What the Real Book Doesn't Tell You: 'Round Midnight

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  • @bobsaccamano8041
    @bobsaccamano8041 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Dizzy said in his autobiography that we was once asked about his contribution to music that he's the most proud of. His answer was: first, the intro he did for Round Midnight, which practically everybody plays since, and second, the intro he wrote for I Can't Get Started.

  • @markanthony2651
    @markanthony2651 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What a glorious song, so very blue, especially the original WB sheet music, yes please go deeper into the song as soon as you can. It is so sad that it doesn't receive the respect it deserves, nor any airplay. This piece alone makes Monk relatively immortal so long as the blues may be appreciated! MRA

    • @MrLjw1001
      @MrLjw1001 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This is my favorite composition in any musical genre. So it’s got my respect at least

  • @ildarrrr2
    @ildarrrr2 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Haha I thought there will be also words about the great bossa-nova
    OUTRO)))

    • @agrichmusic
      @agrichmusic 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      lol

  • @bluenotesoul
    @bluenotesoul 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yes! Please share more of your knowledge of round midnight!

  • @benwinstanleymusic
    @benwinstanleymusic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This was really interesting, would love to see another video doing a deep dive

  • @divotcollector
    @divotcollector 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    And then the tag ending!

    • @alfredleeyun
      @alfredleeyun  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I can make a video about it too! It’s not played as much as the intro. Monk himself doesn’t play it. So, I didn’t feel like it was as essential for the Real Book to include it. But, maybe a separate video about the cadence by Gillespie or Cootie Williams’ interlude, as I mentioned at the end of the video, would be a cool idea!

  • @danielknibb9228
    @danielknibb9228 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for an interesting video. Really like these 'what the real book doesn't tell you' videos.

  • @chloejackson-reynolds444
    @chloejackson-reynolds444 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Another thing is in bar 4 of the tune the way that monk played it was F7 Bb7sus Bb-7 A7 instead of what the real book writes

  • @RavenYan
    @RavenYan 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Barry Harris adds his own intro before that one and it’s killing

  • @franciscoaragao9672
    @franciscoaragao9672 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Muito bom. Obrigado.

  • @thedarksage328
    @thedarksage328 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Rolland Hannah does a great Round Midnight. I'm pretty sure it uses Dizzy's into. Check it out, it's great!

  • @dwayneclemons5497
    @dwayneclemons5497 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The Real Book does not tell you too many other things about this music. I've always referred to the Real Book as "the biggest misprint in sheet music." The Real Book is the pied piper of modern music.

    • @zahiircruz9178
      @zahiircruz9178 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      nothing real about that book...lol

    • @dwayneclemons5497
      @dwayneclemons5497 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@zahiircruz9178 I couldn't had said it better. 😂🤣

  • @thomasarneson4511
    @thomasarneson4511 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My blue book has the intro. Also Bud Powell plays it in his video. But Monk really plays the he'll out of this tune.

  • @Tubulous123
    @Tubulous123 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes!! Thank you!!! 1Nation4Life

  • @ccfliege
    @ccfliege 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this man, you know the music
    Don't forget Bobby Timmons and Joe Zawinul, even if they might be too "pop" sounding around your type 😎

    • @alfredleeyun
      @alfredleeyun  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love Bobby Timmons! Not too pop at all!

  • @jayumble8390
    @jayumble8390 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    To me intros are very important and over-looked by so many players...even good players. The idea of setting up a tune with a 4 or 8 bar intro vamp is really sad. The outro thing is also important. Man listening to Keith Jarrett taught me this!! If you take the intros and ride-outs seriously, they will be just as important as the tune itself.

  • @jpsned
    @jpsned 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Real Book also leaves out verses.

  • @rembrandtgonzalez4512
    @rembrandtgonzalez4512 ปีที่แล้ว

    What's the version on 03:14?

  • @L1stener
    @L1stener 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Whose version starts at 3:14?

  • @djsjdh-hoahdi
    @djsjdh-hoahdi ปีที่แล้ว

    In the monk version of the intro of dominant chords, how is that a B7b9 chord? Am I reading the transcription wrong or is it B A Eb Bb?

    • @alfredleeyun
      @alfredleeyun  ปีที่แล้ว

      Hey that transcription is there to show the chord changes not to show the actual changes. That's not a transcription done by me, but something I screen shotted, because I thought it would look better than me scribbling something down. I rarely do written transcriptions myself, because I transcribe by ear and then alter it so that I can use the "concept" in different places rather than copy exactly what Monk or another master did. I've said this in another comment before, but I think I might stop using other transcriptions to show chord changes and just write it down with my hands instead. That way, you guys are less confused.
      In other words, I am not using these transcriptions to show the exact notes. Sorry for the confusion. And yeah, I don't see how that is a B7b9 chord. What they wrote it some kind of B7 chord but not b9.

    • @alfredleeyun
      @alfredleeyun  ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't make any money from these videos and I made them for fun at home. I didn't know so many people were going to see it. For me, wrong transcription don't bother me, because I never follow them myself. I just use them to get an approximate understanding and figure out the notes myself with my own ears. That's a habit of mine, and I think I forgot that not everyone operates that way. Now that I know quite a few people are watching my videos, I'm going to be more careful in the future.

  • @86larsonrd
    @86larsonrd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I always thought Cootie Williams wrote the intro and that is why he gets coauthor credit. That us why I never considered it an essential part of the song.

    • @alfredleeyun
      @alfredleeyun  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No, the famous intro was by Dizzy. Cootie wrote an interlude and registered the song as his before Monk did. It's a whole story.

    • @86larsonrd
      @86larsonrd 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alfredleeyun any recordings with the interlude in it?

    • @paulrobertz8491
      @paulrobertz8491 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@86larsonrd Cootie Williams' young pianist brought Monk's tune to the attention of his bandleader. Here's the first recording, and pretty much the only one that uses Cootie Williams' interlude (from 2:09 to 2:40). There's also a short coda that no one else plays.
      th-cam.com/video/ofLXD5bbK30/w-d-xo.html

  • @Frisbieinstein
    @Frisbieinstein 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Screw the intro. Riyoko Takagi doesn't play it.

  • @teeteejay001
    @teeteejay001 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Suggestion to improve the video: display the transcriptions while the audio sample is being played, instead of only before

    • @teeteejay001
      @teeteejay001 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Some transcriptions like 1:01 2nd bar and 2:08 (C7 chord) have mistakes in the individual notes

    • @alfredleeyun
      @alfredleeyun  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The first example you allude to is a transcription of Monk’s solo performance in 1968. Not a transcription done by me, and it’s not showing what exactly he is playing on 1:01. It’s actually a transcription of the second example you alluded to. I used it to show the chord progression, nothing more. The second example is a part I cut out from the example in 1:01.
      Thank you for trying to help me improve my videos. Unless, I say this is my transcription and these are the exact notes, the transcription examples I use are there to approximate, rather than reflect the music. I RARELY transcribe anything myself, and try to remember everything by ear and memory. So I try not to keep any transcriptions myself. Just use others for approximation, never as the final word.

    • @alfredleeyun
      @alfredleeyun  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      So maybe in the future, I’ll just use chord symbols, rather than approximate transcriptions if that is preferable by many people.