Neferiti: Journey Through The Real Book
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2023
- A jazz piano lesson to help you learn the standard song “Nefertiti,” composed by Wayne Shorter.
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A five-year wait 0:22
De-mystifying “Nefertiti 0:30
Three recordings of Wayne Shorter playing “Nefertiti” 1:29
The 1967 Miles Davis Quintet recording 2:22
Wayne’s comment about “Neferiti” 2:44
Miles and Wayne repeating the melody over and over 2:58
Melodic embellishment in very early New Orleans jazz 3:27
The improvisatory version on Herbie Hancock’s “River” album 4:35
The jazz fusion version by The Manhattan Project 5:01
An in-depth look at “Nefertiti” 5:50
Measure 1: The nebulous aspect of “Nefertiti” 6:37
Following your ear and intuition 10:19
Measure 2 13:39
Measure 3 15:03
One reason why it’s so difficult to “hear” what harmonies the Miles Davis group played 15:10
Measure 4 15:45
Measure 5 15:59
Unexpected harmonic “resolutions” 16:17
Measure 6 16:58
Measure 7 17:23
Measure 8 17:47
The Stravinsky influence on Herbie Hancock 17:55
Herbie Hancock’s use of Diminished (Octatonic) scales18:29
Measure 9 19:07
Measure 10 19:22
The time I met Wayne Shorter 20:30
Measure 11 21:00
Measure 12 22:06
Measures 13-16 22:13
Overview of the left hand chord voicings 23:57
Wayne Shorter’s evolving approach to his compositions 25:35
Combining approaches 21:16
A solo piano performance of “Nefertiti” 26:38
Honoring the spirit of Wayne Shorter 37:10
Wayne Shorter’s definition of jazz 37:47
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The return of the king 🙌🙌🙌
Thanks Nick - you made my day!
There is the ECM Circle Paris Concert live performance by Braxton, Corea, Holland, & Altshul - whether considered too "out" or too "frenetic," it is courageous, in my opinion.
Breathtaking, Ron. You truly dared and now the rest of us get to enjoy the result... thank you!
If learning the changes to giant steps is calculus, Nefertiti is full-day transcendental meditation
Well said!
Thanks for continuing the journey! You have a strong motivational and inspirational influence on me :)
Thanks Alex - good luck with your music!
Missed you Ron! Beautiful playing!
Fascinating! Glad you're back, Ron.
Thanks Larry - glad you enjoyed this!
Wayne Shorter clearly had a concept of music that differed from other humans. I was learning 'The Albatross' from his solo album Second Genesis (on guitar) and it is just as oddly formless as Nefertiti. A real challenge to learn because its patterns are not apparent.
You're a brave soul!
Good to see you’re still doing these
Thanks Allan! It's been a busy year, since I've started performing in public again. So yes, it's nice to be able to keep this particular journey going. I'm determined to finish all 400 tunes in Volume 1.
It's great seeing you back!!!
Thanks - it's great to be back!
I love the new look of your video and I am especially happy that you renovated your piano. I have been worrying for a very long time that you might cut yourself on the jagged edges of the keys!
Ha!
255 Amazing accomplishment!
Thanks Howard! You should do the same with the Complete Cole Porter or something similar.
From what I recall from the Wayne Shorter biography, the idea was to kind of reverse the roles in the band by having the horns provide a steady backdrop in the form of only playing the melody and allowing the rhythm section to freely play over (or under) it. So Miles' comments are true as he did find it a perfect piece written (which was his opinion on basically all of Wayne's tunes), but it appears Wayne had a real intention with it as it was performed on the Miles record.
But what I think confuses many who try to play the tune is that it isn't exactly clear from the record how that should work as there are no clear distinct bass, piano, drum solos. It's just the three of them kind of in a collective improvisation and the horns providing the structure. So if you are unfamiliar with the backstory and just encounter it as a sheet in the real book or hear it, it will probably not make much sense.
For me, this tune is leaning more towards the avant-garde/free jazz side of the spectrum. Great tune, especially with Miles and Wayne picking their own phrasing of the melody (Wayne mentioned that he was trying to be more like an echo/create a sort of echo effect with Miles).
I think the point of Wayne Shorter the composer is also that he was not like your regular jazz composer writing lead sheets. He really loved composing and arranging and approached it as any other composer in Europe had: write everything out for the intent of clarity. The idea behind that to me seems that Wayne was looking for colours and textures which are best conveyed by just writing it out as opposed to trying to encapsulate it in a chord symbol which is still very open to interpretation and often completely misses the mark.
Greatly enjoyed this video. I love the idea of, "I dare you," and "what do you hear?" I'm new to jazz. I'm learning very slowly and wish I could give more time to it, but the more I hear it, the more it feels like home. Truthfully, most of this was over my head quite a bit but I love the freedom that comes with jazz. I listen in hopes to absorb as much as I'm able and because I enjoy hearing you play. Thank you for sharing your expertise with us. Looking forward to the next one!
Hi Ron! I love your videos and your book! I was wondering if you could make a ‘pep-talk’ video or a video on how you cheer yourself up when you are learning and feel discouraged because you’re not getting it as fast as you want.
I know that it’s all about practicing consistently over time, and I have seen my skill grow, but still sometimes it can feel bad when I’m trying to learn a new comping pattern and it’s not coming quite as fast as I wanted it to. Right now I’m trying to get down a walking bass and it takes so much of my brain power just to do the bass that my right hand is very, very sparse, haha. I know I just got to slowly build up to it, but it’s a bit hard sometimes to keep going when you’re trying your hardest to learn and it still takes a long time, especially when you watch others do it so effortlessly. I’m sure you’ve probably experienced this many times, haha, so I wanted to see what you do to get over that discouragement hump.
Great question, Colton! Actually, I've never experienced that personally. Since I didn't have any early training on piano, everything came slowly after I became serious about music at age 15. In fact, everything still comes slowly for me. But I love playing so much that it doesn't matter. I just play things slowly until I learn them. Then, when I forget it all the next day, I start over again, knowing that it will eventually "stick." Luckily, I came up before TH-cam so I didn't see all these videos of "experts" playing flawlessly (after perhaps many takes). I wrote a lot about this in my book The Inner Game of Piano Improvisation. If you're interested, it's available on Amazon. It's got a lot of motivational stuff in it, along with advice and personal anecdotes. Also 30 audio links with practice ideas, etc. Good luck :)
Thank you! I read your book, and I loved it. It’s been amazing for me to keep excited to play. I have a really cheap keyboard, but man I love that thing. I’ll just keep on going. Thanks!
@@coltonjohnson9739 Yes yes yes!
Wow. I loved your discussion of playing what sounds good to you over the chords rather than specific scales.
Thanks - this is the way to go on tunes like this!
Wouldn't it be better to call the 1st chord Ab maj7 b5? As opposed to Abmaj7#11... small difference i guess
Any chance you could check out some of manfredo fests work? Nobody really has anything on him, and his original compositions are amazing. Id love to see some videos on his songs like "cooling off" "dig this samba" and "jungle cat"
Great suggestion, but I have my hands full with this series. I'll check him out - much appreciated!
@@rondrotoskeyboardimprov9453 understandable. Either way yes do please check him out, he's one of the best jazz musicians I've ever heard
Oh drat - was hoping you'd mention the Chick Corea versions done when he had the band "Circle." Abstractions built upon abstractions! Weaponized chromatic lines! I'm trying to transcribe Holland's bass parts, but I'm not even sure where "one" is!
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Well, it's already a 38-minute video! lol Chick just took the abstractions I explore to a whole new level.
Thanks for the deep dive...
Just to clarify- for the beginners---it's easy to mis-speak, you probably meant to say, E (not Eb)
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