Bebop Explained
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In this Jazz Piano Tutorial we discuss how Bebop arose out of competitive jam sessions and discuss some of its defining characteristics.
Musicians generally work in the evenings. This was no different in the 1930’s and 40’s. Swing musicians of the era would start work in clubs and ballrooms in the evening when people would go out for some after-work entertainment. But when audiences left the clubs and went home to bed, the Swing musicians instead went to jam sessions. The most famous of these was Minton's Playhouse, which opened in New York City in 1940. It is said that this is where Bebop was born. The house band at Milton’s included drummer Kenny Clarke and pianist Thelonious Monk. And the musicians that jammed there included Jazz greats like Ben Webster, Charlie Christian, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, and Charlie Parker.
These jam sessions were for serious musicians and involved a lot of experimentation. And it quickly became quite competitive. Musicians would test each other’s abilities by intentionally making the songs difficult to play. They would pick a standard song like ‘I Got Rhythm’, but play it incredibly fast, using complex chord substitutions, and transpose the song up one semitone after every repeat. This would very quickly root out any amateur musicians.
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Good video, just wish you'd played examples during the explanations in the first 2/3's of it.
Yeah, this is about music and verbal doesn't cut it.
Did he ever played it? I'm like here waiting for it and moving into sections. Can't find it. Maybe I'll just leave. 😅
I feel like he's reading a thesis.
The explanations were quite clear. Listen to the music of each Era for examples or check out detailed, individual song breakdowns. This was a general overview, not a detailed assay. He gave examples in the beginning, mentioned numerous players and the key bands to check out to get started, and played part of Donna Lee. Having more musical examples in the video would make it more standalone video, true, but I enjoyed checking out all the examples he listed and actively listening to them.
@@mjcs6399You “feel like”??
Incredibly useful, detailed and understandable, love that you included the background story
This man is so knowledgeable and cultured i wish i was that good in Music Theory
Listen to him long enough and you will be!
Masterful. The best and most complete explanation I have heard, and that should be reviewed more than once. The only significant omission, in my opinion, might be the "why" - argpeggios up and steps down. Ascending and skips tend to create more tension; while descending and steps tend to more resolution.
You coul probably do another 18 minutes on articulation.
That video was very helpful. Usually other videos/articles stop at "bebop was faster and more complex".
An excellent video! Thank you!
Very interesting and outlines the theory behind this difficult genre of jazz.
Thankyou! You're basically the hero for my music hw.
6:44 - cool to see reference to chromaticism, as that’s one of the elements of bebop that first comes to my mind.
1:56
That scene in whiplash. My roomate is huge into Big Band and Bebop. It’s in his top 3 films from the 2010s
Excellent explanations. I practice these very same things in all keys at different tempos. It takes work and it gets better with practice.
Very clear, interesting and informative video! Thank you! Will pass it on 🙏🏼☺️
Great and thorough. Thanks!
fascinating! Great video
Brilliant and understandable. Thank you!
Awesome!
Bless you for a sensational tutorial!!
so detailed and awesome!!
amazing content! thank you so much.
Great lesson.
Thank you so much!!
This is an excellent video. Well thought out, concise and complete. Great job, eh.
Thanks...great vídeo.
We need a bloopers video one day Mr. Walk That Bass, that'd probably be hilarious.
There would be a poorly pronounced words, wrong notes, and profanity :)
Great knowledge
Very interesting!
16 hours of practice Charlie Parker wow , thanks for this now i know their differences
@Ayustria Salma Ling ling? I'll try to search for it sorry for being stupid haha
@Ayustria Salma ah ok sorry haha thank you 😊
@Ayustria Salma 40 hours a day to be precise.
Great lesson! Thank you!
so bebop was named like djent was
Hi. What style/ sub genre would you consider Ted Dunbar's "Neeta" to be in?
Yeezer Mac Ted’s stuff is great!! I think if you have to put him in a genre the’ ve come up with “post-bop.” Kind a catch all for all the jazz that has come after fusion was the dominant movement. All the ECM stuff etc. which is steeped in jazz harmony but brings in a lot of other influences too.
So what you are saying is that bebop is what intelligent musicians do when they know they're about to die?
Free music education on TH-cam. Thank you.
"Charlie Parker, you're incompetent" Wow!
"go home, practice 16 hours a day, until he was a virtuoso" cracked me up
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Can anyone suggest me songs of these gener .
Don't you mean (at 3:02) Coleman Hawkins improvised 'horizontally' - outlining the chord ?
You are an extremely important teacher the world needs, never seen a white person talking about bebop and jazz in such a way that it makes sense
Sooo basically they broke all the remaining boundaries whatever that was left in jazz and went full on aggressive prog goddddaaaam
I just did about eight beginning Donnelly tutorials. I had to do a lot of work using various scales
like like b-flat for d flat minor 7. I've had a lot of the same experiences that the Bebop crowd had but on a personal level. One thing I've been doing lately is not excusing myself for playing and my favorite keys. What happens is that songs like Donnelly are not just diatonic and force you to step up your game. That's why I like it. We have a tendency as piano players should just do things by by habit Prince we do exercises from hanon and we don't grasp what they're teaching. I think it's pretty obvious that C major 7 d Minor 7 e minor 7 f major 7 g 7 a minor 7 are what they are but the b minor 7 flat 5 it's something that comes from an ancient time and yet is used in jazz today. I can only speak for myself. I had made over 50 years the b minor 7 flat 5 probably sounds of times and arpeggios that's just a guess. Here was an aha moment that came in me I was teaching Georgia on my mind (the version that Hoagy Carmichael wrote). Song starts out fmaj7, e minor 7 flat 5, A 7 flat 9,etc.
As I was describing the e minor 7 flat 5, and that it came from a modification of the e major scale... It hit me that this was nothing but a diatonic song. Fmaj7, g minor 7, a minor 7, b-flat major 7, c7, d Minor 7, e minor 7 flat 5, fmaj7.. the aha moment came when I saw the email or 7 flat 5 and I said that has to have the same basic makeup as a b minor 7 flat 5. Then I realized even though I've been using it many times I really never was proficient in the b scale itself. since those days I try to play in a different key every time I get on the piano. Golf course another aha moment is me is that and jazz and many other songs we have a tendency to have to go to many other modulations tell if you know all your diatonic scales and all the altered chords in each one then you can move flawlessly around them and that's probably what Charlie Christian did. This was an excellent tutorial. tutorial pianostyle100
@@TCharlieA a master piece.
@@TCharlieA Spell check..I have to go through it and correct it I just got the feedback and read it it through .
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I would say modern jazz was developed as in the video. But bebop and it's language is all bird
Bird, Gillespie, Clarke, and Monk of course. Bird was a formidable force of course, but he wasn't the only one.
@@mikomon309 He definitely wasn't the only one, and I personally don't think Monk's influence can be overstated
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1:44 And while the movie Whiplash is incorrect about it being thrown at his head (especially the part about it nearly decapitating him)
The drummer Jo Jones actually *did* throw a cymbal at him.
I've heard he just threw it on the ground. Let's be honest though you know how long it takes to take a symbol of a drum set to throw? The whole story is probably apocryphal.
@@georgemartisius7226 He threw the cymbal in his general direction. It just landed on the ground near his feet. Being a drummer myself, it takes less than a few seconds for me to flick off the wing nut, and take the cymbal off its stand.
Cowboy Bebop. That is all
Bebop! In American accent!!
I would pay for that.
Why not play 2 pieces, one swing and one bebop?
of cousre bebob came outb of swing and the blues
Self taught wernt they as well Yet they seemed to have known music theory
eat the goddamn orange!!
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(I understood that reference)
In other words, bebop somehow came from swing but has almost nothing in common with it.
There's a piano in front of you. Why not use it to show?
Mind if i ask you a personal question? Are you Russian?
Да, я русский
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i did like the analysis but the upper ext of chords is not explained from the root instead of by chords
why don't you play what your teaching?
What’s the point of sitting at a piano, discussing music theory and “style” and not demonstrating what you’re discussing.. lost opportunity.
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he practiced 16 hours a day? Ling Ling practices 40 hours a day. Charlie Parker was a slacker
24 hrs in 1 day.
,,pog 🙏🙌♥️
your Charlie Parker anecdote is wrong
BEBOP IS A CHANNEL NAME OF A *(LEGO)* ARTIST
Okay
Yeah every time I look up bebop... I see nothing but lego videos 🙄
Jajaja. Blabla. Spoken wikipedia. WIll you PLAY something to SHOW what bebop is?
Imagine if Charlie Parker were born in today’s “everyone gets a trophy” world. We wouldn’t have a virtuoso.
Ok Boomer. The cream always rises to the top.
Does this guy ever actually play or does he talk the entire time?
Jazz=bebop. Punto
Man is that piano dusty.
would be much better with a good sound, cant stand it with this microphone
Por que hablas tanto? Yo quiero escuchar el piano no tu voz
Where examples? Music needed to be played, not talking about
this is music history. if you want music, just listen to a Bebop tune after every sentence
Nico Nico I want music lesson
@@KonstantinChervyakovkoStantes Sorry man but you don't really get to want anything here, you can either enjoy the lesson as is or go elsewhere. This is FREE content. We're too lucky to have walkthatbass producing these pearls for us. Cut out the complaining and praise the effort. It's a fantastic video.
Scroll to 12:47
@@niconico4138 yes it's music history, but the contrast would be much more impactful if they just played a short example right after. They do it in other vids, I see no reason for them to not do it here.
Thank god he shuts up and actually plays something after 12 minutes
the video is titled 'Bebop Explained' not 'Here's a 17 minute long video of me playing bebop'. fucken idiot
@@cooperlumsden3214 The explanation would have more impact if he showed side by side how the two differed as he's explaining it. How hard is that to understand?
Is this a lecture or a music lesson? Come on...
Lame. I'm 10 minutes in and this guy still hasn't played anything to show the difference between swing and bebop. If I wanted to have read a book....I would have bought one. Play the damn music and stop talking so much.