Great lesson. I'm an amateur (but serious) jazz pianist, and this is very useful and presented in an easily digestible form. Keep up the good work, and thanks for your efforts.
Hello hello... Stopped by your site, and checked out your video on the minor 11th chords. "BEAUTIFUL ANIMALS"... I was searching for some rich minor chords to go with some 2-5-1 progressions, and the ones you presented, Herbie Hancock style, were Magnificent!!! I finally decided to learn how to play the piano. I've been surfing the TH-cam world of pianistic musical exploration, and I've discovered a multitude of information, a plethora of music juice that almost caused my cerebral cortex to rupture into Infinity. What I decided to do, as opposed to trying to get all of this at once, ( which is a major impossibility), was take your advice and get one voicing... work it chromatically, then through the circle of fifths, apply it to music, then learn something new. Repeat the cycle and continue. Thank you so much my friend, for the Rich sophisticated introduction to the minor 11 chord Herbie Hancock Style. They sound like upper structure chords. Love that sound!!! Keep up the good work. Will stay tuned.
It helps me to think of this as a polychord of Am+G, so Iminor and VII major. You can basically invert that G chord anyway you want and it sounds good. If you've got big hands the tenth in the Iminor sounds great, but it pretty much works in any inversion too. This chord has been popping up in all my playing recently! Love it :D
+ArthurSieg Hi Arthur, thanks for the comment and yeah that is a great way of looking at it. I sometimes like to bring the bottom A up an octave in the left hand so you have a 2nd inversion A-triad in the left hand and a 2nd inversion Gmajor triad in the right hand - another nice voicing! Cheers, PianoGroove
Hi Paul thanks glad you found the lesson useful. Check out the full lesson library over at www.pianogroove.com/jazz-piano-lessons - Cheers, PianoGroove
You can also look at it as Root and 5th with a Ma7sus2 chord starting from the 3rd. Being a minor chord, the third is the relative major meaning Am11 with the Herbie Voicing is A5 (A, E) with A Cma7sus2 on top. That makes it easier for me to remember at least. Just put the Root and 5th in left hand and make a Ma7 chord in your right from the 3rd and move the 3rd in that chord a whole step down.
I love these tutorials. They're very concise and clear! Can you make a video on secondary dominants and augmented sixth chords? Or even something on extended dominant 7ths?
Hi! I want to thank you for your work. I realy wanted to start playing jazz, but i didn't know how could i start. I know notes and stuff, cause i learn bassoon in music school, but there was nobody who can teach me jazz harmony. You're doing great job. Greetings from Poland.
Thanks man... glad you enjoyed the tutorial! You can find exclusive lessons here: bit.ly/get-5-free-lessons - Be sure to sign up for exclusive lessons if you haven't already :-)
Hi, beginner question here, but why do you consider the second right hand note an 11th instead of the fourth degree, or why not a tenth instead of a minor third etc etc? Thanks , great video.
Thanks for this video! As with most of these kind of voicings: you may have been playing it quite for some time, but didn't know it had a name. This one was new to me though!
Yes this particular voicing is harder to play in some keys, for example C-11 and G-11. You can download the notation in all 12 keys here: bit.ly/herbie-hancock-voicing Cheers, PianoGroove
Very nice video. You do a bit of a run on 0: 22, using what apperas to be the D flat major scale, why does the D flat major scale sound so good in the key of E flat? Thanks.
Hey John, yes that is a modal scale... it's basically the Db Major Scale from Eb to Eb ... this is known as the Eb Dorian mode and is used to play over minor chords. We actually look at that specific run in detail in one of the free lessons here: bit.ly/get-5-free-lessons Cheers, PianoGroove
Thanks for your response. I don't have a keyboard near so I can't experiment now but I will definitely check it out. So you just take the key that you are in and play the dorian mode of the major scale a tone below the key you are in and that's usually used over minor chords, that's interesting.
Yes that's exactly right. As part of PianoGroove Pro, you can find in-depth lessons on modes and other more exotic scales. More info here: www.pianogroove.com/jazz-piano-scales-modes/ Cheers PianoGroove
Basically a G triad over Am then. 11s always the same its a major triad based on the 7th degree of the scale over the root triad Am11 = G/Am A11 = G/A Polychords and slash chords are ace
I don't know if this could help, but as I don't read music I made charts of all 12 of these chords (minor 11ths) in the 12 keys at nickshumdrum.blogspot.com/2018/09/keyboard-charts.html I basically just reproduced the piano keys without filling in the black keys and indicated all the keys to play for the 12 minor 11th chords. In doing so, I noticed that two of the chords-Cm 11 and Gm 11-are impossible to play even with two hands, as the keys normally played with the thumb in the right hand (I use my right thumb to play both lower notes simultaneously, as I assume you have to) are two far apart to do this. I'm wondering what to do in this case, as those two chords just can't be played! Great lesson-keep 'em coming!
That's odd. I always learned that the classic Herbie minor 11th voicing was two stacks of fifths on top of each other with a minor 2nd in between like so: (LH) A-E-B (RH) C-G-D But basically that's just another inversion that works if you have the melody resting on the 4th, so it's wonderful to know this variation as well. I'd argue that the invertion I mention above is much stronger as an "effect chord" than with the 9th on top - and it's also very visual and easy to remember (not always to play fast, though). It sounds really awesome if you arpeggiate it and move it around in, say, minor 3rd steps. But I'll try incorporating the inversion with the 9th on top into my playing and see how well it works :)
+Zaki Wasik Hi Zaki, I think you are thinking of the Kenny Barron Voicing: th-cam.com/video/tZ1uhLB2PSM/w-d-xo.html - 2 stacked perfect fifths in each hand separated by a minor 2nd interval :-) Thanks for the comment. Cheers, PianoGroove
I would play that 1,5, b3 LH and 11,b7,9 RH. Also a great one is 1,4LH and b7,b3, 5 RH. Aso what voicing. or the George duke one 1,5,9 LH and b3,b7,11 RH. :)
Cheers for the chords dude - they sound great. Also try taking the voicing from this lesson and move the root up an octave in your left hand... you can then play three notes in each hand to get a cool minor voicing with the 5th in the bass. All the best, PianoGroove :-)
I tend to not think so much about voicings these days as much as the melody and things just fall around depending on what colour I am thinking of.. I did many years of chord analysis at university and had some good advice from some great players, That was try to think outside standard shapes and listen to what is happening.. anything goes once you have done some heavy woodshedding :)
+Cottard Remy Hi Cottard, most jazz musicians do come from a classical background so don't let that put you off learning jazz piano! Cheers, PianoGroove
Thanks for showing the voicings in all 12 keys. 99.9 percent of all videos only give examples in the the key of C.
I mean you probably shouldn’t be skipping to minor 11 herbie Hancock voicings if you can’t construct in 12 keys
@@lukewestondev Agree. It's actually tedious when the video transposes through all the keys, a waste of the viewer's time.
This voicing has a terrific, mysterious sound. "Tenderly" is such a beautiful tune.
Great lesson. I'm an amateur (but serious) jazz pianist, and this is very useful and presented in an easily digestible form. Keep up the good work, and thanks for your efforts.
Hello hello... Stopped by your site, and checked out your video on the minor 11th chords. "BEAUTIFUL ANIMALS"... I was searching for some rich minor chords to go with some 2-5-1 progressions, and the ones you presented, Herbie Hancock style, were Magnificent!!! I finally decided to learn how to play the piano. I've been surfing the TH-cam world of pianistic musical exploration, and I've discovered a multitude of information, a plethora of music juice that almost caused my cerebral cortex to rupture into Infinity. What I decided to do, as opposed to trying to get all of this at once, ( which is a major impossibility), was take your advice and get one voicing... work it chromatically, then through the circle of fifths, apply it to music, then learn something new. Repeat the cycle and continue. Thank you so much my friend, for the Rich sophisticated introduction to the minor 11 chord Herbie Hancock Style. They sound like upper structure chords. Love that sound!!! Keep up the good work. Will stay tuned.
It helps me to think of this as a polychord of Am+G, so Iminor and VII major. You can basically invert that G chord anyway you want and it sounds good. If you've got big hands the tenth in the Iminor sounds great, but it pretty much works in any inversion too. This chord has been popping up in all my playing recently! Love it :D
+ArthurSieg Hi Arthur, thanks for the comment and yeah that is a great way of looking at it. I sometimes like to bring the bottom A up an octave in the left hand so you have a 2nd inversion A-triad in the left hand and a 2nd inversion Gmajor triad in the right hand - another nice voicing! Cheers, PianoGroove
stumbled on your videos by accident but you have taught me so much and made me understand what jazz pianists were playing!
Thanks man, really happy to hear that! Cheers, PianoGroove
One of the best teachings on youtube. Very clearly and thoroughly explained. Thank you.
Hi Paul thanks glad you found the lesson useful. Check out the full lesson library over at www.pianogroove.com/jazz-piano-lessons - Cheers, PianoGroove
You can also look at it as Root and 5th with a Ma7sus2 chord starting from the 3rd. Being a minor chord, the third is the relative major meaning Am11 with the Herbie Voicing is A5 (A, E) with A Cma7sus2 on top. That makes it easier for me to remember at least. Just put the Root and 5th in left hand and make a Ma7 chord in your right from the 3rd and move the 3rd in that chord a whole step down.
Brilliant video again. I love the way it is split out. How to construct, when to play and exercises. Superb.
At last - someone who breaks out of C major. Excellent and very clear demonstration. Thank you.
Thanks a lot! It´s like discovering that the earth is a globe!
great video! I'm a big fan of herbie hancock's work. Been looking out for videos like this for a while.
nick94jrod Thanks Nick... glad you find the lesson useful! We will be adding more chord & voicing videos over the coming months. Cheers, PianoGroove.
Spot on PianoGroove, Exactly what is needed from a tutorial and wicked Pre Role Logo :)
I love these tutorials. They're very concise and clear! Can you make a video on secondary dominants and augmented sixth chords? Or even something on extended dominant 7ths?
Michelle Lin Great thanks Michelle! Yes absolutely... I'll add those topics to the lesson schedule :-) PianoGroove
You are awesome :D
Amazing chords.
Superb lesson! Thanks very much!
+mtbrogue88 Thanks!
Cool stuff,like these chords,gonna work on em.
A really helpful way of explaining a beautiful sounding voicing. Thank you.
Thanks for this - really nice to find some solid advice and tastfulness
+Sam Scott Thanks Sam. I'm glad you found the lesson useful. Cheers, PianoGroove.
Thanks so much. This was so helpful.if possible could you play the whole song????
Thanks for sharing. Wonderful stuff here
these are the richest voicing i can play. i need more
This was great stuff. Thanks for the breakdown!
Mr. PianoGroove, your tutorial is great!
Cheers man :-)
Thanks for sharing. Excellent info..
Hi! I want to thank you for your work. I realy wanted to start playing jazz, but i didn't know how could i start. I know notes and stuff, cause i learn bassoon in music school, but there was nobody who can teach me jazz harmony. You're doing great job. Greetings from Poland.
+Kuba Jędzrzejczak Hi Kuba. Great... good luck with your jazz studies! PianoGroove
Tenderly sounds amazing
I'm a beginner on the piano (but a huge Herbie fan). Is playing two notes w the thumb of the right had a widely used technique?
This is what I just have needed!!! thanks a lot~~
Thanks man... glad you enjoyed the tutorial! You can find exclusive lessons here: bit.ly/get-5-free-lessons - Be sure to sign up for exclusive lessons if you haven't already :-)
Great sounding voicing.
Big voicings. Thank you very much.
VERY, very nice!
In the intro, isn't it a Gbmaj7 instead of the Ab7 of the part? I love this intro thank you.
Hi, beginner question here, but why do you consider the second right hand note an 11th instead of the fourth degree, or why not a tenth instead of a minor third etc etc? Thanks , great video.
Thanks for this video! As with most of these kind of voicings: you may have been playing it quite for some time, but didn't know it had a name. This one was new to me though!
Really helpfull for me. Thanks a lot!
+mitch7568 No problem dude - enjoy using the voicing! PianoGroove
Excellent vid - you really Rockit :)
Wow.. thank you so much ..great video!
Lush voicing! Thanks for the in depth analysis!
thank you very much! spot on!
You're such a baller..
Awesome job!
this is great! please make more!
a really helpful video , thankyou
hmm I have small hands, some voicings are quite tricky
For more open voicings, you can roll your hands to complete the chord.
Yes this particular voicing is harder to play in some keys, for example C-11 and G-11. You can download the notation in all 12 keys here: bit.ly/herbie-hancock-voicing Cheers, PianoGroove
Claire i can help you if you need,,,,,, add me in Skype, free!
I think some of it just comes to getting your hands used to the stretches. Herbie has smallish hands as well.
really like this sir. its helping me a lot :)
Very nice video. You do a bit of a run on 0: 22, using what apperas to be the D flat major scale, why does the D flat major scale sound so good in the key of E flat? Thanks.
Hey John, yes that is a modal scale... it's basically the Db Major Scale from Eb to Eb ... this is known as the Eb Dorian mode and is used to play over minor chords. We actually look at that specific run in detail in one of the free lessons here: bit.ly/get-5-free-lessons Cheers, PianoGroove
Thanks for your response. I don't have a keyboard near so I can't experiment now but I will definitely check it out. So you just take the key that you are in and play the dorian mode of the major scale a tone below the key you are in and that's usually used over minor chords, that's interesting.
Yes that's exactly right. As part of PianoGroove Pro, you can find in-depth lessons on modes and other more exotic scales. More info here: www.pianogroove.com/jazz-piano-scales-modes/ Cheers PianoGroove
excellent presentation!!! Thank you for the lesson :)
Thanks dude.
great voicing...cheers
+Franklin Thanks man - hope it helps take your playing forward :-) PianoGroove
has already...thanks
Thank you thank you! So helpful
What a great sound. How did he found this voicing?
I'm confused as to why the extra notes that you played aren't written in the sheet music.
Now this is advanced
Basically a G triad over Am then. 11s always the same its a major triad based on the 7th degree of the scale over the root triad
Am11 = G/Am
A11 = G/A
Polychords and slash chords are ace
Wonderful! Love that anime on top! Never seen that before. I’m an instant fan :)
Nice instruction! Thanks for sharing..beautiful chords. Also what keyboard are you on?
+Christian Rosselli Hi Christian, I use a Roland RD 700 and the sound is the standard Steinway Grand in Logic Pro. Cheers, PianoGroove.
Does sheet music come with all lessons?
love it
whats the jump from Fm9 to Db7 called? Any theory behind it?
Sub Abmaj7 (rel. major) for Fm9 and it's a I-IV(7) progression if you like? :D
Or the key could be viewed as Cm so Db7 is a tritone sub of G7? Many more ways to think about it, I suppose it's easier viewed as just sound! :D
This is so cool!! I do the same with inversions i believe:)
boa aula muito boa.!!!
amazing my dear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is the name of the song, it's mentioned but checking on the name.
Johnny Costa Inspired Intro
thanks
Question: Why don't you have a bunch of videos of you playing these beautiful ass songs in their entirety?
I don't know if this could help, but as I don't read music I made charts of all 12 of these chords (minor 11ths) in the 12 keys at nickshumdrum.blogspot.com/2018/09/keyboard-charts.html
I basically just reproduced the piano keys without filling in the black keys and indicated all the keys to play for the 12 minor 11th chords.
In doing so, I noticed that two of the chords-Cm 11 and Gm 11-are impossible to play even with two hands, as the keys normally played with the thumb in the right hand (I use my right thumb to play both lower notes simultaneously, as I assume you have to) are two far apart to do this. I'm wondering what to do in this case, as those two chords just can't be played!
Great lesson-keep 'em coming!
That's odd. I always learned that the classic Herbie minor 11th voicing was two stacks of fifths on top of each other with a minor 2nd in between like so:
(LH) A-E-B (RH) C-G-D
But basically that's just another inversion that works if you have the melody resting on the 4th, so it's wonderful to know this variation as well. I'd argue that the invertion I mention above is much stronger as an "effect chord" than with the 9th on top - and it's also very visual and easy to remember (not always to play fast, though). It sounds really awesome if you arpeggiate it and move it around in, say, minor 3rd steps. But I'll try incorporating the inversion with the 9th on top into my playing and see how well it works :)
+Zaki Wasik Hi Zaki, I think you are thinking of the Kenny Barron Voicing: th-cam.com/video/tZ1uhLB2PSM/w-d-xo.html - 2 stacked perfect fifths in each hand separated by a minor 2nd interval :-) Thanks for the comment. Cheers, PianoGroove
great
THANK YIU
I would play that 1,5, b3 LH and 11,b7,9 RH. Also a great one is 1,4LH and b7,b3, 5 RH. Aso what voicing. or the George duke one 1,5,9 LH and b3,b7,11 RH. :)
Cheers for the chords dude - they sound great. Also try taking the voicing from this lesson and move the root up an octave in your left hand... you can then play three notes in each hand to get a cool minor voicing with the 5th in the bass. All the best, PianoGroove :-)
I tend to not think so much about voicings these days as much as the melody and things just fall around depending on what colour I am thinking of.. I did many years of chord analysis at university and had some good advice from some great players, That was try to think outside standard shapes and listen to what is happening.. anything goes once you have done some heavy woodshedding :)
I would say: I (V) bIII-11 7 9
or
I (V) I - 9 bIII 11 7
Anyone remember that goofy "here comes the sunshine!" Guy that did these years back?
Name song ?
I wish I knew how to play like that my mom forced me to play classical
+Cottard Remy Hi Cottard, most jazz musicians do come from a classical background so don't let that put you off learning jazz piano! Cheers, PianoGroove
Jazz is the best musical genre
If you started classical you very probably have a great technique so now you can start learning jaz. but dont play alone play with other people ;)
There is no "best" musical genre. Every ganre has its own beauty. Don't be close-minded.
Don't let that discourage you... There are only 12 notes in music and the outcome depends on how you manipulate them.
Request bleach ost 999 lesson
How is this a minor 11 voicing if we are only playing it to the 9th degree ?
i need a bigger keyboard
His accent wow...i mistakenly heard pianist as "penis" ..I'm so sorry
:D
Taking the chords round the circle is IMHO bad voicing,jumping.
What do you mean?
Great video, thank you!