuff. I just wish you'd lead with the main point, then get into the details.
This may not be one of my better videos, for you anyway. I try to get to the main point. I hope you will watch more of my videos and also see the free scores I post on my website. I'm attaching a link to my playlists. You can watch more videos on modal playing. Also I'm attaching a video that explains how to slow down the video and repeat sections. Please watch these:
th-cam.com/users/w7Qlhd_-p0s
th-cam.com/channels/dmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCw.htmlplaylists?view_as=subscriber
kent is so filthy i would love to inherit something akin to his sound
I'll take that as a compliment....any way you slice it!
2:07 he could've played the lick...
I don't get it ...my brain is too fried. ...what lick?
@@KentHewittpiano88 th-cam.com/video/krDxhnaKD7Q/w-d-xo.html This is “the lick” if you are curious!
Wrong change: He is playing cmaj+5. It should be B13. m. 3
I'm aware of that but I changed it based on my preference. Jazz musicians are not required to play it as written or by anyone... other themselves, and how they want to hear it. That's a special privelage. Regardless, thanks for the correction.
Wonky!
Is that good or bad...or just humor!?
@@KentHewittpiano88 bad as in good...and good humored! like filthy or stanky!
just gliss up and down C major and you ll be alright Lol
Right on...lol!
Thanks for this, BUT when are you well-meaning people gonna learn and properly credit the actually composers? Repeat after me: Blue in Green and possibly Nardis are by Bill Evans; Solar (actually 'Sonny') is by Chuck Wayne, Miles Davis was a genius AND a thief. Joel Fass, musician and Davis fan...
Thanks for the correction and insider info!